On Friday (30 December 2022), a long-time atheist and proclaimed “rationalist”, Bairi Naresh was booked by Telangana police, in a case of hurting Hindu sentiments, based on a widely circulated video recording of his December 16 speech, at an atheist association meeting.
In the video, Naresh is heard referring to Lord Ayyappa’s birth in a disrespectful, derogatory manner.
It is believed that Lord Ayyappa was born out of the union between Lord Shiva and the mythical Mohini, who is also regarded as an avatar of Lord Vishnu. Therefore, Ayyappa is also called as ‘Hariharan Puthiran’ which means the son of both Hari or Vishnu and ‘Haran’ or Shiva.
Bairi Naresh ignores the deeper spiritual meaning behind the story – cosmic union, the negation of gender on higher planes of spiritual development, Lord Ayyappa’s courage, hard work, his principles, impeccable charater being proof of the human soul’s possible achievement of the divine etc.
He is heard making objectionable remarks on the strange birth of a god and obscene jokes of the union between a man and another man, in the guise of a woman. He cracks a crude joke and sings an “item” number from the Telugu movie, Pushpa.
Bairi Naresh is the current president of the Bharata Nasthika Sangham or the Atheist Society of India. Following the registration of a case against him on Friday, Bairi Naresh and a fellow member of the Atheist Society of India, Renjarla Rajesh, were arrested on Saturday (31 December 2022).
The latter, Rajesh’s videos have also been found to be provocative and abusive of Hindu beliefs. Ayyappa devotees, the state’s Hindu organizations and several individual launched a strong protest against Naresh’s remarks after his video went viral, providing the proof the police needed.
The police, who arrested Naresh from Kamalapuram Mandal in Warangal district, brought him to Vikarabad district where he was produced before the court and has been remanded in custody for 14 days.
Naresh alluded to the religious customs of the Ayyappa “deeksha” season, where devotees wear simple black clothing, live on very little and stay away from all material comforts and pleasures for a period of 41 days, in an attempt to focus on spiritual matters, remember the truth of the soul according to Hinduism and re-align the mind and body with the truth of the spirit.
In the video, Naresh is also heard lambasting Hindu parents for introducing and initiating their children into the Ayyappa custom. One wonders why the athiest-rationalist does not dare to talk about the numerous stories of love, lust, incest, betrayal, favoritism, murder and a vengeful God in both Islam and Christianity. Why does he choose not to discuss the Islamic 12 hour, month long fasting period leading up to the Eid festivities where animals are slaughtered enmasse or the fasting period of Lent that the Christians follow where meat is discouraged but fish can be consumed, among other strange instructions.
The abstinence and simple living of the Ayyappa devotees during the 41 day period, with the goal of spiritual seeking and realization, is similar to the intent and spirit of Islamic and Christian periods of recommended fasting, abstinence and simple living without material comforts. Why do Bairi Naresh and his friends not criticize the beliefs and traditions of Islam and Christianity with equal courage and vigour in a “secular” country where atleast in theory, all religions are considered equal? This is the question that every sane person and a true rationalist should ask.
Old videos of Bairi Naresh are back in circulation on social media networks. One of the older videos show Bairi Naresh loudly insulting Lord Ram, ancient Hindu texts and Brahmins in obscene language. Like his more recent video on Lord Ayyappa, the older video is a recording of his speech in Telugu at a meeting of his atheist organization. The language and tone are shockingly inappropriate for a public meeting and highly insulting to Hindu beliefs.
Naresh talks of ancient Hindu rites and customs mentioned in the puranas and vedas like “yagnas” where thousands of revered cows were sacrificed and even eaten by the ‘wily Brahmins’ themselves who later advised other Hindus not to eat cow meat.
He explicitly calls Brahmins, as the original bastards of society (“lanja kodukulu”, a derogatory word in Telugu referring to children born to prostitutes). As if this were not shocking enough, Bairi Naresh goes on to state that if a charater called “Rama” is real Lord Ram is also bastard per many sections of Indian society because he ate all types of meat including beef, married many women or had affairs and tortured Sita devi in plenty of ways!
As expected, this recently surfaced and widely circulated video is also causing angst among the Hindus, who are again questioning the unacceptable attitude of Indian atheists and rationalists where only Hinduism is picked on and insulted in a manner ghat woilc not be tolerated in other nations and among believers of other faiths.
The literal definition of “atheist” is “a person who does not believe in the existence of a god or any gods.” Atheists do not believe in God or a higher power or in a spiritual force of any kind. Atheists in various countries go by alternative, interchangeable names such as rationalists. This is certain true in the case of Indian atheists, many of whom call themselves rationalists, who profess belief only in scientific reasoning, rationale and logical deductions.
