WHAT WE CALL HINDUISM TODAY WAS THE UNIVERSAL RELIGION IN THE PAST

WHAT WE CALL HINDUISM TODAY WAS THE UNIVERSAL RELIGION IN THE PAST

(Compilation for a discourse by N. R. Srinivasan, Nashville, TN,  March 2019)

“In the dim past what we call Hinduism today was prevalent all over the world. Archaeological studies reveal the existence of relics of our Vedic religion in many countries.  For instance, excavations have brought up the text of a treaty between Ramsey II   and Hittites dating back to the 14^th century B.C.; the Vedic gods Mitra  and Varuna are mentioned as witnesses to the pact. There is a connection between the name of Rameses and Rama. About 75 % of the names of places in Madagascar have a Sanskrit origin” says Jagadguru Chandrasekharendra Saraswati in his Book of Dharma.

Evidence can be found in many countries of their Vedic connection dating back to 5000 years and even back to 8000 years according to recent archeological findings. With the dawn of civilization   itself, aspects of Vedic Dharma existed in these lands. It was only subsequently that the inhabitants of these regions came to have a religion of their own.

The interaction between India and the West during the first millennium BCE is well known as in the mention in Old Testament of trade for ivory, apes and peacocks (1 Kings 10:22). There was thriving bilateral trade between India and Rome both through the overland caravan route and the southern sea route. By the time of Augustus 120 ships set sail every year from Myos Hormos to India. Pliny complains in Historia Naturae 12.41.84, “India, China and the Arabian Peninsula take one hundred million sesterces from our empire per annum at a conservative estimate: that is what our luxuries and women cost us.”

India and the West had rich interaction in the second millennium BCE also. This was the time of the Mitanni of Syria, who worshiped Vedic gods. The Mitanni ruled northern Mesopotamia (including Syria) for about 300 years, starting 1600 BCE, out of their capital of Vasukhani. In a treaty between the Hittites and the Mitanni, Indic deities Mitra, Varuṇa, Indra, and Nāsatya (Aśvins) are invoked. Their chief festival was the celebration of viṣuva (solstice) very much like in India. It is not only the kings who had Sanskrit names; a large number of other Sanskrit names have also been unearthed in the records from the area.

The list of the Sanskrit names used in Syria and elsewhere was published by P. E. Dumont of the Johns Hopkins University, in the Journal of American Oriental Society in 1947, and one may see a summary of that in my own book chapter on Akhenaten, Sūrya, and the Ṛgveda,.   The names of the main kings are (with the standard Sanskrit form or meaning inside brackets): The first Mitanni king was Sutarna I (good Sun). He was followed by Baratarna I (Paratarṇa, great Sun); Paraśukṣatra (ruler with axe); Saustatar (Saukṣatra, son of Sukṣatra, the good ruler); Paratarṇa II; Artadama (Ṛtadhāman, abiding in cosmic law); Sutarṇa II; Tushratta (Daśaratha or Tveṣaratha, having ten or fast chariots); and finally Matiwazza (Mativāja, whose wealth is thought), during whose lifetime the Mitanni state became a vassal to Assyria.

It is most interesting that the Mitanni were connected by marriage across several generations to the Egyptian 18th dynasty to which Pharaoh Akhenaten (ruled 1352-1336 BCE according to the mainstream view) belonged. Akhenaten’s second wife was Tadukhipa (“khipa” from the Sanskrit “kṣipā,” night) and she became famous as the queen Kiya (short for Khipa). His first wife was the beautiful Nefertiti, whose bust is available in a museum in Berlin.

Greece had an ancient religion and had big temples where various deities were worshiped.  Vedic element can be seen Hellenic religion. The same was the case with Semitic religions of the pre-Christian era in the region associated with Jesus. The aborigines of Mexico had a religion of their own. They shared the Vedic view of the divine in the forces of nature and worshiped them as deities. There was a good deal of ritual in all such religions. The Aztecs had inhabited Mexico before the Spaniards invaded and occupied that land. Aztecs   were Aastikas, a distorted form (Aphabramsa). In Peru Sun was worshiped as Ina which is one of the names of Aditya in Sanskrit.

“An ocean came into being when the Sagaras went on digging the earth down to Pathala (nether world) in search of their sacrificial horse  and it was called Sagara after the King  Sagara. The Sagaras at last found the horse near the hermitage of  Kapila Maharshi. It is also surprising that there is  a Horse Island near California as well as an Ash Island,  near California in the Pacific  Sea.  We also know the story that Kapila reduced Sagaras to ashes with a mere glance of his eye. It is likely that California  is a distorted  form (Aphabramsa) of  Kapilaranya  over a long period. Geologists believe that ages ago Sahara desert was an ocean. Then it is reasonable to believe Sahara is derived from Sagara” says  Jagadgurur Chandrasekharendra Saraswathi.

It is reasonable to believe USA was the Pathala   then described in Ramayana. Geography confirms that India and California locations are diametrically opposite to each other on the Globe. Therefore if one were to notionally pierce a needle from India on the Globe, it would hit California directly at the bottom. This also corroborates the view that the princes who dug deep into the ground from India reached California at the bottom. Also the existence of “Ash Island” and “Horse Island” next to California today lends credence to this explanation suggesting that “Ash Island” was the place where the princes were burnt to ashes and the “Horse Island” was the location where the horse was tied.

Some historians try to explain the evidence pointing to the world-wide prevalence our Religion in the past to the exchange of cultural and religious ideas between India and other countries established through travels.  Having a clear picture of early civilization today it is reasonable to believe there was one common religion or Dharma throughout and that the signs and symbols that we find of this today are the creation of the original inhabitants of the lands concerned.

The similarity between the Indus Valley Civilization and Egyptian Old Kingdom and the religion of the ancient Egyptians in its fully developed stage shows the influence of Vedic religion on the religion of Egypt.

Their scriptures were orally transmitted for long and remained in a fixed form once they were recorded.   Like the Vedas,   the gods of the Pyramid Texts are elements of Nature as the Sun (Re) is the primary deity of these texts, although there are also many references to the stars, the river and the environmental elements involved in the creation stories, where deities of the sky, earth, air and moisture are the first created by the Sun god. There are however numerous elements of the Helopolitan myths and the Hindu myths that correspond.

Before creation the universe consisted of primordial waters, with no light and no movement. It was a time of chaos, nothingness and darkness, until from these waters the creation of the Universe began. Hindus   believe that the earth is in an era called the Kali Age (Yuga), which will last for 4,320,000 years   at the end of which the universe will be destroyed and reabsorbed back into the Supreme Deity residing in the primordial waters. After a further prescribed number of years he will then start the creation of a new Universe according to the Cosmic Law.

In ancient Egypt this cosmic law was called Maat and was personified as a goddess with a feather, the symbol of truth and righteousness, on her head. Cosmic Law Maat was an important concept in the lives of the ancient Egyptians; in the Hindu religion the concept of universal cosmic law is known as Rita.  Rita has many meanings including order, balance, harmony, law, unified life-energy and the principle of intelligence.   

The main similarity between ancient Egyptian religion and modern Hinduism is their polytheistic nature. Both religions have one Supreme Deity, who is seen as the creator of all life. However both religions have a choice as to which deity they chose to worship in this role.   In ancient Egypt the Supreme Deity was either Amon, or Ra, (or the Aten in the Amarna period) and in modern Hinduism the Supreme Deity is Brahman in its role as Vishnu, Shiva or Brahma. Although both Hindu gods and Egyptian gods exist in their thousands, each is a manifestation of the Supreme Deity and it has been argued that both religions have a monotheistic element. As the Supreme Deities are too complex or too powerful for many ordinary people to comprehend and bring into their lives on a personal spiritual level, they take on different forms, each with different personalities or characteristics, which can be approached for particular things, appealing to different people on many levels. For example Sekhmet, the lioness headed goddess, in ancient Egypt was addressed to cure illnesses as the goddess of epidemics, and in Hinduism before embarking on an exam or a business venture you would make an offering to Ganesha the elephant headed god of removal (and placing) of obstacles. In recent times Hinduism has deified Sheetal Devi who is prayed to cure from the deadly disease of Small-pox. 

In Egyptian religion most male deities have a consort or wife like Hindu Puranic deities and in Egyptian religion in particular form family groups and genealogy are recorded.  The general idea behind these relationships is that everything needs a male and female element to be whole, as the females represent the creative power and energy needed for birth and creation. 

The snake is also an image of importance in Hinduism and Indian Tantra. “Serpent power” in Tantra is known as Kundalini and is represented by two snakes, a red and white snake and through invoking this power can lead to enlightenment. These dual serpents are also present in the Egyptian religion and are called Marty goddesses and are red and white, wearing the red and white crowns of dual Egypt, representing the completeness of Egypt.  

