Hindu Dharma – Part 10

Nowadays, movies are influencing the people very much. All those movies are doing harm to the Hindutva only and helping other religions. For example, in many movies, villians are shown as wearing Tilak on their foreheads and doing worship to Gods in our temples, while heroes are shown as a great ones who oppose our traditions, and worship of Gods and at the same time helping other religions and following their traditions. The influence of such movies is frieightfully falling on our youth who have gone down to the stage of looking at other religions as the heroic ones.In many movies, priests of temples, putohits join the side of villians, teach them deceipt, treachery, wickedness and also take part in doing bad things. At the end they are shown as fatally beaten by the hero. That way, the procedures of those movies are creating negative impression among the people on our Hindu temples and traditions. They say that there are wicked once among our priests. If that is the case, we also know tht in all the affairs of all religions which are in litigation in courts, there are people like this there also. But neither the writers nor the directors and producers have the courage to write or show such people, but they destroy only the Hindu dharma. Neither the producer of that movie nor the director and writer think that they are harming their own religious dharma. Showing their pseudo devotion, they put the name of God before start of the picture, start destroying the dharma of that God with in that picture itself. What to think of their Hindutva? If we do not analyse, there is a lot of danger. It is very much ncessary that each one for himself has to write to cine writer, producer and director about these things and also question them in interviews. this will have effect on them since they also do things knowing the pulse of the people.

News papers and magazines are the great media of publicity in the eyes of educated people. Whichever Hindu festival comes, we find all these papers and magazines full of humorous cartoons on the Hindu Gods. If a cartoon is published on other religions, immediately those papers along with their printing press machines will be destroyed. So these papers and magazines satisfy their entire itch on the Hindu Gods only. Seeing those cartoons, the Hindus who ought to weep over them, laugh heartily. If ten people react to this and write letters to the paper, saying it is very unjust to do so, such things would be definitely stopped. But there should be strong will in us to do so. Let us do atleast from now onwards. Anogher thing is there. It has become the trend of news papers to publicize in a big way about the so called injustice, real or unreal, done in the case of other religion, and to keep their mouths shut, in the case of injustice done to the Hindu dharma. As a proof for this, several incidents are happening every moment. Then the owners of those papers and writers are all Hindus only. But for them, their business is more important that their dharma and also the response of the public is also important. Hindus should respond and write articles about the injustice done to them. If they do like that, the management of news paper also in turn pass on only justified to the public. It should be noted tht in such things also our care is necessary.

There are several Hindu spiritual magazines. In them, there are things related to our puranas and vedanta. It is desirable and needed, if articles which develop ‘dharmic nishta’ are also given in them. Still horrible thing is some magazines under the name vedanta magazines are publishing articles on other religions and related photos on their cover pages. What is this depravity? Do the magazines of other religions carry articles on the aspects of our dharma and biographies of our great people? They write about us only to adversely criticize us. So our people in their anxiety to get the credit of being called as broad hearted people, are doing harmful things. Through these, they are giving the touch of other religions to our Hindus and diverting their attention to that side. The point is if our people ger diverted that side, they do not come back to our side. We can only send our people that side but not bring them back. In fact the people who subscribe to these magazines and read them are the Hindus only. If the Hindu magazines try to focus the influence of other relgiions even on those good Hindus, what to say about our deplorable state?

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by Dr Annadanam Chidambara Sastry
http://www.jayahanumanji.com/

