Hindu civilisation should protect from inimical forces: Sudarsan

Thiruvananthapuram, Sept 23 (UNI) Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) Sarsangh Chalak K S Sudarsan today said the nation and its encompassing Hindu civilisation should be protected from the onslaughts of inimical forces, both national and international.

Delivering the keynote address at a two-day seminar on ''Cultural Nationalism, Conflict or Confluence of Civilisations'' here, he said this could be achieved only when we stood strong and united.

Mr Sudarsan said to protect the ancient civilisation "we must purge our society of all those social evils such as the feelings of high and low, touchability and untouchability." Stating that social evils ''not only are not in consonance with our philosophy of seeing the same 'paramatman' in every animate and inanimate object in this world, but also acts as a great obstacle in the way of consolidating our society and nation,'' he said it would be the first requisite to fulfil our mission in this world of strife and turmoil.

The RSS chief said the Poojya Shri Guruji in his message had said that ''to seek harmony among the various characteristics has been our contributions to the world thought. The oft-quoted feature of our racial genius, that is, of recognising unity amidst diversity, stems from this deep appreciation of principles that water the roots of human unity, human happiness and evolution. Thus in short we stand for a harmonious synthesis among nations and not their obliteration. The idea of creating a stateless condition levelling all humanbeing to one particular plane of physical existence, erasing their individual and groups traits, is foreign to us. The World state of our concept will, therefore, evolve out of a federation of autonomous and self-contained nations under a common centre linking them all.'' Pointing out that our forefathers had tought that if they could forge unity in this land of such a vast diversity then the same could be emulated in other parts of the world also, he said ''unity in diversity'' become the guiding principle of our national life.

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