The Manusmriti is a Bitter Medicine for the so-called Modern Man

There is nothing to be apologetic about the Manusmriti. In Manu's eyes, the modern man is in a pathetic condition and needs therapy.

THE WHOLE OF MANUSMRITI IS PERVADED by one thought — the thought of the world as a playground of the spirit and of man’s life as a quest after the spirit. The body is both an instrument and an impediment. Divesting the body of its impedimental  character and not rejecting the instrument is the purpose of Dharma.

Life must be lived, but lived to good purp…