HINDUISM - ONLY INTELLECTUAL UNDERSTAND.

Christian historians have been trying to date Rig Veda to 1500 BC ( instead of 5000 BC ) because as per  Bible the big bang happened in 4004 BC at 9 AM on 23^rd October.  

The white master race had NOT invented or discovered anything till they came to India, other than what they grabbed from the Arabs to whom we sold our knowledge in gold.

As soon the immoral white invader came to India they learnt Sanskrit, stole our intellectual rights patented it in their names and destroyed the originals  ( or kept it back after injecting POISON into the originals ).

Why should a Master learn the language of a slave ?

AND NOW SEE THESE SON OF BROWN BRITISHERS-WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT THEIR MOTHER- 

B R AMBEDKAR 

The Vedas are a worthless set of books.  There is no reason either to call them sacred or infallible.  Nobody has had the courage to ask why these worthless books which contain nothing but invocation to tribal gods to destroy the enemies, loot their property and give it to their followers, have been made sacred and infallible.

Mahatma Jyotirao Phule

The Vedas are idle fantasies and absurd legends, which have NO sancity .  If there is only one God, who created the whole mankind, why did he write the Vedas only in Sanskrit language despite his anxiety for the welfare of the whole mankind?  What about the welfare of those who do not understand this language?   Vedas are a form of false consciousness .

"They were very advanced Hindu astronomers in 6000 BCE. Vedas contain an account of the dimension of Earth, Sun, Moon, Planets and Galaxies." (Calendars and Constellatio'  - Emmelin Plunret  )

After 30000 years by oral route, the Vedas were penned down in 5000 BC  — the Maharishis predicted that the human DNA will  getting degraded , pineal glands would get atrophied , memories and mental acuity would  deteriorate.

All the writings below are more than 7000 years old.

Earth goes around the sun – Rg Veda 10. 22. 14. and Yajur Veda 3. 6.

Sun and whole universe are round – Yajur Veda 20. 23

Shape of Earth is like an Oblate Spheroid. (Rig VedaXXX. IV.V)

Moon is enlightened by the sun – Yajur Veda 18, 20.

‘Earth is flattened at the poles’ (Markandeya Purana 54.12)

Blue Sky is Nothing but scattered sunlight (Markandeya Purana 78.8)

There are many suns – Rg Veda 9. 114. 3.

Seven colours in the sun – Atharva Veda 7. 107. 1.

Electromagnetic field, conversion of mass and energy – Rg 10. 72.

The gravitational effect of solar system makes the earth stable (R.V.1-103-2, 1-115-4 and 5-81-2).

The axle of the earth does not get rusted ,the earth continues to revolve on its axle (R.V. 1-164-29)

The Sun never sets or rises and it is the earth, which rotates (Sama-Ved 121).

The science of Time and its subtle nature is described in (R.V.1-92-12 and 1-95-8)

Planets Uranus, Neptune and Pluto were named Shweta, Shyama and Teevra in our Vedas  ( Vyasa Muni). . The names of the rest of the planets have been used in astrology in the rashis.  Uranus , Neptune and Pluto are NOT used in horoscopes as they stay in a single rashi for too long and are too far away to effect the human DNA.

Ptolemy came to India in 155 AD, and he stole from the astronomical data from Surya Siddhanta (12.85-90) , the most significant being the diameters of Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn . You must understand that these diameters were calculated accurately more than 7 millenniums ago when even the atmospheric refraction of earth was different.

Greeks Pythagoras and Plato studied in India. Orpheus was an Indian sage.

"From the Vedas we learn a practical art of surgery, medicine, music, house building under which mechanized art is included. They are encyclopedia of every aspect of life, culture, religion, science, ethics, law, cosmology and meteorology."  -- William James, American Author

 Whenever I have read any part of the Vedas, I have felt that some unearthly and unknown light illuminated me.  In the great teaching of the Vedas, there is no touch of sectarianism.  It is of all ages, climbs, and nationalities and is the royal road for the attainment of the Great Knowledge. When I read it, I feel that I am under the spangled heavens of a summer night. “  Henry David Thoreau, American Thinker 

"India - The land of Vedas, the remarkable works contain not only religious ideas for a perfect life, but also facts which science has proved true. Electricity, radium, electronics, airship, all were known to the seers who founded the Vedas."   --Wheeler Wilcox

 

“ This idea of a periodically expanding and contracting universe, which involves a scale of time and space of vast proportions, has arisen not only in modern cosmology, but also in ancient Indian mythology “ Fritjof Caprag.

