Sanjeev Sanyal Speaks To Hindol Sengupta On What It Is To Be A Hindu | Who Is A Hindu? | BOOM
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- Sanjeev Sanyal - an economist and writer in conversation with Hindol Sengupta on what it is to be a Hindu in the 21st century.
Who is a Hindu? What does he believe or can he be an unbeliever and still be a Hindu? Why is Hinduism so open to everything and yet driven the same goal to adapt and accommodate everything? What does a Hindu seek? While addressing these questions Hindol Sengupta talks about the modern Hindus and the societies they are living in.
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Why do we not hear more from Sanjeev Sanyal?! He explains so well !
Proud to be a bengali hindu..proud to have Sanjeev Da in my friendlist...
Two Bengali guys had nice conversation. Since Sanskrit language started sleeping fainting dying exactly at that time Smritis Upanishads Sutras and Geetas stopped flowing. Looks SHE'S waking up again. Sanata Dharma
Indrajit Datta nice comment!
Ain't it strange? Upper Class bongs aren't known to be pro Hindu!
@@abhisekbhowmik4626 exactly. For long time its never been considered cool to be Hindu. Bengalis preferred to be leftist. So sad! Thats why Bengal and Bengali s r quite isolated from the bigger Hindu population of India. We never tried to understand them.
@@anonymousone6913 sad
Indrajit Datta; a few quietly listening on social media without creating a tamasha.
Hinduism : Honest seeking of Truth of existence both internally and externally through a personal Guru with a personalized ista Devada through a personalized system of living aligned with the universal law of existence.
Much more then a religion. A personalized system for a joyful coexistence with creation every minute of existence.
perfect definition
Wow 👏👏
Wow well said
Proud to be a Hindu
Read book Being Different by Rajiv Malhotra will make you realize how amazing our civilization is.
Read Hindu Masjids by Prafull Goradia.
And keep it in ur drawing room for all secular relatives .
I am amazed to see that two Bengalis are discussing Hinduism so nicely. Generally Bengalis are known to be communists.
Atheism also a significant part of Hinduism... All six darshans (Sankhya, Yog etc) are the part of atheist Hinduism
@@indranilroy8575 yes absolutely. But atheism doesn't necessarily mean that you need to be communist specially Marxist or Maoist.
@@crazyworld6633 Correct.... economic equality and spiritual equality 😊😊
Bengalis like to discuss :) :) Chorcha ! :) Thats why they are Bengalis - Nothing more :)
@@sankargopal123 Discussions are very much necessary in an educated society. You can't just follow anything blindly. Hinduism also teaches us to question everything. By the way, it's mainly because of the Bengalis, India got its freedom.
AH! Complex Adaptive Systems! I was watching this video to take a break from my thesis writing, and I hear a term which I have used maybe a 100 times in my text.
what is your thesis about?
Can you share your thesis?
Hindu is a geographical term. It is a name given by the Middle Easterners to the denizens of the land that lies to the East of the river Sindh. Religion as defined in terms of Abrahamic traditions does not apply here. The whole focus is about liberation from cycles of birth and death. For this one has to seek a path (ayana) and guidance. Gods are not the same as considered in the Abrahamic systems. Here Gods are representation of various types of forces, energies and consciousness levels. They can be used in the form of icons, or geometric shapes or in the form of sounds or a combination of all of them, as a means towards stabilizing the body and mind and achieve one pointed focus. Guru is the most important axis of this. A Guru is someone who has experienced dimensions beyond the senses or has achieved absolute mastery of any field. One seeks guidance from a guru and reveres the guru. Be it spiritual or vocational or art, the system of education is the same - to be personally taught by an accomplished guru. There are many pathways based on one's nature, inclinations and mental condition. One will automatically gravitate towards a path that suits his nature. If one achieves advancement in the path, he reaches higher level of wisdom where he will know how to take the right action under a given set of conditions. This will always be the correct one and will not result in karma. If karma is not a result of a right choice, then it becomes kriya. This is the path of Dharma where codes and procedures are not written down for reference, but one has to know through the process of learning and gaining higher level of wisdom. Those who talk of Hinduism have no idea what they are talking about.
Very wonderfully explained by Sanjeev, who remains one of the most truthful, uninhibited, scientific, cogent, eloquent, fact based speaker. Thankyou to the channel for the wonderful insights!
Seeking Truth in its Entireity is the Road map for every one with Open Architexure is Hinduism as I understood.It was a nice Conversation
I'm truly lucky to be born in a hindu Home. And happy to learn some more from you. Thank you
Probably, the only belief system that can unite the humanity is Hinduism with its inclusive, pluralistic, open architecture that can accept and respect any faith or belief without any hegemony or prejudice.
