Correlation between Past, Present and the ensuing Future
I must tell you what a glorious past we had, once upon a time, so that you can dream today of making it the reality of tomorrow. It is also necessary for me to tell you what pulled us down to this level where we are today, so that you know how to identify, and avoid those destructive forces. It is equally necessary for me to tell you: in what manner those destructive forces are operative even today, and quite vigorously, so that you can develop the strategy to counter those. It is no use my telling you "only" what all happened in the past because you will then simply shrug it off as a matter of bygone days. You must know that these things are very much part of the present. I must show you without ambiguity of any kind, the definitive correlation between "the past" and "the present", and also clear indications of "the ensuing future".
You will be the architects of tomorrow's BhaaratVarsh
We oldies may be a spent force today but it is you, my children, who hold the fire within. I entrust you with the responsibility of reshaping my beloved Motherland, this "Nation" of tomorrow.
Can you take the truth?
Can you take the truth? I believe: yes, you can! You, the products of new generation, have become more matured than the Mother Nature would want you to be. The television, the cinema and the Internet together have made you grow beyond your natural age. Be it in good sense or bad sense but it has!
Can bitter truth help you?
Can bitter truth help you? My answer is: yes! At least one experiment is in front of you: Germany. They did not hide the atrocities committed by the Nazis. They could have put a lid on those, or could have whitewashed them. But they chose not to do so. What was the result? I don't have to tell you that it has helped.
When we hide the Truth from you
What happens when truth is withheld from you fearing that it could disturb you? You simply learn to live in a make-believe world devoid of truth. Gradually you turn to be hypocrites. But then, withheld truth keeps resurfacing again and again. The evil is not restrained. It only reappears in different forms assuming different masks. New generation finds itself incapable of resisting the evil because it has never learned to recognize it in its true colours.
Past, Present, and Future are interwoven
You must not ignore your Past. History is our past. Our present is built on our past. Our future will be built on our present. Three of them are interwoven. We cannot ignore any of them. If we ignore lessons from our past, we will let our past repeat itself in our present. Similarly, if we ignore Adharm of our present times, we will let our future repeat them on magnified scale.
Past is the most significant link in this chain. It is the foundation of the present and the future because (a) Major part of our present is based on our past, and (b) Major part of our future will be based on our present. By choosing to ignore the past all you can do is to spend away your life but then your coming generations will have to pay for "your" indifference of today.
The True Image of Hinduism
Professor D Meo of Italia asked me to spread the true image of Hinduism. It was during my last visit to Venezia (2002). I reckoned that the true image of Hinduism could be re-established only by taking my readers through a journey to the "Lost World of the Hindus" because it was "Hinduism in action". I also realized that after that visit my readers will ask me how such a wonderful world was lost into the oblivion. Or, why do we carry such a poor opinion of Hindu society today? To answer that I shall have to tell my readers what transpired in-between.
What happens when you identify your country as India, and yourself as Indian?
I noticed that Italians do not say Italy. Instead, they say Italia. Similarly, they do not say Venice, they say Venezia. Reason: they do not think that they need to be (mental) slaves of the English. For, they are proud of their nation, and its name, and its language. Two centuries of British presence on our soil, and our indoctrination into their culture, and their language, has turned us into a kind of mental slave to their virtues (or, stark absence thereof), and their language. I have dealt with this issue in greater depth in Book 04. Thus, we have become used to calling our nation as India, and we tend to call ourselves Indians. Italians are proud to say Italia and Venezia but we do not take similar pride in calling our nation as BhaaratVarsh, and ourselves as Bhaaratiyas.
Another thing I noticed. Venezia is a tourist destination of international repute, and yet average Italian showed no inferiority complex on account of his/her inability to speak, or understand, English language. On the other hand we cherish the mentality where we look up to those who can communicate in English, and we look down upon those who cannot. But then, it is not our fault, yet some critics love to say that. For, they react to what is apparent, not knowing or realizing what lay behind it.
When you identify your country as India, you relate yourself to a history of few hundred years. When you identify your nation as BhaaratVarsh, you relate yourself to a heritage that goes back to time immemorial. Therefore, to recognize yourself, first you have to identify your nation correctly.
Who are my target audience?
Not those adults who know it all, for they need not learn any more. Not those adults, either, who are so convinced that what has been taught to them in school, and what further they learn from media today, is all that they need to know, and that is what represents the truth, therefore, rest is garbage particularly when such material varies significantly from the popular view. Not even those children who firmly believe that textbooks have all the truth that they need, and the rest that contradicts textbooks are not to be trusted. My target audience is those children who are ready to explore. It is these children who will be the future of this nation, and it is them who may do something about what I tell them, if that appeals to them. As for the adults, they are generally busy earning money and securing their future, and have relatively lesser degree of commitment towards a 'cause' that may require reconditioning of their minds. Children have greater ability and inclination to grasp new things. The catch is: it is our non-believing, or disinterested adults, who have to introduce these documentations of suppressed facts to their children before these children can get to look at them. Anyway, time has its own way of dealing with matters that have such interdependence.
My work is for those who have an open mind – Those who do not wish to reject anything based on preconceived notions; Those who are willing to examine each piece of information that is new to him or her; Those who are ready to allow their minds time sufficient for new material to sink in; Those, who have the desire to combat against preconditioning of their mind; Those who believe in arriving at their own conclusions after prolonged deliberation.
To me History & Religion are inseparable disciplines of study
This is a work on history. And yet, you may find me presenting quotes from scriptures from time to time. I need to explain you the logic, why those quotes find place in this work of history. For this we need to first define history. As I see it, history is collective record of past human actions. How do these actions originate? They are triggered by mind. What regulates the mind? Thoughts and emotions! How thoughts and emotions are shaped? By education! Which part of education influences human mind most? Religious education! I have demonstrated through my prior work Seed 2 Christianity as to how religion has continuously shaped history of the ChristianWorld and how it is still shaping the current events of that part of the world. Therefore, to me history and religion are inseparable disciplines of study.
