There can be many sources of obtaining views on RSS. One may know views from individual Swayamsevaks, that may be informative but not authority. Because Individuals add their own understanding and that differs from person to person. Only RSS organized events, in which say 20 Swayamsevak participate and their is some person speaking on or to them, that has more value. Official RSS views are shared to media by RSS representatives (spokes person), who are authorized for it, e.g. Sri Dattatrey Hosabale. There are RSS authorized intellectuals to put their views in Media, like Dr Marakand Paranjape, Dr Rakesh Sinha.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRJcgAp-PdY&t=48s
Rest who writes what and who says what on RSS in media and daily life, is their freedom of speech, their bias, wishful imagination and rumor very often.
The kind of vilification and distortion which is done by media, and vested interests, makes it difficult and dangerous to say much, because everything will be distorted. People who want to know more about RSS, I would suggest them to read Bunch of Thoughts by Guruji
https://www.amazon.in/Bunch-of-Thoughts/dp/8186595198
or Dr. Hedgewar The Epoch-Maker
https://www.amazon.in/Dr-Hedgewar-Epoch-Maker-H-Seshadri/dp/B01FM1GWG2
My writing below is based on my personal understanding.
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RSS philosophy is not about external factors affecting Hindu society and country. Focus of RSS is internal problems, lack of interest among Hindus, towards country, and lack of brotherhood, lack of honesty, character. RSS main concern is that we have not been able to hold our people, so High castes discriminate against low castes in villages, there is corruption etc. RSS main focus is character building, brotherhood. This yagna of character-building would exist even in absence of British, Muslim, Christian missionary onslaught. It is like working on good health, and we need good health even if there is nobody to fight.
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This is my answer to some leftist, masquerading as pro-Hindu, criticizing Mohan Bhagwat Ji on speech in the snap below.
Person writes: "Hindutvawadi mask is finally off. Inn moodh andhbhakton ke saamne toh dikhawa bhi karne ki zaroorat nahin. .....That's their real character. Not difficult to see why the Hindu is such a perpetual loser."
It turns out that person is some dupe, some fake profile. But still it is important to counter.
My Response:
There is a lot of wrong information about RSS in public. I did not listen to his speech, but being with RSS on and off, I have not come across anything in last 12 years which would suggest that so called 'real character'. Without knowing the context such objections do not have meaning.
There are two types of attainments, one can be obtained by just wishing, talking and thinking.
However many of the important skills involve a lot more. These involve unconscious and subconscious, mind and body. One cannot learn perseverance only by reading essays on it. No matter how many lectures a person gets in the classroom, he won't become a soldier.
Hence in RSS, we see that most of the activities are applied, not taught. Minimum amount of written text exist. In the ancient guru-shishya system, the teacher was not just a speaker or audio, giving theories, he made practical demonstrations, himself and his life being an example.
For very long period, ancient texts were passed from guru to shishya, by word of mouth, before Vedas were written. Same way among the monks who preached philosophy of Buddha, first text was not written until 200 years after death of Buddha. In Japanese Shinto there is very little written text and we can talk anything about Shinto, but most of Shinto is passed through person to person without use of books or texts. Samurai skills have been passed through practical demonstration, takes 15 years to become expert in Samurai. In good in bad, we cant overlook it. Mohammed was not successful just because of Quran, he brought all the applied things like 5 times prayer, Bakrid slaughter, Zakat. So we see that all the calls for moderation (in Islam) through the written texts have failed. Western and upper middle class Indians remain very clumsy in dealing with Muslims. Half knowledge of human psychology produces poor results compared to one who knows nothing about human psychology. It is not required for a soccer player to read books on soccer.
And there are many things which cannot be explained through words. We humans communicated even before we had words. Animals communicate without language. Emotions, body language all are kind of things which we absorb unconsciously and subconsciously. Leftists take advantage of this lack of much written text and media bulletins on each and every thing. And many well meaning people also project their imaginations about RSS. But RSS stays on the ground, because people have experienced what RSS means, their families, old, young everyone. Leftists can claim victory on twitter, but that wont uproot RSS. We all might have many acquaintances on Facebook and Twitter, but in real adversity, it is the people whom we know as a person they only help. Successful politicians maintain mass contact, they attend wedding and funerals in their constituency.
Marxism is a written philosophy which has produced abject results and it relies on written texts. It has superior propaganda ability with books, talks, but it has always created disaster when applied on the ground.
