Did you hear this?

[Vidyasankar Sundaresan]

>communalists still proceed with their venture. Those who are against them
>ideologically are evaded. Recently, an international Bhagavad Gita seminar
>was organised in my city, Trivandrum. As everyone knows, Gita is one of the
>Prasthanatraya on which Vedanta is based. My centre, the Centre for Vedanta
>Studies, of the University of Kerala, which is a unique centre, was not
>even informed about the event, not to speak of being invited to

Dear Prof. Nair,

You probably got off better for not having been invited/informed.
This was the "international conference" that "unanimously" passed
a resolution to label the Gita as India's "national scripture" -
a very stupid attempt to create an illusion of a "kitAbI" religion.
The range of people associated with this "international conference"
was amazing - from Justice V. R. Krishna Iyer of Marxist sympathies
to a few contemporary Swamis with VHP sympathies. I doubt if any
sensible person would have been able to make a positive impact
upon such strange bedfellows. Not that the said "conference" has
made an impact upon anything in India, besides passing meaningless
resolutions.

Vidyasankar

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