Thinkers like Carl Sagan and Fritjof Capra have pointed out similarities between the latest scientific understanding of the age of the universe, and the Hindu concept of a "day and night of Brahma", which is much closer to the current known age of the universe than other creation views.  

 

The days and nights of Brahma posit a view of the universe that is divinely created- an ongoing cycle of birth, death, and rebirth of the universe. Rather inhalation and exhalation as in a Klein bottle.

 

Even a dim-wit will notice that modern science says the same thing written in the Vedas 7000 years ago—which had gone down thousands of years by the sruti oral route.

Immediately after the exhalation ( big bang ) the inflationary mode ends, having made the universe smooth and almost homogenous. Matter, anti-matter, and radiation are a bubbling opaque stew.  And an uninterrupted continuum of fluid. 

Few seconds after the exhalation ( big bang ) the universe expands. Matter and anti-matter annihilate each other.  There is slightly more matter and this excess comprises the matter in the cosmos today forming galaxies.   It came in material form and shape -- Brahman and his intent ( heat of tapas ).

Vedas have always suggested that as long you are in search of the causative forces only, you will not get the answer.  Stephen W. Hawking, famous theoretical physicist of the present day, says in his book “A Brief History Time”: “If the density of the matter in the universe is greater than the critical value, gravity will stop the expansion ( exhalation ) at some time in the future”

Will the universe eventually stop expanding and start contracting or will it expand forever?

Stephen W. Hawking, famous theoretical physicist of the present day, says in his book “A Brief History Time”: “If the density of the matter in the universe is greater than the critical value, gravity will stop the expansion at some time in the future” .   

As we are not in a position at present to calculate the density even to an approximation, we cannot answer the question ( so convenient ) .

Robert Jastrow confirms that modern science now  envisaging a cosmos ( like in the vedas ) that oscillates forever passing through infinite number of moments of creation in a never-ending cycle of birth, death and repetition. 

Someone has to bell this effin’ cat. 

Someone has to show a place from where they made the  BIG BANG. 

 Even a dim-wit can understand this .   

This calls the stupid bluff of the BIG BANG.

What preceded the effin' explosion?  .

In his book “God and the Astronomers” Robert Jastrow seconds creation .  Not that JastrowJI is the ultimate authority.  

The modern Big Bang cosmologists want to get the Universe out of nothing PHUKKAT MEIN .  It's like asking us to believe that nothing made everything out of nothing. They could not understand singularity which the Vedic seer did.  The Bindu of Sri Yantra depicts Singularity.

Varahamihira the great Astrologer and astronomer from wrote 4600 years ago,  in the opening of his Samhita, “ It has been said in Vedas that the first primeval thing was darkness, which is not identical with the black colour, but a kind of non-existence like the state of a sleeping person.”

Singularity existed before the big-bang. When you have a big bang which created the cosmos, you need to have a black hole singularity too. This is commonsense which Albert Einstein and party ignored despite being very proficient with Indian Vedas.  

Consciousness of time can be likened to a deep hypnosis which causes one to be in sympathy with the various frequencies and pulses of the physical universe. 

Our human brain is in reality none other than a biological space-time energy transducer.  As such, it creates not only space, but also time.  When scalar beams charge through hyperspace the flow of time gets redirected temporarily.   

These white historians are the same idiots who translated Ânid-avAtam (आनीदवातं  ) of verse 2 to be “He lived without breathing".    What do these dim-wits know of Prana or a scalar field without vibrations (avatam) ?   The white man must NOT try to interpret our priceless Vedas.

The whole world goes GA GA about Albert Einstein for this path breaking ORIGINAL ( sic !) theories –

that-

--Energy and matter is interconvertible

--Space time fabric

--Space Time dilation

etc etc

 

ALL THESE THINGS HAVE BEEN WRITTEN DOWN IN THE ANCIENT INDIAN SCRIPTURES  7000 YEARS BEFORE  .

Albert Einstein’s proficiency in Math was below par.  He was assisted in Math in his thesis.

Here is the beginning of the speech of Swami Vivekananada at Chicago on Sept 11, 1893

 

Sisters and Brothers of America,

 

It fills my heart with joy unspeakable to rise in response to the warm and cordial welcome which you have given us. I thank you in the name of the most ancient order of monks in the world; I thank you in the name of the mother of religions, and I thank you in the name of millions and millions of Hindu people of all classes and sects.

My thanks, also, to some of the speakers on this platform who, referring to the delegates from the Orient, have told you that these men from far-off nations may well claim the honor of bearing to different lands the idea of toleration. I am proud to belong to a religion which has taught the world both tolerance and universal acceptance. We believe not only in universal toleration, but we accept all religions as true.

