Introduction
The Concept of an Indian Identity and Mindset continues....


Non-Hindus can join to create a Hindustani unity, but first they must agree to adhere to the minimum requirement: that they recognize and accept that their cultural legacy is Hindu, or that they revere their Hindu origins, that they are as equal before law as any other but no more, and that they will make sacrifices to defend their Hindu legacy just as any good Hindu would his own. In turn then the Hindu will defend such non-Hindus as they have the Parsis and Jews, and accept them as the Hindustani pariwar.

India can be only for those who swear that Bharatvarsh or Hindustan is their matrubhoomi and karmabhoomi. Since the task to defeat the nefarious forces ranged today against Hindu Society is not going to be easy, we cannot therefore trust those in our midst whose commitment to the motherland is ambivalent or ad hoc or those who feel no kinship to the Hindu past of the nation. We partitioned a quarter of Hindustan to accomodate those Muslims who could not live with us Hindus in a democratic framework of equality and fraternity. Hence now only those are true children of Bharatmata who accept that India is their matrubhoomi and karmabhoomi; and only these are welcome in naveen (new) Hindustan to be created out of a renaissance.

As Swami Vivekananda said to Hindus: “Arise, Awake and Go Forth as Proud Hindus”. But what does being a proud Hindu entail? The core of what it entails can be found by gleaning the writings of our sages and interpreting it in the modern context. I have tried summarizing the distilled wisdom in the following axioms or fundamentals of Hindu Unity that also define the Hindu mindset:

Second, Hindus believe that all religions equally lead to God, but not that all religions are equal in the richness of their theological content. Respecting all religions, Hindus must demand from others that such respect is a two-way obligation.


to be continued.....

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