1. Hindu Iconography and Knowledge Distribution in Ancient India

Hindu Iconography is a reservoir of powerful symbols. Symbols lead to meaning. Meaning leads to an understanding of Truth. But looking at this ancient process, we also realize a great truth about our society.

2. Just like Vaikhari in language is incapable of expressing the Ultimate Truth, Symbols in themselves are incapable of conveying the Divine Truth about the Supreme Consciousness. They are a ladder to a great meaning and realization.

3. But just as our ṛṣis created a language, Sanskrit, which could most closely approximate the Ultimate Truth and lead the devotees towards it, similarly in Hindu iconography, mudrā and poses were invented by the ṛṣis to lead the devotee towards the path of Self Realization.

4. This symbolism is first codified in the Natyashastra but then many texts expand it into the most elaborate iconography that the world has ever seen. mudrā, hasta and bhaṇga convey the meaning of the poses that the body takes.

5. The symbolism of the āyudha that the deities hold in their hands makes the symbolism richer and more complete. Their āsana and decorations make the meaning richer and more beautiful.

1. Understanding the Muslim Mind

Hindu View of Christianity and Islam – Part 3

It is necessary to understand the Muslim psyche in order to understand the problems of co-existence that all non-Muslim societies encounter with them. The Quran and the Hadith are the sources.

2. Shri Ram Swarup did a deep study for years on these sources and came out with a book called ‘Understanding Islam through Hadis’. Islam is basically a system of law, overarching law which covers all aspects of life. To understand Muslim psyche these laws have to be studied.

3. “Islam is not merely a theology, or a statement about Allah and his relationship with His creatures. Besides containing doctrinal and creedal material, it deals with social, penal, commercial, ritualistic, and ceremonial matters.” It leaves nothing to individual discretion.

4. “It enters into everything, even into such private areas as one’s dress, marrying, and mating. In the language of the Muslim theologians, Islam is a complete and completed religion.” Every human action is pre-decided by Islam. Nothing is left to imagination.

5. “It is equally political and military. It has much to do with statecraft, and it has a very specific view of the world peopled by infidels. Since most of the world is still infidel, it is very important for those who are not Muslims to understand Islam.”

1. लेबनान रातों-रात मुस्लिम बहुल देश कैसे बना?

लेबनानी गृहयुद्ध से हिंदू क्या सीख सकते हैं?

इस्लाम के अधूरे एजेंडे - केस १ - लेबनान

इस थ्रेड में हम देखेंगे कि कैसे राजनीतिक इस्लाम समकालीन युग में भी एक गैर-मुस्लिम देश को नष्ट करके मुस्लिम बहुल बना लेता है।

2. किसी गैर-मुस्लिम द्वारा शासित देश में मुस्लिम को रहने की अनुमति नहीं है। ऐसा इसलिए है क्योंकि गैर-मुस्लिम, इस्लामिक योजना में, मुसलमानों से नीचे माने जाते हैं। और मुसलमानों से वाँछित है कि वे हर उस देश को मुस्लिम बहुल देश में बदलने का प्रयास करें जो अभी गैर-मुस्लिम बहुल है।

3. लेबनान पश्चिम एशिया में भूमध्यसागरीय तट पर स्थित एक छोटा सा देश है। १९७० के दशक में, इज़राइल को छोड़कर, यह इस क्षेत्र का एकमात्र गैर-मुस्लिम बहुसंख्यक देश था। और यह एकमात्र लोकतंत्र भी था। और यह उसका लोकतंत्र था जिसके कारण अंततः यह देश मुस्लिम बहुल हो गया।

4. लेबनान एक प्राचीन देश है जिसका उल्लेख बाइबल में किया गया है। इसकी बेका घाटी समुद्र के पास पहाड़ी क्षेत्र के रूप में प्रसिद्ध है। १९७५ तक लेवेंटाइन संस्कृति का अर्थ ही था लेबनान । मौसम और संस्कृति में भी सौम्य। अच्छा भोजन, आतिथ्य और विविध संस्कृति।

5. इसकी राजधानी बेरूत को पूर्व का पेरिस कहा जाता था। संसाधन संपन्न होने के बाद भी, यह सदैव एक उत्कृष्ट नगर था क्योंकि लेबनान लेवान का एक हिस्सा है, जो अफ्रीका, एशिया और यूरोप को जोड़ता है और इसलिए सदैव तीन महाद्वीपों के चौराहे पर होने के कारण यह व्यापार और समृद्धि का केंद्र रहा।

1. List of Essential Books to Read for Civilizational Education

You folks were asking me about the sources of my threads and books on which I base my accounts. Here is a list of great books to read. A lot of them are available for free online. Others can be bought on amazon.

1.India’s Secularism – Sita Ram Goel
2.The Story of Islamic Imperialism in India – Sita Ram Goel
3.Arise Arjuna – David Frawley
4.Hindu Society Under Siege – Sita Ram Goel
5.Islam vis-à-vis Hindu Temples – Sita Ram Goel
6.Breaking India – Rajiv Malhotra

7.Ram and Ayodhya – Meenakshi Jain
8.The Beautiful Tree – Dharampal
9.Gandhi and Godse – Koenraad Elst
10.Jesus Christ: An Artifice for Aggression – Sita Ram Goel
11.Hinduism: The Eternal Tradition – David Frawley
12.Jizya and the Spread of Islam – Harsh Narain

13.Defense of Hindu Society – Sita Ram Goel
14.The Dark Side of Christian History – Helen Ellerbe
15.Specific Hindu Grievances – Koenraad Elst
16.मार्क्सवाद के खँडहर - शंकर शरण
17.Indra’s Net – Rajiv Malhotra
18.The Sabarimala Confusion – Nithin Sridhar

19.Sati – Meenakshi Jain
20.Perversion of India’s Political Parlance – Sita Ram Goel
21.The Myth of Aryan Invasion of India – David Frawley & the intro of Talageri’s book
22.Negationism in India – Koenraad Elst
23.The Calcutta Quran Petition – Sita Ram Goel

1. Do Islamists prize Muslim lives?

Hindu Society Under Siege – 2

Do ‘Muslim Lives Matter’ in greater scheme of Islam? Sita Ram Goel had an answer. In a country like India: ‘Islamism has evolved a strategy in which the Muslims of India are envisaged as a base and an arsenal’.

2. Individual Muslim lives are seen by their ideologues and leaders as cannon fodder for the conquest of India. Some salient features of this strategy can be outlined as follows: (all quotes are from Sita Ram Goel’s book ‘Hindu Society Under Siege’)

#ArrestPratikSinha

3. “(a) The Muslims of India should be sealed off from every shade of rationalism, universalism, humanism and liberalism, and an army of mullahs and maulvis trained in the tenets of Islam should be let loose to brainwash and keep them along the right (Islamic) track;”

4. “(b) Every Muslim who doesn’t accept Islamism or dares criticize it or stands for the mainstream of Indian nationalism, away from & above religious differences, should be denounced as a renegade and a legitimate victim for murderous Muslim mobs” (remember the Maharashtra boy?)

5. “(c) The Muslims should be encouraged to air as many grievances as can be invented, and try to pass off as a down-trodden minority, oppressed, exploited and treated as second class citizens by the brute Hindu majority;”
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1. When Rohingyas Mass Murdered Hindus

Yes you heard it right. They are not the most persecuted minority of the world. They are capable of fighting guerilla wars against military states like Myanmar.

And they brutally eliminate non-Muslim minorities wherever they come to rule.

2. Their brutality was displayed in 2017 when they mass massacred around 100 Hindu women and children mainly. Their hapless victims were Bengali Hindus who found themselves at the mercy of this ‘persecuted minority’ of Myanmar.

3. This massacred of Hindus by Rohingyas is known as Kha Maung Seik massacre. It was carried on by the terrorist arm of Rohingyas called ARSA or Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army. Yes, Rohingyas even have their terrorist wing.

Still think they are victims?

Pic: ARSA Leader Ata

4. Hindus are just around 1% in this district of Maungdaw where they were massacred. Even 1% Hindus could not be tolerated by the Rohingyas of the district as Rohingya Muslims are the overwhelming majority of this district – 91%.

5. This is the only Muslim majority district of the Rakhine state and the Rohingyas are so brutal that they could pull off a mass massacred of the Hindu minority of their own district in the only place where they are majority.

Think about what they will do in Delhi.

1. How Christianity created the lethal blend of Prophetic Monotheism

Hindu View of Christianity and Islam – Part 2

Shri Ram Swarup explains how the lethal blend of Prophetic Monotheism was created by Christianity. Judaism wasn't particular on conversion. Christianity added it.

2. Jesus started his career by trying to become a Jewish prophet. The initial times are marked by his words which seek audience only in Jews. It was only when Jews considered him dangerous enough to bring Roman ire on Israel that he turned his attention to Gentiles.

3. Gentiles were the pagans of Israel/ Palestine of those times. And this change of audience in attention from Jews (monotheistic people) to Gentiles (pagan people) has its marks on the character of Christianity, mainly in the things that it borrowed from both cultures.

4. From Messiah to Savior

"Jesus himself was converted from a Messiah into a Saviour, into God's First Begotten Son, the Intermediary between God and man. This indeed was a great leap and a great promotion from the humble figure of a Jewish Messiah."

5. Jesus's story is sold as a unique happening in the history of mankind. But that’s false. When Christianity was born there were too many saviors around. Mithras, a Persian god, famous in Roman Empire had a story too similar to Jesus. (All quotes are Shri Ram Swarup’s words)

1. Christian Colonialism in India

Hindu Society Under Siege – 3

The British left another monotheistic residue in India which converted a few Hindus & states and these converts now act as an anti-Hindu force now. What are the traits of ‘Christianism’(as Sita Ram Goel calls it)?

