Plz can someone tell me what Vande Matram exactly means?

Question

And what religion uses these words.

Answer 1

The meaning of Vande Mataram is given in the following link:

http://www.indianchild.com/vande_mataram...

Vande Mataram is not a regional song, but National song of India.  Hence the question as to what religion uses the words has no relevance.

Answer 2

VANDE MATRAM MEANS WORSHIPING U'R  MOTHER WHICH THE SOLDIER  AT THAT TIME USED TO TERM THEIR LAND OR INDIA AS THEIR OWN MOTHER.

Answer 3

A song written by Bakim Chander Chatterjee and very popular among the freedom fighters in India during freedom struggle.

vande means to salute

mantram----motherland

  It is in praise of motherland. It has Sanskrit and Hindi words in it.

It  is still sung with great reverence on many occasions at the beginning of a program. The National Anthem Jana Gana Mana is sung at the end .

This is not reflect religious feelings but natioalistic. Plz

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Answer 4

Vande matram is phrase in our national song.

We respect our mother a lot who gave birth. We also respect same value to our mother land. In giving respect to our mother land we have national song and vande matram is phrase which means we "respect our motherland"

vande = vandan, to bend against some one's sacrifice, high quality, respect, to give honor etc...

Matram = Matrubhumi - Motherland

Answer 5

itz not the religion who uses it!!

itz us, the INDIANS who sing it in the honour of our motherland, INDIA.

Answer 6

It is a national song praising mother india as a patriotic song.  No religion is attached to that.  That song inspired millions in freedom struggle

Answer 7

It is a PATRIOTIC  song composed by Bakin C. Chaaterji in

1875. and is not religious song.

Meaning given by Sri Aurobindo is,

I BOW TO THEE MOTHER( motherland)

Answer 8

VANDE MATRAM is actually made up of two Hindi words

VANDE- it is a small word to respect

MATRAM- its other Hindi word is Matrubhumi, which means Motherland.

So Vande Matram actually means that "repect motherland"

Answer 9

Vande Mataram issue is one of those issues that can always be banked upon for anti-Muslim propoganda in India. It is one of those tricks that politicians conjure up once in a while and it always works. It has dutifully served its proponents for the past 60 years and has been able to portray Indian Muslims (with varying degree of success) as being ‘not patriotic enough’.

What is the problem with Vande Mataram?

Muslims don’t bow their heads to anyone except the creator and it is difficult for them to imagine nation as a deity (to which they should bow). Then there is whole historical background of the song and the text and context in which it was used in.

Written in 1876, the song first appeared in 1882 in Bankim Chand Chatterjee’s novel Anand Math. The theme of the novel is an armed struggle against Muslim rulers of Bengal. The novel is more anti-Muslim than it is anti-British. The venerable Nirad C. Chaudhuri writes, “The historical romances of Bankim Chatterjee and Ramesh Chandra Dutt glorified Hindu rebellion against Muslim rule and showed the Muslims in a correspondingly poor light. Chatterjee was positively and fiercely anti-Muslim. We were eager readers of these romances and we readily absorbed their spirit.” Here is a sample from the novel:

Jivananda with sword in hand, at the gate of the temple, exhorts the children of Kali: “We have often thought to break up this bird’s nest of Muslim rule, to pull down the city of the renegades and throw it into the river - to turn this pig-sty to ashes and make Mother earth free from evil again. Friends, that day has come.”

Chatterjee uses Vande Mataram in his novel for a very specific context:

‘Our religion is gone, our caste is gone, our honour is gone. Can the Hindus preserve their Hinduism unless these drunken Nereys (a term of contempt for Muslims) are driven away?’… Mahendra, however, not convinced, expresses reluctance to join the rebellion. He is, therefore, taken to the temple of Ananda Math and shown a huge image of four-armed Vishnu, with two decapitated and bloody heads in front, “Do you know who she is?” asks the priest in charge, pointing to an image on the lap of Vishnu, “She is the Mother. We are her children Say ‘Bande Mataram’” He is taken to the image of Kali and then to that of Durga. On each occasion he is asked to recite ‘Bande Mataram’. In another scene in the novel some people shouted ‘kill, kill the Nereys’. Others shouted ‘Bande Mataram’ ‘Will the day come when we shall break mosques and build temples on their sites?

The original song was composed of five stanzas out of which only first two are approved to be sung as national song but the remaining three are not. A. G. Noorani puts is aptly when he says, “A poem which needs surgical operation cannot command universal acceptance“.

As an Indian Muslim it is difficult to imagine my nation as a deity to which I should bow my head. Does that makes me any less patriotic?