Are you Ready to Roar?

Last post, we discussed about the partition and all that it meant for Hindus and to the world. If the word Hindu seems to be anathema to you, refer to our previous post "I am a Hindu YUVA" and understand what we mean by Hindu. To avoid something similar from happening to Hindus again, we need to understand the cause of these partitions.

The foremost important reason is that our leaders at the helm of affairs had washed themselves off their Hindu roots and looked at everything through a foreign prism. Also, they had neither the far sightedness to see how all these would fit into the grand scheme of things. Secondly, the Hindus were not united and they were just Hindus in name but never in spirit. In the words of Shri Sita Ram Goel Ji “Hindu society forgot how it had to struggle ceaselessly and very hard against horde after horde of Islamic invaders who not only slaughtered, burnt, pillaged, and enslaved but also tried to foist by force its own brand of barbarism.”

As Hindus, we need to understand Hindu dharma and its real history. In parallel, we should strive to Hindu-ise the Hindu minds (ourselves included!). It is our personal experience that most Hindus, thanks to years of slavery and continued distortion of history are tragically Macaulay’s children: Indians in skin and color but Englishmen in thought, opinion and morals. This needs to be undone. We need to strive hard to make every Hindu say with his chest puffed up and head high “Yes, I belong to the glorious race of the Hindus”. This can be done by making Hindus aware of the achievements of their ancestors and bring them to their senses on the present plight of the Hindu community. In fact, the Hindu is presently in a deep state of dream (than the one in Inception!) and he needs to be given a gentle kick in the form of “Hinduising” him to be brought to reality.

As today’s Hindu, we need strive to become a complete personality. A Hindu should have all the four varnas in him. When need be, he needs to act knowledgeable as the Brahmin, brave as the Kshatriya, generate wealth as the Vaishya and work tirelessly as the Shudra. All this should be directed towards the good of Hindu dharma. This will make sure that not one person dares to raise an evil eye on a Hindu.

In addition, Dr David Frawley Ji’s concept of Intellectual Kshatriya is the need of the hour. We need Hindus who are absolutely unsparing in their attack on whatever obstructs the growth of the nation, and never be afraid to call a spade a spade. As Sri Aurobindo says, what we need is “aggressive virtues, the spirit of soaring idealism, bold creation, fearless resistance, courageous attack; of the passive tamasic inertia we already have too much.”

It is time that each Hindu takes a vow to take his race and nation back to its pristine glory, not just for our good but for universal well-being. We have to awaken the lion in each one of us and once the Hindu lion roars, the jackals of other evil forces will automatically become silent and dare not look at the lion with wrong intentions. Are we ready for the roar?