1 World has so many religions but only one Dharma and i.e., Vedic or Hindu Dharma Dharma is a set of laws following which one can save humanity, animals and mother earth while religions are the cause of misery and suffering. WORLDS INTELLECTUALS ON BHARAT i.e., INDIA (A must read by Modern English Educated Indians and others also) COMPILED BY BHARAT SOMAL 2015 (USA) Dedicated to Vedic Dharma aka Hindu Dharma PS: Not even a single word is from my side in this book. I have compiled it from different libraries, books and Internet with only one thought in mind that it might help modern youth to know who they were and what they are now. You are free to replace your name on my name and print or propagate this as much as possible. This will be considered as duty towards our motherland. Please contact me for word file in case you need to further edit, format and get this printed.Hinduism is like Ganges polluted by Modern waste, to taste its purity one must dive into Vedas and Upanishads. 2 CHAPTER ONE THE GREAT INDIA 3 Julius R. Oppenheimer (1904-1967), One of the world's greatest physicists,knownas'thefatherofthe Atomic bomb'- Julius R. Oppenheimer Erwin Schrodinger (1887-1961),Austrianphysicist,known asthefatherofQuantumPhysics, awarded Nobel Prize for his invention of Wave Mechanics The general notions about human understanding which are illustrated by discoveries in atomic physics are not in the nature of things wholly unfamiliar, wholly unheard of or new. Even in our own culture they have a history, and in Buddhist and Hindu thought a more considerable and central place. What we shall find [in modern physics] is an exemplification, an encouragement, and a refinement of old wisdom. Source-The Tao of Physics: An exploration of the parallels between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism Fritjof Capra Some blood transfusion from the East to the West must save Western science from spiritual anemia. Source-My view of the world By: Erwin Schrodinger Chapter IV 4 Albert Einstein (1879-1955),Oneofthegreatest scientists,philosophers,receivedNobel Prize for his Theory of Relativity. Werner Heisenberg (1901-76), One of the greatest physicists, co-founder of Quantum Physics, received Nobel Prize WeowealottoIndianswhotaughtushowtocount,withoutwhichnoworthwhile scientific discovery could have been made. Source - Vedic Revelations After the conversationsaboutIndian philosophy, some of the ideas of Quantum Physics that had seemed so crazy suddenly made much more sense. Source- Uncommon Wisdom: Conversation with Remarkable people- Fritjo Capra Vasiant- Pride of India (2006) by Sanskrit 5 Jean Sylvain Bailey (1736-93),GreatFrenchastronomerand politician, noted for his computation of an orbit for Halley's Comet William Butler Yeats (1856-1939),GreatIrishpoet,dramatist, essayist and Nobel laureate The motion of the stars calculated by the Hindus before some 4500 years vary not even a single minute from the modern tables of Cassine and Meyer. Source- The Politics of History- By N.S. Rajaram Voice of India ItwasonlymyfirstmeetingwiththeIndianphilosophythatconfirmedmyvague speculations and seemed at once logical and boundless. Source-India&WorldCivilization-ByD.P.SinghalPan Macmillan Ltd. 1933, p.262-263, WP Yeats and Indian Tradition- By Sankaran Ravindran p. 2-3 6 George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950),Greatdramatist,Nobel laureate in literature John Archibald Wheeler (1911-2008),Eminent American physicist, the first one tobeinvolvedinthetheoreticaldevelopmentofthe Atomic bomb and the first to coin the Black Hole who later occupies the chair that was held by Albert Einstein The Indian way of life provides the vision of the natural, real way of life. We Western veil ourselves with unnatural masks. On the face of India are the tender expressions which carry the mark of the Creators hand. He was an active socialist on the executive committee of the Fabian Society along with Annie Besant. Famous British Author and Playwright, of books such as Pygmalion. Source- Wisdom of Annada Gomasasway- By S. Dwai Raja letter I like to think that someone will trace how the deepest thinking of India made its way to Greece and from there to the philosophy of our times. Source- Indian Conquests of the Mend- By Saibal Gupta 7 Niels Bohr (1856-1962),Danishnuclearphysicistwho developed the Bohr model of the atom. He received theNobelPrizeinphysics in1922for histheoryof Atomic structure David J. Bohm (1917-1992),Oneofthemosteminent quantummechanicalphysicistand philosopher I go into the Upanishads to ask questions. Source- Indian Conquest of the mind- By Saibal Gupta One would say Atman is more like the meaning. But then what is meant would be Brahman, Isuppose;theidentityofconsciousnessandcosmos.Thisclaimsthatthemeaningandwhatis meantareultimatelyone,whichisthephrase'AtmanequalsBrahman'ofclassicalHindu philosophy. Source- Creat Minds on India by Salil Gewali 8 Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831), One of thegreatest German philosophers and writers Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882),GreatAmericanauthor, essayist, lecturer, Unitarian Minister It strikes everyone in beginning to form an acquaintance with the treasures of Indian literature, that a land so rich in intellectual products and those of the profoundest order of thought. Source- Philosophy of History- p. 113 Gearg Wilhelm Friedrich Thevedashauntme.InthemIhavefoundeternalcompensation,unfathomablepower, unbroken peace.In the great books of India, an empire spoke to us, nothing small or unworthy, but large,serene,consistent,thevoiceofanoldintelligence,whichinanotherageandclimatehad pondered and thus disposed of the questions that exercise us. Sources - Commemorative Sanskrit Souvenirs 2003 of Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan p. 28. We, the people: India- The largest democracy by Navi Ardeshis 9 Mark Twain (1835-1910), Celebrated American humorist, satirist, lecturer and writer T.S. Eliot (1888-1965),GreatAmericanpoet, philosopher,critic,receivedNobelPrize for literature in 1948 IamconvincedthateverythinghascomedowntousfromthebanksoftheGanga- Astronomy, Astrology, Spiritualism, etc. It is very important to note that some 2,500 years ago at the least Pythagoras went from Samos to the Ganga to learn Geometry but he would certainly not have undertaken such a strange journey had the reputation of the Brahmins' science not been long established in Europe. Source- After Strange Gods- By T.S. Eliot "So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man ornature, to make India the most extraordinary country that the sun visits on his rounds. Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing overlooked." Source- A Tramp Abroad- 1891-1901-Mark Twain 10 Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), One of the greatest German philosophers and writers Frederich Von Schlegel (1772-1829)Germanwriter,critic, philosopher,philologist,themost prominentfounderofGerman Romanticism There is no language in the world, even Greek, which has the clarity and the philosophical precision of Sanskrit, and this great India is not only at the origin of everything. He is superior in everything,intellectually,religiouslyorpoliticallyandeventheGreekheritageseemspalein comparison. Source- Soul and Structure of governance in India- page 271 In the whole world there is no study so beneficial and so elevating as that of the Upanishads. It has been the solace of my life; and it will be the solace of my death. They are the product of the highest wisdom."Vedas are the most rewarding and the most elevating book which can be possible in the world." Source- The Exposilary times, Volume 9- page 147- James 11 Herman Hesse (1877-1962)MuchacclaimedGerman poetandnovelist,awardedNobelPrize for literature in 1946 Francois M. Voltaire (1694-1774) Frances greatest writer and philosopher The Veda was the most precious gift for which the West had ever been indebted to the East. Source - A Critical Study of the Contribution of the Arya Samaj to Indian Education", p. 68 ThemarveloftheGitaisitstrulybeautifulrevelationoflife'swisdomwhichenables philosophy to blossom into religion. Source- Education about Asia, Volume I-L, India & World 12 Alan Watts (1915-1973) Eminent English philosopher and one of the widely read prolific writers of the20th Century Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)GreatestAmerican philosopher,writer,socialcriticand transcendentalist Whenever I have read any part of the Vedas, I have felt that some unearthly andunknown light illuminated me. In the great teaching of the Vedas, there is no touch of sectarianism. It is of all ages, climbs, and nationalities and is the royal road for the attainment of the Great Knowledge. When I read it, I feel that I am under the spangled heavens of a summer night. Source- Walden, his masterpiece, by David Henry Thoreau Itis,indeed,aremarkablecircumstancethatwhenWesterncivilizationdiscovers 'Relativity Theory' it applies it to the manufacture of atom-bombs, whereas Oriental civilization applies it to the development of new states of consciousness. Source- The Legacy of Asia and Western Man- by Alan Watts 13 Fritjof Capra (1939)Eminentphysicistandsystemstheorist,a founding director of the Center for Eco-literacy, USA "To the philosophers of India, however, Relativity is no new discovery, just as the concept of light years is no matter for astonishment to people used to thinking of time in millions of Kalpas, (A Kalpa is about 4,320,000 years). The fact that the wise men of India have not been concerned with technological applications of this knowledge arises from the circumstance that technology is but one of innumerable ways of applying it." Alan Watts: (Source- Spiritual Practices of India- By Frederic Spiegelberg) To the Indian Rishis the 'Divine play' was the evolution of the cosmos through countless aeons. They say, there are an infinite number of creations in an infinite universe. The Rishis gave the name kalpa to the unimaginable span of time between the beginning and the end of creation. "Modernphysicshasthusrevealedthateverysubatomicparticlenotonlyperformsan energydance,butalsoisanenergydance;apulsatingprocessofcreationanddestruction.The danceofShivaisthedancinguniverse,theceaselessflowofenergygoingthroughaninfinite variety of patterns that melt into one another." Source Vedic Texts and the Birth of Modern Physics 14 Aldous Huxley English novelist, critic and philosopher Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919)MostendearingAmerican poetess and journalist Hinduism, the perennial philosophy that is at the core of all religious. Source- The Perennial Philosophy- By Aldous Huxley India-thelandofVedas,theremarkableworkscontainsnotonlyreligiousideasfora perfect life, but also facts which science has proved true. Electricity, radium, electronics, airship, all are known to the seers who founded the Vedas. Source- Poems of Pleasure & Maurine and other Poems 15 Roger-Pol Droit (1949)EminentFrenchwriterand philosopher Romain Rolland (1866-1944)GreatFrenchwriter, dramatist, critic, historian, Nobel laureate The Greeks loved so much Indian philosophy that Demetrios Galianos had even translated the Bhagavad-Gita. There is absolutely not a shadow of a doubt that the Greeks knew all about Indian philosophy. Source- Louble de I' Inde- Une a mreesie philosophigele "If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living menhave found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India." Source- Life of Ramakrishna by Roman Rolland, Philosophy of Hinduism by T.C. Galav, Life of Vivekanand and Universal 16 Dr. Carl Sagan (1934-1996)Mostfamousmodern astrophysicist,authoredseveralscience books Lord Curzon (1859-1925) British statesman, Viceroy of Indian from 1899-1905,andlaterbecamechancellorofOxford University The Hinduism is the only of the world's greatest faiths dedicated to the idea that the Cosmos itselfundergoesanimmense,indeedaninfinite,numberofdeathsandrebirths.Itistheonly religion in which the time scales correspond to those of modern scientific cosmology. Source- Cosmos- by Dr. Carl Sagan India has left a deeper mark upon the history, the philosophy and the religion of mankind, than any other terrestrial unit in the universe. Source- The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 102, page 525, Independence 17 Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803)GreatGermanphilosopher, poet and critic Heinrich Heine (1797-1856)GreatGermanromantic poet, essayist and Journalist Mankind'soriginscanbetracedtoIndia,wherethehumanmindgotthefirstshapesof wisdom and virtue with simplicity, strength and sublimity which has- frankly spoken- nothing at all equivalent in our philosophical, cold European world. Source-ThoughtsofsomeBrahminsbyHerder,JohannGottfriedHerder'sJmagofIndia,by Pranebenlsanath Ghol p.339 ThePortuguese,DutchandEnglishhavebeenforalongtimeyearafteryear,shipping home the treasures of India in their big vessels. We Germans have been all along been left to watch it. Germany would do likewise, but hers would be treasures of spiritual knowledge. Source- India & world Civilization by D.P. Singhal, page, No man in alien essay on the unity of mankind p. 2 by Willem Adolph 18 Prof. F. Max Muller (1823-1900)FamousGerman philosopher, writer and philologist Mark Tully (1935)BBCcorrespondentinIndiafor many years, authored many books I maintain that to everybody who cares for himself, for his ancestors, for his intellectual development, a study of the Vedic literature is indeed indispensable. "There is no book in the world that is so thrilling, stirring and inspiring as the Upanishads." ('Sacred Books of the East') ButIdoprofoundlybelievethatIndianeedstobeabletosaywithpride,'Yes,our civilization has a Hindu base to it.' Source- Pride in the Present: A Hindu Cure of "Colonical Hangover by Mark Tully 19 Pierre Simon De Laplace (1749-1827)Frenchgreatestmathematician, philosopherandastronomer,contemporaryof Napoleon, best known for his Nebular Hypothesis of the origin of the Solar System Paul William Roberts ProfessoratOxford,award-winning televisionwriter,producer,journalist, critic and novelist ItisIndiathatgaveustheingeniousmethodofexpressingallnumbersbytensymbols, eachreceivingavalueofpositionaswellasanabsolutevalue,aprofoundandimportantidea which appears so simple to us now that we ignore its true merit. Source-H.EvesReturntoMathematicalCircles,Boston:Prindle,WebesandSchmidt,1908, Discovery of India, By J. Nehru, A Mathematical Journey page 135 by Stanley Guetler, Cosmic calculation, Kemeth Williams page 9 The Vedas still represent eternal truth in the purest form ever written. And they are what drew me to India in the first place, what kept me there, and what draws me back still. Source- Empire of the Soil, some journeys in India by Paul 20 Brian David Josephson (1940)Welshphysicist,theyoungest Nobel laureate Paul Deussen (1845-1919)DirectdiscipleofArthur Schopenhauer, founded the Schopenhauer Society The Vedanta and the Sankhya hold the key to the laws of mind and though process which are co-related to the Quantum Field, i.e. the operation and distribution of particles at atomic and molecular levels. Source-ScienceandVedanta-byH.M.GaneshRao,Mandala:LuminousSymbolsforpealing- page- 38, Judith Comell Joa Whatever may be the discoveries of the scientific mind, none can dispute the eternal truths propounded by the Upanishads. Source- Indian Antiquity By: Paul Deussen 21 H.G. Wells (1866-1946)EminentprolificEnglish writer and philosopher August Wilhelm Von Schlegel (1767-1845) Great German scholar, poet, critic In Hinduism, tolerance is not simply a matter of Policy but an article of faith. Source Encyclopedia of Hindu Gods and Goddesses by Suresh Chandra EventheloftiestphilosophyoftheEuropeansappearslikeafeeblesparkbeforethe Vedanta. Source- Is India Civilized? - Essay on Indian Culture- By Sir John 22 A.E. George Russell (1876-1935)Eminentpoet,artist,andmystic,a leading figure in the Irish literary renaissance of the late 19th and early 20th century Lord Warren Hastings (1754-1826)Firstgovernorgeneralof British India TheBhagavadGitaandtheUpanishadscontainsuchgodlikefullnessofwisdomonall things that I feel the authors must have looked with calm remembrance back through a thousand passionate lives, full of feverish strife for and with shadows, ere they could have written with such certainty of things which the soul feels to be sure. Source: Pyramids of Wisdom by B.S.Murthy I do not hesitate to pronounce the Gita a performance of great originality, of sublimate of conception, reasoning and diction almost unequalled; and a single exception, amongst all the known religions of mankind. Source Medha Journal 23 Mircea Eliade (1907-1986)EminentRomanian philosopher, writer and critic Charles H. Townes (1925) American Nobel Prize winning scientist, worked extensivelyduringWorldWarIIindesigningradar bombingsystems,inventedthemicrowave-emitting system Yoga, as a 'science' of achieving this transformation of finite man into the infinite, one has to be recognized as something intrinsically Indian or, as 'a specific dimension of the Indian mind. Source - Yoga, Immorality and Freedom by Mircea Eliade Indian students should value their religious culture and of course, the classical Indian culture bears importantly on the meaning of life and values. I would not separate the two. To separate science and Indian culture would be harmful. I don't think it is practical to keep scientific and spiritual culture separate. Source- Interviews with Nobel Laureates and eminent scholars 24 Sir William Jones (1746-1794)GreatBritishscholar,philologistand authored several books. He came to India as a judge of theSupremeCourtatCalcutta.HepioneeredSanskrit studies.HisadmirationforIndianthoughtandculture was almost limitless. The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin and more exquisitely refined than either: yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs, and in the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong indeed, that no philologer could examine themallwithoutbelievingthemtohavesprungfromsomecommonsourcewhichperhapsno longer exists." Source- The work of Sir William Jones, Vol-4 He noted that "the analogies between Greek Pythagorean philosophy and the Sankhya school, are very obvious." Source: Arise O' India - By Francois Gautier ISBN 81-241-0518-9 Har-Anand Publications 2000. p. 21-22. India's femininity and sexual ambiguity, is the very antithesis of Western virility." Source: The Genius of India - By Guy Sorman('Le Genie de l'Inde') Macmillan India Ltd. 2001 p. 197). 25 Queen Fredricka (1931-1981) Wife of King Paul of Greece and research scholar of advanced physics Leonard Bloomfield (1887-1949)Americanlinguistand Author ItwasinIndia,however,thatthereroseabodyofknowledgewhichwasdestinedto revolutionize European ideas about language. Source Great Minds on India by Salil Gewalli I envy the Indians. While Greece is the country of my birth, India is the country of my soul. Source- A newsletter of the Kanchi Kamokoti Centre of California and from thenew physics to Hinduism 26 Wilhelm Von Humboldt (1767-1835)PrussianMinisterofeducation,a brilliant linguist and the founder of the science of general linguistics Georges Ifrah (1947)Frenchhistorianofmathematics,hismost famous book was 'The Universal History of Numbers' It is the ancient Indian culture that has regarded the science of numbers as the noblest of its artsA thousand years ahead of Europeans, Indian Savants knew that the zero and infinity were mutually inverse notions. Source- The Universal history of number by Georges Ifrah The Gita, the most beautiful, perhaps the only true philosophical song existing in any known tongue- perhaps the deepest and loftiest thing the world has to show. Source A Tribute to Hinduism 27 Leopold Von Schroerder (1851-1920) Eminent German Ideologist Pierre Sonnerat (1748-1814),EminentFrenchnaturalist and author Ancient India gave to the world its religious and philosophies. Egypt and Greece owe India their wisdom and it is known that Pythagoras went to India to study under Brahmins, who were the most enlightened of human beings. Source Quotes on Hinduism NearlyallthephilosophicalandmathematicaldoctrinesattributedtoPythagorasare derived from India. Source- German Indologists by Volentina Stoche Rozer 28 Andrew Tomas (1906-2001)AustralianUFOpioneer, author of several physics, astronomy and spiritual books Dr. Lin Yutang (1895-1976)GreatChinesescholarand prolific writer India was Chinas teacher in religion and imaginative literature, and the world's teacher in Trigonometry, Quadratic Equations, Grammar, Phonetics, Arabian Nights, Animal fables, chess, as well as in philosophy, and that he inspired Boccaccio, Goethe, Herder, Schopenhauer, Emerson, and probably also old Aesop Source- Religions East & West- p. 71 by Word J. Fellous The atomic structure of matter is mentioned in the Hindu treatises Vaisesika and Nyaya. The Yoga Vasishta says:- there are vast worlds within the hollows of each atom, multifarious as the specks in a sunbeam- which we have assumed now as true. Source Talk on Vedas and India 29 Hans Torwesten (1944) Noted German scholar and writer Dale M. Riepe (1918)ProfessorofPhilosophyatthe State University of New York Western thinkers, throughtheir study of Indian philosophies and religions have discovered a new technical philosophy of undreamed-of complexity and ingenuity. "He felt much of Indian thought to be close to his own and he used it to clarify his own visions." Source- The philosophy of India and its impact on American Western thinkers, through their study of Indian philosophies and religions have discovered a new technical philosophy of undreamed-of complexity and ingenuity."He felt much of Indian thought to be close to his own and he used it to clarify his own visions." Source- The philosophy of India and its impact on American 30 Juan Mascaro (1897-1987)eminentscholar,taughtat Oxford University Dr. Heinrich Zimmer (1890-1943) Great German Ideologist The whole edifice of Indian civilization is imbued with spiritual meaning. Source Great Minds on India by Salil Gewalli The greatness of the Bhagavad Gita is the greatness of the universe, but even as the wonder of the stars in heaven only reveals itself in the silence of the night, the wonder of this peom only reveals itself in the silence of the soul. Source- The Bhagavat Gita by- Juan Mascaro 31 Hu Shih (1891-1962)GreatChinesephilosopher and author Muhammad Dara Shikoh (1627-1658AD)SufisonofMogul emperorShahJahan,notedforhis mysticismand scholarly pursuit After gradual research; I have come to the conclusion that long before all heavenly books, God and revealed to the Hindus, through the Rishis of yore, of whom Brahma was the Chief, His four books of knowledge, the Rig Veda, The Yajur Veda, the Sama Veda and the Atharva Veda. TheQuranitselfmadeveiledreferencestotheUpanishadsasthefirstheavenlybookandthe fountainhead of the ocean of monotheism. Source- India and Europe : An essay in understanding- by Wilhelm Never before had China seen a religion so rich in imagery, so beautiful and captivating in ritualism and so bold in cosmological and metaphysical speculations. She begged and borrowed them all freely from this munificent Indians. China's indebtedness to India can never be fully told. Source Quotes on Hinduism 32 Sir Arthur Holmes Count Maurice Maeterlinck "Longbeforeitbecameascientificaspirationtoestimatetheageoftheearth,manyelaborate systems of the world chronology had been devised by the sages of antiquity. The most remarkable of these occult time-scales is that of the ancient Hindus, whose astonishing concept of the Earth's duration has been traced back to Manusmriti, a sacred book." Source- Hinduism and Scientific Quest- By T. R. R. Iyengar

