Example Sentences:

Ramayana:  Though Brahmanas are undoubtedly powerful and respected throughout the Ramayana’s landscape, there is no evidence of clericalism because the Brahmanas were organically serving at different places not organizationally sent to those places by any central authority.

Mahabharata:  Shringi’s cursing of Arjuna’s grandson, Parikshit, is the major abuse of priestly power that has led to the clericalism characterizing this current age of Kali.

Bhagavad-gita:  By the Gita’s concluding call to give up all religious formularies that don’t aid in loving surrender to the Lord, it provides an inbuilt protection from clericalism.