i) Common meetings during community festivals as of Holi, Deepawaii, Lorhi, Onam, Durga Puja etc. have been used as a platform for removing social discrimination and strengthening equality. Hence, we should treat everyday as a day of festivity and eradicate social discrimination totally.

j)  Inter-caste marriages be encouraged which are gaining momentum now, particularly amongst the educated and working middle class people. Here similarity of Job, life style and attitude of both boy and girl to other related problems is the main factor. This is simply the revival and acceptance of varna system of Hindu Dharma.

k) Respect and embrace the poor, the uneducated and the undeveloped of our community, and extend all support on the basis of equality to raise him/her to your own level.

l) Avoid writing caste names. This will reduce caste discrimination to some extent. Narayan Guru says "in fact, caste does not exist. / say, the days of caste discrimination are over, and the faith backing it should also come to an end. Do not write names denoting caste."

m) Taking it as a religious duty, every bride and groom and their parents, should take a vow to eradicate dowry system. When the mutual acceptance by the bride and groom is the decisive factor in the marriage, then the condition of dowry for marriage is improper, in-human, unethical and unauthentic to our scriptures. Hence, it should be repudiated by the bride and groom themselves strictly.

n) When, the entire woman kind, in the form of girl, sister, daughter, wife, mother etc. has been treated in Hindu Dharma, as respectable, venerable, and worthy of adoration and protection, it is a heinous crime to torture the daughter in-law, burning her and causing tension in the family. Hence, we should take it as our religious duty and vow to respect and protect the women as a class.

o) Since divorce or separation in marriage, is unacceptable in the Vedas, we should discourage it, and instead make every possible effort to create family harmony.

p) We should stop child marriage and encourage young widow marriage, particularly when the widow is issueless.

q) Let us be careful of ongoing large scale anti-Brahman propaganda in the print media by agencies of World Church in the name of ... 

Brahmanism and Dalitism, and make all possible efforts to create harmonious relation-ships amongst various social groups of the Hindu society on the basis of equality, love and cooperation.

I am conscious of the fact that it is difficult to re-introduce varna system in the present political setup, and birth based caste system can also not be wiped off immediately. But certainly, we can stop discrimination, create social harmony, remove untouchability, dispel misunderstanding of approval of social injustice in Hindu Scriptures, and thus can reduce inter-caste tensions and can create a more harmonious atmosphere on the basis of mutual love and respect. We may, though, not be able to create a casteless society altogether immediately but certainly can proceed towards a non-caste- discriminatory society.

10 Discard Family Planning

International institutions, particularly those controlled by the Christians, have planned to eliminate the Hindus by reducing them to a minority in India. That is why, whenever the Government of India requests them for financial assistance for its developmental programmes, they insist upon family planning. They, as Well as the Indian leaders know full well that their appeal for family planning would neither be accepted by the Muslims nor by the Christians. Therefore, their entire stress is limited to capping increase in the population only of the Hindus. They cannot ever muster courage to talk of family planning to non-Hindus for fear of losing their votes. They ask the Hindus only to reduce their birth rate so that the increased (Muslim) population can be fed. And the patriotic Hindus have offered this sacrifice for the nation as well.

The latest census statistics of 1991 on per cent reduction in population growth rate is the result of 'two or one' child practice adopted by the Hindus. This is why the percentage increase of the Hindus (22.78%) during 1981-90 is less than that of national average (23.79%) even. Not only now, but for the last one hundred years, the percentage of the Hindu population is regularly on the declining phase whereas that of the Muslims and Christians it is regularly on the increase (Table 1). As evident from the census data of 1991 (Table 2) that the incremental percentage of Muslims during 1981-90 is maximum.

This is about one and halt times (143.8%) more than that of the Hindus. It may also be noted that the Hindu population is less than the national average in 16 out of 32 states. Such an enormous increase in Muslim population, in India, is mainly due to (i) non-acceptance of family planning, even up to four wives, (ii) infiltration of Muslims from Bangladesh, (iii) abduction of young Hindu girls and (iv) conversion of Hindus to Islam. If this state of affairs continues, there is no doubt, that within the next 15- 20 years the Hindus will automatically be reduced to a minority in the country; and a Kashmir-like situation will emerge in Muslim majority areas. The impact of a high Muslim-Hindu population ratio on the fate of Hindus can be seen even today in the society. And in Delhi itself, two of my neighbors had to sell their houses to them and leave Pahar Ganj and Darya Ganj area for security reason under pressure from Muslim majority. In the entire country, today the situation, is that Hindus have to forcefully leave that mohalla, village or locality where their population is very low in comparison to Muslims, and they have to migrate to safer Hindu majority localities. The Kashmiri pandits (Hindus) have been forced to leave Kashmir simply being in minority there. Any now they are leading a miserable life in different parts of India simply because they refused to accept Islam there, and the secularist Govt. failed to protect their life and property as expected under Art. 21 of the constitution. But where will the Hindus go from his only refuge-India when they will be reduced to minority on national level? To Bay of Bengal, to Hind Mahasager! or drown themselves in rivers and reservoirs? The phenomenal increase in the ratio of Muslim to Hindu population will ultimately annihilate the Hindus, Hindu Dharma and culture. Adoption of family planning by Hindu youths after one or two children, and refusal of the same up to the child bearing age by the Muslims, even up to four wives, along with adoption of other methods, is sufficient to transform India-the only land for the Hindus, to a Muslim majority state, and ultimately to a total Muslim country, as we are witnessing today in Pakistan created just 50 years ago from India due the same reason of Muslim majority population, from where remaining Hindus have been almost completely wiped out.