Similarities between the Hindu & the Mayan Culture 

The Mayans believed in the existence of a trinity with knowledge of the three universes composed of the Jaguar (material), the Serpent (mind) and the Bird (spirit). According to them, there were thirteen layers of heaven and nine underworlds, each with its presiding god, while the ancient Hindu texts talked about thirteen Lokas (worlds) above the earth and seven Lokas below the earth. In Hindu philosophy, the existence of the universe is governed by the Trimurti (also called as the Hindu Trinity) of Brahma (the Creator), Vishnu (the Sustainer) and Shiva (the Destroyer). The parallels between the Hindu Brahma-Vishnu-Shiva Trinity and the Mexican Ho-Huitzilopochtli-Tláloc Trinity are very impressive too. Friar Diego de Landa, a Franciscan monk who burned all Maya manuscripts (containing priceless information on ancient history, mythology, medicine, astronomy, science, religion, and philosophy) and idols in Yucatán, in his book – Relación de las cosas de Yucatán wrote: “They had a very great number of idols and temples which were magnificent in their own fashion and besides the community temples, the lords, priests and leading men also had oratories and idols in their houses where they made their prayers and offerings in private.” The Mayans made idols of not only gods but also of animals and insects. They also believed in immortality of the soul and afterlife. All these sounds very similar to Hindu worship and beliefs. Like the Mayan, the Hindus too have numerous gods which are considered as the manifestations of the principal gods. They also worship animals, rocks, trees and rivers which are considered holy and sacred. Finally, just like the Islamic and Portuguese conquerors built mosques and churches over vandalized and destroyed Hindu temples in India, the Spanish constructed churches over destroyed Mayan temples in Mexico.

In continuation to the similarities in Hindu and Mayan culture, here are some interesting details…

Kundalini / Kultunlilni--Even today there are a number of words in the Mayan language which indicate a relation to the Vedic culture. The Mayan word “Kultunlilni” refers to the divine power and has obvious similarities to the Sanskrit word Kundalini which also refers to the life energy and the power of consciousness. Kultunlilni is the vital life force empowering all human growth and development. It refers to the power of God within man which is controlled by the breath which is similar in meaning to the Hindu Kundalini.

Traditionally, Kundalini is depicted as a sleeping green snake coiled three and a half times. The snake represents the grip of karma and spiritual ignorance. Kundalini is the energy that moves up from the base of the spine and out through the crown chakra. Chakras, in the yogic tradition, are the psychic senses or centers. In the Maya language, these chakras are called chaclas, the force centers of the body similar to the chakras of Hinduism. At Muladhara Chakra the energy – the snake – is awakened to rise through the spine and unite with the consciousness – the eagle – in Sahasrara Chakra at the top of the head. There are in all seven chakras on the way up. When all these chakras are fully activated, one experiences an enlightened state. Once Kundalini is awakened, you transcend the duality of the material world and return to a state of oneness to realize your true perfection.

In order to stir Kundalini and begin the sacred ascent, it is important to practice asanas (the physical postures), pranayama (breathing exercise), and meditation. These tools enable you to remerge your consciousness with that of the Divine Creator – the highest aim of Tantra. A person’s unconscious radiation, determines his or her destiny.

Yoga / Yok’ha

The Sanskrit term yoga can be found again in the Maya word “yok’hah” which means higher truth from the combination of yok’ (above, higher) and hah (truth). The origins of yoga are shrouded in antiquity and mystery. Though the principles and practice of yoga were crystallized thousands of years ago, it was only around 200 BC that its fundamentals were collected by Patanjali in his treatise, named Yogasastra. In short, Patanjali surmised that through the practice of yoga, the energy latent within the human body can be positively awakened and released.

Yok’hah Mayan or the Mayan yoga is a system of knowledge and practices based on profound understanding of subtle energy dynamics and an expansive cosmology.   The ancient Mayan used these yogic practices for controlling energy, expanding awareness, envisioning and influencing natural forces. They were the masters of inter-dimensional realities.  Drawings in Maya codices, on ceramics, sculpted figurines, carved panels and stele depict priests and rulers in poses (k’u – hatha), using hand signs (xock’ab – mudra), chanting vedic hymns (manla – mantra) or doing breathing exercise (k’iik’ – pranayama) are preserved. Many works of art show people seated for meditation and in trance postures. Depictions of intertwined serpents (k’ultanlilni – kundalini) and vision serpents indicate that the Mayan worked with this energy and attained altered states of consciousness just like the Hindus.

Ayurveda / Maya Medicine

Ayurveda is the ancient science of life and medicine which originated in India. It constitutes ideas about ailments and diseases, their symptoms, diagnosis and cure, and relies heavily on herbal medicines, including extracts of several plants of medicinal values. Ancient Hindu scholars dealt with principles of Ayurveda as far back as 800 BC. The Charaka Samhita, a compendium of Ayurvedic principles and practices has remained like a standard textbook almost for 2000 years and was translated into many languages, including Arabic and Latin. Several advances were also made in the field of medical surgery in areas like plastic surgery, extraction of cataracts, and even dental surgery. In spite of the absence of anesthesia, complex operations were performed as early as 800 BC.

Mayan Medicine, like Ayurveda, was practiced by priests who inherited their position and received extensive education. The ancient Mayan were aware that the mind was very important, and they placed great emphasis in their approach to medicine on the connection of the mind and body. They used instruments made of bone, obsidian and leather (for enemas). They sutured wounds with human hair, reduced fractures, and used casts. Obsidian blades were used to perform surgeries thereby promoting more rapid healing with less scar tissue.

The Mayans were skillful dental surgeons and made prostheses from jade and turquoise and filled teeth with iron pyrite. Teeth were filed into points, ground into rectangles and drilled with small holes to permit the insertion of small round pieces of jade or polished iron pyrite. Dental decoration was slightly more common amongst women.

Western historians mention that in virgin forests of Borneo that has not been penetrated by any human being until recently, explorers have found inscription in a script akin to Grantha characters. Historians ascribe the same to the inscription of Mulavarman of Kotei. Mention is made in it of a sacrifice, the king who performed it,  place where the sacrificial post was installed. It is also stated that the Brahmins were given away Kalpavrikshas as gift.

Tiruppavai and Tiruvembavai,  glorified and celebrated in Buddhist and Thai temples month long in the holy month of Margazhi and also its celebration as festival Triyampavai--Trippavai though they do not understand the meaning of these hymns and also do not know how to pronounce them properly is amazing.   We have a lot to learn from Thais who draw our attention to the past heritage and culture of ours as well as the antiquity of Vedic culture and Sanatana Dharma through these month long celebrations.

Tamil Tiruppavai and Tiruvembavai are not ancient as Vedas. The authors of these Tamil hymns, Andal and Manickavachakar belong to an age much later than that of the Vedas and Epics. After their times Hindu empires rose across the seas. Even the Chola Kings extended their sway beyond the seas. More worthy of note than our naval expeditions was the great expansion in our trade and the increase with it our foreign contacts. As a result, people abroad were drawn to the Hindu Religion and culture. Among the regions that developed such contacts, South Asia was the most important. People in Siam (Thailand), Indochina, Indonesia and Philippines came under the influence of Hindu Culture. Srivijayavasa was one of the great empires of the South-East Asia.

Even today a big festival is held in Thailand in December -January corresponding to the Tamil Margazhi, the same month during which Tiruppavai and Triruvembavai with devotion are sung.     As a part of the celebration a dolostava (swing festival) is held. A remarkable feature of this is that, in the ceremony meant for Vishnu, a man with make-up of Siva is seated on the swing. This seems to be in keeping with the fact that Tirupavai and Tiruvembavai contribute to the unification of Vaisahnavism and Saivism.

If you ask the people in Thailand about Pavai hymns, they will not be able to explain them. It might seem then that there is no basis for connecting the Thai festival merely because it is being held in the month corresponding to the Tamil Margazhi.  But the point to note is that the people of that country themselves call it Triyampavai--Trippavai.

Balinese Hindus celebrate the Saka (Balinese calendar) New Year today (Thursday, 7 March 2019) with their airport closed, no vehicles on the road, no crowds on the beaches, and internet shut down, from 6 am today to 6 pm.  
Nyepi Festival of Silence  is commemorated every Isakawarsa,  a day reserved for self-reflection as people meditate and fast. Anything that interferes with the process is avoided. On the public holiday, the lights are kept dim with no entertainment or pleasure; no travelling; and, for some, no talking or eating at all. This day heralds  Phalgun in Hindu Calendar.

Western History presents and disperses towards the North, North East of India, Persia and Russia. At the same time one has to account for the presence of Sanatana Dharma in the Far East, extending to Australia and the spread in Europe, Africa, Americas and Mesa Americas. This was the work of Ancient Tamils at first and later by the Vedic people of Indus Valley.

