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It is rather astonishing that Indians and Hindus still fall for the deception.

Sri Swami Dayanand Saraswati, has been teaching Vedanta in India for more than four decades, and around the world since 1976. In his public talks abroad, Swamiji has spoken at many of the most prestigious American universities, and has addressed international conventions, UNESCO and the United Nations, where he participated in the Millennium Peace Summit.distinguished, traditional teacher of Vedanta. 

He has observed that:

"Christianity is a parasitical religion. It has no life or content of its own except for the label "Jesus Christ". It maintains its life by feeding on the spiritual life-blood and religious culture of other religions: Judaism, Neo-Platonism, Buddhism, and Hinduism. Having gorged itself on the spiritual body of these religions, it then claims that it has influenced them or that they have had their origin in Christianity. It is an old, old confidence trick that the Church plays. It is rather astonishing that Indians and Hindus still fall for the deception."  

Christianity has virtually destroyed South Korea and Korean Buddhists have become a minority in their own country and gone into hiding. China and India are next on the missionary list of cultures to subsume and conquer. 

And the missionaries will succeed in their war of attrition on Hinduism if Indian leaders and Hindu religious teachers do not pay attention to this warning. Hindus will have no cause to complain when their own people convert to the cult of Jesus and Mary and become Hindu India's own worst enemy. We see the kind of enemy of Hindu civilization that can be produced by this evangelizing work in the person of "Dr." Deivanayakam himself. Then there will be not one "Dr." Deivanayakam doing the dirty work of undermining and discrediting Hindu religion and culture, but dozens and hundreds and thousands, even as there is in South Korea today.

As one great American thinker said: Before anything can be proved by the Bible, the Bible itself must be proved to be true. It has not yet happened. 

(Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh and Henry Lincoln, in The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail, show that the Bible, and accepted Christian tradition, is an arbitrary collection of borrowed and often fabulous tales, the historical truth of which has never been established by the best biblical scholars). Refer to The Dead Sea Scrolls - An Eastern View of a Western Crisis - By N. S. Rajaram - burningcross.net.

Christianity is a personality cult based on authority. 

There is no logic or reason in it, or any verifiable facts, only extraordinary claims and a patently false doctrine of vicarious salvation. Is mankind really to be saved by the execution of a man who claimed to be a king, was tried for sedition and found guilty, and executed by the political power he tried to overthrow? 

What does this have to do with God and man, spirituality and religion? 

It is all politics from beginning to end and the search for world empire not peace of mind or a place in heaven. Before discussing any of the claims in this article, first establish that such a man as Jesus lived. There is no evidence that he did outside of the New Testament story. The best Christian historians admit that there is no positive evidence for the existence of a man called Jesus or the virginity of his mother. Well, if this is the case, everything that follows is really of no consequence. Except for the invention of the concept of eternal damnation, which he threatened his critics with, Jesus contributed absolutely nothing new to the vast religious and philosophical literature of the world at that time.

It is Christianity that has copied the world's religions, not the other way round. Its early theologians copied Buddhist and Platonist ideas, but they finally settled for Aristotle's philosophy as they could use it to reconciled their material interests and push for political power and world empire. 

Christianity is a political ideology that claims divine sanction. 

That Hindus believe it is a religious system of service and sacrifice only shows up their own ignorance.

(source: It is rather astonishing that Indians and Hindus still fall for the deception - vivekajyotiblogspot.com). Refer to The Dark Side of Christian History - By Helen Ellerbe. Refer to Planning the Demise of Hinduism and Buddhism and Jesus Christ - An Artifice for Aggression and St. Thomas and India

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Thou shall NOT convert

The sheer hypocrisy of the Pope

" A creed religion like Christianity... is constantly competing against all other religions — and, what is more, doing so on their own home grounds. Its success is measured in terms of the number of converts it makes."  

                                         - Michael Arnheim author of Is Christianity True (Skeptic's Bookshelf Series). 