To me History & Politics are inseparable disciplines of study
While discussing history and related current events you may find me delving into politics at times. This is because history and politics are inseparable disciplines of study to me. If history is the record of past events, the key to those events may at times be found in the contemporary politics. Let me explain this a bit differently. History records the actions taken by those who govern nations. The policies they adopt shape the lives of millions. Such policies become the subject matter of politics. Therefore, history (actions) cannot be separated from politics (policies). For the same reason, history cannot be fully interpreted without diving into the politics which shaped that history. Hence, you will find me digging into both from time to time. 05/07
Highlights through and Insertions in Quoted texts
Quoted texts, throughout this work, may have some words highlighted with bold or italics or underlined. My purpose is to hold reader’s attention around those words.
Quoted texts may also have some insertions like (*added text). My intension is to help readers with greater clarity.
English spellings of Sanskrit terms
I spell Sanskrit terms in English differently. Reasons have been explained in the Appendix.
Use of he /his /him /etc.
My use of term "his" would generally mean "his/her" unless the context demands otherwise.
| That Touch of a Gentleman that destroyed the Hindu nation |
Today we see Poverty all around us - but why?
While most eighteenth-century European travellers to India described her as "flourishing", less than a century later she had sunk into depths of dismal misery. One British historian noted in 1901: "Time was, not more distant than a century and half ago, when Bengal was much more wealthy than was Britain". Another even asserted that Britain's Industrial Revolution could not have taken off without the influx of money that followed the conquest of Bengal.[i]
What does this mean?
That a very-very rich nation was turned into a poverty-stricken country within less than one hundred years of British Rule;
That one state of India (Bengal) was much wealthier than the whole country of (so-called Great) Britain;
That British Industrial Revolution would have been nonexistent without the loot British made from Bengal.
These "Gentlemen" came from Europe ~ Anquetil-Duperron documented in the year 1778
Peaceful Indians...., did the rumour of your riches have to penetrate a clime in which artificial needs know no bounds? Soon, new foreigners reached your shores; inconvenient guests, everything they touched belonged to them...; it was not enough that they should invade your commerce, make up the price of foodstuffs and goods triple, alter their quality; your factories almost wiped out, the workers taking refuge in the mountains, a dying son asking his father what harm he did those foreigners who have taken the bread out of his mouth--nothing touches or softens their hearts: "Your gold," the Peruvians and Mexicans were told; here, the revenue of Industan (*India) is what we demand, even if for that streams of blood have to flow. At least, unfortunate Indians, you will perhaps learn that in the space of two hundred years, one European who saw you and lived among you has dared to plead your cause and present to the Court of the Universe your wounded rights, those of mankind blackened by a vile interest.[ii]
What does this mean? That Europeans came and they grabbed anything that they wanted. That they raised the prices of our eatables and consumable three times while reducing their quality. That they destroyed our industries, our factories, and our people had to take refuge in mountains. A child, on his death bed, asks his father what harm I did to those foreigners that they snatched the bread out of my mouth.
When first time I read this, tears rolled down my eyes, my heart cried, and as the tears dried up, anger filled my mind. Look at the above quote, it begins with "Peaceful Indians" and when it refers to Indians, it means Hindus.[iii] Now my Hindu brothers, sisters, children, sit down and think for a moment.
To be peaceful could be a virtue so long you are respected for that quality, so long no one snatches food from your mouth, so long no one abuses you in any way, and SO long you get to live with self-respect. But is it a virtue otherwise? What use it is if the goodness within you is destroyed by the evil surrounding you? Should you retreat in your cave so that you can have peace?
Voltaire wrote:
We have shown how much we surpass the Indians in courage and wickedness, and how inferior to them we are in wisdom. Our European nations have mutually destroyed themselves in this land where we only go in search of money, while the first Greeks travelled to the same land only to instruct themselves.[iv]
Voltaire—who?
Voltaire (1694-1778) French writer, dramatist, and poet; pseudonym of Francois-Marie Arouet. He was a leading figure of the Enlightenment, and frequently came into conflict with the Establishment as a result of his radical views and satirical writings. Notable works: Lettres philosophiques (1734) and the satire Candide (1759)[v]
the Enlightenment—what?
“the Enlightenment - a European intellectual movement of the late 17th and 18th centuries emphasizing reason and individualism rather than tradition. It was heavily influenced by 17th-century philosophers such as Descartes, Locke, and Newton, and its prominent exponents include Kant, Goethe, Voltaire, Rousseau, and Adam Smith”[vi]
Oxford Dictionary describes Voltaire as a leading figure of the European Intellectual Movement in the 18th-century. So what do we learn from Voltaire? That how wicked were the Europeans and also that how greedy were they for money. That how superior were the Hindus in comparison to the Europeans in wisdom. That early Greeks had travelled to India to be taught by the Hindus.
A question
Does any one of these quotes surprise you in any way? Ask yourself, my children. If yes, then there will be many more waiting for you through the pages that will follow.
| Your Journey with me into the Lost World of the Hindus |
Let us be clear that all the praise that follows hereafter is about the Hindus of India, not about the Christians, nor about the Muslims of India
Figure 1 Max Muller
In quotes above, and those presented below, you will often find references to Indians (Indians). Those refer to the Hindus and the Hindus only. Friedrich Max Muller filled 37 pages with examples of "Indian Justice and Love for Truth" and gave it the title "Truthful Character of the Hindus" in his book INDIA what can it teach us? Therefore, please be clear that quotes presented below, taken from Max Muller's work, refer to the Hindus alone.
