The strongest instance of "mixing religion with politics" and of identifying India with Hinduness was most certainly Sri Aurobindo's famous Uttarpara speech: "Other religions are preponderantly religions of faith and profession, but the Sanatana Dharma is life itself; it is a thing that has not so much to be believed as lived. This is the Dharma that for the salvation of humanity was cherished in the seclusion of this peninsula from of old. It is to give this religion that India is rising. (*) When therefore it is said that India shall rise, it is the Sanatana Dharma that shall rise. (*) It is for the Dharma and by the Dharma that India exists. To magnify the religion means to magnify the country. (*) When the Sanatana Dharma declines, then the nation declines (*) The Sanatana Dharma, that is nationalism."
In the desiccated and unsympathetic discourse of Indian secularism, anyone repeating Aurobindo's words as his own would be denounced as a "communal fascist". Yet, that fusion of Hindu spirituality and nationalist politics was the central message of the man whom Rao recognizes as a genuine Hindu sage.
http://koenraadelst.bharatvani.org/articles/fascism/replytopv.html
so what do you think what has gone wrong with our national thinking ?
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