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"If your wife is unyielding for sex, strike with stick or hand and curse her!"

Wife Beating and #MaritalRape in Vedic Literature: Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 6.4.7

Original Sanskrit verse & Commentary by Adi Shankara (Shankara Bhasya) translated into English by Swami Madhavananda:

One, The Early Upanishads are considered Vedic Literature attached to Veda Samhitas. Two, Context is SEX; Procreation OR not; spelled out in 6.4.10-11. Three, The interpretation "buy her over with ornaments" is from Shankara Bhasya, & THIS version was used.

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Is he @MisraNityanand dishonest or just plain ignorant? He goes till verse 8 of Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 6.4 & concludes "context is procreation only (needed for life)". Go further till 10 & 11. Husband chants "may she not conceive!" 6.4.10. Context is Sex.

https://twitter.com/MisraNityanand/status/1148216414769012739

Way to make an utter fool of yourself. Br. Up. 6.4.10:
'Now, the wife whom he desires with the thought: "May she NOT conceive"—after inserting penis in her.. he should repeat the mantra: "..I reclaim the semen from you." Thus she DOESN'T become pregnant.'

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Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 6.4 verse 12 provides Handy Black Magic Ritual & the Mantras to be Cast upon your Wife's Lover! 😂😂'He whom a brahmin who knows this rite curses, departs from world impotent & shorn of merit. Therefore let no one even joke with a Vedic scholar's wife!'

Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 6.4 verse 17 🤔

“The scholarship of the daughter is regarding domestic affairs only, for she is not entitled to read the Vedas.”

~Adi Shankara That renowned 9th century Indian sage of Advaita Vedanta, in his Bhāṣya on the Upanishads (sacred literature)

"The Shudras and Women are not entitled to receive Brahma-vidya through the Vedas, though it may be taught to them through the smritis, puranas, and so on."

~ Authoritative commentaries on the Upanishads (Hinduisms' sacred scriptures) by no less than Adi Shankaracharya himself..

Female Rishis & Philosophers in the Veda? Nah! What abt Gargi & Maitreyi? Overstated! Not authors👇Propaganda post-1850. Should be thrown away into dustbin of literary history! Insecure Indians constantly imagining a golden past that never existed!

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Adi Shankara is the MOST revered acharya of the Hindus. He wrote several authoritative commentaries on ancient texts.

Here he comments on Brahma Sutras (400 BCE) & CONCLUDES that #Shudras have NO right to Vedas; he quotes the Dharmasutras & #ManuSmriti:

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"If a Shudra Listens in on a Vedic recitation, his Ears shall be filled with molten tin or lac; if he Repeats it, his Tongue shall be cut off; if he commits it to Memory, his Body shall be split asunder." - Dharma Sutra of Gautama (600 BCE)

Violence & discrimination Re. Shudras:

Dishonest Sanghis claim that 'untouchability' came to India from 'outside' (they exclude Aryan migrations, of course).

Here's an example of the practice of 'untouchability' in the ancient Dharma Sutras (Vedic/Vedanga literature).

From Vasishtha Dharmasutra (composed ≈300 BCE):

Dharma Sutras, The Law Codes of Ancient India: Punishment for a lower varna man having sex with an upper varna woman:

A Brahmin woman is shamed, her head shaven and paraded naked on a donkey, while her non-Brahmin lover is burnt alive!!

Vashistha Dharmasutra 21.1-4:

"Shudras are to serve another, the three higher castes [varnas], to be expelled and beaten according to the pleasure (of their masters.)" - Aitareya Brahmana

Source: Aitareya Brahmana of the Rigveda, Published 1922, The Panini Office, Allahabad:

#ManuSmriti: "A Brahmin may compel a Shudra, whether he was bought or not, to do servile work; for he was created to be the slave of a Brahmin."

"A Shudra, though freed by his master isn't released from servitude"

"A Brahmin may confidently seize the goods of his Shudra slave"

Killing a Brahmin is the greatest of sins. Nature of sin goes down in the order of Varnas; Kshatriya, Vaishya, Shudra

Need penance even if you kill animals. But if you kill a wanton Brahmin woman no big deal ! And if you kill a Prostitute NO penance at all !!

The Dharma Sutras:

“The scholarship of daughter is regarding domestic affairs only, for she's not entitled to read the Vedas."

"Shudras & Women are not entitled to Brahmavidya through Vedas, though it may be taught to them thru smritis & puranas"

Advaita Vedanta guru Adi Shankara in his Bhashyas: