Dear Hindus, If you fall sick, do you go to an authentic doct | सुधर्मा Sudharma

Dear Hindus,

If you fall sick, do you go to an authentic doctor, or just eat medicines prescribed by a random person on social media?

If you want to understand a scientific research paper, would you approach a scholar in that field, or would you assume anybody and everybody to be a scholar and start believing in whatever they say?

If you want to learn Business Administration, would you learn from an authentic college, or would you learn from strangers on social media? Even the best books can't teach you MBA fully. Only qualified experts can.

Be it theoretical knowledge, practical knowledge or health, we always seek only authentic sources.

Why then do we not do the same thing in Sanatanadharma? How come people seek knowledge from strangers without verifying their authenticity?

When we do not know something, why to make public posts, seek answers from everyone, and get confused and/or misled?

We have traditional pathashalas. People respect them but don't want to study there. We have traditional gurus and paramparik acharyas of authentic sanpradayas. But people don't want to seek them either.

People want knowledge, but are so greedy that they don't care about authenticity. And after all these failures to support traditional gurus and Acharyas, when they get into any problem, these same people immediately ask

"What have traditional gurus and Acharyas done to save dharma?"

There's no bigger hypocrisy than this.

As long as people ignore traditional gurus and seek knowledge from anybody and everybody,

1. Misconceptions and misunderstandings about Sanatanadharma will only keep on increasing.

2. Conversions away from Hinduism will keep on increasing.

3. Traditional, authentic gurus and institutions will continue to suffer and continue to be helpless.

4. Fake scholars who have read books and interpreted based on their little knowledge would keep on increasing.

5. Anti-Hindu interpretations of Hindu scriptures would continue to rise.

6. The lives of great saints and scholars who spent their entire lives in protecting scriptures by giving the correct interpretation through commentaries and sub-commentaries would go waste.

Hence, dear friends, stop being greedy for knowledge. If you don't know certain things, it's absolutely OK. No need to learn from random people who pass on their comments after self-interpreting. No need to self-interpret and present yourself as a scholar in front of everyone.

If you have a Guruparampara, cite your Poorvacharyas. If you don't have a Guruparampara, seek one instead of competing with the millennia old tradition mandated by the scriptures themselves.

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