What is the "social cement" that binds us all ?

From the Rishis in the Himalayan ranges to the Siddhars in the Arunachala hills in Tirouvanamalai, from vedic pundits to RAMANA MAHARISHI, they all say the same thing: know your self and transcend your body identity. The reason is simple: when you identify yourself with your body, you tend to be egocentric and develop discriminating thought patterns and above all you reject unconsciously others and your ego draws an invisible line between you and others.  IF a man identifies with his body, a Nation does it collectively with a set of common attributes they share geographically, culturally, linguistically and ethnically. So, it is also wrong identification: grand gatherings and gigantic display of chauvinism during football matches or in most of the sports meet  stands testimony to this affirmation. In those sports meetings , contesting teams display openly their pride to belong to a particular country, to a particular race and to a particular group. Their collective ego gets reinforced whenever their sportsmen win gold or silver medals. These kind of divisions are expressed by boundaries and borders. It is because our "Paramatma or the universal self" has no attributes that it  can have any of them . It is because our universal self is formless that it can take any form. It  is because that our cosmic self comes from an initial unmanifested energy, that it can manifest itself in many ways and in many forms. Sanatana Dharma likes to underline this unity which connects all diverse manifestations of life so that people may concentrate on that underlying unity that binds all men and women and feel a deep sense of solidarity as if they all belong to one family. In this way, Sanatana Dharma sows the seeds of "peace' that may fructify slowly as unity and solidarity. In this way, it keeps all Indians from Kashmir to Kanyakumari to feel united in spite of linguistic and geographical divide. When ego wall falls, people on either side of that wall can shake hands and be friends. That's why the cement that holds the whole India Fortress is Sanatana Dharma. If that cement gets eroded and gives way slowly just because few leaders happened to climb to big positions politically who are insensitive to her innate beauty and are bent on, relentlessly, to break it apart, then we will all perish in that destruction of invisible yet essential ethics and values of that fortress that forge a unique way of life all over this sacred land criss-crossed by Ganges in the north to Cauvery in the south. It is in our hands to contribute to our religion, whatever small contribution we can, to make our citizens conscious of the urgency that is needed to save our Dharma before organisations who have tested their multi-national penetration by crafting an almost perfect art of aggressive predation of other religions and cultures since two thousand years. we should be more proactive and less apathetic and pathetic when we see SWAMIJIS targeted maliciously by certain media houses. It is very encouraging to learn that our honourable JUDGE has sentenced a Tamil TV to convey openly excuse to RANJITHA, a Tamil actress, for having inflicted irreparable harm on her reputation. It is high time that we tell them strongly and boldly that we can no more sit passively before enacted and pre-scripted scenarios on TV depicting Hindu swamis committing terrible crimes and media houses judging them as if they are the real Judges, ignoring the sacred principle “the presumption of innocence” which declares a man should be considered as innocent until proven guilty. Every time the necessity to hide a new scam to the public arises, politicians in power use Hindu Gurus as diversion tactics that, when repeated time and again, looses it's credibility and people's adherence.

What is interesting is that if at all we follow a small part of this “Vedic way of life", that itself is sufficient to  make us more friendly to each other and we are more prone to live together. But, the slow and steady introduction of western ideas that encourages us  to search pleasures through five senses by material consumption in hyper markets and consider even woman as an extent of yet another object of consumption, this situation may lead to an instability and disunity in our family and society; We are at risk to loose that social cohesion and become solitary and  individualistic people as in the west where people live by each other not with each other; They don't care, in their majority, what happens to their neighbours with whom they would just exchange superficial words out of politeness meant to keep a distance such as: “hello” and “see you”. We, in India, are used to conversations that can last hours. We should not loose that happy way of being together by adopting individual way of searching pleasure in material consumption only, even though material satisfaction  is necessary up to a certain level. Already, this acute solitude makes western people search for more solace from our religion while we abandon our eternal values.

Why all our enemies are keen on attacking only Hindus and never Christians or Muslims???  They know more than us of the importance of the role of Hinduism in our cultural belonging; they know very well that only by destroying that social cement, in a relentless and non stop attack as waves following each other, they can make the India building collapse. Because, when we become just individuals without a "cultural feeling connection" between us, it is more easy to break us as separate solitary individuals and it is more easy to control a  defenceless disparate group of individuals than a culturally united group.  

 So, what we should always keep in our mind is that  “Sanatana dharma” plays a vital role in  keeping our social bondage strong and cohesive, as united as one family, in spite of inherited and natural linguistic and geographical divide;  This country will become a collection of solitary beings if we replace that “living together” by “living  side by side” as in the West. When the west wants to come to our religion , we should not take what they want no more, having experienced  it's emptiness.