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  • Where Are Manuscripts Of Vedas

    The Vedas, the Scriptures of the Hindus are voluminous.

     

    They were not written by any one but grasped from Ether.

     

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    Tradition of Vedic Chanting.

     

    (Image copyright Indira Gandhi National Center for Arts)

     

    There are four Vedas, Rig,Yajur, Sama and Atharva .

     

    In addition to this, we have Upavedas,Vedangas,Parisista,  not to speak of the Smritis.

     

    Of this lot this is what has been collected.

     

    “The complete corpus of Vedic mantras as collected in Bloomfield‘s Vedic Concordance (1907) consists of some 89,000 padas (metrical feet), of which 72,000 occur in the four Samhitas”

     

    This is only for the Samhitas.

     

    Brahmanas,Aranyakas,Upanishads remain.

     

    There seems to be no information on when the Vedas were written in the form of manuscripts.

     

    The Digitized copies  of The Rigveda Brahmanas: the Aitareya and Kausītaki Brāhmanas of the Rigveda are in American Libraries.

     

    (Link provided below).

     

    1. Rgvedasamhita
      Accession No. : 5/1875-76
      Material : Birch Bark
      Uniqueness / Pecularity : The manuscript was used by Prof. F. Max Müller for the edition of the Rgveda with Sayana’s commentary. The manuscript is a beautiful specimen of the old style Manuscript of Kashmir.
    2. Bhagavata Purana
      Accession No. : 61/1907-1915
      No. of Illustrations : 128
      Uniqueness / Pecularity : It is one of the most precious mss. of the Institute’s collection. It contains 128 beautiful paintings in color.

     

    These are Thirty Volumes of Rig Veda Samhitas which Max Mueller had quoted and wrote his Books upon.

     

    Rest of the manuscripts’ whereabouts not known despite claims that they are in Germany, US do not seem to hold, as far as I could fathom.

     

    Readers may contribute.

     

    The best that had happened to Hinduism is that they have not been written but transmitted Orally.

     

    That is the reason they have survived.

     

    Hope efforts have been made to preserve available oral material has been saved.

     

     

    The Vedas on UNESCO Register.

     

    The Vedas comprise a vast corpus of Sanskrit poetry, philosophical dialogue, myth, and ritual incantations developed and composed by Aryans over 3,500 years ago. Regarded by Hindus as the primary source of knowledge and the sacred foundation of their religion, the Vedas embody one of the world’s oldest surviving cultural traditions.

    The Vedic heritage embraces a multitude of texts and interpretations collected in four Vedas, commonly referred to as “books of knowledge” even though they have been transmitted orally. The Rig Veda is an anthology of sacred hymns; the Sama Veda features musical arrangements of hymns from the Rig Veda and other sources; the Yajur Veda abounds in prayers and sacrificial formulae used by priests; and the Atharna Veda includes incantations and spells. The Vedas also offer insight into the history of Hinduism and the early development of several artistic, scientific and philosophical concepts, such as the concept of zero.

    Expressed in the Vedic language, which is derived from classical Sanskrit, the verses of the Vedas were traditionally chanted during sacred rituals and recited daily in Vedic communities. The value of this tradition lies not only in the rich content of its oral literature but also in the ingenious techniques employed by the Brahmin priests in preserving the texts intact over thousands of years. To ensure that the sound of each word remains unaltered, practitioners are taught from childhood complex recitation techniques that are based on tonal accents, a unique manner of pronouncing each letter and specific speech combinations.

    Although the Vedas continue to play an important role in contemporary Indian life, only thirteen of the over one thousand Vedic recitation branches have survived. Moreover, four noted schools – in Maharashtra (central India), Kerala and Karnataka (southern India) and Orissa (eastern India) – are considered under imminent threat.

     

    Citation.

     

    http://www.unesco.org/culture/ich/en/RL/0006

     

    www.acrhive.org

     

     

    www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/vedas

     

    www.bori.ac.in

     

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  • Unit Of Rain Agriculture Veda Suktha

    Hindus have not left Agriculture unattended in the Vedic Texts.

     

    The Vedic Society was rural.

     

    Hinduism is a Religion which has sacred Boo Suktham to praise Mother Earth.

     

    The Cow and the Bull were venerated and worshiped.

     

    The Plough and the Agricultural implements were worshiped during Ayudha Pooja.

     

    The feed that has to be given to the Cows and Bull are prescribed.

     

    Earth, being one of the Five Elements of Nature was venerated.

     

    Earth  was is called Priithvi after the King Prithvi who was the first man to plough it.

     

    Mother Earth is the consort of Lord Vishnu, Boo Devi.

     

    Indra, the Chief of Devatas ids the controller of Rains.

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    Vrukshayur Veda Text. Image Credit.http://www.mvoai.org/

     

    He was offered special Pooja, failure to offer this resulted in Lord Krishna lifting the Govardhanagiri.

     

    Sage Parasara wrote the first treatise on Agriculture, Krishi Parasara’.

     

    He also wrote Vrukshayurved, on Trees and Ayur Veda.

     

    In the former he discusses Rain, Rain forecasting, Unit of Rain,Rain measurement in detail, and Field crops.

     

    He discusses seed preparation. nursery preparation, transplanting of seedlings,thrashing and harvesting.

     

    Auspicious day and time were provided.

     

    The Unit of Rain is called ‘Adhaka’

     

    Rishi Garga also wrote on Agriculture.

     

    Kashyapa wrote ‘Kasyapa Krishi Suktha’

     

    Varahamihira discusses Rain in Bruhat Samhita.

     

    He explains another measurement of Rain, Drona.

     

    Kautilya Artha Shastra fame also discusses Rain and Agriculture.

     

    Paddy(Oryza Saitva) originated from India.

     

    Indian Texts on Agriculture.

     

    1.Krishi Parasara

    2.Krishi Kasyapa.

    3.Bruhat Samhita.

    4.Vrushayur Veda(By Charaka,Susruta and Vagbhata)

    5.Tarkasangraha.

    6.Kadambini.

    7.Upvanvinod.

    8.Vrukshavallabha. and

     

    The Rig Veda.

     

    The Ksheerapati Suktha,The Rig Veda.

     

    क्षेत्रस्य पतिना वयं हितेनेव जयामसि ।
    गामश्वं पोषयित्न्वा स नो मृळातीदृशे ॥१॥
    Kssetrasya Patinaa Vayam Hitene[a-I]va Jayaamasi |
    Gaam-Ashvam Possayitnvaa Sa No Mrllaatii-Drshe ||1||

    Meaning:
    1.1: We invoke the Lord of the Kshetra (i.e. Kshetrapati or Lord of the Field) by whose Grace indeed we Prosper,
    1.2: May He through His Gracious Look increase our Cattle and Horses.

     

    क्षेत्रस्य पते मधुमन्तमूर्मिं धेनुरिव पयो अस्मासु धुक्ष्व ।
    मधुश्चुतं घृतमिव सुपूतमृतस्य नः पतयो मृळयन्तु ॥२॥
    Kssetrasya Pate Madhumantam-Uurmim Dhenur-Iva Payo Asmaasu Dhukssva |
    Madhush-Cutam Ghrtam-Iva Supuutam-Rtasya Nah Patayo Mrllayantu ||2||

    Meaning:
    2.1: O Lord of the Kshetra (Field), with the Sweet Waves of Mother Nature‘s blessings, may you milk our Fields like the Milkof a Cow (i.e. yield abundant Harvest),
    2.2: With the Sweetness of Rita (Mother Nature’s Divine Law confering bounty), which falls like Clarified Butter, may Youshed your Grace on us.

    मधुमतीरोषधीर्द्याव आपो मधुमन्नो भवत्वन्तरिक्षम् ।
    क्षेत्रस्य पतिर्मधुमान्नो अस्त्वरिष्यन्तो अन्वेनं चरेम ॥३॥
    Madhumatiir-Ossadhiir-Dyaava Aapo Madhuman-No Bhavatv[u]-Antarikssam |
    Kssetrasya Patir-Madhumaan-No Astv[u]-Arissyanto Anvenam Carema ||3||

    Meaning:
    3.1: May the Plants be Sweet (i.e. filled with Nature’s Purity), may the Sky be Sweet (i.e. filled with Nature’s Purity), may the Waters be Sweet (i.e. filled with Nature’s Purity), and may the Space be Sweet (i.e. filled with Nature’s Purity) to us.
    3.2: May the Lord of the Kshetra (Field) be Sweet to us, and may we be devoted Followers of Him (i.e. take recourse to Nature’s Bounty and Prosper).

