Friday, April 27, 2012

The true history and the religion of India

Click here to visit part I
Part II, continued..
(Also includes references where humanely possible)
There were two dynasties with similar names of their first kings: the Maurya dynasty and the Gupt dynasty.
The first king was Chandragupta Maurya - 1500 BC and enthroned by a Brahmin Chanakya aka Vishnugupt.
The later one was Chandragupta Vijayaditya - 300 BC and succeded by his son Samudragupt Ashokaditya who ruled over Magadh empire from 321 - 270 BC.
(Ref: Pauranic text of the dynasties of Kali age)
Megasthenes - the greek ambassador and writer, whose work called Indica which the brits favored was a fable creator as per later greek historians like Arrian, Strabo & Diodorus who are known to be a lot more credible based on historic evidence.
(Ref: Arrian and Strabo's records and notes on Alexanders conquests and the book Indica)
Infinite advantage maybe derived by Europeans from various medical books in Sanskrit, containing names and descriptions of Indian plants and minerals with their uses discovered by experience in curing disorders.
The vast collection is found in the book of Charaka which was considered to have been the work of Shiva.
(Ref: 18th essay of Goverdhan Kaul on: the literature of the Hindus)
Astronomical works in Sanskrit are exceedingly numerous, with ~80 of them specified in one recorded list, probably belonging to an age old university.
These writings contain the detailed observations of the primary stars visible from India and their accurate positions in the sky through the ages.
The brits employed Max Müller to translate the Rig Veda in English in such a way that parallel comparisons with old testaments and gospels can easily be inferred. He was paid a record ₱800 PER PAGE in today's money!
(Ref: A history of ancient Sanskrit literature(the primitive religion of the Brahmanas), first print 1860 London, reprint 1978 USA)
The british empire was at the peak of its power and, prosperity due to which huge payouts for a purpose were viewed as investments for the future!
The demeaning went to such levels, let me simply quote them and you decide:
India is much riper for Christianity than Rome or Greece was at the time of St.Paul. The rotten tree for some time has had artificial supports. I should like to live for ten more years and quietly learn, by means of which the old mischief of Indian priest craft can be overthrown and a way opened for Christianity.
Whatever finds root in India soon overshadows the whole of Asia.
(Ref: the life and letters of Friedrich Max Muller, first published in 1902, London & N.Y. more specific details will follow as you read further.)
Prof Taranath Tarkavachaspati of Calcutta Sanskrit college was very well known for his profound learning. But greed blemishes the good in a person. The brits brought his wisdom with a payout of 2 million rupees(20 lakhs payment for a translation work in todays money!) to produce a skewed dictionary. And this was way before Indira Gandhi devalued the rupee in the name emergency from Rs.4 to a single USD to ~Rs.35/usd. In 1930's a headmaster of a school used to draw a salary of Rs.20/month and still be happy. Taranath got Rs.10,000/- Now do the math!
The dictionary that Taranath compiled can probably still be found. Its called the 'Vachaspatyam.'
The preface of that book itself reveals these facts.
(Ref: Asiatic society journal entry and his letters to some brits.)
One example of such manipulation is of the word 'goghn'=receiver of cow, used in a sentense as 'daashagoghne sampradane'=receiving of a cow in a well meaning charity in Sanskrit, of course, this line was played by taranath as per instructions and translated as - the killer of the cow! On the pretext of using the root word - han out of goghn, for the basis of translation.
If you know anything about being a Hindu, you will know how ridiculous a thought of even hurting a cow is.
The Purana's tell about the divine dissensions of the supreme God, a brief history of every manvantar, each of which is ~308 MILLION years.
It also talks about the history of eternal saints and sages, highly regarded devotee's, philosophy of devotion, God and God realization and lastly, a detailed history of the last 5000 years since the Mahabharata war.
