One reason why our scriptures and philosophical texts have survived the ravages of time and scepticism and even intolerance is that they intended welfare and blessedness for all without any sort of discrimination. Wherever we have found schism it was, only because some interpreters and leaders of thought who appeared later tried to interpret the texts to further their own local interests and short-lived personal ambition. The fallacy was not in the texts but in the minds of the interpreters. See how many commentaries are there on Gita. I have personally seen more than fifty in Sanskrit, and even larger number in Malayalam. Moreover, different people interpret the same slokam in Gita in diametrically opposite manner in these varied versions. This applies to Upanishads and other texts too.
Can you erase the spirit of Gayatri from a Hindu mind? It just prays to the eternal source of energy to kindle the mind and intellect of ALL OF US and not only the one who makes the prayer.
Where else can you find such a noble prayer in just 24 letters?
In Vedas, our ancestors confessed their inability to understand and measure the effulgent powers of the Supreme and left many things as just questions. In addition, they never tried to define things that they could not comprehend. Such a string of noble thoughts should survive forever and ever.
Just think of the Naishadeeya Sookthams in Rigveda.
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