    शुनं वाहाः शुनं नरः शुनं कृषतु लाङ्गलम् ।
    शुनं वरत्रा बध्यन्तां शुनमष्ट्रामुदिङ्गय ॥४॥
    Shunam Vaahaah Shunam Narah Shunam Krssatu Laanggalam |
    Shunam Varatraa Badhyantaam Shunam-Assttraam-Udinggaya ||4||

    Meaning:
    4.1: May the Oxen drawing the Plough bring Welfare and Prosperity to all, May the Farmer driving the Oxen bring Welfare and Prosperity to all, May the Plough making Furrows bring Welfare and Prosperity to all,
    4.2: May the Strap binding the Plough bring Welfare and Prosperity to all, and May the Goad swinging towards the Oxen bring Welfare and Prosperity to all.

    शुनासीराविमां वाचं जुषेथां यद्दिवि चक्रथुः पयः ।
    तेनेमामुप सिञ्चतम् ॥५॥
    Shunaa-Siira-Avi-Maam Vaacam Jussethaam Yad-Divi Cakrathuh Payah |
    Tena-Imaam-Upa Sin.catam ||5||

    Meaning:
    5.1: May Shuna and Shira (deities of the Farmers) Who created Waters (i.e. Clouds) in the Sky be Pleased with our Prayers,
    5.2: And by It (i.e. by the Clouds), (may they) sprinkle Waters (in our Fields as Rains).

    अर्वाची सुभगे भव सीते वन्दामहे त्वा ।
    यथा नः सुभगाससि यथा नः सुफलाससि ॥६॥
    Arvaacii Subhage Bhava Siite Vandaamahe Tvaa |
    Yathaa Nah Subhagaas-Asi Yathaa Nah Suphalaas-Asi ||6||

    Meaning:
    6.1: O Devi Sita, turn towards us and be Gracious, we Extol and Worship You, …
    (This is Sita of Rig Veda which is much earlier than Ramayana)
    6.2: … so that You become Favourable to us (by showering Your blessings), so that You become the source of abundant Harvest.

    इन्द्रः सीतां नि गृह्णातु तां पूषानु यच्छतु ।
    सा नः पयस्वती दुहामुत्तरामुत्तरां समाम् ॥७॥
    Indrah Siitaam Ni Grhnnaatu Taam Puussaanu Yacchatu |
    Saa Nah Payasvatii Duhaam-Uttaraam-Uttaraam Samaam ||7||

    Meaning:
    7.1: May Indra take hold of the Furrows (while we plough), and may Pushan sustain Her (i.e sustain the Furrows),
    7.2: May She (i.e. Mother Earth) Who is full of Milk, yield us abundant Crops Year after Year.

    शुनं नः फाला वि कृषन्तु भूमिं शुनं कीनाशा अभि यन्तु वाहैः ।
    शुनं पर्जन्यो मधुना पयोभीः शुनासीरा शुनमस्मासु धत्तम् ॥८॥
    Shunam Nah Phaalaa Vi Krssantu Bhuumim Shunam Kiinaashaa Abhi Yantu Vaahaih |
    Shunam Parjanyo Madhunaa Payobhiih Shunaa-Siiraa Shunam-Asmaasu Dhattam ||8||

    Meaning:
    8.1: May the Ploughshare making Furrows on the Earth bring Welfare and Prosperity to all, May the Farmer driving the Oxenbring Welfare and Prosperity to all,
    8.2: May Parjanya (the Rain God) by giving Sweet Rains (i.e. Pure Rain Waters) bring Welfare and Prosperity to all, and MayShuna and Shira bestow Welfare and Prosperity to all of us.

