Transcript Is Hindu Pacifist or Brave

Is Hindu Society ?
Pacifist / Coward
or
Aggressive/ Brave
Swami Vigananand
Joint General Secretary
Vishva Hindu Parishad
International Coordination
[email protected]
Hindu civilization in the past never accepted pacifism
as their civilizational dogma. Neither Hindu state nor
their functioning arms and society in general
accepted pacifism dogma in conducting its state
functioning or society.
The highest cardinal principle of the Hindu Dharma
and society is “Satyameva Jayate na anaritam”
(Truth alone trumphs not untruth) (3-1-6 - Mundaka
Upanishad ), Not Ahimsa Paramodharma which
was the principle accepted and practiced by
Renunciate Monks, Sadhu, Sanyasi, Yati, Muni,
Bhikshu, etc
The State Emblem of Bharat is part of Sarnath Lion
Capital of Ashoka Pillar and the motto “Satyameva
Jayate” (Truth alone trumphs) in Devanagari script
inscribed below the profile of the Lion Capital. After
the Independence, the Government of Bharat
adopted this as State emblem on 26th January 1950.
From the earliest time or from the very beginning of
Hindu civilization the cardinal principal of the society
is Truth not Ahimsa Paramodharma.
Satyen uttabhita Bhoomi – 10 / 85 / 1 Rig Veda
(meaning Truth is holding the Earth).
Except Monks, Sadhu, Sanyasi, Yati, Muni, Bhikshu,
nobody practice Ahmisa Paramodharma.
Millions and millions Hindu pray to Almighty every day
Tejoasi Tejomayee Dhehi
Veeryamasi Veeruamayee Dhehi
Balamasi Balamayee Dhehi
(Yajur Veda 19/9)
Give us vitality and strength like yourself.
Our Shastra says to the spiritual practicenor that Nayam
atma Bal hinena Labhyo - (Katha Upanishad)
(The physically week is unfit for realization to the self)
Hindu Dharma and Shastra also propagate fearlessness.
Abhayam Nah Karatyantriksham abhyam Dhyava
Prithavi Ubhe Ime
Abhayam Paschad abhayam
Purastad uttarad adharad abhayam Na Astu
(Atharva Veda 19 / 15 / 5)
Meaning - We must be fearless in sky, on earth, and in front
and back and up and down i.e. we must practice
fearlessness from all sides and on all places.
Abhayam Mitrad abhayam amitrad
Abhayam Jnatad abbhayam Puro Yah
Abhayam Naktam ambhaya Diva Nah
Sarva Asha Mama Mitram Bhavantu
Atharva Veda 19 / 15 / 6
Meaning - We must be fearless from friends and enemy
alike
We must be fearless from known and unknown
We must be fearless in night and day
all sides become our friends and should cooperate with
us.
Hindu Society never practice pacifism in their day-today life.
Pacifism was exclusively reserved for Ascetic
For example – Ramayana – Ravana kidnapped Mata Sita.
Thereafter, Bhagwan Ram organized Army, killed Ravana
along with his Kin and relative and recovered Mata Sita. He
never compromised.
Mahabharat – When the great war of Mahabharat
was just to be started, Arjuna said to Shri Krishna, at
the sight of these kinsmen arrayed for battle my
limbs give way, and my mouth is parching; nay, a
shiver runs through my body and hair stands upright
Krishna I do not covet victory; nor kingdom, nor
pleasures. Govinda, of what use will kingdom, or
luxuries, or even life be to us.
Those very persons for whose sake we covet the
throne, luxuries and pleasures – teachers, uncles,
sons and nephews and even so grand-uncles and
great grand-uncles, maternal uncles, fathers-in-law
and other relations – are here arrayed on the
battlefield risking their lives and wealth.
At one stage instead of fighting, Arjuna wanted to
become Sadhu. Then Bhagwan Krishna gave
discourses which are recorded as Bhagwad Gita. In
the end of this discourse Arjun said to Krishna, by
Your grace my delusion has fled and wisdom has
been gained by me. I stand shorn of all doubts. I
will do your bidding. I am ready to fight.
In the Great War, he killed all the people who were
standing in the side of Adharma.