I am proud to belong to a nation which has sheltered the persecuted and the refugees of all religions and all nations of the earth. I am proud to tell you that we have gathered in our bosom the purest remnant of the Israelites, who came to Southern India and took refuge with us in the very year in which their holy temple was shattered to pieces by Roman tyranny. CONTD ----   ------

YES, WE GAVE THE JEWS OF ISRAEL SHELTER IN KERALA,  MORE THAN TWO  MILLENNIUMS AGO ,  BUT THE SAME JEW CAME BACK AS TRADERS OF A SHIPPING COMPANY KNOWN AS BRITISH EAST INDIA COMPANY AND ROBBED US BLIND ( INCLUDING INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY )  IN THREE CENTURIES FLAT .  

Modern science says that this Universe is 13.7 billion years old. By weight, it is 4% of atoms, 23% of dark matter and 73% of dark energy.

This is in consonance with the  Na asat na sat concept of Vedas . describes zero state or total single black hole concept. From this state, the next stage of 'ambhas' ( cosmic waters ) is formed.

German Jew Rothschild got the Rig Veda translated in 1830, in Latin by German Jew Friedrich August Rosen. His translation of the first book of the Rigveda appeared posthumously in 1838. The remaining books remained unedited for another five decades, until Rothschild employee German  Max Muller did it in 1890-92.

The first complete translation was in English, made by Rothschild’s employee Horace Hayman Wilson, who published it in six volumes over the years 1850-88.  He is the same man who translated ( sic !) the works of the FAKE Kalidasa in English.

Albert Einstein said  "We have been all wrong.  What we have called matter is energy, whose vibration has been so lowered as to be perceptible to the senses.  There is no matter." 

He has just quoted from 7000 year old Vedanta ( which he was proficient in ) which clearly stated Maya, the illusion often mistaken for reality.

Nobody has understood Hindusim after Adi Shankaracharya of 2000 BC.

The ADVAITA VEDANTA of Adi Shankaracharya tells us that the god of sanatana dharma cannot be picked by the 5 human senses. It is a morphogenetic consciousness field .  

In DVAITA VEDANTA we have the trinity of Brahma / Vishnu/ Shiva OR the creator – mediator- destroyer. Brahma is brahmAn personified on this template as creator .

PHOENICIANS ARE EXCILED RESIDENT OF GANGES RIVER

Phoenicians are exiled residents of bank of river Ganges as quoted by Herodotus.

The name Phoenicians come from phani or followers of serpent king vasuki. The ancient trade in Bharat extended to many countries beyond the seas and many trib...es were found settled in different part of the world. Naag-vithi is a lane between equator and tropic of cancer. Thus, all persons engaged in international marine trade were called naag. In india too, we find many places associated with term ‘nag’; like –Nagpur in Maharashtr, Nagerkoil and Nagapattanam in Tamilnadu, Nagavali river in Orissa. Many kings of Orissa are Nag-vanshi as it was major center of marine trade. The Nairs of Kerala are Nagvanshi.
Another sign of common link is khuntia title in diverse parts of world. Any ship coming to coast is fixed with pillar (khunta) with a rope. So the person docking the ship, unloading material and storing it were called khuntia in Orissa, khunte in maharashtra and kunte in Nigeria, Ghana etc on west coast of Africa.
The Ved have also described frequent wars by Dev Indra to punish the pirates called panis (rigveda 8/64, 10/108 etc). Panis have been equated with similar tribe Phoenicians.
The rig ved-a history showing how the Phoenicians had their earliest home in India, a Bengali essay on the subject by rajeswar gupta, 1902-
1. The expression revatá paniná (4/25/7) shows that the panis were rich and mercantile tribes.
2. The expression paner maneeshán (3/58/2) shows that the panis were wise.
3. Abasam panim (6/61/i) would show that the panis were given to introspection.
4. The rik (7/6/3) tells us that the panis did not perform any yajnas or sacrifices; were garrulous, arrogant or haughty; had no respect for yajanas and were dasyus i.e., idlers or robbers. According to sáyana they were usurers also.
5. In (1/33/3) the word pani is used for traders. Mr. Dutt, evidently following the European scholars, adopts the meaning of the term as traders in this rik. It is therefore clear that the panis were a trading people and sold things for their value.
6. The rik (6/51/14) represents the panis as gluttons. For their voracious eating they were regarded as monsters. The word is also explained to mean illiterate traders. A nation of traders of those ancient days recalls the Phoenicians of old, for they were the only trading people then. In those days the phoenicians were known as the panis. The Aryans spoke of them as the panih and the Romans as the punic.

