Tuesday, February 26, 2008

RSS chief pitches for Hindus to restore peace in world

Berhampur(visakeo)Addressing a huge gathering of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh workers from across the State at the Khalikote College ground here on Sunday on occasion of the RSS' regional convention, RSS chief KS Sudarsan said only Hindus can restore peace in the world.

Other communities have tried to propagate their own religion aggressively and have waged a war in order to conquer other countries with a view to dominate. Whereas, the Hindus never tried to do so, instead they had been trying to win hearts of the people across the world.

Sudarsan spoke at length focusing on religious issues. He said that there was a phase in the past when Hindus felt shy to reveal their identities. But, nowadays people feel proud to express their belongingness to such a religion.

He also claimed that some of the demonic forces were trying to dominate the Hindu society and were trying to introduce a competitive ideology in the Indian society that would ultimately lead to confrontations among each other. Every body would feel unsafe at the presence of another powerful force resulting in a violent society, which is being witnessed in western countries.

While speaking on the propagation of Christianity, he stated that the Last Teaching of Jesus propagates to dominate the other race by preaching their religion. In view of this, Ishah had preached violence and asked the people of his race to create colonialism.

On the other hand, the Hindu preachers including Swami Vivekananda had tried to woo people instead of trying to dominate them of other religions. Hindu's are a race and not a religion as they were identified with a region located along the Sindhu river.

Subsequently, the foreigners began to call the people of this region as Hindus. And the people living in this region were peace loving and never tried to occupy any region unlike the Muslim invaders.

In such a situation, when the Hindu race had been facing challenges and attacks, they had to be united and to be powerful enough to defend their society. They should be prepared to face the demonic forces working against the Hindu society, Sudarsan appealed. He sighted the example of the attempt to destroy the Ram Sethu.

He also spoke on the recent Kandhamal violence stating that politicians were only concerned about the vote banks and trying to divide the society in the name of religion and reservations.

The Panas were originally belonged to Scheduled Castes (SC) and lost their privilege of reservations after conversation.

They were trying to get the status of Scheduled Tribes (ST) because even after one converts to another religion, he would get the benefit of reservations. In such a situation, when Swami Laxamananda Saraswati tried to prevent Hindus from conversion angry Christians attempted to kill him that led to the eruption of violence resulting in burning of the temples, whereas the Christians alleged that their churches were gutted, he added.

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