A book, a scholar and some thoughts - part 3

Probably the people who have initiated legal action should follow this example. They need to study in greater depth their own scriptures and also Western philosophy, be a master of history and then counter the claims made by the relevant scholar. They need to understand that hard work and sacrifice goes a long way in countering falsifications than mere obstinacy and opposition. They also need to understand that when they oppose anything just because it does not match their own conviction, without fighting it logically and rationally, they are merely following their own ego. Whosoever believes that this work would cause damage to Hinduism and therefore should be withdrawn from market is extremely ignorant, because he/she has underestimated the resilience of the mother of all religions. He/She is simply making the scholar undeservedly a hero or worse a martyr in the intellectual circle. Instead one should expose their hollowness and intellectual shallowness. That is precisely what Vivekananda would have done and that is precisely what he did to many such “scholars”. He exposed them so thoroughly and convincingly that it took them a fairly long time to come up with an “alternate history”of Hinduism.

In this case the scholar has apparently developed an alternate history of Hinduism based on the arcane concepts so favorite of the perverts who do not understand what purity is and what religion is all about– psycho sexuality. Sri Ramakrishna tells us that the mind is like washermens’ clothes which they used to colour with various dyes. He said that whatever dye one would apply to that cloth it would assume that colour. Similarly the mind assumes whatever one is inclined towards. So if somebody is obsessed with sexuality he/she would find sexual symbols in anything and everything, however pure that may be. So this is what the case here. The sexually obsessed Western scholars and intellectuals will naturally look after their most cherished, most desirable thing in everything, even if that symbol actually stands for the very opposite concept to sex – that of pure love of God and renunciation in body mind and spirit as Devdasis or Ras Leela are supposed to denote, or going beyond the sensory attractions and entering the hallowed portals for gaining purity of mind as temple curving shows, or getting liberation from birthplaces, as the phalanx symbolizes. For this reason at best we need to be compassionate to such scholars. They are sick and obsessed with sex. As Swami Vivekananda pointed out,  Ras Leela as sexual orgy is as absurd as the notion that the flesh and blood of Christ offered as Holy Sacrament is cannibalism and Sri Krishna as a sexual pervert finds equivalent in a cannibalistic Jesus Christ, both being absolutely ridiculous and disgraceful as theories and can only develop in extremely sick minds.

After all again in the language of Sri Ramakrishna, one can either forge a a cheque or read a scripture in the light of the lamp. Do we blame or praise the lamp for that? Similarly if the same thoughts are translated in pure light and also in impure light, does the thought or symbol gets blamed? Somebody has chosen to represent it in impure light because that is his/her own mental and intellectual level. He or she cannot come out of that abyss and for that reason need to be shown pity.

After all such scholars are driven only by name, fame and fortune. If they had got that by praising Hinduism they would have gladly done so by all means. But they have figured out, like their predecessors, that it is easier to gain glory by vilifying the mother of all religions as, like most mothers she is benign to her children and would just sadly smile when attacked and that the market demands are skewed towards the stories vilifying her. Sri Ramakrishna pointed out that scholars without discrimination and dispassion are mere vultures, because as carrion feeders are driven by their lust for flesh, even when they soar high, the scholars are driven by their passion lust for name and fame, despite their high education. They would not hesitate to stoop to any level for serving their purpose and hence the only way of chastising them is to bring them down on their own turf, by proving them wrong. Sri Ramakrishna, with his supernatural capacity of understanding the deepest and darkest secret in his opponents’ minds, could disarm many scholars even before they began to speak. Vivekananda could, by his extra ordinary genius, superhuman intellectual acumen and purity, get always the best of his opponents. There is no reason why others cannot do the same if they try hard. 

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