Usha Vance recently, in an interview, talked about how her children have the choice to decide whether they want to be baptised Catholics as they grow up, as mentioned here,
“So what we’ve ended up doing is we send our kids to Catholic school, and we have given them each the choice, right? They can choose whether they want to be baptised Catholic and then go through the whole step-by-step process with their classes in school,” she said. “Our eldest, Ewan, has already chosen to be baptized,” she shared. “Vivek is still considering it. We want them to be thoughtful about their choice.”
Hindu traditions are a part of their lives though the Vances don’t celebrate Hindu festivals at home like Diwali, Holi, but they spend a lot of time with Usha’s parents and her grandmother.”
Which really means they will all be Christians with their hate eventually against those idol-worshipping Hindu heathens.
As Dr Koenraad Elst correctly pointed out,
“The Vance kids go to church & don’t celebrate Diwali. A velvet conversion, a Hindu way of de-Hinduizing.”
But the bitter truth is she reflects what the majority of Hindus are, or who we call pseudo Hindus, which is why they continue to be trampled on and kicked around like empty rusty cans. And the embarrassment worsens when they attempt to justify their weak behaviour by claiming to be highly virtuous, morally and spiritually superior and how everyone is jealous of their success.
It’s not surprising to see many devout temple-going traditional Hindus whose own kids are often the most anti-Hindu or convert to the other side very easily, all because of this weak pseudo-Hindu identity that most have, including the so-called ‘Hindutva’ ‘caste’ also have.
We’ve come across many embarrassing pseudo-Hindus, like these few examples.
There was this pseudo-Hindu father being praised by other Hindus for being so virtuous and pious, because he said all his 5 daughters had married non-Hindus and even converted to their husbands’ religion, because we Hindus are so universal and enlightened. So give me my high-status award.
Basically, his parenting failed, but he tried to turn it into a big moral victory. Something we have seen with many pseudo-Hindus.
Then we had come across an ex-VHP temple president in London, whose own two daughters had converted to the other side once they eloped with some Pakistani guys. And this same president, who was supposed to be an expert on Hinduism, even though he didn’t even know the ABC of Hinduism, like most pseudo Hindus running temples.
Another case, some of us had gone to give some books on Hinduism by David Frawley, along with Sita Ram Goel and Ram Swarup books a Pakistani Hindu family who were worried about their kid losing their Hindu identity. When we got there, they refused to take the books, saying their Guru had said all you have to do is meditate, and the knowledge will appear by itself. We said, “Oh so you have Wi Fi directly to the Gods in Swarga?,” “That was the last we heard of them once they closed the doors.
In another case, a Pakistani guy, yes you read right a “Pakistani” guy, had contacted one of us because his Hindu neighbour’s a 14 year old school daughter who he saw as a sister had run off with a ‘love’ jihadi type . So we did go with him around London to eventually get her back and warned off the groomer.
When we went to her parents to give them the same books on Hinduism as already mentioned. They started giving us lectures on how they are Brahmins and their 3 daughters are brought up on Hindu culture, and we make sure they only watch bollywood indian movies here, so they learn about their culture.
We pointed to their TV with a Bollywood movie showing and said that’s where the mindset gets corrupted in the first place. They didn’t like what we said, as usual.
Fast forward 10 years, we bump into into their same daughter walking out of McDonald’s, and as we talked, she also mentions how she loves her beef burgers and fries which is why she came here with her boy friend, who turned out to be a Indian Christian and much older, waited in the car for her. We thought that was a very Brahmin thing to do.
A few years later, we see her older sister pregnant with her Pakistani partner in Sainsbury’s and thought that’s even a more Brahmin thing to do. And often we have seen many from ‘Brahmin’ backgrounds getting lured or turning anti-Hindu while their parents go on about how ‘Brahmin’ they are. Which is also not surprising, as most Hinduphobes are often from Brahmin backgrounds, as explained in this article. Neo-Brahmin Supremacy Exposed
The reality is, there is nothing “Brahmin or Hindu” about them in accordance to real Hinduism, apart from having a Hindu name, but with no substance like most spineless pseduo Hindus, which is why if they get married out end up converting, or even if they claim to remain Hindu, like Usha, their kids are brought up in their partner’s religion. This is how weak this pseudo-Hindu identity is.
These are just a few examples of Hindus failing among the 100s we have known and across our networks over time, which means 100s of thousands or millions of the ones we probably don’t know.
This is why we have been saying for decades, the biggest battle Hindus face is not the Hinduphobes on the outside, but with the pseudo Hindus on the inside, who have also distorted Hinduism, which is why it’s a very thin line between the pro-Hindu and the anti-Hindu Indian circles.
So you might have ‘Hindu Nationalist’ Mohan Bhagwat in his British RSS colonial jumbo shorts saying ‘Beef Has Nothing To do with Religion”, It’s a lifestyle choice’, or ‘right wing’ Dinesh D’Souza or left wing’ Arundhati Roy’ always abusing Hindus on the other side.
They all collectively suffer from the same embarrassing inferiority ‘caste’, complex where they always want a pat on the back from Western white elite circles which is why you often see Hindu leaders in interviews bragging about how Hindus are so educated, so rich, low crime rate, big status, so peaceful and so on which means high ranking butler part of the Classic Hindu Titanic ego trip. “Look, we are so high-class, which is why we are on the prestigious ship The Titanic with first-class tickets” till they hit the iceberg again and again.
This subservient mindset expands further with the millions of Hindu temples in and out of India, where you never see any of them have exhibitions of the persecution of Hindus or working together to raise the hinduphobia that’s on the increase. They never do pujas together for Hindu victims who are regularly killed, as it’s all part of this submissive and weak pseudo-Hinduism, which is why they pay jizya to the government, then cry about it on Twitter and WhatsApp.
