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proving that you are AIDS-negative. So in what way is this old idiot saying that I have brought AIDS to India?
Also he goes on insisting that the untouchables need not go to temples because they are God's only beloved people. If the beloved ones cannot enter into a temple, either God is wrong, or his love is a fallacy, a strategy. At least the Shankaracharya who is saying it, who is himself the head of one of the biggest and most ancient temples, with hundreds of priests there, should lead the harijans, the untouchables, into his temple first.
If he is a man of his word, then he should not be so cunning as to say that untouchables need not enter into the temple because God will meet them outside it. It is a strange strategy. Lovers meet in intimacy inside, it is a special concession. But he goes on insisting that harijans should not enter inside temples and he goes on giving an absolutely absurd reason, that it is because they are God's beloved people.
Anyone with even a small intelligence can see the contradiction. If they are God's people, they should be the first to be allowed and welcomed into the temple. And if they alone are God's people, then they, not brahmins, should be the priests and the Shankaracharyas -- because the Shankaracharya is not saying that brahmins are God's chosen people, God's beloved people.
This old man is either neurotic or perhaps psychotic. They say that the psychotic is a person who believes that two plus two is five and the neurotic is one who knows that two plus two is four, but is very much worried about it -- "Why are they four?"
So he is either neurotic or psychotic -- he can choose whatever he is -- but he certainly needs psychiatric treatment. I don't ask the government to arrest him, I want the government to hospitalize him.
He is such a hilarious fellow, we would love to welcome him here and enjoy the night, it would be a festival time.
I met him only once, twenty years ago in Patna, at a world Hindu conference. We were both sitting side by side on the platform. Looking at him I was thinking that perhaps Charles Darwin is right. And he proved it! When I started speaking, I was
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