Hindu Dharam Sansad - A proposed permanent Hindu Parliament / Sansad with Hindu Headquarters
Launch date Dussera 25 October 2020
A permanent Parliament of Hindus has been proposed for 1 billion plus Hindus.
1. To look after the needs of Global Hindus
2.To make Hinduism a caste free religion
3.To provide guidance & advise Hindus from time to time
4.To fight Hinduphobia & violence against Hindus.
5.To act as a interface between Government & Hindus
6.To organise 7am & 7 pm Arti & puja Congregations in local temples
7.To organise Sunday religious discourses at local temples
8.To raise funds for poor & needy Hindus
9.To educate people about Hinduism incl standardising Hindu texts
10.To start food & clothes bank for poor Hindus.
A conundrum for me since February 1981 when an entire village at Meenakshipuram converted to Islam from Hinduism.
It got me thinking & seek answers to make Hinduism a robust religion sans caste system & find ways to look after vulnerable Hindus.
My Honest Thoughts on Hinduism !
Part A
1. Hindus have been always divided because Hinduism has NO Command & Control ie -Centralised Organizational Structure like in other Major religions & this is its weakest point & has proved time & again that we are divided Kashmiris , Dogris , Punjabis , Rajput , Gujarati , Marathi , Telgu , Tamil, Kanadiga , Malyalee , Bengali , Bihari , Assamese etc but NOT united Hindus !
A rudderless Ship with no one Incharge really .
2. Till Hinduism does not have a religious centralised & local organisational set up Nothing can be positive for Hinduism & we will be used by Political parties as pawns by dividing us further.
Major religions are organised like proper structure & with proper rules & regulations so that they speak the same language & command collective bargaining power whether we like it or not.
Caste system in Hinduism is kept cunningly alive by politicians for votes . This needs to be consigned to dustbin of history. A proper apology to our lower castes must be issued after our unity conferences.
Reservation system should be for all poor people in India & not Hindu Caste based .
3. Political parties have only votes in sight & why would they unite the Hindus
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For them battered , divided Hindus & nation is much better than united nation!
They are all selfish h & short sighted !
4. Hinduism is a religion NOT some way of Life !
Way of life label is a convenient label to keep Hindus divided , weak & subjugted !
Do Hindus write ' way of life ' on their passport or other applications where religion affiliation is asked for !
5. Its no use to delve in the past history of Hinduism as you will find it was enslaved because of lack of unity .
Hindus have to look forwards & not backwards & earn the respect of all .
Hate of others must never be used to unite Hindus. Hindus have to put their house in order & not burn houses of others.
No one respects the weak unfortunately. Weak in body & mind cannot be confident ever .
6. There is no coordination between various Hindu centric organisations eg Chinmayananda mission , Hare Krishna movement , Ramakrishna Mission , Shankaryacharyas , New Age Hindu gurus etc etc
7. The reason Hindus get attacked from Kashmir to Kanyakumari & from Kutch to Kolkatta is because Law & Order is to be provided by the State which looks the other way most of the time. Holocaust of Kashmiri Hindus in 1990 is an example as are atrocities on Hindus in Kerala & West Bengal.
Hinduism being without a organised Centralised religious Command & Control lends itself to attacks by others who thrive on hate . Hinduism is perceived as a weak religion and it emboldens our enemies.
Such organised physical or verbal hate cannot be challanged by individual people who have to look helplessly towards State who is shirking in its protective duties !
Can you imagine any other religion not even getting a Commission of enquiry on their exodus as has happened to hapless Hindus in Kashmir !
All because leadership in Hinduism is missing & all so called Gurus & Saffron men are heading a narrow visioned money making empires & have nothing to do with Hinduism !
8. Attack on Hinduism wont disappear as it suits all political parties to keep Hinduism divided for votes & power .
9. Weak religion like Hinduism is the punching bag for everyone & produces only muddled up individuals with matching thought process & lack lustre personalities with no confidence of character or honesty of purpose.
10. Hinduism proves that despite great philosophies or benign nature to run a religion needs strong religious leadership who can stand for Hindus and not make them divided by political parties .
If I was an advisor to Hindus I would structure it like Abrahimic religion or Sikhism & declare caste system as unwanted history & standardise its principles in simple format .
