Q. How can an idol made by you be a God, how can it protect you? I will break it and show you that it  can’t even protect itself.

A. Idol is an instrument devised to create a concrete visible sannidhya of the divine in front of us. It  enables concentration and focusing our minds on the qualities of the divine we wish to invoke and  promote in ourselves and in our world around us. And by actually experiencing the benefits and seeing  the good results by oneself one becomes a devotee, an expert in this technique and gains ability to help  others too. Just as a mobile is an instrument to communicate to someone you can’t see, idol when well  made and well maintained becomes an instrument to interact with God. If you break my mobile I can’t talk  but that does not mean that the person on the other side does not exist or that he gets hurt. God is  present everywhere in everything, in everyone; not just out there but very much here as well. Using  special mantras it is possible to do praanaprathishtha of a deity even in idols. What is done is not that the  idol is made alive like us, or that it will begin to breathe etc., but that by repeated requests and prayers  we are making the God accept our offering to the idol as an offering to him. God accepts a mamakara  about the idol whatever its appearance may be. A sannidhya of God thus arises in the idol for us. He appears to accept our thoughts and then the prayers of devotees begin to get the response. This is the  secret of the murthy worship. If the idol breaks it is like the breaking of the mobile, no effect on the  receiver of your calls. If the worshippers collectively pray that the aggressor be punished, aggressor may  indeed experience the wrath. It is worshipper’s instrument, and he needs to take action. To remake the  idol, to punish the aggressor or whatever.  
Murthys are of eight types. One of them is mental one too which is formed within our mind and  worshipped as we like with anything we can, that too mentally. Murthy worship has limitless scope and  practical powers too which is why many prefer to follow it in some way or the other in spite of all kinds  aggressions and prohibitions.  
CQ. Why throw stones on Satan imagined in the form of a stone or go around a building imagined to be  his house when there is no one there? 

Q. How can there be more than one god, for would they not compete, fight and only one would be left?

A. Our different deities are different aspects of the same and entities emerging from the same and  merging in to the same. Competition is a mere low level human trait bounded by various limitations.  

CQ. How about Trinity, Son of God, Satan ? How can they exist simultaneously? How can satan co- exist  with the all powerful singularity fighting with it? 

Q. There is Untouchability .  
A. It is not part of any religious text. In reality, it arose as an emergency and desperate response to save  the traditions and also to protect from infectious diseases when Mlecchas invaded, caught and forced  some hindus to do heinous, dirty things such as killing and eating cows, manual scavenging etc. Now, any  way, the practice is gone.  
CQ. How about slavery, slave trade, sex slave trade, slaughter and elimination of crores of people whose  only fault is not agreeing to believe alien rather baseless unconvincing set of beliefs?

 

Q. There is caste and domination.  

A. Caste is a European concept superposed wrongly on the varna system and Jati system. Our systems  are based on tendencies and skills developed over thousands of generations and on division of labour  and on family and community based specializations. There are also lots of cultural aspects to it. This was  essential for advancing in technology when communication was largely oral. Learning by seeing and doing  from early childhood was the only option. Even now family based professions are least stressful, stable  and successful anywhere in the world. Societies cannot survive for long on a mad, uncertain, chaotic, 
competition, pursuit of wealth, power etc. Society is best served through cooperation, complementarity,  stability and clarity which is provided by the varna system. Jati system is fine tuned integrated  professional specialization.  
CQ. How about calling large groups of people who refuse to follow your path as worse than the worst  animals and denying them the very right to existence? 

Q. Sati problem.  
A. There is no proof of it as being linked to any religious belief. Again it is a panic response to the helpless  condition of respectable queens from being raped and traded as sex slaves by the invading barbarism. It  has been blown out of proportion by RRRoy and such persons supported by ulterior designs as if it was all  over and common. In vedas there are shlokas urging widowed women not to grieve but accept a new  husband right after the cremation of the dead husband.  
CQ .How about witch hunting, burning on the stake? 

Q. Denied education to some.  
A. Highest skilled persons were shudras, who also had the highest average wealth and sukha, comfort  and peace in life. They had all the technology with them. Brahmins are prescribed a life of hard self  control, and kshatriyas heroism and sacrifice of their lives to protect all, and vaishyas a stressful life of  business risks. Skilled workers became poor when Britishers killed the local products and techniques.  Scavenging was introduced by Mughals for their locked up harems.  
CQ. How about jijia, patenting, copyrighting, technology regimes, secrecy of knowledge?