Those who read the Bible today are likely to be ignorant about the Upanishads, but they are sure to know the story that can be traced back to them that of Adam and Eve found in Bhavishya Purana. Keeping these facts before us, let us take our mind back to three or four thousand years ago and imagine how a religion or culture would have changed after its passage to foreign land.

It is in this context that we must consider the Vedic tradition. For all the changes and distortions that it has undergone in other countries during the past millennia, its presence there is still proclaimed through elements that are found in the religions that supplanted it.

Here is an Upanishadic concept that has taken the forma Biblical story. But because of the change in time and place the original idea has become distorted or even obliterated      

Mundaka Upanishad speaks of two birds perched on the branch of a Pippala tree. One eats the fruit of the tree while the other merely watches its companion without eating. The pippala t ree stands for the body, the first bird represents a being that regards itself as the Jivatman or individual Self and the second bird is to be understood as Paramatman. It is the support of all   beings but does not know the sensual pleasures. Since it does not eat the fruit it does not have the same experience as the Jivatman (the first bird). The Upanishad speaks with poetic beauty of the two birds. The one who eats the fruit is the individual Self, Jiva, and the one that does not eat is the Supreme Reality, the one who knows himself to be the Supreme Consciousness. In this jiva that has come to be called “Eve” in the Hebrew Religion. “Ji” to changes to “E’’ according to a rule of grammar like “Ja” to “Ya”. We too have the example of Yamuna becoming Jamuna. In the biblical story jiva is Eve and “Adam” is Atman. “Pippala” has in the same way changed to “Apple”.   

The Upanishadic ideas transplanted into a distant land underwent a change after the lapse of centuries. Thus we see in the Biblical story that the Atman (Adam) that can never be subject to sensual pleasure also eats the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge. While our Bodhi tree stands for enlightenment, the enlightenment that banishes all sensual pleasure, the Biblical tree affords worldly pleasure. These differences not withstanding there is sufficient evidence here that, once upon a time, the Vedic religion was prevalent in the land of the Hebrews. Similarly Upanishadic   Mahavakya “Aham Brahmasmi” gave birth to “Yahweh” or  Jehovah to mean “That I am”

Hinduism that gave birth to Jainism, Buddhism and Sikhism is in major conflict with Christianity and Islam that have their origin in Judaism.  Recent findings reveal that Judaism itself has its origin   in Hinduism that comes from the Vedic Religion  or Sanatana Dharama and got diversified over long years of its practice  globally,  mostly influenced from Bharat.

Subhash Kak, the well-known Indologist   on the   “ORIGIN OF JEWS IS BHARATH”

The question of ORIGIN of the Jews is a highly debated topic- this, in spite of overwhelming evidences in form of documentary and literary references that they have originated from the ancient land of Bharat   also called India. The need to discover and search for unraveling this mystery was started when it was discovered that more than 100 suspected SHIVALINGAMS were found in mountains of Israel.

The mountains in Eliat was found to have 100 Shiva lingam which they promptly labeled as 100 ancient ‘sex cult’ sites as usual for those who don’t have known about Hindu Shivalingams, about the find in Israel. They described as mysterious 8,000 year old stone circles filled with phallic carvings discovered in mountains. Sites in the Eliat Mountains contain phallic stone structures with contained stone circles with phallic carvings pointing to the center, and researchers believe 349 more sites may exist in the region. This could be during or after the reign of Abraham.

Now comes the vital question – what is the actual truth vis a vis the historical narrative already known to us about the origin of Israel and its Patriarch Abraham. Where did they originate from?

The ancient JEWISH settlements of India:

1. BENE ISRAELI : It is the Bene Israel who predominate the Jewish presence in India. Their story is an old one. How old? It is and will continue to be a scholarly dispute. Some say that they came from the ancient kingdom of Israel after they were defeated by the Assyrian king in 722 B.C.E. Some believe that when the kingdom of Judah was destroyed and Jerusalem taken by the Babylonians in 586 B.C.E., some of the Jews reached the West Coast of India. Oral tradition and probably the most favored is that descended from the Jews who fled in 175 B.C.E. from the Syrian-Greek ruler Antiochus Epiphanes, were ship wrecked at Navgaon near the port of Cheul on the Konkan Coast, 30 miles South of Bombay. 7 men and 7 women survived and from there the Bene Israel spread to  many of the surrounding villages in the Konkan.
2. JEWS OF COCHIN : The ‘black’ Malabar component of the Cochin Jews, according to Shalva Weil, might have arrived in India together with Solomon’s merchants. These Jews originated by settling in Cranganore and around in Malabar. They lived there for centuries. In the 15th Century C.E. they took shelter in Cochin further south after being attacked by the Moors and later by the Portuguese. The Cochin Jews settled down in Kerala as traders. The ‘white’ component is of European and other Jewish descent. This could be a continuous immigration and business process since 5th century BCE.
3. BAGHDADI JEWS : They also known as Iraqi Jews, are Jewish emigrants from Baghdad and elsewhere in Iraq, which not only includes Jews from the Iraqi capital city of Baghdad, but from other areas of Iraq, as well as Jews from Syrian and Yemenite origin.
4. CHENNAI JEWS: The so-called Spanish and Portuguese Jews, Paradesi Jews and British Jews arrived at Madras during the 16th century, they were diamond businessmen and were expelled from Iberia in 1492 by the Alhambra Decree. They became known as Paradesi Jews (or Foreign Jews).
5. THE JEWS OF GOA: These were Portuguese Jews who fled to Portuguese Goa after the commencement of the Inquisition in Portugal in 1497.
6. BAGHDADI JEWS OF SURAT :  The Baghdadi Jews arrived in the city of Surat from Iraq (and other Arab states), Iran and Afghanistan about 250 years ago.
7. TELUGU JEWS :    The Bene Ephraim (also called “Telugu Jews”) are a small group who speak Telugu; their observance of Judaism dates to 1981.
8. BNEI MENASHE : Jews are Mizo and Kuki tribesmen in Manipur and Mizoram who are recent converts to Judaism.

What is the origin of ABRAHAM ~the patriarch of the Jews?

MATHURA!!!!  ….YES … surprisingly ignored by the mainstream historians, there is ample literary evidence that Jewish ABRAHAM … was from MATHURA. In his times there were two rival sects vying for favors of the king  one the LINGAM worshipers and second SHAKTI worshipers, there were many wars between this two sects and, he would have been leader of group of people LINGAM worshipers who were finally excommunicated from Mathura by the King of that time to avoid in rival squabbling being LINGAM WORSHIPER with the rivals of SHAKTHI sect.  The Linga worshipers  refused the DEVI WORSHIP and subsequent wars between these two sects were solved by exile of AHBRAHAM as per evidence in Anacalypsis of Godfery Higgins.

Now that may sound a bit off the track but there is inscriptional evidence pointing to the same statement of Aristotle (384-322 BCE) that links Jews with India. This statement is recalled in a fragment by Aristotle’s pupil Clearchus who traveled widely and whose inscription on a tomb of a friend is preserved in the Afghan city of Ai-Khanoum.

The Jewish scholar Flavius Josephus (37 – 100 CE) quotes from Clearchus’s fragment in his Contra Apionem [In defence of Apion], which has Aristotle say: “Jews are derived from the Indian philosophers; they are named by the Indians Calami, and by the Syrians Judaei, and took their name from the country they inhabit, which is called Judea.” (Book I:22). 

Though the evidence in inscriptions or documentary evidence does not exist, but analyzing the religions and its methods of observances of rituals with code of conduct we can safely assume that ABRAHAM was  what we would call nowadays a “Lingayat” [worshipper of Shiva Lingam] the symbol of Lord Shiva of HiHHhHndu belief and was one of the outward journeying tribes from the Vedic fold. The defeated in the wars of Mahabharata and those who were affected, as per scholars have suggested, that after catastrophic earthquakes, or a long drought that dried up the Sarasvati River around 1900 BCE, there was the abandonment of Harappan cities and great migrations took place   in all directions and this could be the basis for his connections to this land and reason  for migrations.

It is not surprising that the iconic Shiva-Shakti Yantra of the Indian spiritual tradition is identical to the Star of David of the Jews. A picture of the Star of David from the Leningrad Codex with a date of 1008 in its colophon can be seen in Leningrad Museum.

THE CLINCHING EVIDENCE: 

Anyone who has left his beloved lands and moved has always named his new found home in memory of his motherland which he has left and ABRAHAM was no exception he named his new residence in Egypt,  that is today known as AL MATAREA.   Mataria is a district in the northern region of Greater Cairo, east of the Nile, in Egypt.