Hindu society celebrates Vijaya Dashmi, the victory
day, a religious ceremony and worship Arms in each
and every house. Therefore Hindu society was
brave and they resisted any invasion on the soil.
Strong and brave resistance of Hindus to all
foreign invasions.
Alexander started his victorious journey from
Macedonia. On way to India he defeated every one.
Finally he confronted Hindu might on the frontier of
India on 326 B.C. He had some early success. In
due course of fighting with Hindus, he was severally
injured, lost and returned and he died on the way.
After Alexander, Selucus Nicator, cross the Indus
River. He was also defeated by Maurya King
Chandragupta.
Demitrious attacked India and he was defeated by Hindu
King Kharvel and chased out of India.
Thereafter Bactrian King Menander attacked India and
was badly defeated by Hindu King Pushyamitra.
During the first and second century Saka & mighty
Kusan, barbarian tribes from Central Asia, continuously
attacked India but always were defeated by successive
Hindu Kings.
The Barbarian Huns who once destabilized Europe, had
also attacked India and they were finally defeated in India.
You cannot find the trace of Kushans, Saka and Huns in
India. Hindus resisted and defeated the invaders in the
prolonged struggle for about 600 years.
After this the Islam confronted with Hindu might.
A great Islamic Scholar – Philip K Haiti wrote in his
famous book “The Arab” about victory of Islamic Army.
“Within a generation of the Prophet’s death, the primitive
Arab, fired by the indestructible faith and imbued with an
utter contempt of death, had become the master of the
Byzantine territories of Syria, Palestine and Egypt and
the Sasanid territories of Persia and Iraq. Such rapid
expansion of religious and military power is without a
parallel in the annals of world history.
Islam in the 2nd expansion concurred Turkish-speaking
territories of Outer Mongolia, Bukhara, Tashkand,
Samarkand, etc.
The supremacy of Islam in Central Asia was so firmly
established that the Chinese ceased to dispute it.
In 711 A.D. Islamic army crossed Gibraltar strait into
Spain and conquered one of the fairest and largest
province of Europe.
In 720 the Muslims crossed the Pyrenees and
gradually subdued the Southern half of France.732
A.D. which marked the first centenary of prophet’s
death, the Arabs had set up the largest and most
powerful empire of the world, extending from the Bay
of Biscay to the frontier of India and the frontiers of
China, from the Aral Sea to the Upper Nile.
Attack on India
Islamic attack on India started on 636 AD. Hindus
repulsed all the successive attack on India.
There was one attack by Arab on Sindh Naval base
- Debal. Arab Army was badly defeated and their
General Mughairah was killed.
Arab Historians
Baladhuri wrote about this incidence.
“This is a very important incident because when the
mighty Islamic army was gaining victory elsewhere in
the World, and no one stood to challenge them, the
news of Mughairah’s defeat gave shock to the Arab.
Muslims were terrorized by these defeats. In these
successive attacks by Islam Army on India Hindus
severely defeated them each time.
Many of their
Generals like Ubaidullah and Budail were killed.
Budail death in war with Hindus made Caliph crestfallen
and he wrote to the Hajjaj the Governor of Baghdad,
every time Musleman army goes on expedition of Hind,
every time vast number of Musalman were killed. So
think no more of such design.
This is again very important when Islamic Army was
gaining victory in Europe, Central Asia, Africa, Gulf and
Middle East Asia, Syria, Palestine, Persia, they were
being crushed in India.
Finally with great difficulty Musalman could get foothold
in India in 711 A.D.
The Arabs Scholar William Muir states the following facts.
The Arab dominion in India limited to the two petty states
of Multan and Mansurah. And here too, they could exist
only after renouncing their iconoclastic zeal and utilizing
the Hindu deity (Idol) for their own political ends. It is
very strange sight to see them seeking shelter behind the
very “buds” they came here to destroy.
In Central Asia, the idolaters had been rooted out. But
this experiment failed in India as Islam was confronted
with a faith, which though deity worshiper, defied death
and looked at life in this world as one link in the eternal
chain of births and deaths.
There is a lesser known fact that even our renounciate
Monks, Sadhus, Sanyasins resisted foreign invasion
not only through spiritual and religious influences but
also physically taking arms in their hands. Further
they organized army to resist the invaders.
Therefore, we can definitely say that Hindu society
was never a pacifist.