As is documented in studies as well as present market reality, India was a treasure trove of knowledge and information., so what happened to all the books, in Sanskrit especially, and why is an ancient manuscript hard to find these days?
The brits not only tried to manipulate the cultural background of India, they also brought off various different volumes(along with different versions) to be used for their translation and 'revision' activities. These were all stored in the vast library of the east India company and were extensively used by scholars who were paid by the Asiatic research society. These were the same scholars who contributed to divide part of the brit policy of divide and rule.
The brits also tampered with the Bhavishya Puran by forging and fabricating verses relating to the period of Chandragupt  Maurya and Vikramaditya - in chapter six and seven of the first part of Pratisarg Parv.
The copy we get these days of the Bhavishya Puran is the tampered copy. Sadly.
The brits don't stop at this but once the copy of the books which suited their purpose was accepted by the same raj, those fraudulent copies were distributed in the main stream. The only evidence at the time were the originals - which sadly were all destroyed.
On a similar note, the raiders from north-east frontier(present day Afghans/Iranians, Izbekis and other such war tribes) also marauded into northern Indian provinces and after the looting of gold studded temples and diamond encrusted shrines, raping and pillaging they left. The temple had enough treasure for those looters had to come 8 more times to clear up every valuable thing!
The worst thing which happened on one of those journeys is that bakhtiyar khilji in c1200AD completely destroyed the University of Nalanda, near modern day Patna. The students and monk teachers were all listed and killed. Their library was so huge that it took the raiders 3months just to burn the books!
Another instance was when the University of Taxila(near Kabul,it was still India then) was destroyed and the library of holy Scriptures was burnt down too! This barbaric act was done by the Huns, under their leader ghengiz khan who was on his way to conquer Europe and was using the silk trading route.
Strangely, during the time of Buddhist influence in India, the Vedas as well as its affiliated books were destroyed by buddhists because their religion was non-vedic. Of course, after Asoka's rule, there weren't any nationally endorsed followers of buddhism because, in my view, it wasn't a very realistic view of life to enforce upon people in a time when sophistication was limited to ~2-4% of population and for the rest ~96-98% cruelty was a necessary means for survival.
India was actually called Aryavart. But its not a spoken name as the scriptures use Bharatvarsh instead.
Manu Smriti (2/21, 22) describes its exact location from south of the Himalayas upto the Indian ocean and its inhabitants are known as Arya.
The territory of India, during the Mahabharata war in 3139BC, lied up till Iran because of which even they called themselves Aryans.
The cunning brits saw an opportunity here brought on by the then new discovery.
It was the brits who used such information for theirtheir selfish reasons and fabricated a new angle of the story to fulfill their ulterior motives we spoke about earlier in this essay.
The new story says: that an unknown new barbaric hoard from central Asia came in and settled in Iran.
According to the brits and the papers studied in their Asiatic researches, these newly migrated people were the Sanskrit speaking ones because of which they called themselves Aryans.
Fictional stories do not need evidence as they are self created dogmas.
Careful study of the ancient history of India will reveal that there have been invasions by Shakas, Huns, Persians and even Greeks but never any Aryans!
The second millennium BC was a period of establishment, expansion and migration of many civilizations.
The Sumerian's peaked ~2000BC
Babylonians ~1700BC
Assyrians ~1400BC
Hittites ~1200BC(using Akkadian cuneiform script, earliest record found dated ~1700BC)
Cursive alphabetical writings of Hebrew and Aramaic language started taking it primitive form c1000BC and Greek c900BC.
Based on above known, globally accepted evidence of civilizations of middle east, the brits tentatively fixed the non existent Aryan invasion of India ~ c1500BC.
Max Muller was principle promoter of this theory and established the dates of Vedic origin accordingly.