Besides this, chronology will tell you that--in relation to many a quote below--Jesus or Muhammad wasn't born yet, Christianity in Europe wasn't established yet, Islam hadn't found its way to India yet. And, that story about "St. Thomas having come to India much before Christianity was established in Europe" is a fabricated one. Vatican no more endorses it. Conspiracy behind this episode has been presented in my other works with due analysis of the motives that lay behind [details in Book 08 & 10]. Yet, some people may quote celebrities like Dr Rajendra Prasad (first President) and Jawaharlal Nehru (first Prime Minister) who happened to have mentioned in their public speeches that origin of Christianity in India was much older than that in Europe. Yes they did, but they did so out of their ignorance. They simply repeated what they had read or heard before.
In nutshell, whatever you are going to read hereafter will relate to the extraordinary past of the Hindus, unmatched by any civilization in the world. And, the analysis that I shall be presenting may challenge, again and again, your understanding of popular version of Hindu history.
| Part 1 When Braahman born was the Teacher of the Hindu Society |
5th-century before Christian era
Greek Ktesias spoke of legendary Justice of the Hindus
Ktesias, the famous Greek physician of Artaxerxes[vii] Mnemon (present at the battle of Cunaxa, 404 BC), the first Greek writer who tells us anything about the character of the Indians, such as he heard it described at the Persian court, has a special chapter "On the justice of the Indians".[viii]
Think it over
Today, you think of Caste system as synonymous to Social Injustice. But then, Hindu Justice could not have been "exemplary" to the Greeks of 5th-century BC if Hindu social structure was truly based on a system of gross social injustice towards the vast majority of its own people. This is nothing but plain logic.
4th-century before Christian era
Greek Megasthenes spoke of Hindu Love for Truth ~ Megasthenes wrote that NO Hindu was Slave, and about Hindu Simplicity and Frugality
Megasthenes, the ambassador of Selucus Nicator at the court of Sandrocottus (ChandrGupt) in Palibothra (PaataliPutr, the modern Patna), states that thefts were extremely rare, and they honoured truth as virtue.[ix]
Megasthenes, for example, who visited the Maurya court at PaataliPutr in the 4th-century BC, noted: "All Indians are free, and none of them is a slave... Indians never invade other peoples, nor do other people invade India... They fare happily, because of their simplicity and their frugality... Since they esteem beauty, they practice everything that can beautify their appearance. Further, they respect alike virtue and truth"...[x]
Ktesias praised Hindu justice a century ago and now Megasthenes praises of Hindu love for truth. You know why? Because, truth and justice go hand in hand! One cannot survive without the other.
He also spoke of Hindu simplicity and frugality. This trait is very necessary for containing expansive tendencies amongst humans in any sphere of activity. Lack of such expansive tendencies helped Hindus from not being the invading type. This non-invasive temperament gave them no desire for slave building attitude. That is what Megasthenes confirms by saying that all Hindus were free and none were slave.
"Physical slavery" is the gift of Islam to Hindus. "Mental slavery" is the gift of Christianity to Hindus. Absence of base frugality and presence of hyper expansive tendencies is what makes them strive to expand their respective domains by destroying other domains. Their arrival brought nothing but all-round destruction to this nation, its people, its culture, and its value system.
Think it over
Now please tell me, how is it that Megasthenes documented in the 4th-century BC that "no Hindu was a slave" in a society that supposedly practiced gross social injustice in form of infamous Caste system? Slavery and gross social injustice, in one form or the other, has been rampant in Christian societies, and "those very people" all along have been pointing finger at our Hindu society. Please take a careful note of this particular point. As you will progress through my works, you will come to notice this particular point cropping up, again and again, over and again, in different contexts, in different scenarios, in different time-periods, in relation to different situations. At every point I shall draw your attention to this aspect. And, as you will go on filing them at the back of your mind, the bigger picture will start emerging, and you will clearly see their underlying motive. I will not have to define it for you. You will see it for yourself.
Christian era 2nd-century
Greek Arrian spoke about Hindu Self-Government and that NO Hindu was accused of Lying
Arrian (in the 2nd century, the pupil of Epictetus[xi]), when speaking of the public overseers or superintendents in (*Hindu) India, says: "They oversee what goes on in the country or towns, and report everything to the king, where the people have a king, and to the magistrates, where the people are self-governed, and it is against use and wont for these to give in a false report; but indeed no Indian is accused of lying.[xii]
This 2nd-century documentation indicates that good part of Hindu society was self-governed. You will again see the same testimony in early 19th-century by Colonel Sleeman, which would mean that the Hindu society maintained its consistency over a period of one thousand and seven hundred years. And, as you will go into further details of Colonel Sleeman's work you will realize how solid was the base on which the system stood.
The "Hindu self-governance" that Arrian spoke of in the 2nd century happened to be a superior form of peoples' democracy as compared to the present day manipulative democracy. This present day manipulative democracy is the gift of the ChristianBritish. Their unmatched expertise in manipulative tendencies can be seen through their conducts. You will have plenty of data as you proceed through my works. No wonder that someone like Voltaire used the term "wicked" to describe them at best.
Think it over
And when Arrian spoke of "Hindus never lie" you need to understand first what kind of character is needed for that. If you are capable of visualizing the quality of that character then you will have no trace of doubt left that collectively such people could NOT have practiced for millenniums the so-called gravest social injustice on the face of this earth. This "self-government" system was a village based system built on the foundation of Varn system[xiii]. If Varn system (nick named Caste System by the Christians) was based on social injustice – the way it is made out to be today – then how come the same society was praised for its unmatched sense of justice not only in speech but also in their action, and that too, consistently for over two thousand years?