Main aim of RSS is character building. And one builds his character in family. RSS creates that family like atmosphere, creates love for country through that practical approach. It is important to keep people away from lime light during that phase. Afterwards, everyone is free to read and write. Every Indic is a family member. Shakha is play ground, talking corner, just like aangan of the household where kids of the family play and elders gossip and pass values.
Marxist take advantage of this, lack of written words from RSS. Marxists targeted universities, press, think tanks to demonize RSS and spread their agenda. RSS went to the houses and families.
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Another talk I had with a friend on email, about open mind:
I didn't learn whatever little I learned by trying to learn or trying to be open minded. I learned in the course of life, from the problems, situations which I faced.
It is not just about keeping an open mind. It takes a lot more to go into depth. I think a lot of people who think they are open minded, don't realize that. A soldier is not a title, it is a name of ability and experience.
The Same way, a person who has not tested his mind on a variety of ideas, real difficult situations, will not mean much. I had this experience in life many times. With myself and with others. I am still evolving, in the process. The mind opens not like a container lid. It opens with experience and questions. It is a lifelong process.
I had this experience with many eastern/western friends as well, who were very open minded, had much broader view on many aspects. But after a while I see that they reach the limit. Because they reached the limit of what they had thought. Often very early.
We humans cannot be completely open minded. It is a relative term, open mind. We don't have ages to think, we need to survive as well. But still we can acknowledge it if we are serious.
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Vajpayee Ji on RSS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjEki8ft1uU
Today Vijayadashmi 2021: I recall some friend from Kolkata what kind of training RSS is giving, why this training, terrorists need training. Well Police, volunteers all need training, not just terrorists.
For the first time saw a gun today during shastra puja. Afterwards I asked the owner of gun, he said it is air gun, not real gun. Two swords were kept at venue. Both were blunt ones, kind of used in shows, without edge. The fact that a gun and two sword was kept meant nothing more. But leftists fill in that vacuum in absence of credible information. But a leftist would conjure, this is what RSS does, armed training killing Muslims, all without any proof. Upper middle class public doesn't want proof, public makes out anything what suits them. To train you need real gun, bullets, range, target, etc, and you can't do it in small field in city. But who would ask that, people want fast conclusion.
When during one event some Swayamsevak had brought sword, RSS founder, Dr. Hedgewar, had himself asked Swayamsevaks not to bring shastra. During shastra puja 2-3 swords are kept, these swords don't have sharpened edge. When you buy a sword from market, it doesnot have sharp edge, it is blunt. But you can't see that photos, videos. Indian penal code doesn't restrict possession and carrying of blunt blades for ceremonial purposes with no intent or reason for law and order. Sikhs have more freedom.
99% RSS processions have no swords or anything. I have not personally seen in 12 years. Processions are carried out always with police permission. When police doesn't give permission, processions have been cancelled, always.
Crores of Muslims come out in streets during Muharrem, in every kasba, town of India where they have good numbers and some carry sharpened swords as well, with which they bleed themselves during mourning. These processions start around a week before final event. Has anyone heard Hindus objecting to these processions? Has anyone written any article connecting it to something?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvfWiAq62ig&t=39s
I am thinking that if Muslims managed to finish Hindus in India, liberals Muslims and leftists would write in books: "Hindus were blood thirsty people, a cult of devil, worshipping snake poison God Shiva, Blood drinking Goddess Kali and that Goddess Durga who wielded 18 weapons in her 18 hands, killing black Mahishasur. We beat those devils and saved humanity" They have done it in Pakistan, where textbooks show Hindus as evil. Abusive words about Hindus are common in live TV shows, news etc.
They did same to Kashmir, they said Hindu Pandits were elite and Muslim proletariat was fighting for freedom from elite. They said that about genocide of Hindus in Malabar as well. Same they did about Godhara train burning. Same way they covered up Muslim role in partition, instead blamed RSS, which had no say in affairs. Which was not even formed when Marle Minto Reforms was brought in 1909, giving reservation to Muslims and Muslim only constituencies in representative houses.
When I was a child, there was a Trishul Vitran event by VHP in Rajastha, in that event symbolic small trishuls (which can't harm anyone) were given and some oaths. It appeared in media everywhere that VHP is militarizing Hindu, plans for bloodbath...bla bla.
Before Modi Ji came in 2014, they spread rumor, "pure desh me danga karwaega...muslamano ka katleam karwaega...", many so called intellectuals said they will leave the country...What happened to their prophesies and oaths?
It is strange that I have been in RSS since 2009, but everyone seems to know more about RSS than me, and they are very confident. Even when they have not seen a RSS Sakha ever in life. But they try to teach me. This is how confident people can be in their ignorant views.
Every person who has never been close to RSS seems to know everything about RSS. More remote the person, stronger his opinion and confidence in truthfulness of his opinion. They all seem to teach RSS, about what RSS is. As a person be told by everyone else what is his name and who he is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJ-MldYjQCk
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Dr Hedgewar, founder of RSS was a Telegu, he had done LMS from Calcutta Medical College in June 1916 and was a physician. He was member of Anushilan Samiti the revolutionary organization of Bengal, friend of Shubhash Chandra Bose, and other revolutionaries. His early inspiration Bankim Chandra Chaterjees works, he was also friend of M N Roya who was also a member of Anushilan Samiti, and founded Marxist Communist Party.
Subhash Chandra Bose, and MN Roy all these were terrorist? Is this the way to treat political opponents, the way Congress did, maligning everyone except one family, with factious stories?
And nobody talks about it, Dr Hedgewar was member of Congress from 1920 till 1925, and Seva Dal, the congress team of youths founded in 1923; disillusioned by attitude of Gandhiji etc who did nothing to stop everyday riots against Hindus by Muslims in Malabar and elsewhere, during Khilafat movement, post the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire after World War One.
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There is a parallel organization, Seva Dal, started by Congress in 1923, two years before RSS. Unlike RSS, seva dal diminished in popularity at Grassroot. But Seva Dal and RSS were very similar, had similar methods etc. Is Seva Dal a terrorist training organization? Was Nehru in seva dal uniform a terrorist?
Constitution, law of land is still holding. There are 42 designated terrorist organizations in India, most of them are banned from before 2014. There are around a dozen communist organizations in them, 16 Islamic organizations, 5 Khalistani organizations. No Hindu organization. For government to designate terrorist organization requires proof, which can be defended in court of law. Social media doesn't require proof. Any fool has right to express his/her bigotries, rumors, whims and biases in public.
https://www.mha.gov.in/node/91173
There are around 100 terrorist organizations banned by Government of Canada, almost 90% Islamic organizations. A similar number is in list of FTO (Foreign Terrorist Organizations) of USA. UK, Germany. None Hindu.
Almost all UN Designated terrorist organizations are Islamic organizations.
Even all organizations banned in Bangladesh and Pakistan, Islamic countries themselves are Muslim organizations. For all their Hindu hatred, they can't find a single Hindu organization to blacklist legally following their own Islamic constitution.
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On another question, why there is so much disproportionate focus on Hindutva, RSS etc. And no focus on Islam, Jihad, killings done all over the world in the name of Islam? Why fanatic Muslim leaders don't look into their own house and get away with abusing RSS? Before becoming PM, Modi ji had sent some delegation, he wanted to talk to Syed Ali Shah Gilani. Gilani insulted them, that he has RSS history, he is extremist and Ghilani will never talk to him. Said the man who said: "A Muslim can't live in non-Muslim majority country, he needs a country of his own, Islam and Islamic state are inseparable". Who said: "Ham Pakistani hain, Pakistan hamara hai".
All such fanatics tell RSS is extremist. Minhaz Merchant said : "For Akhtar to compare the RSS—however distasteful he might find its ideology—to the Taliban reflects deep-set prejudice, unworthy of a creative man of letters."
https://openthemagazine.com/columns/the-false-equivalence-industry/
These are people full of hate, but they find fault with others.
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This is real terrorism. Kill RSS men, call them terrorist, hail the killer. And upper class Indians will say "han me han", yes RSS is terrorist. October 2021
https://twitter.com/amitmalviya/status/1465608517017088002
It is regular affair. Feb 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obxaVCw0vBE
In my 11 years in RSS I hardly see anyone wearing saffron kurta, Bhagwa kurta or robe. That Bhagwa and tilak is mostly used for fake photo shoots, to malign RSS, by paid actors and actresses, for TV and twitter.