In 1833, Thomas B. Macaulay(1800-1859) was appointed to the governor generals council by east India company with a specific agenda to modify the education system of India.
Discouraging Sanskrit and the original broad minded educational system, he ruled in favor of a specifically redesigned western system based on English and tailored to root out the moral fabric of India to (sic) "produce a group of people who would be Indian in blood and color, but English in taste, opinion and intellect."
(Ref: archives, directives of the imperial authority and guidance of the british parliament on matters of governance in the established colonies.)
Oct 1844AD saw the passage of a law by lord william hastings, then governor general of India, which mandated ALL government appointments in India should have a preference to English knowing people.
(Ref: the life and letters of Fredrick Max Muller, 1 - to his wife, Oxford, Dec 9, 1867. 2 - to his mother, 5 Newman's row, Lincolns Inns Field, Apr 15, 1847, 3 - to Chevalier Bunsen, 55 St.Johns street, Oxford, Aug 25, 1856, 4 - dean of oxford, 5 - the duke of argyll)
The letters sent by Max Mueller to his wife and mother, not easily found, reveal:
1. He lived in poverty back in London before being employed by the british.
2. To his wife, Dec 9, 1867, I feel convinced, though I shall not remain to see it, this new edition of the Veda's will hereafter tell to a great extent on the fate of India and on the growth of millions. It is the root of their religion and to show them what their root is, I am sure, the only way of uprooting is to do away with the immense 3000 year old culture and religion.
Apr 17, 1855 - Bunsen replied to Muller - "you have so thoroughly adopted the English disguise that it will not be easy for any one to suspect 'you' of having written this 'curious article.'"
"Its a delight to realize your cousins recommendation in Paris, for you to be in the diplomatic service. I am especially pleased to see how ingeniously you contrive to say what you announce not to discuss!"
Letter of john Muir, editor - original Sanskrit texts and origin and history of people of India - 33 Sussex gardens, Jun 26, 1854.
Dear sir, it may interest you to know there is a pundit in London accompanying Maharaja Dhuleep Sing as his tutor/guide/companion. His name is Nehemiah Neelkanth. Based on his knowledge of and expertise in Sanskrit and ancient literature, he's been currently employed as a catechist. This was after he converted to christianity of course and since then has written against Vedanta, which is in a scholars view may be labelled interesting.
The greatly renowned pandit of colcutta Sanskrit college, basically came up with his dictionary, called vachaspathyam with totally incorrect usage of Sanskrit root words like 'ashwamedha.' Any historian with deep rooted ancient knowledge knows to be a yagnya using a horse as an object of divine growth of the kingdoms boundaries. The dictionary which taranath of Sanskrit college of Calcutta created, says the 'ashwamedha' yagnya was only a ritual of horse sacrifice because the root word 'medh' was incorrectly defined.
Even today, people quote that dictionary and its definitions thinking its from an Indian scholar - which is what the brits wanted. The vachaspatyam, Sanskrit-Sanskrit dictionary was an enormous undertaking and had six volumes which were skillfully created and artfully made to misrepresent certain words which Max mueller found to particularly benefit.
There are many other examples of words like 'goghn' used in 'dashagoghne sampradane,' which means "receiver of the cow" but was translated to "sacrificer(killer) of the cow!" Can you, honestly knowing India, think anyone could think of mass slaughtering of cows? It may actually be illegal to do so!
(Ref: On 26 Jan 1866 - public instruction #507, fort William. Sir Cecil Beadon, Lt.Governor general of Bengal stated:
I am directed to the  acknowledge the receipt of your office letter N.2 dated the third instant and in reply to convey the lt.governors sanction to  purchase 200 copies at Rs.50 per copy aggregating Rs.10,000/- for the Sanskrit dictionary which Pandit Taranath, grammar prof. of the Sanskrit college, Calcutta, engages to provide in no more than 5years. I am to add that no sum will be paid until the entire work is completed.)