Today, Hindu is a crossbred [Hindu by birth and Christian by education] who belongs neither to Hindu roots, nor Christian mask. This is what I call a ChristianizedHindu!
Christian era 3rd-century
Chinese Su-we spoke of flourishing Buddhism in Hindu Raaj ~ Su-we spoke of Hindu Straightforwardness and Hindu Honesty
The earliest witness is Su-we, a relative of Fan-chen, king of Siam, who between 222 and 227 AD sailed round the whole of India, till he reached the mouth of Indus, and then explored the country. After his return to Siam, he received four Yueh-chi horses, sent by a king of India as a present to the king of Siam and his ambassador. At the time these horses arrived in Siam (it took them four years to travel), there was a staying at the court of Siam an ambassador of the Emperor of China, Khang-thai, and this is the account he received of the kingdom of India: "It is a kingdom in which the religion of Buddh flourishes. The inhabitants are straightforward and honest, and the soil is very fertile. The king is called Meu-lun, and his capital is surrounded by walls...[xiv]
Doctored history textbooks (prepared by NCERT) tell you today that it was Hindu Braahmans who destroyed Buddhism in India.[xv] Facts were just the opposite. Muslims destroyed Buddhism and uprooted it from our soil. After barbarian invaders left, there were no Buddhists around to carry on worship at BodhGaya Temple[xvi]. It was Hindu Braahmans who continued the worship for centuries, only to hand over to Buddhists when they returned.[xvii]
Christian era 7th-century
Chinese Hiouen-thsang spoke of Hindu Straightforwardness, Hindu Honesty, Hindu Justice, and he documented that Hindus NEVER take unjustly other peoples' Wealth
The Chinese, who come next in order of time, bear the same, believe, unanimous testimony in favour of the honesty and veracity (*truthfulness) of the Hindus. Let me quote Hiouen-thsang, the most famous of the Chinese Buddhist pilgrims, who visited India in 7th-century: "Though the Indians," he writes, "are of a light temperament, they are distinguished by the straightforwardness and honesty of their character. With regard to riches, they never take anything unjustly; with regard to justice, they make even excessive concessions. Straightforwardness is the distinguishing feature of their administration.[xviii]
Think it over
How is it that a society, accused of practicing gross social injustice towards its own people, has been praised by Hiouen-thsang in the 7th-century putting it on record "with regard to justice, Hindus make even excessive concessions"?
Think for a moment about the people who “never grabbed anything unjustly” from other peoples’ wealth—would they have practiced gross social injustice towards their very own people by robbing them of basic human rights? And again, think, people who made “excessive concessions with regard to justice” would they have practiced gross social injustice towards a very large section of their own people by robbing them of their very self-respect?
You must realize one thing clearly: if you mix light and darkness together they can never coexist. The light will dispel darkness or the darkness will engulf the light. They can coexist only in small measures together. For instance, throughout darkness there can be one lamp giving little bit of light. Or, in an array of light there may a small corner where darkness prevails because light does not penetrate there. But it is not possible that abundance of light and immense magnitude of darkness can stay together at one place. It is simply not possible. Much the same such abundance of love for truth and justice and such immense magnitude of social injustice as is stated about the Caste system could not have stayed together.
Christian era 11th-century
Muslim Idrisi vouches for Hindu Justice and Hindus NEVER depart from Justice in their Actions ~ Idrisi speaks of Hindu Honesty and Hindu Fidelity
If we turn to the accounts given by the Mohammedan conquerors of India, we find Idrisi, in his Geography (written in the 11th century), summing up their opinion of the Indians in the following words: The Indians (*Hindus) are naturally inclined to justice, and never depart from it in their actions. Their good faith, honesty, and fidelity to their engagements are well known, and they are so famous for these qualities that people flock to their country from every side.[xix]
Here is an interesting situation. First let me give a little bit of background before explaining what I intend to. Most Mohammedan invaders/conquerors treated Hindus as their enemy. Not because Hindus had harmed them in any way. But because, Qur'an* taught the Muslims to kill the idolaters. And, Hindus were idolaters, in other words idol worshippers. Among Hindus, those who were not idolaters (those who believed in Niraakaar Brahm, meaning formless God), they too were perceived as idolaters, because Muslims hardly understood Hinduism. For them, Buddhists were also idolaters because they saw Buddh's statue everywhere. And a statue was an idol for them. For them it did not matter that Buddhists were agnostics and that there is no concept of God in Buddhism (exception: some Buddhists practice idolatry also). Of course, there was yet another dimension to it, as Qur'an instructed Muslims to kill everyone who would not become a Muslim.
While I understand that this is not a work on religion, and yet to substantiate my interpretations of History, it becomes imperative that I quote from scriptures, lest you think I am misleading you. Hence, the following quotes from Qur'an -
Soora 9 at'tauba Aayat 7 Allah and His apostle repose no trust in idolaters
Soora 8 al’anfaal Aayat 39 Make war on them until idolatry is no more and Allah’s religion reigns supreme.
Soora 2 al’bakra Aayat 193 Fight against them until idolatry is no more and Allah’s religion reigns supreme. Aayat 216 Fighting is obligatory for you, much as you dislike it.
Soora 60 al’mumtahana Aayat 4 We renounce you (i.e., the idolaters): enmity and hate shall reign between us until you believe in Allah only
Soora 9 at'tauba Aayat 2-3 Allah will humble the unbelievers… Allah and His apostle are free from obligation to the idol-worshipper… Proclaim a woeful punishment to the unbelievers.
Soora 48 al’fath Aayat 29 Muhammad is Allah’s apostle. Those who follow him are ruthless to the unbelievers but merciful to one another.
Soora 9 at'tauba Aayat 123 Believers! Make war on the infidels who dwell around you. Let them find harshness in you.