Muslims and leftists are spreading hatred and are predicting that about RSS since 1925 that RSS will do genocide, they predicted same about Modi before 2014. In the meanwhile they did genocide in Malabar in 1921, Kashmir in 1990s, Pakistan and Bangladesh in 1947, 1971. That is how they cover up themselves and put the blame on Hindus.
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My answer to an idiot: How much do you know about RSS? Apart from what you read from internet? How many people you have known in real life? Those people who write about RSS on internet, they write for ignorant people like you. when you write "xxxxx" , It implies you knows all other people of RSS background. I am simply asking a question, how many people of RSS you have known in real life. I am not talking about fiction you like to read and believe.
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What I observed while in collective singing is that most of the people don't memorize the lines even after two years, ten years. Only few remember the lines and still everyone manages to produce a great rhythm. Get ten idiots from road, make them recite some song or poem and then ask them to do it collectively, even if none of those idiots remember rhythm or lines properly, still you get great rhythm. That is beauty and power of association, harmony, beauty and power of the original rhythm and its power to be remembered by those idiots even if partially. Weaknesses, faults of the individuals are covered in such singing. You can't trace who did what, as long as he/she is not notorious.
It happens in team work, many people cleverly shield themselves. There is less incentive for an individual to remember, to develop his voice, rhythm, and other stuff. But then you reach a limit and then you have to work on individuals to change the overall quality. Same things happen in culture which promote individualism, like in the west, individuals are more likely to be capable. These individuals may abuse or call that original song as bad, useless etc. And will seek to rupture the original song so that they have even more of what they like. But then somebody or somehow another powerful song appears and that song gathers many people. Songs of some culture, democracy, communism, Islamic state etc. Then Individuals are again on the backfoot, because they can't match collective power, even while they have developed themselves. In collective societies, collectively they hit a wall too. And in order to make changes, they need to be busted and then each of the individuals in that group need to change then they reform and form new organic entity. If society is flexible then it needs amendment, and can survive without busting.
The thing we call organic as a rule, our bodies and brain being one, also are not free from faults. Cultures are small things, Indic people of India say it is 5000 years old. But even the mind and body for which nature took two billion years and all things which were available on earth, still the work is faulty. So we human beings are stupid, and ignorant. So now we are coming up with medication and surgery of various kinds. But we don't call for killing the body as long as we can make changes. If some body is suffering from cancer and not changing then that body will be killed. Collective process, song, shifts the energy and power to the process, and hence individuals have less autonomy. Individualist puts power to the individual, then he/she misses the beauty of the collective works. For ordinary people collective thing is relatively better. For extraordinary people individualistic thing works. For best results both need to push hard. Intelligent societies have harmony between both. We see that in Jews who are well developed as Individuals, but they also work very well as a social team.
A good process exists to add value, not merely to recycle. Just as purpose of tax collection is not just to collect taxes and redistribute it again. That money has to be used for growth. Purpose of government school is not to collect tax from public, and building and teachers, redistribute tax money. We can compare it to cooking. Collective things are like pot, motivation is fire, individuals are ingredients. If pot is small, you can't cook. But if ingredient itself is bad, whatever you cook will be bad. And purpose of pot is not just to collect and shake ingredients together.
RSS is trying both to unite and to change individuals again according to our eternal ethos; RSS will serve its purpose as long as it is not losing its second purpose of changing the individual for better, while serving its first purpose of uniting people. If RSS men become like other lazy and ignorant like men in society and start following the all habits which they naturally get from society, purpose will be lost. So even if there is tendency among people to be like they are in society, that tendency has to be countered, as it happens normally hopefully.
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Biggest reason of RSS success is that it is able to inculcate feeling of samskar, love, respect and brotherhood among 1 million people. 1 million Hindus are able to work as a team towards the same goal. Otherwise no five Hindus can work in a team without any self-interest. That people can work as a family, otherwise no family among Hindus is more than a physical blood family. Biggest thing is samskar, love. So RSS automatically becomes strong and provides leadership to Hindu society, as no other group can cooperate and at the same time claim to represent Hindus. Hindus have no option, but to look towards RSS.
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So many prominent journalists show photoshops images, many 10-20 years old from somewhere showcasing entire RSS as armed group. But lakhs of Muharram Julus in which Muslims threaten Hindus on loud-speaker, carry Klashnikovs (mimics), nobody makes snip of that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_21xVZ_Zrk&t=3s
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Khdai Khidmatgar also wore uniform, so did seva dal.
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