Being a Bharatiya Hindu I first got the opportunity to read the English version of the Mahabharata and Bhagavad Gita by C. Rajagopalachari, much after I graduated from college. The Westernization of India must not be at the cost of her culture and spirituality. Instead, Indians today take pride in aping the West and adopting a 'secular' creed, which basically makes them soul-less and identity-less.Like the principal U.P. Mishra said; 'Holy scriptures like the Gita guide human beings, their behaviour towards individual, family and society. So by teaching lessons from the Gita we, in a way, are teaching students about the importance of their life and making them realise their responsibilities.
It is very unfortunate that our first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru did not possess the same wisdom else India today would have produced citizens with the true Spirit of the Bhagavad Gita, the will to stand up and physically fight if necessary, to preserve dharma and knowledge.
A great civilization that has always accepted diversity would not have been tryst with such a marred destiny.
A school where Hindus & Muslims study Bhagwad Gita
"Lucknow, Dec 26 (IANS) Schools across the country may have modified textbooks over the decades, but an institution in Lucknow has persisted with the Bhagavad Gita as a moral science textbook for the last 75 years. Hindu as well as Muslim students have to study it.
Besides being the 'prescribed book' for the moral science subject, the Holy Scripture is also a compulsory subject for all students of Gita Vidyalaya in the Babuganj area here.
'Holy scriptures like the Gita guide human beings, their behaviour towards individual, family and society. So by teaching lessons from the Gita we, in a way, are teaching students about the importance of their life and making them realise their responsibilities,' school principal U.P. Mishra told IANS. "
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