 Pani means trade, currency. Apani =market place. Pani were traders, among them some were robbers or pirates. They will be found only where there is center of marine trade. Moreover, indra was lord of east, so panis are found only in orissa. Similar panis were on west coast of asia, north europe, and in place called today as nebraska (usa).
They were stealing ‘gau’(cows) which can mean wealth , cow, ray of light, organs, place of creation or yajna including earth. In context of trade, go means highest denomination of currencies. Donation by kings was always in terms of ‘gau’.But 10 lakh cows cannot be given to a person, it can be 10 lakh rupees. Dhenu was smaller currency. Later on, common terms were pani and nishka. The metal for nishka was called nickel . Within trade circles there were brahmanas also, called pani and panigrahi. In orissa there are two tribes named 'dambi' and 'pani' who are politically quite advanced.

PARSIS WERE KSHATRIYA

THE WORLD WAS VEDIC HINDUS ~ PARSIS WERE KSHATRIYA SUBSECT AS ALSO MENTIONED IN 

RIGVEDA ...7.83.1 युवां नरा पश्यमानास आप्यं पराचा गव्यन्तः पर्थुपर्शवो ययुः

Two Iranian groups especially Parthian (Parthia [pathava]) and Persians ( Parsa) were exclusively mentioned in the Rigvedic verse 7.83.1. These two groups are mentioned side by side in this Rigvedic verse.
They were expelled from Kshatriya fold alongwith Paundhrakas ,Odhras ,Dravidas , Yavanas , Shakas , Paradas , Pahlavas , Kiratas, Chinas , kalimdas , Pulindas , Usinaras , Kolisarpas , Mahishaas , Mekalos , Lapas, Konvasiras, Dorvas , Chauras , Savaras ,Barbaras , Gandharas, Thusharas, Kankaas , Ramattas , Bahlikas , Haras , Hunas , Parasakas due to neglecting of the Vedic rituals of Bharatam and therefore excommunicated from the Kshatriya fold ..... in the north west of Bharatas to settle in the west of Sapta Sindhus .

Akaemenian Inscription at Behistun ( Bistun) . C-522-486 B.C.
Script : Persian Cuneiform.
Language : Old Persian ( Avestic).
Location : This tablet was sculptured at Behistun on the main road from Mesopotamia to Persia to commemorate the victory of King Darius (Darayavahush) the Great (c.529-486 BC).
Column one has 96 lines.

In the below Image , you can see first 15 lines of column one.

Column 1 , lines 1-8
1. \ adam \ Dârayavauš \ xšâyathiya \ vazraka \ xšâyatha \ xšâyathiy
2. ânâm \ xšâyathiya \ Pârsaiy \ xšâyathiya \ dahyûnâm \ Višt
3. âspahyâ \ puça \ Aršâmahyâ napâ \ Haxâmanišiya \ thâtiy \
4. Dârayavauš \ xšâyathiya \ manâ \ pitâ \ Vištâspa \ Vištâspahyâ \ pitâ \ Arš
5. âma \ Aršâmahyâ \ pitâ \ Ariyâramna \ Ariyâramnahyâ \ pitâ\ Cišpiš \ Cišp
6. âiš \ pitâ \ Haxâmaniš \ thâtiy \ Dârayavauš \ xšâthiya \ avahyarâ
7. diy \ vayam \ Haxâmanišiyâ \ thahyâmahy \ hacâ \ paruviyata \ âmâtâ \ ama
8. hy hacâ \ paruviyata \hyâ \amâxam \ taumâ \ xšâyathiyâ \ âha \ th

Translation :

(1) I am Darius [Dâryavuš], the great king, king of kings, the king of Persia [Pârsa], the king of countries, the son of Hystaspes, the grandson of Arsames, the Achaemenid.

(2) King Darius says: My father is Hystaspes [Vištâspa]; the father of Hystaspes was Arsames [Aršâma]; the father of Arsames was Ariaramnes [Ariyâramna]; the father of Ariaramnes was Teispes [Cišpiš]; the father of Teispes was Achaemenes [Haxâmaniš].

(3) King Darius says: That is why we are called Achaemenids; from antiquity we have been noble; from antiquity has our dynasty been royal.

(4) King Darius says: Eight of my dynasty were kings before me; I am the ninth. Nine in succession we have been kings.

(5) King Darius says: By the grace of Ahuramazda am I king; Ahuramazda has granted me the kingdom.

