🧵 Golwalkar Ji on Reactionary/Political/Negative Hinduism
1. Some are Hindus, not out of conviction, but out of reaction. To give an example, our workers once approached a prominent Hindu leader during the signature collection campaign demanding ban on the slaughter of cows.
1. Some are Hindus, not out of conviction, but out of reaction. To give an example, our workers once approached a prominent Hindu leader during the signature collection campaign demanding ban on the slaughter of cows.
2. But they were greatly shocked to hear him saying, "What is the use of preventing the slaughter of useless cattle? Let them die. What does it matter? After all, one animal is as good as the other. But, since the Muslims are bent upon cow-slaughter, we should make this an issue.
3. And so, I give you my signature." What does this show? We are to protect the cow not because the cow has been for ages an emblem of Hindu devotion but because the Muslims kill it! This is Hinduism born out of reaction, a kind of ‘negative Hinduism’.
3. There are some for whom, the term ‘Hindu’ is of use only to serve political objectives. […] Once a gentleman asked me whether we are organising Hindus in order to counteract the various activities of the Muslims.
4. I simply told him that even if Prophet Mohammed had not been born and Islam had not come into existence, we would have taken up this work just as we are doing it today, if we had found Hindus in the same disorganised, self-forgetful condition as at present.
5. The positive conviction that this is my Hindu Rashtra, this is my dharma, this is my philosophy which I have to live and set up as standard for all other nations to follow-well, this should be the solid basis for Hindu re-organisation.
6. If, then, we are not to be mere ‘political Hindu animals’ or Hindus out of reaction, we must live as Hindus by conviction capable of expressing that conviction in all aspects of our day-to-day life. Mere propagation of Hindu thought in literature & newspapers takes us nowhere.
Source: Bunch of Thoughts
Chapter: Live Positive Dynamic Hinduism
Chapter: Live Positive Dynamic Hinduism
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