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.
Dogma: October 2004 Archives
By Garda Ghista
Our sister Amina was freed from death by stoning on the last day of September, 2003. Many of us did not know Amina Lawal was a divorced woman from Katsina State in Nigeria, sentenced to death by stoning for adultery on the grounds of becoming pregnant out of wedlock. Many of us did not even know that our sister was in danger – we did not even know that we had a sister. We live in an age that is called post-human - an age wherein humanity is posthumous. For many of us, Amina was a flickering figure that appeared on a news sound byte. This is what post-human means. People are reduced to disposable, ephemeral images manipulated by a remote. These images describe her in the traditional modernistic labels of “Nigerian,” “Muslim,” and “woman.” What these labels do is to create a feeling that she is “alien,” and hence we have no responsibility to even care. Essentially the nationalism of the modern era of humanism is, as former UN General Romeo Dallaire said, just another kind of racism.
SUNDARGARH , 11 Oct 2004
[T H O U G H T S : Your thoughts can be your prison, or they can set you free to soar ]
Police invite rationalists to convince tribals
In May this year Noni Ekka of Tainsar Panchayat was treated inhumanly and tortured after villagers felt that she practised sorcery.
Last year in January, Dhuleswar Barik hacked six persons to death one by one in Alapaka village under Kinjrekela police limits within a span of eight hours hours after he suspected one of them of practising witchcraft. He was awarded death sentence by a local court this year.
by Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar
Gadd is a very ancient verb which means to do something without following any logic. When the human intellect was undeveloped, cunning people used to infuse various kinds of fear complexes, irrational ideas and unhealthy, selfish tendencies into the minds of the people to stop them following the path of logic and reason. Sometimes people were prevented from following the path of rationality, and on other occasions they were won over through magic shows, sleight of hand or so-called miraculous feats. By concocting many spurious and absurd stories, the cunning exploiters made others dance according to their wishes, like marionettes dressed in gaudy, coloured clothes in a puppet show. The exploiters would pull the strings from behind the scene, and the common people would move their hands and feet according to the whims of their masters. The people were kept dancing, stamping their feet and gyrating their hips, so they were never able to find the path of rationality. In fact, the very attempt to find the path of rationality was considered blasphemous.
