1. Sanatan Dharma Human Development Research & Training Center
Department of Sanskrit,
[An Undertaking of S D College (Lahore), Ambala Cantt.]
Under The Vedavyaasa Restructuring Sanskrit Scheme Organize
One Day Interdisciplinary Seminar Cum Panel Discussion
BRAHMINICAL IDENTITY & ITS CONTRIBUTIONS TO MEDIEVAL & MODERN INDIAN HISTORY
(With ref. to freedom Struggle) (PART-II)
ब्राह्मणीय अस्मिता और उसका मध्यकालीन एवम् आधुनिक भारतीय इतिहास में योगदान
( विशेष रूप से स्वतन्त्रता संग्राम के सन्दर्भ में) भाग 3
8 December, 2018, Saturday
- Sponsored By –
Council For Historical Research & Comparative Studies, Panchkula®
Darshan Yoga Sansthan ®, Dalhousie

2. लाहौर (अब पाकिस्तान) में जन्मे श्री गुरुदत्त हिन्दी साहित्य के एक देदीप्यमान नक्षत्र थे। अपनी अनूठी साधना के बल पर उन्होंने लगभग दो सौ से अधिक उपन्यासों की रचना की और भारतीय संस्कृति का सरल एवं बोधगम्य भाषा में विवेचन किया। साहित्य के माध्यम से वेद-ज्ञान को जन-जन तक पहुंचाने का उनका प्रयास निस्सन्देह सराहनीय रहा है। उनके सभी उपन्यासों के कथानक अत्यन्त रोचक, भाषा, अत्यन्त सरल और उद्देश्य केवल मनोरंजन ही नहीं, अपितु जन-शिक्षा भी है। राष्ट्रसंघ के साहित्य-संस्कृति संगठन ‘यूनेस्को’ के अनुसार श्री गुरुदत्त हिन्दी भाषा के सर्वाधिक पढ़े जाने वाले लेखक थे।
उपन्यास : सम्भवामि युगे युगे-भाग -भाग 1, भाग 2 महाकाल, वाम मार्ग, दो भद्र पुरुष, बनवासी, प्रारब्ध और पुरुषार्थ, नास्तिक, प्रगतिशील, सभ्यता की ओर, दिग्विजय, धर्मवीर हकीकत राय, दासता के नये रूप, स्वराज्य दान, स्वाधीनता के पथ पर, विश्वासघात, देश की हत्या, भारतवर्ष का संक्षिप्त इतिहास, परित्राणाय साधूनाम, विक्रमादित्य साहसांक, सदा वत्सले मातृभूमे, पंकज, मैं हिन्दू हूँ, स्व-अस्तित्व की रक्षा, वीर पूजा, वर्तमान दुर्व्यवस्था का समाधान हिन्दू राष्ट्र, डॉ. श्यामाप्रसाद मुखर्जी की अन्तिम यात्रा, युद्ध और शान्ति- भाग 1, भाग 2, जमाना बदल गया-भाग 1, 2, 3, 4, खण्डहर बोल रहे हैं-भाग 1, 2, 3, हिन्दुत्व की यात्रा, अस्ताचल की ओर भाग-1, 2, 3, द्वितीय विश्वयुद्ध, भैरवी चक्र, भारत में राष्ट्र, बुद्धि बनाम बहुमत, धर्म तथा समाजवाद, विकार, अग्नि परीक्षा, जगत की रचना, अमृत मन्थन, श्रीराम।
गुरुदत्त
जन्म : 8 दिसम्बर 1894।  - निधन : 8 अप्रैल 1989। 
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3. 10.20 A.M. – Panelists will be given 15 mns each to share their views.
PROGRAMME
09.30 A.M – Registration
10.00 A.M. - Welcome Address & Idea of the Seminar (there will be no formalities so we start in time)
Guest of Honour - Dr. Someshwar Dutt, Director, Haryana Sanskrit Academy, Panchkula
10.10 A.M. – Open house Questions/ queries session (questions beyond caste, women discrimination, rituals will be taken up as these issues were discussed earlier in the two seminars on Brahmins and one on Dalit)
10.20 A.M. – Panelists will be given 15 mns each to share their views.
1st Panelist - Sh. Aman Vasisth, Rohtak
2nd Panelist – Sh Neeraj Atri, Director, National Council for Historical Research & Comparative Studies,
3rd Panelist - Dr. Raj Singh Vaishanav, Regional Director, Ministry of Corporate Affairs, New Delhi.
4th Panelist – Dr. Vinod Kumar, Dept of Social Sciences & Languages, Lovely professional University, P
5th Panelist – Dr. Kamdev Jha, Principal, DAV College, Pehowa
6th Panelis- Dr. Hariprkash, Principal, I G N College. Ladwa.
7th Panelist - Dr. Bharti Bandhu, Principal, Arya Kanya Mahavidyalaya, Shahabad-Markanda
8th Panelist - Dr. Ramakant Angiras, Chandigarh
9th Panelist - Dr. Vishal Bhardwaj, Hindu College, Amritsar
Open House discussion
2.20 P.M. - Concluding Remarks – Dr Desh Bandhu, Vice President, S D College Managing Committee,
2.25 P.M. - Vote of Thanx – Dr. Jaideep Chauhan, Dept. of English, S D College, Ambala Cantt.
2.30 – Lunch
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4. 28 MARCH, 2015, SATURDAY AT PARSHURAM BHAVAN, SECTOR 37-C, CHANDIGARH.
1. CRITIQUE OF BRAAHMIN, BRAAHMINHOOD, BRAAHMINISM (PART-I)
 28 MARCH, 2015, SATURDAY AT PARSHURAM BHAVAN, SECTOR 37-C, CHANDIGARH.
2. DEFINING ROLE OF BRAHMINS & BRAHMINICAL ELEMENTS IN INDIAN HISTORY [PART-2] (WITH REFERENCE TO INDIA’S FREEDOM STRUGGLE)
Date th August, 2016, Friday- Saturday, Place - SEMINAR HALL.
Sponsored by- Indian Council of Historical Research,
Organized by- Departments of Sanskrit, History & Hindi,.
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5. The Good Brahmin
DOES HAPPINESS RESULT FROM IGNORANCE OR FROM KNOWLEDGE?
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire ( ),
French Enlightenment author, critic, essayist, historian, and philosopher 
In my travels I once happened to meet with an aged Bramin. This man had a great share of understanding and prudence, and was very learned. He was also very rich, and his riches added greatly to his popularity; for, wanting nothing that wealth could procure, he had no desire to defraud any one. His family was admirably managed by three handsome wives, who always studied to please him; and when he was weary of their society, he had recourse to the study of philosophy.
Not far from his house, which was handsome, well-furnished and embellished with delightful gardens, dwelt an old Indian woman who was a great bigot, ignorant, and withal very poor.
"I wish," said the Bramin to me one day, "I had never been born!"
"Why so?" said I.
