yudhiShThira
he who did not foresake truth for the longest time - though lacking in kShatra, appropriately the subject of ridicule by kRShNa and bhIma on occasions.
chikkadevarAya
who joined mogols against the marAThas because they stifled his expansion in the south, called aurangazeba as good emperor in his work abt sri vaishnava philosphy.
Religious idiots
Popular claims of this class includes: “All religions are equal.” “Idolatory is stupid.”
chakradhara
(originally a brahmin haripaldeva who came under the influence of a heterodox saint govinda prabhu), whose mAnabhAv (mahAnubhAva) cult spread havoc in the yAdava kingdom prior its decimation at muslim hands. [MT]
basavaNNa
who refused upanayana, found refuge with kAlAmukha-s, started spouting “all men are equal, caste is bad”, led to increased social upheaval, which contributed to weakening of hindu principalities before the coming of the bearded barbarians. Even his own employer vijyAla (aka bijjala), the chAlukyan mahAmaNDaleshvara was killed and his kingdom went through “upaplava”. Even basvaNNa was very distraught at what his minions wrought on his patron vijyAla - but too late. basavaNNa’s degeneracy was a betrayal of the orthodox kAlAmukha guru lineage which gave him refuge and guidence.
guru nAnak
founder of the proto-islamophile-sickular sIkh sect.
rAjA-rAm mOhan Roy
social reformer who rebelled against sati, but was otherwise flawed.
rAmakRShNa-paramahamsa
[Harmony of religions teaching], who inspired the great hindu propagandist svAmin vivekAnanda.
Subramania bhAratI
classic IYI, great polyglot, musical and poetic prodigy, who failed to see the benefit of jAti/varNa-pride, repudiated his brAhmaNa varNa, took to imitating sikh-s, wrote in praise of jesus and allah as well as the deva-s.
mOhanadAsa
gAndhI; a politician with great self-consciousness and personal integrity, a pioneer in civil disobidience, economic boycott, and non cooperation with the British invaders and of hunger strikes in convincing fellow Indians, while retaining non violence and hence greater respectability; a flawed person with a flawed social, economic and religious philosophy, who held racist attitudes against blacks, slept with young women to test his self control, thought all religions were “equal”, preached non violence of Jews towards Nazis.
satya sAyi bAba
the “vibhuti from thin air” trickster, who had some positive social impact in creating good hospitals and colleges, but was nevertheless a proponent of the “Honor and respect all religions as pathways to God.” nonsense.