"A person who is your real well-wisher is incapable of following the adage - speak the pleasant truth; do not speak the unpleasant truth." India could not advance without reforming the Hindu society steeped in superstition and ignorance and rearing hatred towards non-Hindus and people of lower castes, non-vegetarians and others. Hence, the fearless Advaitin Paramahangsa Soham Swami, as a true son of his motherland and well-wisher of the Hindu race, critically reviewed the Aryan scriptures. He pinpointed the ignorance, dismissed the myths, and upheld the truth. From Untruth to Truth is the English translation of Śabda Pramāna (Scriptural Testimonies), a chapter of Soham Samhita, published in Bangla in 1914. Disregarding the wrath of the fanatics, the author boldly exposed the reality of the scriptures.
The subjects covered in this book include
The myth of the Vedas as a non-human or impersonal work
Falsehood and Depravity in the Vedic Age
The custom of animal sacrifice, meat-eating, and drinking inebriating drinks in Vedic rituals
How modern fundamentalists are eager to conceal the truth
How modern Hinduism is different from the Aryan religion of the Vedas
Contradictory theories of cosmology in the Hindu scriptures
Contradictory doctrines of the reality of the world in the Vedas and other Aryan scriptures
Why and how founders and followers of the various dualist schools opposed the Advaita philosophy of non-dualism
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Soham Swami
Paramhangsa Soham Swami (1858-1918) was an Advaitin monk. Known as Shyamakanta Bandopadhyay in his pre-monastic life, he was famous across the Bengal Presidency in the last two decades of the 19th century for his unusual vocation – wrestling with tigers. His goal was to instil fearlessness in the minds of people of a subjugated nation and prepare them for the war of independence. At 41, abandoning wealth, family, and fame, he became an ascetic and realized the Truth of Self in Samadhi. To eradicate superstition and social, religious, and gender-based discriminations that were obstacles to the development of society, in the last ten years of his life, he wrote copiously on Advaitavad or the philosophy of non-dualism.
