The Bengali Shastras are the Vamachara Tantras.
They are published by the cart-load, and you poison the minds of your children with them instead of teaching them your Shrutis.
Fathers of Calcutta, do you not feel ashamed that such horrible stuff as these Vamachara Tantras, with translations too, should be put into the hands of your boys and girls, and their minds poisoned, and that they should be brought up with the idea that these are the Shastras of the Hindus?
If you are ashamed, take them away from your children, and let them read the true Shastras, the Vedas, the Gita, the Upanishads.
- Swami Vivekananda,
Address at Calcutta (1897),
Lectures From Colombo to Almora
They are published by the cart-load, and you poison the minds of your children with them instead of teaching them your Shrutis.
Fathers of Calcutta, do you not feel ashamed that such horrible stuff as these Vamachara Tantras, with translations too, should be put into the hands of your boys and girls, and their minds poisoned, and that they should be brought up with the idea that these are the Shastras of the Hindus?
If you are ashamed, take them away from your children, and let them read the true Shastras, the Vedas, the Gita, the Upanishads.
- Swami Vivekananda,
Address at Calcutta (1897),
Lectures From Colombo to Almora
[Note: In 19th Century Bengal this problem of Vamachara texts and practices was rampant.]
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