Problem with Hindus and Why I Won't Help Anyone Anymore

TL;DR: Half-truths are more dangerous than lies.

I once asked my father to read the Bhagavad Gīta, just so he will be able to have a conversation with me. But that prompted him to just start watching the Mahābhāratam TV show. Now first of all, it is a TV show that alters the true story to suit the audience's feelings. But even ignoring that, there are bigger problems.

Mahābhāratam is a story that illustrates all the wrong things people did that led to a war, with which Śrī Kriṣṇa illustrates the right path to live, in the Bhagavad Gīta.

All anti-religious idiots too do the same thing by criticizing the actions of people in Mahābhārata. Then those same idiots would think that it conveyed the idea that it was moral to sit silent during the dice game and as Draupadi was being disrobed. That would give them a good rationale to criticize it. But then their opinions are irrelevant because they actively ignore the context or tātparya (what it's trying to convey).

You see, half-truth is more dangerous than a lie. For example, if you think of Mahābhārata as a moral guidebook, you will learn all the wrong things instead of what's right. And I believe that's what most Hindus do too, since the Śṛuti is usually difficult and the Smṛti is easier to access.

So if you teach truth to an idiot who only understands half of it, he would effectively learn a half-truth, and you would still be accused of teaching half-truths. Therefore I won't teach anyone anything.

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