"He falls back upon the earliest and greatest of Revelations, those of the Sacred Books of India with a Cosmogony which no European conception has ever surpassed." Source-MountainPaths-ByMauriceMaeterlinck(HeisagreatBelgianNobelPrizewinning writer) (1890-1965)AgreatGeologistwho contributed to our understanding of Earth's age. (August 29, 1862 - May 6, 1949), a Belgian poet, playwright, and a French essayist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1911. 33 Huston Smith WhiletheWestwasstillthinking,perhaps,of6,000yearsolduniverse-Indiawasalready envisioning ages and cons and galaxies as numerous as the sands of the River Ganga. The Universe so vast that modern astronomy slips into its folds without a ripple." Source: By Huston Smith: (Source- The Mystic's Journey-India and theInfinite: The Soul of a People 1919-borninChinatoMethodistmissionaries,a philosopher, most eloquent writer, world-famous religion scholar who practices Hatha Yoga.Has taught at MIT and iscurrentlyvisitingprofessoratUniv.ofCaliforniaat Berkley.SmithhasalsoproducedPBSseries.Hehas writtenvariousbooks,TheWorld'sReligions,"Science and Human Responsibility",and"TheReligionsof Man". 34 Nancy Wilson Ross "Many ofIndia's ancient theories about the universe are startlingly modern in scope and worthyofapeoplewhoarecreditedwiththeinventionofthezero,aswellasalgebraandits application of astronomy and geometry: a people who so carefully observed the heavens that, in theopinionofMonier-Williams,theydeterminedthemoon'ssynovialrevolutionmuchmore correctly than the Greeks." (Source- Three Ways of Asian Wisdom- By Nancy Wilson Ross A great scholar made her first trip to Japan, China, Korea andIndiain1939.Shewastheauthorofseveralbooks including The World of Zen and Time's Left Corner. She gave a lecture on Zen Buddhism at the Jungian Institute in Zurich. She served on the board of the Asia Society of New York which was founded by John D. Rockefeller III since its establishment in 1956 35 Guy Sorman According to him, "Temporal notions in Europe were overturned by an India rooted in eternity. The Bible had been theyardstickformeasuringtime,buttheinfinitelyvasttimecyclesofIndiasuggestedthatthe world was much older than anything the Bible spoke of. It seems as if the Indian mind was better prepared for the chronological mutations of Darwinian evolution and astrophysics." Einstein and Shiva's Cosmic Dance (bornMarch10,1944,Paris,France)A visitingscholaratHooverInstitutionat Stanfordandtheleaderofnewliberalismin France is a French professor, columnist, author, andpublicintellectualineconomicsand philosophy. 'There is a striking resemblance between the equivalence of mass and energy, symbolized by Shiva's cosmic dance andtheWesterntheory,firstexpoundedbyEinstein, whichcalculatestheamountofenergycontainedina subatomic particle by multiplying its mass by the square of the speed of light: E=mc2." 36 Source- India: Living Wisdom- By Richard Waterstone p. 135 The Serpent of Infinity For modern physicists, then, Shiva's dance is the dance of subatomic matter. Hundreds ofyears ago, Indian artist created visual images of dancing Shiva's in a beautiful series of bronzes. Today, physicistshaveusedthemostadvancedtechnologytoportraythepatternofthecosmicdance. Thus,themetaphorofthecosmicdanceunifiesancientreligiousartandmodernphysics.The Hindus, according to Monier-Williams, were Spinozists more than 2,000 years before the advent of Spinoza and Darwinians many centuries before Darwin and Evolutionists many centuries before the doctrine of Evolution was accepted by scientists of the present age. Source- Cosmos- By Carl Sagan WhynotweincludethefollowingfactsaboveTIMEwithcomments/appreciationsfrom Carl Sagan and others? 1.One day and night in the life of Brahma is 8,640,000,000 human years.2. The life time of Brahma is 311, 040, 000,000,000 human years. 3.One day and night in the life of Vishnu equals 37,324,800, 000,000, 000,000 4.The life time of Vishnu is 671,846,400,000,000,000,000, 000 human years. 5.One day and night in the life of Shiva is 4,837,294,080, 000,000, 000,000 human years. 6.Shiva's lifetime is equal to 87,071,293,440,000,000,000, 000 ,000, 000,000,000 human yrs The late scientist, Carl Sagan, in his book, Cosmos asserts that the Dance of Nataraja (Tandava) signifies the cycle of evolution and destruction of the cosmic universe (Big Bang Theory)"It is the clearest image of the activity of God which any art or religion canboastof."Modernphysicshasshownthattherhythmof creationanddestructionisnotonlymanifestintheturnofthe seasons and in the birth and death of all living creatures, but also the very essence of all living creatures, but also the very essence of inorganic matter. 37 Dick Teresi Authorandco-authorofseveralbooks about Science and Technology including The God Particle 7.OneglancefromtheMotheroftheUniverseis87,071, 293,440,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 human years. He is co-founder of Omni magazine and has written for Discover, The New York Times Magazine, and The Atlantic Monthly. He says "Indian cosmologists, the first to estimate the age of the earth at more than 4 billion years. They came closest to modern ideas of atomism, quantum physics, and other current theories. India developed very early, enduring atomist theories of matter. Possibly Greek atomistic thought was influenced by India, via the Persian civilization." Two thousand years before Pythagoras, philosophers in northern India had understood that gravitation held the solar system together, and that therefore the sun, the most massive object, had to be at its centre." "Twenty-four centuries before Isaac Newton, the Hindu Rig-Veda asserted that gravitation held the universe together. The Sanskrit speaking Aryans subscribed to the idea of a spherical earth in an era when the Greeks believed in a flat one. The Indians of the fifth century A.D. calculated the age of the earth as4.3 billion years; scientists in 19 it was 100 million years." Source:Lost Discoveries: The Ancient Roots of Modern Science- By Dick Teresi p. 159 and 174 -212). For more refer to chapter Advanced Concepts 38 Gene D Matlock AuthorofseveralbooksincludingIndia OnceRuledtheAmericasandJesusand Moses Are Buried in India, Birthplace of Abraham and the Hebrews In his book, Yishvara 2000, he has remarked that: "In ancient times, the country we of today call India was not confined to the Indian subcontinent alone. Its northern limit was the Arctic Circle or NorthPolarregions.ItshumaninhabitedpartsbeganinthenortheasternextremeofSiberia, including Alaska, extending downward through what are now Russia, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan,Kashmir,andeveryothernationinthoseregionsnotnameddowntoandincluding Antarctica or the uninhabited South Polar regions. As far as we know, everyone originally spoke Sanskrit dialect, also such North Indian languages as Brahma Bhasha or Balhika Bhasha. We are told that Sumerian was the worlds first civilized people behind. They are going to be disappointed to find out that a highly developed civilization existed in India at least two millenniums before the Sumerian civilization from 8,000 to 6,000CE, in what is now Afghanistan, Pakistan, Tibet and Kashmir. According to Hindu tradition a privilege few in that society even owned flying machines "The citizen of that region of Northern India were known as Yadvas, Yadu, Yahu-Deva, Yauda, Yahuda, etc.In his book, India Once Ruled the Americas! he states:Source- Yishvara 2000- By Gene D Matlock p. 1-3 and India Once Ruled the Americas! 39 James Donald Walters Rig-Veda TheLayaYogaSamhitastatedthatjustasthebeamsofsunlightenteringaroomrevealthe presenceofinnumerablemotes,soinfinitespaceisfilledwithcountlessBrahmanas(solar systems).The atomic structure of matter was discussed in the ancient Vaisesika treatises.And in the Yoga Vashista it was stated, in a passage very similar to the foregoing: "There are vast worlds all placed way within the hollows of each atom, multifarious as the motes in a sunbeam." Source- Crises in Modern Thought: The Crises of Reason)- (J. Donald Walters) vol. 1 p. 95). Kriyananda (bornJames Donald Walters; May 19, 1926 April 21, 2013), wasadirectdiscipleoftheyogiParamahansa Yogananda and was the founder of Ananda, a worldwide movementofspiritualintentionalcommunitiesbasedon Yogananda'sWorldBrotherhoodColoniesideal.He authorized him to teach Kriya Yoga while with SRF, and appointedhimtheheadmonkfortheSRFMount Washingtonmonksonly. SRFPresidentDayaMataand given the name Kriyananda. TheRigVedaisacollectionofVedicSanskrit hymns counted among the four Hindu religious texts knownastheVedas.TheRigVedawaslikely composed between roughly 17001100 BCE, making it one of the oldest texts of any Indo-Iranian language, one of the world's oldest religious texts 40 Walter Raymond Dreake The Rig-Veda repeatedly "How is it that though the Sun is not. A question asked by Isaac Newton more than three thousand years later, and no one else, because the Greeks had furnished the crystal spheres to which these objects were attached! When we talk of gravity, Newton comes to our mind, but in the text Surya Sidhantha dated around 400 AD, Bhaskaracharya described it stated. "Objects fall on the earth due to one force. The Earth, planets, constellations, moon and sun are held inorbit because of thatone force.""Seven horses draw the chariot of Surya" Rig-Veda 5.45.9 These seven horses are the seven colors compromising light. These seven colors become visible in a rainbow or when light passes through a prism. Vedic literature used large numbers and employedmoderndecimalenumeration,comparedwiththeprimitiveGreekandRoman arithmetic.Thefirstrecordedevidenceof"Hindu"numeralsisatleastasoldastheAshoka's edicts, circa 250 B.C. TheoldestliteratureintheworldisprobablytheRig-Veda,meaningverse-knowledge', comprising 10,000 invocations to the Gods written in Sanskrit about 1500 BC, wonderful epic of the 'Ramayana' the inspiration of the world's great classic literature, intrigues us most today by its frequent allusions to aerial vehicles and annihilating bombs which we consider to be inventions of our own 20thcentury impossible in the far past. Students of Sanskrit literature soon revise their preconceivedideasandfindthattheheroesofAncientIndiawereapparentlyequippedwith aircraftandmissilesmoresophisticatedthanthoseweboasttoday.TheIndianlyricizeof spaceships faster than light and missiles more violent than H-bombs; their Sanskrit texts describe 19131989wasaBritishdiscipleofCharles Fortandwriter.Hepublishedninebookson theancientastronauttheme,thefirstfouryears earlier than Erich von Dniken's bestseller Chariots of the Gods. 41 Daniel J. Boorstin (1914-2004)wasthegrandsonofRussianJewish immigrants,Americanhistorian,lawyer,professor, LibrarianofCongressfrom1975to1987,prize-winningauthorofseveralbooksincludingThe Discovers, The Creators and The Seekers. aircraft apparently with radar and cameras; the wonderful 'Mahabharata' rivals the 'Iliad' and the 'Odyssey', the 'Aeneid,' the plays of Shakespeare and most of our modern fiction all combined. Source- Gods and Spacemen in the Ancient East- By Walter Raymond Dreake p.25 and 226 and 9-49 and 1-65) "The Hindus have left an eloquent history of their efforts to answer the riddle of Creation. The Vedas, sacred hymns in archaic Sanskrit from about 1500 to 900 BC do not depict a benevolent Creator, but record a man's awe before the Creation as singers of the Vedas chant the radiance of this world. Their objects of worship were devas (cognate with Latin dues, god) derived from the old Sanskrit div., meaning brightness. Gods were the shining ones. The luminosity of their world impressed the Hindus from the beginning. Not the fitting-togetherness, not the hierarchy of beings or the order of nature, but the blinding splendor, the Light of the World. How the world once came into being or how it might end seemed irrelevant before the brightness of the visible world. 