Posts

Hinduvta and Rammohan

Image
  Hinduvta and Rammohan By: Sri Bandyo Before I commence, let me provide a brief overview on Rajarshi Rammohan since people hardly heard his name let alone being familiar with his work. Who was Rajarshi Rammohan? The first Internationalist and greatest ever Hindu/Indian celebrity  The first ideologue to inspire freedom fighters and revolutionaries across the globe to free nations from Colonialism  First Indian to oppose slavery globally First Indian to dismiss socialism. His writings changed the psyche of American Intellectuals (Jeffesson, Theorogh, Emerson and hundreds more) Father of Inter Religious Studies in the world The greatest Hindu Shastri in Modern Era  He was respected and honored as the ONLY Vedantin by Asiatic Society First to envision Sanskrit as the national language First to bring forth and promote Sanskrit treasure - Vedas and Upanishads, for the masses First to promote Vedanta globally Proponent of Varnashram Dharma as per the guidelines of the Veda...

Rajarshi Rammohan: the Crusher of Christian Missions

Image
  Rajarshi Rammohan: the Crusher of Christian Missions “No human possibility exists of converting the Hindoo to any sect of Christianity!” – Rajarshi Rammohan Roy When India today is struggling dealing with the zealot Christian Missionaries, Hindus can learn the greatest lesson from the great Rajarshi who completely obliterated the vile missions’ of missionaries SINGLE HANDEDLY without any physical power and he did that during the rule of “mighty” British! And since then, the Christian population in Bengal remained less than 1% With British came the missionaries. Their mission was the same as was in the rest of the world. We have seen what they have done in America (South and North), Africa, and many parts of South East Asia (Philippines and East Timor in particular). As I am writing, hundreds of natives are being converted even today in India and China. In late 18th century India, they started getting successful already. Many “educated” upper class elites started getting converted...

Rammohan, Sanskrit, English Education and the Rescuer from the Worst Ever Education Disaster

Image
  Rammohan, Sanskrit, English Education and the Rescuer from   the Worst Ever Education Disaster Allegations: Certain Social Media writers accuse Rammohan for “Killing Sanskrit”, “Adopting English Education”, “Macaulay being inspired by Rammohan” etc. All these accusations started after reading a letter that Rammohan wrote when the British allocated some budget for India’s education of which much of the funds were to be spent for establishing a Sanskrit College in Calcutta.  Rammohan, in his letter, discouraged British to establish the Sanskrit College. He wrote that if British wanted Indians to be in “darkness” then they should establish the Sanskrit College. The ”wanna-be-scholars”(WBS) in social media and certain book writers never mention that in the same letter Rammohan requested that if the Britishers truly cared for Sanskrit then they should support existing Sanskrit Schools run by Hindu Pandits. The WBS never cared to explain or understand about Rammohan’s in...