Real identity of Bharat

Akash Satpute
A great Hindi poet has a quote about India.
*Greece, Egypt, Rome, Sab Mit gaye jaha se, Kuch Bat hain ki Hasti Mitati Nahi Hamari....*
What is that thing after all that have preserved the identity of Bharatvarsh  over thousands of years?
What is the reason that even today our Rashtra Bharat stands with its values and is united ?
So today I try to keep in front of all of you, what I have understood and experienced about Bharat.
If you want to understand Bharat, then it has to be understood from the Bharatiya point of view, what is Bharat really ?
'Is this just a piece of land', Nation, or Rashtra, this needs to be understood.
We translate Nation directly to Rashtra, which is basically incomplete, *Bharat is not just a piece of land or a 'Nation', it is a Rashtra.*
When we talk about Nation, the relation of Nation comes with power and State, without power Nation cannot be formed or there is any common interest in it.  For example, United Kingdom, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, England became UK on the basis of English  language.
America is on the basis of economic interest which we call USA.  A Nation was formed on the basis of religion like Arab on the basis of Islam.
In which they have their personal interest and power, without power a Nation cannot be formed.
The meaning of Rashtra is not limited here, Nation is dependent on the State.
*Janpadvati land* is important in the Rashtra.
What is Janpadavati...? It is a society.
What is society, the community of people has a goal and they say that this land is ours and that society has a common purpose.
What is the common purpose of the people of Bharat that inspite of their diversity they are one and to know the truth, to know God, to realize our nature and this society considers this land as our own. We are the particles of the earth and this earth is our mother, it is called Janapada.
*Acharya Chanakya had said*. These are the main part of the Rashtra.
Janpadvati land, kingdom, treasury, force, fort, amatya, and Surut means Friends.
Janpadvati land is important in the Rashtra.
There were many kings in Bharat but our Nation was one. Despite having many kings, we used to make many Yatra from Somnath to Kanyakumari.
Prithu king made the earth with agriculture, that land, from there to the ocean is our Rashtra. There have been many attacks here.
Invasion of Alexander, Shaka, Kushan, Hun, 500 years of Islam's invasion, despite 150 years of Britain's power, our Rashtra did not break, it is unbroken.
*Rashtra* is that important feeling of the people in which common purpose of society and common national relationship is the main objective.  For example, this society is ours and we are the sons of this Nature, all the components here like earth, river, we have some relation with all and we all call her mother.
What is our common National objective ?  So one word comes *Dharma*.
The British came to India and they told the meaning of their 'Religion' that they run.
From their point of view religion means there is only one  God, a book, an angel and a code of conduct.
But when we talk about *Dharma*, it has a broad meaning, here there is no one book, no angel, no one God, only their view of life (conduct), method can change according to situation but view of life  does not change.
Bliss, happiness is the Dharma, sorrow can never be Dharma.
There is balance in Dharama, here the view of life is the same even though the paths are different.
There are ten characteristics of Dharma
*Dharama Das Lakshanam*
1.*Uttam kshama*:- Forgiveness or Kshama to all: Forgiveness is very important in our culture.
2.*Uttam Mardava* :- Mardav Dharma is the means for us to understand our own right attitude !
3. *Uttam Arjava* :- The Uttam Arjava Dharma teaches us that by leaving all attachments, illusions, bad deeds, one can attain supreme bliss and salvation with a simple nature.
4. *Uttam Shauch* :- Uttam Shauch Dharma teaches us that be happy in whatever you have got from a pure mind!  Always be thankful to God and it is possible to attain supreme bliss and salvation only by purifying your soul.
5.*Uttam Truth* :- Make your mind and soul simple and pure, then the truth will come automatically.
6.*Excellent restraint* :- To give up likes and dislikes anger.  Getting rid of all these is possible only when you free your soul from all these temptations and keep restraint with a steady mind.
7.*Uttam Tapas* :- Tapas means not eating food only during fasting, not only this, but the real meaning of tapas is to keep your desires under control with all these activities!  
Such austerity increases good virtuous deeds. Sadhana is the only way not to increase desires.
8. *Uttam renunciation* :- The best renunciation religion teaches us that it is possible to renounce desires and feelings only by making the mind contented.  The spirit of renunciation occurs only when the inner soul is purified.
9. *Uttama Akinchanya* :- The inner attachments of the soul like wrong belief, anger, pride, deceit, greed, jokes, likes and dislikes, fear, grief, and lust can only be made pure by giving up all these attachments.  ?
10. *Uttama Brahma-charya* :- Brahmacharya teaches us to renounce those possessiveness which are connected with our material contact !
Here everyone's path is different, but the view of life is the same, which runs on the basis of values, which we call Dharama and we call it humanity (Manvdharama).
*Dharma means 'Nature and Duty'.*
As the Dharma of water is flowing, the Dharama of fire is burning, the Dharama of man is humanity.
And the other is *our duty* to help others, to serve etc.
Which I have been witnessing since childhood and we all have experienced.
*When monk  come to our house, my mother used to donate  him and also told us that donating, feeding the hungry, drinking water to the thirsty  all are works of Dharama* and we all experienced it somewhere.  has done.
The society which unites the group and thinks for the progress of the whole group including itself and takes both avidya-vidya along with it, that is our Dharma.
Dharma gives a view of life and on the basis of that our system of conduct has evolved.
The land in which we all live extends from the river Sindhu, from the Himalaya Mountains to the sea, and the community living on it.
Foreigners called us Hindus because of the river Sindhu on which the Indus Valley Civilization began, from there Bharat also came to be known as Hindustan (Sindhu) which also was given another name India because of Indus.
It means Hindu is not a religion but it's our identity and we have developed a system of conduct on the basis of eternal Dharma that's why Hindu identity and the conduct system associated with it is based on Dharama we called Hindu Dharma, there is no religion or method of worship, it is all inclusive.
One word emerges from this Sanskruti, means superhumanity from humanity and from there divinity is very advanced, this  is called as sanskruti, Yogi Arvindo ji has also told.
The form of Sabhyata changes according to time, but Sanskruti is standing on the basis of values, like *curd of milk is the sanskruti and the same milk burst is the Vikriti*
Animals do the same thing for their lives, nature has given them hunger and satisfaction, not intelligence.
Man is not like this, he will eat himself, feed others, someone will steal for him, this is a perversion, then he will feed the hungry, this is the sanskriti.

*The habit which has to be done to become good is called as our Nature and that formed Sanskriti*
Civilization can change in sabhyata but values can never change. Ethics on the basis of Sanskruti and civilization is against the eternal Dharma, then it is adharma.

And the real identity of Bharat is from the Rashtra, Dharama, Hindu and Sanskruti. If you want to understand India, you have to see it from Bharatiya point of view, understand the sentiment behind it and bring it into your practice, this is our real identity, *Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam.