Суд над Бхагавад-гитой / Attempt to ban Bhagavad-gita

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Gita is a path to spiritual progress, please dontban Gita.

Simply disallowing people to read books because you want to control them is cruelty. People are not animals, they should be allowed to read what they please. There is no ban on so many things that should be banned. The ban on Gita is baseless - there is no reason other than political agenda for such a ban. People must not stand for it. Whatever happened to freedom?

This is great book

За Гиту!

without Prabhupada's Commentary on Bhagvada Gita, we can not understand it. Do Not ban Bhagavada Gita As It Is.

DO Not Ban BG as it is.

so bad

Please DO NOT BAN BHAGAVADA GITA AS IT IS

PLS DO NOT BAN BHAGAVADA GITA AS IT IS

The great scanity of Ghagavad Gita which is ideal thoughts of Lord KRISHNA to be upheld all over the world.

not to ban

'Srimad Bhagabatgita' is a WAY OF ACHIEVING SALVATION THROUGH HUMANATARIAN METHOD , A METHOD ACIEVABLE BY HUMANS !
It clashes with EVIL THOUGHTS AND THEREFORE ALWAYS EVIL THINKING PERSONS WILL OPPOSE IT!
LET GOVT NOT SUPPORT BAN IF IT REALLY WORKS FOR HUMANITY!

Не позорьте страну! Не оскорбляйте чувства верующих! Суд над этой священной книгой просто недопустим!!!

Явно заказной процесс

Please don't ban..Gita is for all religion

Bhagavad-gita As It Is will be show our life back to god.

With Bhaghwat Gita, we cannot live.

without Bhagwat Gita, We cannot live

Hare Krishna!

Hare Krishna

Суд над священными писаниями -это отсутсвие разума.Завтра кому-то захочется судить Библию или Коран.

http://bharatabharati.wordpress.com/2011/12/26/bhagava-gita-ban-russian-church-has-not-learned-its-lesson-ravi-shankar-etteth/
Bhagavad Gita Ban: Russian Church has not learned its lesson from history – Ravi Shankar Etteth

“According to International Religious Freedom Report 2006 and the CIA Fact Book, there are only 60,792 Hindus in Russia — constituting 0.043 per cent of the population. Curiosity often engenders faith. By banning the Gita, the Russian Church may achieve the exact opposite of what it wants —a Hindu samizdat read by Russians. As Lord Krishna says in the Gita, ‘I am justice: clear, impartial, favouring no one, hating no one. But in those who have cured themselves of selfishness, I shine with brilliance.’” – Ravi Shankar Etteth

Books can be scary. They can threaten politicians, governments and religions. The call to ban the Bhagavad Gita in Russia exemplifies this ancient fear psychosis. After 69 years of state per-secution under the Communists, it is ironic that the Russian Orthodox Church is emulating its former per-secutors. Its agent Victor Fyodotov, the public prosecutor of Tomsk, is the kind of apparatchik Lenin and Stalin used to suppress Christianity and its clerics.

Fyodotov is only borrowing from the pages of his country’s history. The Russian Orthodox Church is insecure, fearing Hinduism would make inroads into its base. The confusion is compounded whether it is the Gita it wants to banish or only the Russian translation written by Swami Prabhupada, the International Society for Krishna Consciousness founder. Fear has always ruled Russian history, in which religion has played an integral role: Peter the Great declared all church property as state property and overthrew the centralized patriarchate; Lenin, Stalin and Khrushchev murdered priests and believers en masse.

In 1917, USSR’s Marxist-Leninist ideology declared atheism as official national doctrine. The first target of Soviet Russia’s red rulers was the Russian Orthodox Church, to be followed by other religions. Lenin ordered all churches, temples and mosques to be destroyed and the buildings be declared state property. To achieve his means, he set up the People’s Commissariat for Enlightenment in 1917. Under its aegis, all academic curricula was purged of religious instruction. The church was stripped of legal status and the right to own property. “The teaching of religious doctrines in all the state and public, as well as private educational institutions where general subjects are taught shall not be permitted,” Lenin’s decree stated. The Red Army launched violent anti-religious pogroms, killing priests and vandalising places of worship. According to Lenin’s biographer Christopher Read, 322 bishops and priests were murdered in 1916. The bloodbath wiped out 102 priests, 154 deacons, and 94 monks and nuns. Between 1916 and 1921, 28 Russian Orthodox bishops and over 1,200 Russian Orthodox priests were killed. Romanian historian Adrian Cioroianu notes execution, torture of believers and priests were official policy; many were sent to lunatic asylums or Gulag labour camps like Svirlag and Solovki. Between 1927 and 1940, the number of churches in Russia had declined to less than 500 from 29,584. It was a gruesome irony that freedom to believe was part of the Soviet Constitution. Religion went underground: according to post-glasnot official Soviet figures, one-third of urban and two-thirds of rural Russia continued to be religious in private in spite of the repression. The per-secution unleashed by the Soviet state gave birth to samizdat — the first underground dissident literature in Russia — and believers distributed religious canons in secret.