42 Jerry Earl Johnston He has observed that:Of the five major world religious Jewish, Christian, Buddhist, Islam and Hindu Hinduism is likely the least understood by Westerners people see aspects of the bathing in the Ganges River, Yogis in meditation, the Hare Krishna but they seem like so many random puzzle pieces. There is no doctrine to follow in Hinduism. No central authority. To be a Hindu you only have to declare yourself one. And unlike the other four major religions, Hinduism has nofounder, no beginning which leads many Hindus to claim the religion has existed as long as the universe. Scholars have so far traced the religion back at least 3,500 years, to the Indus Valley in whatisnowPakistan.There,anancientcivilizationblossomedandbecamesurprisingly sophisticated" The striking together of those two cultures produced our earliest traces of modern Hinduism,thoughscientistshavefewanswersforhowitallcametobe.DoHindusworship animals?Well,yesandno.TheyworshipanimalsasmanifestationsofthegreatAbsolute,or Brahman an eternal reality behind the multiplicity of forms. Source- Hinduism for beginners- By Jerry Johnston-deseretnews.com 10/18/2009) Jerry Earl Johnston two-time winner of the national WilburAward. He is a columnist, critic, and feature writer for the DesertNews. He has won awards from the Associated Press, Reader's Digest, Society of Professional Journalists, andtheUtahArtsCouncil.HeisalsotheauthorofDads and Other Heroes. 43 Dean Brown AneminentTheoreticalPhysicist,cosmologist, philosopher and Sanskrit scholar, whose translation of theUpanishadswaspublishedbythePhilosophical Research Society InaninterviewwithJeffreyMishloveof Thinking Allowed TVhas pointed out that most European languages can be tracedbacktoarootlanguagethatisalsorelatedto Sanskrit. Many English words actually have Sanskrit origins. Similarly, many Vedic religions concepts can also be found in Western culture. He discusses the fundamental idea of the Upanishads that the essence of each individual, the atman, is identical to the whole universe, the principle of Brahman. In this sense, the polytheistic traditions of India can be said to be monistic at their very core. Source- Interview with Jeffrey Mishlove- Thinking Allowed.The Sanskrit Source- According to the Evidence- By Erich Von Daniken p. 161 and Chariots of the Gods- By Erich Von Daniken p. 1-50 44 Alexander Gorbovsky He has written:The Mahabharata is a poem of vast length and complexity. According to Dr. Vyacheslav Zaitsev: "The holy Indian Sages, the Ramayana for one, tell of "Two storied celestial chariots with many windows" "They roar like off into the sky until they appear like comets."TheMahabharataandvariousSanskritbooksdescribeatlengththesechariots,poweredby wingedlighting,itwasashipthatsoaredintotheair,flyingtoboththesolarandstellar regions."They had a weapon which hasa blazing shaft possessed of the effulgence of a smokeless fire (was) letoff'Thatwashowthisweaponwasperceived.The consequences of its use also evoke involuntary associations. This makes the bodies of the dead unidentifiable. The survivors lose their nails and hair, and their food becomes unfit for eating. For several subsequent years the Sun, the stars and the sky remain shrouded with clouds and bad weather.'"This weapon was known as the Weapon of Brahma or the Flame of Indra". Source- Riddles of Ancient History- Alexander Gorbovsky, The Sputnik Magazine, Moscow, Sept. 1986, p. 137) An expert at the Russian Munitions Agency 45 D. Hatcher Childress He wrote: "If atomic warfare were actually used in the distant past and not just imagined, there muststill exist some indications of acivilization advanced enough to develop or even to know about atomic power. One does find in sone of the ancient writings of India some descriptions of advanced scientific thinking which seemed anachronistic to the age from which they come. The Jyotish (400B.C.) echoes the modern concept of the earth's place in the universe, the law of gravity, the kinetic nature of energy, and the theory of cosmic rays and also deals, in specialized but unmistakable vocabulary, with the theory of atomic rays. And what was thousands of years before the medieval theologians of Europe argued about the number of angels that could fitontheheadofapin.IndianphilosophersoftheVaisesikawerediscussingatomictheory, speculatingaboutheatbeingthecauseofmolecularchange,andcalculatingtheperiodoftime taken by an atom to traverse its own space. Readers of the Buddhist pali sutra and commentaries, whostudiedthembeforemoderntimes,werefrequentlymystifiedbyreferencetothe"tying together" of minute component parts of matter; although nowadays it is easy for a model reader to recognize an understandable description of molecular composition." Source- doomsday 1999- By Charles Berlitz p. 123-124 David Hatcher Childress (born 1957) is the Author ofAncientIndian AircraftTechnology'FromThe Anti-GravityHandbookbyD.HatcherChildress (1914-2003)authorofseveralbooks,includingTheBermudaTriangle,wasthegrandsonofthe founder of the world-famous Berlitz schools. 46 Pingala (Shaunak) AccordingtoShaunaka,theregionsoftheskyare5,named,Rekhaapathaha,Mandala, Kakshaya, Shakti and Kendra. In these 5 atmospheric regions, there are 5,19,800 air ways traversed by Vimanas of the Seven Lokas or worlds, known as Bhooloka, Bhuvarloka, Suvarloka, Maholoka, Janoloka, Tapoloka and Satyaloka. Dhundinaatha and "Valalmeeki Ganita" state that Rekha has 7,03,00,800 air routes. Mandala has 20,08,00200 air routes, Kakshya has 2,09,00,300 air routes, Shakti has 10,01,300 air routes, and Kendra has 30,08,200 air routes. It discusses what kind of food to eat, clothing to wear, metals for vimanas, purification of metals,dealswithmirrorsandlenseswhicharerequiredtobeinstalledinthevimaanas, mechanical contrivances or yantras and protecting and different types of vimaanas. Sources-VymaanikaShaastraAeronauticsofMaharshiBharadwaaja-ByG.R.Josyer International Academy of Sanskrit Research 1973).Also Refer to Vymanika Shashtra- Aeronautical Society of India History is the propaganda of the Victors of the victors" Ernest Toller (1893-1937) playwright Shaunak(Sanskrit:)isthenameappliedto teachers, and to a Shakha of the Atharvaveda.It is especially the name of Pingala, (approx.200B.C), thecelebratedSanskritgrammarian,theauthorof the igveda-Prtikhya, the Bhaddevat, the Caraa-vyha and six Anukramas (indices) to the Rigveda. 47 Will Durant Keith Bellows India was the motherland of our race, and Sanskrit the mother of Europe's languages: she was the motherofourphilosophy;mother,throughtheArabs,ofmuchofourmathematics;mother, throughtheBuddha,oftheidealsembodiedinChristianity;mother,throughthevillage community, of self-government and democracy. Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all" Source Come to India (YFU India) "There are some parts of the world that, once visited, get intoyour heart and won't go.For me, India is such a place. When I first visited, I was stunned by the richness of the land, by its lush beautyandexoticarchitecture,byitsabilitytooverloadthesenseswiththepure,concentrated intensity of its colors, smells, tastes, and sounds... I had been seeing the world in black & white and,whenbroughtface-to-facewithIndia,experiencedeverythingre-renderedinbrilliant technicolor." Source Life in India (Life Program) (November 5, 1885 November 7, 1981)- an American writer,historian,andphilosopher.Heisbestknown forTheStoryofCivilization11volumeswrittenin collaborationwithhiswifeArielDurantandpublished between 1935 and 1975. Keith Bellows was the editor in chief of NationalGeographicmagazineuntil October 2014 48 Norodom Sihanouk Sir Marc Aurel Stein When we refer to thousand year old ties which unite us with India, it is not at all a hyperbole. "Infact,itwasabout2000yearsagothatthefirstnavigators,IndianmerchantsandBrahmins brought to our ancestors their gods, their techniques, their organization. Briefly India was for us what Greece was to Latin Orient." (Source: The Fossilized Indian Culture of Southeast Asia - By Y Yagama Reddy) "The vast extent of Indian cultural influences, from Central Asia in the North to tropical Indonesia in the South, and from the Borderlands of Persia to China and Japan, has shown that ancient India was a radiating center of a civilization, which by its religious thought, its art and literature, was destined to leave its deep mark on the races wholly diverse and scattered over the greater part of Asia." Source: The Vision of India - By Sisir Kumar Mitra p. 178 and Main Currents of Indian Culture - By S. Natarajan(p. 50). HeadoftheStateoftheRoyalGovernment ofCambodia(1954-1970)tracedthecultural evolution in Southeast Asia to the pervasive Indian cultural influence(1862-1943),aHungarianandauthorofseveralbooks including Ra`jatarangini:whose valuable researches have added greatly to our knowledge of Greater India. 49 Henry Mouhot Sir Marc Aurel Stein Sir Marc Aurel Stein A.M.T.Jackson Mesmerized by what he saw at the temple of Angkor Vat, Mouhot in lyrical descriptions said:"At the sight of this temple, one feels one's spirit crushed, one's imagination surpassed. One looks, one admires, and, seized with respect, one is silent. For where are the words to praise a work of art that may not have its equal anywhere on the globe? ... What genius this Michelangelo of the East had, that he was capable of concaving such a work.'' Source: Le Tour du Monde, 2-1863-299 He writes: "The Buddhist Jatakas and some of the Sanskrit law books tell us that ships from Bhroach and Supara traded with Babylon (Baveru) from the 8th to the 6th century B.C." Source: Bombay City Gazetteer, Vol. II, chapter IV, p.3. (1826-1861)aFrenchnaturalistandexplorer,whohad gone to South-east Asia in the late 1850's and succumbed to fever there in 1861. Arthur Mason Tippetts Jackson (1866-1909) was a British officer in Indian Civil Services. He was a learned Indologist and a historian. He was the MagistrateofNasikwhenhewasmurderedby Anant Kanhere for a political reason. 