New Delhi:
Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Friday lamented that reference to Sanatan and Hindu in India evokes baffling response from “misguided” folks.
He additionally stated that individuals who react to those phrases with out understanding the depths of the phrases and their deep which means are “misguided” souls pushed by a “harmful ecosystem”.
Addressing the Worldwide Congress of Vedanta organised at JNU right here, Dhankhar stated it was ironical and painful that on this nation “reference to Sanatan, reference to Hindu evokes baffling response past comprehension.” “Somewhat than perceive the depth of those phrases, their deep which means, folks are usually in a response mode on the drop of a hat,” he stated.
Dhankhar dubbed such folks as “souls that are misguided themselves”. He stated such individuals are “pushed by a harmful ecosystem that may be a menace not solely to society however to themselves”.
The Vice President stated at a time when world disciplines are embracing the Vedanta philosophy, there are “some on this land of spirituality” who dismiss Vedanta and Sanatani textual content as “regressive”.
“This dismissal typically stems from perverted, colonial mindsets, inefficient understanding of our mental heritage. These components, who act in a structured method, in a sinister style, the design is pernicious. They camouflage their harmful thought course of by perverted variations of secularism. That is very harmful,” Dhankhar stated.
This intolerance, he opined, undermines our democratic values, disturbs concord in society and would not enable productiveness. “On all counts, it leads solely to catastrophe and failure,” he stated.
Referring to disruptions in Parliament, he stated “expression” and “dialogue” are elementary.
“Proper of expression is a divine reward. Its curtailment, its dilution by any mechanism just isn’t healthful and this brings into image one other side, dialogue. In case you have proper of expression, (however) you do not have interaction in dialogue then issues cannot work out. Each these should go hand in hand,” stated Dhankhar, who can also be the Rajya Sabha Chair.
He stated disruptions have nearly defeated dialogue and expression. “Dialogue, debate, dialogue, deliberation have exited underneath the onslaught of disruption and disturbance, even within the theatres of democracy,” he stated.
“What a travesty. In these temples of democracy, their sanctity is outraged,” he stated.
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