(The following interview of Dr. Shamba Joshi, a famous Vedic scholar of Karnataka. was published in the Indian Express, Bangalore, on Nov. 22, 1981. The interview, also by a Brahmin reporter, exposes the sexual base of Hinduism and how the entire “sacred scriptutes“ are sandwiched between penis and vagina. Every Sanskrit pundit knows these scriptures are a bundle of contradictions as very well brought out by Arun Shourie in his book, Hinduism. It is only Nirad Chaudhari and Shourie who were the first to make an authentic study of it. Shamba Joshi has been boldly crusading against the anti-human features of Hinduism) :- An 86-year-old frail scholar, working quietly in a sylvan corner of Dharwad, means many things to his beholders. He is Dr. Shankararao Balashankar Deekshit Joshi (popularly known as Shamba Joshi). Dr. Joshi is distinct from the other literary men. All words denoting a god, a symbol or a myth, he argues with etymological conviction, are sexual motifs of a cult which is scared of death and believes that only procreation can answer death’s threat by proxy. This has necessitated the suppression of the concept of universality of man and instead project individualism. His latest research discloses that Swayambhu Manu, who is the originator of everything according to the Vedas, Upanishads and the Gita, is an impostor. The original one – Vyvasvata Manu who stands for universality – has been deliberately pushed into obscurity. Successive generations have been denied the existence of this concept of human universality. Explaining his theories about the ascetic cult, he refuses to call it Hinduism, because in his view the word has different connotations which have been given a burial long ago. “I do not have dirty mind. It is not my fault if our scriptures have been conceived with penis and vulva worship to counter the fear of death. In these texts, my etymological tests have led me to discover the obsession with sex. It is the Vyasa-Vasistha line of religious hypnotists who are responsible for this. Take that word OM which figures in every one of our scriptures and hymns. What is its meaning ? It is yoni (vulva). The naga pooja offered to a stone slab of mating snake motif by married Indian women is prayer seeking fertility. A collective bhanamati (black magic) has been performed on us which binds us to a philosophy conceived ages ago and which has only destructive relevance to our further evolution. What has caused man’s fall ? Man has become a man (like amoral). The Vedas are responsible for this as their true meaning has been distorted. Guru Brahma, Guru Vishnu, Guru Devo Maheswara dominates our learning processes. It commands the disciples to unquestioningly accept whatever the teacher imparts even if they are gross inaccuracies or pedagogic disinformation. The “Bhagavadgita” in its entirety insists that it is the absolute truth and there is nothing beyond to seek. Thus servility is the first lesson taught & also the last. Aping or following has always been the precept. Free-thinking is taboo. Anyone who probes into what his guru says becomes a heretic and must be burnt at the stake. He agrees with Draw in on the ‘origin of species’ which describes the process of evolution culminantin man. But here again Joshi’s disturbing analyses of the ascetic cult makes him go beyond Drawin: Gandhi who preached brahmacharya, ho said, was obsessed with sex. Mahatma Gandhi throughout his life tried to overcome his sexual impulses and over the years it was the most primary thought in his mind. It was the Vedas which distorted the original concepts of humanity and “I will quote chapter and verse to prove this. The scriptures have brain-washed us”. Born in the last decade of the century in a Vedic family, Dr. Joshi studied the Vedas and he was kept way from learning English as his elders thought it would corrupt him. Aren’t your diggings into the depths of human origin a cry in the wilderness ? No, Dr. Joshi is confident that a philosopher would emerge who would be able to throw off the shackles of the ascetic tyranny and take man towards his place in the evolution. He points to the case of Aristotle who rebelled against Plato & blazed a new trail in Grecian philosophy, Dr. Joshi is waiting for an Indian Aristotle: He grimly confesses, that there is none in sight now.
