Sita Ram Goel, who was a prominent Indian historian, political activist and publisher known for his extensive work on Hindu nationalism and critiques of marxist and colonial interpretations of Indian history, said: “There are many Hindus who are legitimately proud of Hindu art, architecture, sculpture, music, painting, dance, drama, literature, linguistics, lexicography and so on. But they seldom take into account the fact that this great wealth of artistic, literary and scientific heritage will die if the Hindu society which created it is no longer there to preserve, protect and perpetuate it.”

It won’t take much time for the Hindu society to die either completely if we don’t put effort into protecting and perpetuating it by reviving Hindu rights. But before all this we must be clear about one thing – why is Hinduism so important?

It is very important as it is the only religion that adheres to Dharma. Nowadays Dharma is equated to religion but they are completely different. While religion is that which is built upon beliefs or doctrines regarded by followers as conducive to spiritual well-being, Dharma in short is anything that restores natural balance.

The opposite of Dharma, known as Adharma as a corollary, is anything that disturbs the natural balance. Thus, Dharma is that which sustains or preserves this creation.

According to Shatavadhani Dr. R. Ganesh,
“The literal meaning of Sanatana Dharma is ‘eternal sustainability’ and a reasonable approximation of the implied meaning is ‘ancient Indian way of life’ or even ‘Indian culture’, roughly speaking.”

The civilizations of Bharatavarsha operating under the principles of Sanatana Dharma have been civilizations that always keep trying to achieve balance or sustainability, says Pankaj Saxena in his book Svayambodha and Shatrubodha.

The Mahabharata defines Dharma as:
“Dharma supports everything; it bears everything and it is the foundation of everything.”

So Dharma balances social security and individual freedom, progress and conservation, hierarchy and equality, technology and culture, samskara and vairagya and many such opposites. In other words, Dharma is the dynamic balance of opposites and the principle of harmony.

Dharma is not only essential for Bharat but is needed by the whole world to sustain. When Dharma is needed by the whole world, it is obvious that Hinduism — which is the only religion that follows Dharma and has such a rich culture, heritage and history of 10000 years, making it the oldest living major religion in the world — is very much necessary for the world to sustain and balance.

Now the next question can be: Why is it said that semetic religions are not working for world peace and sustainability? On the contrary, they prioritise spreading their own beliefs and doctrines and imposing them.

This question can be answered by just looking through historical accounts — the amount of violence, hatred, destruction and despair that struck the world is recorded on every page of history.

In the semetic religion, the entirety of knowledge is contained inside “their” book and any “other” book or knowledge outside their book is considered an inspiration of the devil. To support this theory, it becomes not just important but necessary for them to reject any knowledge outside it as inspired by the devil and to not just reject it but also destroy the knowledge systems of all ancient Dharmic and pagan (non-Abrahamic) traditions.

The tragic events where great learning centres and libraries like Nalanda and Takshashila were left burning for months, and scholars and saints who propagated these knowledge systems were seen as sinners and killed along with the burning of their libraries. These libraries & monasteries stand as victims of their dogmatic violence.

It was not just limited to destruction of pagan knowledge systems, but even pagan ways of worship were targeted.

Hindu Dharma builds on the past. Semeticism declares the past as darkness to be forgotten. Hindus worship their ancestors. Semeticism assign them to hell for doing so.

To worship anyone else other than the one true God, is equivalent to worshipping a false god, so ancestor worship is also worship of false gods. One of the Abrahamic religion books shows a deep disrespect for ancestors:

“For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing, and they have no more reward, for the memory of them is forgotten. Their love and their hate and their envy have already perished and forever they have no more share in all that is done under the sun.”

They believed that pagans worshipped their ancestors only so that they could magically summon their spirits to do their chores, and in their universe apart from their Messiah, only demons came down to help human beings.

These are just 1% of the imposition and destruction by these religions. There was not only destruction of temples, structures and genocides of crores of pagans (including women and children), but it also led to the extinction of many local religions like Persian, Greek and Egyptian.

Even we had our own faiths and beliefs, but we never imposed our values or attacked or fought against anyone for religious reasons until we were attacked. We were broad-minded and accepted everyone as they were.

So this makes it clear that the basic designs of religions like the Abrahamic ones do not support or focus on sustainability and world peace.

Now let us think about how to revive Hindu rights as we have a clear answer for why we need Hinduism so badly in today’s times.