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Volume 4

Introduction

Introduction I

Introduction II

Introduction III

Part One: Religious


  1. The Difficulty of Knowing Why One is a Hindu /9:50

  2. The Origin of the Vedas— The Brahminic Explanation or an exercise in the art of circumlocution / 5:30

  3. The Testimony of other Shastras on origin of Vedas. /17:23

  4. Why suddenly the Brahmins declare the Vedas to be infallible and not to be questioned? / 7:22

  5. Why did the Brahmins go further and declare that the Vedas are neither made by man nor by God? / 24:39

  6. The Contents of the Vedas: Have they any moral or spiritual Value? /42:10

  7. The turn of the tide Or How did the Brahmins declare the Vedas to be lower than the lowest of their Shastras? /26:01

  8. How the Upanishads declared War on the Vedas? /16:38

  9. How the Upanishads came to be made subordinate to the Vedas? / 9:30

  10. Why did the Brahmins make the Hindu Gods fight against one another? / 28:16

  11. Why did the Brahmins make the Hindu Gods suffer to rise and fall? / 1:03:26

  12. Why did the Brahmins dethrone the Gods and enthrone the Goddesses? / 27:15

  13. The Riddle of the Ahimsa / 15:07

  14. From Ahimsa back to Himsa / 9:57

  15. How did the Brahmins Wed an Ahimsak God to a Bloodthirsty Goddess? / 29:19

    • Appendix I: The Riddle of the Vedas / 1:10:37

    • Appendix II: The Riddle of the Vedanta / 30:47

    • Appendix III: The Riddle of the Trimurti / 43:34

    • Appendix IV: Smarth Dharma and Tantrik Dharma / 21:21

    • Appendix V: The Infallibility of the Vedas / 10:56

Part Two: Social

  1. The Four Varnas—Are the Brahmins sure of their origin? /53:33

  2. The Four Ashramas—The Why and How about them / 28:58

  3. Manu’s madness or the Brahmanic explanation of the origin of the mixed castes. / 31:47

  4. The change from Paternity to Maternity. What did the Brahmins wish to gain by it? 21:30

  5. Kali Varjya or the Brahmanic art of suspending the operation of Sin without calling it Sin / 8:07

    • Appendix I: The Riddle of the Varnashram Dharma / 1:27:36

    • Appendix II: Compulsory Matrimony / 22:07

Part Three: Political

  1. The Theory of Manvantara / 19:05

  2. Brahma is not Dharma. What good is Brahma? / 21:05

  3. Kali yuga—Why have the Brahmins made it unending? / 53:42

  4. The Riddle of the Kali Yuga / 45:20

    • Appendix I: The Riddle of Rama and Krishna / 1:06:37

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