Soora 9 at'tauba Aayat 73 O Prophet! Make war on the unbelievers and the hypocrites. Be harsh with them. Their ultimate abode is Hell, a hapless journey's end.
Soora 66 at’tahreem Aayat 9 O Prophet! Make war on the unbelievers and the hypocrites and deal sternly with them. Hell shall be their home, evil their fate.
Soora 4 an'nisa Aayat 56 Lo! Those who disbelieve Our revelations, We shall expose them to Fire. As often as their skins are consumed We shall exchange them for fresh skins that they may taste the torment. Lo! Allah is ever Mighty, Wise.
Soora 22 al’hazz Aayats 19-21 Garments of fire have been prepared for unbelievers. Scalding water shall be poured upon their heads, melting their skins and that which is in their bellies. They shall be lashed with red iron.
Soora 47 Muhammad Aayats 4-15 When you meet the unbelievers in the battlefield strike off their heads and when you have laid them low, bind your captives firmly. Then grant them their freedom or take ransom from them, until war shall lay down her armour. Thus shall you do! Had Allah willed, He could Himself have perished them (without your help); but He has ordained it thus that He might test you, the one by the other. As for those who are slain in the cause of Allah, He will not allow their works to perish. He will vouchsafe them guidance and ennoble their state; He will admit them to the Paradise He has made known to them. Believers! If you help Allah, he will help you and make you strong. But the unbelievers shall be consigned to perdition (*eternal damnation). ... He will frustrate their works … Allah is the protector of the faithful; unbelievers have no protector. Allah will admit those who embrace the true faith to gardens (*paradise) watered by running streams. The unbelievers take their full of pleasure and eat as the beasts eat; but Hell shall be their home … They shall abide in Hell forever and drink scalding water, which will tear their bowels.
Soora 69 al'haakka Aayat 30-33 We shall say: ‘Lay hold of him and bind him. Burn him in the fire of Hell, and then fasten him with a chain seventy cubits long. For he did not believe in Allah, the Most High.[xx]
Given this background, documentation left by Idrisi describing Hindu virtues, placing them on record while summing up the opinions of Mohammedan Conquerors of India, in such strong words as "Hindus are naturally inclined to Justice, and never depart from it in their actions" assumes a very special significance, and therefore, requires further elaboration.
You must take notice of the affirmation in the tone. Those are not casual statements. It had been documented without a trace of doubt (or hesitation) in their minds that Hindus never depart from Justice in their Actions. Now think of the word "Actions". It has not been lightly used. There is also no indication that it was superficially used to praise Hindus just for nothing. When a quality is "continuously" reflected through a specific type of "action" of the "people" it simply points towards a "habit formed" through a "deep seated" belief system.
Now the question is: how does such a belief system form in the first place? If you dive deep into human nature you will notice that a belief system is formed through the continuous process of education. Education (disregard whether it is formal or informal) is the tool that influences your impressionable minds most. Repeated impressions on your mind implant a particular type of thought process within you. That thought process then directs other parts of your body into specific types of actions. Now these actions can be short-lived or long-lived. Short-lived actions have their limited expression, and after the "boil from within" is over they "settle" down. These could be onetime actions or occasional actions finding its expression on specific occasions.
But then the long-lived actions are different. They do not 'settle down' after the 'boil of emotions' is over. Such long-lived actions are not guided by surge of emotions. Their base lies in the "outlook" of the person. Such outlook is formed when the education does not get stuck at the level of "head". Instead it "sinks down" to the level of "heart". Once it touches the 'heart' and finds it permanent 'abode (home)' there, it becomes a "belief system" by which the "values" are governed, and the "natural" outcome of this takes the form of a 'habit'. Once it becomes a habit then it attains "consistency" and is reflected through the actions with "regularity". This is where the "education" has its "triumph".
And that also speaks for the quality of education. Bad education turns out bad people. Good education builds good people. Deceptive education creates hypocrites. Sincere education produces the honest ones. Here I am not using the term honest in limited sense of money. I am using it in a much wider sense. Are the people 'today' honest to themselves? If yes, then they would not allow any hypocrisy in their belief system. But what do you see? You see hypocrisy spread all around you. From this, you can judge the quality of present day education. This current education system was imposed on us six generations ago by the ChristianBritish. It was the first Baron of the ChristianBritish Empire, Thomas Babington Macaulay, who instituted this system way back in 1835. To do so, he imported battalions Christian Missionaries. His sole objective was to obliterate the then prevailing ancient Hindu education system from its root. He dreamt of replacing it with ChristianWorld's modern and ''mistakenly believed to be superior'' education system.
As we will proceed through this work we will provide you with documented information on how wide spread literacy was among the Hindus before the Christian Missionary educators infiltrated through this land with active support of the ruling ChristianBritish. You will be amazed to learn about the level of education present among the Hindus and the spread of literacy around the length and breadth of Hindu society in comparison to the same in any country of Europe in those days. And you will be pained to look at the documentary evidence of how the ChristianBritish methodically uprooted the entire ancient Hindu education system. When you think of current day "illiteracy" all around you, think of the ChristianBritish much the same way when you think of "poverty" all around you. It's an amazing story of how a 'much superior civilization' can be destroyed by those who could not raise themselves up to that level.
As you will proceed through different parts of this work you will also be amazed to see how Hindus maintained those high standards of moral values well up to the time Christian Missionary education system was imposed on us. And you will read those documented evidences in the words of people coming from different nations including the ChristianBritish. So, those will not be my version of the story but their own version. I am only lifting the lid off the coffin and showing you what they buried underneath it to get away with the murder.
