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| Why Hindu Rashtra? |
WHY HINDU RASHTRA ? |
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A revealing ContrastIn contrast, in spite of having attained invincible power and prosperity for thousands of years, Hindustan shed only its spiritual and cultural effulgence on the whole of the world. Even to his day countries like Mexico, Japan, China, Mongolia, Siberia, Malaya, Indonesia, etc., bear eloquent testimony to the light of peace and wisdom lit there by our saints, seers and scholars in the distant pastas well as in middle ages. Unlike Islam and Christianity, Hindu Dharma has never sought to plant its flag of martial victory by wading through a sea of human blood and tears. Bharat does not carry any stigma of genocide like the one perpetrated by various European communities on the original inhabitants of America. The Hindu mind has always abhorred destruction; its texture has ever remained one of construction. His has been verily the role to fulfil and not to destroy.A Hindi poet sang: "Let any one tell me, how many mosques I have destroyed after the conquest of Kabul. In fact, I have never hankered after the conquest of territories, but only of the human hearts." This was the reason why the local populace in other welcomed the moral and cultural expedition of Bharat. Those were the victories of sterling virtues of selflessness, character and liberalism which evoked among the native people not any feelings of revolt but of gratitude. And this gratefulness has not lessened a whit even after the passage of centuries. Do we not get a glimpse of die sentiment from the conduct of an old man of Siberia who bowed his head in reverence to Dr. Raghuvira, the great Indian savant, or from the sentiments of the wife of an Indonesian Muslim who asked him to bring the holy water of the Ganga while returning from Bharat? To the people of these countries, their visit to Bharat? is not merely a sightseeing trip but verily a pilgrimage. The Hindi poet once again said : "The doors of my house are open for all the castaways of the world." It is this liberal conscience of Hindu Rashtra which made it the haven for the suffering humanity coming from any quarter. Even today our Parsi brethren here are prospering with honour, as the very flesh and blood of our body politic, with all their life-characteristics kept intact. And the experience of the Jews residing here for centuries is no different. Just see the revealing sentences occuring in a Israeli Consulate's (Bombay) publication Indian Jews in Israel : "And so they (the Jews) came from 104 lands. While most of the others came to Israel driven by persecution, discrimination, murder and attempts at genocide, the Jews.... throughout their long sojourn in India nowhere and at no time were they subjected to intolerance, discrimination and persecution." |
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