     

     

    Citation, For Suktha.

    www.greenmesg.org

     

     

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  • Hindus Lived 74000 Years Ago Survey Finds

    People have been talking of the Rig Veda as 5000 years old.

    This is outdated.

    I have posted an article that Hinduism has been dated 50,000 years back.

    Now even this is way off the mark.

    New evidence suggests that Hinduism existed in Indonesia 74,000 ago and it is safe to assume that Hinduism antedates this period.

    Earlier to this finding a city older that Mohenjo-Daro has been found.

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    About 76,000 years ago, the volcano Toba – located in what is now Indonesia – erupted to create the largest and most devastating volcanic event of the past 2 million years. Almost 3,000 cubic kilometers of magma was spewed out, while sulfuric acid rained over the earth as far away as Greenland. The world became subject to a volcanic winter, and what followed was one of the most severe ice ages in documented history.

    Over in India, the land was showered with 15 centimeters of volcanic ash, which can be seen today, working as a distinct age marker in the earth’s stratigraphy. And yet, contrary to all logic, archaeologists have unearthed assemblages of stone tools both above and below the ash deposit in India’s Jwalapuram Valley.

    The tools look remarkably similar to those made by humans in Africa, which indicates that these tools were also human-formed – and yet, if humans were still in India after the depositing of ash (an incredible feat it itself), they would have had an extremely difficult time trying to survive. After all, the sheer magnitude of the eruption suspended both volcanic gas and sulfuric acid in the earth’s atmosphere for years, causing warm sunlight to be redirected away from Earth – and plunging the world into several centuries of temperatures that were at least 3-5 degrees C lower than normal after the event.

    Mapping of stone tool artefacts on a Middle Palaeolithic occupation surface under the Toba ash.

    Newly discovered archaeological sites in southern and northern India have revealed how people lived before and after the colossal Toba volcanic eruption 74,000 years ago.

            The international, multidisciplinary research team, led by Oxford University in collaboration with Indian institutions, unveiled to a conference in Oxford what it calls ‘Pompeii-like excavations’ beneath the Toba ash.

            The seven-year project examines the environment that humans lived in, their stone tools, as well as the plants and animal bones of the time. The team has concluded that many forms of life survived the super-eruption, contrary to other research which has suggested significant animal extinctions and genetic bottlenecks.

            According to the team, a potentially ground-breaking implication of the new work is that the species responsible for making the stone tools in India was Homo sapiens.  Stone tool analysis has revealed that the artefacts consist of cores and flakes, which are classified in India as Middle Palaeolithic and are similar to those made by modern humans in Africa. ‘Though we are still searching for human fossils to definitively prove the case, we are encouraged by the technological similarities. This suggests that human populations were present in India prior to 74,000 years ago, or about 15,000 years earlier than expected based on some genetic clocks,’ said project director Dr Michael Petraglia, Senior Research Fellow in the School of Archaeology at the University of Oxford.

            This exciting new information questions the idea that the Toba super-eruption caused a worldwide environmental catastrophe. Dr Michael Petraglia, School of Archaeology

    An area of widespread speculation about the Toba super-eruption is that it nearly drove humanity to extinction. The fact that the Middle Palaeolithic tools of similar styles are found right before and after the Toba super-eruption, suggests that the people who survived the eruption were the same populations, using the same kinds of tools, says Dr Petraglia. The research agrees with evidence that other human ancestors, such as the Neanderthals in Europe and the small brained Hobbits in Southeastern Asia, continued to survive well after Toba.

            Although some scholars have speculated that the Toba volcano led to severe and wholesale environmental destruction, the Oxford-led research in India suggests that a mosaic of ecological settings was present, and some areas experienced a relatively rapid recovery after the volcanic event.

            The team has not discovered much bone in Toba ash sites, but in the Billasurgam cave complex in Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh, the researchers have found deposits which they believe range from at least 100,000 years ago to the present. They contain a wealth of animal bones such as wild cattle, carnivores and monkeys. They have also identified plant materials in the Toba ash sites and caves, yielding important information about the impact of the Toba super-eruption on the ecological settings.