The proper answer to the question  who Jews are lies in answer to the question “why did JEWS come to Bharat after they were prosecuted in their home countries in ancient times?’’  Before we analyze it let us see their timeline one by one.

Earlier, says Yael, the three groups of Indian Jews—the Cochinis, the Bene Israels and the Baghdadi Jews—all had their own synagogues, each with slight differences. But now, the Jewish community in India is so small that they all worship together.

The Cochini Jews were based in Fort Cochin and there are hardly any left. The Baghdadis spoke Arabic and came from Yemen. They too are a minority, relative to the 4,000-odd Bene Israel who live in India, mostly in the Mumbai area.

The Bene Israel arrival to India reads like a Hollywood or Bollywood thriller. It began with a shipwreck 2,300 years ago, but like all tales, the seed for this one was sown centuries before that.

The year was 175 BC in the hot-bed that was the Hellenistic empire—Egypt, Rome, Greece and Jerusalem—a mad king named Antiochus Epiphanes wanted to stamp his will on the Jewish people. He outlawed the Torah, the Jewish religious book, and said that they could not circumcise their boy children or keep kashrut, the Jewish dietary laws that are verily similar to what   orthodox Tamilian grandmothers practiced then at home.

To escape this persecution, a group of Jews jumped into ships and fled from the Sea of Galilee. They headed east to Chula, a biblical trading port, to forge a new life. On route, their ship encountered horrific monsoon winds and crashed into the dangerous “twin rocks” off the Konkan coast of India.

Everyone on board perished, except seven men and—conveniently—seven women. The seven couples were washed ashore to a village called Nowgaon near Alibaug. They called themselves Bene Israel, or Children of Israel. All Bene Israel Jews are descendants of these seven couples.

This is where the tale gets murky, if Bene Israel historian Nissim Moses is to be believed. Moses is the author of Bene Israel of India: Heritage and Customs. He has emigrated to Tel Aviv from Mumbai, “not because of Zionism”, he says, but to contribute knowledge about the Bene Israel Jews to the Israeli homeland.

Moses links the Bene Israel shipwreck to the Chitpavan Brahmins who live in the same Konkan region. The Chitpavan Brahmins, interestingly enough, believe that they are descendants of people thrown ashore dead—also on the Konkan coast—as the result of a storm.

As a community, they consider themselves superior to the other Brahmins. They have lighter skin; and generally do not encourage intermarriage with other castes. Their names are quite similar to Bene Israel names, something that Moses points out in his book. Aptekar is a Bene Israel name; Apte is a Chitpavan Brahmin name.

Both the Jewish and the Hindu calendars are lunar. Yom Kippur in the Jewish calendar coincides with Durga puja in the Hindu calendar. Purim and Holi occur on the same day.

Both Jews and Hindus perform marriage rites under a canopy. They remove their sandals while entering a temple or synagogue. They have ritual baths before special occasions. Both religions require the isolation of women during the days of the menstrual period and after childbirth. Their death rites are similar.

The Jewish first commandment says, “I am the Lord.” One of the basic tenets of Hinduism is “Aham Brahma Asmi,” or “I am the Creator.”

Hindu and Jewish ritual objects are very similar. The six-pointed star, Magen David, is also a sacred Hindu symbol. The original name of Abraham was Av ram (father of Ram in Hebrew). The pancha diyas or five lamps used in Hinduism are similar to the menorah lit during Hanukkah. The design of the Second Temple and the Thanjavur temple in Tamil Nadu are very similar.

“I could go on,” says Moses. “In the Bible, it says that the Garden of Eden lay in a valley of four rivers. Where do you have four rivers in one valley? In Kashmir. If you look at the descriptions of what Moses saw when he saw the land of Israel, all the descriptions match that of Kashmir.”

Kashmir, in other words, could be the Promised Land—claimed by Hindus, Muslims, and now, the Bene Israel Jews, or at least one of their historians.

Moses acknowledges that his theory is farfetched and that he has trouble selling his ideas to his fellow Jews, both in India and in Israel. An obvious criticism of his grand unification theory is that Hinduism is a polytheistic religion, while Judaism is a monotheistic religion; although, as Moses argues, Hinduism’s most esoteric philosophy, Advaita, propounds monotheism.

Most scholars refute this theory. “The similarities between Judaism and Hinduism are purely coincidental,” says Nathan Katz, professor emeritus at Florida International University and editor of the Journal of Indo-Judaic Studies. “If you divide the world into Abrahamic and Dharmic religions, Judaism and Hinduism would be the two great world religions that are older than most. Naturally, there would be some similarities.”

All the above information confirms that there is no question of certain things being taken from Bharat and introduced into another country. In the beginning the Vedic Religion was prevalent all over the world. Later, over the centuries, it must have gone through a process of change and taken different forms. These forms came to be called the original religions of these various lands which in the subsequent period, historical times, came under Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism, Christianity or Islam as the case may be.

BHAVISHYA PURANA ON ADAM AND EVE

People compare the story of Bhavisya Purana containing name Adama and Havyavati as Adam and Eve and their story sounds pretty much similar. But we can't be sure about stories of Bhavisya Purana because it is supposed that it suffered high interpolation. Even if we consider story of Bhavisya purana as genuine then still Adam and Eve [Havyavati] aren't progenitor of mankind. They are just progenitor of mlechha dharma [Foreigner religion].  Still if you are interested in that story of Bhavisya Purana, the story goes like this:

At that time the Kali purusha prayed to Lord Narayana along with his wife. After sometime the Lord appeared to him and said, "This age will be a good time for you. I will fulfil your desire having various kinds of forms. There is a couple named Adama and his wife Havyavati. They are born from Vishnu-kardama and will increase the generations of mlecchas. Saying this, the Lord disappeared. Having great joy the Kali purusha went to Nilacha.

Vyasa said: "Now you hear the future story narrated by Suta Goswami. This is the full story of  Kali-yuga, hearing this you will become satisfied."

In the eastern side of Pradan city where there is  a big God-given forest, which is 16 square yojanas in size. The man named Adama was staying there under a Papa-Vriksha or a sinful tree and was eager to see his wife Havyavati. The Kali purusha quickly came there assuming the form of a serpent. He cheated them and they disobeyed Lord Vishnu. The husband ate the forbidden fruit of the sinful tree. They lived by eating air with the leaves called udumbara. After they had sons and all of them became mlecchas. Adama's duration of life was nine-hundred and thirty years. He offered oblations with fruits and went to heaven with his wife. His son was named Sveta-nama, and he lived nine-hundred and twelve years. Sveta-nama's son was Anuta, who ruled one-hundred years less than his father. His son Kinasa ruled as much as his grandfather. His son Malahalla ruled eight-hundred ninety five years. His son Virada ruled 160 years. His son Hamuka was devoted to Lord Vishnu, and offering oblations of fruits he achieved salvation. He ruled 365 years and went to heaven with the same body being engaged in mleccha-dharma. 

Of course we should not forget here Hinduism itself has changed a lot moving away from the   Vedic Religion that proclaimed:

Sangacchadhvam sam vadadhvam sam vo manaamsi jaanataam/ devaa bhaagam yathaa purve sanjanaana upaasate // (X-191-20)

Come together! Speak together! Let our minds be all of one accord like the divines that sat together in the past in harmony to worship.

Samaano mantra: samiti: samaani samaanam mana: saha chittamesam / samaanam mantramabhi mantraye va: samaanena vo havisha juhomi //(X-191-3)

Let our speech be one; united be our voices! May our minds be in union with the thoughts of the wise people! Sharing a common purpose; we worship as one.

[Vedanta Religion is universal. It did not promote walled religions. Bhagavad Gita later said these religion need bridges to connect to the Supreme. All rivers seek refuge in the vast Ocean. All religions seek universal Lord Brahman only who is ever expanding and indescribable to accommodate all. The word GOD is constituted by three capital letters G, O and D where G= Generator, O=Operator and  D=Dissolver that  is Sathyam, Sat+Thi+Yam where Sat=immortal; Thi=Mortal; Yam=what is being regulated]

Samaani vaa aakootih samaana hridayaani vah / Samaanam astu vo mano yathaa vah susahaasati //= (X-191-4)

United be your purpose, harmonious be your feelings and collected be your mind, in the same way as all the various aspects of the universe exist in togetherness, wholeness.

Om Sahanaa vaavatu | Sahanau bhnaktu | Sahaveeryam karavaavahai|Tejasvi naavadheetam-astu  | Maa vidvishaamahai |Om Santih! Santih ! Santih ||

Though this mantra is chanted both by the teacher and taught before the commencement of the study of this Upanishad this mantra conveys a strong message to all of us:

May the Supreme Lord of Love protect us! May that Lord nourish us! May that Lord build strength! May we realize that Lord of Love in us! May we be inspired to live in love with all! May we be motivated to live in peace with all!