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Makhtoob

Seek when needed,
ignore when denied,
pray but do not share,
circles will never fit in a square.

Sunday, April 22, 2012

New science, evolution and human biology

If all thoughts are created and stored and existential reality of our surroundings fed by our senses is processed by the mind/brain then whats the reason behind the origins of gut feeling and being heartfelt? 

In the past 40 years, science has thankfully developed to the extent that it can help us realize what ever our distant ancient forefathers knew to have been existed. Our dismissal of an ancient advanced civilization, based on principles of evolutionary Darwinian theory, however much proven by things we can see, will have to be acknowledged as conceptually limited in scope to the lesser evolved and more primitive beings like plants and animals.

We know for certain that
  • in the chain of events - in which superior generations are formed as a result of genetically selected and need based species evolve as a part of natural selection, there is a missing link whereby from chimps to the homo-erectus we have a predictable chain and from then on the neanderthal man simply vanished. Presumed to have become extinct due to non-survivability and arrival of our present dominant species - the homo sapien sapiens, in the same generation! So where the heck did these new guys come from all of a sudden?
  • Moreover, in the race to come up with a theory of evolution, which explains and answers the spiritual need for man to know his origins(where do I come from?), we tend to overlook the fact that neither of the animals/plants became dominant in the past purely based on the theory of evolution. Sharks are known to have been in the same state they are in now, because of already having been close to perfection in terms of adapting to their environment since millenia. So why didn't they become better and become the dominant species ruling the earth?
  • In the entire history of planet earth, radiometrically dated for age on a material based off of a meteorite, to be ~4.4 Billion years old, the so called evidence of our existence is only about a maximum of 8,000 years(2000 years of AD and the oldest archeological find till now, city of Dwarika, claimed to have been established during the reign of Shri Krishn, 6000 years BC). Evolutionary speaking, this is not even a second. probably a nano second of human time, compared to galactic time counted in light years(dist travelled by light in one year counted at the rate of 300,000 kms per sec!).
  • The only species of dominance found in terms of evidence from past are dinosaurs, popularly presumed to have become extinct when a meteorite ~5 miles wide, hit earth, forming the great crater on the south American continent, creating a dust cloud enveloping the entire earth and blocking out all sunlight for ~200 years and rendering the planet uninhabitable.
Based on the aforementioned points, we need to start thinking with a broader set of horizons in order to eventually understand what could have happened and how did we come to be. One would do well to remember that purpose is a very strong motivator which is why even the law needs to know the motive behind a crime in order to punish. Even though we can see the humongous ancient pyramids standing still, and even though if we wanted to build it again today with access to all the technology we have in the present times, we do not go on to build because neither do we feel motivated to do so nor do we have any inclination towards the wasteful exercise which does not promise to answer our deepest questions.

Out of all the uncertainties of the future, why do we some times feel that we already know/knew about an instance which has as yet not taken place or occurred? When we know that our sub-conscious cannot order and can only suggest or tell and our conscious can make decisions by using forces of logic on a primary level, why do we not end up believing in ourselves?

New science is helping us get closer to the truth: (Includes notes from Dr. Deepak Chopra's lecture at the Zeitgeist forum - the Future of well being, neurobiologist/scientist)
  1. We now know scientifically, that there is an actual molecular structure to emotions. Emotions ARE things which are influenced by hormones like serotonin(and its reuptake inhibitors), dopamine, melanin, oxytocin etc.,
  2. Mind is no more the exclusive owner of our thoughts as previously thought. Gut-feeling and being Heart-felt are real things which have conclusive proofs now. Similar hormones as are produced in the mind are found to be produced/exist in the gut and in the muscular structure of the heart.
  3. Body is not a structure, its a process.
  4. The mind is a relational and embodied process, that regulates the flow of energy and information. - UCLA psychotherapist.
  5. Consciousness creates reality

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Year To The Day

I woke up to yet another day

Grown to expect, expect more of the same
Except for, for a subtle change
And that is, I'm slowly fading away

Harvest moon, soon will pass
Crop is gone, left only chaff
A bitter pill, and an overcast
A flag unfurled, at half mast
Ahhhhh...

A year to the day
Since you went away
A moment in time
When you were last mine
I'm here standing still
Yeah! With more time to kill
Hey! I barely survived
Yeah, I barely survived

Like pouring salt on an open wound
Memory filling, filling this empty room
I'm as bare, I'm as bare, as a barren womb
Still like the air, in a whitewash tomb
Ahhhhh...

A year to the day
Since you went away
A moment in time
When you were last mine
I'm here standing still
Hey! With more time to kill
I barely survived
Yes, I barely survived

(Guitar Solo)
Ahhhhh...

A year to the day
Since you went away
A moment in time
When you were last mine
I'm here standing still
Been standin' still. With more time to kill
Hey! I barely survived
I barely survived

A year to the day!
Year to the day!
Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!
A year to the day!
Three sixty-five!
Three sixty-five, five, fiiive!
Ahhhhh...

Monday, April 16, 2012

Mi vida loca

A collection of my favourite quotations, some of them are brilliant, others simply wise and all the remaining ones - pure gems.

Important to know: if you end up reading all of them at once, the impact is likely to be very diminished. Instead, try going through a few of them, no more than eight, at once and sleep over it. Come back and repeat from where you left.
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"A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat." - Erma Bombeck

"A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving." - Lao Tzu

"A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing." - George Bernard Shaw

"A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar." - Lao Tzu

"A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer." - Bruce Lee

"A witty saying proves nothing." - Voltaire

"Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves." - Charlie Chaplin

"All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. " - Albert Einstein

"Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating." - Karl Von Clausewitz

"Animals are my friends...and I don't eat my friends." - George Bernard Shaw

"Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking." - Albert Einstein

"Anybody amuses me for once. A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic." - Benjamin Disraeli

