Bhagavad GItA

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Dear Fellow MAdhvas:

 

Below is a letter by a member and this where the VMS

TOGETHER with other Hindu organizations can put a stop to the

nonsense degrading our common heritage.

 

Regards,

BN Hebbar

 

- Bharatheesh & Shwetha <sbananth wrote:

>

> Hello all,

>

> My name is Bharatheesh Ananth, I am basically a Madhwa from Udupi. I

> have been living in Pittsburgh for the last couple of years. I have

> joined this list about 2 years back and I have been gaining a lot of

> knowledge from all the Scholars who participate here. I have not sent

> any postings to this till now. I am sending this email to all of you

> since I want everyone on this list to know that Bhagavad-Gita has

> been

> degraded in a recent movie in America.

>

> On Friday, 16th of July 1999, a new movie called 'Eyes Wide Shut'

> was

> released and I went to see this movie with my wife, Shwetha and both

> of

> us were mentally very disturbed after seing that movie. We went to

> that

> movie due to the publicity (hype) it had. It was a lousy movie. It

> doesn't matter to us how the movie is. But one thing that concerns us

> is

> that the makers of that movie HAVE MISUSED OUR SACRED BHAGAVAD-GITA.

> They have used few shlokas of Bhagavadgita (in Sanskrit) as a

> background

> music in a very bad context. I can't explain that scene in public. I

> can just tell you all that it was about a strange cult ritual of rich

> people in New York which was very bad. If you want more details about

> this you can email me directly at sbananth.

>

> We are hurt very much from this and I want all similar thinking

> people

> to protest against this. I am sure all of you would have felt the

> same

> way when you see our Sacred Bhagavad-Gita being degraded. I was not

> sure as to what to do, I spread the word among my other Indian

> friends.

> Hope someone on this list who might have a better way of raising a

> word

> against this, will do so as a community so that such things will not

> be

> repeated.

>

> Best Regards

>

> Bharatheesh Ananth

> Pittsburgh