            Dr Petraglia said: ‘This exciting new information questions the idea that the Toba super-eruption caused a worldwide environmental catastrophe. That is not to say that there were no ecological effects. We do have evidence that the ash temporarily disrupted vegetative communities and it certainly choked and polluted some fresh water sources, probably causing harm to wildlife and maybe even humans.’

    Older Than Harappa.

    “A team of archaeologists from the Deccan College Post Graduate and Research Institute is back from Haryana where they stumbled upon a record 70 Harappan graves at a site in Farmana, discovering the largest burial site of this civilization in India so far. It is an extraordinary archaeological finding. A big housing complex that matured during the Harappan era was discovered by these archaeologists who have been working in this little known village for the past three years. The archaeological team here uncovered an entire town plan. The skeletal remains belong to an era between 2500 BC to 2000 BC.

    Read the Report about this archeological site  in Chennai ,Tamil Nadu,India, MillionYear Old Tamil Site Chennai

    http://snipr.com/fo1ug  

    “Volcanic Mega-Eruption? No Problem, How’ve You Been?” ca. 74,000 BC)

    *While there have been positive comments  on this post, there are comments that are not in agreement with what is found in the article.

    1. The idea that’ Hindus lived 74000 years ago is farfetched’

    Such is the mesmerising powere of doctored Indian History that people refuse to believe a scientific research.

    That too from ‘authentic western sources’

    I deliberately quote from western sources because many of us take only these sources as authentic!

    2.’ How do you say those who lived 74,000 years ago were Hindus?’

    It is because only Indian texts refer and cover such vast stretches of Time.

    The artifacts unearthed in India and around the world confirm antiquity of Hinduism.

    The events and characters mentioned are verifiable by various tools like astronomy, etymology, carbon dating, Infra-red dating and bt tectonic shifts.

    None of the other human groups stand this test.

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  • Exchange Wives, Rig Veda

    One has to bear in mind that , in a society, we have many issues, including the most personal issues of an individual.

     

    It is the duty of an organized society to take cognizance of his and offer a solution that would solve the individual’s problem and at the same time ensure the smooth functioning of the Society.

     

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    Rig Veda Manuscripts. Bhandarkar collections.

     

    A society consists of individuals.

     

    And there might be people who may not be virtuous , though the majority are virtuous.

     

    This is applicable to any society of any time frame.

     

    One has to bear in mind this fact when one talks about the Vedic India and its people.

     

    Ravana existed when Lord Rama lived.

     

    Duryodhana lived along side Yudhistra.

     

    So when one reads the Vedas, these facts are to be borne in mind.

     

    The Vedic society consisted of virtuous men and women;it also had people of lowly character.

     

    Then we have social issues like Drinking, prostitution, gambling and sexual profligacy.

     

    These belong to the people of bad character.

     

    There are social issues like women being deserted by husbands, Adulterous relationships.

     

    These are dealt by the Vedas and Smritis with Injunctions against them.

     

    There are also some issue for which the individual is powerless to handle.

     

    For example, impotency, inability to conceive.

     

    Under such circumstances, the society must offer measures to ensure that the individual problem is resolved with  least impact to the society.

     

    One such issue is childlessness and Impotency,

     

    This problem was dealt with by Hinduism during the Vedic period in a practical way.

     

    If a husband is not capable to produce sperms (i.e. Impotent) ,then he has the right to order his wife.,To copulate with other man to beget a child [RigVed Mantra 10 Sutra 10)

     

    This is being quoted to vilify Hinduism and the Vedas.

     

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    First there is no concept of order in marital relations in Vedas.
    Second, Niyog was a social custom for an emergency situation which was applicable only when all other options of getting a child – including adoption – had been exhausted and getting a child was necessary for couple for any valid reason.
    Third, it could happen only if the society permits this. This cannot be independent decision of couple alone.
    Fourth, this is exactly that was practiced in all societies of world including Islam. For example, Hazrat Ismail was born when Hazrat Ibrahim impregnated his slave. Hazrat Muhammad got his son from Maria who was his slave and not one of his multiple wives.

    Q b) Is it not what the above Mantra says? What is the true meaning of the Mantra?

