Justice Srimathy also rejected the State’s attempt to justify the Minister’s remarks by citing historical and spiritual figures allegedly critical of Sanathana Dharma, calling such reliance misinformed.
The Court noted that Mahatma Gandhi had repeatedly declared himself a Sanathani Hindu, had read the Bhagavad Gita, Ramayana, Mahabharata and Manusmriti, and identified ahimsa as his core virtue. Gandhi, the Court held, could not be portrayed as being against Sanathana Dharma.
K Kamaraj was a devout Hindu who sang bhajans of Lord Murugan, while Buddha critical of certain Vedic practices, pursued a spiritual path deeply rooted in Indian philosophical traditions and therefore, could…