Future Hinduism has to have one non conflicting simplified organisation ! Period
What is the use of preaching the importance of dharma if we can't protect it. Our disunity and confusion has taken it's toll on the religion which is rudderless and also direction less,, in absence of a consolidated and strong Hindu leadership.
We must not cry for what we have lost.
If we could not fight to save our religion being attacked, at the appropriate time and are still groping with diverse ways to only find ways to justify our survival, then we are only finding excuses to satisfy our selves!
These are my honest views about a great religion going thru a process of crisis & which needs an organised structure .
Part B
#Solutions.
We have to be brutally honest & clinical to organise Hinduism & make it fit for purpose for next few centuries.
The saddest reality of Hinduism is that we have not learnt from our subjugation by Mughals . We still denigrate our own, ridicule our religion and teach that minority religion, however fundamentalist and anti national, are to be tolerated and not questioned in the name of peace. Hinduism problems are an open opportunity to all of us here to protect and future proof the oldest religion in the world ......
Hinduism is a classic case of bad management & organisation.
At present It’s a weak outdated Ford T model trying to compete with Ferraris & Lamborghinis. It needs urgent root and branch management changes for its followers to feel proud and its enemies to take notice. No one has sympathy for a weak foe. It’s workforce is optimistic & doing nothing is not an option.
Muslims,Leftists, Christian, Hindus in Name Only (HINOS) are united but Hindus are not ! Its plain and simple & we have to address it.
We have lost our own identity in embracing and appeasing the radicals and their hate ideology, instead of preserving and reforming our own religion and culture.
A large section of educated hindus alienate themselves by taking refuge in liberalism and non violence which they feel will make them more acceptable to the world.
It is a matter of shame and needs introspection to understand that we really have harmed our selves by being fragmented, disconnected and blind to our failures as Hindus
It's high time we nudge our selves out of the slumber that we will survive the onslaught of hate from other cults and ideologies and also from the enemies within us who destroy us more!
It’s no use over diagnosing a condition without advising a treatment plan. It’s like telling a patient on repeated visits that you have symptomatic gallstones thank you very much ! That is of no great help till you don’t offer him an operation to remove the gallbladder along with stones. You don’t wait for the patient to develop severe complications of gallstones incl jaundice & septicaemia.
That is where we are with Hinduism today.
Uniting Hinduism is a massive massive task. Don’t ever underestimate the nature of job involved. It has been my life long dream since Meenakshipuram Conversion took place in 1981. In 1981 Meenakshipuram conversion was a mass religious conversion that took place in the Indian village of Meenakshipuram, in which hundreds of low caste Hindus converted to Islam.
It got me thinking. I was crestfallen and was seeking answers as to how our poorer so called lower castes are treated so badly. I still can’t believe that Hinduism is caste ridden & so many Hindu organisations don’t even address it . Utterly shameful that we have so many historic baggage & divisions.
All major religions have a proper organisational framework to grow and provide various services for the poor and the needy .
Hinduism lacks all this and becomes an easy target for other religions to attack it because they know there is no robust mechanism within Hinduism to counter them.
We have to built a successful organisational structure in which our religious leaders , thinkers , academics can work in a Physical Dharam Sansad
Our job is to built it , run it from outside as a management team.
At this point the set up of the religious structure ie Dharam Sansad is not our brief. It will consists of religious scholars etc to give religious direction to the Hindus .
For building the virtual structure at this point , we need to recruiting an ace team of committed Hindus who are on the same page.
It’s a very mature job which has never been done before . Swami Vivekananda tried it but could not roll this out for the entire country as he died too young.
Post 1947 , Hinduism was deliberately kept divided into caste sub divisions to keep it weak and disunited so that minorities and sub castes act like powerful vote banks .
This fact is slowly dawning on most Hindus. You cannot keep society divided for ever & yet want all to be patriotic.
Economic reservation for all religious poorer sections must be the only criteria.
A weak religion is respected by none. Hindus always ask this question as to why are Hindus suffering and no one takes them seriously. So many moan on the social media & as well YouTube in endless video after another
The answer is simple .