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6. "Because," replied he, "I have been studying these forty years, and I find it has been so much time lost. While I teach others I know nothing myself. The sense of my condition is so humiliating, it makes all things so distasteful to me, that life has become a burden. I have been born, and I exist in time, without knowing what time is. I am placed, as our wise men say, in the confines between two eternities, and yet I have no idea of eternity. I am composed of matter, I think, but have never been able to satisfy myself what it is that produces thought. I even am ignorant whether my understanding is a simple faculty I possess, like that of walking and digesting, or if I think with my head in the same manner as I take hold of a thing with my hands. I am not only thus in the dark with relation to the principles of thought, but the principles of my motions are entirely unknown to me. I do not know why I exist, and yet I am applied to every day for a solution of the enigma. I must return an answer, but can say nothing satisfactory on the subject. I talk a great deal, and when I have done speaking remain confounded and ashamed of what I have said."
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7. "I am in still greater perplexity when I am asked if Brama was produced by Vishnu, or if they have both existed from eternity. God is my judge that I know nothing of the matter, as plainly appears by my answers. 'Reverend father,' says one, 'be pleased to inform me how evil is spread over the face of the earth.' I am as much at a loss as those who ask the question. Sometimes I tell them that every thing is for the best; but those who have the gout or the stone—those who have lost their fortunes or their limbs in the wars—believe as little of this assertion as I do myself. I retire to my own house full of curiosity, and endeavor to enlighten my ignorance by consulting the writings of our ancient sages, but they only serve to bewilder me the more. When I talk with my brethren upon this subject, some tell me we ought to make the most of life and laugh at the world. Others think they know something, and lose themselves in vain and chimerical hypotheses. Every effort I make to solve the mystery adds to the load I feel. Sometimes I am ready to fall into despair when I reflect that, after all my researches, I neither know from whence I came, what I am, whither I shall go, or what is to become of me."
The condition in which I saw this good man gave me real concern. No one could be more rational, no one more open and honest. It appeared to me that the force of his understanding and the sensibility of his heart were the causes of his misery.
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8. The same day I had a conversation with the old woman, his neighbor
The same day I had a conversation with the old woman, his neighbor. I asked her if she had ever been unhappy for not understanding how her soul was made? She did not even comprehend my question. She had not, for the briefest moment in her life, had a thought about these subjects with which the good Bramin had so tormented himself. She believed from the bottom of her heart in the metamorphoses of her god Vishnu, and, provided she could get some of the sacred water of the Ganges in which to make her ablutions, she thought herself the happiest of women.
Struck with the happiness of this poor creature, I returned to my philosopher, whom I thus addressed:
"Are you not ashamed to be thus miserable when, not fifty yards from you, there is an old automaton who thinks of nothing and lives contented?"
"You are right," he replied. "I have said to myself a thousand times that I should be happy if I were but as ignorant as my old neighbor, and yet it is a happiness I do not desire.”
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9. questions, a great deal may be said about it. ~ THE END ~
This reply of the Bramin made a greater impression on me than any thing that had passed. I consulted my own heart and found that I myself should not wish to be happy on condition of being ignorant. I submitted this matter to some philosophers, and they were all of my opinion: and yet, said I, there is something very contradictory in this manner of thinking; for, after all, what is the question? Is it not to be happy? What signifies it then whether we have understandings or whether we are fools? Besides, there is this to be said: those who are contented with their condition are sure of that content; while those who have the faculty of reasoning are not always sure of reasoning right. It is evident then, I continued, that we ought rather to wish not to have common sense, if that common sense contributes to our being either miserable or wicked.
They were all of my opinion, and yet not one of them could be found, to accept of happiness on the terms of being ignorant. From hence I concluded, that although we may set a great value upon happiness, we set a still greater upon reason.
But after mature reflection upon this subject I still thought there was great madness in preferring reason to happiness. How is this contradiction to be explained? Like all other
questions, a great deal may be said about it.
~ THE END ~
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10. ब्राह्मण मनु के अनुसार ब्राह्मण का स्तरीकरण
राममोहन राय, दयानन्द, रामकृष्ण, आदि
विप्र कौन??
राष्ट्रवादी ब्राह्मण
स्वतन्त्रता
पश्चात
कालीन
ब्राह्मण
सतिदास, मतिदास, पेशवा
द्विज कौन??
ब्रिटिश
कालीन
ब्राह्मण
कम्युनिस्ट्, सेकुलरिस्ट, आदि ब्राह्मण
अध्यापन, अध्ययन, यजन, याजन, दान, प्रतिग्रह
उग्र ब्राह्मण ( शस्त्रधारी) परशुराम
मंगल पाण्डे, सावरकर, राजगुरु, तिलक आदि
मुगल
कालीन
ब्राह्मण
मनु के अनुसार ब्राह्मण का स्तरीकरण
धर्मजिज्ञासा action enquiry
रामानन्द, तुलसीदास, सूरदास
वर्ण to accept/ colour
शान्त ब्राह्मण (शास्त्रज्ञ) वसिष्ठ
यज्ञ Right to earn & Duty to Distribute
कृपया ६३ प्रश्नों का संलग्नित फार्म भरें
बुद्ध के अनुसार ब्राह्मण का स्तरीकरण
ब्राह्मण
जाति (generality/ commonality)
ब्रह्मजिज्ञासा knowledge enquiry
वेद to know