Hindu is neither a religion nor any 'ism'. Sanatan Dharma is practiced and followed by people of this region since time immemorial. Hindu is an identity for people of Hindustan which again the term "Hindu' was given by outsiders and not by the natives of "Bharat-Varsh" after king Bharat established the first Democratic nation in the human history.
Let us agree that what was originally Sanatan Dharma is now called Hinduism. Hindus have been denied their religious rights by the constitution (take the Hindu Endowments Acts for example) if you say that Hinduism is not a religion it just helps the other side. Hinduism is a religion but contains within itself not one but many 'isms'
these people like 'Manjaree Bhatt' don't listen what video is all about, they just keep chanting "word Hindu" came from outside, without and research, these people heir something from anywhere and starts chanting same thing again n again without any seance.
Here Sanjeev clearly talked about Axiom of religion, and Axiom of Hinduism is Nasadiya Suktam, which is very accurate, around these axiom various Sampradya are evolved for example, Shav, Shakti, Vashnav, Ganpatya, Charvakas etc, and these all Sampradya are correlated. SO HINDUISM IS A RELIGION.
Coming to the word Hindu, it is not given by some outsiders, it is Bharatiya word.
आसिंदो सिंधु पर्यन्तं यस्याभारतः भूमिकाः
मातृभूः पितृभूचेवा सह वै हिंदूरितिस्मृताः
these verses are from Padma Puran.
Meaning: Whoever considers the land of Bharatha Bhoomi between Saptha Sindhu and the Indian Ocean as his motherland and fatherland is known as Hindu. Hence for all Indians this is Punya Bhoomi (Holy land)
RigVed Barahaspathya Agyam
हिमालयं समारभ्य यवादिन्दु सरोवरम |
थम देवनिर्मितं दसम हिंदुस्थानम प्रचक्षति ||
The holy land, surrounded by Himalayas in the North and the Indian ocean in the south, created by the Gods themselves is called Hindustan
Various shlokas are there in which word Hindu clearly came like Kalpadrumya, in Merutantra (Shav), Madhav Digvijya,
and these texts are much much older then 700BCE,
In Rigved one King name is also mentioned as VivaHindu, who donated 46000 Cows
we all know Vedas composed around 5000BCE.
SO STOP FOOLING YOURSELVES BY SAYING WORD HINDU CAME FROM OUTSIDE, ATLEAST OPEN SOME HINDU TEXT AND READ IT,
@@AbhishekSingh-vc7br exactly...
Sanatan dharma is the basis of living in Bharat . This dharma is inclusive of everything and every creature . Human being is most evolved state of creation which have the ability to raise to higher state of awareness .This thought is included in all Vedas and in Upnishad too. Arth, Dharm , Kaam , Moksha was the pillars of living. For Moksha, the ultimate desire of human life, our fore father's meditated for long and most of them became saints after awakening the dormant divine energy within. The divine energy is the divine mother within and always help the child to ascend in life to higher state of awareness. This state is state is Atma gyaan. Every body is divine creation and thus all are eligible to this Gyaan.
In modern time this is possible to awaken the divine energy within by grace of divine through Sahaja yoga (Www.sahajayoga.org.in)
@@AbhishekSingh-vc7br Great! Why don't you question who has distorted the history of Sanatan Dharma and taught us even after independence? Or even not corrected by Hindu Gurus and so-called spiritual leaders? Now U R quoting the verses from Purana and RigVed! Thanks for YR explanation but I've been to many Ashrams, Spiritual centers and even met many Hindu Dharma Gurus but none have ever explained it! Plus the word Dharma in non-translatable as per Shree Rajiv Malhotraji, so PS don't use it the way it's been defined by Abrahamic religions.
So happy our youth are taking charge of our Dharma and true identity
Hinduism free you, it not create any set boundary
Superb...very imp topic covered. We need to bring awareness about this. Thank you for posting.
12:33 We have not given up writing Upanishads or Dharmashastras. Hindus consider the word of their Guru as Shastra. Guru's instruction is equal to the Veda. So many Self-Realized Masters have graced our land. Their writings, discourses, guidance, hymns (composed by them) have added to the vast body of Hindu literature, only that the language is not Sanskrit alone. Most of the new additions to literature are in modern languages - e.g. Hindi, Awadhi, Marathi, Tamil, even English.
So, Hindu spiritual/religious literature continues to grow even today.
Have to be written and officially recorded, and placed along with our scriptures. Preferably in Sanskrit, and all other languages.
Religion leads to a promised heaven, Dharma leads to moksha.