(6) King Darius says: These are the countries which are subject unto me, and by the grace of Ahuramazda I became king of them: Persia [Pârsa], Elam [Ûvja], Babylonia [Bâbiruš], Assyria [Athurâ], Arabia [Arabâya], Egypt [Mudrâya], the countries by the Sea, Lydia [Sparda], the Greeks [Yauna], Media [Mâda], Armenia [Armina], Cappadocia [Katpatuka], Parthia [Parthava], Drangiana [Zraka], Aria [Haraiva], Chorasmia [Uvârazmîy], Bactria [Bâxtriš], Sogdia [Suguda], Gandara [Gadâra], Scythia [Saka] (Ghi-mi-ri or Cimmeria in Babylonian version), Sattagydia [Thataguš], Arachosia [Harauvatiš] and Maka [Maka]; twenty-three lands in all.

(7) King Darius says: These are the countries which are subject to me; by the grace of Ahuramazda they became subject to me; they brought tribute unto me. Whatsoever commands have been laid on them by me, by night or by day, have been performed by them.

(8) King Darius says: Within these lands, whosoever was a friend, him have I surely protected; whosoever was hostile, him have I utterly destroyed. By the grace of Ahuramazda these lands have conformed to my decrees; as it was commanded unto them by me, so was it done.

(9) King Darius says: Ahuramazda has granted unto me this empire. Ahuramazda brought me help, until I gained this empire; by the grace of Ahuramazda do I hold this empire.

What is Hinduism-It is Dharma, a way of life #hinduism

Hinduism is a not a religion but a way of life to live in this earth in present birth. The most obvious misconception about Hinduism is that we tend to see it as just another religion.
Dharma is the path of righteousness and living one's life according to the codes of conduct as described by the Hindu Scriptures.
Words like Hindu or Hinduism are ANANCHRONISM They do not exist in the Indian cultural lexicon. People have coined them to suit their needs in different points of history. Nowhere in the scriptures is there any reference to Hinduism.
A Culture More than a Religion
Hinduism does not have any one founder, and it does not have a Bible or a Koran to which controversies can be referred for resolution. Consequently, it does not require its adherents to accept any one idea. It is thus cultural, not creedal, with a history contemporaneous with the peoples with which it is associated.
Much More than Spirituality
Writings we now categorise as Hindu scriptures include not just books relating to spirituality but also secular pursuits like science, medicine and engineering. This is another reason why it defies classification as a religion per se. Further, it cannot be claimed to be essentially a school of metaphysics. Nor can it be described as 'other worldly'. In fact, one can almost identify Hinduism with a civilization that is flourishing even now.
A Common Faith of the Indian Subcontinent
ARYAN INVASION THEORY, having been completely discredited, it cannot be assumed that Hinduism was the pagan faith of invaders belonging to a race called Aryans. Rather it was the common metafaith of people of various races, including Harappans. The Sanskrit word 'aryan' is a word of honourable address, not the racial reference invented by European scholars and put to perverse use by the Nazis.
A Culture Much Older than we Believe
Evidence that Hinduism must have existed even circa 10000 B.C. is available: The importance attached to the river Saraswati and the numerous references to it in VEDAS indicates that the Rig Veda was being composed well before 6500 B.C. The first vernal equinox recorded in the Rig Veda is that of the star Ashwini, which is now known to have occurred around 10000 B.C. Subhash Kak, a Computer Engineer and a reputed Indologist, 'decoded' the Rig Veda and found many advanced astronomical concepts therein. The technological sophistication required to even anticipate such concepts is unlikely to have been acquired by a nomadic people, as the Invasionists would like us to believe. In his book Gods, Sages and Kings, David Frawley provides compelling evidence to substantiate this claim.
Hinduism is a Not really Polytheistic!
Many believe that multiplicity of deities makes Hinduism POLYTHESTIC. Such a belief is nothing short of mistaking the wood for the tree. The bewildering diversity of Hindu belief - theistic, atheistic and agnostic - rests on a solid unity. "Ekam sath, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti", says the Rig Veda: The Truth (God, BRAHMAN, etc) is one, scholars call it by various names.
What the multipicity of deities does indicate is Hinduism's spiritual hospitality as evidenced by two characteristically Hindu doctrines: The Doctrine of Spiritual Competence (Adhikaara) and the Doctrine of The Chosen Deity (Ishhta Devata). The doctrine of spiritual competence requires that the spiritual practices prescribed to a person should correspond to his or her spiritual competence. The doctrine of the chosen deity gives a person the freedom to choose (or invent) a form of Brahman that satisfies his spiritual cravings and to make it the object of his worship. It is notable that both doctrines are consistent with Hinduism's assertion that the unchanging reality is present in everything, even the transient.

