![]() ![]() ![]() He regards all Puranas (including the celebrated Bhagavata and Shiva Purana) work of nuts. He openly rejects Ramayana's and Mahabharata's claim that Rama and Krishna were divine avatara, and promotes that they were merely good humans. For instance, he argues thus, If your god is 'merciful' and 'loves you' why did he order to kill animals and infidels. Although many of the views he supported lack evidence (to name a few: retention of semen makes one mentally and physically strong, knowledge has spread throughout the globe from India, Vedas are infallible, etc.), his intense criticism of orthodox and heterodox religions of India (including vaishnavism) as well as the Christianity and Islam are pretty cozy to read and funny to contemplate upon (notice, I didn't say they are analytically rigorous). are the features of that one formless-supreme-entity). Also, he does a remarkable job at reinterpreting the Vedas to suit common sense (like claiming that Surya, Agni, Vayu, Indra, etc. In this book, he utterly rejects anything and everything that contradict the Vedas and common sense. His critical arguments against religious dogma and social taboos in the second half of the book are very attractive. I think that had Dayanand lived long enough to study the works of Watson and Crick under that of Darwin and had he been listening to his conscience instead of following a promise mindlessly, he would have turned into a nonbeliever (as I am). ![]()
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