While converting Hindus in India, the sheer hypocrisy of the Pope: In 1992 Pope John Paul said that he must shield church from 'Wolves' of Protestantism. While in the Dominican Republic he said he must protect his flock from the 'wolves' of evangelical Protestantism wooing Latin American's 395 million Catholics, the Pope said he must 'take care of the sheep who have been put in my care and protect them from rapacious wolves.'

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A Christian once approached the Kanchi Paramacharya and expressed his wish to embrace Hinduism. The acharya advised him to stay put in his present path; in the revered seer’s world view, one does not have to switch faiths to attain God and can very well achieve the objective through one’s own religion. That in a nutshell is what Hindus call secularism and tolerance. Sadly, they have no reciprocal S & T coming their way. Forget a pastor, even the Pope would find it difficult to pass up such an opportunity to add a soul to his kitty. For that is their worldview, ordained by the Book and its authors.

Clearly, the twain shall never meet. It naturally follows that those faiths that aspire to survive, with their religious places and practices intact, will necessarily have to evolve ways to protect themselves from such predators and their natural instincts. 

The historic track record, however is that, barring Hinduism and Buddhism, scores of faiths and civilisations have been runover by Christianity and Islam, with nary a trace today.  

Of course, methods vary from visibly violent jihad to virulent but invisible evangelism, but the motives and mindset shine forth like neon signs. To miss it is to have the intellect of a sheep, and incidentally that’s what the ‘targets’ are referred to as.

But to the basic question: How do Hindus who want to remain Hindus respond? Some tips are on offer from various vested interests. Needless to add, the captains of the conversion brigade would want no response but simple surrender. Secular politicians, for instance, would prefer Hindus to have more doses of the tranquiliser called tolerance and remain sedated so that they, the politicos, that is, can build up their minority vote bank, the only bank that never fails. 

For much of the media and intellectual elite, primed by MacCaulay, even  the slightest resistance to conversions is a betrayal of their liberal character even if their conscience, if only rarely, tells them otherwise; they feign sleep without sedation. And for most of the educated middle-class of Bharat conversions do rile and revolt; but coy inhibitions rule and in any case, who has the time and mind to speak up or act? Let down by the State and ostracised by society, it is the poor Hindus who are most vulnerable; while many gullible ones do ‘cross’ over, the multitudes, though mute, have remained immune to missionary mischiefs and stuck to their traditional gods. And of course, the other extreme response is what we are witnessing now in Orissa and elsewhere; the Bajrang Dal brand that none can subscribe to. Apart from the incongruity of their acts with the law of the land, burning down churches is a futile exercise. They simply can’t keep pace with the planting that’s going on and also the media multiplier effect would make even one ravaged prayer hall seem like hundred, in Basha style.  

Mahatma Gandhi, Swami Vivekananda and Swami Dayananda Saraswati.

All of them were proud and staunch Hindu intellectuals who denounced Christian missionaries and their conversion activities. 

Convert me if you can, challenged Gandhi. Swami Vivekananda’s well thought out and well articulated arguments against conversions will sadly be deemed communal rantings in today’s milieu, but their relevance is most striking. To get more contemporary, Swami Dayananda Saraswati treats conversions as the worst form of violence.

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Convert me if you can, challenged Gandhi. Swami Vivekananda’s well thought out and well articulated arguments against conversions will sadly be deemed communal rantings in today’s milieu, but their relevance is most striking. To get more contemporary, Swami Dayananda Saraswati treats conversions as the worst form of violence; In his view, you cannot convert someone without belittling his faith and that cuts at his core being. He also dubs conversions as a human rights violation as  it interferes with an individual’s right to ‘continue’ practising his own, natural religion.