Moral Law of the World

Hinduism describes dharma as the natural universal laws whose observance enables humans to be contented and happy, and to save himself from degradation and suffering. Dharma is the moral law combined with spiritual discipline that guides one's life. Hindus consider dharma the very foundation of life. It means "that which holds" the people of this world and the whole creation. Dharma is the "law of being" without which things cannot exist.

 

According to the Scriptures

Dharma refers to the religious ethics as propounded by Hindu gurus in ancient Indian scriptures, TULSIDAS JI,author of Ramcharitmanas , has defined the root of dharma as compassion. This principle was taken up by Lord Buddha in his immortal book of great wisdom, Dhammapada . The Atharva Veda describes dharma symbolically: Prithivim dharmana dhritam , that is, "this world is upheld by dharma". In the epic poem Mahabharat.

Good Dharma = Good Karma

Hinduism accepts the concept of reincarnation, and what determines the state of an individual in the next existence is KARMA which refers to the actions undertaken by the body and the mind. In order to achieve good karma it is important to live life according to dharma, what is right. This involves doing what is right for the individual, the family, the class or caste and also for the universe itself. Dharma is like a cosmic norm and if one goes against the norm it can result in bad karma. So, dharma affects the future according to the karma accumulated. Therefore one's dharmic path in the next life is the one necessary to bring to fruition all the results of past karma.

 

What Makes You Dharmic?

Anything that helps human being to reach god is dharma and anything that hinders human being from reaching god is adharma. According to the Bhagavat Purana , righteous living or life on a dharmic path has four aspects: austerity ( tap ), purity ( shauch ), compassion ( daya ) and truthfulness ( satya ); and adharmic or unrighteous life has three vices: pride ( ahankar ), contact ( sangh ), and intoxication ( madya ). The essence of dharma lies in possessing a certain ability, power and spiritual strength. The strength of being dharmic also lies in the unique combination of spiritual brilliance and physical prowess.

 

The 10 Rules of Dharma

Manusmirit written by the ancient sage Manu, prescribes 10 essential rules for the observance of dharma: Patience ( dhriti ), forgiveness ( kshama ), piety or self control ( dama ), honesty ( asteya ), sanctity ( shauch ), control of senses ( indraiya-nigrah ), reason ( dhi ), knowledge or learning ( vidya ), truthfulness ( satya ) and absence of anger ( krodha ). Manu further writes, "Non-violence, truth, non-coveting, purity of body and mind, control of senses are the essence of dharma". Therefore dharmic laws govern not only the individual but all in society.

The Purpose of Dharma

The purpose of dharma is not only to attain a union of the soul with the supreme reality, it also suggests a code of conduct that is intended to secure both worldly joys and supreme happiness. Rishi Kanda has defined dharma in Vaisesika as "that confers worldly joys and leads to supreme happiness". Hinduism is the religion that suggests methods for the attainment of the highest ideal and eternal bliss here and now on earth and not somewhere in heaven. For example, it endorses the idea that it is one's dharma to marry, raise a family and provide for that family in whatever way is necessary. The practice of dharma gives an experience of peace, joy, strength and tranquillity within one's self and makes life disciplined. 

DEATH OF TRADITIONAL HINDUISM

Magnitude of Great Hinduism was dismantled by attackers Britishers, both culturally and socially.  

This development both altered and weakened Hinduism to such a tremendous degree that Hinduism has not yet even begun to recover. 

British Attack on Hinduism
The classical, traditional Hinduism that had been responsible for the continuous development of thousands of years of sophisticated culture, architecture, music, philosophy, ritual and theology came under devastating assault during the 19th century British colonial rule like at no other time in India's history.