    Answer: No, the mantra only says that if someone does not consider himself to be able to perform his duties in a dual relation, he should allow the other person to seek other partner. This is a very broad principle that can apply in all situations of life – business partnership, master-servant, king-subject or marital relationship etc. Earlier people have tried to interpret this to justify Niyog and avoid prostitution. But Vedas do not get into such details.

    Q c) What does niyoga means? Is it not exchanging wives?

    Answer: Vedas do not have any word like Niyog. Niyog was a social custom invented for those times where people wanted a child to protect their property, have safety in old age etc but were unable to get a child due to some reason. Niyog literally means a union. It is understood to mean a temporary appointment. This is social custom and not a word from Vedas. In any case, even the social custom of Niyog was to PROHIBIT wife exchanging and hence means exactly opposite of what seem to perceived. In today’s society, when variety of new methods of fertility as well as options for adoption exists and the concept of patriarchal kingdoms has vanished, Niyog is not more applicable even as a social concept, in same manner as one need not wear dress of hide-skins when you live near a tailor shop and have money to by dresses.

    Besides , the Rik Veda also say that if at all the women has taken a second man as the new husband(under the condition of first husband being impotent), her first husband cannot have any physical relation with her and he acts as her brother in relation.

     

    Q d) What does the Mantra say?

    Coming to current mantra 10.10.10 of Rigveda, it says:
    Anyam – someone else
    Ichhasva – desire
    Subhage – one desiring happiness
    Patim – Leader
    Mat – Apart from me

    Now Pati is a broad term – king is a pati, general is a pati, employer is a pati, parents are pati. Anyone who is supposed to take responsibility is a Pati.

     

    Citation.

    http://www.vedicgranth.org/misconceptions-on-vedas/misconception-6—vedas-contain-niyoga-which-means-exchanging-wives-many-muslims-use-this-misconception-to-derogate-vedas

    Image credit.

     

    www.vedandtechs.com

     

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  • “Uproot Rig Veda” Max Mueller The Fraud’s Quotes

    The real Max Mueller reveals himself here.

    In the later portion of this post, note how cleverly he mixes up his real iMintentions by praising the Vedas, to lend credibility to his thesis(?)

     

    ““It (The Rigveda) is the root of their religion and to show them what the root is, I feel sure, is the only way of uprooting all that has sprung from it during the last three thousand years.”-Max Mueller to His wife,in his lett

    Later he also wrote to the Duke of Argyle, the then acting Secretary of State for India:

     

    “The ancient religion of India is doomed. And if Christianity does not take its place, whose fault will it be?”

     

    The Biblical Creation Theory states that the world was created with all its life forms at 9.00 AM, October 23, 4004 BC.

     

    If one goes by the real date of the Rig Veda, arrived at and the establishment of the dates of the Ramayana and Mahabharata being quite ancient , which has been proved and that these dates are real and validated by Astronomical data, it would not suit Christianity.

     

    Max Muller it is said was an agent of the British colonial rulerswho was funded by them to write, rewrite and distort the history of Asia so as to establish Christian history as superior to that of the Asians and create an inferiority complex among the Indians by proving to them that their history, traditions, culture, philosophy, religion etc. had no value before the history and culture of Europe.
    He originally estimated that the Rig Veda was written around 1200 B.C as a later date could have been in conflict with the Christian beliefs. He also formulated the Aryan Invasion Theory to show that the Vedas and the superior Aryan race came to India from Europe.

    Max Muller and other missionaries like Ralph T.H. Griffith, Maurice Bloomsfield, Wilson etc. also tried to learn sanskrit to comprehend the primary Hindu scriptures but landed up distorting them by the application of the Abrahamic template on the Hindu worldview

    Moreover due to this distortion and mistranslation of Vedic scriptures rendered by manyindologists in the past, many people including the Hindus today assume that Hinduism consists of blind superstitions, beef eating, horse killing, animal sacrifice, caste system, etc

     

    Mr.Boulanger, the editor of Russian edition of The Sacred Books of the East Series, in the context of the commentary/translation of the Vedas by Max Muller, stated:
    “What struck me in Max Muller’s translation was a lot of absurdities, obscene passages and a lot of what is not lucid…. As far as I can grab the teaching of the Vedas, it is so sublime that I would look upon it as a crime on my part, if the Russian public becomes acquainted with it through the medium of a confused and distorted translation, thus not deriving for its soul that benefit which this teaching should give to the people”.