“Hinduism is a more recent nomenclature given to a conglomeration of heterogeneous traditions and plurality of beliefs and worship with a long history of development from the Vedic (that which has originated from Vedas—the four ancient texts which contain the core of Hindu Philosophy and beliefs) sacrificial religion through the worship of epic and Puranic heroes and personal  deities, cults and sects, as well as philosophical  system rather than to a monolithic tradition or structure based on a single system of beliefs and worships or single text as scripture”  says Champaka Lakshmi in her book on The Hindu Temples.

[This compilation for a discourse is based on information contained in the book Dharma written by Jagadguru Chandarasekharendra Saraswati, Research findings of Subhash Kak, Ramani’s Blog,  my various E-mails sent to HR Forum Participants and information available in Wikipedia,  Facebook and other Internet sources that are gratefully acknowledged.]

 APPENDIX


Why Hindu Dharma is the World’s most Profound Philosophical Tradition

By David Frawley

India’s great gift of higher knowledge to the world that remains at the cutting edge of science, spirituality and psychology today.

There has been much discussion about the nature of Hinduism as it is a religion and culture not easy to understand for the modern person or for Western education. The vastness and complexity of the Hindu tradition, as well as its differences from Western religions, keeps it outside the usual definitions and dichotomies of Western thought. Yet it is usually reduced to these in its common presentations.

Most current discussions look at Hinduism according to its outer rituals or social practices. Though the yoga and Vedanta side of Hindu dharma has spread worldwide, many people are not aware of how integral these spiritual practices are to the tradition as a whole, or that they form its core essence.

Hindu dharma contains what is probably the world’s oldest and most extensive philosophical tradition, emphasizing exalted spiritual philosophies of Self-realization and God-realization. Its philosophies have predated and influenced the other philosophies of the world, East and West.

In this regard, we should look beyond the term Hinduism to its original meaning as Sanatana Dharma, which can be translated as the “eternal way of knowledge,” as the term dharma implies both wisdom and its application.

We should look beyond the idea of Hinduism as a religion like Biblical traditions and examine it as a science of consciousness, promoting an inner search, not an outer or personal belief.

Upanishadic wisdom of Self-knowledge

Hindu philosophical texts like the Upanishads are older than those of the Greeks like Plato and Aristotle and predate the formation of Western philosophy.

They are in many respects more profound as they emphasize universal consciousness and cosmic intelligence and more notably, how to realize it, which Western thought still does not understand.

They promote a level of inquiry and meditation that can take us much deeper into the mysteries of life than mere reason, philosophical dialectic, or religious faith and belief that western thought centers itself upon.

The Upanishads are much older and more diverse than the philosophical and theological texts of Christianity and Islam that are based upon Greek philosophers like Aristotle, Plato and Plotinus, though these monotheistic fails rejected the pagan background of Greek mysticism.

Western religions relied upon the Greeks and Romans for their science, mathematics, art, architecture and medicine, from which modern western science and art arose again after the Renaissance that followed a return to pagan thought. Yet spiritually they continued to denigrate it as unholy.

Hinduism uniquely has sustained its older ways of knowledge  that continue today, as in Ayurveda, Vedic astrology and Vastu, Indian music and temple art. It has never rejected art, music or science as unholy. In fact, it has turned these into paths of Yoga.

Upanishadic texts emphasize the role of Self-knowledge, much like the ancient Greeks but at a deeper level. The Upanishadic Self-knowledge is not the knowledge of the mere human self, as is usually the case with the Greeks, but the inner self of pure consciousness beyond body and mind, karma and rebirth, which resides in all things, not just human beings.

A number of the theological discussions that occur in Christian philosophy can be found in older Hindu texts, like the Brahma Sutras making God both the efficient and material cause of the universe – yet regarding the divine not as a God apart from nature, or limited to a particular savior or prophet, but as the very Self of all beings. Hindu texts add a dimension of yogic experience rare in the West.

Hindu thought emphasizes the role of pure being and pure consciousness, Brahman, as the ground of existence, much like early Greek thought, while western thought since Aristotle has progressively moved into the transient realm of becoming, forgetting the primacy of the Eternal and Infinite for a more practical view of life, ultimately become a shadow of science.

This philosophical shift to the mundane has helped develop science and technology but has lost much of the world’s older spiritual, mystical and meditation traditions that have been remarkably preserved in India.

Reclaiming India’s philosophical traditions

Hindu dharma is not a primitive system of image worship, repressive social customs, or superstitious beliefs, as much of the propaganda against it blindly portrays, even in the academic realm.

It holds a profound philosophical tradition of enormous depth and subtlety, extending to a full science of cosmic consciousness, such as modern science is beginning to suspect, along with yoga and meditation practices to perceive this directly for oneself.

Such profound dharmic traditions of knowledge extend through Veda, Vedanta, Yoga and Tantra. Such teachings are not limited to Hindu teachings but include Buddhist, Jain, Sikh and other Bharatiya traditions that have been interrelated in a constant dialogue and interchange about the cosmic reality.

These meditation-based philosophies are India’s great gift of knowledge to the world that remain at the cutting edge of science, spirituality and psychology today. While they are rising again today, it is time to bring them back into the mainstream of human inquiry, starting in India.

 

Dr. BHUDIA ON GRAND CANYON HINDU NAMED PEAKS

KUTCH SCIENCE FOUNDATION

Think about, Who named it a 1.75 billion year old Precambrian Vishnu Schist  What is the Meaning of the Vishnu Schist (Shishtha)? Why is 1.75 billion to 1.99 billion near old?  Research on it!! We can haves a full lecture on the subject!

And there is also Kutch, called Kutch Colorado from where the Colorado river flows to Grand Canyon! The Native Indians tribe is called Kachi, means Mother land – original Tribes from India

Most visitors to the Grand Canyon and Colorado River just visit the place as tourist to enjoy the beauty of the river valley. But geologist need to go to the bottom of the valley of the river Colorado grand canyon. One Need to go to Bottom of the Grand Canyon rafting the river Colorado. So the can really visualize the all layers of the Grand canyon and most interesting is its base layer called Vishnu Schist MOUNTAIN LAYER.

Why it is Called VISHNU Schist mountain layer? Name is given by original tribes of the Red Indians, original GENETICALLY decedents of Asian origin, though they went there about 20,000 years ago by land when north Atlantic was frozen. They believe this place of their worshiping god.

The VISHNU Mountain is geologically about 1.7 to 1.8 billion years (Marine BACTERIAL STROMATOLITES developed before this time 1.99  billion  years in the SEA when land was the under water dating back to this time 1.99Bn years  old and was 9km height even higher than Everest. Same as PURANs suggest the timing of the "LAND MASS COME OUT OF THE SEA during VARAH AVATAR" first incarnation was MATSHYA - Fish in the SEA (geologically and  in mythology  according the calculation in PURAN as well, the oldest vertebrate on the Earth) and then was the VARAH Incarnation of The LORD VISHNU which hooked out the LAND MASS from the sea by TOOTH tusk.
 

Now let’s check with calculative PURAN Calendar to compare the geology. Though will be difficult to calculate without good maths.

SHRUSTI START( ARAMBHA) TIME 47400 x 360 1.71E+07 17064000

TILL PRESENT SATYAYUGA 1.95E+09 1953720000

PASSED TRETAYUGA 1296000

PASSED DWAPARYUGA 864000

PRESENT KALIYUGA PASSED YEARS 5119

AT AD 2009 FROM KALP START (ARAMBHA)TIME 1.97E+09 1972949119 

Though it was a mountain but now is at the bottom layer of all sediment layers of the valley! How that might have happened? A documentary will be help full to understand this process of millions of years .

The major geologic exposures in the Grand Canyon range in age from the 2 billion year old Vishnu Schist at the bottom of the Inner Gorge to the 230 million year old Kaibab Limestone on the Rim. Interestingly, there is a gap of about one billion years between the stratum that is about 500 million years old and the lower level, which is about 1.5 billion years old. That indicates a period of erosion between two periods of deposition.

An exhibit with different rock layers cut out from a canyon wall. Grand Canyon's three sets of rocks, showing lithology, age and thickness of individual units. For more information on the geology of each of the formations exposed in Grand Canyon see these USGS sites: Grand Canyon and Colorado Plateau.

Where Vishnu is His third VARAH incarnation when earth came out of sea water.