"As the soft yield of water cleaves obstinate stone, So to yield with life solves the insolvable: To yield, I have learned, is to come back again." - Lao Tzu

"As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot." - John Lennon

"At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want." - Lao Tzu

"Be kind whenever possible.It is always possible." - Dalai Lama

"Beer: The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems." - Homer Simpson

"Before I speak, I have something important to say." - Groucho Marx

"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage." - Lao Tzu

"Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else." - Mark Twain

"But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?" - Mark Twain

"Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. " - Abraham Lincoln

"Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice" - Henry Ford

"Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them." - Abraham Lincoln

"Critics are the men who have failed in literature and art." - Benjamin Disraeli

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." - Martin Luther King

"Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong." - Calvin Coolidge

"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first." - Mark Twain

"Doubt is the origin of wisdom" - Rene Descartes

"Effective action is always unjust." - Maya Angelou

"Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for." - Viktor Frankl

"Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else." - Will Rogers

"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth." - Marcus Aurelius

"Failure is the foundation of success, and the means by which it is achieved." - Lao Tzu

"Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase." - Martin Luther King

"Fashion changes, but style endures." - Coco Chanel

"For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing." - Friedrich Nietzsche

"For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him." - Karl Marx

"Freedom lies in being bold." - Robert Frost

"From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs." - Karl Marx

"Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough." - Karl Marx

"Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company." - Mark Twain

"Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life." - Mark Twain

"Great acts are made up of small deeds." - Lao Tzu

"He has a brilliant mind until he makes it up." - Margot Asquith

"He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty." - Lao Tzu

"He who has no faith in others shall find no faith in them." - Lao Tzu

"Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid." - George Carlin

"History is a set of lies agreed upon." - Napoleon Bonaparte

"How can I go forward when I don't know which way I'm facing?" - John Lennon

"I could die for you. But I couldn't, and wouldn't, live for you." - Ayn Rand

"I don't do fashion, I AM fashion." - Coco Chanel

"I don't like that man. I must get to know him better." - Abraham Lincoln

"I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there." - Oscar Wilde

"I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice." - Abraham Lincoln

"I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear." - Martin Luther King

"I have nothing to declare except my genius." - Oscar Wilde

"I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?" - Ernest Hemingway

"I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be." - Douglas Adams

"I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability." - Oscar Wilde

"I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didnt know." - Mark Twain

"I will prepare and some day my chance will come. " - Abraham Lincoln

"I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back." - Abraham Lincoln

"If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank." - Woody Allen

"If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time." - Zig Ziglar

"If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading." - Lao Tzu

"If you don't love yourself, you cannot love others. You will not be able to love others. If you have no compassion for yourself then you are not able of developing compassion for others." - Dalai Lama

"If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed." - Mark Twain

"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man." - Mark Twain

"If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." - Napoleon Bonaparte

"If you've got them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow." - John Wayne

"Im the one who's gonna die when its time for me to die...so let me live my life the way I want to..." - Jimi Hendrix

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. " - Albert Einstein

"In Heaven, all the interesting people are missing." - Friedrich Nietzsche

"In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield." - Warren Buffett

"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." - Martin Luther King

"Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education." - Martin Luther King

"It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste" - Henry Ford

"It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance." - Charles Darwin

"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." - William Blake

"It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men." - Friedrich Nietzsche

"It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles." - Niccolo Machiavelli

"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr." - Napoleon Bonaparte

"It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go." - Jim Rohn

"It takes a great man to be a good listener." - Calvin Coolidge

"Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand." - Homer Simpson

"Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do." - Bruce Lee

"Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment." - Lao Tzu

"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens" - Jimi Hendrix

"Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed." - Karl Marx

"Let no man pull you low enough to hate him." - Martin Luther King

"Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides." - Lao Tzu

"Life has got to be lived-that's all that there is to it." - Eleanor Roosevelt

"Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot." - Charlie Chaplin

"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced." - Soren Kirkegaard

"Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid." - John Wayne

"Listen if you want to be heard" - John Wooden

"Love is a serious mental disease." - Plato

"Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses." - Lao Tzu

"Loyalty to country always. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it." - Mark Twain

"Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal." - Friedrich Nietzsche

"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." - Thomas A. Edison

"Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest" - Napoleon Bonaparte

"Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive." - Wilbur Wright

"Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them." - Henry Ford

"Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident." - Mark Twain

"Nature is not human-hearted." - Lao Tzu

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." - Abraham Lincoln

"Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow." - Mark Twain

"Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it." - Mark Twain

"Never tell your problems to anyone.. 20% don't care and the other 80% are glad you have them." - Lou Holtz

"Never travel faster than your guardian angel can fly." - Mother Teresa

"No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks." - James Allen

"No good deed goes unpunished." - Oscar Wilde

"No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care" - Theodore Roosevelt

"No power is strong enough to be lasting if it labors under the weight of fear." - Cicero

"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. " - Albert Einstein

"Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it." - Lao Tzu

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals." - Henry Ford

"One of the greatest discoveries a person makes, one of their great surprises, is to find they can do what they were afraid they couldn't do." - Henry Ford

"Our life is what our thoughts make it." - Marcus Aurelius

"Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength." - Sigmund Freud

"People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions." - Nick Cave

"People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it." - George Bernard Shaw

"Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience." - Miguel de Cervantes

"Reality leaves a lot to the imagination." - John Lennon

"Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand" - Karl Marx

"Religion is the opium of the masses." - Karl Marx

"Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck." - Dalai Lama

"Resist much. Obey little." - Walt Whitman

"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. " - Albert Einstein

"Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue." - Confucius

"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." - Carl Sagan

"Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realized joy could be." - Friedrich Nietzsche

"Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose." - Bill Gates

"The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse." - Benjamin Franklin

"The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits. " - Albert Einstein

"The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion" - Karl Marx

"The future starts today, not tomorrow." - Pope John Paul II

"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts." - Marcus Aurelius

"The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters." - Friedrich Nietzsche

"The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism." - Karl Marx

"The more I see, the less I know for sure." - John Lennon

"The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go." - Friedrich Nietzsche

"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." - Henry Ford

"The purpose of our lives is to be happy." - Dalai Lama

"The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection." - Thomas Paine

"The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls, but in the space within to be lived in." - Lao Tzu

"The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made." - Groucho Marx

"The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends." - Cicero

"The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility, in a word all the qualities of the canaille" - Karl Marx

"The starting point of all achievement is desire." - Napoleon Hill

"The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property" - Karl Marx

"The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool." - Stephen King

"The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for." - Bob Marley

"The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference" - Charles Darwin

"The way to know life is to love many things." - Vincent Van Gogh

"The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man." - G.K Chesterton

"The world does not pay men for that which they 'know'. It pays them for what they do, or induce others to do." - Napoleon Hill

"There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for." - Albert Camus

"There are no facts, only interpretations." - Friedrich Nietzsche

"There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live." - John Adams

"Those are my principles, and if you don't like them...well I have others." - Groucho Marx

"Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen." - Lord Byron

"Thought is free." - William Shakespeare

"Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted." - John Lennon

"To See a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour." - William Blake

"To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it." - Confucius

"To go too far is as bad as to fall short." - Confucius

"To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away" - Sophocles

"Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't." - Mark Twain

"Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan." - John F. Kennedy

"We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims." - R. Buckminster Fuller

"We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection." - Dalai Lama

"What do you want meaning for? Life is desire, not meaning." - Charlie Chaplin

"When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it ...." - Henry Ford

"When prosperity comes, do not use all of it." - Confucius

"When the student is ready, the teacher will appear." - Buddha

"When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on" - Theodore Roosevelt

"When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do." - Walt Disney

"When you're drowning you don't think, 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would notice I'm drowning and come and rescue me.' You just scream." - John Lennon

"Why, look at me. I've worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty." - Groucho Marx

"Women are made to be loved not understood." - Oscar Wilde

"Wrong life cannot be lived rightly." - Theodor Adorno

"You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind." - Mohandas Gandhi

"You can have it all. Just not all at once." - Oprah Winfrey

"You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do." - Henry Ford

"You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year." - Henry Ford

"You cannot push anyone up the ladder unless he is willing to climb." - Andrew Carnegie

"You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength." - Marcus Aurelius

Sanskrit invocation - Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 1.3.28.



