Many
people have helped encourage me to do this type of book and I am
grateful for all their help. Most notably I would like to thank the
Hindu Students Council (HSC) of America and the National Hindu
Students Forum (NHSF) of Great Britain for their interest and
support, as well as Ashok Chowgule of the Hindu Vivek Kendra in
Mumbai. These groups are doing excellent work with the media and the
Internet to promote a fair presentation of Hindu Dharma, and are
living examples of the work I am encouraging Hindus to take up in
this book.
Finally I would like to dedicate the
book to my friend and teacher Dr. B.L. Vashta of Mumbai and Pune
(1919-1997), an important thinker and journalist in the field of
Hinduism, who introduced me into this greater study and encouraged
my activity within it, and who remains as a constant inspiration to
help carry it further. For those who know Hindu Dharma its teachings
and its teachers are not limited by death.
David Frawley (Vamadeva
Shastri)
Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
December 1997
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