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| Why Hindu Rashtra? |
WHY HINDU RASHTRA ? |
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Why the Term HinduIt is unbroken flow of national life, earlier known as Bharat, became famous as Hindu in modem times. Like the holy waters of the Ganga assuming different names Bhagirathi, Jahnavi, Hoogly, etc. at different points and flows on with innumerable streams joining it and enriching it, so also the course of Hindu Rashtra symbolised one and the same life-stream even while assuming different names and assimilating and getting enriched by various currents and influences during its evolutionary process. As such, calling it "Bharatiya" instead of Hindu does not change its content or purport in the least. Therefore, those who suggest this changes in the belief that they are presenting a more liberal concept are under some serious illusion. Also, giving up the term Hindu today being unable to face the storm of malpropaganda would be tantamount to conceding surrender before the erstwhile deceptive British policy which sought to dub Hinduism as communalism and pervert its real connotation. It would be a grave insult to Swami Vivekananda, Mahyogi Aurobindo and Lokmanya Tilak who eulogised this nation as Hindu Nation in clear and glowing terms. It will also push Mahatma Gandhi into the ranks of communalists as he too had said in a challenging tone :"Hinduism is a relentless pursuit after Truth. And if today it has become moribund, inactive, irresponsive to growth, it is because we are fatigued; and as soon as the fatigue is over, Hinduism will burst forth upon the world with a brilliance perhaps unknown before."
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