50 M.A. Murray T.W.Rhys Davids " The splendor that was Egypt" that the type of men of Punt as depicted by Halshepsut's artists suggests an Asiatic rather than an African race and the sweet smelling woods point to India as the land of their origin. Source: Art Culture of India and Egypt - By S. M. El Mansouri (p. 14).Refer to Marco Polos epic journey to China was a big con Team Folks He observed that "Sea going merchants, availing themselves of the monsoons, were in the habit at beginning of the 7th century B.C. of trading from ports of the Southwest Coast of India to Babylon, then a great mercantile emporium." Source: Buddhist India - By T. W. Rhys- Davidsp. 116. Margaret Murray (1866-1963) Murray's work in Egyptology and archaeology was widely acclaimedAuthor of the Pali-English Dictionary 51 He has observed:"Indian religious art and culture seem naturally to have exercised an extraordinary fascination over theindigenouspeoplesofalltheseterritories,nodoubt,owingtotheattractionsofferedby HinduismandBuddhism,whileChineseart,notbearinganyparticularreligiousmessage, apparentlymadelittleimpression,inspiteofthefactthattheChinese,too,sailedtosouthern seas..." Source: India and The World - By Buddha Prakashp. 7-8 Institute of Indic Studies Kurukshetra University 1964 TheAuthorofThecultureofSouth-East Asia; the heritage of India 52 Sir John Malcolm He wrote about Indian vessels that the: "Indian vessels "are so admirably adapted to the purpose for which they are required that, not withstanding their superior science, Europeans were unable, during an intercourse with India for two centuries, to suggest or at least to bring into successful practice one improvement. " Source: Journal of Royal Asiatic Society, Vol. I and India and World Civilization - By D P Singhalpart II p. 76 - 77. (1769-1833)wasaScottishsoldier, statesman,andhistorianenteredtheservice of the East India Company 53 H.G. Rawlinson Georg Feuerstein "The Greek influence never penetrated deeply (into the Indic civilization)...On the other hand, the WestlearnedsomethingfromIndiainconsequenceofthecommunicationsopenedupby Alexander's adventure. Our knowledge of the facts is so scanty and fragmentary that it is difficult to make any positive assertions with confidence, but it is safe to say that the influence of Buddhist ideas on Christian doctrine may be traced in the Gnostic forms of Christianity, if not elsewhere.Source:In Search of The Cradle of Civilization: : New Light on Ancient India - By George Feuerstein, Subhash Kak & David Frawley p. 252-253. H. G. Rawlinson, refers to the invasion, had no immediate effect, and passed off like countless other invasions, leaving the country almost undisturbed." Source (23 November 1812 7 October 1902) he was a 19th-century English scholar, historian, and Christian theologian. Georg Feuerstein was a German Indologist specializing on Yoga.Feuersteinauthoredover30booksonmysticism, Yoga,Tantra,andHinduism.Hetranslated,amongother traditionaltexts,theYogaSutrasofPatanjaliandthe Bhagavad Gita. 54 Vincent Arthur Smith VincentA. Smith British Historian " India remained unchanged. She was never Hellenised. She continued to live her life of splendid isolation, and forgot the passing of the Macedonian storm. No Indian author, Hindu, Buddhist, or Jain, makes even the faintest illusion to Alexander or his deeds." Source The notions of Indian philosophy and religion which filtered into the Roman Empire flowed through channels opened by Alexander." Source Foreign Influence on Ancient India by Krishna Chandra Sagar Pg 80 After return of political stability Persian priests tried to salvage the Avesta and much had to be written from memory. Another cruel legacy of Alexander.Source: Vedic Physics - By Raja Ram Mohan Roy p. 8 Vincent Arthur Smith, CIE, (18481920) was a British Indologist and art historian. ThereligiousscriptureofancientIranianswastheAvesta.TheAvesta availabletodayisonlyafractionofwhatexistedthousandsofyears ago. When Alexander captured Iran (Persia) in 326 B. C. after a bloody war, hedestroyedeachcopyoftheAvestaavailable.Afterreturnofpolitical stability Persian priests tried to salvage the Avesta. 55 According to Voltaire, "The Greeks, before the time of Pythagoras, travelled into India for instruction. The signs of the seven planets and of the seven metals are still almost all over the earth, such as the Indians invented: the Arabians were obliged to adopt their ciphers." Source: The Philosophy of History p. 527. "Our modern numerals 0 through 9 were developed in India. Mathematics existed Sulbasutras (The Rules of the Cord) contain their own version of the Pythagorean Theorem aswell as procedure for obtaining the square root of 2 correct to five decimal places. The Sulbasutras reveal a rich geometric knowledge that preceded the Greeks." Source: Lost Discoveries: The Ancient Roots of Modern Science - By Dick Teresip.32. For more on Dick Teresi refer to chapter on Quotes301_320. "WehearofArabiantradewithEgyptasfarbackas2743B.C.probablyasancientaswasthe trade with India." Source: The Story of civilizations - Our Oriental Heritage ISBN: 1567310125 1937 vol.4 p. 157. Source: A New History of India - By Francois Gautier p. 1 - 18. longbeforetheGreeksconstructedtheirfirstrightangle.Ontheother handGeorgeChevergheseJoseph(authorofTheCrestofthePeacock:Non-European Roots of Mathematics) points out that the early Indian mathematics contained in the "Hinduhaveveneratedthefeminineelementunderitsdifferent manifestations:Mahalaxmi,Mahakali,Mahasaraswati,Maheshwari-and evenIndiaisfeminine:"MotherIndia."Sheistheconsciousness transcending all things, she is the emptiness beyond all emptiness, the smile beyond all smiles, the divine beauty beyond all earthly beauties. " 56 Rise up woman," so runs a text of the Rig Veda (X, 18.8) "thou art lying by one whose life is gone, come to the world of the living, away from thy husband, and become the wife of him who holds thy hand and is willing to marry thee." Source: Civilization Through The Ages - By P. N. Bose p. 126-127. Source: The Saffron Swastika - By Koenraad Elst Voice of India ISBN 8185990697 (p. 824). No Hindu revivalist could have said it better. ... Source:DecolonisingTheHinduMind-IdeologicalDevelopmentofHinduRevivalism-By Koenraad ElstPublisher: Rupa ISBN: 81-7167-519-0 ( p.513-518). Millions of Hindu women throng Kerala festival.There is nothing like this anywhere else in the world. It is amazing the wayawholecitymakesarrangementsforwomentomakethis offering. -Diane Jennet, devotee This is why Rajput women took to immolating themselves en masse to save their honor in the face of the imminent entry of victorious Muslim armies, eg. 8,000 women immolated themselves during Akbar's capture ofChittorgarhin1568(whereasthismostenlightenedamongMuslim rulers also killed 30,000 non-combatants). Colonialismhastotrytodiscredittheculturesofthe colonizedtovalidatethecolonialorquasi-colonialsocial relationships that it itself has created. Culture can be resistance, and those seeking hegemony in the realm of political economy cannot afford to leave that area alone. The self-declared social engineers in the Third World and their support base within the tertiary sector of that world know this fully. 57 David Frawley A few years ago the Pope issued a proclamation telling Catholics, particularly monks and priests, toavoidyogicpracticesandmixingCatholicismwithEasterntraditionsliketheHinduand Buddhist. (source: Hinduism: The Eternal Tradition (Sanatana Dharma) - By David Frawley Voice of India. ISBN 81-85990-29-8 p. 233-234 David Frawley, born 1950, is an American Hindu teacherandauthor,whohaswrittenmorethan thirtybooksontopicssuchastheVedas, Hinduism, Yoga, Ayurveda and Vedic astrology, published both in India and in the United States. 58 Sir Alfred Comn Lyall Throughout his life Lyall also worked as a writer. As a biographer his chosen subjects were Warren HastingsLordDufferin.Asahistorianhewasacclaimedforhisimaginativeaswellas philosophical insights into the course of Indian history. He also produced a number of volumes of poetry. He has pictured Lord Shiva in vivid verse: I am the God of the sensuous fire That moulds all Nature in forms divine; The symbols of death and of mans desire, The springs of change in the world, are mine; The organs of birth and the circlet of bones, And the light loves carved on the temple stones. I am the lord of delights and pain, Of the pest that killeth, of fruitful joys; I rule the currents of heart and vein; A touch gives passion, a look destroys; (1835 1911) British civil servant, literary historian andpoet.HewasbornatCoulsdoninSurrey,the secondsonofAlfredLyallandMaryDrummond Broadwood,daughterofJamesShudiBroadwood. He died at Freshwater, Isle of Wight. 59 In the heat and cold of my lightest breath Is the might incarnate of Lust and Death "Birthisnotthecause,myfriend;itisvirtueswhicharethecauseofauspiciousness.Evena Chandala (lower caste) observing the vow is considered a Brahman by the gods." The four fold division of casteswas created by me according to the apportionment of qualities and duties. Not birth, not sacrament, not learning, makes one Dvija (twice-born), but righteous conduct alone causes it. Be he a Sudra or a member of any other class, says the Lord in the same epic, he that serves as a raft on a raft less current, or helps to ford the unfordable, deserves respect in every way. In The Bhagawad Gita, sloka 20, Chapter 10, Lord Krishna says,"I am the Self seated in the heart of all creatures. I am the beginning, themiddleandtheveryendofallbeings".Allbeingshave, therefore to be treated alike. " AgainintheBhagawadGita,sloka29,Chapter9,Lord Krishna says, I look upon all creatures equally; none are less dear to me and none moredear.Butthosewhoworshipmewithloveliveinme,andI come to life in them.Lord Krishna as saying, in response to the question "How is Varna (social order) determined?" 60 Archbishop Desmond Tutu "It was Christians, you know, not Pagans, who were responsible for the Holocaust.ItwasChristians,notPagans,wholynchedpeoplehereintheSouth,whoburnedpeopleatthe stake, frequently in the name of this Jesus Christ"Source: Famous Quotes - crusadewatch.org. For Cruelty inflicted by Christianity - Watch Constantine's Sword movie - By Oren Jacoby "Evangelical Christianity, born in England and nurtured in the United States, is leaving home." -Paul Nussbaum, author of Evangelical Christianity shifting outside West - Philadelphia Inquirer Feb 20, 2006. "Thoughitsfameismuchrestrictedbyitsspecializednature,thereisnodoubtthatPanini's grammar is one of the greatest intellectual achievements of any ancient civilization, and the most detailedandscientificgrammarcomposedbeforethe19thcenturyinanypartoftheworld." Source: The Wonder That Was India - By A. L. Basham (p. 390). 1931-) is a South African cleric and activist who rose to worldwidefameduringthe1980sasanopponentof apartheid.TutuwasthefirstblackSouthAfrican AnglicanArchbishopofCapeTown,SouthAfrica.He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984. 