If Indian atheists (or ‘rationalists’ as the case may be), do not identify with any God, why are they so bold and so quick to denigrate Hinduism in every way possible but lack the same motivation and courage to denounce aspects of Islamic and Christian beliefs of which there is plenty that go without scientific rationale and evidence? Why do they seem surprisingly hesitant to so much as merely speak of the main premise of Islam and Christianity, with a God that rewards and punishes men like little children and offers them a permanent home with all kinds of earthly material benefits or lack of such benefits in a scientifically unproven heaven hell respectively?
On the other hand, Indian atheists and “seculars” seem to be particularly eager to dismiss or belittle even the highest of philosophical thoughts pertaining to Hinduism such as Meditation or Yoga which have scientifically-proven health benefits for the human mind and body?
It thus becomes clear that these ‘atheists’ or ‘rationalists’ are none but covert agents of conversion with an anti-Hindu agenda. At the very least, by disproportionately cherry-picking on Hinduism, atheists are driving gullible, vulnerable Hindu Indians away from temples and into the waiting arms of proselytizing, missionary, fanatic Christians and Islamists whose conversion agenda, the atheists serve intentionally or unintentionally.
Either way, it is bad news for Hinduism and good news for missionary, evangelist religions like Islam and Christianity and in the end, does not serve the atheist, rationalist’s goal of converting a believer into a non-believer. Instead, Indian atheists are accused of converting Hindu believers into Christian or Muslim believers rather than scientic minded non-believers. Therein lies the problem, that Hindus discuss about and question. The Hindus have had enough of pseudo-atheism and pseudo-secularism. After decades and even centuries of sytemic discrimination and exploitation, the Hindus are finally examining and questioning all probable, ulterior motives of many Indian atheist organizations and their ‘secular’ counterparts.
On a parting note, let us be clear that this has nothing to do with caste! Ig has everyghinb to do intense hatred of one religion, that has been patient for too long. A few apologists and members of the atheist organization are trying to bring the caste factor into something that is clearly wrong and absolutely indecent and unacceptable in civil society. For the record, Naresh belongs to the ‘Padmashali’ community of weavers and Rajesh is a member of the scheduled caste ‘Mala’ community. This is an offence against Indian culture, Hinduism and all Hindus regardless of caste! This is an offense for which anybody regardless of caste, religion and background, would have been arrested.
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The Anti-Hindu Abuses Of “Atheist” Bairi Naresh And The Filth He Represents
On Friday (30 December 2022), a long-time atheist and proclaimed “rationalist”, Bairi Naresh was booked by Telangana police, in a case of hurting Hindu sentiments, based on a widely circulated video recording of his December 16 speech, at an atheist association meeting.
In the video, Naresh is heard referring to Lord Ayyappa’s birth in a disrespectful, derogatory manner.
It is believed that Lord Ayyappa was born out of the union between Lord Shiva and the mythical Mohini, who is also regarded as an avatar of Lord Vishnu. Therefore, Ayyappa is also called as ‘Hariharan Puthiran’ which means the son of both Hari or Vishnu and ‘Haran’ or Shiva.
Bairi Naresh ignores the deeper spiritual meaning behind the story – cosmic union, the negation of gender on higher planes of spiritual development, Lord Ayyappa’s courage, hard work, his principles, impeccable charater being proof of the human soul’s possible achievement of the divine etc.
He is heard making objectionable remarks on the strange birth of a god and obscene jokes of the union between a man and another man, in the guise of a woman. He cracks a crude joke and sings an “item” number from the Telugu movie, Pushpa.
Bairi Naresh is the current president of the Bharata Nasthika Sangham or the Atheist Society of India. Following the registration of a case against him on Friday, Bairi Naresh and a fellow member of the Atheist Society of India, Renjarla Rajesh, were arrested on Saturday (31 December 2022).
The latter, Rajesh’s videos have also been found to be provocative and abusive of Hindu beliefs. Ayyappa devotees, the state’s Hindu organizations and several individual launched a strong protest against Naresh’s remarks after his video went viral, providing the proof the police needed.
The police, who arrested Naresh from Kamalapuram Mandal in Warangal district, brought him to Vikarabad district where he was produced before the court and has been remanded in custody for 14 days.
Naresh alluded to the religious customs of the Ayyappa “deeksha” season, where devotees wear simple black clothing, live on very little and stay away from all material comforts and pleasures for a period of 41 days, in an attempt to focus on spiritual matters, remember the truth of the soul according to Hinduism and re-align the mind and body with the truth of the spirit.
