PROUT Editorial Note: According to the great philosopher Shrii P. R. Sarkar, the main blockage on the path of liberation of intellect is the religious dogma. He defined dogma as “Irrational established ideas.” They are irrational but deep rooted. It is very difficult to be given up. Through the generation after generations the authorities of various religions injected those irrational ideas in the human blood stream. The following quotations are taken from some old scriptures which advocate irrational treatment to so called lower caste people and also to women. It is a matter of deep pleasure that all these following laws are not applicable in any country. The only Hindu nation of the world, Nepal also does not practice these so called Hindu laws like which is practiced in the Muslim countries in the name of Shariyah Law. No country should ever think of applying these irrational religious injunctions as the law of the land.
For better understanding of the following irrational quotations one should also read an article on “Religious Dogma” by Shrii P. R. Sarkar which is available at the following URL: http://www.proutist-universal.org/archives/000361.html
MANU SAMHITA
CHAPTER VIII
37. When a learned Brahmin has found treasure, deposited in former (times), he may take even the whole (of it); for he is the master of everything.
270. A sudra who insults a twice born man with gross invective, shall have his tongue cut out; for he is of low origin.
271. If he mentions names and castes of the (twice born) with contumely, an iron nail, ten fingers long, shall be thrust red hot into his mouth.
410. The King should order each man of the mercantile class to practice trade, or money lending or agriculture and attendance on cattle; and each man of the servile class to act in the service of the twice born.
CHAPTER IX
3. Her father protects (her) in childhood, her husband protects (her) in youth and her sons protect (her) in old age; a woman is never fit for independence.
18. Women have no business with the text of the Veda.
189. The property of a Brahmana must never be taken by the king, that is a settled rule; but (the property of men) of other castes the king may take on failure of all (heirs).
CHAPTER X
121. If a Sudra (unable to subsist by serving Brahmanas) seeks a livelihood, he may serve Kshatriyas, or he may also seek to maintain himself by attending on a wealthy Vaisya.
122. But let a Sudra serve Brahmans, either for the sake of heaven or with a view to both this life and the text, for he who is called the servant of a Brahmana thereby gains all his ends.
123. The service of the Brahmana alone is declared to be an excellent occupation for a Sudra; for whatever else besides this he may perform will bear no fruit.
124. They must allot to him (Sudra) out of their own family property a suitable maintenance, after considering his ability, his industry and the number of those whom he is bound to support.
125. The remnants of their food must be given to him, as well as their old clothes, the refuge of their grain and their old household furniture.
129. No collection of wealth must be made by a Sudra even though he be able to do it; for a Sudra who has acquired wealth gives pain to Brahmana.
CHAPTER XII
4. If the Sudra intentionally listens for committing to memory the Veda, then his ears should be filled with (molten) lead; if he utters the Veda, then his tongue should be cut off.
96. All those (doctrines), differing from the (Veda), which spring up and (soon) perish, are worthless and false, because they are of modern date.
97. The four castes, the three worlds, the four orders, the past, the present, and the future are all severally known by means of the Veda.
VISNU SMRTI
CHAPTER V
24. If a (low-born) man through pride give instruction (to a member of the highest caste) concerning his duty, let the king order hot oil to be dropped into his mouth.
25. If a (low-born man) mentions the name or caste of a superior revilingly, an iron pin, ten inches long, shall be thrust into his mouth (red hot).
104. If one who (being a member of the Candala or some other low caste) must not be touched, intentionally defiles by his touch one who (as a member of a twice-born caste) may be touched (by other twice-born persons only), he shall be put to death.
105. If a woman in her courses (touches such a person), she shall be lashed with a whip.
CHAPTER 26
5. A union of a twice-born man with a Sudra wife can never produce religious merit; it is from carnal desire only that he marries her, being blinded by lust.
6. Men of the three first castes, who through folly marry a woman of the lowest caste, quickly degrade their families and progeny to the state of Sűdras.
7, If his oblations to the gods and manes and (his hospitable attentions) to guests are offered principally through her hands, the gods and manes (and the guests) will not eat such offerings, and he will not go to heaven.
ARTHA SHASTRA OF KAUTILYA
BOOK IV, CHAPTER X
When a man contemptuously rushes against the hands or legs of any person of a higher caste, or of a teacher, or mounts the horse, elephant, coach, etc., of the king, he shall have one of his legs and one of his hands cut off or pay a fine of 700 panas. When a Súdra calls himself a Bráhman, or when any person steals the property of gods, conspires against the king, or destroys both the eyes of another, he shall either have his eyes destroyed by the application of poisonous ointment, or pay a fine of 800 panas.
BOOK IV, CHAPTER XIII
A Kshatriya who commits adultery with an unguarded Brahman woman shall be punished with the highest amercement; a Vaisya doing the same shall be deprived of the whole of his property; and a Sudra shall be burnt alive wound round in mats. A man who commits adultery with a woman of low caste shall be banished with prescribed mark branded on his fore-head, or shall be degraded to the same caste. A Súdra or a svapáka who commits adultery with a woman of low caste shall be put to death, while the woman shall have her ears and nose cut off.
BOOK VII, CHAPTER XI
In colonizing a land with four castes, colonization with the lowest caste is better, inasmuch as it is serviceable in various ways, plentiful, and permanent.
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