An Example of Despicable, Self-Hating and Self-Destructive “Hindu virtues” From Golwalkar’s “Bunch of Thoughts”

 

An Example of Despicable, Self-Hating and Self-Destructive “Hindu virtues” From Golwalkar’s “Bunch of Thoughts”

Shrikant G. Talageri

 

 

Another short expression of my thoughts. This article is not exactly about history or politics. I will continue to put in a word when I see disgusting self-destructive traits being recommended to Hindus as “virtues”, whether this is being done by woke leftists or by so-called Hindu ideologues, including, in this case, Guru Golwalkar the second Sarsanghachalak of the RSS.

Someone just sent me a tweet by someone calling himself Ishara Kafi, dated 6 August 2025 (i.e. today) :

https://x.com/zeroflyingrats

He seems to be criticizing the glorification of Sambhaji through the film “Chhava”. Not being an expert on medieval Maratha history historical heroes, I leave the question of the truth or otherwise of what he is saying about Sambhaji and to others who may be more into that subject.

What caught my attention was an extract from Guru Golwalkar’s book “Bunch of Thoughts” that he highlighted:

https://x.com/zeroflyingrats/status/1956638386074333513

 

I have never actually read this book, and I was amazed that it could contain such an exhortation to Hindus to be blindly “loyal” to self-declared Hindu leaders to the extent that even if that “Hindu” leader kills a particular Hindu’s father “because of some past prejudices”, and then that same “Hindu” leader casts an evil eye on that same particular Hindu’s sister forcing her to “end her life to save her chastity”, that particular Hindu should still remain steadfastly “loyal” to that “Hindu” leader to the extent of sacrificing his own son and giving away all his property (and finally his own life) in the service of that same leader:

I wondered whether this was a hoax and personally downloaded and checked Guru Golwalkar’s book. In the circumstance, I did a great dishonor to the tweeter: he was perfectly right: Golwalkar does say this in his book!!

By this token, the behavior of the Indian soldiers who remained steadfastly "loyal" to their “leader”, General Dyer, and, at his direct behest, moved down so many fellow-Indians in Jallianwala Bagh, should also be our ideal behavior.

 

I have already written many articles on slavish and self-destructive tendencies regularly believed to represent Hindu “virtues” and “virtuous” behavior:

https://talageri.blogspot.com/2019/09/justice-in-sohrab-modis-1939-film-pukar.html

https://talageri.blogspot.com/2020/04/hinduism-vs-hindutva-oxism-vs-oxatva.html 

https://talageri.blogspot.com/2021/10/karna-and-yudhisthira-in-mahabharata.html 

https://talageri.blogspot.com/2021/12/sambuka-bashing-or-confluence-of-brown.html 

https://talageri.blogspot.com/2021/12/apologetics-in-guise-of-hindu-response.html 

https://talageri.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-two-most-toxic-pseudo-moral.html

 

In short: Hindus should completely reject the exhortations of people advocating self-destructive, self-demeaning and self-degrading behavior, calling them “Hindu virtues”, regardless of whosoever the advocates may be. On the other hand, accept all those pieces of genuine wisdom, even when they come from inimical or dubious sources, such as Gandhi who wrote: “My own experience but confirms the opinion that the Musalman as a rule is a bully, and the Hindu as rule is a coward. I have noticed this in railways trains, on public roads, and in the quarrels which I have had the privilege of setting. Need the Hindu blame the Mussalman for his cowardice?..... Where there are cowards there will always be bullies”.

In more short, Hindus should neither be cowards, nor bullies, but most of all, they should never be fools and idiots treating stupid self-destructive behavior as “virtuous” behavior.