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Chapter - 9
Hindutva Concept and Relevance
Hindutva means essence of Hinduism. But what is Hinduism? The word Hindu is not known to our scriputres. It is devised by foreigners who indentified the residents of our mother land Bharat as the persons who lived in the region of the river Sindhu. Whatever it may be, the fact remains that the expression Hinduism is presently used as a synonym of Vedanta. Vedanta is the basic knowledge of Infinite Reality , pure consciousness which pervades the whole universe and expresses itself in multifiarious ways and forms in the universal scheme. Therefore whatever is visible and tangible called Vyakta is nothing but the projection of Avyakta,
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