ARISE ARJUNAHINDUISM AND THE MODERN

WORLDPresentation based on a

book by

David Frawley(Vamadev Shastri)

MODERN WORLD NEEDS INDIA’S HELP

The western world has only succeeded in greed, materialism & religious dogma, not in the spiritual life.

Islamic countries are still caught in a karma of violence and oppression, a religion that is more a political movement to gain worldly power than any spiritual search.

So, India alone as a country has the potential to take the role of spiritually guiding the world

People are of view that Westerners should not follow Eastern culture because western culture is individualistic.

However Hindu thought is the most individualistic in the world. It teaches that the individual, that you yourself are God or the Divine power behind the universe.

BUT INDIA TODAY IS FILLED WITH CORRUPTION, IGNORANCE AND SERVILITY. IT DOES NOT REPRESENT THE SOUL OF INDIA BUT ONLY ITS SHADOW.LET INDIA AWAKEN AND FOR THIS TRUE SOUL OF ARJUNA MUST ARISE.

HINDUS HAVE STRAYED AWAY FROM THE PATH OF RELIGION

Most of the Hindus are ignorant of their own culture and tradition.

The educational system of India itself follows primarily Western standards and values.

They follow a Marxist-Socialist model with its atheistic and anti-nationalist orientation.

As a result, modern Hindus blame the Hindu religion for the social problems in India.

MISINTERPRETATION OF HINDUISM

Some problems that India is facing today like caste system, has their roots in the Hindu social system.

But these are not based on a real understanding of Hindu cultural forms but on their misapplication through time.

Traditional Hindu spiritual values promote a culture of Dharma. A yogic way of life, a life in harmony with the universe, though recognizing the same self in all beings.

MISREPRESENTATION OF HINDUISM IN PRESS

Indian news media itself presents anti-Hindu attitude which are very common.

Anti-Hindu statements are accepted by everyone and no one questions them.

India can never rise up as long as it is attacking itself

AYODHYA INCIDENT, DECEMBER 1992

BABRI MOSQUE

Babri mosque was demolished by Hindus. The site was claimed by Hindus as the original location of a great Hindu temple of Lord Rama.

The site was not in any Muslim holy place like Mecca or Medina but in one of the seven sacred cities of Hindus.

Muslim invaders destroyed the sacred Hindu temple and built a mosque their.

Indian Muslim activists hold placards as they take part in a protest in New Delhi, 06 December 2007

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Protest to mark the fifteenth anniversary of the razing of The Babri Masjid in Ayodhya. In 1992 a mob of Hindus destroyed the ancient Babri mosque of the town in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh

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NEWSPAPERS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD STATED THAT “HINDU MILITANTS DESTROYED MOSQUE” PROJECTING THE IMAGE OF HINDUS BOTH AS MILITANTS AND AS MOSQUE DESTROYERS.

WHY IS THE DESTRUCTION OF A HINDU TEMPLE IS NOT A NEWSWORTHY ITEM, BUT THE DESTRUCTION OF ONE DISPUTED MOSQUE WORTH GLOBAL HEADLINE?

UNDERSTANDING HINDUISM

EXTENSIVE CULTURE The music of India is Hindustani, based upon Hindu

and Sanskrit works going back to the Sama Veda.

The dance is based upon Hindu temple dance.

The native medicine, Ayurveda, is rooted in the Vedas themselves, as is the astrology, Jyotish.

The poetry and drama tradition revolves around Hindu mythology.

The exercise tradition of Hatha yoga is rooted in the religious sadhna tradition.

The literature and philosophy all looks back to Sanskrit, which derives from the Vedas.

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The message of Vedanta is not limited to any religion, philosophy or science but it is the ultimate goal of all human striving.

Over the last hundred years many Americans have taken up the physical side of yoga but few have given attention to its spiritual side or Vedanta.

