I had the joy of listening to Shreemad Bhaagavath Kathaa by respected Shree Devkinandan Thakurji on a Spiritual TV Channel this evening.
Thakurji mentioned how Western influences have shattered our Ancient Bhaarath Varsh (India) facts. He mentioned Darwin's Theory according to which humans are decendants of monkeys. Our school and college textbooks still contain this Theory. None of our Sanaathana Dharmaa Scriptures mention that we are descendants of monkeys. Our Scriptures clearly mention that Lord Shree Mahaa Vishnu created Lord Brahma and that Lord Brahma created Manu, a male human being and Sathroopaa, a female human being. Let me share an information on Manu and Shathroopaa. Manu and Sathroopaa were the ancestors of all human beings. But oddly enough, none of our school and college textbooks mention this fact.
(When I was studying for my BSc Degree in Voorhees College, Vellore, Tamilnadu, from 1968 to 1971, we had English as Second Language. We had to attempt a compulsory paper on two plays by William Shakespeare. One of the plays was 'As You Like It'. There was a teacher by name B G Swamidoss. Prof Swamidoss was a Christian and had a Doctorate in English Literature. Although he was Christian, he seemed to respect Hinduism. When teaching 'Seven stages of man' in 'As You Like It', he used to ask us "Do you think that your granfather's ancestor was a monkey"? He meant that the belief that our ancestors were monkeys was absurd. As the Professor's face resembled that of M R Radha, a popular film actor of those years, he was popularly known as 'Radha' among his students).
Similarly, the false notion that Robert Cooke discovered that the Earth is spherical, Isaac Newton's discovered the force of gravity, and many other such beliefs were pushed on us by Western Media although these were absurd.
I think that it is high time that our Government looks into these issues and fix problems in our textbooks so that students are not misled.
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Cartoon showing Charles Darwin
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