Then you have the potbelly intellectual kashtriya uncle crowd blaming ‘wokeism’ for turning Hindu kids anti-Hindu, which is not true either, as the weak Hindu identity starts from home, as explained in this article. Hindu Parenting Fails Not Because Of Wokeism But To Hindu Parenting
Most of us are born and brought up in the West, and none of this ‘wokeism’ made a dent because we were strong and confident in our Hindu identity from childhood.
Then there are some Hindu experts also telling Hindus, especially the younger lot, not to mix and hang around with other communities, but just go to work or college and then come back and mix with Hindus only. This is totally ridiculous because one should have friends across all people regardless if they are ‘Muslims’, Christians, Jews or atheists, black or white or ‘left wing or right wing, rich or poor or even aliens from outerspace but its about having a confident, and an assertive Hindu identity which you don’t compromise wherever you are.
The common factor we often see with the majority of Hindu leaders and spokespersons in the West giving long, long boring lectures to Hindus who may have some good points, but even after settling here 40 years or so after coming from India, they sound like they are still in India. Their social circles are often the same Indian Hindu crowd like them they meet at the weekends at a get together or at the temples on sundays, where its mostly about the politics and Modi in India, which is why they have no idea what the present and popular pop culture trends are outside their gated circles that their own kids fall under the influence of.
Then you have the online Hindus from India saying if you are treated badly in the West, then you should return to India, which is even more laughable when Hindus in India are 3rd class in this post colonial India one of the biggest exporters of Beef – Gau Mata, where Hindus are regurarly persecuted, ethnically cleansed or killed, where Hinduism is often mocked, from where the most Hinduphobic properganda comes out from this same India a country of one billion Hindus who can go ‘unitedly’ intheir 100s of millions go to the Kumbh mela but never come out in their millions to free temples giving free beef ladhoo prashad under government control.
This is what “Pseudo-Hinduism” leads to, because instead, real Hindus inspired by real Hinduism would have already brought the Indian state to its knees to free temples while protecting Hindus from persecution. Unlike in India, but in the West, Hindus who are strong in their identity have all the freedom they need without bowing down to the establishment.
But it all goes wrong with this submissive post-colonial mentality getting imported from India to Hindus in the West via parents, temples, gurus, intellectual kashatriyas and social media, where if one is already weak, end up even more weaker.
Which is why this “Pseudo-Hinduism”, which produces this weak pseudo-Hindu identity, needs to be challenged and dismantled to be replaced with real confident Hinduism, because often we hear how it’s all Maya and don’t attach yourself to the world but instead run away from the battlefield, as the battlefield itself is Maya – illusion going to the total opposite to Krishna’s teachings as exposed in this article Shape Shifting World of Maya
Most Hindu sects suffer from this in some form or another, which is why most never raise the Hinduphobia on the rise because that means being attached to the world, even though they won’t hand over their properties and funds to us when asked, which is also Maya be attaching them to the world.So this distorted version of Maya is for personal convenience. The irony is their version of Maya is the Maya that’s turned them into pseudo-Hindus.
Once the mind delves into real Hinduism and sees through history how Hindus acted, when facing genocides and oppression, to end up surviving, inspired by resistance through Dharmic warfare unleashed from Hindu warriors from men and women. Most Hindus don’t even know this history.
But when you do then it’s only natural to become assertive and strong on many levels, rooted in spiritual to mental but also physical health, as Hinduism encourages very fitness as we see Hindu yoga and muscle fitness, cardio training, wrestling or martial arts as part of this real Hindu identity.
Then the next stages, along with spreading Hindu teachings, is also to be politically aware and active, also on the ground, raising the persecution of Hindus and the Hinduphobia on the rise. Something the majority of Hindu activists lack, but prefer big personal ego praise lectures at venues or Zoom-type talks.
If you want to make an impact, you need to also need to hit the streets to talk directly to the public to make an impact which also gives a strong identity to other Hindus, especially the younger generations, as experienced during our campaigns and activism on the ground to why we also dominated universities as explained in this article Hindus, Learn To Walk The Talk Like Devang
This is why Islamists know that hitting the streets and speaking in the popular culture lingo brings many to their causes, like we are seeing over ‘Gaza’.
Regardless of some of the criticisms on Iskcon, some Hindus have including us, but credit has to also be given to them for their global successes for being highly confident and assertive in their beliefs leading to be well organised and coordinated and backed by being very are active on the streets, which is why they are globally successful making Krishna a household name. They even convert people in Islamic countries, thanks to their strong faith in Krishna, which the majority of Hindu orgs lack.
Hindu Gurus who do go global, like for example presently Sadhguru or Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, do also have mass followers even in the Middle East, proving Hinduism’s appeal, regardless of what package they put it in, is too addictive in a positive vibration. Many people who have gone to Kauai Hindu Monastery in Hawaii, set up by SatGuru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami, where Hinduism Today is also published, say it’s amazing beyond words, proving again the power and magnetism of Hindu spirituality to Western Hindus.
This appeal is something the ‘Hindutva’ intellectual kashtriya and activists lack, thanks to their big, inflated egos getting in the way, but they should put their egos aside and learn from the above Hindu sects and Gurus on how to become more appealing to a wider audience.
Which is why, when one has a strong and confident Hindu identity that’s not apologetic, we see Hindus who do even marry out bring their partners into Hinduism like. We know of 2 Hindu women who did “love Dharam Yudh” and married muslim guys who reverted to Hinduism, and their kids are being brought up as strong, devout Hindus. It’s the same with others who make sure their wives or husbands from the outside become Hindus also, which is why pseudo-Hinduism needs to be replaced with real Hinduism.