ॐ असतोमा सदगमय ;
तमसोमा ज्योतिरगमय;
म्र्त्योर्मा अमृतं गमय;
ॐ शान्तिः शान्तिः शान्तिहि|


English pronunciation of the above verse in Sanskrit:

Om Asato maa sad-gamaya;
tamaso maa jyotir-ga-maya;
mrtyor-maa amrutam gamaya;
Om Shaantih Shaantih Shaantihi.

English translation(obviously not perfect):

O Lord Lead me from the unreal to the real.
Lead me from the darkness to light.
Lead me from death to immortality.
May there be peace, peace, and perfect(final) peace.

Monday, April 2, 2012

The true history and the religion of India

Part I.

Evening sunshine after a day long storm.
The trading policy of British was to suck India's wealth out and put it in the industrial vaults of England.
The diplomatic policy of British was to manipulate the roots of Hindu/Bharatiya culture in order to cripple the religious faith of educated people.
Also, to change the nature of the education in order to open a road to rule the public of India as they, saw fit.
Kingdoms rise and fall, empires expand and shrink, and nations prosper or perish, but the divine wealth of India, has always been the guiding light for true aspirants of divinity, is still the same and remains unchanged.
Sanskrit - a brief:
> 16 - vowels, 36 - consonants.
> first language of the world, eternal and divine.
> Never changed, perfect, unlike other languages which had to evolve over time and still have inconsistant formation, modulation and creation of words.
> Example, Come ∣ coma - different pronounciation of 'co.'
Come ∣ kiss/kind - letter c and k have same pronounciation.
> Since the beginning, there existed a complete dictionary of root words called 'dhatu.'
> Any number of words can be created as per requirement by adding a proper prefix and suffix.
> 90 - forms (conjugations) for every verb to be used with 10 tenses and 21 forms for other words.
> There are 3 styles of sanskrit. One each used in the vedas (sanhita), the upanishads and the puranas.
> These are only styles based on same grammatic rules but are distinguished on the basis of their varied content.
> The Prakrit language was used by people generally for communication and consisted of apbhransh words. Its a language use for day to day activities where as Sanskrit was used by learned people(scholars).
> Sanskrit = sam+krut = entirely/wholly/perfectly + done = dev vani.
> introduced by Brahma to sages of the celestial abode.
Devnagari = Hindi.
Dimensions: material, celestial and divine.
Seven main abodes aka heavens: bhu, bhuv, swah, mah, jan, tap and satya lok.
(Abodes are probably like different countries, some better than others and others lesser in stature as per the hierarchy.)
Brahma supreme in all "celestial" phenomena.
Maya: illusive energy, three characteristics:
Sattva gun - pious/good
Tamogun - evil/bad
Rajogun - mix of good & bad.
Eight prime Gods: Brahma, Prajapati, Brihaspati, Indra, Kuber, Varun, Agni and Vayu.
Then Dikpal, Yamraj or Dharmaraj and Kamdeo with wife Rati.
Other than this millions of Gods populate the abodes similar to humans in various countries. The difference being - they don't age :-)
All these Gods represent various aspects of maya.
Philosophy of karm based on:
- consequence (of ones actions, presumably)
- the aim of God realization
- rebirth of soul
Main theme of Gita is karm yog.
Not having/not using the philosophy of karm and rebirth restricts the progress of an aspirant really desiring to realize God.
Every true seeker of God has quite a few questions, devotional as well as philosophical, which need to be reconciled before a person can completely be willing to put in a whole hearted effort into a particular path leading to God realization.
Bharatiya scriptures like the Bhagawatam, the Gita and the Upanishads were produced by God himself! They contain all the teachings  required to God realization of a soul.
Gods kindliness and friendliness is so great, He loves all the souls and atones the sins of the greatest sinners when they humbly remember Him. That is why he is called 'deena bandhu.'
Fact and Faith: most people believe if they are sincere in their deeds and faithfully following a path, it'll lead them to God. This is NOT true.
Faith has its own quality and facy has its own status.
You cannot change ferrum into gold by worshipping it.
Faith does open up a channel, but, it only lets in what the object of belief is giving.
Speech contains the inner personality of the speaker.
Purity of heart: a true devotee cannot remain a non-vegetarian for a long time because a true and correct devotion purifies the heart and as such the person would never tolerate the killing of animals or sea creatures for the luxury of their palate.
People who claim to be a devotee and still enjoy non-vegetarian meals are only fancying their minds with the idea of God and have not even touched the path of devotion.
Fact is that God is omnipresent, but you have to realize His presence near you.
