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Introduction
The Concept of an Indian Identity and Mindset continues..
What exactly is today confronting Hindus, is however, much more difficult to meet than earlier in history because the forces at work to erode and undermine Hindu faith, unlike before, are unseen, clandestine, pernicious, deceptive but most of all sophisticated and media-savvy. Tragically therefore, a much more educated and larger numbers of Hindus have been unwittingly coopted today in this sinister conspiracy directed by foreigners who have no love for India and who also see (much as Lord Macaulay saw in the nineteenth century), that the hoary Hindu foundation of India is a stumbling block for the furtherance of their nefarious perfidious game.
Adherence to Hinduism is also being sought to be diluted in the name of modernity and this dilution is made a norm of secularism. Religion, it is advocated, is personal. To be a good Hindu today is conceptually being reduced to just praying, piety, visiting temples, and celebrating religious festivals. The concept of a collective Hindu mindset is being ridiculed as chauvinist and retrograde, even fundamentalist. The concept of a corporate Hindu unity and identity however is that of a collective mindset that identifies us with a motherland from the Himalayas to the Indian Ocean and itโs glorious past, and the concomitant resolve of itโs representative leadership (earlier defined by Chanakya as โchakravartinโ), to defend that vision. It is this concept and resolve that is being discarded or is just evaporating under the onslaught of the Nehruvian secularists.
However pious a Hindu becomes, however prosperous Hindu temples become from the offerings of devotees, when the nation is in peril it is only this collective mindset of the people that matters, and not the piety of some individual.
Lacking a cohesive corporate identity, Hindu society today is in the process of becoming fragmented, and hence increasingly in disarray. This fission process is on simultaneously with the reality of millions of Hindus who go regularly to temples or to places of pilgrimage like Sabarimalai or to the Kumbh Mela. This is not what I mean by Hindu unity.
to be continued...