And Hindus together will connect everybody in the world. “We have to reach out, connect with every Hindu. He appealed to Hindus across the world to reach out to each other and connect with the world together. The WHC condemned such attacks and urged Hindus worldwide to unite to overcome those who are engaging in such bigotry and emerge victorious.Įarlier, addressing the inaugural session of the WHC, RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat said India will show the path of happiness and satisfaction to the world which is stumbling from experiments with materialism, communism, and capitalism. Many politicians driven by political agendas and personal prejudices have also joined that group, and are criticising Sanatan Dharma, or Sanatan with increasing regularity and vitriol,” it added. “But most are anti-Hindutva because of their visceral hatred and biases against Hindu Dharma. The declaration noted that many academicians and intellectuals portray Hindutva as the antithesis of Hindu Dharma, out of ignorance.

Here the term Sanatan works as an adjective indicating Hindu Dharma’s eternal nature,” it said. “Others have used the alternative Sanatan Dharma, often abbreviated as Sanatan. The declaration said that Hindutva was not a complicated word and simply meant Hindu-ness. The assertion in the declaration came against the backdrop of a row that erupted after DMK leaders made certain controversial remarks about Sanatan Dharma at a symposium with the theme ‘Abolition of Sanatana’. We agree with them and should do the same,” the declaration read. “It is for such reasons that many of our elders preferred the term Hindutva over Hinduism as the former is a more accurate term since it includes the gamut of all that the word Hindu implies. It said that in contrast, Hinduism is totally different because it is suffixed with an “ism”, which is a term defined as an oppressive and discriminatory attitude or belief. And then there is Dharma, which means that, which sustains,” read the declaration adopted at the end of the first day of deliberations of the WHC. It signifies all that is Sanatan or Eternal. “In the term Hindu Dharma, the first word, i.e, Hindu is an unbounded word. The third WHC adopted a declaration here asserting that the word Hindutva was more accurate as it includes the gamut of all that the word ‘Hindu’ implies. The World Hindu Congress (WHC) on Friday renounced the word Hinduism, contending that the term reflected oppressive and discriminatory and embraced Hindutva and Hindu Dharma to refer to the “eternal” religion.

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