In the video, Naresh is also heard lambasting Hindu parents for introducing and initiating their children into the Ayyappa custom. One wonders why the athiest-rationalist does not dare to talk about the numerous stories of love, lust, incest, betrayal, favoritism, murder and a vengeful God in both Islam and Christianity. Why does he choose not to discuss the Islamic 12 hour, month long fasting period leading up to the Eid festivities where animals are slaughtered enmasse or the fasting period of Lent that the Christians follow where meat is discouraged but fish can be consumed, among other strange instructions.
The abstinence and simple living of the Ayyappa devotees during the 41 day period, with the goal of spiritual seeking and realization, is similar to the intent and spirit of Islamic and Christian periods of recommended fasting, abstinence and simple living without material comforts. Why do Bairi Naresh and his friends not criticize the beliefs and traditions of Islam and Christianity with equal courage and vigour in a “secular” country where atleast in theory, all religions are considered equal? This is the question that every sane person and a true rationalist should ask.
Old videos of Bairi Naresh are back in circulation on social media networks. One of the older videos show Bairi Naresh loudly insulting Lord Ram, ancient Hindu texts and Brahmins in obscene language. Like his more recent video on Lord Ayyappa, the older video is a recording of his speech in Telugu at a meeting of his atheist organization. The language and tone are shockingly inappropriate for a public meeting and highly insulting to Hindu beliefs.
Naresh talks of ancient Hindu rites and customs mentioned in the puranas and vedas like “yagnas” where thousands of revered cows were sacrificed and even eaten by the ‘wily Brahmins’ themselves who later advised other Hindus not to eat cow meat.
He explicitly calls Brahmins, as the original bastards of society (“lanja kodukulu”, a derogatory word in Telugu referring to children born to prostitutes). As if this were not shocking enough, Bairi Naresh goes on to state that if a charater called “Rama” is real Lord Ram is also bastard per many sections of Indian society because he ate all types of meat including beef, married many women or had affairs and tortured Sita devi in plenty of ways!
As expected, this recently surfaced and widely circulated video is also causing angst among the Hindus, who are again questioning the unacceptable attitude of Indian atheists and rationalists where only Hinduism is picked on and insulted in a manner ghat woilc not be tolerated in other nations and among believers of other faiths.
The literal definition of “atheist” is “a person who does not believe in the existence of a god or any gods.” Atheists do not believe in God or a higher power or in a spiritual force of any kind. Atheists in various countries go by alternative, interchangeable names such as rationalists. This is certain true in the case of Indian atheists, many of whom call themselves rationalists, who profess belief only in scientific reasoning, rationale and logical deductions.
If Indian atheists (or ‘rationalists’ as the case may be), do not identify with any God, why are they so bold and so quick to denigrate Hinduism in every way possible but lack the same motivation and courage to denounce aspects of Islamic and Christian beliefs of which there is plenty that go without scientific rationale and evidence? Why do they seem surprisingly hesitant to so much as merely speak of the main premise of Islam and Christianity, with a God that rewards and punishes men like little children and offers them a permanent home with all kinds of earthly material benefits or lack of such benefits in a scientifically unproven heaven hell respectively?
On the other hand, Indian atheists and “seculars” seem to be particularly eager to dismiss or belittle even the highest of philosophical thoughts pertaining to Hinduism such as Meditation or Yoga which have scientifically-proven health benefits for the human mind and body?
It thus becomes clear that these ‘atheists’ or ‘rationalists’ are none but covert agents of conversion with an anti-Hindu agenda. At the very least, by disproportionately cherry-picking on Hinduism, atheists are driving gullible, vulnerable Hindu Indians away from temples and into the waiting arms of proselytizing, missionary, fanatic Christians and Islamists whose conversion agenda, the atheists serve intentionally or unintentionally.
Either way, it is bad news for Hinduism and good news for missionary, evangelist religions like Islam and Christianity and in the end, does not serve the atheist, rationalist’s goal of converting a believer into a non-believer. Instead, Indian atheists are accused of converting Hindu believers into Christian or Muslim believers rather than scientic minded non-believers. Therein lies the problem, that Hindus discuss about and question. The Hindus have had enough of pseudo-atheism and pseudo-secularism. After decades and even centuries of sytemic discrimination and exploitation, the Hindus are finally examining and questioning all probable, ulterior motives of many Indian atheist organizations and their ‘secular’ counterparts.
On a parting note, let us be clear that this has nothing to do with caste! Ig has everyghinb to do intense hatred of one religion, that has been patient for too long. A few apologists and members of the atheist organization are trying to bring the caste factor into something that is clearly wrong and absolutely indecent and unacceptable in civil society. For the record, Naresh belongs to the ‘Padmashali’ community of weavers and Rajesh is a member of the scheduled caste ‘Mala’ community. This is an offence against Indian culture, Hinduism and all Hindus regardless of caste! This is an offense for which anybody regardless of caste, religion and background, would have been arrested.
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