India’s nationality, as defined by Sri Aurobindo is Sanatan Dharma. You may call it Bharatiyata or Indianism, it doesn’t alter the truth behind it. The time has come now to see it gain the glory it had in the past to ensure co-existence on this planet embattled with the exclusivist ideologies- said Shri Mohan Rao Bhagwat, Sarsanghchalak (Chief) of the RSS at a valedictory function of a daylong seminar marking the martyrdom day of Dr. Syama Prasad Mookerjee at Jammu University’s General Zorawar Singh Auditorium.
He said, a hundred years before Sri Aurobindo had exhorted in his famous Uttarpara speech about the need to follow the tenets of Sanatan Dharma, India’s nationality, for the greater good of the mankind. The relevance of these words has become all the stronger in our times than it was ever before. Shri Mohan Bhagwat said that the world is facing a bitter conflict with the totalitarian ideologies preaching uniformity and a single way of living abhorring diversities. These ideologies proclaimed that they are creating a path of peace, but instead they created rivers of bloodbath. They said they are preaching love but instead they ended up pushing people in their flock by hook or crook in a ruthless manner. Totalitarianism is an attitude aiming to subjugate the entire world not caring if the world is getting destroyed because of it. Hence the world is searching a path, a way of living and an ideology that would ensure the diversities and wont necessitate foregoing one’s identity for opportunities to grow. That ideology is sanatan dharma, also known as Hindutva which has given the mantra of sarve api sukhinaha santu-let all the creatures be happy and without any disease. Our ideology doesn’t limit itself to humans alone but to entire creation. This attitude alone kept the world happy for thousands of years. But it got brused because of the advent of ideologies that proclaimed that they alone are true and the rest must follow them. If they refuse to follow their path, bloodshed occurs. This attitude breeds hate and terrorism. We have to fight it and defeat this attitude and such ideologies. We are with truth but the hateful ideologies say we are communal. This doesn’t effect our march towards dharma. We are adhering the truth and we know truth alone triumphs-Satyamev Jayate. Even if people influenced with hateful ideologies put hurdles in our programmes we don’t care-our march continues.Shri Mohan Rao Bhagwat said that Dr. Syama Prasad Mookerjee lived the path of this truth-the sanatan Dharma. He left a well established party organization and put his energies to create a new one in the form of Jana Sangh. He wanted to make a new experiment successful in India’s polity. Even after his death, the Jana Sangh ran successfully proving the effectiveness and popularity of a party with a different path and ideology.
Why it could have become possible? Simply because Dr. Syama Prasad Mookerjee lived honestly the path of ideology. He laid his life to change the system and didn’t accept to be a slave of prevailing system under any pretext. That was the reason that his life and martyrdom made Jana Sangh survive and progress. We must remember the life and works of Dr. Mookerjee and try to live emulating his ideals. When we live the spoken words, then alone our speeches carry credibility and impact public mind. Otherwise the words we utter have no influence on people, as the duality in our words and deeds gets exposed before them. He clearly opposed the use of words like ‘leftists’ and ‘rightists’ in political jargon.