‘Misguided souls pushed by a harmful ecosystem’: Dhankhar on Sanatan criticism | India Information – Instances of India

NEW DELHI: Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Friday stated that reference to Sanatan and Hindu in India evokes baffling reactions from ‘misguided souls’ pushed by ‘harmful ecosystem.’
Whereas addressing the Worldwide Congress of Vedanta organised at JNU, Dhankhar stated that individuals who react to those phrases with out understanding the depths of phrases and that means is ironic and painful.
“It was ironic and painful that on this nation reference to Sanatan, reference to Hindu evokes baffling reactions past comprehension,” Dhankhar stated.
“Reasonably than perceive the depth of those phrases, their deep that means, folks are usually in a response mode on the drop of a hat,” he added.
Dhankhar additionally dubbed such individuals as “souls that are misguided themselves” and are pushed by a “harmful ecosystem that could be a risk not solely to society however to themselves.
“Proper of expression is a divine present. Its curtailment, its dilution by any mechanism will not be healthful and this brings into image one other side, dialogue. When you have proper of expression, (however) you do not interact in dialogue then issues cannot work out. Each these should go hand in hand,” stated Dhankhar.
“Dialogue, debate, dialogue, deliberation have exited beneath the onslaught of disruption and disturbance, even within the theatres of democracy,” he added.
The vice chairman stated at a time when international disciplines are embracing the Vedanta philosophy, there are “some on this land of spirituality”, who dismiss Vedanta and Sanatani textual content as “regressive”.
“This dismissal typically stems from perverted, colonial mindsets, inefficient understanding of our mental heritage. These parts work in a structured method, in a sinister vogue,” the vice chairman stated.