Now, back to the basic question "what made Hindus such extraordinary people as a nation" that Mohammedan Conquerors, who treated Hindus as their arch enemy, and yet they could not help praising them, summing up as "Hindus are naturally inclined to Justice, and never depart from it in their actions". This takes us back to the question of education and all that theory that I explained to you in earlier paragraphs.
This habit forming quality - how was it sown and nurtured among the Hindus? What kind of education did do that wonder? Who imparted such education to the Hindus? Who were those educators after all? There had to be something extraordinary about those educators themselves that they could produce such good people centuries after centuries, and "millennium after millennium" as you will see later if you choose to continue your journey with me. What kind of seed did they sow into the ground that helped them harvest such crops of wonderful quality? What kind of fertile and virtuous soil did they prepare that they could produce such healthy crops that were not infested with pests until those arrived from across the borders and brought with them all the disease prone seeds? With what kind of extraordinary care had they developed all this -- the technique, the methodology -- that allowed it to survive for such long periods? What kind of social structure did they develop that allowed such wonderful education system to flourish through the ages without a break? That social system in itself must have been wondrous that it not only let it survive but also allowed fertile ground to flourish. Now who were they that devised and maintained that system?
At this point, if I give you the answer you won't suddenly believe it for you have been taught and told again and again, over and again, totally opposite things about those very people, so much so that everyone today without a second thought repeats the same like a parrot. Therefore, you have to first understand fully well as to why and how such opposite thought process has been implanted in your minds? What conspiracy lay behind this cultivated misinformation, this distrust and ill-feeling towards ''that very class of people'' who gave the Hindus a heritage unparalleled, and incomparable to any, in the documented history of mankind?
This all I shall tell you in adequate detail, and with ample documented evidence, but that will be through the subsequent parts of this book. This is not the right place to jump straightaway to that "conspiracy of the millennium" which was designed to tear off the most significant page of human history and send it to the oblivion. I shall take you through the entire process not only to tell you "who all" did it but also "why" did they do it, what were their motive, and then "how" did they do it, "where" did they do it, "whom" did they employ to do that and "when" the process began and how it progressed through time.
Nevertheless, let me tell you here as to who were that class of people who served as the educators to the Hindus through that golden era when men and women of extraordinary characters were produced. Let me divulge their identity now so that you can file it at the back of your mind disregard how very ridiculous that answer may seem to you, so that you can compare notes as you progress through my works, and keep seeing a thin ray of light every time you pass through such discussions. However, you must not forget that the belief system that is commonplace now is the product of consistent work and repetition through generations, and therefore to counter that it will take plenty of efforts and time on my part, as well as equal amount of consistency while "this one man army" (as labelled by a few readers) takes upon the belief system of the entire world community of today.
Well, to end that suspense, it were the "Braahmans" ब्राह्मन (wrongly called as Brahmins ब्राह्मीन) with whom rested the entire credit of developing that fertile soil, cultivating it in right environment beginning from the selection of seeds, sowing them, making available correct measure of irrigation and sunlight, and harvesting the crop at the right time. The right environment created in terms of social structure was crucial to letting it survive through the ages. But that "Braahman" is the suspect today, identified as the notorious one, who were responsible for developing the worst social system in the history of humanity, in the name of Caste system, a form of highest kind of injustice towards the mankind. So much so, that it is simply taken for granted as to be the "truth" and the "whole truth". This belief has assumed such proportion in the world community today that no question is ever raised or entertained by those in power in the sector of education, judiciary, government, and to top it all the media.
The question that you need to ask yourself at this point: if "Hindus are naturally inclined to Justice, and never depart from it in their actions" then how could they have practiced through centuries such a "Gross Injustice" towards the largest section of their own society in form of so-called Caste system and that "gross injustice" went totally unnoticed by all the visitors through the ages who came to India and recorded their findings? One more question you may want to ask yourself: despite such "gross injustice" why, those victims of such grave injustice, fight for and on behalf of the so-called upper-class Hindus supposedly their tormentors, and shed their blood 'fighting against the Muslims' who were not accused of practicing Caste system? Is it possible that everyone had been looking at the issue of so-called Caste system from a fundamentally incorrect perspective? Is it possible that those directly benefiting from such cultivated wrong notion among the world community about Hinduism have done a pretty good job at spreading the lie far and wide, keeping it well propagated continuously even at high cost, so that it remains to be well accepted theory beyond scope of any possible independent investigation. Who were those people who may have benefited from this? And, what were those benefits that they were after? What made them good-bye to all sense of ethics, or had they none to begin with? All these questions are interrelated to each other; you cannot address them separately.
I shall keep reminding you of these questions again and again, over and again, in different ways and manners, so that this question becomes like "writing on the wall" disregard where you go. I would not want to give you all the answers at this stage, because it will not be easily digestible by you. First I have to prepare you so that you begin to question every belief system that has been 'methodically implanted' in your mind. To bring you to that stage of questioning I shall need to point out the flaws in your implanted belief system. Only then the fire (quest for truth) will be ignited within you. This fire will eventually burn all accumulated garbage (cultivated ignorance of truth) within your belief system.
The doubt that may surface in your mind: why we do not see today traces of those legendary qualities like that all those Mohammedan conquerors up to the 11th-century spoke of? For that you have to know what happened thereafter. As I shall walk you through the events of subsequent periods you will notice that outsiders to Hindu society kept testifying about presence of similar qualities among the Hindus up to many centuries later. And gradually it will begin to dawn upon you that most vices were acquired by Hindu society in a gradual, and yet rather rapidly, after Christian Missionary English Education System was imposed upon us. Those missionaries arrived with a mission and put it into effect swiftly. They remoulded the thought process of Hindu children, and trained them to continue that process through their successive generations. With each new generation the mould became stronger, and substituted qualities became deep-seated.
