Welcome to the podcast, Sadguru of Mystics and Mistakes. Hindu is not a isam. Hindu is a land.

Hindu is a land and over a period of time Hindu became a civilization.

Hindu never was a ism, nor is it today an ism.

Well, because of political situations, power tuzzles that happen among people, people will twist and turn whichever way they want. But the identity of Hindu is of the land.

The land that lies between Himalayas and the Hindu sara, which is the Indian Ocean, between the mountain ranges and the ocean.

This land is Hindu. The people who lived here naturally became Hindus. So it got referred

to as Hindustan, the land of Hindus. The land was Hindu's

was Hindu so people became Hindu

because people became Hindu the nation or all the nations which were there at that time in this region became collectively Hindustan.

Like when we say European, it may be French, it may be Italian, it may be Spanish, it may be now Ukraine.

We don't know who else will become European. Turkey is becoming European.

So like that different types of people different kingdoms and empires

during different times of history all got to refer to all got referred to as Hindustan.

A civilization is not an outcome of one belief or one teaching or it did not fall out of one book.

A variety of things happened.

In terms of geography, in terms of ethnicity,

in terms of languages, in terms of languages, of culture,

variety of things happen across this land,

a variety which is quite unimaginable for most people.

Over 19,000 languages developed.

19,000 languages just in Hindustown.

That means there were that many cultures,

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