Innovative Cultural Genocide
What the Hindu community experienced under British Christian domination,was an innovative form of cultural genocide. What they experienced was not an attempt at the physical annihilation of their culture, but a deceivingly more subtle program of intellectual and spiritual annihilation. It is easy for a people to understand the urgent threat posed by an enemy that seeks to literary kill them. It is much harder, though, to understand the threat of an enemy who, while remaining just as deadly, claims to seek only to serve a subjugated people's best interests.
Anglicized Hindu Intellectuals
During this short span of time in the 19th century, the ancient grandeur and beauty of a classical Hinduism that had stood the test of thousands of years, came under direct ideological attack. What makes this period in Hindu history most especially tragic is that the main apparatus that the British used in their attempts to destroy traditional Hinduism were the British educated, spiritually co-opted sons and daughters of Hinduism itself. Seeing traditional Hinduism through the eyes of their British masters, a pandemic wave of 19th century Anglicized Hindu intellectuals saw it as their solemn duty to "Westernize" and "modernize" traditional Hinduism to make it more palatable to their new European overlords. One of the phenomena that occurred during this historic period was the fabrication of a new movement known as "neo-Hinduism".
 What is Neo-Hinduism?
Neo-Hinduism was an artificial religious construct used as a paradigmatic juxtaposition to the legitimate traditional Hinduism that had been the religion and culture of the people for thousands of years. Neo-Hinduism was used as an effective weapon to replace authentic Hinduism with a British invented version designed to make a subjugated people easier to manage and control.
The Christian and British inspired neo-Hinduism movement attempted to execute several overlapping goals, and did so with great success:
a) The subtle Christianization of Hindu theology, which included concerted attacks on iconic imagery (archana, or murti), panentheism, and continued belief in the beloved gods and goddesses of traditional Hinduism.
b) The imposition of the Western scientific method, rationalism and skepticism on the study of Hinduism in order to show Hinduism's supposedly inferior grasp of reality.
c) Ongoing attacks against the ancient Hindu science of ritual in the name of simplification and democratization of worship.
d) The importation of Radical Universalism from liberal, Unitarian / Universalist Christianity as a device designed to severely water down traditional Hindu philosophy.
The Death of Traditional Hinduism
The dignity, strength and beauty of traditional Hinduism was recognized as the foremost threat to Christian European rule in India. The invention of neo-Hinduism was the response. Had this colonialist program been carried out with a British face, it would not have met with as much success as it did. Therefore, an Indian face was used to impose neo-Hinduism upon the Hindu people. The resultant effects of the activities of Indian neo-Hindus were ruinous for traditional Hinduism.
The Dilemma
The primary dilemma with Hinduism as we find it today, in a nutshell, is precisely this problem of…
1) Not recognizing that there are really two distinct and conflicting Hinduisms today, Neo-Hindu and Traditionalist Hindu; and
2) With Traditionalists being the guardians of authentic Dharma philosophically and attitudinally, but not yet coming to full grips with the modern world, i.e., not yet having found a way of negotiating authentic Hindu Dharma with an ability to interface with modernity and communicate this unadulterated Hindu Dharma in a way that the modern mind can most appreciate it.
A Confused Existence
Hinduism will continue to be a religion mired in confusion about its own true meaning and value until traditionalist Hindus can assertively, professionally and intelligently communicate the reality of genuine Hinduism to the world.
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‘Hindu cosmology’s time-scale for the universe is in consonance with modern science’

Carl Sagan, the distinguished Cornell University astronomer and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, who succumbed to his battle against cancer on December 15, in fact lived for millions of years in the relative time scale of experience.

This legend in his own lifetime was a first grade philosopher, poet, scientist and a splendid example of human greatness all rolled into one.

His true genius lay in the many esoteric philosophical and scientific endeavours which only specialists can really appreciate. But he became an instant pop science icon when he co-authoredCOSMOS, a television series devoted to astronomy and space exploration.

A part of that awesome series was shot in India. In the early eighties, Sagan met then Indian diplomat Placido P D’Souza and in a conversation explained the India connection and the relevance of Gandhi.

You have been host of the television programme COSMOS which deals with astronomy and science exploration. And yet India figured in this programme. Could you tell us how India fits into this series?Let me first say something about the series in general, and something about the Indian part of the series. The television series COSMOS is designed to breach the barrier that many people feel about science. They cannot understand it, and it is foreign to them in approach and content. Our experience is that children grow up with an absolute zest and passion for science, and something happens to discourage some of them – sometimes many of them – from pursuing this interest.

We thought it was our job to excite the children, and reawaken the interest in science of adults. So we will use any approach to gain people’s attention, and show them that science is something not just that they can understand, but that they can become excited about and can use as part of the way they view the world.

The series has been extraordinarily successful. It has been shown in a year or two in the Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of China. I hope some day it will be shown in India. The tenth episode of COSMOS is largely about cosmology – the study of the universe in a perspective in which the Earth is like a grain to stand in vast beach or desert – and the way we approach the subject is through Hindu cosmology.

We have done that for several reasons. We went to Tamil Nadu for the festival called Pongal. Like festivals all over the world, it celebrates the changing of the seasons, and remind us that our ancestors were astronomers, who kept calendars and watched the skies. It was essential for extremely practical matters: when to sow seeds and to harvest grain. It was a matter of life and death to be an astronomer.

But the main reason that we oriented this episode of COSMOS towards India is because of that wonderful aspect of Hindu cosmology which first of all gives a time-scale for the Earth and the universe — a time-scale which is consonant with that of modern scientific cosmology. We know that the Earth is about 4.6 billion years old, and the cosmos, or at least its present incarnation, is something like 10 or 20 billion years old. The Hindu tradition has a day and night of Brahma in this range, somewhere in the region of 8.4 billion years.

