9-BOOK REVIEW: THE TRUTH ABOUT THE GITA: (part 2)
V.R.NARLA (1988) [229P] NARLA INSTITUTE OF NEW THOUGHT
THE TRUTH ABOUT THE GITA – A CLOSER LOOK AT HINDU SCRIPTURE: V.R.NARLA (INTRO
BY)INNAIAH NARISETTI (2010) [230P] ISBN:          161641832 WWW.PROMETHEUSBOOKS.COM [1]
BOOK REVIEW: KAVNEET SINGH
Chapter 2 – False Signposts
_The Vikram Era, for instance, is said to have begun in 58-57 B.C. Who is this Vikram_ _after whom the Era is named?......The 2000th_ _anniversary of Vikram was celebrated with_ _due pomp in 1943……None_ _of the mutually contradictory essays in such volumes proves_
_anything beyond the will to believe…….When the chronology of ancient India is so_ _uncertain, so hazy, even when we come down to historical times, is it not useless to try to_ _fix a period for the persons and events mentioned in our two epics…….[Pages 48-49]_
It is extremely clear that there is no proof of valid dates anywhere in the Hindu epics yet the word ‘yug’ is used many times. The word ‘yug’ literally means millions of years, when the fact is that modern man only existed, starting around 200,000 years ago. _And they end up by laying down stringent rules which govern a man’s life…..for they tell_ _him how to find his way to heaven, and once there, how to make a beeline for thegorgeous bedroom of a gorgeous Ramba or a Maneka or a Tilottama or a Varudgini of_ _–_ _well, he has a wide choice……[Page 50]_
The end result of man, according to the Hindu texts is, if he apparently does land in ‘heaven’ is to have ravenous sex with all the heavenly maidens available for his pleasure._Through all myths and mythologies, to whichever nation they may belong, are_
_intrinsically nasty, ours are easily the worst from a moral point of view. Furthermore,_ _they are most undependable as sources of history……[Page 51]_
Religions can only be measured against the touchstone of morals and ethics. If Hindu religious texts are to be examined with that yardstick then they become mostly obscene to the profane with extremely little left of value for the betterment of mankind. _No valid distinction between history and mythology and naturally there was a tendency to_ _confuse the two, to mythologize history and to give mythology an historical garb. We can_ _thus see why there was a total lack of historical sense among the Brahmans who_
_composed the_ _brahminical literature…….[Page 53]_
Brahmins when it comes to their Religion have a dirty habit of suddenly pretending to lose all their faculties, instead painting all the Hindu texts with a broad brush of historical truth when absolutely none exists