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Talking of Nirguna saints' and their interaction with Islam, Sri Sitataram Goel wrote:

"Kabir and Nanak and numerous other nirguNa saints failed to carry any conviction with the mullahs and the sufis and the sultans.
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The latter were either too self-righteous or too enamoured of the power and pelf which the exclusiveness of Islam had earned for them. Kabir had to suffer persecution from Sikandar Lodi for questioning this exclusiveness.
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Guru Arjun Deva and Guru Tegh Bahadur had to lay down their lives in defence of Sanãtana Dharma.
In the final round, however, the nirguNa saints succeeded only in confusing Hindu society into believing that Islam was just another religion and not an ideology of imperialism.
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Fortunately, the impact of nirguNa saints on Hindu society was marginal. The saguNa saints and the ãchãryas did not even so much as mention Islam even in the heyday of its power and sway. They found it beneath contempt."
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But that was about their impact in the middle ages. After 1947 keeping with the demand of Muslim vote bank of Congress and Nehru-Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi laid its foundation with his surrender to Sufi-Mulla-Ashraf in 1921) these Nirguna Saints were revived.
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This process picked pace after a complete takeover of Indian academia (specially in north) by Sharia-Bolshevik Brigade of Sekoolar-Savarna Commies and Aligarhi Ashrafs under the patronage of IG with the appointment of Ashraf Islamist Nurul Hasan as Education Minister.
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This had a huge impact on the study of Hindi literature. They brought "textual analysis" trick of Padre Indologists (on the name of "scientific" analysis) and create interpretations and narratives per the demand of their ideology and political needs overriding emic understanding.
Sri Sitaram Goel writes:
"The nirguNa saints have been revived in more recent times, and presented as social reformers who stood for a casteless and classless society and as the precursors of what passes for Secularism in present-day India.
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THIS MONSTROUS MISREPRESENTATION HAS BEEN MOSTLY THE WORK OF HINDI SCHOLARS WORKING FOR DOCTORAL DEGREES. They have succeeded to a large extent in misleading the Hindu intelligentsia."
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It's this work that created rootless Sekoolar-Savarna crop of Hindus like Kumar Vishwas mouthing Ishwar-Allah, Sarvadharma Sambhava platitudes at the drop of their hat. For these people, there are only two lines in RCM. 10/
It's either "Gayi Bahori Gareeb Niwaju" or "Dhol Ganwar Shudra Pashu NAri" depending upon whether they have to suck up to some Mulla or pacify and control Hindus, or they have to abuse some Paramparik Brahmin to prove they don't believe in caste and they are not communal. 11/
But the key aspect of this rootless wonder class is their interpretation of RCM and other similar texts in Hindi using the 20th century meaning of Hindi words colored by their own biases and disassociating the text from larger Vedic-Sanskrit framework of which it's part of.12/
In short, these guys are Hindi equivalent of Padre Indologist-Indo European Aryan style of Manastarangi interpretation with the same old "textual analysis" of Padre as the basic tool. 13/
You already know the meaning, all that's needed is finding some suitable worlds supporting your meaning.
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Yesterday, when I posted Morari Bapu's video singing "Ali Maula Ali Maula", a similar guy as described came to my TL justifying Morari Bapu's deed and calling it "Veda-Sammat".
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A line from RCM where Tulsidas talks about himself depicting his कार्पण्य भाव of षडविधा शरणागति, the interprets it as a fake humility.
See how a trad commentary from Gitapress interpretes the same. 16/

This "creative" use of Vedanta to support Ishwar-Allah is so typical of Hindi academicians and their work started in 70s as mentioned abv. 17/

To aise logon ka kya karna chahiye?
RCM acchaa gaate hain wo to sun lena chahiye.
As far as the learning meaning of Shashtra is concerned, I stated the Hindu tradition other day as follows.

Hinduism mein Vyakti Praman nahi hota.
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Vyakti ki baat tabhee tak mani jaati hai jab tak wo Veda Vedanta ke anukool bolta hai.
Vyakti ka Pramaanya Jainism aur Buddhism mein chalta hai. Vedic Hinduism (Sanatana Dharma) mein nahin.
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Ali Maula justification.

words not worlds.
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