2. The 8 traits of this force, Christianism (residue of Christianity) which is laying siege to Hindu society are provided by Sita Ram Goel in his book, ‘Hindu Society Under Siege’. He considers this Christianism as the second force which lays siege to India. Quotes are by SRG.

3. “(a) That the Hindus have never had a Saviour whose historicity can be ascertained, with the possible exception of the Buddha;”

4. “(b) That Jesus Christ whose historicity cannot be questioned has superseded all earlier Saviours of Hinduism (if they were Saviours at all and not disciples of Lucifer) and rendered superfluous all subsequent Hindu saints and sages;”

5. “(c) That St. Thomas, an apostle of Jesus himself, was specially chosen by the Church to win India for his Master’s message:”

1. How Our Eyes Lie to Us

Cognitive Psychologists in the past two decades have been experimenting on narrative fallacy. They say that our minds create stories or narratives which do not portray reality as it is, but as our minds perceive them.

2. Daniel Kahneman, Dan Ariely, Daniel Gilbert etc. have published ground breaking works where they discuss the narrative fallacy. They tell us how our mind fools us in our behavior and we may think we are in control of our behaviors but our mind has different designs for us.

3. Daniel Gilbert in ‘Stumbling Upon Happiness’ tells us how our eyes betray us and we can’t even be sure of what we see, let alone what we think. Michael Gazzaniga tells us that how our instincts are not in our control and it seems we act according to a pre-written script.

4. These are very serious subjects and only future will tell us what is going to happen in these disciplines. But the bottomline of all this research is that: our mind and our senses lie to us and we cannot be sure of what we think or what we even see.

5. That our senses create a narrative fallacy is something that has been alluded to in many of our spiritual texts. Modern West is just rediscovering it through tests and experiments. But there is an experiment in our daily lives that gives us a clue of what narrative fallacy is.

1. Is Śiva really Bholenātha?

A commong sight during Sāvana ke Somvāra in north India is Hindu women offering Bilva Patra to Śiva liṇga at the nearby temple, offering jala & other offerings directly to Śiva liṇga by touching it directly or a long time.

2. There is scarcely any rule to this offering of pūjā. Women in sārī, suit and even western clothes offer everything they have brought with them directly to Śiva: milk, water, kumkum, haldī, bilva patra, sweets, fruits and much more with priest just managing the proceedings.

3. There is often a queue-less, order-less jumble of acts, sights and sounds in which women of all ages jostle with men and boys of all ages to reach the ‘pinḍī’, the Śiva liṇga and offer the pūjā.

4. Most people from the south, following tradition, where āgamas are still a working reality, at least in temples, and where many people follow caryā are offended, and not without reason.

Śiva also have rules of worship and approach, as other deities.

5. Śiva temple, like others requires certain rituals and customs which are inviolable. Śiva, like other deities, requires certain caryā from his devotees and thus cannot be just taken any way the devotees want. It is true that there is a way to approach him like any other deity.

1. 'Hindu' is a word which is often objected to: both by the left-liberals and even by many Hindu nationalists. The disbelief in the word arises from the same historical truth: that the word 'Hindu' is not indigenous and it was a name given to us by the others, by the outsiders.

2. Whether it was a corruption of the word 'Sindhu' by the Iranians who couldn't pronounced 's' as 'h' is now a matter of great debate, but everyone agrees that the word itself is foreign in origin.

3. Anti-Hindus claim that since the word itself is foreign in origin there is no such thing as the Hindu society & Hinduism, & India is a British creation! They mistake the word for the civilization, and proving former’s foreign origin, reject the very existence of the latter.

4. The Hindu Nationalists believe that since the name is foreign in origin, so we should completely reject it and use the name 'Bharat' for our country and 'Sanatana Dharma' and 'Sanatani' for referring to our Dharma and our people.

I disagree.

5. I have no problem with the phrase Sanatana Dharma and I use it quite often. But the word 'Hindu', and the phrase 'Hindu Dharma' are quite useful, easy and we have been using them for the past few centuries very very well to identify ourselves.

1. Is ‘Dharma’ not ‘Religion’?

If not, then what is it? Is it free for all?

It is true that ‘dharma’ isn't ‘religion’. It is a non-translatable & can't be translated as ‘religion’ in English. That much is true. But it is not free for all at all. Here is how.

2. To discuss religion first, religion is what we know as Prophetic Monotheism with features like: One True God, Last Prophet, Divided Time, Divided Humanity, Historic Origin and Last Judgment.

3. All that matters in a religion is Belief. Actions are null and void against belief. If you have right belief, you go to heaven. If you have wrong belief, you go to hell. Actions mean nothing. This is where it differs starkly from a dharmic system.

4. Dharma dictates that one can never escape one’s karma. He can be shown the right path by a guru, he can put in course correction, but he has to undergo his prarabdha; the fruits of his own actions. So everyone is responsible for his own actions.

5. This thread is not to list out the differences between Dharma and Religion. That is job for another day; another thread. This thread is to clarify whether dharma is free for all or not? The clear answer is no. It is not free for all. Unlike some filmi celebrities today claim.