Schist - means in SANSKRIT - remnant (remainder)

Vishnu schist means the remnant of the first land which came out of the sea water during the Vishnu’s third VARAH incarnation

CALCULATION match with geological time scale

SHRUSTI START (ARAMBHA) TIME as PURANs say

47400 Divya Vrash (cosmic years) x 360 (ratio of cosmic and human earth years) = 1.71E+07

17064000 + TILL PRESENT LAST SATYAYUGA =1.95E+09

=1953720000 +PASSED TRETAYUGA 1296000+Dwapar Yuga 864000+ KALI years 5119=1972949119 =1.97Bn years

RADIOISOTOPE DATING OF THE GRAND CANYON ROCKS:

ANOTHER DEVASTATING FAILURE FOR LONG-AGE GEOLOGY

Deep inside the Inner Gorge of Grand Canyon, northern Arizona, are the crystalline basements rocks that probably date back even to the Creation Week itself. Clearly visible in the canyon walls are the light-colored granites, such as the Zoroaster Granite, which are stark against the darker, folded strata of the Vishnu Schist and the other metamorphic rock units of the Granite Gorge Metamorphic Suite1 (see lowest purple and green shading in diagram). These are former sedimentary and volcanic strata that have been transformed by heat and pressure, possibly during the intense upheavals when the dry land was formed on Day 3 of Creation Week.2 Among these metamorphosed volcanic strata are amphibolite, belonging to the Brahma Schist. These were originally basalt lava flows several meters to tens of meters thick. In some outcrops pillow structures have been preserved, testimony to the basalt lavas having originally erupted and flowed under water onto the Creation Week ocean floor. Metamorphic rocks are not always easy to date using radioisotopes. Results obtained usually signify the “date” of the  “age” of the original volcanic (or sedimentary) rock. The “age” or “date” is calculated from the amount of the daughter isotope produced by radioactive decay of the parent isotope. In Grand Canyon, the “date” of metamorphism of the basalt lavas to form these Brahma amphibolite  has been determined as 1690-1710 Ma (million years ago), based on U-Pb dating of minerals in the overlying Vishnu Schist and underlying Rama Schist that formed during the metamorphism.3,4 It is also claimed that the original basalt lavas were erupted between 1741 and 1750 Ma, based on U-Pb dating of “original” zircon grains in metamorphosed felsic (granitic) volcanic layers within the Brahma and Rama Schists.4,5

Twenty-seven Brahma amphibolite samples were collected from various Inner Gorge outcrops as part of the RATE (Radioisotopes and the Age of The Earth) project. These included seven samples from a 150 meter long and 2 meter wide amphibolite body outcropping just upstream from the mouth of Clear Creek at river mile 84 (measured from Lees Ferry). All 27 samples were sent to two well-credentialed internationally recognized, commercial laboratories for radioisotope analyses—potassium-argon (KAr) at a Canadian laboratory, and rubidium-strontium (Rb-Sr), samarium-neodymium (Sm-Nd), and lead-lead (Pb-Pb), at an Australian laboratory. Both laboratories use standard, best-practice procedures on state-of-the-art equipment.

Results

The model K-Ar ages for each of the samples ranged from 405.1±10 Ma to 2574.2±73 Ma. Furthermore, the seven samples from the small amphibolite unit near Clear Creek, which should all be the same age because they belong to the same metamorphosed basalt lava flow, yielded K-Ar model ages ranging from 1060.4±28 Ma to 2574.2±73 Ma. This includes two samples only 0.84 meters apart that yielded K-Ar model ages of 1205.3±31 and 2574.2±73 Ma. The computer program Isoplot6 was used to plot isochrones and calculate isochrones  ages from the other radioisotope analyses. The best isochrones   plots, where all the variation from the line of best fit to the data incorporates all the analytical errors, yielded an Rb-Sr isochron age of 1240±84 Ma, an Sm-Nd isochron age of 1655±40 Ma, and a Pb-Pb isochron age of 1883±53 Ma.

Most people believe that when the different radioisotope dating methods are used on the same rock unit they all yield the same age. However, the radioisotope dating of these Grand Canyon rocks clearly demonstrates that the disagreement, or isochroness discordance,is pronounced. Even when the calculated error margins are taken into account the different radioisotope dating methods yield completely different “ages” that cannot be reconciled—1240±84 Ma (Rb-Sr), 1655±40 Ma (Sm-Nd), and 1883±53 Ma (Pb-Pb)(see diagram). None of the obtained isochrones “ages” corresponds to the “date” for any recognized event, neither the original lava eruptions nor the subsequent metamorphism. And the K-Ar model “ages” are so widely divergent from one another (ranging from 405.1±10 Ma to 2574.2±73 Ma), even from very closely spaced samples from the same outcrop of the same original lava flow, as to be useless for “dating” any event.

Yet the RATE research has uncovered much evidence, including the patterns of these discordances between the “dates” from the different radioisotope systems,10 that radioisotope decay rates were accelerated in a global catastrophic event in the recent past.11 For example, if accelerated radioisotope decay occurred, then alpha-decaying radioisotopes would yield older isochron “ages” than beta-decaying radioisotopes, which is exactly the pattern in the Brahma amphibolite (see diagram above). Because the different radioisotopes are dating the same geologic event, to have produced different “dates” has to mean that the parent radioisotopes have decayed at different rates over the same time period. In other words, the decay of the parent radioisotopes was accelerated by different amounts, the decay of those yielding older “ages” (the alpha-decoyer) having been accelerated more. Obviously, if radioisotope decay was accelerated, say during the Genesis Flood, then the radioisotope decay “clocks” could never be relied upon to “date” rocks as many millions of years old. To the contrary, the rocks could still only be a few thousand years old.

The radioisotope methods, long touted as irrefutably dating the earth’s rocks as countless millions of years old, have repeatedly failed to provide reliable and meaningful absolute ages for Grand Canyon rock layers. Irreconcilable disagree- The isochrones “ages” yielded by the different parent radioisotopes for the Brahma amphibolite  plotted against the present half -life  (decay rates) of those radioisotopes according to their mode of decay (Note that there is total disagreement between the “dates,” and the alpha-decay “dates” are much older than the beta-decay “date.”)

One of the early geologists (Charles Walcott) that worked on defining the GC's stratigraphy in the 1800s was an aficionado of Eastern religions. He named many of the formations after Eastern religious themes-Wavner

PURANIC LINKS TO ASH  ISLAND AND SHASTA MOUNTAIN OF AMERICA WITH INDIA

Ash Island USA, where Kapila Turned Rama’s Ancestors to Ashes!

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 I had written on the fact that the US is the Patala Loka mentioned in the Hindu Puranas , Ithihasas, Ramayana and Mahabharata and California is Kapila Aranya.  I had also written quite extensively on the Inca connection to Hinduism. specifically the Tamils and how they celebrate the Makara Sankranthi.

Mayan temple Chichen Itza’s Sanctum is identical with the Sanctum of Chidambaram Nataraja.

In Yucatan ruins one finds the 1000 Pillared Mantap (Hall\) in Tikal, like the ones in the Hindu temples in South India.

We have Hanuman’s son Makaradwaja being worshiped in Honduras.

200,000 Years Old Colorado Shiva Temple.

Sagara sent his 60,000 sons to search for Horse. The located the Horse standing in front of Kapila, assumed Kapila  stole the horse   and started harassing Him. Kapila just opened His eyes and the 60000 sons of Sagara were turned into ashes. Knowing this, Sagara came rushing and requested the forbearance of Kapila.  Kapila told Sagara that his sons would attain Moksha, only after Ganges was brought from the head of Lord Shiva and the ashes were immersed in the Ganges water. 

‘According to Jagadguru Sankaracharya all this happened in “Kapilaranya” which is exactly opposite to India in the Globe and which is currently California. Geography, of course, confirms that India and California locations are diametrically opposite to each other on the Globe. Therefore if one were to notionally pierce a needle from India on the Globe, it would hit California directly at the bottom. This also corroborates the view that the princes who dug deep into the ground from India reached California at the bottom. Also the existence of “Ash Island” and “Horse Island” next to California today lends credence to this explanation suggesting that “Ash Island” was the place where the princes were burnt to ashes and the “Horse Island” was the location where the horse was tied. Hindus popularly believe that the epic Ramayana happened at least 100,000 years ago. So, could it be that Hinduism is 100,000 years old and spread to far off locations including the geographic area, which is USA today?’

Citation.

http://www.harekrsna.com/sun/features/07-06/features370.htm

[But my basic question is how Sagara could have 60000 sons which is itself is a myth.]  

Shasta (also known as Mount Shasta City) is a city in Siskiyou County, California, at about 3,600 feet (1,100 m) above sea level on the flanks of Mount Shasta, a prominent Northern California landmark (Wikipedia)

Mount Shastha, California,Thiruvannamalai’s Twin

 Hinduisim  writes that   Puranas state that the Americas are the Patala. 