Till Hindus don’t unite sans their historic egos & caste system into a dominant force with rules & regulations including the rules of engagement under a Hindu Dharam Sansad like organisation , nothing much will change for Hindus. Their own state & central governments won’t take them seriously till Hindus don’t show they are one for all & all for one.
I repeat that Hinduism needs a physical Head Quaters in a know religious place like Rishikesh where our Dharam Sansad can sit & operate on a daily basis. This Dharam Sansad will have regional Centres too in various areas of our vast country .
Like the Ranji Zonal Teams of our times Hinduism will have acronym NEWS Zones. NEWS as in North East West & South Zones .
The Dharam Sansad will be 35 Indian Hindu Sansads plus 15 out of India Hindus representing the global Hindus . A total of 50 Dharam Sansads will be drawn from various organisations of Hindus incl Shankaryacharayas , Organisations like VHP , Ramakrishna Mission , Chinmaya Mission , RSS , Hare Krishna , Akhadas & abroad Etc etc etc
Formation of Dharam Sansad in a physical HQ of Hinduism will give Hindus a pride in their hearts & joy in their minds that there are people concerned about their welfare.
It will also ensure that economically weaker section of Hindus are cared for and do not fall victim to Christian missionaries for conversions on economic reasons. We are losing too many Hindus to conversions & this has to stop.
Dharam Sansad will also liaise with the Central and State governments to run the temples & be incharge of temple donations .
I was lucky to meet Balasahib Thackeray on many occasions & he also ran his organisation like a tight ship. He was of firm belief that Hinduism must unite & have weekly Temple visits & biweekly morning & evening Arti in temples in huge numbers followed by discourse by the temple priest who is up to date with current problems of the nation & be passionate enough to enthuse his congregation.
It will also send a message to our enemies. No one takes weak seriously even if they are in the majority.
Once united Hindus will shed their ostrich like attitude , become confident about their own religion & culture. The murderous attacks on innocent Hindus will be history as their enemies will understand the repurcussions which will follow such barbaric attacks.
Unite or perish is my central message.
There are huge challenges including raising funds to achieve an unachievable . A good team can move mountains.
We need a mix of clear thinkers , orators , fundraisers, managers , IT & Social media specialists etc etc.
All activities must happen in an open & transparent way. We will also have a Facebook & Twitter presence .
With this in mind we need to built an ace team to deliver this vision.
The requirement below is not exhaustive but candidates must
1 Be very very keen , passionate , committed & mature & think strategically
2 Must not be argumentative. It drains everyone . Must respect chain of commands like in any good team or even army platoon. People not happy to help in the unity abiyaan must not be a part of this movement. If you do not think Hinduism cannot or must not unite then we must part company.
3 A very pleasant personable personality who respect each other.
4 Have a very friendly real life & online demeanour. Networking is a very important part of Hindu unity. To unite Hinduism will need Uber Networking between various Hindu organisations & famous Hindu personalities .
5 Not be obsessed with posting hate literature. It’s got nothing to do with the organisational set up of Hinduism.
6 The idea is to work for Hinduism and not fall in trap of spreading hatred
7. Must not have any personal agenda and not be interested in self promotion.
8. Finding future Hindu leaders is of utmost need. I once remember in 1990 my dad was invited to be a judge for an intercollegiate debate on the relevance of Swami Vivekananda in modern India. About 25 Mumbai colleges participated. The quality of the debaters was top notch. Dad found it difficult to select the first three winners. He told me such students could become future leaders of Hinduism . Such debates can be held in major cities to raise a pool of future Hindu leaders.
9 They must help in getting more like minded volunteers after proper explorative interviews. We will need a lot of volunteers.
Uniting Sanatani worldwide is a massive undertaking and we are doing this to keep it safe for next centuries & we all have to understand the scale of job involved.
We need a great PR team who can liaise with various Hindu leaders.
As a sanatani I am unbiased , egoless , down to earth , strategic thinker and ideal person to see this mission impossible thru with you all on board.
As we have said before
‘The day you plant the seed of Hindu unity is not the day you enjoy the fruit of Hindu unity. We will do it successfully for successive generations of Hindus to enjoy the fruit of united Hinduism ‘.
That is our purpose & May we succeed in protecting humanity & Hinduism.
Tathastu