Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday penned his views on Hinduism saying that the religion cannot be limited to a particular nation or geography and that calling it as a set of cultural norms is to misunderstand it. Gandhi expressed his opinion in a blog titled "Satyam, Shivam, Sundram" where he said, “To call Hinduism a set of cultural norms is to misunderstand it. To bind it to a particular nation or geography is to limit it.” According to Gandhi, a Hindu is a person who has the courage to overcome her own fear so that she may observe the collective journey of swimming through a vast ocean of joy, love, and fear. 


“A Hindu looks at herself and everyone in this ocean of life with love, compassion and respect because she understands we are all swimming and drowning in exactly the same waters. She reaches out and protects all the beings around her who are struggling to swim. She is alert to even the most quiet anxiety, the most silent scream,” he said. 






“She is alert to even the most quiet anxiety, the most silent scream. This action and duty to defend others, especially the weak is what a Hindu calls her Dharma,” he added. 


Gandhi said that a Hindu is “not a victim. And never ever allows her fear to capture her and turn her into a vehicle for anger, hatred or violence.”


Concluding his write-up the Wayanad MP said that a Hindu “loves all living beings and accepts that each one of them has the right to choose their own path to navigate and understand the ocean. She loves, respects and accepts all paths as if they are her own.”


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Gandhi's blog comes weeks after he claimed that there was nothing "Hindu" in what Bharatiya Janata Party does. 


Last month, responding to a question about the rise of “Hindu nationalism” in the country during an interaction at Paris's Sciences Po University, the Congress leader said, "I've read the ‘Gita’, I've read a number of the Upanishads, I've read many Hindu books; there is nothing Hindu about what the BJP does, absolutely nothing.”