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HINDUISM PROMOTES / ALLOWS NATIONALISM ...LAND & COUNTRY ARE ONE....CONSIDERED MOTHERLAND:
WE CAN SEE THIS IN MANY FORMS...INDIA IS CALLED "BHARAT MATA" (Mother India)
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Bhārat Mātā (Hindi, from Sanskrit Bhāratāmbā भारताम्बा; अम्बा ambā means 'mother', also known as Mother India in English) is the national personification of India as a mother goddess. She is usually depicted as a woman clad in a saffron sari holding the Indian national flag, and sometimes accompanied by a lion
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THE EARTH ITSELF IS CONSIDERED A MOTHER....NOT ONLY INDIA...THE ENTIRE PLANET.
THE EARTH IS REFERRED TO AS BHUMI-DEVI (Mother Earth)
SRIMAD BHAGAVATAM MENTIONS THE EARTH SPEAKING:
“After conquering all the land on my surface, these proud kings forcibly enter the ocean to conquer the sea itself. What is the use of their self-control, which is aimed at political exploitation? The actual goal of self-control is spiritual liberation.”
https://www.vedabase.com/en/sb/12/3/5
"O best of the Kurus, the earth continued as follows: “Although in the past great men and their descendants have left me, departing from this world in the same helpless way they came into it, even today foolish men are trying to conquer me."
https://www.vedabase.com/en/sb/12/3/6
HINDUISM CLEARLY ACCEPTS THE WHOLE WORLD AS ONE:
BELOW IS A PERFECT EXAMPLE:
'VASUDHAIVA KUTUMBAKAM' ("The world is one family")
Sanskrit:
ayam bandhurayam neti ganana laghuchetasam udaracharitanam tu vasudhaiva kutumbakam
Translation:
Only small men discriminate saying: One is a relative; the other is a stranger.
For those who live magnanimously the entire world constitutes but a family.
- Vedas/Upanishad, Chapter 6, Verse 72
A SKEPTIC WILL SAY...WHAT ABOUT THE CASTE SYSTEM? IF THE WORLD IS ONE FAMILY, WHY DOES THE CASTE SYSTEM DIFFERENTIATE BETWEEN HUMANS?
FIRSTLY, THE CASTE SYSTEM IS A SOCIAL HIERARCHY STRUCTURE.
SECONDLY, THE BHAGAVAD GITA CLEARLY STATES THAT EVERYONE IS EQUAL REGARDLESS OF BELIEFS / BACKGROUNDS. THERE IS NO RACISM. NO DIFFERENTIATION BETWEEN BELIEVERS OR DISBELIEVERS.
AS STATED IN THE BHAGAVAD GITA:
“A person is said to be still further advanced when he regards all—the honest well-wisher, friends and enemies, the envious, the pious, the sinner and those who are indifferent and impartial—with an equal mind.”
https://asitis.com/6/9.html
“A true yogi observes Me in all beings, and also sees every being in Me. Indeed, the self-realized man sees Me everywhere.”
https://asitis.com/6/29.html
“I am in everyone's heart as the Supersoul. As soon as one desires to worship the demigods, I make his faith steady so that he can devote himself to some particular deity.”
https://asitis.com/7/21.html
“I am seated in everyone's heart, and from Me come remembrance, knowledge and forgetfulness. By all the Vedas am I to be known; indeed I am the compiler of Vedanta, and I am the knower of the Vedas.”
https://asitis.com/15/15.html
“The yogis, abandoning attachment, act with body, mind, intelligence, and even with the senses, only for the purpose of purification.”
https://asitis.com/5/11.html
“Those whose minds are established in sameness and equanimity have already conquered the conditions of birth and death. They are flawless like Brahman, and thus they are already situated in Brahman.”
https://asitis.com/5/19.html