From Untruth to Truth- Ignorance and Knowledge in Hindu Scriptures

"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 Sabda Pramana (Scriptural Testimonies), a chapter of Soham Samhita, published in Bangla in 1914.

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. At 41, abandoning wealth, family, and fame, he became an ascetic and realized the Truth of Self in Samadhi. In the last ten years of his life, he wrote copiously on Advaitavad or the plophy of non-dualism.

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