CONTENTS :
- * A Human Document
* The Basic Material
* A Biographical Sketch
* Light from the Labyrinth of Legends
* More Authentic Information
* The Date of Veerabrahmam
* Were Vemana&Brahmam Contemporaries ?
* The Crisis
* The Political Crisis
* The Social Crisis
* A Religious Rebel and A Social Reformer
* The Dogma
* Precept and Practice
* The caste system & privilege of Learning
* The Reform of Dharma Peetham
* Religious Tolerance
* Ahead of Times
* Veerabrahmam and Vemana
* The Kalajnanam (Kalagnanam)
* The Musings of Mahayoga
* The Message
* Bibliography
Sri Madvirat Pothuluri Veerabrahmendra Swamy Biography
SWAMI SRI VEERABRAHMENDRA
A Monograph on Pothuluru Veerabrahmendra Swamy
The Dogma
Blind belief in dogma is an unfortunate legacy of good many religions. Mechanical adherence to authority lands one in trouble. Hindu philosophy or Christian theology or Muslim faith – whatever it is – it has its own mechanical adherence to the authority which in course of time resulted in a sort of blind belief in dogma.
Like all other faiths and beliefs, religious faith also is liable to error and it requires a periodical check-up by logical thinking.
During the seventeenth century the religious and social conditions of people in the Telugu country required a genuine check – up. Veerabrahmam initiated it. He examined, with great insight, the then prevailing conditions of the society and the religious beliefs thereof.
History describes in detail the atrocities committed by Muslim rulers who were said to have no scruples. The Hindu religion, no doubt, suffered severely at their hands. The Hindus with their age-long customs and habits had become a laughing stock in the looks of the Muslims. Even the Muslims were not free from their own customs and beliefs which were quite strange to the Hindus. But these Hindus were not free from their own customs and beliefs which were quite strange to the Hindus. But these Hindus were constrained to keep their mouth shut, let the rulers would flay them alive. Cow slaughter was a crime from the view point of the Hindus. Even if the biologist lays stress on the point that the cow is, after all, an animal like many others, yet a true Hindu believes that she is nothing short of a noble mother and hence calls her the ‘Gomata’ For him the urine of the cow is as plous as the holy water of the Ganges. The excretion of cow appears to be an embodiment of all the Gods since the very gods have their abode in the body of the cow. How to convince a Muslim to this kind of belief? The Muslim, instead of breaking his head to discover the truth simply tries to cut its throat and have a delicious dish. This was what actually happened during the regime of the Nawabs. If a Hindu protested against it, he was, in no time, hanged to the nearest tree. How to bring about a common understanding between this kind of the ruling Muslim and the ruled Hindu? The problem, in fact, was acute.