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================ Ideologial Adversaries of Hinduism ==============
January 1984
Major Forces of West Attacking Hinduism, Warns Ram Swarup
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RAM SWARUP's SPEECH IN CHENNAI:
On November 5th (1984), at the Vivekananda Kendra in Madras, Ram Swarup gave a speech called "Some Challenges Hinduism Faces." It was held under the auspices of the Sister Nivedita Academy. Ram Swarup is one of the principle authors/lecturers of the fiesty Hindu watchdog publishing concern, Voice of India, which is regarded as a virtual think tank on contemporary Hindu religious, social and cultural affairs.
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Voice OF India: PROVIDES IDEATIONAL FRAME WORK FOR NATIVE CULTURES
The Voice of India group has produced what many feel are the best report/commentaries one can find on the erosion of Hinduism. VOI. fearlessly and squarely attributes this erosion to present day, Christian, Islamic and Communist campaigns.
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MECHINATIONS OF PREDATORY CREEDS LIKE CHRISTIANITY, ISLAM:
Ram Swarup displayed the kind of candor and let's-face-reality rhetoric the Voice of India group is known for. He characterized Hinduism's vulnerability to the West's religious machinations by citing the work of "do gooders like Mother Teresa" who "represent Christian charity and help the West feel good in conscience."
To this he contrasted the Hindu missionary work of Sister Nivedita (an American disciple of Swami Vivekananda), "a lady India is proud of."
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SUBVERTING HINDUISM and SUBVERTING INDIA:
Mr. Swarup clearly labeled Hinduism's challenges of Christianity, Islam and communism as "hostile and parasitic."
In the speech's most direct statement of the current political inroads these forces are making in India, he observed, "They know that India is held together by Hinduism. They must subvert Hinduism before they can subvert India and realize their dreams."
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UNDERMINING THE HINDU BACKBONE:
Mr. Swarup stated that Hinduism's leading ideas and the leadership that supports those ideas is being undermined, and that apathetic nominal Hindu leadership is being supported.
"Today the RSS is under great attack, for it supports the backbone of Hindu society; it is its most vigilant section. Therefore, it is a special target of attack by anti-Hindu forces."
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ISLAM and CHRISTIANITY ARE TEHOLOGICAL DOGMAS:
Mr. Swarup presented his view that religion is concerned with fundamental questions of life and death, with the quality of life and with the expansion and deepening of man's consciousness.
"But Islam and Christianity have no such truly introspective concerns. They are concerned with certain beliefs, beliefs, beliefs which consolidate the power of a particular church. These religions have grown with the power of the state. They are political in the highest degree."
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UNDERSTANDING THE ADVERSARIES:
Towards the talk's end, Mr. Swarup warned, "We must try to know them [Christian, Islamic and communist forces] as they are and not as we would like them to be...They teach us to look at things from their viewpoint. We even look at ourselves through their glasses, from their perspective...We must develop our own scholarship, our own point of view. Any great and deep culture like Hinduism should have its own scholarship.
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ISLAMIC/CHRISTIAN AGGERESSION and SPIRTUAL DEGENERATION OF INDIA:
If this is not so, it means something significant is lacking, and the omission will prove suicidal...Hindus must also enlarge their perspective.
They must learn to look at these ideologies in a larger time and space framework." As a final observation, he explained how the "cultural aggression" of the Christian and Islam missions, and the "consequent spiritual disintegration" occurring in India are problems that most developing nations face on a even larger scale.
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RAM SWARUP (1919-1998):
graduated from the University of Delhi in 1941 and has been an original writer and thinker ever since. Around 1957, he took to a life of meditation and spiritual reflection, and since then he had made a deep study of the scriptures of different religious traditions.
He was a noted writer in many fields, and is a distinguished spokesman of renascent Hinduism which, he believes, can also help other nations to rediscover their spiritual roots.
His previous books and brochures include "Communism and Peasantry", "Foundations of Maoism", and "Buddhism vis-à-vis Hinduism". His " Gandhi's and Communism" stressed the need to raise the struggle against communism from a military to a moral and ideological level. His magnum opus "The Word as Revelation: Names of Gods" is on Linguistics, Philosophy, Vedic Exegesis and Yoga. It shows how a religion of 'many gods' represents authentic spirituality.
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Mahayogi Ram Swarup is a foremost spokesperson of Hindu spirituality and culture in India. His best-known books are:
The Word as Revelation: Names and Gods
Understanding Islam Through Hadis: Religious Faith or Fanaticism.
Hindu View Of Christianity and Islam.
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