Hindu Dharma – Part 9

Among us, real philosophers are becoming rare but false and cynical philosophers are increasing. Some of these false ones go on talking saying ‘Oh! what these religions are! Don’t they know that God is one? What is there, if He is called by any name? Why particular about a religion? Are we to propagate our religion, simply because others are that pseudo philosopher doing their own? Why should we do the same, while calling their as a wrong one?”. We are not thinking of bringing others into our religion with false propoganda and enticements, just as the other religions are doing. It is not our aim to ensure that our own people do not go away from us, to see that our people follow our religious dharmas. From time immemorial, who ever had gone to continents and subcontinents for preaching our dharma, had not encouraged religious conversions in those places. One false philosopher will say “What is there in a religion? Is not every thing God only?”. By saying that all people are the embodiments of the God would agree to leave his wealth and belongings outside his house and happily keep quiet if any one takes away his wealth? Will he leave his wealth unprotected, saying that while getting birth he had not brought anything and while going away from the world, he would not take anything along with him? Thinking that this entire world is filled with Brahmam, will he sleep keeping all the doors of his home open during the nights? Definitely No. He wants that not even a small thing of his should go from him. Nobody should steal his articles. When it comes to their religion, they resort to philosophy. For such people there would be nothing for them except their individual selfishness. For that selfishness, they do not hesitate to jump into other religions at any moment. Even at that time also, while defending their action, they give clarification and philosophical interpretations. Let us not blame such people. With Obedience, we should be able to make them accept our efforts and follow our dharma. The is dharma and divine strength behind us. With that courage only, let us march forward and get success.

Some people, looking at the rush of devotees at the temples express their happiness that devotion among people is very much increasing. There may be good devotion in the people, but if there is no firmness and sincerity in dharma, full benefit of devotion will not accrue to us. If we examine the selfishness of a person behind that devotion, we come to understand the content of real devotion in it. What is to be desired by us is earnestness and steadfastness in dharma. If it is not there, devotion cannot withstand firmly. Suppose if we, the devotees, are doing ‘bhajan’ in a temple, if stores are being thrown on that temple, we leave the God and run away from that place to protect our lives. if it is a case of attack on other religious places, people of those religions come there running and try to save their holy places, placing their life at stake. So, we cannot be totally fearless with our devotion. If there is no steadfastness in dharma. If selfishness alone works behind our devotion, and if that selfishness can be fulfilled through other religions, people suddenly change into other religion and they display this same devotion there also. So we should give importance to earnestness in dharma. If we observe the history, we come to know that we were not put to loss due to lack of devotion. There were crooked people who organized yajnas and divine worships on behalf of Aurangazeb for puttingan end to Sivaji Maharaj, who dedicated himself to establish the Hindu empire. They were all Hindu devotees only, but who lacked sincerity in our dharma, it means that we should work for promoting loyalty loyalty and sincerity towards our dharma rather than devotion.

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By Dr. Annadanam Chidambara Sastry
http://www.jayahanumanji.com/

Hindu Dharma – Part 8

Those of other religions are prepared to lose anything for the sale of their religion. But our people ready to lose our religion for the sake of anything. For example, a Hindu youth if he loves a non-Hindu girl, would leave his Hindu religion for marrying her. He will say that he is sacrificing his religion for his love. If a Hindu girl loves a non-Hindu youth, that youth will not leave his reliigon. That Hindu girl only leaves her Hindu religion. This is the condition. In which ever way it is seen, inter-religious marriages are strengthening other religions only. So those people may encourage such marriages, but they fail to notice the way in which our children are going. If we develop earnestness in our dharma, such dangerous things would not happen. So it is very much necessary for their family set up that every father and mother should make their children enter and move in the path of dharma.

Not only that, we have to ensure that our children do not go far away from our religious dharmas right from their childhood. We should also keep an eye on them to know whether there is divine nature in them or demonic. Mainly they are to be protected to ensure that they do not get away from our dharma. By admitting them in the schools run by other religions, we are making them to go away from our religion. When they get into proximity to other religions, they begin to do things like removing tilak on their faces, refusing to pur namaskaram to our Gods, refusing to come to our temples and doing the prayers of other religions. Even though they do not change outwardly due to the fear for their parents, they will undergo a lot of change in their minds.

They start thinking that the other religion is a great one, our religion is not worthwhile and all our customs and traditions are superstitious. Except having concern for the child’s education, we are not realising that as a consequence of this, he would become a problem to us in our own house by going against our religious values. The effect of influence of other religion on us starts there itself. By the time the child becomes youth, he thinks it as a great thing to deny our religious dharmas, praise the customs of other relgions and follow them. He gets into that bad condition automatically. unable to understand that we ourselves are responsible for such
a situation, we are getting into problems. when that youth grows futher, things like friendship and love will bring him to the stage of entering the other religions. When the situation goes out of our hands, even if we attempt to tell him about our dharma, he does not listen to us and not follow what we say. Is it that we do not have schools and convents which sustain Hindutva in us?

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