Unmasking Religions. A Dharmic Response: A Guide to Hindu Shastras: A Dharmic Response - Mukul Kulshrestha

Unmasking Religions: A Dharmic Response is a bold and probing inquiry into the fundamental difference between dharma and religion. While dharma manifests as a universal cosmic discovery-timeless, experiential, and rooted in the natural order-religions, the book argues, are entirely self-serving inventions shaped by history, politics, power, and doctrine meant exclusively for humans.

The work examines how proselytizing religions inflicted profound damage on both Nature and femininity as they expanded beyond their places of origin into pagan and Nature-centric

civilizations. This expansion, the author contends, ushered in a worldview marked by domination, violence, chaos, and the characteristic gloom of adharma. The book then traces the origins and evolving attributes of the Lord God of these religions, following the historical transformation of the deity, who started His journey from within a dharmic milieu but eventually broke away decisively from the very foundations of dharma.

In its final section, the book presents a striking inversion: human-invented religions are contrasted with the cosmic understanding of dharma that sustained Nature-worshipping societies for millennia. Through this comparison, readers are confronted with clear and unambiguous manifestations of adharma within religions, a reality that is seldom acknowledged or discussed in mainstream discourse.

Ultimately, the book seeks to offer a framework for Hindu society to recognize adharma masquerading as dharma, to name it without hesitation, and to rejuvenate itself by returning to dharma, taking refuge in its timeless, ageless, and life-sustaining, divinity- infused values.

A Dharmic Response is the first volume in a two-part work. Its sequel, Defilement of the Divine Pagan Planet, completes the inquiry. Together, the two books examine religions through the dual lenses of dharma and history, revealing how these traditions have profoundly shaped the contemporary world even as humanity continues to struggle to distinguish dharma from adharma.