 “Arunachala is the most sacred holy place of all…….. The Hindu sage Ramana Maharshi said that Arunachala was the top of the spiritual axis of the earth and that there must be another mountain corresponding to it at the opposite side of the globe. I am suggesting that the other mountain is Mt. Shasta. But whether that is true or not, there is no doubt in my mind that Mt. Shasta and Mt. Arunachala are two of the major spiritual power spots of planet Earth“-Kenneth Grant.

“The earlier forms – such as Saste, Shaste, Sasty, Shasty, Chasty, Shasti, Shastika – have given place to the form Shasta…. The origin and meaning of this term are obscure.”

Referring to the mid1850s Dr. R.B. Dixon says, “After persistent inquiry, the only information secured which throws any light on the matter is to the effect that about forty or fifty years ago there was an old man living in Shasta Valley whose personal name was Shastika (Stisti’ka). He is reported to have been a man of importance; and it is not impossible that the name Shasta came from this Indian (Native American), an old and well-known man…..” Could it then be that the mountain is named after this old, quite possibly learned and wise man. Maybe then he was referred to as Shastri (शास्त्री). In Sanskrit, Shastri means “the wise one or the learned one”.

Head of the Native American Shasta tribe was Sambho.

The Shasta tribe inhabited the area close to the Klamath River. The Klamath River was known to them by the name ‘Ish-Keesh’ (ईश-कीश). In Sanskrit ‘Ish-Keesh’ (ईश-कीश) translates as ‘Lord Sun’.

Native Americans also called Mt. Shasta ‘Uytah-Ku’ or ‘White Mountain’, possibly a corruption of ‘Shweta-Naku’ (श्वेता- नाकु) also meaning ‘White Mountain’ in Sanskrit. Another name for Mt. Shasta was ‘waika’, which is also probably a corruption of the Sanskrit ‘shweta’ (श्वेत) meaning ‘white’. In fact, the English word ‘white’ itself derives from the Sanskrit ‘shweta’. Another Sanskrit word also meaning white is ‘shuchi’ (शुचि) and could have been distorted into ‘shasta’ over time.

“Mount Shasta (Karuk: Úytaahkoo or “White Mountain”) is a potentially active volcano located at the southern end of the Cascade Range in Siskiyou County, California. At 14,179 feet (4,322 m), it is the second highest peak in the Cascades and the fifth highest in California. Mount Shasta has an estimated volume of 85 cubic miles (350 km³) which makes it the most voluminous stratovolcano in the Cascade Volcanic Arc”

The lore of some of the Klamath Tribes in the area held that Mount Shasta is inhabited by the Spirit of the Above-World, Skell, who descended from heaven to the mountain’s summit at the request of a Klamath chief. Skell fought with Spirit of the Below-World, Llao, who resided at Mount Mazama by throwing hot rocks and lava, probably representing the volcanic eruptions at both mountains.

Italian settlers arrived in the early 1900s to work in the mills and as stone masons and established a strong Catholic presence in the area. Many other faiths have been attracted to Mount Shasta over the years—more than any other Cascade volcano. Mount Shasta City and Dunsmuir, California, small towns near Shasta’s western base, are focal points for many of these, which range from a Buddhist monastery (Shasta Abbey, founded by Houn Jiyu-Kennett in 1971) to modern-day Native American rituals. A group of Native Americans from the McCloud River area practice rituals on the mountain.

Mount Shasta has also been a focus for non-native American legends, centered on a hidden city of advanced beings from the lost continent of Lemuria.^[ The legend grew from an off-hand mention of Lemuria in the 1880s, to a description of a hidden Lemurian village in 1925. In 1931, Wisar Spenle Cerve wrote Lemuria: the lost continent of the Pacific, published by the Rosicrucians, about the hidden Lemurians of Mount Shasta that cemented the legend in many readers’ minds”

Does this Mountain have anything to do with Shastha, Lord Ayyappa? Future research can only tell.  It may not be ruled out easily if  you recall that three of the peaks of Grand  Canyon are named after Hindu  Trinity, Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva. A thorough research by Kutch Research Foundation is astonishing. Why it is Called VISHNU Schist mountain layer? Name is given by original tribes of the Red Indians; original GENETICALLY decedents of Asian origin, though they went there about 20,000 years ago by land when north Atlantic was frozen. They believe this place is the place of their worshiping god.  

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Poompuhar Find under water sets Tamil & Hinduism by atleast 20000 Years

The date of Poompuhar artifact was arrived at and verified by Glenn Milne Sea Level changes.

The place is called Poompuhar. It lies on southeast India’s Coromandel coast facing the Bay of Bengal between modern Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka. Its immediate offshore area has been the subject of marine archaeological investigations by India’s National Institute of Oceanography since the 1980’s — and numerous non-controversial finds of man-made structures dated between the third century AD and the third century BC have been made in the “inter-tidal zone” close to shore at depths down to 6 feet (approximately 2 metres).

These finds of structures in shallow water (some so shallow that they are exposed at low tide) have been quite widely written-up in the archaeological literature. But for some reason other discoveries that the NIO has made in deeper water off Poompuhar have attracted no attention at all. Most notably these other discoveries include a second completely separate group of structures fully three miles from the Poompuhar shore in water that is more than 70 feet (23 metres) deep. The lack of interest is surprising because to anyone with even minimal knowledge of post-glacial sea-level rise their depth of submergence is – or should be – highly anomalous. Indeed according to Glenn Milne’s sea-level data the land on which these structures were built last stood above water at the end of the Ice Age more than 11,000 years ago.

Is it a coincidence that there are ancient Tamil flood myths that speak of a great kingdom that once existed in this area called Kumari Kandam that was swallowed up by the sea? Amazingly the myths put a date of 11,600 years ago on these events — the same timeframe given by Plato for the end of Atlantis in another ocean.

Like the cities in the Gulf of Cambay the underwater structures three miles offshore of Poompuhar were first identified by an instrument called sidescan sonar that profiles the seabed. One structure in particular was singled out for investigation and was explored by divers from India’s National Institute of Oceanography in 1991 and 1993. Although they were not at that time aware of the implications of its depth of submergence — i.e. that it is at least 11,500 years old — the 1991 study confirms that it is man-made and describes it as: “a horse-shoe-shaped object, its height being one to two meters. A few stone blocks were found in the one-meter wide arm. The distance between the two arms in 20 metres. Whether the object is a shrine or some other man-made structure now at 23 meters [70 feet] depth remains to be examined in the next field season. The 1993 study refines the measurements.

So it is logical to arrive at the conclusion that the Silappadikaram Town was in existence around 11000 CE and for a rich language as Tamil to develop, from a dialect, colloquial form and then to literary it requires  minimum  5000 Years.

And Tamil quotes Ithihasas ,Ramayana and Mahabharata and the Vedas.That should place these Ithihasas earlier. Hence based on this evidence available now, Tamil should be at least 16000 years old and the Sanskrit Puranas  even earlier.

BHAVISHYA PURANA ON ADAM AND EVE

People compare the story of Bhavisya Purana containing name Adama and Havyavati as Adam and Eve and their story sounds pretty much similar. But we can't be sure about stories of Bhavisya Purana because it is supposed that it suffered high interpolation. Even if we consider story of Bhavisya purana as genuine then still Adam and Eve[Havyavati] aren't progenitor of mankind.. They are just progenitor of mlechha dharma [Foreigner religion]. Still if you are interested in that story of Bhavisya Purana, the story goes like this:

At that time the Kali purusha prayed to Lord Narayana along with his wife. After sometime the Lord appearred to him and said, "This age will be a good time for you. I will fulfil your desire having various kinds of forms. There is a couple named Adama and his wife Havyavati. They are born from Vishnu-kardama and will increase the generations of mlecchas. Saying this, the Lord disappeared. Having great joy the Kali purusha went to Nilacha

 Vyasa said: "Now you hear the future story narrated by Suta Goswami. This is the full story of of Kali-yuga, hearing this you will become satisfied."

In the eastern side of Pradan city where there is a big God-given forest, which is 16 square yojanas in size. The man named Adama was staying there under a Papa-Vriksha or a sinful tree and was eager to see his wife Havyavati. The Kali purusha quickly came there assuming the form of a serpent. He cheated them and they disobeyed Lord Vishnu. The husband ate the forbidden fruit of the sinful tree. They lived by eating air with the leaves called udumbara. After they had sons and all of them became mlecchas. Adama's duration of life was nine-hundred and thirty years. He offered oblations with fruits and went to heaven with his wife. His son was named Sveta-nama, and he lived nine-hundred and twelve years. Sveta-nama's son was Anuta, who ruled one-hundred years less than his father. His son Kinasa ruled as much as his grandfather. His son Malahalla ruled eight-hundred ninety five years. His son Virada ruled 160 years. His son Hamuka was devoted to Lord Vishnu, and offering oblations of fruits he achieved salvation. He ruled 365 years and went to heaven with the same body being engaged in mleccha-dharma. 