Abrahimics desire heaven, dharmiks strive for moksha through karma.
Religion binds, Dharma liberates.
That's it or perhaps thats not😊🙏💙
+1🌸🙏🕉
Hindu is not at all religion.
It is dharma which responsibility how to live with your part in society. According to where you are standing .
When you are dad you have pita dharma, when you r husband u r pati dharma. Same when u r hindu u need to belong to this land and work for people of these land that follow people around you.
When china is chini, africa is african , then hindustan have hindus. All are here hindu who are born here.
A conversation between Sanjeev Sanyal and Sam Harris would be very interesting, if it could be organised.
Mughals came and named it hindustan. Britishers came and called it India. Bharat is the only country which has so many names I wonder why
धन्यवाद
mr. hindol sengupta knows so much.
Ram did not only uphold the laws, he changed & scratched unfair laws... he had Sita go through the Agni pariksha, he also pronounces that there will NEVER be another woman subject to that, he did the same when he exiled Sita to the forests. That is the shining example for ALL to follow... the enforcer of the law does not change the laws to suit himself...
Poonam Abbi Ram is called Maryada-Purush-uttam. with all limitations of norms of the socity, He was able to perform his duty as a king. So hi is Uttam Purush.
+Poonam Abbi Okay, where have you pulled all that info out of? You haven't clearly ever read Ramayana.
HINDUISM IS FAKE FICTIOUS design to rule... hinduism spreaded ddiscrimination and divided our society
"neti neti (not this, not this…)" is best way to describe Hinduism.
One line satya mev jayte
lovely, entertaining and enlightening. this one. thanks.
Indeed, Hindus have many beliefs (and not A One Belief) but let us take that (as many do) to mean that in our Hindu religion we do not have beliefs, we do. We do recognize the Absolute but note that someone is speculating on this! Also remember the creation hymn comes later. First we have Agnimile Purohitam Yagnasya Devam Ritvijam! What a complete sentence for the beliefs of Hinduism. Believe in the Fire (without/within); the Gurus; the Yoga practices; the Devas; and Mother Nature.
Hinduism is a Way of UNIVERSAL THINKING in Sync with Cosmos & Nature.. Quality of MIND over Colour of Skin.. Good over Bad.. Punya over Paap.. Dharma over Adharma.. by one's Karma-Deeds anyone can raise themselves to quality of God.. जन्मना जायते शूद्र: कर्मणा द्विज उच्यते।...
I have a little difference of thought here with sanjeev ji. Hinduism to as far i have known, is not a book of thought which is tells you thou shall you do, intact sanjeev sir has made it right, no doubt. But, it is your eternal, most fundamental thought which leads you to the fundamental existence bin you, in which everything else is divine. Its like there is nothing else but divine. And when this happens , everything seems worshippable. It is upon that form of existence within you about you, that leads to what hinduism looks today!
Hinduism is sanatan dharma... sacred, rightous conduct of a person depending on his or her likes, temperament.
The most beautiful way of life Hinduism
Hinduism is Indian civilisation- As simple as that. It's the Indian metaschool of thought
both young bright mind inspiring we youngster....young monk vivekanand really very keen to read of senguptaji
Thanks for this video.... Nice one
Nice talk. Only wrong information was that Upanishads are not Sruti. All major Hindu schools and rishis mentioned the early 10 principal Upanishads as Sruti.
Hinduism is NOT a religion. Being a Hindu requires NO UNITY WITH ANY COLLECTIVE THOUGHT. Being a Hindu is the ultimate freedom from any dogma.
Proud to be a hindu
But how do we break casteism and confront the abrahmic religion
Being Hindu.Cool it's Rock!!!
What is"Hinduism".
See this video, it can resolve million doubts.
Thank you sir for sharing your great knowledge
It is good to have the things are explained in English. But all these information are essential for Hindi ,Bengali ,Marathi etc speaking Indians ie all Indians. Common Indians are ever misguided by many scholers of India on our history.
So, we need to know such important texts more easily. Let rest of the world get it if required by them.
Pl. come out with Indian languages.
What is the starting background music ? Which is that music ?
अब हमारे बुद्धि जीवी सनातन धर्म पर अपने सकारात्मक विचार रखने लगे हैं।खुशी की बात है
his views on ramayana are incorrect. There is a mention in Valmiki Ramayana that Lord Vishnu descends on Earth as Lord Ram
You are doing great job
Yes. Scientifically speaking, Hinduism and Ancient Indian Psychology are the two sides of the same coin. @gmybird
Great, Sanjeev Sanyal is effectively saying you can't define Hinduism in the axiomatic sense. This is precisely what it's critics say. Hence, we're back to square one.
Axiom in Hinduism is a question. But axiom in Abhrahamic religion is a statement. That's the difference.
No he's saying you can't define it in a Abrahamic sense
Remarkable
we must be proud of our heritage and culture of vedic teaching, it's a treasure... but sadly we did not succeed compared to abrahamic faiths
uppanayan was originally a second time born to go to gurukul/join learning work.
Just a suggestion : why does hinduism have to be explained with Islam or christianity as a reference. This religion has been one of the first or the earliest.
We should make it a point to explain and unfold the discussion with no reference to other religions.
Long live Sanjay Sanyal
These are new shankracharya 😉😀😀😀😂😂of our society
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Yogi ji future Prime minister 🔥🚩💪
Yes Upanayana was never restricted to Brahmins alone; it is initiation into training and learning. It simply remained with Brahmins.
Lingayata of Karmataka must know for modern hindus
Bhagvad gita is a upanishadic compendium of all yogas, it is not a smriti. This land has culture and tradition but it doesn't sprout from the Vedas but the Rishis. This was just created so that the masses benefit but a sage or a rishi is beyond all this, a true seeker is beyond all this and the sages of this land appreciate truth seekers than dogmatic pundits. Hinduism is essentially against the ignorance created by oneself when one entangles oneself in maya. Take any path Sufi or Yoga, reach the truth. That's Hinduism if you want to put a label on it.
When is the caste of untouchable started and why
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Sir make a video on why today hindu has become weak why
Sanjeev sanyal rocks
Hindus say they are open, pluralistic, inclusive religion...except when it comes to Islam and Christianity...( the exclusivism of hinduism clearly shines, when you bring Christianity or Islam or Judaism into picture)
That's why Hindus celebrate Christmas meanwhile Christian missionaries goes to school and tell little children that you're on wrong path. Why don't u allow gita to study in church. 🥱🥱
Barking is easy when u have been historically prosecutor and blaming persecuted for no reason.
That fact you are allowed to say this shows inclusiveness- The fact that Christians and Muslims were getting equal opportunities along with hindus with no persecutions is another case.The fact that there are no forced or incentivized conversions . The fact that Hindus never say our god is better than yours, but all gods lead the same path is the belief ( so no conversions needed)
LoL what rubbish. The intolerance is only one-way shown by intolerant Abrahamic faiths.
The very fact that Christianity and Islam thrives in India is proof about Hindus and Hinduism's inclusivity
When these smart guys will talk about India's 'Emancipation Proclamation' for caste system, world's most discriminating practice?
The other thing I want to point out is that the notion that you presented that to tinker with Vedas or any sruti texts one has to be some kind of Rishi or something like that and that's not the case with smriti texts, is completely the limit of stupidity. Any such "tinkering" with any texts required and was done by the so-called Rishis or someone like that, it the sruti or the smriti texts.
When one speaks one has to be really very careful and choose correct words. Don't just speak, think and then speak. That's what scholarly person should do.Sanjeev, you kind of speak in hurry and make many mistakes.
সঞ্জীব যখন আপনি ইমোশনাল, আপনার কথার স্পীড টা একটু স্লো করলে ভালো।
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All texts by each knowledge system , whether Saankhya , Naiyayika , Charavaka , Tattwawada are necessary, as they represent the evolutionary state of the individual.Each individual is at a different state of mental , emotional , spiritual evolution. This may be true with members of the same family.
So to reach the pinnacle of TRUTH , multiple lifetimes are needed.
This huge based thought process is what makes HINDUISM.
If others dont understand it and go all out to vanquish this population it is criminal.
Caste was never there till 1860's.
It was all a professional intellectual division
Ram IS said to be a god in the yudha khanda of the valmiki version
Caste was a way to restrain society from acquiring hegemony over land, trade, martial class, knowledge. But sadly it's practice was corrupted and now should not hold any relevance, whatsoever
Reawakened!
Ramayana is a man made story. Tamil poet Kambar hijacked the story of ADAM Alaisalaam & Hawa Alaisalaam (ADAM & Eve) and created Ramayanam in the year 1200 AD.. Rama, Sita and Laxman are Tamils they should be in Thirichi and not in Ayodaya. Ravana the Ramayanam villain never existed in Sri Lanka. He is a fake guy. I have lived in Sri Lanka for 84 years.
SITA is a Sanskrit word which means heart pronunciation: SEETHA - a romantic term for heart. When Kambar said Rama and Sita he meant Rama and his love. You Hindus have gone mad. Your religion is Islam.
