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 14th 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:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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).
- THE
JEWS OF GOA: These were Portuguese Jews who fled to Portuguese Goa after
the commencement of the Inquisition in Portugal in 1497.
- 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.
- TELUGU
JEWS : The Bene Ephraim (also called “Telugu Jews”) are a
small group who speak Telugu; their observance of Judaism dates to 1981.
- 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!
ramanan50
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.
[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.
--E Mail sent on November 15, 2019
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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