00:00 Amit Roy in India over Sanatan Dharma remarks by Dravida Munetra Kazakam, leader Udhyanidhi's
00:09 Talend and Congress's Priyank Kharge, a city in the United States has declared September
00:14 3 as Sanatan Dharma Day.
00:17 The mayor of Louisville, Kentucky in the United States has declared September 3 as Sanatan
00:22 Dharma Day in the city.
00:24 Its official proclamation was read by Deputy Mayor Barbara Sexton-Smith on behalf of Mayor
00:29 Craig Greenberg during the Mahakumbh Abhishekam celebration at the Hindu Temple of Kentucky
00:35 in Louisville.
00:36 Spiritual leaders Shidanand Saraswati, President of Parmarth Niketan, Rishikesh, Sri Sri Ravishankar
00:42 and Bhagwati Saraswati along with Lieutenant Governor Jacqueline Coleman, Deputy Chief
00:46 of Staff Keisha Dorsey and several other spiritual leaders and dignitaries participated in the
00:52 event.
00:53 Seven-day program was organized in the temple on the occasion of Mahakumbh Abhishek ceremony.
00:58 Puja and home havan were performed in the temple during these seven days.
01:02 The ceremony was performed in the presence of His Holiness Swamiji and Poojwe Swadhvi.
01:07 Meanwhile, an FIR was registered in Rampur against TMK leader Udhyanidhi's Talend and
01:12 Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge's son Priyank Kharge for allegedly outraging religious
01:16 feelings.
01:17 Talend was booked for his call to eradicate Sanatan Dharma and Kharge for backing his
01:21 remark, they said.
01:23 Talend had on Saturday during an event in Tamil Nadu compared the Sanatan Dharma with
01:26 diseases like dengue and malaria.
01:29 His comments sparked a backlash from political parties, with BJP insisting on the Congress
01:33 to condemn his remarks.
01:35 Priyank Kharge supported Talend's remarks, saying, "Any religion that does not promote
01:39 equality and does not ensure that you have the dignity of being a human is not a religion,
01:44 according to me.
01:45 Sanatan Dharma in Hinduism is a term used to denote the eternal or absolute set of duties
01:49 or religiously ordained practices incumbent upon all Hindus, regardless of class, caste
01:55 or sect.
01:56 Different texts give different lists of the duties, but in general, Sanatan Dharma consists
02:00 of virtues such as honesty, refraining from injuring living beings, purity, goodwill,
02:05 mercy, patience, forbearance, self-restraint, generosity, and asceticism.
02:11 Sanatan Dharma is contrasted with Svadharma, one's own duty or the particular duties enjoined
02:16 upon an individual according to his or her class or caste and stage of life."
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