(PTI)Swami Sandeepananda Giri, the reformist Kerala monk pilloried by trolls after his ashram faced an arson attack on Saturday, has long been a target for Sangh parivar supporters for his liberal view of Hinduism. “The religious fundamentalists see the Bhagavad Gita from the perspective of a war and its travails and trauma. But in those days of the 1990s, the Sangh parivar had little influence in Kerala. “They (the Sangh parivar) perhaps found it difficult to attack me when I was still part of an institution like the Chinmaya Mission. They (the Sangh parivar) interpreted it as an attack on Mata Amritanandamayi,” he said.

Source: The Telegraph October 28, 2018 21:56 UTC