This is Russia’s legacy of faith, one from which the church and Fyodotov seemingly draw inspiration from. As Marx said, ideas and personalities, as it were, occur twice in history: first as tragedy and the second as farce. According to International Religious Freedom Report 2006 and the CIA Fact Book, there are only 60,792 Hindus in Russia — constituting 0.043 per cent of the population. Curiosity often engenders faith. By banning the Gita, the Russian church may achieve the exact opposite of what it wants —a Hindu samizdat read by Russians. As Lord Krishna says in the Gita, “I am justice: clear, impartial, favouring no one, hating no one.But in those who have cured themselves of selfishness, I shine with brilliance.”

The word of god has many languages, but it has only one meaning. – The New Indian Express, Chennai, Dec. 25, 2011

Holy Gita waiting for verdict in Russia

RAMESH KUMAR SHARMA

Not only 15,000 strong Indian community and 0.1 million strong ISKCON community in Russia but also the Russian citizens, in general, are stunned and waiting for the Tomsk court’s verdict over a plea to ban the Holy Gita

The Russian version of Prabhupada’s commentary on Gita ‘Bhagwad Gita As It is’ has been read, chanted and quoted there since the last two decades. As a favourite with Leo Tolstoy, the Indian holy book Gita has always been respectfully reviewed by the Russian scholars. Not only Gita but Indian scriptures, in general, are accepted and studied with keen interest by the Russians. Pushkin imbibed love for Ramayana while Tatyana Elizerankova, the famous Russian Indologist, was drawn to Vedas. Therefore a citizen of Russia is not able to understand the logic behind litigation to ban Gita moved in a Siberian city Tomsk in June 2011 which is moved by the Tomsk Public Prosecutor Victor Fyodotovo at the persuasion of local church.

It is really cumbersome even to believe that there might be any reason to ban the Bhagavad Gita or its translation which is most widely read throughout the world. Gita’s 80 million copies in 80 languages are, at present, covering the entire Earth surface. ‘Not just a book, truly the life’ has been the expression of eminent personalities like Einstein and Schopenhauer for Gita. Then how it is extremist literature and calls for hostile activities against any social or religious group, this self originating question nowadays have inspired many people to read Gita and particularly ponder over the passage from Prabhupada’s ‘Bhagavad Gita As It Is’ quoted in the complaint, which is as follows –

“Those who, out of envy, disregard these teachings and do not practise them regularly are to be considered bereft of all knowledge, befooled and doomed to ignorance and bondage.”

The Tomsk court was set to pronounce its final verdict on 19th December 2011 in this case. But verdict pronouncement has been suspended till 28th December. Earlier too, the hearing was postponed as the judge Galina Butenko observed that the evidence cited was insufficient for the case and referred the matter to experts from the Kemerovo State University.

The Hindu studies expert Boris Falikov feels that the charge was absurd and says, “The translation and comments made by Swami Prabhupada was called extremist because the quotes were taken out of context.” According to him the plea to ban Gita has no scientific foundation and using such a nonscientific approach, somebody can call the Quran or the Bible extremist literature.

Here, in India, the Mumbai High Court hearing public interest litigation has asked central government to consider representation in Russia regarding Gita ban case and External Affairs Minister SM Krishna, on 20th December, assured Parliament that India has asked Russia to resolve the Bhagavad Gita controversy. The same day Russia expressed sadness over the move to ban Gita in Siberia.

“Russia, as it is known to anyone, is a secular and democratic country where all religions enjoy equal respect. Even more applicable it is to the holy scriptures of various faiths – whether it is the Bible, Quran, Torah, Avesta or, of course, Gita – the great source of wisdom for the people of India and the world,” Alexander M Kadakin, Russian Ambassador in India, said in a statement here.

Kadakin expressd wonder, “It is not normal when religious books are sent for examination to ignorant people. Their academic scrutiny should be done at scientists’ forums, congresses, seminars etc. but not in courts.” He opined firmly, “I consider it categorically inadmissible when any holy scripture is taken to the courts.”

Whatever be, now, when the hearing over the “inadmissible” petition is almost complete, the entire world is curiously waiting for the Tomsk court verdict on Gita ban case set to be pronounced on 28th December.
http://www.pravasitoday.com/holy-gita-waiting-for-verdict-in-russia

это безумие!судить Кришну и победить Его,невозможно!!!Кришна,я с тобой!буду молиться за тебя!!!