61 Cyril Edwin Michinson Joad He said: "Sanskrit, a language which belongs to the Indo-European group and has been the chief literary vehicle of Indian thought, is an instrument admirably adapted to give expression to every subtlety of human thought, every nuance of human feeling... The writings of Indian poets and dramatists, historians and biographers, contain evidence not only of richness of imagination and variety of feeling, but of a remarkable talent for expressing precisely those adventures of the spirit, which chiefly give to human life its meaning and significance. Source:IndianCultureandtheModernAge-ByDewanBahadurK.S.Ramaswami SastriAnnamalai University. 1956 p.179-180 (1891-1953) English philosopher and author of The Story of Indian Civilization 62 Sir Monier Williams William Ward "The Panini grammar reflects the wondrous capacity of the human brain, which till today no other country has been able to produce except India." "Sanskrithasmanyvirtuesthatattract.Itsgrammarhasbeenrigorouslyanalyzed,butnotina doctrinairewaythereisroomforintellectualdebate.TheclassicalIndiancultureinwhich Sanskrit first flourished offers an immense variety of material, from romantic comedy and sensual poetry to epic, massive-word play, political science and philosophy. It embodies a contradiction, thatalanguagewhoseliteratureissolithe,shouldbeindigenouslyanalyzedasasortof architectural structure. And I suppose I like the fact that it is so difficult (coming from English, certainly),yetsofamiliarinanotherway(comingatitfromLatin,GreekandRussian)." Source: Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World - By Nicholas Ostler p. 174 - 213 and Interview with Nicholas Ostler. WilliamWardnotesThesegrammarsareverynumerous,andreflectthehighestcreditonthe ingenuity of their authors. Indeed, in philology the Hindus have perhaps excelled both the ancients and the moderns." Source: A View of the History, Literature, and Mythology of the Hindus - By William Ward volume IIp 469London 1822 (1819-1899) an Orientalist, professor of Sanskrit at Oxford in 1860 He made a lengthy and learned introduction to his monumental work: Sanskrit-English Dictionary. William Ward (17691823) was an English pioneer Baptistmissionary, Author, Printer and Translator. 63 Sir William Wilson Hunter "The grammar of Panini stands supreme among the grammars of the world, alike for its precision ofstatement,andforitsthoroughanalysisoftherootsofthelanguageandoftheformative principlesofwords.Byemployinganalgebraicterminologyitattainsasharpsuccinctness unrivalledinbrevity,butattimesenigmatical.Itarranges,inlogicalharmony,thewhole phenomenawhichtheSanskritlanguagepresents,andstandsforthasoneofthemostsplendid achievements of human invention and industry. So elaborate is the structure that doubts have arisen whether its complex rules of formation and phonetic change, its polysyllabic derivatives, its ten conjugations with their multiform aorists and long array of tenses, could ever have been the spoken language of a people." Source: The Indian Empire - By Sir William Wilson Hunter p. 142 Sir William Wilson Hunter, KCSI CIE (15 July 1840 6 February 1900) was a Scottish historian, Statistician, a Compiler and a member of the Indian Civil Service. 64 Walter Eugene Clark "Panini's grammar is the earliest scientific grammar in the world, the earliest extant grammar of any language, and one of the greatest ever written. It was the discovery of Sanskrit by the West, at the end of the 18th century, and the study of Indian methods of analyzing language thatrevolutionized our study of language and grammar, and gave rise to our science of comparative philology. The most striking feature of Sanskrit grammar is its objective resolution of speech and language intotheircomponentelements,anddefinitionofthefunctionsoftheseelements.Longbefore Panini (who names over sixty predecessors) the sounds represented by the letters of the alphabet hadbeenarrangedinanoverlysystematicform,vowelsanddiphthongsseparatedfrommutes, semi-vowels, and sibilants, and the sounds in each group arranged according to places in the mouth where produced (gutturals, palatals, cerebrals, dentals, and labials).Wordswereanalyzedintorootsofwhichcomplexwordsgrewbytheadditionofprefixesand suffixes. General rules were worked out, defining the conditions according to which consonants and vowels influence each other, undergo change, or drop out. The study of language in India was muchmoreobjectiveandscientificthaninGreeceorRome.Theinterestwasinempirical investigation of language, rather than philosophical and syntactical. Indian study of language was as objective as the dissection of a body by an anatomist." WalterEugeneClark(8September188130September 1960),wasanAmericanphilologist.Hewasthe second Wales Professor of Sanskrit at Harvard University and editorof thevolumes38-44 oftheHarvardOrientalSeries. HetranslatedtheAryabhatiyaofAryabhattawithcritical noteswhichwerepublishedin1930,bytheUniversityof Chicago Press. 65 Rick BriggsSource Shiksha.com He suggested that the 'structures' constructed by Paanini (followed by shabda bodhas written later) could be useful in the development of efficient, high-level computing languages [we may presume here that these would eventually be based the systematics of deriving words from "roots" (dhaatus), avoiding the use of alphanumeric operator symbols, so characteristic of 'computer languages'. Asofnow,Iunderstandthatcomputer-basedtestsoftheinternalconsistencyofthe "Ashtaadhyaayee"arebeingdevelopedbyDr.P.RamanujanattheCentreforDevelopmentof Advanced Computing. Software based on Paaninean rules for the retrieval of word forms has been developedattheSiddhagangaMutt.KarnatakaResearchofanadvancednatureisalsobeing carried out at the Academy of Sanskrit Research, Melukote, also in Karnataka. While these could be regarded as very active areas of fruitful investigation, the practicality of some suggestions on the possibility of using the structure of Sanskrit for machine translation (See, for example, a method of numerical representation of inflections put forward by the present writer in an article contributed to "Samskrti-94" (the 1994 issue of the organ of the Samskrta Sangha of the Indian Institute of Science), remains to be tested. Paninis ideas may also contain the germ of an understanding, based on linguistics that could lead to the unraveling of the connections between brain activity and how the apparatus of human speech works. NASA Researcher 66 Suchinvestigationscanbeexpectedtoyieldresultsonlyinthefarfuture,however,aftermuch greater progress has been achieved in understanding how the speech centers of the brain function. Source: Whence and Whither of Indian Science - Can we integrate with our past and carry on from there? Contributed by S. N. Balasubrahmanyam - Retd. Professor of Organic Chemistry at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore). Sanskrit - Mother of European Languages Source: Arise O Arjuna - By Francois Gautier ISBN 81-241-0518-9 Har-Anand Publications 2000 p. 25). Thepertinencehereisintryingtoanswer,forexample,the question, "Why is it easier to say jagat + naatha as jagannaatha orabd-ul+rahmanasabd-ur-rahman(bothofwhichexactly followtherelevantPanineanrule,thesecond,fromaSemitic language,showingtheuniversalapplicabilityofPaninean phonetics)? "Thereisnolanguageintheworld,evenGreek,whichhasthe clarity and the philosophical precision of Sanskrit," adding that " Indiaisnotonlyattheoriginofeverythingsheissuperiorin everything, intellectually, religiously or politically and even the Greekheritageseemspaleincomparison." 67 Arthur Anthony McDonnell Source: Chips From A German Workshop - By Max Muller Volume I p 163 "We Europeans, 2,500years later,and in a scientific age, still employ an alphabet which is not only inadequate to represent all the sounds of our language, but even preserve the random order which vowels and consonants are jumbled up as they were in the Greek adaptation of the primitive Semitic arrangement of 3,000 years ago." Source A History of Sanskrit LiteratureA History of Sanskrit Literature (Illustrated) By Arthur A. McDonell (1854-1930) Author of History of Sanskrit Literature, Motilal Banarasi Das Pub. ISBN: 8120800354p. 717 "Sanskritnodoubthasanimmenseadvantageoverallother ancient languages of the East. It is so attractive and has been so widely admired, that it almost seems at times to excite a certain amount of feminine jealously. We are ourselves Indo-Europeans. In a certain sense we are still speaking and thinking Sanskrit; or more correctly Sanskrit is like a dear aunt to us and she takes the place of a mother who is no more." 68 Prof. Dean Brown HepointsoutthatmostEuropeanlanguagescanbetracedbacktoarootlanguagethatisalso relatedtoSanskrit-thesacredlanguageoftheancientVedicreligionsofIndia.ManyEnglish words actually have Sanskrit origins. Similarly, many Vedic religious concepts can also be found in Western culture. Source : Prof. of Physics, University ofHawaii , Minoa. an eminent Theoretical Physicist cosmologist, philosopher, and Sanskrit scholar. He has recently translated the Upanishads. 69 Johann Gottfried Herder Sir John Malcolm When George Forster sent him his German translation of the English version of the Sakuntala in 1791, Herder responded: Source: India and World Source: Civilization - By D. P. Singhal Part II p.229 - 231. (1744-1803) born in East Prussia, a German Philosopher, Poet, Critic and Clergyman, "Icannoteasilyfindaproductofhumanmindmorepleasantthan this...a real blossom of the Orient, and the first, most beautiful of its kind!....Somethinglikethat,ofcourseappearsonceeverytwo thousand years." He published a detailed study and analysis of Sakuntala, claiming that this work disproved the popular belief that drama was the exclusive invention of the ancient Greeks. 70 Juan Mascaro, author of The Bhagvad Gita (Translated By Juan Mascaro. Penguin Classics, 1962) and he paid a rich tribute to the glory of the Sanskrit literature: Sankhya, the psychological philosophy of yoga, the poetical philosophy of Vedanta, the Laws of Manu,thegrammarofPaniniandotherscientificwritings,thelyricalpoetry,anddramasof Kalidasa. Sanskrit literature, on the whole, is a romantic literature interwoven with idealism and practicalwisdom,andwithapassionatelongingforspiritualvision." Upanishad Pic Source: The Bhagvad Gita - translated By Juan Mascaro (Penguin Classics, 1962). ********************* "Sanskrit literature is a great literature. We have the greatsongsoftheVedas,thesplendorofthe Upanishads,thegloryoftheUpanishads,theglory of the Bhagavad Gita, the vastness (100,000 verses) of the Mahabharata, the tenderness and the heroism found in the Ramayana, the wisdom of the fables and stories of India, the scientific philosophy of 71 CHAPTER TWO MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH 72 Hinduism remains a vibrant cultural and religious force in the world today. To understand Hinduism, it is necessary that we examine its history and marvel at its sheer stamina to survive in spite of repeated attacks acrossIndia'sborders,timeandagain,byGreeks,Shaks,Huns,Arabs,Pathans, Mongols,Portuguese, Britishetc.Indiagaveshelter,acceptance,andfreedomtoall.But,inholyfrenzy,millionsof Hinduswereslaughteredorproselytized.Theircitieswerepillagedandburnt,templeswere destroyedandaccumulatedtreasuresofcenturiescarriedoff.Evenundergrievouspersecutions fromtherulingforeigners,thebasicsofitscivilizationremainedundefiledand,assoonasthe criseswereoverHindusreturnedtothesameoldwaysofsearchingfortheperfectionofthe unknown.

