Understanding Hindutva

What is in a name

• The name should reflect the importance of the object, idea, or concept it represents
• Names that become deeply intertwined with complex ideas or ideals take on as much significance as the things they represent
• Choosing a name involves making a significant decision, especially selecting one of two options or when the connection is simple
• The name Hindutva carries deep meaning and inspiration, requiring thorough examination

Hindutva is different from Hinduism

• Hindutva has inspired a wide range of rich, potent, subtle, and elusive ideas and sentiments, making it difficult to define precisely
• It has gradually developed over at least four centuries through the actions of prophets, poets, law-givers, heroes, and historians
• Hindutva encompasses race's experiences, with spirituality mistaken for other religions such as Hinduism
• Understanding Hindutva requires clarifying it, or Hinduism remains vague, leading to misunderstandings among related communities within Hindu civilization
• 'Hinduness' might be a better name because ‘ism’ generally alludes to spiritual, religious dogma, or creed
• Hindutva includes all facets related to the Hindu race, and this term necessitates understanding of the word Hindu to appreciate its imperial sway

What is a Hindu

• It is likely that long before the ancient Egyptians and Babylonians built their civilizations, the first Aryan sacrificial fires burned along the Sindhu, or Indus River
• Vedic hymns resounded as the spiritual fervour invigorated the souls of those people with adventure and sublime thoughts, setting them to build a great civilization
• The Aryans distanced themselves from their neighbors & Persians, spreading along the seven rivers Sapta Sindhus, developing a sense of nationality by giving it "a local habitation and a name."
• They were grateful to the waterways networking the region, considering them nerve threads, calling themselves Sapta Sindhus, per the Rigveda
• The love and veneration harbored for the River, the Sindhu, symbolizes the shared nationality and culture

Name older still

• Indians moving met rivers as genial and fertilizing but could not forget the Sapta Sindhus, welding the nation, voicing national, cultural unity
• Through today, Sindhu, a Hindu, remembers the rivers gratefully, symbolically, to refresh and cleanse
• Not only were people known to themselves as 'Sindhus', but other surrounding nations also had records under that name, 'Sapta Sindhu'
• The letter changes from 's' in Sanskrit to 'h' in some Prakrit & non-Indian languages, such as the word Sapta changing to Hapta
• The Vedic nation Sapta Sindhu was called Hapta Hindu by ancient Persian people in the Avesta at the very dawn of history
• The Puranas state that many of the languages spoken by Mleccha originate from Sanskrit

Hindus, a nation

• Their great mission and Sacrificial Fire spurred intrepid Sindhus/Hindus onward across Panchanad/Punjab, reclaiming lands, felling forests, boosting agriculture and founding cities
• While achieving feats, the Aryans loosely centralized themselves to suit individualistic tendencies and new environments
• As colonies grew distant different settlements became self-governed, reinforcing newer political connections without erasing the old ones
• Ancient generalizations and names waned as Kurus, Kashis, Videhas and Magadhas rose, overshadowing the Sindhus/Hindus
• Despite vanishing nationwide cultural unity, the concept still lived on, politically forming as a Chalravartin
• The Sindhus founding of a nation and country geographically maxed out when Ayodhya's Prince reached Ceylon, dominating the Himalayas to the Seas
• With Ayodhya unchallenged as The Horse of Victory's and Ramchandra's Imperial Throne's white Umbrella unfurled, a loving allegiance was sworn by Aryan Princes, Hanuman, Sugriva, and Bibhishana on that national day
• Aryans and Anaryans knitting into one politically crowned efforts summing up generations

Other names

• Expressing a synthetic conception gains strength with a comprehensive term, Aryawarta or Bramhawarta being unsuited to the synthesis joining the Indus to the sea to weld a nation
• The ancient writers defined Aryawarta as lying between the Himalayas and the Vindhya, which was unsuited to common people who had carried cultural empire beyond bending Vindhayadri
• As Vedic Bharat ruled the world, a term to express Indian Nation came from it, which people of Aryawarta and Daxinapatha called motherland/ cultural empire
• Shifting gravitation south, Saptasindhu, Aryawart, Daxinapath gave way to politically grander Bharatkhanda, drawing vast conceptions in our great thinkers' minds
• The terse Vishu Puran couplet defines the position of our people, stating, 'The land which is to the north of the sea and to the south of the Himalaya mountain is named Bharata inhabited by the descendants of are Bharata

How Names Are Given

• Bharatavarsha did not erase the cradle name Sindhus or Hindus, or the love to River of rivers (the Sindhu) to which Patriarchs and people suckled at its breast
• The frontier provinces bordering Indus still clung to the ancient name Sindhu Rashtra, and throughout Sanskrit literature we find Sindhu Sauveers
• The Sindhu Rashtra limits shifted by language spoken, which does and did mark them as their own, and the name 'Sindhi' (an emphatic reminder of unit amongst Indian people)
• Although Bharatakhand overshadowed India's cradle name, foreign nations seem uncaring, as immediate neighbors (Avestic Persians, Hebrews, Greeks, etc.) clung to Sindhus/Hindus
• They indicated the borderland as the Indus from gone-by days, but also the whole nation, such as Persians know us as Hindus, Greeks as Indos, Europe, America, and lived alongside us so long as Shintus/Hintus
• The Parathians rarely forgot name and preferred new one "Bharat" with Afganisthan called Schweta Bharat
• The whole world knows us as Hindus and our land as Hindusthan, as if by wish of the Vedic fathers who made that choice
• A name is determined what others like, and when one comes to conflict Self needs a name. It is a game that is a community
• Chosen names shadow others if the world chooses us redolent of glory and early love, and also brought first into contact then conflict with the world as enabled 'Hindu' to asset itself as to push back the well-beloved name of Bharatakhanda itself

International life

• Post rise of Buddhism India's international life was considered to have increased due to political enterprise having exhausted expansion in Asia, and also communications from the outsiders becoming more than before
• Very divine mission wheel of justice made India the heart of all world and millions of human Misar to Mexico came to land of Sindhus & Godmen
• Thousands of pilgrims from distant shores invaded, along with scholars, preachers and saints, to rendered epithet of name most prominent
• Diplomacy with states who knew us as Hindus/Indus revive title to use by making incumbent

Fall of Buddhism

• One factor contributing to fall of Buddhism was politics. Though philosophical diffs between regions existed side-by-side, and though churches sheltered loose people on life pursuits, and were spiritual giants of Arhat & Bhikkus, it could not attract such fierce attention of India
• The Buddhistic expansion's political consequences were disastrous to virility in India, such as during the time of Shakya Sinha (when the news of fate to those was carried to Prince who was at laying foundation of Church
• Little Shakya Rebulic deprived best fell victim to those in Shakya Sinha's life, who would perhaps remain unaffected, but Hindus now drink with bitterness and politcal servitude at hands brutal violence soothe, while they accuse the great brotherhood

Buddhism - A universal religion

• Truly it was a law of Righteousness that had no ulterior end in view to make safe India to change her sword
• India declared to 'take more pleasure in the quest of peace and righteousness that in the conquest of arms,' where so long world was red in 'tooth and claw.'
• If India had to live life after spiritual rights of her should, she must not lose the strength of cohesion, where India felt sick of repeating the mumbos and jumbos

Then came reaction!

• Universialtendencies of buddhism only grew powerful as attempt to reëstablish power grew threatening
• Nationalist tendencies refused to barter independence, but if foreign invader happened to favor buddhusm, one could find sympathizers
• Dark hints abound how some foreign Buddhists has actual express aim, with puranas telling how war waged on Aryadesh by Nyanpati and allies, where Buddhusists lost