    The ancient Hindu scriptures- Vedas, Upanishads, Bhagavad Gita, etc. have been preserved in the language of ‘sanskrit’ which today is recognized as the most advanced and scientific language so much so that even scientists are trying to incorporate it into computers to increase the scope of artificial intelligence and give a boost to the field of robotics.

     

    Sanskrit is indeed a highly modular language where words change when they are combined.

    Importance is hence given to the way the words are pronounced and the way in which it is written.

    Any little mistake in the ‘halant or visarga’ alone can change the meaning of the sentence.

    The teachings of the Vedas, Upanishads and Gita has thus been preserved and considered universally applicable because of the scientific integrity and consistency of the sanskrit language.

    Unlike other literature or the abrahamic religious texts which are updated as the seasons change, the primary Hindu scriptures remain intact delivering the same eternal knowledge which is always nourishing to a scientific and a philosophical mind.

     

     

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    • History seems to teach that the whole human race required a gradual education before, in the fullness of time, it could be admitted to the truths of Christianity. All the fallacies of human reason had to be exhausted, before the light of a high truth could meet with ready acceptance. The ancient religions of the world were but the milk of nature, which was in due time to be succeeded by the bread of life…. The religion of Buddha has spread far beyond the limits of the Aryan world, and to our limited vision, it may seem to have retarded the advent of Christianity among a large portion of the human race. But in the sight of Him with whom a thousand years are but as one day, that religion, like the ancient religions of the world, may have but served to prepare the way of Christ, by helping through its very errors to strengthen and to deepen the ineradicable yearning of the human heart after the truth of God.
      • History of Ancient Sanksrit Literature (1860)

    When a religion has ceased to produce defenders of the faith, prophets, champions, martyrs, it has ceased to live, in the true sense of the word…

    • The worship of Shiva, Vishnu, and other popular deities was of the same and in many cases of a more degraded and savage character than the worship of Jupiter, Apollo or Minerva. … A religion may linger on for a long time, it may be accepted by large masses of the people, because it is there, and there is nothing better. But when a religion has ceased to produce defenders of the faith, prophets, champions, martyrs, it has ceased to live, in the true sense of the word; and in that sense the old orthodox Brahmanism has ceased to live for more than a thousand years.
      • Lecture at Westminster Abbey (1873); as quoted in Hinduism : A Religion to Live By (1997) by Nirad C. Chaudhari ISBN 0195640136

    If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some of its choicest gifts, has most deeply pondered over the greatest problems of life… I should point to India.

    • If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some of its choicest gifts, has most deeply pondered over the greatest problems of life, and has found solutions of some of them which well deserve the attention even of those who have studied Plato and Kant, I should point to India. And if I were to ask myself from what literature we who have been nurtured almost exclusively on the thoughts of Greeks and Romans, and of the Semitic race, the Jewish, may draw the corrective which is most wanted in order to make our inner life more perfect, more comprehensive, more universal, in fact more truly human a life… again I should point to India.
      • India, What Can It Teach Us (1882) Lecture IV
    • They contain, by the side of simple, natural, childish thoughts, many ideas which to us sound decidedly modern, or secondary and tertiary.
      • On the Vedas, in India, What can it teach us (1882) Lecture IV
    • I have declared again and again that if I say Aryans, I mean neither blood nor bones, nor hair nor skull; I mean simply those who speak an Aryan language… in that sense, and in that sense only, do I say that even the blackest Hindus represent an earlier stage of Aryan speech and thought than the fairest Scandinavians… To me an ethnologist who speaks of Aryan race, Aryan blood, Aryan eyes and hair, is as great a sinner as a linguist who speaks of a dolichocephalic dictionary or a brachycephalic grammar.
      • Biographies of Words and the Home of the Aryas (1888)

     

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