Intuitions are vivid reflections of your subconscious mind which get induced by the conditioned reflexes of your own acts from the past lives and are known as Sanskars.
Manu Smriti says that the ancient Bharat's ambitious Kshatriya's went abroad to neighboring countries to establish new kingdoms and were eventually cut off from the main stream due to natural calamities millions(!) Of years ago. But the faint memories of their ancestors survived in spoken forms giving rise to stories and myths of past on the very basis of events described in ancient Indian literature.
The britishers purposefully, willingly and knowingly organized efforts to destroy the culture and religion of India. Abundant written evidence of their malicious intentions is found.
- 1784 letter to warren hastings, british governor general of India by sir william jones suggested fabrication of scriptures incorrectly and production of literature in Sanskrit, of a gospel and chapters of the prophets, particularly isaiah, was publicly distributed.
The william jones essay, 47 pages, president of the asiatic society of bengal, "Gods of Greece, Italy and India" further adviced
- Gods of all shapes and dimensions are framed by frauds and follies of men and boundless imagination, its my design to point out resemblences between popular worship of the old greek and italian gods to that of the Hindus.
It must appear indubitable that their cultural doctrine is in part "borrowed" from the opening of genesis.
Upanishad - 3102 BC
Genesis - 400 BC
The essay is deeply scornful and calls everyone 'heathen.'
The deluge of moses happened ~5000 years ago but the one described in Manu smriti aka.kalpa pralaya, happened 1,972 million years ago.
Brits tried to establish that the Indians originally migrated from somewhere else and settled here! This part was essentially propogated to prove that they had an equal right on India as the Indians themselves have come from outside.
1784 - the asiatic society of bengal was formed with the aim of finding ways to establish british rule by covert means.
Their literary works are published in the name of asiatic researches.
First essay by the societies president with aforementioned points released.
1786, 2 feb, jones in a speech proposed his theories on Sanskrit being a proto language and the Aryan invasion/migration.
1793, in the tenth speech, jones claims Chandragupta Maurya as a contemporary of Alexander the great and goes on to say he was none other than Sandracottus of 312 BC.
1816, franz bopp takes over the society after jones' death, slogs to substantiate jones' theory and presents details in 1852.
1828 - atheistic society, contemplating the personality of God, was formed - called Brahmo Samaj. Founder was close to max mueller and welcomed/supported by england.
1847 - max mueller comissioned by east India company to translate the theme of vedas and propound an alternate theory of India.
Max mueller's own letters claim he was highly paid for the job of fabricating history.
1866 - a professor of calcutta Sanskrit college, taranath, paid to compile a Sanskrit dictionary with incorrect meanings derogatory to vedic religion.
1922 - F.E.pargiter, retired Indian civil servant calcutta, appointed to write an 'improvised' version of Indian history, fictitious in nature.
Feb 20, 1793 - jones agrees in speech given on tehth anniversary of the society, that they found a 2000 year old book in Sanskrit and a poem by Somdev about Chandragupta having murdered Nanda and his eight sons to usurp his kingdom. He further claims to have found from the arrangement of seasons in 'the astrnomical work of parasara' that the war of pandavas could not have happened before 1200 BC.
All the above points are false. Somdev was a story teller and none of his writings claim usurping a kingdom, there is no astronomical record in scriptures that determines the Mahabharata war took place in 1200 BC!
The greatest astrologer Aryabhatta, created the panchang, astronomical calenders, and other authentic books - the Bhagawatam as well as the Mahabharat give the date of war as 3139 BC.
Scriptures in ancient times were written in Bhoj-Patra, the bark of a himalayan tree which never lasted in a redeable form for more than 500 - 800 years even with extreme care. These were for teaching and learning purposes and were constantly in use. When one was worn out, another was written under the guidance of masters.
The Puranas give a detailed genealogical account of all kings from Mahabharat war upto the Andhra dynasty.
The famed book of Manu(Smriti) is not made of a single persons memory as is made out to be by the brits. Manu - was the lord Brahma's son and at the beginning of every age(yug) the first intelligent being lays out the foundations of civil society and that code of ideal living is known to be this Manu Smriti.
To be continued..
References and written by His Divinity[!], Dharam Chakravarti, Swami Prakashanand Saraswati.