“LIVING IN THE MIDST OF IGNORANCE,

CONSIDERING THEMSELVES TO BE

WISE, THE DELUDED WANDER

CONFUSED, LIKE THE BLIND LED BY

BLIND. THE WAY TO TRUTH DOES NOT

APPEAR TO A CONFUSED IMMATURE

MIND, DELUDED BY ILLUSION OF

WEALTH. THINKING THAT THIS WORLD

ALONE EXISTS AND THERE IS NOTHING

BEYOND, THEY EVER RETURN AGAIN

AND AGAIN TO THE NET OF DEATH.”

Katha Upanishad

VIVEKANANDA AND VEDANTA

For Vivekananda the essence of Hinduism was Vedanta, the way of Self-realization, not merely the Hindu social structure.

Vivekananda was a philosophical Hindu, a great lover of Sanskrit, the Vedas, Hindu music and all the Hindu culture.

Unlike Muslims, he never seek to impose this culture on other but he was happy to share it with others.

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Those who proclaim all religion are one, seldom define what all religion have in common.

They do not see themselves as paths to God but only as ways of better relating to God.

Christianity and Islam do not aim at union with God or even consider it to be possible. Their goal is to reach heaven.

God-realization or self-realization is the Hindu sense of religion.

ACCORDING TO VIVEKANANDA:MOHAMMED LIKE MANY UNTRAINED PEOPLE IN THE SPIRITUAL LIFE, UPON HAVING A SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE JUMPED TO THE CONCLUSION THAT HE HAD THE WORD OF GOD, AND THAT WORLD SHOULD FOLLOW THE RELIGION GOD HAD REVEALED HIM.

ALLAH-MOHAMMED’S JEALOUS GOD There is a popular belief among Muslims masses

that Allah will forgive them for all his sins just because he is a Muslim.

If Quran says that everybody is equal in the eyes of God, than why he created kafirs to be massacred by Muslims?

Genocide and persecution of kafirs by Muslims has been suppressed in the name of communal harmony.

Mohammed’s god possesses emotions like anger and jealousy. He talks of chosen people and they may involve in violence with kafirs.

ISLAMIC BELIEFS

According to Islam no individual should proclaim “I am God,” which is a delusion.

For saying this in the 9th century Sufi Al-Hallaj was cut into pieces and thrown into a river by Muslims.

The reason is because Mohammed, the final prophet, did not say this, and to claim even what Mohammed did not, would be blasphemy of greatest order.

MOHAMMED AND THE QURAN

Koran is a book with much poetry, history and theology, but not the word of God.

It does not speak of absolute truth like meditation, karma or liberation.

Muslims are proud of the genocide and conquest that Islam has made in its invasion of other countries.

The connection with God they seek is going to heaven. It is not the liberation cycle of birth and death.

ARYAN INVASION THEORY

Europeans invented this idea of Aryan Invasion.

However there is no historical evidence of Aryan Invasion Theory. New archeological evidences discard Aryan Invasion Theory.

Yet this is the kind of thinking that has been superimposed upon the history of India.

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The Aryan Invasion theory has become a matter of political importance in the country.

The British rulers of colonial India, Marxists scholars and politicians, Christian missionaries & Muslim groups have used the Aryan Invasion theory to discredit and divide Hindu culture.

India now look at its ancient history anew, in the light of the collapse of the Aryan Invasion theory.

IS THE ARYAN INVASION THEORY IS NOT TRUE IT MEANS THAT INDIA IS THE OLDEST MOST CONTINUOUS CIVILIZATION IN THE WORLD, WITH THE OLDEST AND MOST EXTENSIVE LITERATURE(THE VEDAS), AND IS THEREFORE ONE OF THE GREAT CENTERS OF WORLD CIVILIZATION.

If Westerners really want to help the people of Asia they should teach them practical and humanitarian ways to organize their society.

When they try to convert them to Western religions they are doing both them and themselves a disservice because religion is what the East already has, and what the West needs to seek from it.

THE VEDAS ARE THE PART OF EACH ONE OF US BY THE VERY FACT THAT WE ARE HUMAN BEINGS.

THE VEDAS ARE THE LANGUAGE OF NATURE NOT AS OUTER PHENOMENA BUT AS A POETRY OF THE SOUL.