Wherever Islam went, they destroyed culture,
tradition, civilization and finally converted them into
Islamic land. Therefore you can now see 58 countries
in the Islamic world. Hindus bravely resisted Islam,
and defeated them. Hindus finally survived and today
it is a Billion strong society.
Arabic Poet Hali lamented on Islamic failure to Islamise
India in his poem
Dine Hajaji ka bebak beda
Kiye par jisne saton samundar
Jo Jehun me ataka na sehun me bhatka
Wo aakar dahane ke Ganga me duba
Translation
The Islamic armada crossed the seven seas confidently
Without any interruption
They remain unchallenged everywhere – lands, seas or
mountains
But the same Islamic armada got drowned in the Ganga
(Mighty River)
The question arises why we lost to Islamic invasion?
Answer in short is
1. “ we Hindus forgot aggression
2. We become self satisfied in our own territory
3. We do not try to defeat enemy in their homeland or in
their territory
4. We always fought war to defend our country in our
own land
After Islamic Invasion, 15 century onward European
Christian such as Portuguese, French, Dutch and British
attacked our motherland. We Hindus resisted all of them.
Mentally we never surrendered before them. We kept our
freedom struggle alive till 1947.
We Hindus were resisting foreign invasion from
Europe, Middle-east from the time of Alexander. We
must remember all these onslaughts. Inspite of
these onslaughts we are the only surviving
civilization with continuity of dharmic, cultural,
social, and spiritual ethos whereas other civilization
of world like Roman and Greek of Europe, Egyptian
of Africa, Mesopotamian and Persian of Middle-east,
Incas, Maya and Aztec of South America were wiped
out and become part of archaeological museum.
This proves the strength of Hindu Civilisation.
We are celebrating 150th years of first war of
independence of 1857. We were almost in a position
to kick out the British from our soil, but because of
some mistakes we could not achieve the goal in
1857.
After the 1857 incident an intellectual forum of Britishers
were formed to know why the Hindu society is resisting
foreign invasion right from Alexander, from where they
are getting the inspiration, strength and courage. In
their study many things came out.
The things, which are very relevant to today’s topics,
are following:
1) Hindus believe in immortality of soul-defied death and
looked at life in this world as one link in the eternal chain
of births and deaths.
2) Hindu society is an arm worshipper such as on Vijaya
Dashami (Durga Puja) they worship arms.
3) Many of Hindu Gods and Goddess are equipped with
arms
4) Their ideal Heroes in their history Bhagwan
Ram and Krishna were fighters of par excellence.
5) After Vijaya Dashmi ( Durga Puja) Army is kept
ready for fighting. Sometimes the neighbouring
Kings fight war each other to show their strength
and preparedness. In this way they get real
practice of war.
NOTE:
(1)
Yuddham vai rajanyasya virym
(13.1.5.6. Satapatha Brahmana)
The real strength of Kshatriya lies in fighting very
often.
(2) We were taught in our history text books written
by Marxists and European Historians that Hindu
Kings were always infighting themselves and they
do not focus fighting the invader, therefore, they
lost. This is totally wrong. Earlier I have explained
how our Kings were resisting the foreign invaders
unitedly. For example. Arab Historian Baladhuri
wrote - In the reign of Caliph Muawiyah (661-680 A.D)
Abdur Rahman was appointed governor of Seistan
and entrusted with the task of conquering Kabul.
After a month’s siege Abudr Rahman obtained
possession of Kabul. But the Hindu king of Kabul
made an appeal to the warriors of Hindusthan and
got support from the Hindu Kings. Musalman were
driven out of Kabul. He recovered all other country
and advanced as far as Bust.
- Islamic Historian Utbi wrote in his bok Kitab-I-yamini – 1008
A.D. Mahmud Ghaznavi determined to attack Anand Pala,
(one of the King of Hindu Shahi dynasty on the frontier of
India and Punjab). Anand Pala sent ambassadors on all sides
inviting the assistance of the other princes of Hindustan, who
now considered the expulsion of Mahommadans from India
as a sacred duty. Accordingly, the Rajas of Ujjain, Gwalior,
Kalinjar, Kanauj, Delhi and Ajmer entered into a confederacy
and collecting their forces advanced towards Punjab with the
greatest army that had yet taken the field. The Indians and
Mahommadans – remained encamped (at Waihind) for forty
days without coming into action. The troops of the idolaters
daily increased in number. The Hindu women, on this
occasion, sold their jewels and melted down their golden
ornaments to furnish resources for the war.