ISLAM in Sanskrit language is SANTANA (adverb) comes from : Noun:Santa or Shanta. SALAAM. Adjective: Santi or Shanti. (Remember Shahruq Khan singing Om Shanti! Om Shanti! ) Adverb: Santana. The meaning for ISLAM and SANTANA are the same : "to be in Peace or to be at Peace"
Mahabharata : Arabian Night Tales hijacked is Mahabaratha Epics. Both indulge in wild imaginations. Aladdin travels in a "Flying Carpet" in Mahabaratha it is a "Flying Chariot." In Mahabaratha there are 3 Million Gods . Aladdin has 40 Thieves in the cave. Pandavars say Om! Creem! Creem! Aladdin says Cheem! Sheen! Sheem! Englishman got excited about Gingerly Seeds and said " Open Sesame!"
Lord Buddha was not spared he too was hijacked. Es Kanta was lord Buddha's name and that name became Hindu God " Sri Skanda". If you go to Nepal Museum you will find information on EsKanta ie: On Lord Buddha and not on Sri Skanda. You can try Tanjore Museum. Hindu or Hinduism religion never existed until the British came to India in the 17th Century they coined the words to combat ISLAM in India. Their divide and rule policy.
Hinduism is not religion ,it's dharma ,that's why we don't agree with Muslim religion n christain religion but we agree to buddha dharma n jain dharma .....isn't.it that simple ? may be u can argue about culture but .........And what is dharma?
This is a deliberation based on superficial observation. Nonetheless , this is the beginning of self understanding.
Mr Sanyal should take some lessons from Mr Rajiv Malahotra
The word hindu is a perzian word..
Not sanskrit..it is etymologucally a old persian word ..and so look up the meaning in persian dictiobary
hindusim is not a religion its a way of life china japan indonesia combodia malasia thailand srilanka russia grecce mesoptomia most part of the world have infliuence of sanatan dharma on them
it is like a matrix of systems
Who are the Rajputs?
Being hindu title is great but do all hindus real want to be hindu
A Bengali man is not complete without his printed shirt. :-P
What a stupid talk. Yes, Bhagavad Geeta is a Smriti text and not a Sruti text, and it's not because Sanjay remembered and spoke it out and not because it's not the original or it duplicate word of God and something like that.
The difference between sruti and smriti is that one refers to being authorless and another having author(s). If you try to classify them as being remembered and direct from God or something like that, then it becomes vague.
This is because, for example, in Mahabharata Sanjay isn't speaking out those words by remembering from his Smritipatal, instead, he is experiencing it directly via his Divyanetra (divine vision), just like Arjun. Bhahavad Geeta is a smiriti text because it is a part of Mahabharata, a smriti text becasuse it is written by an author (Vyasadev), not otherwise. Don't be mistaken. Such mistakes cause all kinds of tensions and cost a lot. Besides, such mistakes are stupidity.
Sanjeev Sanyal is not a historian neither a thinker he is a confused guy and will remain so for centuries if he keeps on talking like this.
Updating the knowledge should come from sage like people and not from a person who is taking and giving this interview. Pl be careful
Hinduism: An ensemble of vague ideas.
Sorry mr Sanyal. You are also trying to be politically correct. No other religion thinks of who I am. Reality etc
WTF, there is no "medieval" period in the Indian context. He seems like a modern day Deepak Chopra, but cashing in on the Indian history cleanup angle. My gripe is marketing Hinduism as a tradition where anything goes, based on half-baked knowledge and zero personal adhyatmic experience, will be profitable in the short term but damaging to our culture & identity in the long. It is unfortunate that people like him and especially businessmen like Jaggi Vasudev (with yoga) etc. package dharmic ideas with a "modern" spin without sufficiently acknowledging or expressing pride in the source (what is now called "Hindu") tradition.
slomoy2k r u rajiv malhotra fan?
slomoy2k what do you mean by"medieval period"?
whatever you're saying....is Vedicr telegion
Don't be stupid Sanjeev, Hinduism is not a religion. And by your definition of religion, even Science seems to be a religion. It's absurd. Don't create your own definition of religion and put Hinduism and apparently science into that category. That's dissapointing.
Those making career in HINDUTWA makes this propaganda. BRAHMINs are setting the propaganda. Naives are falling prey to this propaganda.
Ye jo samajhte h wo inki smriti h ,shruti nahi to kya padha kya samjha wo doosro se alag ho sakta h. Jaroori nahi sahi ho
This is Blatant Islamophobia
Maybe great in theory but garbage in practice as the last 6 years have taught us the hard way
Can't expect anything less from a rathee subscriber.
Adaptation is must for survival.