Hindu spiritual heads from throughout the nation who took half in a spiritual congregation in Ahmedabad on Monday made a listing of calls for, together with in search of governments to “exit temples (management)” and a “obligatory moral code”.
Union Minister for Home and Co-operation Amit Shah and RSS Sarsanghchalak Mohan Bhagwat attended the occasion held on the Sivananda Ashram in Ahmedabad.
According to a launch from the Hindu Dharmacharya Sabha, points associated to “challenges going through the Hindu neighborhood” had been mentioned the place the non secular heads felt that the content material on social media, OTT (platforms) and movies had been spreading distorted data on Sanatan Dharma and “perverted sexual content material”, main to crimes in opposition to girls.
“There is robust want to make sure the youth are educated on the true which means and practices of Sanatana Dharma,” they stated.
The congregation additionally felt that cash of Hindu temples be for “Hindu causes solely”. The launch stated, “Many historic temples with monumental properties have been (taken) over by state governments and the funds are largely misused. Acharya Sabha wishes that Government exit temples and permit the communities to handle them as has been achieved for a number of centuries.”
According to the congregation, “There is a gradual erosion of basic rights below the Constitution whereas comparable rights, particularly for establishing and managing charitable & instructional establishments are prolonged to minorities.”
Pushing the federal government to expedite the Uniform Civil Code (UCC), the sabha felt that “solely Hindu social practices have been ‘reformed’ and codified below legal guidelines, with punishment below IPC. Allowing such discriminatory legal guidelines amongst totally different communities is anti-constitution and anti girls’s rights”.
The congregation additionally protested the “notion” that “Hinduism is a method of life” and stated “it didn’t do justice to the huge physique of data”.
Sources stated that the content material on OTT platforms remained a key focus of the sabha. “The saints had been involved in regards to the content material being in opposition to Indian tradition,” stated sources including that “(the union minister) Amitbhai Shah was on the town so he attended”.
The sabha additionally advisable that folks be “educated” to present “high quality time to kids” and “prohibit display time for kids”.
This was the eighth Hindu Acharya Dharma Sabha the place over 65 heads of non secular sects “greater than 200 years previous” from all around the nation attended the biennial occasion that concluded Monday.
The launch described the Hindu Dharma Acharya Sabha as “the apex physique to voice the issues of Hindus and to present management to Hindus the world over was introduced into being in 2002”. Swami Paramatmananda Saraswati is the managing trustee of the sabha.