We are a Hindu majority country in identity not in consciousness.

In today’s India, a common discussion is the Hindu Renaissance. We often found people debating on it. One is asking people to get united for the protection of Hindus. Another argues that there are no issues like the protection of Hindus, it is all to polarize the masses in the name of religion, after all, Hindus are in majority with about 80% of the population.

The plight of Hindus can be seen very clearly, where they are helplessly migrating from their home, or living with the fear of being lynched. Well, it leads to a decent question, “ How a community in the majority can be exploited in a democratic nation?”.

Although India was ruled by Islamic invaders and the British for centuries, this question is bound to arise when it comes to the oppression of the majority class in a democratic setup. For once it appears to be a lie but isn’t so.

India is a Hindu majority country in identity only, not in consciousness. These Hindus are HINDU in name only. They do not believe in the Hindu way of life, so despite being Hindu in identity, do not share consciousness. They no more subscribe to the Hindu way of thought, neither interested in Hindu civilizational ethos. They are not conscious of their knowledge value system. They no more stand for the preservation of this.

Being a Hindu in consciousness means you exist in a certain way, think in a certain way because there is an entire way of life that supports your way of thinking. 

This lack of consciousness in Hindus is the cause of their predicament. It makes them ignorant of the conspiracy against themselves. Even the mass assassination of their community members doesn't make lice crawl on their ears. They found themselves with comfort in all these accidents and happily enjoying the mocking comedy of their deities.

That's why they are HINDU in name only, carrying this name as a legal identity just because they are born in a Hindu family. Same as a disloyal son, who carries family's surname for paternal property only, and who is neither concerned about their needs, nor respect their values, nor stand by them for their protection.

The greater concern is that in today's India these nonconscious Hindus try to portray fully conscious Hindus as secondary Hindus. Whenever someone resists the mocking of his deities, they labeled him as non-tolerant. And then, considering Hinduism as a very all-around tolerant religion treats the very protector as a traitor of Hinduism.

It is something like, a son does not fight against the tyranny of his mother because the same mother taught that one should not fight.  And when someone else comes to save the mother, he stops them by saying that my mother has taught that fighting is a bad thing, one should not fight.

This might be because he had learned half of her mother’s teaching, not the complete one, which is…

अहिंसा परमो धर्मः ।

धर्म हिंसा तदैव चः ।।

So, While drawing comfort with the fact that we are still 80% of the population, keep it in your mind that you are not so in consciousness, but only in identity. And with identity merely, you can’t practice, protect or preserve your civilization because others are fully conscious. Whether, Islamic invaders or European colonizers, both were in the minority when they looted, tortured, and ruled us. We have already loosed everything, it's our last fight for existence as a civilization.

Being the oldest living civilization, we must lead the world in times of uncertainty. And for so, firstly we have to awake ourselves, which requires to light up Hindu consciousness in each of us.