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Misinformation on Hinduism

Namasthe:
	I stumbled onto the IndiaMystica CD which has 
information about Hinduism. In it there were quite a 
few things which I found to be pretty misleading.
I would like to get feedback and suggestions from the 
people on SRH on what can be done about it.

1. They say that the Bhagavad Gita was probably 
written by some unknown Brahmin ( How qualified is 
India mystica  to come to some arbitrary conclusion       
about the jaath of a unknown person ?? ). Would
   they have the guts to write something similiar
   about Islam or Christianity.

2. They also say that the Gita was written around
   300AD and it could have been Sri Shankaracharya who 
wrote it.
   - It is very well known that the language in the       
Gita is pre-puranic age. Also it is known because of 
the Guru-Shishya parampara a lot of    texts were 
written down only much later even    though they were 
handed down generations by    Gurus to their 
disciples. By leaving out this    critical piece of 
information, the India mystica    people misinform 
their  readers. Also, this is    the first time that I 
have seen anywhwhere that    Sri Shankaracharya could 
have been its author. 

3. They also say that Sri Krishna advises that a 
persons varna is decided at birth. This is totally 
untrue because in the Gita, Krishna says a person 
belongs to a particular caste depending on his/her 
Gunas.  
However later the loose caste system degenerated into 
the present day caste system becauseof the monopoly of 
brahmins.

 This kind of misinformation to children growing up in 
the US who are trying to find out more about the Hindu 
Dharma is really a disgrace.

There is a lot more misionformation in the CD, which
I am currently planning on going through in detail.
For those of you who are interested, you can look in
the India world web page - http://www.indiaworld.com
and look up a bit of IndiaMystica.

It looks like the IndiaMystica people have culled 
information about Hinduism from books writen by 
western authors and not bothered to look at books by
Indian philosophers and thinkers like Dr. 
Radhakrishan and Sri Rajagopalachari or at 
publications by organizations like Chinmaya Mission or 
Ramakrishna mission.

We all should identify the mistakes and request the
people of IndiaMystica to correct it.

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