Hindu Samajotsava Focusses on Need to Safeguard Hinduism

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Udupi, Dec 12: "It’s the duty of every Hindu to protect one of the world’s most ancient religions, Hinduism. United effort is needed to achieve the task and also to fight against the communal forces in the society," said Swami Kalahastendra Saraswati of Anegundi Mutt.

He was addressing a gathering of devotees during the Hindu Samajotsava and Hanumad Shakti Jagaran Yajna held in front of Hosamarigudi Temple, Kaup, on Sunday December 12. It was organized for the first time by Hanumad Shakti Janagaran Samiti, Kaup.

RSS leader Kalladka Prabhakar Bhat, in his keynote address, said that every Hindu in the country aspires to build the Ram Mandir in Ayodhya. "Thousands of Hindu brethren are uniting for the cause of building the Ram Mandir and there are attempts by others to thwart this," he said.

"Women play a vital role in the Hindu community in educating the youth in safeguarding the interest of Hinduism," he said, and also urged the gathering to support a party that advocates Hindutva.

Swami Sugunendrateertha of Puttige Mutt inaugurated the Yajna which was followed by a ‘Shobha Yatra’ attended by thousands of devotees who arrived from Hejamady, Padubidri, Shirva, Mudarangady, Kaup, Katpady and neighbouring villages. Free food was offered to the devotees on the occasion.

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Ravindra Nayak, Mangalore
Wed, Dec 15 2010
I agree with you Mr K. S. Mayya, Mangalore/South Korea and thanks a lot for your valuable information.

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Syed Mohiddin Saheb, Sastan / Muscat
Wed, Dec 15 2010
Different people-Different thoughts. Let us try to build a Harmony and Peace Nation. To Get Respect, Everyone should Respect Others. All Religions are teaching the same - Peace and Harmony. Only the dirty leaders, politicians spoil, seperate the society. No one is permanent. We came empty hand and going with empty hand. Only our good things remains.Let us educate ourselves

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K. S. Mayya, Mangalore/South Korea
Tue, Dec 14 2010
Some and most of the comments here are just laughable. Someone calling a threat to Brahmanism. The funny part is not many brahmins know what is the meaning of Brahmanism. And from where did this 85% figure come from? In a billion population even 1% is a huge number. Hindus are 80% and this number is descending (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_India). I am not a proponent of such show as this, however, please oh please, it's only in India that Hindus can freely express themselves. So give them some breathing space and don't breath down their throat each time something like this happens and confirm their doubts that their religion is under threat. FYI: Hinduism is not a religion it is just a way of life as there is no holy book or prophet, although our school books do tell that Bhagavad Geeta is our holy book.

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Abhishek Drolia, Raipur
Tue, Dec 14 2010
Hindus have a right to organize themselves. This right cannot be taken away from them or given a wrong interpretation.

Hindus have been killed, maimed and raped in muslim majority regions of Pakistan, Bangladesh and Kashmir. The only security hindus have is to organize and maintain unity otherwise forces inimical to the interests of hindus will ultimately subjugate hindus

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Bulsam, Mangalore
Tue, Dec 14 2010
The word Hindu is the creation of Arabs for the people of this side Indus River. Before Muslim invasion, the different communities of India believed in many spirits, deities and devas and they were bitterly fighting with one another. Ancient India had two co-existent philosophical streams of thought, the native Shramana religions and the imported Vedic religion. Buddhism and Jainism are a continuation of Shramana traditions that originated around the fifth and sixth centuries B.C. Hiouen-thsang states that Buddhism had considered itself very superior to the ancient faith. In its eyes, Brahmanism was but the gross worship of spirits and devas. Then the majority Brahman community massacred the peace loving Buddhists because they exposed the misdeed of Brahmins and the result, they had to flee from the land of its origin. The non-violent Jains had to flee from their homes to the southern states to escape the prosecution by the dominant Brahmins. One of the greatest persecutors of Buddhism in India was the Huna chief, Mihirakula, who did immense damage to the Buddhist shrines in Gandhara, Punjab and Kashmir. Mihirakula was a Saiva and great patron of the Brahminical faith. In his madness, he is said to have razed to the ground as many as 1600 viharas, stupas and monasteries, and put to death nine hundred Kotis of lay adherents of Buddhism. Toramana, another member of the same tyrannical dynasty is said to have destroyed the Ghositarama monastery at Kausambi.

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mansoor, khobar/manipal
Tue, Dec 14 2010
yes rafiq i also agree with santhosh and shanawaz comments

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Louis D'Souza, Udupi/Kuwait
Tue, Dec 14 2010
Hinduism is a sanskrathi, it’s not a religion. All Indian nationals are Hindus this has been taught to me by a Brahmin teacher during my school days. Some one kindly elaborate if I am wrong.