Hence 0 Dreamer Hindus! Don't -live in fool's paradise. Be practical, be pragmatic and foresighted! Open your eyes, and see the writings on the wall! Visualize for a moment the long term effect of family planning on the existence and survival of your progeny as a Hindu in the coming generation. In our democratic political setup, number of human heads and their casted votes decide the nature of Govt. and destiny of the people, and not their wealth and assets. What was the fate of wealth of Hindus accumulated in Pakistan and Bangladesh, and even now in our own country Kashmir?

Muslims have planned to convert India into a Islamic state simply by not adopting family planning. Let me quote from their own plans and intentions. Recently during 1993 elections in U.R the Muslim leaders through leaflets categorically said "Go ahead, increase your religious votes and never accept vasectomy." Hamid Dalwai wrote in his book - Muslim Politics in Secular India (p.53) " If not today then tomorrow, if not tomorrow, then in the next 50 or 100 years India will sink in Islamic deluge.' Hence in the mean-time now, the Muslims are busy in increasing their vote bank by all means on one hand, and to feed their bigger families asking for reservations in Govt. Jobs according to their percent population, financial assistance for trade, easy loans, contracts in govt. and semi-govt. organizations etc. focusing on their poverty and backwardness, as it it is due to Government policies which, in fact, is mainly due to their large family size.

I may warn here, one and all, that these lists of political and financial demands of the Muslims will ever go on increasing with the rise of their population. And our vote hungry leaders, knowing fully the consequences of non-acceptance of family planning by Muslims, are meeting all their just or unjust demands. If such a situation continues, the political power, which is being controlled and regulated by the Muslims, even at 12% population now as was evident from 1996 elections and formation of United front, to check BJP coming in power, will finally be in their hands due to majority of Muslim votes. Hence, here are some suggestions to face that situation:-

a) The Hindus should not accept family planning in order to safe guard their existence. Rather they should boycott it openly as a policy on national level.

b) Hindus should impart job oriented education and vocational training to their sons and daughters, and should not discriminate between them.

c) Lead .a simpler life so as to support more children.

d) The Hindus should work harder and earn more for up-bringing their children.

e) The younger generation should take a vow to end dowry and all irrational and illogical traditions and customs with wasteful expenditure.

f) The Hindus should stop all wasteful expenditure in marriages and other social functions. They should reduce their expenses incurred on pomp and show to satisfy their false self ego.

g) They must stop dowry system completely as a religious duty rather than practising family planning being compelled to save for dowry.

h) The youths should take a pledge for a dowryiess marriage and a social movement be started on a national level irrespective of caste, creed and region. Such an awakening movement be initiated in each caste with a deterrent social punishment for dowry hungry people.

i) The wealthy Hindus should plan welfare projects to provide employment to needy Hindus. They should extend all possible help to economically weaker persons engaged for social and Hindu cause.

j) The Hindu business community, in case of more children, will not have totally to depend upon outsiders to execute their business organisations: and self employed people will have more working hands at their own command. Sometimes the business organisations, created and developed, are snatched away by others due to lack of own family members.

k) The Hindus should economically boycott those who harm their interest.

l)  More cooperative organisations be developed at community levels to generate more employment.

m) Bring revolutionary social changes, remove all social evils rather than removing your progeny through family planning.

Finally it is desirable for a self respecting Hindu, to work harder rather than accept dowry; to live a life of penury for the sake of his own existence and that of future generation is better than to lead a life of slavery, degradation and disrespect in future. If Hindus want to live with self-respect as a community or a race, in India, they should not practice family planning at all, in the present political circumstances where vote determines their survival.

11. Check Conversion of Hindus

Christianity and Islam - both subscribe to religious conversions. They are busy in finishing off all world religions, particularly Hindu religion. Misusing the Right to Freedom of Religion (Article 25) and secularism, the Hindus are being converted with greater dispatch than during the British rule. As on today, around one lakh and seventy five thousand Christian Missionaries and seventy thousand Islamic Tabligis are converting two lakh Hindus annually. It is not discernible on the face of it for, as per Christian policy they sport Hindu names, dress and appearance and run Ashramas and temples like those of the Hindus. If this process of Hindu conversion continues, soon the Hindus will come to minority and ultimately they will disappear from India leaving no trace behind. It may appear to be exaggerative and funny to some imaginaries, but it is a proven fact to a pragmatic and foresighted visionary.

