The so called Hindus are divided by caste, sub-castes and creeds within the Hinduism.

The question arises as to what is Santana Dharma? It can safely be said that it is the Vedic religion based on Veda's alone.

THE MASSES IN INDIA CRY TO SIXTY MILLION GODS, AND STILL DIE LIKE DOGS. WHERE ARE THESE GODS?

Knowing this, stand up and fight! Not one step back that is the idea. ... Fight it out, whatever comes. Let the stars move from the sphere! Let the whole world stand against us! Death means only a change of garment. What of it? Thus fight! You gain nothing by becoming cowards. ... Taking a step backward, you do not avoid any misfortune. You have cried to all the gods in the world. Has misery ceased? The masses in India cry to sixty million gods, and still die like dogs. Where are these gods? ... The gods come to help you when you have succeeded. So what is the use? Die game. ... This bending the knee to superstitions, this selling yourself to your own mind does not befit you, my soul. You are infinite, deathless, birthless. Because you are infinite spirit, it does not befit you to be a slave. ... Arise! Awake! Stand up and fight! Die if you must. There is none to help you. You are the entire world. Who can help you?

- Swami Vivekananda
(Delivered In San Francisco, on May 28, 1900)
The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 1/Lectures And Discourses/The Gita II

Thus, it is time for the Hindus  to realize  the truth about their own religion. Hinduism is not religion.  every Indian whether he is Christan or Muslim or of any caste and creed is  a Hindu . Hindu means Indian.  Hinduism is Indus valley culture.

The Hinduism as we find today is not pure Vedic religion it is  mixer of different ideologies accepted by the people time to time.  Thus, the Hinduism is a hotchpotch mixer of many ideologies. 

 Hinduism is not religion it is a way of living of different caste and creeds following their own regional cultures and traditions in different parts of India.   All the so called Hindus are divided by caste, sub-castes and creeds within the Hinduism.  Thus, the pure Santana Dharma or Vedic religion is no longer in existence in its ancient grandeur as it was prior to the Buddhism and Jainism.  

As one goes deeper into the annals of the religion one becomes aware of the fact that, Santana Dharma has no beginning. Nobody can say when it started. It is without a beginning and so without an end. It is eternal and everlasting. That which has a beginning, has also an end, as all beginnings have an end also.

Santana Dharma has no founder. All religions are known by their founders or prophets but this is not the case with Santana Dharma. It neither has any prophet to begin it nor any book or authorized scripture told by the prophet who got a revelation.

If Santana Dharma has no founder but so called Hindu religions are known by their founders or sages, therefore Hinduism cannot be the pure Vedic or Santana Dharma. Thus, it proves that, the religions founded by the Sages after 7th ^Century onwards are not the pure Santana Dharma or Vedic religion. 

As one peeps into the annals of the all history of all religions, one becomes aware of the fact that, the religions with scriptures have got the largest number of followers and those without scriptures are rare and scarce. In both these classes of religions, one finds that the truth is the result of the experience of a particular person – Jesus, Prophet Mohammed or Buddha and Sri Sankara, Guru Nanak, Mahavira. All of them experienced the truth and that they preached. All religions are built upon direct experience of this experience. But there is a difference.

Others have the founders of this experience known as the first founder of the religion and after their name the religion is known. The other difference is that they now claim that the experience, the prophets had, is now no longer possible. So one has to rely on "Belief”.

The experience of the scientists says that if one experience is possible, it will be repeated eternally. This is the Law of Nature. What once takes place, takes place often and always.

As one goes deeper into the annals of religious history,  he becomes aware of the fact that, Santana Dharma differs with other religions on this point. Santana Dharma is not based on the spiritual experience of any single individual or any such revelation. It is based on the realization, on intuition, and experience of a number of seers, sages and mystics who realized the Infinite and were illuminated. It does not owe its origin to any one person or prophet nor does it adhere to any papal authority or dogma.

 It does not build around one man as its center though it is not opposed to philosophies build around personalities and prophets. It believes in scientific precision and experiments to arrive at truth any time and many times, so it believes in free expression of thoughts and inquiry into the fundamentals even. It is therefore a tolerant religion, granting freedom of Inquiry and Expression, seeking evidence.