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Babu, UAE
Tue, Dec 14 2010
Dear Mr. Santosh Bandary, either you are pretending to be a Hindu or you are an ignorant Hindu, like many others unfortunately. Probably you are not aware of the games (nefarious designs) being played by some sections of other religions to convert Hindus. And mind you they have been fairly successful too. We Hindus have been conditioned to have a lax attitude towards safeguarding our religion and made to think that ‘all religions are good, all religions are equal, all religions preach peace, blah blah…..’, which is in reality a very good approach and largely followed by Hindus but this approach practiced by Hindus has been unfortunately used by other religions to convert gullible Hindus by deft marketing tactics. That is why such samajotsavas are required to bring awareness to Hindus. But, mind you such samajotsavas in no way preach hatred or violence, its only aim is to raise AWARENESS among Hindus and make them aware of the dangers / enemies lurking around them, whose only aim is to overturn the social & secular fabric of India.

Finally, if there had been a minority programme instead, nobody would have commented. Oh such hypocricy.

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Lavin Noronha, Paladka
Mon, Dec 13 2010
Dear Friend Santhosh Bhandary, Mangalore/Dubai, you have expressed very noble words “We should fight in unison against these anti Indian forces ( Terrorism, Corruption, Hunger, Poverty so on and so forth) who try to tear off the secular fabric of India”. I completely endorse your views.

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Shivanand Shetty, BLORE/MLORE
Mon, Dec 13 2010
Mr Santhosh Bhandary, Mangalore/Dubai Hindu Samajotsav is not organized by RSS OR BJP. It's organized by hindus that's it. And what's wrong if hindus organize this type of samajotsav once in a year. Even people from other religion also organize this type of activities. See i am not against any caste or religion. We all are Indians, but my question to you is when hindus organize this type of activity why comments?

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zameer, mangalore
Mon, Dec 13 2010
good comment from santosh and shanawaz.i really appreciate ur thinking

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ragu, dvg
Mon, Dec 13 2010
cold blood persones talking just like u frnd. don't forget u r hindu.

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A.S.Mathew, U.S.A.
Mon, Dec 13 2010
I don't have any comment: but I
must give a hearty hurray to
Ms. Santhosh Bhandary, Wollf Gang
Lindle Baur, Ramesh D, and the
rest for exposing the political
tricks and telling the whole truth
as it is.

Let God open the minds of
the people so that we all can live in peace, as we used to live a few
decades back, as loving and caring
neighbours in sorrows and happiness. That is the need of
the hour.

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Doddanna, Damaskatte/Abudhabi
Mon, Dec 13 2010
HINDU RELIGION IS THE OLDEST ONE AND RICHEST IN ITS PRACTISES AND TRADITIONS. WHAT IS NEEDED IS ON THE PART OF HINDUISM IS TO DO THE WORK WHAT DARMASTHALA HEGGADE IS DOING, HELPING PEOPLE, GIVING THEM FREE FOOD, BUILDING HOMES, REACHING OUT TO POOR PEOPLE. THIS IS RELIGION, THIS IS TRADITION. THIS MUST BE PROMOTED. THIS WILL ELEVATE HINDUISM.THERE SHOULD BE CONSENSUS AMONG ALL THE TEMPLES AND PUROHITS. DODDANNA

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Dinu, Dubai
Mon, Dec 13 2010
I agree with you Mr. santhosh, we need to overcome the communal forces.

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Alban, India
Mon, Dec 13 2010
Very very enlightening comment by Santhosh Bhandary.

The educated should enlighten less educated or uneducated when such events are organized.

There is no harm in attending it but watchout for brain washing speaches which only ferment hatred and communal feelings. Peaceful co-existence is what should be preached in holy places.

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shahnawaz kukkikatte, dubai/udupi
Mon, Dec 13 2010
Good comments by Mr Santosh Bhandary. I agree with him. Hindus are more than 85% of Indias populace and there is no threat to Hinduism. Majority of hindus need to understand that the with the acquisition of education, shudras have started questioning the supremacy of upper cast brahmins. Truly Brahminism is at threat. With the samajostava, these brahmins insist on decorating their presence in the stages, advocate their supremacy, insist on caste system, insist on untouchability and age old rituals like roll over service on the left over meals of brahmins by the shudras and untouchables. They are using BJP to promote the caste system and trying their best to remain on the top of social ladder.If the educated lot feel that all are equal and birth is not the deciding factor for ones supremacy, these brahmins will lose their hold on temples and mutts and their easy livelihood is lost. In order to bring back brahminism, there are lot of hidden plans by RSS which is brahmin dominated organisation, one of them is hindu samajotsava. Samajotsava is organised not to protect hinduism but to promote casteism and untouchaility. Poor ignorant people dont see the end results. By encouraging activities like above, hindus at large are going backc to the vedic age where everything is epicentered at brahminism. The low caste hindus must ask equality of social status in these samajostavas. Hinduism is at risk is a false propaganda but actual agenda is to promote varna system and exploit dalits.

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Rafiq, Manipal/Sharjah
Mon, Dec 13 2010
Dear Mr. Santosh Bhandary, Manglore/Dubai.. i comepletely agree with you and respect your comments.., i dont know when people will come to know about this reality...

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Clara Lewis, Kemmannu/Dubai
Mon, Dec 13 2010
Very good and wise comments from every one,thanks to all, yes Mr. Santhosh Bhandary you are right we should unitedly fight against anti Inidan forces and corruption and not against religion.