 

Q. Why did Rama abandon Sita in the jungle? 

A. That story is not part of Valmiki Ramayana which alone is the authentic one. There is no concept of or  even a word for divorce in Sanatana system.  
CQ. How about all types of talaqs, halalas, punishments, beatings, etc., of women and the concept of  housewife and Madam? 

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Q. Rama couldn’t protect his wife even from being kidnapped.  
A. It is part of the leela to show that there are kidnappers and those who drag other’s wives and do  atyachara and how a righteous king or any person and society should punish them at all costs.

CQ. There are plenty, but it is safer to not make a list.  

Q. Krishna didn’t stop the war, instead supported it.  
A. Leela to show that when adharma grows too much, it permeates nearly everyone and everywhere  including the learned individuals and institutions and to show that the truly great ones will have to come  out to restore dharma even by making great personal sacrifices.  
CQ. Jihad and inquisitions have been driven by self proclaimed faith and not dharma. Continents of  native religions and cultures of have been wiped out, vast lands and livelihoods have been confiscated  and all such horrible atrocities being driven/ supported by the revelations.  

Q. Krishna had too many wives.  
A. They were only given a respectful shelter after being freed from the prison of a person whom they  didn’t like. No sex or such acts were involved. Also in puranas hyperbole is common. So those numbers  and descriptions should be taken only figuratively.  
CQ. How about treating women as a property and they being purchased, exchanged or sold, or of calling  women as witches and staking them? 

Q. Brahma married his own daughter.  
A. Brahma is not a person. He is a personification of the creative power of the universe. Saraswati is the  personification of the knowledge needed for it .  
CQ. How about real person Adam producing offspring out of Eve made out of his bone?

 

Q. Women were denied education etc.  
A. There were many rishis, scholars and queens who were women. Women deities are worshipped with as  much devotion as male deities. Women and girls are publicly worshipped on many occasions.  

CQ. How about calling women as fields fit for ploughing, buying and selling in the market and as  individuals with half the intelligence, and temptresses to be covered when in public, Or even worse, as  witches to be killed?

Q. Widow marriage. 
A. There is no proof of widow marriages being banned in Vedas or Upanishads. Instead there is a clear set  of shlokas asking widowed young lady to give up grieving and to adopt a new married life.  

 

Q. Why is it difficult to unite Hindus? 
A. Hindus are by birth, tradition and training endowed with Daivee qualities. It is therefore easy to unite  them for noble activities but very difficult to unite them for Asuri activities. Unfortunately, most of the  activities in the world today, especially of the governments, are predominantly Asuri type. When it comes  to looting, plundering, exploiting etc., Asuri type unite very easily. When there is nothing to loot or when  there are limited resources they fight among themselves most violently. On the other hand Hindus will not  fight to kill each other or others even under extreme shortages of physical resources. Unfortunately they  have been misled to believe that it is good to be nonviolent towards all including the wicked terrorists and  deadly adharmi groups. Pratihimsa is dharma indeed.  
CQ. All kinds of violent divisions, wars and fights have taken place and are continuously taking place  within Non Hindu communities throughout the world.  

Q. Why don’t you quit Hinduism and accept mine? 
A. Why should we when we are already Devatas and filled with daivee sampath? We don’t want to be  born sinners. We don’t want to be dependent on others for our life or next life. We are fully capable of  deciding what is right and what is not and take responsibility for our actions. Karma is the law of our life.  Why should we give way to asuri vipath in our life which has caused and is causing limitless destruction in  the world? 

 

Q. Brahmins made up all these for living. The stories are not real.  
A. All products and services in the world generate a living. Man made things are as real as nature made  things. They are the tools and methods to live a harmonious stress free, united, purposeful life. They stop  people from doing wrong things on their own rather than out of fear of punishment. People use them only  if they are useful. Brahmins pursue knowledge, spirituality, study of vedas, dharma and satvic qualities  life long and follow very frugal lifestyle. They maintain a high standard of dharma and guide all. They  don’t extract highest possible price but are generally content with whatever others give. They try to live  satvic life. They are the ideal face of a humane society.  
CQ. Are other scriptures really not made up?