KrishnadevaRaioftheVijayanagarEmpiredidnotsendhisforcestoPortugaltoteardown churches, use force to convert Christians to Hinduism and indulge in religious terrorism. Prithviraj Chauhan did not invade neither Afghanistan nor Central Asia and raise temples. Pics: Hindu Gods, Raja Krishna Dev Rai, Chola King Source: Fornoothercountryintheworldfromeasttowest,facestheagonythatthe Hindus in India have to face. They are the injured party; but even today they are crucified by the 'so called' secularists most of them themselves Hindus at every stage. No country in the world has been so ravaged and raped by outside forces as India has been down the centuries:Not Japan, not China, not Russia, none of the European countries, neither the Arab nations nor certainly not the United States of America. No Chola, Chera or Pandya (Indian) rulers sent a fleet to Saudi Arabia to tear down the Ka'aba and build a temple of Meenakshi on its ruins or even nexttoittodemonstrateHindumight.IndiaandHinduismhavebeen ravaged beyond belief. Hindu missionaries did not accompany aconqueringhordetoBritainandundertheirbenignrulesettoconvertScottishpeasantsto Hinduism or even Buddhism. According to author Ram Gopal" 73 Megasthenes A band of dacoits may loot a full busload of passengers at gunpoint but that does not make the dacoits more intelligent, cultured or superior beings." No blood has been shed for religion in India except by its invaders. Intolerance came with Islam and Christianity; the Moslems proposed to buy Paradise with the blood of infidels and the Portuguese, when they captured Goa, introduced the Inquisition into India. INTRODUCTION India before the advent of Islamic imperialism was a country with plenty ofwars fought by Hindu princes. But in all their wars the Hindus had observed some time honoured conventions sanctionedbytheShastras.TheBrahminsandBhikshuswerenevertouched.Thechastityof womenwasneverviolated.Thecowswereneverkilled.Therewasnoravageofthesoil.The templeswerenevertouched.Thenon-combatantswereneverkilledorcaptured.Ahuman habitation was never attacked unless it was a fort. The civilian population was never plundered. The martial class (kshatriyas) who clashed, mostly in open fields, had a code of honor. Whereas among other nations it is usual, in the contests of war, to ravage the soil and thus to reduce it to an uncultivated waste, among the Indians, on the contrary, by whom husbandmen are regarded as a class that is sacred and inviolable, the tillers of the soil, even when battle is raging in their neighbourhood, are undisturbed by any sense of danger, for the combatants on either side in waging the conflict make carnage of each other, but allow those engaged in husbandry to remain quite unmolested. Besides, they never ravage an enemy's land with fire, nor cut down its trees." As early as the 4th century B.C. Megasthenes (c. 350 BC- 290BC).GreekScholarandhistorian,noticedapeculiar trait of Indian warfare. 74 Arthur Llewellyn Basham Source: A Brief History of India - By Alain Danielou (p. 106) He has observed: "No other ancient lawgiver proclaimed such noble ideals of fair play in battle as did Manu. In all her history of warfare Hindu India has few tales to tell of cities put to the sword or of the massacre of non-combatants. The ghastly sadism of the kings of Assyria, who flayed their captives alive,iscompletelywithoutparallelinancientIndia.Tousthemoststrikingfeatureofancient Indian civilization is its humanity." Source: The Wonder That Was India - By A L Basham p. 8 - 9).Refer to Heroic Hindu Resistance to Muslim Invaders (636 AD to 1206 AD) By Sita Ram Goel.Voice of India, New Delhi. Refer to Negationism in India: Concealing the record of Islam By Koenraad Elst. A. L. Basham one of the leading authority of ancient Indian culture and well-known Historian 75 Harold Horace Wilson "The Hindu laws of war are very chivalrous and humane, and prohibit the slaying of the unarmed, of women, of the old, and of the conquered." At the very time when a battle was going on, he says, theneighbouringcultivatorsmightbeseenquietlypursuingtheirwork,-perhapsploughing, gatheringforcrops,pruningthetrees,orreapingtheharvest."ChinesepilgrimtoNalanda University, Hiuen Tsiang affirms that although there were enough of rivalries and wars in the 7th century A.D. the country at large was little injured by them. Source-Hindu Wisdom (1786-1860) Eminent Orientalist, professor of Sanskrit at Oxford University author of Wilson's Works and The VisnuPurana:ASystemofHinduMythologyand Tradition and co-author of History of British India. 76 Dr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan Faxian (FaHien)

He has observed: Theintoleranceofnarrowmonotheismiswritteninlettersofbloodacrossthehistoryofman from the time when first the tribes of Israel burst into the land of Canaan. The worshippers of the one Jealous God are egged on to aggressive wars against people of alien cults. They invoke Divine Sanctionforthecrueltiesinflictedontheconquered.ThespiritofoldIsraelisinheritedby Christianity and Islam.He went on to remark:WarsofReligionwhicharetheoutcomeoffanaticismthatpromptsandjustifiesthe extermination of aliens of different creeds are practically unknown in Hindu India. Source: The Hindu View of Life - By S. Radhakrishnan (p. 40).FormoreonDr.S.RadhakrishnanrefertochapteronQuotes.RefertoNegationisminIndia: Concealing the record of Islam By Koenraad Elst. Watch The Crescent and the Cross Source- Hindu Wisdom Dr.S. Radhakrishnan (1888-1975) was one of the most profound philosophers of this century, author and educationalist. Radhakrishnan was also a professor of EasternReligionsatOxfordandlaterbecamethe second President of free India. Faxian (4th century), a Chinese pilgrim to India 77 Colonel James Tod He marvelled at the peace, prosperity, and high culture of the Hindus. Having grown up in war-torn China, he was deeply impressed by a land whose leaders were more concerned with promoting commerce and religion than with slaughtering substantial portion of the population. Source: Hinduism - By Linda Johnson (p. 38). Watch And the World Remained Silent By Ashok Pandit Hewrote:"TospareaprostratefoeisthecreedoftheHinducavalier,andhecarriedallsuch maxims to excess." Islamic imperialism knew no code of honor. The only rule of war they observed without failwastofalldownthehelplesscivilpopulationafteradecisivevictoryhadbeenwononthe battlefield. They sacked and burnt down villages and towns after the defenders had died fighting or had fled. The cows, the Brahmins and Buddhist Bhikshus invited their special attention in a mass murderofnon-combatants.Theirtemplesandshrinesweretheirspecialtargetsinanorgyof pillage and destruction. Those that they did not kill, they captured and sold as slaves. The scene was described by Kanhadde Prabandha (1456 A.D) in the following words: (1782-1835)LateBritishpoliticalagenttotheWestern Rajput State, author of Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan: ortheCentralandWesternRajputStatesofIndiaISBN 8120803809 Vol. II 78 Swami Vivekanand "The conquering army burnt villages, devastated the land, plundered people's wealth, took Brahmins and children and women of all classes captive, flogged with thongs of raw hide, carried a moving prison with it, and converted the prisoners into obsequious Turks." Source: Story of Islamic Imperialism in India - By Sita Ram Goel ASIN 8185990239 p. 41-42). For more Colonel James Tod refer to chapter on Quotes India's first spiritual and cultural ambassador to the West, came to represent the religions of India at the World Parliament of Religions, held at Chicago wrote "the Mohammedans used the greatest violence" and he asserted: "You know that the Hindu religion never persecutes. It is the land where all sects may live in peace and amity. The Mohammedans brought murder and slaughter in their train, but until their arrival peace prevailed." Source: Complete Works - Swami Vivekananda volume 5p. 190 and volume 8 p. 217 (1863-1902)wastheforemostdiscipleof Ramakrishnaandaworldspokespersonfor Vedanta. 79 John Peter Jones Arthur Schopenhauer John P Jones has observed in his book: "It is a curious fact that the hideous and bloody monster of religious intolerance was hardly known inIndiauntil,firstthefollowersofISLAMandsecondly,thedisciplesofthemeekandlowly Christianity began to invade the land." Source:India -ItsLife and Thought- By John P Jones p. 166). Refer toNegationism inIndia: Concealing the record of Islam By Koenraad Elst Author of his magnum opus, The World as Will and Representation, in 1819, he narrates the sordid tale as follows: "...This of the fanaticism, the endless persecutions, the religious wars, thatsanguinary frenzy of which the ancients had no conception! The destruction or disfigurement of the ancient temples and idols,alamentable,mischievousandbarbarousactstillbearswitnesstothemonotheistic fury...carriedonfromMahmud,theGhaznaviofcursedmemory,downtoAurangzeb,the (1847-1916) American Congregational Missionary to India & Author (1788- 1860) German philosopher and writer He was one of the greatest philosophers of the 19th century. He was thefirstWesternphilosophertohaveaccessto translationsofphilosophicalmaterialfromIndia,both VedicandBuddhist,bywhichhewasprofoundly affected. Countedamonghisdisciplesaresuchthinkersas Nietzsche and Wittgenstein, as well as Sigmund Freud. 80 Swami Aksharnanda fratricide, whom the Portuguese...have zealously imitated by destruction of temples and the auto defe of the inquisition at Goa...We hear nothing of this kind in the case of the Hindoo.. " Source: The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - By T. Bailey Saunders - ISBN 0936128690 p. 42 - 43).FormoreonArthurSchopenhauerrefertochapteronQuotes.RefertoHeroicHindu Resistance to Muslim Invaders (636 AD to 1206 AD) - By Sita Ram Goel. Voice of India, New Delhi: Refer to Kashmiri Pundits: Are they facing a Dodo future? And Kashmiri Pandits alienated again - ibnlive.com He has observed: "TheconceptthatAllreligionsareoneaspropagatedbyGandhiincessantlyisthemost destructive concept that is affecting us all. It is not only silly but dangerous fallacy to propagate theideathatallreligionsareone.Hindus,whoareundersevereattackseverydaybythesame forces of Allah and Christ Hinduism and other religions can't be equated and called same because religions of the world have been born in the environment of hostility. Source:All religions are not same - By Swami Aksharanand - theuniversalwisdom.org An Indian of Caribbean origin and holds a Ph.D. degree in Hindu Studies from the University of Madison, Wisconsin (USA) 81 Karl Marx (1818-1883)Thegrandfatherideologueof Communists worldwide. In his article titled Declaration of War on the History of the Eastern Question published in the New York Tribune of April 15, 1854, he observed that: "The Koran and the Mussulman legislationemanating from it reduce the geography and ethnography of the various people to the simple and convenient distinction of two nations andoftwocountries;thoseoftheFaithfulandoftheInfidels.TheInfidelis'harby',i.e.theenemy. Islamism proscribes the nation of the Infidels, constituting a state of permanent hostility between the Mussulman and the unbeliever. In that sense the corsair-ships of the Berber States were the holy fleet of Islam. Source:TheMarxists'Islamicphobia-ByPriyadarsiDutta.RefertoNegationisminIndia: Concealing the record of Islam by Koenraad Elst 82 Sita Ram Goel The entire north western India and later the rest of India was gradually butchered and plundered with ruthless savagery surpassing perhaps even the genocide in the Americas.