Looking in to all these facts one can conclude that the Santana Dharma is  an eternal and everlasting humanitarian religion of all mankind. It is not limited to the teaching of any particular people or class of people or any form of worship. It is a comprehensive way, a law of Being ever praying to be with the Absolute.

 In this respect, the present Hinduism with its diverse caste and creed, dogmas, rituals, beliefs and worships are not a purely Vedic Religion but it is  a hotchpotch of ideologies adopted from other ideologies and seers experiences.  

As one goes in deeper in the annals of religious  history,   one also finds the oldest spiritual writing known to mankind in the Vedas about 6000 BC, orally transmitted for most of history and written down in Sanskrit. It makes them the world’s longest and most ancient revealed scripture of Santana Dharma.

Vedas are concerned with wisdom; what is life about; what does death means, what the human being is, what is the nature of the Absolute that sustains us, and the cosmos etc…..

Sanatana Dharma believes that there is nothing that is not God. The Lord is enshrined in the hearts of all. God permeates everything and nothing permeates Him.

The famous peace invocation of Isa Upanishad says:~

  Om Purna- madah, purna-midam purnat-purnam-udacyate

 Purnaysa purna-madaya purna-meva-vasisyate

Which means

      All this is full /from fullness, fullness comes

    When fullness is taken from fullness/ fullness still remains.

 This belief is all- comprehensive and all- absorbing. There is nothing that is not God

This truth has been told by the seers. This is the only truth but is described by the people differently.

The message of Sanatana Dharma goes that Akem Satya; Vipraha vividha Vadanti i.e. Truth is one but the people describe it in different ways. Those on a journey to Eternity may differ but once reached there, all the differences sink into oneness.

The whole humanity has to arrive at this eternal truth one day.

Looking all these above aspects on can conclude the present Hinduism is modified to suit the mass mindset by the sages by adopting an ideology from other ideologies in the past is nothing to do with the pure Vedic religion or Santana Dharma.   

Sanatana Dharma aims at making the whole world full of Aryas. It is not confined to the need of self-salvation alone. It has a missionary message too. It says, ’Kranvanto Viswam Aryam’ let the people of the world be made Arya i.e. Gentle, righteous, and religious minded. The central point of Isa Upanishad is -- Renounce and enjoy. This has to be our aim of life.

Sanatana Dharma is a cosmopolitan religion. It wishes the happiness of the world. Man is essentially divine. There is divinity in every man. He has to realize it. Then alone the world can become a place to live in. Sanatana Dharma says that

  Sarve Bhavanti Sukhinah/ Sarve santu Niramayah

   Sarve Bhadrani Pashyanti, Ma Kashchid Dukh Bhag Bhaveta.

  It means: - Let everyone without distinction be happy. Let everyone be without any ailment. Let everyone look like Arya, noble and righteous. Let there be no one to have any share of sorrow or grief.

This is the philosophy of Sanatana Dharma -- a religion of all religions and all mankind.

Sanatana Dharma stresses upon action. It believes in the theory of Karma. The Upanishad says, ’you are what your driving desire is, as your desire is, so is your will, as your will is, so is your deed.  As your deed is, so is your destiny.’  Thus,we create our own destiny through thought and action. So the message goes that there is no joy in the finite, there is joy only in the Infinite. Nothing can satisfy us, but a reunion with our real Self which in fact is attainment of Sat-Chit-Anand. Self-realization is in becoming immortal.  It does not mean an everlasting life but it stands for a state that is beyond death and life alike.

Santana Dharma believes in the immortality of the soul. It inhabits one body after another according to Karma in a previous life, during its eternal journey to the Absolute till it is one with God. This is called belief in Reincarnation. It is not a fact that the individual dies with the death of the visible body. At death, the soul leaves the physical body and does not die. It gets into a subtle body called Astral on non-physical dimension. The forces which brought the body and personality into existence continue shaping its destiny after death and would do so till unison with the Absolute when one becomes free from the circle of birth and death.