This will not go unchallenged. You will begin to argue: our children receive education in convents and other English medium Christian schools, and we do not find anything "that objectionable" in the manner they shape our children's character. Or, you may even want to go one step further: we ourselves have studied in such schools and what's wrong with us - we are smart, we are well educated, we are successful, we are respected in the society, we make up together "that class of the society which is the "better part" of the society. Well, here comes the real problem: we do not look down upon whatever we associate ourselves with (if we did we would not continue to associate with it). Thus, naturally we cannot see through us. For that we need a mirror. One of such mirrors I can help you with is Book-4 Christianity in a different Light: Face behind the Mask. It would be up to you whether you would want to look into the mirror or you would rather let it gather dust.
Today there is so much material available to you for reading. It becomes difficult for you to make choices. Why would you read my works when they are not published by main stream publishers, and also not well propagated? That would be a good question. There are things that world knows already. No point my repeating all that. If I have to tell you something then that has to be way different from all the usual stuff. And that is what I attempt to do through my works. I do not make a living through my works and therefore, I am not dependant on commercial publishers. Recognition, fame do not drive me. It is the Hindu interest that concerns me. So, my works are useful only if you want to know what I want to tell. There is nothing for you here that I want to sell.
11th-century Arab Andalusi speaks of Hindu Wisdom ~ Andalusi speaks of Hindu Fairness ~ Andalusi speaks of Hindu Fables ~ Andalusi on Hindu RARE Inventions
In AD 1068, Andalusi, an Arab writer from Spain, wrote: The Indians (*Hindus), among all nations, through many centuries and since antiquity, have been the source of wisdom, fairness and moderation. They are creators of sublime thoughts, universal fables, rare inventions and remarkable concepts.[xxi]
Today Hindu child grows up learning hardly anything about any of the rare Hindu inventions, and if someone speaks about them such information is branded as creation of fiction. I shall deal with many such inventions in a later work but for the time being, let me familiarize you with at least one.
The Iron Pillar of Delhi opens our eyes to an unsuspected state of affairs, to find Hindus at that age capable of forge-welding a pillar of iron, larger than any that have been forged even in Europe up to a very late age, and not frequently even now. It is almost equally startling to find that after exposure to wind and rain for centuries, it has remained un-rusted and the capital and inscriptions are as clear and as sharp now as was when put up fifteen centuries ago.[xxii]
This was probably written over a century ago as by now the pillar has completed sixteen and a quarter of a century, and it still exists so you can verify it. I had seen it during my childhood and you can see it now because if it disappears, future day educators will tell your children that the said object of Hindu Pride was nothing but a creation of fiction, much the same way as Central Government sponsored NCERT textbooks attempt to brainwash your children that Shri Raam and Shri Krishn were fictitious persons, and Raamaayan and MahaaBhaarat are imaginary stories (mythology).
Such seeds of doubt have been sown into the impressionable minds of children right from the days when Christian missionaries took over our education system six generations ago. First thing they needed to do was to uproot us from our roots. The most effective way to do this was to let children learn to doubt the accuracy of all that they have been told by their parents/ancestors. This 'doubt' creates 'space' in their mind to accept opposite theories. That space is then used by unscrupulous educators to fill in with alternative faith. This process has been going on in India for past six generations. Each new generation gave it a further push. The process gathered additional momentum with each new generation. Today's educators, be they Christian or Hindu, they carry those anti-Hindu notions and propagate them further.
After six generation of brainwashing they have lost the ability to challenge the wrong, and reinstate the right. They do not examine things with a fresh perspective. If someone wishes to, and wants to do a thesis on those lines, his/her Ph. D. Guide becomes the bottleneck. Everyone, including the Guide, takes those cultivated wrong notions as the correct ones, approved over the generations, seeing hardly any scope for challenge. They do not find it necessary to check the entire path through which Shri Raam travelled during his 14 years of Van'Vaas as described in detail in Raamaayan. If only they took up this as a project, and made an attempt to travel today through the same path, they would have come across extraordinary evidences. That should tell them that Vaalmeeki could not have imagined in those days what would be present today, if his story was imaginary.
Did our textbooks tell us that Raam Setu existed till today? This bridge was built by Shri Raam's Vaanar Sena with Shri Hanumaan in the lead. Using this bridge they all crossed over the mighty ocean and reached Lanka. It was known to the scholars. Maps and other documentary evidences had been available. Did they care to verify those? No, they did not. And, the ChristianBritish -- they knew about it and they named it as Adam's Bridge disregarding the fact that their Biblical Adam did not exist at the time when Shri Raam's Vaanar Sena built the bridge.
Figure 2 Raam Setu under construction[xxiii] Figure 3 Raameshwaram Dhanushkoti
Figure 4 Raam Setu[xxiv]
We have irrefutable cartographical evidence about the fact of Raam Setu as it was known for thousands of years or Adam’s Bridge as it came to be called during the colonial British period. This map above was prepared in The Netherlands in 1747. In this map we can see the description of ‘Raman Coil’ shown near Dhanushkoti Island.
The Map of Hindustan dated 1st January 1788 prepared by J Rennel, a pioneer in map-making, ‘Rama Temple’ and ‘Ramar Bridge’ were shown. The original print of the map (112 cm x 106 cm) is available in the Saraswati Mahal Library in Thanjavur.