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Rajesh Poojari, Udupi
Mon, Dec 13 2010
This Samajothsavas encourged by BJP & RSS to divert the vote bank to BJP instead of development, and no benefit in this.

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ziyaulhaq, MOODBIDRI
Mon, Dec 13 2010
Its good to get the avareness of relegion . But it should in right way . Each and every time when samajothsav organized there is an feare in the public . We the People of D.K should understand the agenda of politics insted of geting serious in religion .

MERA BHARAT MAHAN

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FuzzBuzz, Frankfurt
Mon, Dec 13 2010
What is the real purpose behind these Samajotsavas being held every year ?? It is a good thing to unite the people of one's faith and create a sense of unity and security but why is it always at cost of other faiths ?? Only outcome we get to see of these events is broken windows , vandalized shops , people ending up in hospitals ..Is this how we are supposed to safeguard one's faith ?? By Beating up people of other faiths ?! Why take up political issues in a religious convention ?! U people have fooled us long enough .. Not anymore ..

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parve, kundapura
Mon, Dec 13 2010
This people confirming they all hindus,Dont know they all human being

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Deepak Rao, Birmingham/ Mangalore
Mon, Dec 13 2010
I wish Kalladka Prabhakar Bhat would focus on the real Hindu issues such as Kashmiri Pandits living in exile, untouchability, caste system dowry than "Thousands of Hindu brethren are uniting for the cause of building the Ram Mandir and there are attempts by others to thwart this". Or if he could justify how building a temple can mitigate the real issues, we should support the temple building

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Santhosh Bhandary, Mangalore/Dubai
Sun, Dec 12 2010
I don't think there is any need for a hindu samajotsava. We hindus are more than 85% of the Indian population. We are a majority by all counts. Why do we feel threatened ? Is our foundation and our principles so weak ? No other religion in India can overtake us. We have been living peacefully with muslims and christians for all these years. What happened all of a sudden ? What is the need for all this ? This is purely a waste of time and resources. Also we are instigating violence and communal hatred by organising these hindu samajotsavas every now and then. I strongly feel this is the brainchild of RSS and BJP for political gains and the common people are carried away by their hidden agenda. Please note we have lived peacefully even before Advani, Varun Gandhi, Togadia, Singhal and Modi. We should unitedly fight against these anti Indian forces who try to tear off the secular fabric of India.

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Wollf Gang Lindle Baur, Chicago, USA
Sun, Dec 12 2010
It's pity to see in India still people are after religion and self proclaimed Swami or Godmans. Every religion preaches love and harmony which is very important for co existence of different faiths in a multi cultured society like India. Such gathering rather tan strengthening interfaith unity, will divide the communities further. While the pass is rushing to the modern developed reforms of the world, a certain selfish group in India trying to hold them under blind beliefs and superstition for their survival in the name Religion. The religion for which they are claiming to the protector, preaches unity and love among mankind not such type of selfish motive

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Ramesh D, Mangalore
Sun, Dec 12 2010
it is the BJP's Hindu Samajotsava aimed at expanding their vote bank by creating a hate and fear physchosis amongst the common public.
Hinduism has always been a peaceful relegion and these organizers make inflammatory speeches to instigate the public using these samajotsavasas as a platform.

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Shivanand Shetty, Mangalore/Bangalore
Sun, Dec 12 2010
JAI HIND BHARAT MATHA KI JAI.

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Dev, Mangalore
Sun, Dec 12 2010
Is it a co-incidence that these Samajosvas are carried throughout Karnataka state just before any major elections to divert people's attention away from the real issues towards something else? And from the dais people are called to exercise their franchise just for a particular party- whatever their credentials, track record suggest otherwise(makes dissillusioned people not to vote for them).

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Lokesh, Mangalore
Sun, Dec 12 2010
True, it is needed to safegaurd Hinduism from the inside forces. Some radical groups have really distorted the great values of Hinduism.

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John max, Surathkal/USA
Sun, Dec 12 2010
How many samajothsavs every year?

What is the outcome of it? Empty resolutions? The govt's job is to ensure the welfare of all communities. Not these organizations.

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Ravindra Nayak, Mangalore

Syed Mohiddin Saheb, Sastan / Muscat

K. S. Mayya, Mangalore/South Korea

Abhishek Drolia, Raipur

Bulsam, Mangalore

mansoor, khobar/manipal

Louis D'Souza, Udupi/Kuwait

Babu, UAE

Lavin Noronha, Paladka

Shivanand Shetty, BLORE/MLORE

zameer, mangalore

ragu, dvg

A.S.Mathew, U.S.A.

Doddanna, Damaskatte/Abudhabi

Dinu, Dubai

Alban, India

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Rafiq, Manipal/Sharjah

Clara Lewis, Kemmannu/Dubai

Rajesh Poojari, Udupi

ziyaulhaq, MOODBIDRI

FuzzBuzz, Frankfurt

parve, kundapura

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Santhosh Bhandary, Mangalore/Dubai

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