Many Indians have been to English medium schools and this has led them to the habit of thinking in English and also treating English as their primary language. This is exactly what Thomas Babbington Macaulay had envisioned. On the 25th of February 1835, he got the English Education Act passed by the Council of British India, and this education system continues until this day. In the minutes of his meeting, Macaulay made the following outrageous statement. He said, “It is, I believe, no exaggeration to say that all the historical information which has been collected from all the books written in the Sanskrit language is less valuable than what may be found in the most paltry abridgement used at preparatory schools in England.”
As this system of education continued, Indians gave more importance to the English language, and they stopped working on developing their own languages. Whenever Indians who went to English medium schools, came across texts in other languages including Sanskrit, they preferred to get it translated into English in order to understand them.
There have always been people from the West, claiming to be Indologists, who travelled to India often and made many Indians believe that they knew more about India than Indians did! Of course, there is a lot of philosophical illiteracy in India and this weakness of Indians acts in favour of Western ‘Indologists’ who study a couple of scriptures and claim to have mastered them. When Indians come across Westerners who show interest in India and in Indian traditions, they feel flattered and start believing whatever they say. They even start asking the Western Indologists to ‘teach’ them about Indian history! The basic philosophy of the Sanatana Dharma causes people to assume that other religions too preach the same truth. This is one of the main problems which foreign forces see as a fault line in the Indian philosophy and traditions. This is enough for them to plan and execute an offensive against India and its people. Inherent qualities of Indians, such as hospitality and the readiness to welcome and help outsiders, are advantageous to foreign ‘scholars’ whose brains are already soaked in Abrahamic ideas. Many of them actually truly believe in Abrahamic chronology. They claim to research history, and they declare their ‘findings’ which mysteriously ‘coincide’ with the biblical chronology and stories.
Due to the necessity of understanding Sanskrit scriptures through the English language, Indians tend to be dependent on so called Indologists from the West. Those ‘Indologists’ take the help of a few Indian people and translate Indian scriptures into English. However, the most important aspect that should never be overlooked is the fact that most Westerners are raised as Christians. Christianity, like the other two major Abrahamic religions, is dualistic and totalitarian. There is absolutely no room for discussion or questioning. It is difficult for people who are brought up and educated based on a dualistic concept to fully comprehend and sense the non-dualistic philosophy of the Sanatana Dharma and also write about it. This is where translation suffers and leads to the blending of Sanatani culture into foreign belief systems.
Osho once asked how anyone can understand something without experiencing it. He also said, how can one explain the taste of sugar to someone who has not tasted sweetness at all. There is no concept of nothingness in Abrahamic religions.
Those dualistic religions teach that on Judgement Day, the decomposed bodies of all the people who lived in the world will be resurrected in order to face judgement! That is when it would be decided whether they would go to heaven or to hell. Whereas, ‘god’, according to the Sanatana Dharma, is known as Brahman (not Brahma), the all-pervading Existence-Consciousness-Bliss. As one evolves through the study of the Vedas, one arrives at the Upanishads, the highest stage of spiritual learning, which is known as Vedanta or the goal, peak and end of the Vedas.
It is important to remember that sounding English while speaking it and possessing a good command of it are two completely different matters. Indians may not sound English while speaking English, but what has that got to do with their knowledge of the language. Indians don’t need people from the West to translate their own Indian 
scriptures into English. The ‘god’ concept followed by those from Abrahamic faiths is totally different from the one according to the Sanatana Dharma. Therefore, reading Indian scriptures translated into English by Westerners or anyone from a dualistic religious background is not advisable at all.
One of the Western Indologists called Max Mueller, who was one of the founding fathers of the Aryan invasion theory along with Bloomsfield and Ralph Griffith, did his part in translating the Vedas into English. In fact, the mistranslating they did continues to influence the minds of Indians even now. They made very derogatory remarks about India, Indians, Sanatana Dharma and the Vedas and yet people like Max Mueller are highly respected in India! They wrote twisted facts and sheer nonsense about the ‘Varna system’, consumption of beef, etc. which, they used to divide Indians and rule over them. Someone suggested that I should consider promoting the reading of the Srimad Bhagavad Gita translated into English by an American! Why on earth would I do that? I was raised in a traditional Sanatani family, and was taught about the Sanatana Dharma, Sanskrit and Yoga by my orthodox parents, and I don’t need someone from the West to tell me about my Dharma.
For Indians who went to English medium schools, the best way to read and 
understand the Srimad Bhagavad Gita would be to first read simple English translations of the Shlokas, followed by translations into their own languages. Reading of interpretations by great scholars may be done only after a fundamental understanding of the SBG is formed in the reader’s mind based on his or her own understanding. This prevents the reader from being influenced by somebody else’s thoughts, opinions and interpretations. Freedom
of thought and the right to questioning are inherent parts of Bhagavan Krishna’s teachings. It is absolutely important for Indian youth and children to read and understand The Srimad Bhagavad Gita and completely remove the thought from the mind that all other religions teach the same thing!
Indians need to be very wary of all those from the West who enter Indian society in the garb of being enthusiasts of the Sanatana Dharma/ Hinduism or devotees of Krishna. Indians never go around telling others to convert to Sanatana Dharma. As a matter of fact, there isn’t even any conversion procedure or ceremony in the Dharma. Anyone who feels one with nature accepts and respects the Paramatma to be everywhere and is willing to lead a Dharmic life is automatically a Sanatani and is on the right path towards Karmic evolution.
Study the Srimad Bhagavad Gita all by yourself and change your life, forever.
Jai Shri Krishna
Tavamithram Sarvada 