People will not change conduct until they stop believing the shastras are sacred

Evidence

Reformers working for the removal of untouchability, including Mahatma Gandhi, do not seem to realise that the acts of the people are merely the results of their beliefs inculcated in their minds by the shastras, and that people will not change their conduct until they cease to believe in the sanctity of the shastras on which their conduct is founded. — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 952

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

Related

• Gandhi’s untouchability reform fails for leaving shastra sanctity unquestioned. (similarity 0.88)
• Abolishing caste requires destroying the sacred authority of shastras (similarity 0.85)
• Caste derives authority from shastras believed to be divinely commanded (similarity 0.83)
• Learned savarna Hindus must reinterpret scripture to correct caste conduct. (similarity 0.82)
• Reform of caste requires denying scriptural authority, not reinterpreting it (similarity 0.82)
• Calling dharma law instead of religion makes people accept that it can change (similarity 0.82)
• Because caste is scripturally fixed, reason cannot reform it. (similarity 0.82)
• Caste observance stems from religious belief, not human malice. (similarity 0.81)
• Only destroying shastra-based religion can break the caste system. (similarity 0.81)
• Destroying caste means destroying shastra and Veda authority, a near-impossible task. (similarity 0.81)
• Rejecting the shastras while remaining Hindu is logically untenable. (similarity 0.81)
• Destroying caste requires denying shastra authority outright, as Buddha and Nanak did. (similarity 0.81)
• Ambedkar demanded Hindus deny shastra authority, following Buddha and Nanak (similarity 0.81)
• How scriptures are popularly understood, not their literal text, determines social effect (similarity 0.81)
• Textual authenticity of scriptures is irrelevant to how the masses actually practice caste (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Caste’s reform requires destroying the divine authority of the shastras and Vedas #exemplifies (0.85) — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 957
• Scriptural authenticity is irrelevant because the masses obey shastras as told to them #corroborates (0.80)
• Rejecting the shastras while remaining Hindu is logically untenable. #expands (0.65) — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 1211