Thread by @DeviPrasadRao8

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At a Clubhouse earlier today on "Hindu Unity" I shared the following thoughts:

1 "Hindu Unity" is NOT a goal in itself. What do we do after uniting all the Hindus? The focus must be on goals & outcomes. Bringing people together is an ever, ongoing process

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2 Are Hindus united?
Answer: Yes & No. If the cause is good, doesn't hurt anyone, is legitimate & is legal, Hindus rally behind the cause. Raising ₹ 5500 crores in ~2 months by collecting small donations from households across the country is the best example I can think of.

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Raising lakhs in a few hours for Ramalingam, the murdered activist in Tamil Nadu, is another

If the cause is hurtful, traumatic, involves violence, confrontation, deceit or breaks the law, Hindus will NOT congregate in large numbers. Even if it is essential. Why I will

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explain later in the thread

3. What is the way forward?
Set goals.
Immediate goals: Such as equipping oneself for self-defence. Creating a group of like-minded Hindus in your locality. Choose your goal. We don't have a Pope who's going to give us specific instructions.

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A small tip here is the verse found in Manusmriti & Mahabharata
धर्मो रक्षति रक्षितः
or
Dharmo Rakshati Rakshita
Dharma protects those who uphold Dharma
Practise it in your daily life starting TODAY! Convince ten others! Ghar Wapsi must be normalised & possible in all temples
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Medium-term goals (3 to 5 years): Regain control of temples, rectify history, reform education, acheive equality for Hindus etc

Sanatana Dharma gives unprecedented freedom. Use it to decide what goals to acheive in 3-5 years to preserve, propagate, strengthen Sanatana Dharma

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Long-term goals(100 years): Bring all people & countries into Sanatani fold. When Christians can aim to make 🇮🇳 a Christian State & Muslims can have Ghazwa-e-Hind as a goal, why can't Sanatanis aim to take the 3rd largest religion to every household in every nation? In 100 years?

We need to forego our defensive mindset & start visualising it. A world which is entirely Sanatani will have less violence, less conflict, more acceptance, more tolerance, more harmony. Only if we can imagine it, can we find ways, means, ideas, leaders, funds to make it happen
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If we're not willing to countenance such a scenario, it will certainly never be a reality.

4. Why do Hindus not unite at certain times?
There are several possibilities but I'll give some sweeping statements & you can decide which is applicable for which situation & add more

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A. Since we are not accustomed to propagating our way of life, Hindus have not mastered scriptures, how to debate or confront others wrt religion. Confrontation makes most Hindus distinctly uncomfortable & I understand but don't accept it. We need to overcome this hesitation

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B. Collective trauma of multiple genocides, suppression, denials, humiliations leads to blanking out the memory, sort of PTSD at the community level.

Reconciliation with the past is traumatic enough in a warm, supportive environment. Add toxic self-loathing Hinduphobes and

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it is easier to retract back into our shells to avoid confrontation

C. Over the years, this indifference had made it acceptable to selfish or cowardly

To end it
Moving forward is more important than agreeing on how to move forward. Politicians, of all hues, aren't going

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to lead this. All the civilisational initiatives (such as Article 370) undertaken by Modi 1.0 & 2.0 were discussed, debated & decided, as a goal, when they were NOT in power

The way forward has to come from common folks, ordinary people like you and me.

Har Har Mahadev 🙏🏻