Give The Dog A Bad Name and Hang It
Kindly read the below quote from Baba's teachings. At the end of the quote a question has been posed. If your answer to the question is correct then it means you read Baba's books carefully; and, if your answer is wrong or you do not know the answer, then it signifies that you need to pay more attention when reading Guru's teachings. After all, if sadhakas are not diligent in studying Baba's books then who is going to read them - non-margiis?
Here then is the quote:
"Behind the superstitious belief of avatáraváda [theory of advent of saviour] lies one more social current created by a class of vested interests. Inquisitiveness and reasoning is a natural impulse in human beings. Due to certain pressing circumstances or intellectual renaissance there was a reaction against the illogical faiths and superstitions prevalent in society. These superstitions provided a strong basis for exploitation of society by intellectual parasites who had learnt to live on the blood and labour of others. To maintain their domination through a system of superstitious belief, these parasites invented means to curb this growth of reaction and intellectual rationalism and presented to the mass a sentimental appeal. Any command, rational or irrational, was enforced on society with so-called divine force by enunciation of the incarnation theory. Corruption was perpetrated in the name of God and all those raising their heads against such commands or preachings were called reactionaries, atheists, and curbed drastically. “Give the dog a bad name and hang it,” was their motto. They went to the extent of manipulating, polluting and misinterpreting even the precious writings of many great philosophers whose work had been respected as religious treatises from ancient times – all with an ulterior motive, to get their interests served." (Idea & Ideology, Átman, Paramátman and Sádhaná)
Question: Who is Baba referencing in the above quote?
Answer: Here Baba is talking about Catholic religious leaders who were lambasting those Renaissance philosophers (15th - 17th centuries) who were pointing out their dogma of heaven and hell and tearing down the darkness of public mind. Catholics branded those intellectuals as reactionaries and atheists. They abused and attacked them. At the same time, this teaching can be applied to all kinds of religious exploiters where those exploiters branded oppositional forces, but the origin is with the Catholic priests during the Renaissance.
Kindly read the below quote from Baba's teachings. At the end of the quote a question has been posed. If your answer to the question is correct then it means you read Baba's books carefully; and, if your answer is wrong or you do not know the answer, then it signifies that you need to pay more attention when reading Guru's teachings. After all, if sadhakas are not diligent in studying Baba's books then who is going to read them - non-margiis?
Here then is the quote:
"Behind the superstitious belief of avatáraváda [theory of advent of saviour] lies one more social current created by a class of vested interests. Inquisitiveness and reasoning is a natural impulse in human beings. Due to certain pressing circumstances or intellectual renaissance there was a reaction against the illogical faiths and superstitions prevalent in society. These superstitions provided a strong basis for exploitation of society by intellectual parasites who had learnt to live on the blood and labour of others. To maintain their domination through a system of superstitious belief, these parasites invented means to curb this growth of reaction and intellectual rationalism and presented to the mass a sentimental appeal. Any command, rational or irrational, was enforced on society with so-called divine force by enunciation of the incarnation theory. Corruption was perpetrated in the name of God and all those raising their heads against such commands or preachings were called reactionaries, atheists, and curbed drastically. “Give the dog a bad name and hang it,” was their motto. They went to the extent of manipulating, polluting and misinterpreting even the precious writings of many great philosophers whose work had been respected as religious treatises from ancient times – all with an ulterior motive, to get their interests served." (Idea & Ideology, Átman, Paramátman and Sádhaná)
Question: Who is Baba referencing in the above quote?
Answer: Here Baba is talking about Catholic religious leaders who were lambasting those Renaissance philosophers (15th - 17th centuries) who were pointing out their dogma of heaven and hell and tearing down the darkness of public mind. Catholics branded those intellectuals as reactionaries and atheists. They abused and attacked them. At the same time, this teaching can be applied to all kinds of religious exploiters where those exploiters branded oppositional forces, but the origin is with the Catholic priests during the Renaissance.
