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Introduction: Some words of The Great Maharishi Yogi Shri Aurobindo(SA) on What Sanātana Dharma is, on the problem of HIndu-Muslim Unity, on Objection to Vande Mātaram by Muslims.These problems will persist until +
Introduction: Some words of The Great Maharishi Yogi Shri Aurobindo(SA) on What Sanātana Dharma is, on the problem of HIndu-Muslim Unity, on Objection to Vande Mātaram by Muslims.These problems will persist until +
Hindus avoid the ‘Ostrich act’ behind flowery terms like secularism,Unity,Peace etc and take the problem-bull by its horns. Onto the Sage SA's words:
1. From Uttarpara Speech: This then is what I have to say to you. The name of your society is “Society for the Protection of Religion”. Well, the protection of the religion, the protection and upraising before the world of the Hindu religion, that is the work before us. +
But what is the Hindu religion ? What is this religion which we call Sanātana, eternal ? It is the Hindu religion only because the Hindu nation has kept it, because in this Peninsula it grew up in the seclusion of the sea and the Himalayas, +
because in this sacred and ancient land it was given as a charge to the Aryan race to preserve through the ages.This Hindu nation was born with the Sanātana Dharma, with it, it moves, and with it, it grows. When the Sanātana Dharma declines, then the nation declines, +
and if the Sanātana Dharma were capable of perishing, with the Sanātana Dharma it would perish. The Sanātana Dharma that is nationalism...” (Note ‘Hindu Nation’. Hindus are a nation, not 1 community among others in Bhārat) +
2. For Sri Aurobindo, the ideal was“an Indian Nationalism, largely Hindu in its spirit and traditions, because the Hindu made the land and the people and persists, by the greatness of his past, +
his civilisation and his culture and his invincible virility, in holding it, but wide enough also to include the Moslem and his culture and traditions and absorb them into itself". +
3. On the communal question, especially exacerbated around 1909, Sri Aurobindo, in his characteristic frankness wrote, “We do not fear Mohamedan opposition; so long as it is the honest Swadeshi article and not manufactured in Shillong or Simla, we welcome it +
as a sign of life and aspiration.” Interestingly, Sri Aurobindo argued against shunning the “awakening of Islam” in India “even if its first crude efforts are misdirected against ourselves”; for he saw “all strength, all energy, all action” +
as “grist to the mill of the nation-builder”. He was, however, ready, “when the times comes” to “meet in the political field, to exchange with the Musulman, just as he chooses, the firm clasp of the brother or the resolute grip of the wrestler”. +
4. In a letter to one of his close disciples, sometime in 1934, Sri Aurobindo refuted a position which accused the Swadeshi movement of antagonising Muslims. +
“As for the Hindu-Muslim affair”, he noted, “I saw no reason why the greatness of India’s past or her spirituality should be thrown into the waste-paper basket in order to conciliate the Moslems who would not at all be conciliated by such a policy. +
What has created the Hindu-Moslem split was not Swadeshi, but the acceptance of the communal principle by the Congress... and the further attempt by the Khilafat movement to conciliate them and bring them in on wrong lines. +
The recognition of that communal principle at Lucknow made them permanently a separate political entity in India which ought never to have happened; the Khilafat affair made that separate political entity an organised separate political power.” +
So,note that Congress was responsible for creation of Muslims as a separate entity destroying the chance of their being digested by Sanātan Dharma.Continues even today with Free Coaching to Muslims for IAS by GoI,increased Grants for Xian Missionaries by GoI etc. +
5. On Vande Mātaram: When a disciple pointed out (December 1939) how some object to Vande Mataram as the national song and of how some Congressmen support the removal of parts of the song because the argument is +
that the song speaks of Hindu gods, like Durga, and that is offensive to the Muslims, the Sage answered in his inimitable way: “But it is not a religious song: it is a national song and the Durga spoken of is India as the Mother. Why should not the Muslims accept it? +
It is an image used in poetry. In the Indian conception of nationality, the Hindu view would naturally be there. If it cannot find a place there, the Hindus may as well be asked to give up their culture...”
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