Learn Gita or quit India” said BJP ministry education minister. Primary and Secondary Education Minister Vishwanath Hegde Kageri said that those opposing the Gita teaching should quit India. The student wing of CPM and Congress has gone the war path.
He had announced that the government was “open to making Bhagvad Gita teaching compulsory in schools”. Higher Education Minister V.S. Acharya was of the opnion that the programme should not be seen as religious teaching.”There is no connection between Bhagavad Gita and religion. Gita has more to do with human values,” Acharya asserted.
Karnataka State Minorities Educational Institutions Managements Federation went to court challenging the official support to the programme. The court sought the response of the state and the central governments. The ministry toned down the reaction by stating that it was not financially supporting it and was only exhorting students to attend the Gita class after class hours. It was purely optional. The programme is conducted by Sri Gangadharendra Saraswati Swami of Sonda Swarnavalli ‘Math’ in Sirsi in Uttara Kannada district, about 430 km from Bangalore.
Shri Shrimajjagadguru Shankaracharya Shri Sonda Swarnavalli Mahasamsthanam is situated amidst evergreen forests near Shalmala river in Sirsi Taluk of Uttara Kannada district in Karnataka, is a famous religious centre and history can be traced back to the period of Adi Shankara who professed Advaita (Non-Dualism) philosophy, established Maths to propagate it.
Shri Vishwavandya Saraswati, the first Guru of this Peetha was blessed by Adi Shankara. The Math was founded in Dashashwamedhaghat at Kashi, and later shifted to Ujjaini, Gokarna, Kadtoke, Sahasralinga and the present Swarnavalli, respectively.
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