The biggest cover for conversions is the Right to Religious Freedom  enunciated in the Constitution. But by elementary English grammar, the right is for ‘me’, in first person singluar; now how can an evangelist exercise my right? But their flippant claim is that right to convert ‘others’ is Constitutional. The misinterpretation and misuse of the Constitution is not just on that count. The Constitution categorically says that the right to religious freedom is subject to ‘morality and public order’. The assumed right to convert all and sundry would fall flat on these counts too. Conversion disturbs all the ‘order’ that a peaceful land and a peace loving person would value: the social order, the demographic order, the political order, the family order and of course, law and order! An individual too goes completely out of order, with his self, with his near and dear, his ancestry and his own lifestyle, all in turmoil. One cannot find a more disruptive phenomenon of life and community, nay, the country itself, than conversion.

We move on to morality, the bedrock of the Bible. Now is it moral to employ questionable means like lures and inducements to bring in the crowd? Again, the preachers claim Christianity to be true religion and the only path to salvation. Can’t a such ‘truth’ to stand alone without the aid of merchants of faith scouring and scavenging the earth for vulnerable folks in distress? Does it have to be purveyed in the market as a sin-cleaning soap to be dumped on unsuspecting soul-sellers? Hinduism too preaches but the idea is not to get converts. Again, conversion by a process of evaluation, which is perfectly fine,  is very rare. The evangelists smartly claim that most conversions are voluntary. But mass conversions do happen.

Then there is this bogey of minority rights. Does it not offend common sense to say that the minority has the right to become the majority, which in effect is what the vociferous and articulate Christian clergy is claiming through the right to convert’? Again, how can they claim to be minorities when the entire might of global Christianity, its organised international institutions, endless funds and now the European Union itself is sponsoring them? Also, the converts in India have Hindu ancestry and are very much sons of the soil.

Guess what’s the Pope’s biggest bother today? Christians converting to Islam in Europe ! To hear some eternal pearls of wisdom on the ills of conversion one can just tune in to him. 

The hypocrisy would be apparent.  

For while the resourceful reverends would happily harvest neighbours’ fields, it’s taboo for others to graze on their own pastures. I rest my case. Amen!

(source: Thou shall not convert - By T R Jawahar - newstodaynet.com).   

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Orissa call for teeth to anti-conversion law

Orissa’s law and industry minister Biswabhusan Harichandan has slammed Christian missionaries for conducting “illegal conversions on a large scale” and said the state needs a more stringent anti-conversion law to “prevent abuse of religion and hurt to Hindu sentiment”.  

Orissa already has an anti-conversion law — Orissa Freedom of Religion Act (OFRA), 1967 — which requires those seeking conversion to notarise their decision and inform the government. Harichandan argued, however, that OFRA was “insufficient” and needed to be given teeth. “We need a law that will punish people indulging in illegal conversion. Christians are using coercion and allurement to convert people and this is creating disaffection and anger among Hindus. This cannot be allowed, we need a law that will effectively deter them,” he said. He also dared the Centre anew to impose central rule in the state or ban the Bajrang Dal, which allegedly led violent attacks on minorities in many places.

“The Centre will pay a heavy political price if it invokes Article 356 in Orissa,” Harichandan said. “Where is the justification? A few incidents in one district? As far as the Bajrang Dal is concerned, how can there be a general ban without investigating specific allegations and finding them guilty?” Asked whether the recent violence against Christians in Kandhamal was justified, Harichandan said: “The main issue is not that, the main issue is the murder of Swami Lakshmanananda Saraswati, who was deeply revered by Hindus. He was resisting forceful conversion by Christians. Naturally the people reacted. There was anger, it came out.” 

Alleging that missionaries were using “foreign and NGO funds” to expand, he said: “They are causing social resentment by abusing Hindu gods and by practising alien rituals, they are changing the basic way of life. And all this is happening illegally. If you abuse anyone’s religion, it will upset people deeply.” 

(source: Orissa call for teeth to anti-conversion law - crusadewatch.org).

