Bhagwat: "Rashtra and dharma are not separate"
Addressing the 14th All India Vihar Seva conference of a Jain youth service group in Mumbai, the RSS chief said "the purpose of the nation is dharma, and dharma helps sustain the nation", and that India showed a path of peace for about 3,000 years "without conquering any country".
Friday, 2 October 2026, 14:09 ISTBy Dharma & Bharat Bulletin Desk · 2 min read
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Addressing the 14th All India Vihar Seva conference of a Jain youth service group in Mumbai, the RSS chief said "the purpose of the nation is dharma, and dharma helps sustain the nation", and that India showed a path of peace for about 3,000 years "without conquering any country".
Why it matters
It frames the Sangh's centenary-year message before its Vijayadaśamī Utsav.
GK: did you know?
The word dharma comes from the Sanskrit root dhṛ, "to hold or sustain".
