The Liberals have no idea how & from where did this sudden Hindu resurrection occur & hit them so hard.
Well, Hinduism waz never dead, had just gone a bit dormant, and awaiting for an opportune moment to rise again.
And then Modi did his bit.
The clarion call waz given on his first trip to Varanasi, when he had said "Mai na aaya hoon, na mujhe kisi ne bheja hai. Maa Ganga ne mujhe bulaya hai !"
He held his hands in a prayer, bowed & took a dip.
And when he resurfaced & rose, a billion faithful hopefuls knew their time has come. The Hindu culture's renaissance was round the corner.
Ten years on, Modi has not only injected life to Hinduism, but did it with the all the pomp & prayer that this tryst with destiny demanded.
He single handedly rejuvenated the faith with an energetic zeal across the nation, the world included.
But weren't the Hindus a divided lot - by caste, language, practice? How so suddenly did they come together screaming 'Jai Shri Ram' in a chorus?
Well, for most part, the Bharat bhakt creed converges on the acceptance of Bharat Mata as their reason of being.
To them, Bharat Mata represents both, the land mass & the all-encompassing Hindu faith, notwithstanding the many differences.
She can be understood in the geographical sense - land between the Him-parvat (Himalayas) & the Indu-sagar (Indian ocean), thus representing the Hindu.
And then the Hindu worships the sun, sky, rivers, ocean, mountain, trees & shrubs found here on this land, making it sacred.
On an interesting spiritual sense, while ancient Bharat waz having many rulers & kingdoms, the pilgrims of the land had unlimited "visa-less" travel permits across the many borders, to visit places of worship or for special festivals like say the religious melas since time immemorial.
Throughout history, the religious prayers, hymns, songs, stories & poems evoked Bharat's total or akhand landscape with a spiritual sense and mentioned the numerous rivers, mountains including spiritual seers & scholars.
It mattered not in which kingdom the author lived or in which region were the natural landscapes or sages.
This in itself was a unifying geographical connect, including an embedded spiritual cum patriotic calling upon the people.
This makes Bharat and its people the most unique in the world. No wonder then, while empires, rulers & governments have all come and gone, Bharat's Hindu centric civilization or the Sanatana Dharma (literally meaning a way of life with no end) is the oldest surviving one.
Today's modern Hindians (Hindu & Indians) are the obvious progeny of those folks from different regions, but we know that they converged on an idea that this is a sacred land. By any imagination, it is not a zero-sum game at all, so, if the Christians & Muslims accept that they are converts, they shouldn't have any problem in accepting the idea either.
Modi has simply connected the people with their ancestral roots.
In a discordant & divided world, Bharat stands out.
After Sardar Vallabhai Patel, who united Bharat physically, Modi has now done the same emotionally.
