To want to fight unrighteous people who are invading your country or falsely ruling over your people is the appropriate instinct of the Kshatriya, to deny which is to deny their vitality. Once the vitality of the Kshatriya - who represent the vital or energetic aspect of society - is weakened then the whole society becomes devitalized and its vigor is lost. This excessive non- violence set in motion a one-sided teaching and a distortion that has weakened modern India and turned it against itself.

Rather than defending themselves, Hindus turn on other Hindus who try to defend themselves against unjust attacks, even if it means being sympathetic with those who are attacking fellow Hindus. If Hindus criticize non-Hindus, even truthfully, it is Hindus themselves who protest. Whereas if non-Hindus attack or criticize Hindus, other Hindus try to look upon the attack with equanimity, tolerance or even try to make the Hindus who are attacked responsible for it.