Launching Of The Book “” by and Aravindan

Address by Swami Dayananda Saraswathi ON 03 FEB 2011 AT CHENNAI

I am very happy that I could be here for from North Pole. And releasing a very significant book. Perhaps every one of us came every one of us could be writing a chapter from North Pole or in it, because it is a book echoing our own South Pole, thoughts on different occasions. When we somewhere we don’t know. We have been come across a news item in the local coming from different places. One fellow newspaper, we feel enriched, we feel said you all came from Ethiopia. Another frustrated, we feel helpless. We want to fellow went a little further in history and voice your feelings and there’s no outlet. We said we all came down from the trees, and can identify in this book’s pages the voice therefore, we are all Africans. Some said, we of our own feelings. are from gorillas. But we all have become human beings. So these claims are all just Each one can relate to the book. It is a well- ideas. researched book on important topics covering a wide range of issues that affect But to make Indians feel alien in this our own psyche as a human being and as country is not an easy accomplishment. It a person committed to dharma. As a person is a very big accomplishment by them, and committed to truth, justice, then as a person we all have bought this idea. We read and committed to Vedic Dharma, committed to re-read and we got marks for writing. So I this nation, and as a living organism - you have no flat nose therefore I came from have a range of topics, and each one is somewhere else. These kinds of ideas we discussed objectively. It contains enough bought. It makes you feel foreign here so background of very painful, tedious, that somebody else can rule, by saying, “We painstaking research. There are different also came from other countries and you also topics. I will cover one or two very came from other countries a little earlier, important topics as I see them. and therefore we are ruling you.”

One strange claim is that Indians are foreign And this is a great strategy. And now it to India, and hence, there are others who passes as history and for some people it is are adivasis. I am not an adivasi. I am a very convenient. If you just keep talking, current-vasi. Hey, I have got my gothrams talking, talking, then people begin to believe and I also belong to the ancient India. And it. This idea of repeating, re-repeating the there’s no question of adivasis and current- same, the same untruth for a good length vasis as separate peoples. Yet they claim of time, it becomes truth. Repetition, that the majority of the people of India are abhyasaha, makes an untruth, truth. from some other country called Asia Minor, Abhyasa means repetition. Abhyasaha which doesn’t exist now. And they came makes an untruth truth. from there and some others said they came

Arsha Vidya Newsletter - February 2011 25 Now they say that Thiruvalluvar took belong to some minority, you have got lessons from St. Thomas, St. Thomas privileges. Therefore one Hindu group has Maharishi. St. Thomas came and then called itself a minority. Ramakrishna Thiruvalluvar got enlightened. And what Mission in Kolkata, call themselves as was the enlightenment? “I am a sinner.” minority. You are making the people of this That is enlightenment. I am sinner because country to call themselves as members of I have got a mother and a father. Therefore, a minority community in small, small I am a sinner. This is the enlightenment groups. You don’t need anything else to Thiruvalluvar got this enlightenment. divide India to break India. You give Amazing! privileges to minorities. This is very dangerous. Also, we are the only country They are writing this, and people are where there are specifically religious following. In India we just follow minorities with privileges. There’s no everything. We are mild humans, so we can religious minority elsewhere. follow everything. But they get away with it. We keep on repeating the bluffs for a In Bangladesh, and Afghanistan long time, then people buy. This is how a Hindus ought to be given religious minority human mind is indoctrinated to commit privileges. Nowhere else in the world is itself to even become a human bomb. there a religious minority, only here. Indoctrination is such a powerful thing. To Religious minority concessions, privileges de-condition our thinking we need such and they have the minority board, seminal books that really discuss very Government sponsored the job. There is a objectively, like the book we released today. huge list of privileges, too many privileges. Therefore the majority feel persecuted There was a scientist in USA, an Indian, because of these privileges given and it is from Tamil Nadu, who believed that he was not because of any consideration, except a special race and ethnicity from all others. only to get the electorate vote bank. The And then he underwent this DNA test. He congregational religions have got the found that he’s the same. There’s nothing capacity to negotiate. Because people come special. Even this white, black race is a big weekly to the place of worship, and when bluff. And the scientists have called the the prayer meeting is over, then you can use bluff. Yet many are holding on to the bluff the platform, the pulpit, for haranguing because it is convenient to them. It is not issues other than religion. That’s politics. science. And therefore this religious minority is not authentic. Therefore, this myth has to be exposed and this book exposes the myth very If the Parsis say that they belong to a thoroughly, objectively with a good backing minority group that is true. But they don’t of research, arguments and statements. claim religious minority status. We are not There’s another also another issue that is persecuting the people who are following very dangerous. The Hindus in India are different religions, we don’t ask them to not getting proper treatment. The majority give up their religion, we don’t intrude into is Hindu, and the Hindus feel persecuted. their religious practices, we don’t want to In no other country in the world the proselytize them, we don’t have a program majority would feel persecuted. Only in this of evangelization and we don’t convert. We country they feel persecuted. And if you

26 Arsha Vidya Newsletter - February 2011 don’t know how to do all that! It is again him try somewhere else. The time has come the genius of our culture. We don’t do that. to call the bluff. Religion is transnational. It doesn’t confine only to Italy or any one country. And This word itself did not exist before. therefore, when seen as transnational, they It was invented recently. We do have certain form the majority. We are the minority. problems and we have to take care of them. They are the majority. They come and But then somebody gets hold of it saying attract you through religious functions, that he will take care of it, with money, with religious freedom, commission on religious organization, with foreign trips. They call freedom, they talk to you. They go to him the Dalit leader. I went to a world America and then beg them and get some conference to sign a document on human money from them, and want to propose rights along with leaders of other religions. some political sanctions against India. And There I found these Dalit leaders through their commission for religious distributing leaflets, talking about India’s freedom, they attack you. Dalit problems in the conference. No other religion in the world had activists lobbying They say that in India, there’s no religious against it there, except for the lobby against freedom. Who will believe that we don’t . So we must understand where have religious freedom? India is the only this comes from. The nexus between these country where you have such complete groups is very deep and very well planned. religious freedom. The Jews have been telling this again and again all over the Some of their churches look like Hindu world, that the only country in the history temples, and introduce all these rituals. of Judaism where the Jews were not They even wear the clothes of a sannyasi, persecuted is India. They tell that Hindus who can only be one who is committed to have allowed them to do whatever they ahimsa. This includes not disturbing any want to because of religious freedom. other religion. So the fellow is not is a sanyasi if he is destroying other cultures But the idea of religious freedom being and religions. promoted is one that extends to the destruction of mind. I am considered to give In the midst of all this, it is important to you religious freedom only when I allow be aware of the native, indigenous, culture you to destroy me, and I should say, thank and dharma, and also understand the other you sir. If you stand on my toes, as a side’s key strategy. That knowledge will Hindu, I have to say, sir you are standing protect this. This book will give you that on my toes, the toes are very painful, please knowledge. I congratulate our Rajiv move away. If you don’t comply with this Malhotra. He’s a scholar who is very notion of religious freedom, they will go to thorough in his research, and he’s able to the United Nations to complain. That means articulate whatever he wants to very well. I should give you the freedom to destroy And he has a very good friend and co- me, that’s when I am a Hindu, otherwise, author Aravindan Neelakandan, who knows I am fundamentalist. the grassroots. He comes from Kanyakumari, that is enough. And Fundamentally, a Hindu is accommodative. nowadays we are being told that the He doesn’t interfere in your religious Kanyakumari temple was originally a Mary pursuits. They are able to accuse us because temple, and after that only it became of the freedom we have given everyone. Let Kanyakumari.

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