The extensive conversion activities of Hindus, presently operative throughout the length and breadth of India, are being planned and executed by the foreign Christian Missionaries, under different names, whose number increased from 1668 in 1972 to 2326 in 1994 (Home Ministry Report 1993), which will be more now. The name of Mother Teresa is in the forefront of this work in India, who for this reason was turned out from foreign countries also. According to The Statesman, (I 6th March, 1996) 'The sisters of the Missionaries of Charity of Mother Teresa were expelled from Vietnam on apprehension of converting the Vietnamese people to Christianity.' In India, too, whenever the foreign clergies are being considered for expulsion for their anti-national activities, the Mother Teresa used to intercede on their behalf. To oppose conversion, action plan is as below :-

I . The Hindus should agitate asking the government to take effective steps to stop the conversion of the Hindus and even the willing conversion of the scheduled castes and tribes and other backward classes should not be recognized and be rendered ineffective.

2. No foreign national has a Right to the Freedom of Religion even under Article 25. Therefore, all the Missionaries, who come to India with ostensible aim of education, religion, social service or protection of environment and are busy in plans of the conversion of the Hindus, should be expelled. No foreign missionary be permitted to enter India on any pretext, and no foreign missionary be conferred Indian citizenship.

3. The Central Govt. should not usually strike down orders of the State Govt., related to expatriation of a foreign missionary from the country, and such a missionary should not be permitted to re-enter in future.

4. Opposition to conversion of Hindus should be the main agenda of every Hindu institution, religious preacher, scholar, writer; and the Hindu society at large, should strongly oppose the religious conversion of the Hindus on all levels and through publicity media.

5. Religious scholars should prepare comparative literature on Christianity, Islam and Hindu Dharma, and use it against religious conversions Simultaneously, they should also expose false claims of Christianity and Islam.

6. They should stop the conversion even of the blind, lame, and disabled Hindus because their progeny will be normal.

7. Every Hindu should keep a close watch in his neighborhood, office, locality and village on the activities of the Islamic Tabligies and Christian Missionaries and make every possible effort to stop conversion by reasoning and convincing the concerned Hindu, and also bringing such matters to the knowledge of the Hindu social workers.

8. The conversion of the Hindus carried out through fraud and hypocrisy, temptation and doles should be brought to the notice of administration so that legal action could be taken against conversion-activists as has been done in Madhya Pradesh where a Bishop and a nun have been convicted with an imprisonment of six months and fine of Rs. 500/-.

The Hindu young girls should exercise caution in their friendship and relations with non-Hindus, and their guardians should also keep a close watch on their activities vis-a-vis their young girls.

10. The Hindu youths-both boys and girls should keep off the Bible Correspondence Courses, and as far as possible the girls should not be sent to Mission Schools. The guardians of those children who are studying in Mission Schools, should maintain a strict watch on the emerging mentality of the children.

Providing reservations to Dalit convert-Christians is unconstitutional and unjust to Dalit Hindus. Therefore, the government services should not be reserved for them. This would harm the interests of the scheduled castes, scheduled tribes and backward classes, besides spurring conversion among the Hindus.

Bringing the Hindus converted earlier to Islam or Christianity back into Hindu-fold is in consonance with the tenets of Hindu Smrities. In practice, the coming back of those forcibly converted to Islam by foreign Muslim marauders during early invasions, was accepted by Hindu society (Indian Muslims-Who are They by K.S.Lal p.44). Maharishi Dayanand Saraswati, a visionary of modern India himself adopted comparative study of religions and called for all the Hindus for the same, and threw open the doors of Hindu Dharma to one and all even to the followers of non-Hindu religions and also to the Hindu converts. He and his followers adopted bringing back of the earlier Hindu converts to Hindu-fold as the main agenda of their religious activities and publicity campaigns. Many crusaders like Swami Shraddhanand, Mahashaya Rajpal, Pt. Lekh Ram and many other members of Arya Smaj had to lay down their lives for this gigantic task of Shuddhi Movement. Lakhs and lakhs of Hindu converts came back to Hindu fold and many more were saved from conversion as a consequence of this national upurge of Arya Samaj Movement. But now this program has also been adopted by Vishwa Hindu Parishad and Vanvasi Kalyan Ashram. But its pace is much slower than that of conversion of the Hindus in free India which is a serious threat to the very survival of the Hindus. Therefore, the following program be adopted in this direction:

a) The ancestors of 99% of Indian Muslims and Christians were Hindus who were converted due to then compelling circumstances. Hence, their re-entry into Hindu fold is just like home coming. This should be encouraged through persuasion of our long lost brethren.

b) All Hindu religious preachers and scholars should adopt study of comparative religion an essential feature, and use the same in their religious discourses.

c) Social workers be trained on problems and remedial measures in relation to conversion of Hindus, and bringing Hindu converts back to the Hindu Dharma.

..continued in Part IV (What Hindus Should Do)

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