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Hinduism is being murdered by Anti-Hindu forces. Hinduism needs to be saved.
It is time to awaken Hindus from their Secular stupor

Confront the anti-Hindus: The only way to rescue Hinduism

How do you remove enactments and laws which discriminate against Hindus? How do you dismantle fake secularism to liberate India from crores of Pak-Bangla infiltrators and countless terrorists, and all other oddities touted as secularism? And how do you defeat anti-Hindu forces wiping off Hinduism from the earth?

Durga puja in Calcutta.

It is time to awaken Hindus from their Secular stupor. A Hindu saint is murdered, that is "normal" news. The Hindus react to it, that is uncivilized and barbaric. Hindus of Kashmir were forced to leave their land and live as refugees in their own country - that hardly raised a human rights" concern.

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Starting with a zero Muslim population, Indian sub-continent including the present day India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Afghanistan and even a part of Iran was Hindu land till Muhammad bin Qasim’s Arab army attacked Sindh in 711. And though Hindus fought bravely to defend their religion and motherland during the repeated attacks over the centuries, they lost Afghanistan (earlier known as Gandhar) in 987 and Pakistan in 1947. At present, just five thousand Hindus and Sikhs are left in Afghanistan. And Pakistan and Bangladesh have driven out most of the Hindus and Sikhs from their land. In India, the present percentage of Muslim population is much higher than that was in 1947. And independent India has seen genocide and eviction of Hindus from Kashmir. Besides, India has been facing frequent Pak-Bangla terrorist attacks; the latest attack on July 11, 2006 killed over 200 innocents in Mumbai. Moreover, in their mission to destroy India and create one more Islamic country on Indian soil, Pakistan and Bangladesh have dispatched countless terrorists and crores of their nationals into India.

And recently, Nepal , the world’s only Hindu country, has been divested of its Hindu identity. 
If Pakistan and Bangladesh are focused to Islamize India, missionaries are determined to Christianise India.

Fake secularism

After fighting foreign invaders for over a thousand years; and losing Afghanistan and Pakistan, truncated Bharat was expected to re-assert itself after 1947. But after 1947, a perverse brand of ‘secularism’ which implies ‘anti-Hinduism’ has seized India.

Let us have a glimpse of this fake secularism.

Though a ‘secular state’ cannot promote or punish any religion, in 1959, Congress government under Jawaharlal Nehru started the “Haj subsidy” for Haj pilgrimage. Though even Muslim countries do not pay any such subsidy, successive governments have persisted with this anti-secular policy. 

Dusserha celebration of Ramayana in Delhi.

In India, many of the print and the electronic media is controlled by anti-Hindu forces; and is denigrating Hinduism, spreading misinformation about Hindu scriptures, dividing Hindu society and hurting Hindu sentiments. Hindus are being brain-washed to forget their religion, heritage and history; and Hinduism is being distorted and destroyed in the process.

Any protest by Hindus against atrocities committed by non Hindus, calls for the wrath of media as "militancy", "fundamentalism" and "extremism". Sadly, most of these so called secularists, politician and media intellectuals, who are totally anti-Hindu in their words, deeds and thinking, are not believers of any other faith but are actually Hindu by birth and perhaps will have Hindu rituals at death.

Nepal , the world’s only Hindu country, has been divested of its Hindu identity. The Arab world wants to Islamize India , missionaries are determined to Christianise India.

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The same Congress which rejected “Communal Award” and separate electorates in 1932 is now spearheading anti-secular reservation for Muslims in government jobs. Besides, Congress is sharing power with Muslim League which had created Pakistan Further, under pretext of ‘secularism’, the government has taken no action to deport crores of Pak-Bangla infiltrators threatening to create one more Islamic country on Indian soil. Moreover, though ‘secularism’ implies separation of State and religion, several Hindu temples and institutions have been brought under government control whereas non-Hindu institutions are bestowed special privileges.

Anti-Hindu media

In any modern democracy, media is the most potent weapon of attack and shield of defence.

In India, many of the print and the electronic media is controlled by anti-Hindu forces; and is denigrating Hinduism, spreading misinformation about Hindu scriptures, dividing Hindu society and hurting Hindu sentiments. Hindus are being brain-washed to forget their religion, heritage and history; and Hinduism is being distorted and destroyed in the process.

