MARGAO: Amid the ‘one nation, one language debate’ sparked by Union home minister Amit Shah’s push for Hindi as a common language, BJP Rajya Sabja MP

on Sunday said that a revival of

Hinduism

would be possible only when Hindi becomes synonymous with the nation’s identity and civilisation, and Sanskrit revived.

“That is our goal. And only then will the task of resurgence of Hinduism be accomplished,” Swamy said while delivering a talk on “Resurgence of Hinduism” at Ravindra Bhavan,

. Pointing out that almost all Indian languages contain Sanskrit words, Swamy said, “There should definitely be one language in our country which everybody should speak, but the language of the judiciary and the proceedings of the court should take place in Sanskrit.”

He said that the Indian Constitution mentions the importance of Sanskrit.

“The Constitution says, Hindi should be our link language, but it also says Hindi terminology should be derived from Sanskrit and written in Devnagari script. Because Hindi has so many Urdu words, that a South Indian may not understand it,” he claimed.

Swamy delivered his hour-long talk in chaste Hindi.

The re-establishment of ancient Hindu temples was also imperative for the resurgence of Hinduism, Swamy added. He identified three temples to be rebuilt as an “immediate task” – the Ram temple at

, Krishna temple at Mathura, and Kashi Vishwanath temple in Varanasi, though he said he had a list of 40,000 temples to be re-established.

Swamy said that the varna system in Hinduism was not determined by one’s caste at birth, but by the virtues and ideals one practised in life, the highest traits being those of knowledge and sacrifice (tyagi and gyani). Asserting that the roots of various civilisations could be traced to Hinduism, Swamy said, “The DNA of all other religions is identical to that of Hinduism; we are all one.”