Though the Kings have a small regular army but during the
time of war or fighting, farmers, artisans, ordinary village
folks etc also join the army to fight. This way the ordinary
civilian learned the art of fighting as well as fearlessness.
6) Arms training (Dhanur Vidya) were part of regular
education.
By observing the above facts, the British devised a plan to
subjugate the society and country for ever. They also wanted
to make sure that there should not have any resistance in the
future.
The draconian law they brought after 1857 is the Arms Act of
1860. It was to disarm the Hindu society i.e. no one should
possess arms. If any one possess arms he would be
severely punished. In 1870 the Act was made more harsh.
Subsequently amendments were made in the said Act in
1891, 1919, 1920. The Arms Act of those years still continues
with the present Government of Independent India.
The idea behind the Arms Act was to destroy the
resisting capability of Hindu society in two ways i.e. If the
society does not use the arms, they will lose their
capability of using arms in the fighting. After that the
new generation would be of coward mentality, which will
be easy for them to keep under the British Empire
forever.
Therefore the society became scared to keep arms.
Successive Governments of Independent India continue
this Arms Act. You will be surprised to note that in 1888,
Indian National Congress passed a resolution against
this Arms Act.
Our great revolutionary Hero Saheed Bhagat Singh wrote an
article in Kirti Magazine in October 1928 with the title “Repeal
Arms Act”. (This article is still relevant in modern India.) In
this article the Shri Bhagat Singh gave his logic that if we do
not repeal the Arms Act immediately the future generation of
India would be of cowards as they could not even defend
themselves from thieves and dacoits and the society would
always be looking forward for protection and help from
police.
What we see in our day-today life is as predicted by Saheed
Bhagat Singh.
One person with few knifes or fake bombs or a small pistol
can hijack a plane of 300 or more people, or take hostages of
a full bus. This is one of the examples that how our society
has become incapable due to Arms Act.
The Arms Act is only to restrict the civilized Hindu society
from possession of Arms. The dacoits, Goonda, Mafia,
smugglers, naxalites, and terrorists have a free access to
any sorts of arms. Most of them are Muslims to whom
Arms Act has no effect.
In the beginning of 20th century our Revolutionaries under
the leadership and guidance of Sri Aurobindo, Sri V.D.
Savarkar, Rasbehari Bose, Kartarsingh Saraba, Ram
Prasad Bismil, Chandrasekhar Azad and Bhagat Singh
started taking arms in their hands to kick out the British
Empire from India. Our revolutionary movement started
getting momentum.
During this period Shri M K Gandhi appeared in Indian
scene and suppressed this revolutionary movement and
imposed his pacifist dogma (Ahimsa and Satyagrah)
borrowed from Leo Tolstoy, “Passive resistance”.
With this Gandhian movement becoming popular in India,
the Hindu society lost chance to re-arm themselves.
Thereby Hindu society was suppressed by Gandhian
pacifist dogma. This pacifist dogma is infused deep in
the blood of Hindu society. Cells of this pacifist dogma is
multiplying in our bloods like cancer in the independent
India and killing our Hindu society.
Never in the history Hindus were pacifists. Only after
1860 the Hindus become pacifists, which is still
continuing. Therefore we can see the humiliation of
Hindus all over the world.
What is the way out?
1) First repeal this Arms Act in Bharat
2) Hindu worldwide has to give up their self-centred and
the highly individualistic approach and same time they
have to become society focus.
3) Hindu society has become more money centred, and
converted into moneymaking machine. Other things,
which are necessary to protect the Hindu society, is
ignored or forgotten.
4) The Hindu society should start school based on semi
military training just like sanik school
5) Hindu society has to establish their schools and
make military training compulsory
6) Hindu society should become more generous
7) Wherever possible worldwide the Hindu society
should use legal and constitutional means for military
education and training
8) The Hindu society should encourage scouting &
sports among Hindu youths
4th and 5th suggestion is only to change the psychology
of Hindu Society
(Swami Vigyananand)