Yoga has been accused in the US of having religious roots, hence unfit to be taught in public schools, and there is court case going on to that effect. The obvious solution is to teach yoga only for its practical value in public schools.
But mathematics too has exactly the same religious roots. So (with our without a court case) the same solution should be applied to math. That was my central message: teach secular ganita for its practical value in public schools, where math is today a compulsory subject, unlike yoga.
But my talk on this in the Abhyas Mandal series, Indore, was badly misreported by five different newspapers. Some reports said the exact contrary of what I said (and the video record backs me). Two got even their headlines wrong. Maybe my presentation was under par. Maybe the analogy was too novel. Anyway, I don’t want to apportion blame, just to clarify what I really wanted to say.
I wrote a fresh article for Naidunia with that title: “सेक्युलर गणित पढ़ायें”, which was published here with a changed title.
In fact, I had written up a whole paper which I have now posted here. The paper also has a picture from my book Euclid and Jesus to make the point that Yogic meditation and math had exactly the same spiritual/religious function.
P.S. A subtle point: I used the term “secular” in the original title of my article, not “religiously neutral” (which is what I meant) just because I could not accept the common translation “धर्मं निरपेक्ष” since “dharma” is not exactly “religion”.