Our Hindu community has now come to realize that our Hindu Dharma is at its cross roads needing some reforms and realization that the spiritual part of our Faith must be integrated with the economic and social welfare of the community to bring up the glory and greatness of Hindu Dharma as it deserves in this new era, the sixth millennium of Kali Yuga. The efforts need to be taken up in a war path with a strategy proper for this new Maha Bharata War. We need to realize that there are various levels of Spiritual development and understanding among the Hindu Population. There are many who are outside our faith truly interested to learn this Dharma; while there are millions in this faith who have no clear understanding of the principles and philosophy of the various paths in Hindu Dharma. For this, we ourselves need to study and understand the true paths and meaning of our faith and its teaching. While we try to develop friendship with other faiths, we ourselves have not developed this understanding and friendship among the various paths and various levels of spiritual development of our Dharma.

We need to develop educational program for Hindu dharma from basic levels to all our people and make them believe that this is compulsory for everyone to learn the basic part of all the various paths and traditions. Then, we need to develop programs to practice the Dharma in anyone of the paths. We also need religious practitioners programs to train preachers and teachers to propagate the Dharma among our community members. We need Priests and Archakas to maintain our places of worship. In all these, first basic rule is that we must offer the educational benefits to all members of community of both genders depending on their interest, knowledge and training, with equal right, equal privileges and equal opportunities made available to all of them. In this we must realize that though Vedas are listed as the main source of Hindu Dharma, there are several other traditions and practice that do not follow the Vedas or Agamas and also do not follow any major devotional rituals to the Supreme Vedic Deities. There are several paths and practices in Hindu Dharma and all are equal in their greatness.

We, all of us as activists for a Hindu Renaissance, need to decide about the future directions we need to take towards our Grand Vision for Integrated Development of our Hindu Community everywhere. Our plan is a simple four pronged attack.

It should have [i] A Temple renovation with religious classes, [ii] Hindu Education for BPL members; [iii] Health care camps and

[iv] Economic Development activity support, all in one. We need to take-up one urban area and one rural area now, and gradually expand it to 4 to 10 areas, then more. The simple plan for the BPL Indigent sections of our Hindu community and the protection from conversion activity, as simply put, is the four pronged attack concurrently, all put together by several organizational groups in an "Integrated Development projects with Organizational networking". This is what we need to keep as our Manthra.

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There are the members of our Indian Hindu community who need help, who are "Below Poverty Level" [BPL] irrespective of their caste / Jaathi or status of birth or Family. Many of them belong to the Lower castes, referred as Dalits, SC&ST, MBC and OBC in various government orders as also of some are of the so called Upper Caste members. I will use the term "Indigent Communities" for these segments of Hindu communities. They are poor, most of them are illiterate, do not have proper schooling or minimal health care, they lack facilities for social welfare that are taken for granted for most of the people in the modern civilization. They have very little spiritual insight except a blind faith for "God of fear" as in Bhaya-Bhakthi. Those born in the lower segments of the society are denied the rights to study and participate in learning the religious books.

At the ground level, it is important to approach the situation with a plan and program to cover the underprivileged sections of our community with the necessary economic and social development, integrated with the spiritual development. Many of these members are referred to as slum-dwellers; "Indigent Population" of the segments of Hindu communities who are "Economically, Educationally, Socially, and Spiritually" deprived who need the help for equal rights and equal privileges. Before we show them the passage to the heavens of tomorrow, we need to assure them the way to uplift themselves from the miseries of hell they are suffering today. We need to develop the social uplifting of the entire community with vocational training, community co-operative economic projects, proper general schooling support, tutorial classes, professional training, social welfare, support for orphans, elderly and handicapped, proper water supply and toilet facilities and preventive health care. We must recognize the large segment of our Hindu community who are poor, illiterate, underprivileged, denied the rights to learn our Dharma and philosophy and kept segregated from the main segments of society for ages. They have several local traditions that have kept them in our faith for generations and we need to help them to preserve those traditions.

There are some traditions and rules of behaviour stipulated for the communities as Smrithis at various times of our history that need to be analyzed. Those that still holds good for the modern times of our community as its ethical rules need to be kept and properly interpreted and those that do not pertain to us at this day and age, or have been modified during medieval times, need to be weeded out. We need to separate true spiritual practice from local cultural traditions. In this, while we remove the weeds, we need to be cautious as not to hurt the tap root of our faith, tradition and culture. There are reasons to develop a new tradition and practice suitable to the modern times with the technological and digital revolution and speed of travel and migration of the world communities. These changes as contemplated must suit our modern civilization and must fit the realities of the political and social situations around the world. While it is important to prevent and curtail the possibilities of our poor villagers being attracted towards alternate faiths by their allurements, we also need to keep them understanding the best that our Dharma can offer them with proper spiritual education in addition to supporting their day to day social needs. The socially handicapped segments of our society need our first attention and, at the same time, those in the upper levels of the society also need to understand the realities of the situation and develop a proper realization of the needs of various sections of the followers of our Dharma.

What we need to do first is to:

1. Analyze the needs, problems and resistance to work on;
2. Analyze the reality of situation and how to approach them;
3. Analyze the priorities and support structure to develop now;
4. Analyze and plan to execute a uniform protocol in every project;
5. Analyze what is needed for strengthening Hindu Dharma Studies;
6. Analyze how to handle the opposing forces, when, where and how.

Before we analyze our true paths of Hindu Dharma and the teachings and the true concept of the Supreme and the various deities and faiths, let us first see how we first need to see on the ground realities in our villages to strengthen our Hindu community. As we realize that there are various levels of Spiritual development and understanding among the Hindu Population, we see a vast majority of them are living at below poverty level, lacking basic education and basic needs of life. These are the part of our Hindu community with least spiritual understanding also. Religion becomes the least of the priorities of life and they have a blind devotional vision of the faith. Most of them live in the urban areas of inner city, called the slums, and in many small villages in very dilapidated surroundings lacking all modern facilities of civilization.

When we talk about studying and propagating Hindu Dharma, we need to understand what true Spiritual Hindu Dharma is and what just a social tradition of the community is. There are Spiritual Doctrines to be understood as Sruthis and such other apaurusheya teachings that forms the core of our Dharma that need to be kept and honored as Holy. There are several age old traditions of devotional worship practices that kept the community together and need to be followed by the several communities though these may not apply to everyone. But, everyone need to accept the other forms of the faith as practiced by another to be an alternate thought that is equally Holy and must be an acceptable variation of the teachings, without considering one superior to the other. Some of these need to be understood and modified as the circumstances warrant.

They are "Economically, Educationally, Socially and Spiritually Deprived" with lack of equal rights and equal privileges in the community and they need the help for uplifting them in the society. Various service organizations that exist now can be identified and work in cooperation in various areas with proper Organizational Networking with like-minded organizations and work together for our Hindu community as a whole. Here we need to discuss about our new Integrated Rural and Urban Development Projects for Economic, Educational, Social and Spiritual Development for the Indigent population of the inner city Hindu Communities [Slums] and for the rural areas where a vast majority of our people who are below poverty levels live. They need our support for "Economic, Educational, Social and Spiritual Development". In our projects, we need to get the priorities set right. This is taken up as the "Integrated Community Development Projects" for the "Body, Mind and Soul" especially for people "Below Poverty Line" [BPL] in the slum areas. We need to start this program soon with a uniform protocol in one or two poor urban areas in the city of Chennai and nearby rural communities and then will slowly extend the programme to more areas, about 5 to 10 in the first year. This will be the true reform and renaissance of Hindu Dharma and our community.