Killing of thousands of Hindus in Kashmir and eviction of several lacs of Hindus from Kashmir is no news whereas Gujarat riots which started after Hindu rail passengers were torched at Godhra is always in the news in media. Infiltration of crores of Pak-Bangla nationals threatening to create one more Islamic country on Indian soil finds no space in media. Similarly, conversion of poorer Hindus to Christianity by fraud, inducement and coercion creates no ripples in anti-Hindu media.

It is deplorable that though there are numerous country-wide newspapers and television channels promoting fake secularism, there is no all-India daily newspaper, or television channel projecting Hindu concerns.

Hindu indifference

De-Hinduised by Macaulayan education and brain-washed by anti-Hindu media, most Hindus know nothing about Hindu religion, Hindu scriptures, Hindu heritage and Hindu history, and therefore, are indifferent to attacks on Hinduism. Besides, material pursuit and consumerism have consumed Hindu society. For many modern Hindus, world means their small families, their personal advancement, frivolous entertainment, and no time for betterment of Hindu society. 

That is why though individually talented, Hindus lack collective identity and power. Moreover, since most Hindus are having one child or two children families, dwindling Hindu population has also weakened Hindu society. 
Further, instead of defending Hinduism from relentless attacks, most Hindu religious leaders propagate unilateral universalism, tolerance, and the myth that all religions are the same, thereby facilitating fraudulent conversion of Hindus by anti-Hindu sections. Such falsities weaken Hindus; and make them surrender before their tormentors. Likewise, lulled into complacence, many Hindus feel that Hinduism has survived for thousands of years, and will continue to flourish for ever. But they overlook the worst ever attacks now threatening Hinduism, and Hinduism’s pitiable plight in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh which too used to be Hindu lands.

The only solution

Since those who behave like sheep are eaten by wolves, to defend Hinduism, Hindus have to confront anti-Hindu forces. But how do you educate Hindus about malicious attacks; and prepare them to confront anti-Hindu forces?

Lord Krishna as envoy in Mahabharata.

 Hinduism needs to be saved. Every Hindu is the inheritor of the only surviving Spiritual knowledge. Hindus have seen their land divided, their people uprooted before and they see again the shadow of infiltration by the same perpetrators, encroaching their country, with the support of their own leaders and government. 
Hindu religious institutions are being governed by people, including non Hindus, contemptuous of their faith.

(image source: cyberkerala.com).

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How would you Hinduise those who have been de-Hinduised by Macaulayan education, and brain-washed by anti-Hindu media? And teach them Hindu religion, Hindu heritage and Hindu history; and how one would make such reluctant warriors defend Hinduism and create a genuinely secular political party which would give justice to all and appease none? How do you remove enactments and laws which discriminate against Hindus? How do you dismantle fake-secularism to liberate India from crores of Pak-Bangla infiltrators and countless terrorists, and all other oddities touted as secularism? And how do you defeat anti-Hindu forces wiping off Hinduism from the earth? All this, and much more, can be achieved with the help of Hindu-centric mass media which will inspire and transform Hindu society.

Such a media is the first requirement to awaken Hindus from their secular stupor, and make them pro-active. All the problems facing Hindu society will be solved with the help of this media. Helped by this weapon, Hinduism will not only survive, but will prevail. Since web-sites and internet have very limited reach, the same should be used in addition to the proposed mass media. Accordingly, all pro-Hindu organisations and individuals all over the globe should direct their time, efforts and resources to create the all-India Hindu-centric daily news papers and television channels at the earliest. And it is possible to accomplish this task very soon. Though it may sound a too simple solution, this is the only way to save Hinduism from its ongoing demolition. And there is no other way to rescue Hinduism.

(source: Confront the anti-Hindus: The only way to rescue Hinduism - By J G Arora - organiser.org).

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