11. ब्राह्मणीय संचेतना के आधार
मोक्ष
काम
अर्थ
धर्म
1) मनः-स्वस्थ 2) आरोग्य 3) समय उपयोग 4) सामाजिक गतिशीलता / 5) शिक्षा/ प्रशिक्षण/ विद्या 6) संस्कृति 7) पर्यावरण 8) सुशासन 9) जीवन स्तर
ब्राह्मण
आदिम बुभुक्षा आदिम भय जिज्ञासा सौन्दर्यबोध

12. काकव्रतिक ब्राह्मण बकव्रतिक ब्राह्मण
शाश्वत ब्राह्मणत्व
भोक्ता ब्राह्मण
चिन्मय ब्राह्मणत्व
कर्ता ब्राह्मण
ज्ञाता ब्राह्मण
पार्थिव ब्राह्मणत्व
ब्राह्मण/ ब्राह्मणत्व
काकव्रतिक ब्राह्मण
बकव्रतिक ब्राह्मण

13. BUT WHAT ABOUT CONTRADICTIONS?
दर्शन
संस्कार
सिद्धार्थ
बाणभट्ट की आत्मकथा
नचिकेता
सत्यकाम
श्वेतकेतु
ब्राह्मण
Dangerous
Moving Contradictions
मिथक
इतिहास
पेशवा, मंगल पाण्डे, अन्य स्वतन्त्रता सेनानी
Foundational Contradictions

14. Freedom Fighters
Gopal Krishna Gokhale – political guru of Mahatma Gandhi
Pachlegaonkar Maharaj:, Hindu Rashtra Sena. Social Activist. leader of Hyderabad Liberation Struggle.
Yogendra Shukla – Revolutionary
Baikuntha Shukla – Revolutionary
C. Rajagopalachari – Last Governor-General of India, Ex-Chief Minister of Madras State
Chandra Shekhar Azad – Was part of Hindiustan Republican Association
Lokmanya Tilak – Was also part of Indian national congress
Mangal Pandey – Associated with 1857 rebellion
Rani Lakshmibai – Associated with 1857 rebellion
Subramanya Bharathi – Revolutionary Tamil poet
Swami Sahajanand Saraswati freedom fighter, peasant leader
Vasudev Balwant Phadke
Vanchinathan
Wunnava Venkata Varaha Buchi Ramalingam
V.V.S. Iyer
Shivaram Rajguru– associate of Bhagat Singh and Sukhdev
Babarao Savarkar
Anant Kanhere -killed collector Jackson
Chapekar brothers
Mahadev Govind Ranade
Senapati Bapat
Tanguturi Prakasham
Bhogaraju Pattabhi Sitaramayya
Nana Sahib Peshwa – Associated with 1857 rebellian.