 

 

Esoteric Hinduism and Western Esoteric Traditions

David Frawley

 

 Global Esoteric Traditions

 Esoteric, mystical, and occult traditions have been widely connected worldwide as far back as we can trace their history. These secret teachings cross over realms of healing, astrology, alchemy, Yoga, mantra, and meditation, emphasizing internal practices to raise our awareness to higher states of consciousness. They have been important in European traditions,   going back to the most ancient times.

Yet these connections are not always easy to see or even recognized. Many such esoteric groups formed secret societies, particularly in European and Middle Eastern countries where they have faced extensive oppression by religious authorities. They often deliberately veiled their teachings in symbols and hid their identity and associations, retiring from the world or public scrutiny.

The largest number of such esoteric traditions has occurred in India, Tibet and the Himalayan region. This is because these regions honored freedom of spiritual practice and maintained an unbroken continuity of teachings of Yoga and meditation.

Spread of the Higher Teachings

Many esoteric teachings were transmitted along the Silk Trail overland, which began in China and went to the north of Tibet and India, picking up such Himalayan influences. This was the primary route how Buddhism entered into China two thousand years ago. The Silk Trail was part of other land routes from India and the Himalayas, including south through Iran in the south or north of the Black Sea that brought these traditions into Eastern Europe.

Another important route was the Spice Trail from South India by sea, which went both to Europe through the Middle East on the western side and to China on the east. Hinduism and Buddhism spread to Indonesia, Indochina and East Asia along this path. Yet ideas also moved to the Middle East, North Africa and Europe by western maritime routes largely through the Persian Gulf.

Extensive trade existed between India and the Greco-Roman world, including a movement of teachers and teachings. Plotinus (third century AD) – perhaps the most important mystic philosopher of later Rome and who strongly impacted Christian mysticism and the Sufis – was said to have visited India. Another important example was Apollonius of Tyana (first century AD), who visited India and carried on Pythagorean traditions that included vegetarianism and a belief in reincarnation.

Migratory movements of peoples also allowed for the spread of esoteric ideas and meditation practices. There was a spread of peoples along the land route from India and Afghanistan through Central Asia and into Europe going back to the dawn of history.

From Afghanistan – itself a Hindu and Buddhist kingdom until a little over a thousand years ago – were ancient trade and migration routes to the Volga, around the Black Sea and to the Danube going back many thousands of years.

 Indo-Iranian Influences in Ancient Europe

The main peoples that dominated Eastern Europe in ancient times were Iranian groups with ties to Afghanistan and India. These Northern Iranian groups were older than the Persian Zoroastrian traditions, and culturally different, reflecting teachings more like the Vedas of India.

Ancient Iranian peoples like the Thracians and Scythians dominated Eastern Europe and the Balkans from well before 1000 BCE to the early centuries AD. The Thracians were the most numerous people in the ancient world according to the Greeks. Indeed the oldest cities and gold work in Europe are sites in Bulgaria going back to before 4000 BCE, like Plovdiv and Varna. Perhaps these were ancient Thracian sites.

The Greek Orphic tradition arose from the Thracians and strongly influenced Greco-Roman esotericism. The Dionysian tradition, later very popular among the Greeks, was also connected to the Thracians. Dionysus resembles Hindu deity Shiva. Such traditions believed in rebirth and sought higher states of consciousness and ecstasy through music and chanting.

The Scythians followed after the Thracians. The Scythians were often enemies of the Persians as Central Asian and Eastern European Iranian peoples that had their own distinct culture. Scythian kingdoms dominated Central Asia from 1000 BCE or earlier up to the eighth century AD. Greater Scythia extended from the Danube (Scythia Minor) to the Pontic Steppes (Scythia Major) and to North India and the Tarim Basin now in China. The Scythians and related peoples ruled parts of North India and Central Asia up to the early centuries AD, with Indo-Scythian, Indo-Greek, Kushana and Huna kingdoms that had associations both with India and with their European counterparts.

Central Asian Scythian kingdoms followed Buddhist, Hindu, Zoroastrian, and Manichean influences, as well as their own indigenous traditions. The worship of Shiva and his son Skanda (Esoteric Sanhatkumar5a tradition) was common among them and frequently found upon their coins. Turkish and Mongolian groups in the region also adapted similar esoteric teachings as part of their worship of Tengri, their great deity of the Sky and the mountains, and their adaptation of Buddhism and Hinduism.

Pagan and Esoteric Traditions

Ancient European pagans as a whole, most known of which are the Celts and the Druids, had similar esoteric traditions in Western Europe throughout their own long history, with suggestions of influences from the East, including a belief in rebirth, the use of philosophy, astrology and yoga like practices.

There was a common extensive esoteric tradition in the ancient world that seems to become stronger the further back we go in time, which was gradually displaced and submerged with the onset of Christianity, though mystical Christianity borrowed much from it.

These esoteric traditions developed into secret societies. We find Hermetic, Gnostic, Manichean, and Zoroastrian influences common in esoteric traditions of Europe extending into the middle Ages. The Manicheans, a religious group from Syria, also honored Buddha and spread as far as China, had a strong influence on Europe. There were special crusades in Europe against such mystical and pagan groups like the Bogomils and Cathars, which had Manichean and Gnostic influences.

Meanwhile older pagan traditions survived in Europe until the fourteenth century, particularly in the Baltic region, notably Lithuania, which were the subject to brutal crusades against them by the Teutonic Knights. In many countries of Europe from Ireland to Russia older pagan traditions have survived in hiding, in the background, or by adopting Christian forms and symbols.

Much of the Renaissance in Europe was based upon bringing back older pagan ideas and esoteric traditions, including Hermetic and Neo-Platonic ideas extending to reincarnation. Unfortunately, the mystical and astrological side of the Renaissance teaching was soon suppressed by the church.

The Mongols under Genghis Khan and the Golden Horde had Buddhist, Taoist and Shamanic influences that reached Europe and Iran starting in the thirteenth century. The Golden Horde ruled the Eastern European region as far as the Danube for several centuries, only later adapting Islam.

Alchemy, magic and astrology were common esoteric traditions up to the eighteenth century, with connections worldwide including China, India, the Middle East and Europe. The Gypsies, who came from India around a thousand years ago, brought many esoteric teachings as well as music and dance.

Such esoteric connections increased after the nineteenth century with the Theosophical movement that spread throughout the globe, and with the travel of great Yoga gurus to the West starting with Swami Vivekananda at the turn of the twentieth century.

Today there is a large group of neo-pagan traditions in Europe and America, from Celtic, Slavic, Baltic, and Germanic backgrounds, as well as renewed interest in Greco-Roman and Hellenic traditions extending to ancient Egyptian and Babylonian traditions, and indigenous traditions overall. This group is increasing as the interest in orthodox Christianity declines and reviving many of the esoteric sides of these traditions

 Esoteric Hinduism as a Point of Synthesis

Probably the oldest and most extensive esoteric tradition is that of Hinduism or Sanatana Dharma, the Eternal Tradition. Hinduism is the world’s largest and oldest pagan and pluralistic tradition, with Yoga, Tantra and Veda enshrined within it as a treasure house of cosmic knowledge.

Yet Hinduism is not a religion as a faith or belief based tradition. It is a way of secret knowledge. While Tantra is the most well-known form of Hindu esotericism, all Hindu Yoga and Vedic traditions have similar concerns and practices. Esoteric Hinduism holds perhaps the keys not only to ancient pagan spirituality but also to much of the world’s mysticism.
Today we are at a new phase in the comparison, revival, and reintegration of ancient esoteric traditions, which deemed pagan or primitive by modern scholarship were not given their proper regard or study.

Many of these esoteric movements are still distorted and misunderstood, looked upon as cults, as dangerous forms of occultism, or as types of mind control. Yet the deeper yogic, psychological and philosophical side of the same teachings is also becoming popular, and countering this deep seated negativity.

What is called Tantra in Hindu and Buddhist circles and what was called magic or alchemy in the West are kindred in many ways. In India occultism, meditation and devotion were often pursued together and part of the same body of knowledge. Yet such devotion was an honoring of the Divine within, not the dictates of church or final book of revelation.

In dharma traditions, there is a recognition of many cycles of civilization, of which ours is not the first or the highest, and is still lacking in the deeper knowledge that the ancients held.

Today we are entering into a new planetary age in which we can understand how such esoteric traditions can link us with the cosmic mind. It is important to reclaim these older esoteric traditions and practice them again. There is a secret light of higher knowledge hidden within them, not something fearful or dangerous. Such esoteric traditions offer individual spiritual experience and enlightenment that helps us go beyond the limitations of all organized religions. They encourage our search for inner freedom and Self-realization, which is the real goal of life and culture.

 

 

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