As far as I know. It is the only ancient religious tradition on the Earth which talks about the right time-scale. We want to get across the concept of the right time-scale, and to show that it is not unnatural. In the West, people have the sense that what is natural is for the universe to be a few thousand years old, and that billions is indwelling, and no one can understand it. The Hindu concept is very clear. Here is a great world culture which has always talked about billions of years.

Finally, the many billion year time-scale of Hindu cosmology is not the entire history of the universe, but just the day and night of Brahma, and there is the idea of an infinite cycle of births and deaths and an infinite number of universes, each with its own gods.

And this is a very grand idea. Whether it is true or not, is not yet clear. But it makes the pulse quicken, and we thought it was a good way to approach the subject.

And then the Chola bronzes in Tamil Nadu were very lovely to film, and gave us a visual approach to go along with the intellectual approach. It was also a way of de-provincialising our presentation. After all, we claim that science is an endeavor of the human species. To shoot the whole film in the United States or Western Europe would have been extremely provincial. We shot in Japan and 12 or 14 other countries, besides India. Let me also say that the subsidiary benefit for my wife and me is that we had a chance to visit India for the first time, and especially Tamil Nadu which we enjoyed enormously.

You mentioned the Chola bronzes and I see also that in your book COSMOS one of the chapters called ‘The edge of forever’ begins with a picture of Nataraja. Could you say something to explain its relevance in that chapter?The traditional explanation of the Nataraja is that it symbolises the creation of the universe in one hand and the death of the universe in the other – the drum and the flame – and after all, that is what cosmology is all about. So in addition to being artistically exquisite, the Nataraja provides exactly the kind of symbolism that we wanted. The Nataraja that is photographed in the book COSMOS is in a museum in Pasadena, California, but it will be returned to India at some specified time within the next decade.

What were your general impressions about India?I was absolutely delighted with Tamil Nadu. First of all, there was the sense of an intact cultural framework. I did not have the sense of people greatly alienated from their society – you certainly see a great deal of that in the West. I had a sense of people caring for each other, an intact social fabric, and technology coming along quite fast. Not just large industrial parks.

In a way what impressed me most was the widespread use of the bicycle, not only for carrying agricultural products and manufactures from one place to another, but also as a means for young people to visit neighbouring villages, and a sense of exuberant communication, because now people are not closed in a small village. They have a much wider range of places that they have access to.

We spent some time in Madras and in Bombay. But these were slow stages to get us to Tamil Nadu. We saw mainly tourist things which were certainly pleasant, but we did not have the sense of getting to know the people. We could have, but it did not work out that way, whereas in Tamil Nadu we got to know the people.

I will give you an example. Here we are at 6:30 or 7 in the morning – a group of us consisting of cameramen, soundmen, writers, directors, producers and me, who go marching single file by a pond in which there are lovely lily and lotus blossoms. Going to two small temples of the bull god (Nandi). A boy, less than 10 years old, saw us coming, looked at us, dove into the pond and came up near a lotus flower. He then swam back with it, climbed out of the pond, went up to my wife, gave her the lotus blossom and introduced himself, saying “Hello, my name is…” I forget what his name was. It was done with such elegance and charm and with no thought of reward, but just a sensibility which I found very impressive. Anyway we loved it. How colorful it was…

I must also say the sari is a kind of work of art, especially seeing hundreds of them all together. Also, women washing the saris gives a kind of swatch of color to the landscape… I thought it was wonderful… I had a sense of a healthy society. I didn’t know to what extent this is characteristic or not, but I was very impressed and would love to have a chance to go back…

Well, you know you have a standing invitation to visit India…Was that your first visit?Yes. I had been invited before by a number of people, including J B S Haldane, a British biologist in Bhubaneshwar. I knew him well in the last few years of his life. He even made me promise to visit him in Orissa, but he died before I had a chance to do so.

Did you know any other Indian scientists?Oh, yes. I knew Vikram Sarabhai who spent a year at Cambridge, Massachusetts, when I was on the Harvard faculty. I was a student of the world-renowned astrophysicist Subramanian Chandrasekhar at the University of Chicago. An old friend from the graduate school days in Kameshwar Wali, now a Professor of Physics at Syracuse University. For 17 years a close colleague who has been working with me in laboratory experiments on the origins of life is Bishun Khare. So I had a succession of fairly close friendships with Indians. I have always felt some natural affinity, I suppose.