It is significant that one of the very few place-names on earth that reminds us not of the victory of the winners but rather of the slaughter of the losers, concerns genocide of Hindus by the Muslims. Source: Ayodhya and After - By Koenraad Elst He has written: "The cradle of Hindu culture on the eve of its Islamic invasion included what are at present the Sinkiang province of China, the Transoxiana region of Russia, the Seistan province of Iran and the sovereignstatesofAfghanistan,Pakistan,India,NepalandBangladesh.TheIslamicinvasion commenced around 650 A.D., when a Muslim army secured a foothold in Seistan, and continued till the end of the eighteenth century, when the last Islamic crusader, Tipu Sultan, was overthrown by the British. (1921- 2003) A scholar, writer, publisher, the founder of Voice of India, an 'intellectual 'Kshatriya' par excellence, andaHindurevivalist.Authorofseveralbooks, including The Story of Islamic Imperialism, Defence ofHinduSocietyandHistoryofHindu-Christian Encounters Afghanistan was a full part of the Hindu cradle up till the year 1000, and inpoliticalunitywithIndiauntilNadirShahseparateditinthe18th century. The mountain range in EasternAfghanistan where the native Hindus were slaughtered, is still called the Hindu Kush (Persian: "Hindu Slaughter"). 83 HordesofArabs,Persians,Turks,andAfghanswhohadbeensuccessivelyinspiredbythe Theology of Islam poured in, wave after wave, carrying fire and sword to every nook and corner of this vast area. In the process, Sinkiang, Transoxiana region, Seistan and Afghanistan became transformed into daru'l-Islm where all vestiges of the earlier culture were wiped out. The same spell has engulfed the areas which were parts of India till 1947 and have since become Pakistan and Bangladesh." Source Hindu Wisdom

Source: Hindu Temples: What Happened to Them -Volume 1 A Preliminary Survey- Sita Ram Goel - chapter Ten -voi.org). Refer to Negationism in India:Concealing the record of IslamBy Koenraad Elst. Watch History of Ayodhya - videogoogle.com. Refer to Heroic Hindu Resistance to Muslim Invaders (636 AD to 1206 AD) - By Sita Ram Goel. Voice of India, New Delhi. "Hindus were great temple builders because their pantheon was prolific in Gods and Goddesses and their society rich in schools and sects, each with its own way of worship. But by the time wecome to the endof the invasion,wefindthat almost all these Hindu places of worship had either disappeared or were left in different stages of ruination." 84 Robert Sewell Muhammed Qasim Hindu Shah (Firishta) He wrote of its tragic end, 'Never perhaps in the history of the world has such havoc been wrought, and wrought suddenly, on so splendid a city'. In A Forgotten Empire says writes about the missing, defaced or vandalized temples and about the destruction of the mighty Vijayanagar kingdom. An empirewhere"itusedtoraingoldandgemsinthedaysofthemightyrulershere,"Hehas written:"for five months the Mohammeddans with fire and sword, with crowbars and axes carried on day after day their work of destruction. Never perhaps in the history of the world has such havoc beenwroughtsosuddenly,andreducedtoruinsamidscenesofsavagemassacreandhorrors beggaring description". Source A Tribute to Hinduism Islamic Onslaught Firishta' describes the 1565 rout thus "the river which ran near the field was dyed red with their blood. It is computed that 1,00,000 infidels were slain during the pursuit." Source: Wanderings in Hampi - hindu.com. For more on refer to the Ruins of Hampi. Refer to Negationism in India: Concealing the record of Islam By Koenraad Elst and An Architect looksattheTajMahalLegend-ByMarvinMills,AIAandTajMahalananalysisofagreat deceptionBy V S Godbole Robert Sewell (1845-1925) the British civil servant who discovered the ruins of Vijayanagar.(1560-1620) A Persian Traveler to India & Historian 85 Dr. Anwar Sheikh (1928-2006) who later converted to Hinduism and took the name AniruddhaGyan Shikha . He was a Pakistani-born author who lived in Cardiff for many years. He is best known for his many books on Islam.

He has written:India is yet another major victim of Islam."The day Muhammad bin Qasim, entered Sindh as a conqueror, must rank as the most ominous, odious and outrageous moment in the history of India, whose proud, pious and powerful traditions have been the torch-bearer of world civilisation. The Indians, used to enjoying the warmth of ahimsa, were stunned by the violence that the Arabraiders displayed in robbing the rich and seducing the indigenous damsels. Yet the irony was that they did all this in the name of the Most Compassionate and Just Allah, who counts these felonies as acts of fairness when they are committed to torture the unbelievers. Source: Islam: The Arab Imperialism - By Dr. Anwar Shaikh and Anwar Shaikh's Interview with ChandigarhTimes-ByDr.RanjitKanwar.Refertoonlinebook,TheArabImperialism-By Anwar Shaikh. Refer to Religion of Peace, Islam Watch and In the Name of Allah 86 Koenraad Elst

(1959) born into a Flemish (i.e. Dutch-speaking Belgian) Catholicfamily.He graduatedinPhilosophy,Chinese StudiesandIndo-IranianStudiesattheCatholic University of Leuven.He has pointed out: "Hindus too experienced this treatment at the hands of Islamic conquerors, e.g. when Mohammed bin Qasim conquered the lower Indus basin in 712 CE.Thus, in Multan, according to the Chach-Nama, "Six thousand warriors were put to death, and all their relations and dependents were taken as slaves". This is why Rajput women committed mass suicide to save their honour in the face of the imminent entry of victorious Muslim armies, e.g. 8,000 women immolated themselves during Akbar's capture of Chittorgarh in 1568 (where this most enlightened ruler also killed 30,000 non-combatants). "HinduSocietyhasbeensufferingasustainedattackfromIslamsincethe7century,from Christianity since the 15 century, and this century also from Marxism. The avowed objective of each even if the conversion squads are remarkably unsuccessful in India. Consider the situation in Africa:in1900,50%ofallAfricanspracticedPaganreligion;todayChristianandIslamic missionariesofthesethreeworld-conqueringmovements,withtheirmassiveresources,isthe replacement of Hinduism by their own ideology, or in effect: the destruction of Hinduism." Source: Negationism in India: Concealing the Records of Isalm - By Koenraad Elstp 78 - 79 and WasThereanIslamic"Genocide"ofHindus?-ByKoenraadElst).RefertoHeroicHindu Resistance to Muslim Invaders (636 AD to 1206 AD) - By Sita Ram Goel.Voice of India, New Delhi. Refer to Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing of Kashmiri Hindu Pandits - And the World Remained Silent - Movie http://www.jaia-bharati.org/films/and-the-world.mpg 87 Bal Raj Madhok . Our liberal secularists have always failed to understand that. Primarily they refuse to face up to the past, which only worsens matters. To seem to be secular, the Hindu liberal needs to stand by Muslim kings and Nawabs, like Romilla Thapar being apologetic about the destruction of Somnath Temple by Ghazni Mohammad. It is a mind-set that is hard to understand." Source:WhythisrowoverTipu?LetHindus&Muslimscometotermswithpast-ByMV Kamath - samachar.com) Author of the book, Kashmir the storm center of the world, haswrittenthat:Kashmir-wastheabodeofRishi Kashyap. Itisoftendescribedas"Nandanvan"thepleasuregardenorparadiseofBharat.Accordingto tradition recorded in a number of Sanskrit texts and chronicles of Kashmir this valley was once a vast lake. It was converted into an alluvial plain when Kashyap, a great "Rishi," made an opening into the surrounding mountains near Baramula. As a result the water of the lake was drained out and the submerged land became a habitable valley. It then came to be known as "Kashyap Marga" the abode of Kashyap from which the name Kashmir is derived. Geomorphological evidence has confirmed that the valley was originally a vast lake. History of Kashmir began with the settlement of the Indo-Aryan people in it in pre-Mahabharata days. It became a centre of Indo-vedic culture and civilization. Sanskrit literature is re