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It is a matter of great concern that textbooks published by NCERT
teach that the Aryans and early Indians were beef -eaters and this issue is
also part of a writ petition (17909-13/200500) filed by Shri D.N.Batra & others
against Union of India & others in Delhi High Court. Recently, in Mid
September, 2006, during a discussion on the NDTV channel on the issue of
the remarks by Pope Benedict XVI who quoted a 14th century Byzantine
Christian emperor saying " Show me just what Mohammed brought that
was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his
command to spread by the sword the faith he preached", Shri Rajendra
Yadav, a noted Hindi writer remarked that the phrase `krinvanto vishwam
aryam" also smacked expansion of Hinduism and further emphasized that
Sri Bhagwadgita also propagated war. Here are the glaring cases of
misinterpretation and misrepresentation by an ill informed person who needs
to be educated that the term arya does not depict any faith/race or religion
and it only means a man of virtue and the entire dictum is a clarion call to
turn all the inhabitants of this globe to be virtuous beings. Regarding
Bhagwadgita even a layman knows that it is a part of the scripture
Mahabharata and it contains the sermon Yogeshwar Krishna gave to Arjuna
in the battlefield who refused to fight with his own kith and kin and it contains
the entire philosophy of our existence or being and educates Arjuna to fight
against adharma or injustice and it is far from being a scripture propagating
war as deduced by Shri Yaday. It is really an irony that such observations
remain uncontested by us and the native Indians known as Hindus and
descendants of the ancient Aryavarta remain mute spectators. Now Rama
and Krishna who form the basic fabric of our society are being described as
myths and it is an alarm for the majority community and the native Indians
to wake up and guard themselves. The Aryasamaj in particular and other
Hindu organizations should take a lead in this direction. Swami Dayanand
Saraswati (1825-1883), founder of the Aryasamaj applied the yardstick of
Vedas to all the major faiths/religions of the world and also focused on the
prevailing social evils of the Indian Society in his famous book entitled
"satyarthprakash" and this book answers all the misinformation and should
be read by persons like Shri Yadav and all those who believe in rationality
and don't want to be blind followers.
CONTROVERSIAL BOOK BY MR. D. N. JHA
Further, it is a matter of great concern to us that the leftist historians
have taken upon themselves to prove that even the Vedas and other Hindu
scriptures endorse beef eating and recently in this regard two articles by
Mr.D.N.Jha in the Hindustan Times dated 17th-18th December, 2001 entitled
"Paradox of the Indian cow" followed by his book entitled "The Myth of the
holy cow" published by Verso Books, London in 2002 were brought out to
impress that the Hindus worshipped cow as their mother whereas their
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