In 1804, a map was produced by Major James Rennel (1742-1830) who was the first Surveyor General of India in which he took particular care as a colonel administrator to change the name of Ramar Bridge into Adam’s Bridge.[xxv]
This bridge is 110 miles east-south-east of Madurai, 43 miles along the same direction from Ramanathapuram. The bridge is 15.5 miles east of Rameshwaram. Up to 1480 AD, this bridge had served as a land bridge to Sri Lanka. Thereafter, a severe cyclone created fissures changing the dimensions to 30 miles long and 1.25 miles wide. Sethu is the bridge that has linked India with Sri Lanka for centuries from times immemorial.[xxvi]
Lord Pentland was Governor of Madras from 1912 to 1919. He visited Rameshwaram in 1914 when Sir Alexander Tottenham (1873-1946) was the District Collector of Ramanathapuram. Lord Pentland was so overwhelmed by what he saw in Rameshwaram that he wrote as follows to Lord Harding, the then Viceroy of India: ‘For me Rameshwaram, very much like India as a whole is the real world. We English men live in a mad house of abstractions. Vital life in Rameshwaram has not yet withdrawn into the capsule of the head. It is the whole body that lives. No wonder the English man feels dreamlike: the complete life of Rameshwaram is something of which he merely dreams.... I did not see an English man in India who really lived there. They are all living in England, that is, in a sort of bottle filled with English air.... History can be events or memory of events.... along the Bay of Bengal the Madras Presidency runs, with the well-governed city of Madras at its centre and the sublime and glorious temples of Tanjore, Tiruchi, Madurai and Rameshwaram adorning its Southern boundaries. And then Adam’s Bridge- a reef of sunken islands’ beckons us across the Palk Straits to Ceylon, where civilization flourished more than 2000 years ago ... Linga stones may be seen in many places on the highways in my Presidency. Hindus break upon them the coconuts which they are about to offer in sacrifice. Usually the phallic ritual is simple and becoming; it consists in anointing the stone with consecrated water or oil, and decorating it with leaves. At the Rameshwaram temple, the Linga stone is daily washed with Ganga water, which is afterwards sold to the pious, as holy water or mesmerized water has been sold in Europe. All these are a little part of my beloved Presidency - indeed my favourite India. Right from the dawn of history, India is extraordinarily continuous in time. In space, on the other hand, it is extraordinarily discontinuous ... from early times in India, it is ethnology, philology, and archaeology that give and will give us some notions of the truth. From archaeology much can be expected. I would earnestly request you to direct the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) to undertake an extensive and intensive survey of Rameshwaram and its beautiful environs, particularly with reference to the historic and primordial Adam’s Bridge’.[xxvii]
There are exceptions to the rule everywhere; so was the Lord Pentland Governor of Madras Presidency. Now let us see those characters that are not exceptions but rule. And these specimens of mankind represent and govern the people of our nation today. In the lead you find a Christian woman who pulls the strings from behind the screen. She knew that she was marrying into the family that had been ruling the nation ever since ChristianBritish hurriedly left this country in haste to repair their own backbone which Hitler had broken. So the woman made sure that her would be husband converts himself into Christianity to which the man did not object because he knew well that his own family was badly messed up in context of religious antecedents (this is not right place for details). This woman now pulls the strings of those who manage the nation and in the lead she has placed a spineless leftist who has no love for Hinduism and no care for Hindu sentiments.
Given this scenario let us look at the conducts of our present day Christianized_Hindus who represent and govern the people of this Nation. They have made up their mind to destroy this monumental heritage of Hinduism which has no other comparison in the world. Once it disappears the most significant physical evidence of Raamaayan's historicity will be lost, and later day educators will merrily continue to tell Hindu children that Raamaayan is an imaginary story. Their objective is simple. They want to destroy every bit of evidence that can make Hindus proud of their heritage. For, they have figured it out that this is the only way that Hinduism can be subverted.
India has recently revived the idea of having the Sethusamudram canal built between itself and Sri Lanka. This means digging a big hole through the Rama Sethu Bridge and effectively destroying it.
But there are non-economic costs too, the first of which is the offence caused to Hindus for destroying a traditional place of pilgrimage and worship. This is comparable to a recent news story from the USA which we highlighted here in HHR[xxviii] where the American courts disallowed the use of sewage for artificial snow on a sacred mountain used as a place of worship and pilgrimage by the Native American people.
While it is the Congress and Communists overseeing the current destruction of the Rama Sethu, we should not forget that it was the BJP who began the project in their last term in power. So this is something which goes across the political spectrum. It’s time for the people to stand up and let the politicians and big business know that we will not let our heritage, religious beliefs and environment be trampled over like this.[xxix]
Under the circumstances no help can be expected from the so-called peoples' representatives in government, and Hindus themselves have to fight for their rights, for protection of Hindu heritages. Today they are bent upon destroying the evidence of Raam Setu because it establishes the historicity of Raamaayan beyond a shred of doubt, and more importantly because it exposes historical frauds perpetrated against the Hindus by joint efforts of Christians and Communists. As far BJP is concerned it has been headed by a Nehruvian beefeater ChristianizedHindu who remained a Hindu for namesake but in reality he had ceased to be Hindu long ago when he formed BJP by burying Jan Sangh and by prompting RSS to drop the word Hindu from its constitution (which did not work out - details with references have been presented elsewhere).
The Hindu Forum of Britain, Hindu Human Rights, Esha Vasyam USA and Global Human Rights Defence of the Netherlands are jointly launching the ‘Save Ram Sethu’ campaign (Ram Sethu Bachao Andolan) from 27 March 2007, which is celebrated as Ram Navami, the birthday of Lord Ram. A growing number of international organizations are supporting the campaign, including the Hindu Council of Australia, Hindu Conference of Canada, Hindu Collective Initiative of America, Hindu Council of Africa, Hindu Council of Holland, Hindu Forum of Belgium, Italian Hindu Union, Caribbean Sanatan Dharma Mahasabha, Federation of Hindu Temples in France and Mauritius Sanatan Dharma Temples Federation, who will organize local campaigns in their countries to save the sacred bridge from destruction.
“The bridge is as holy to Hindus as the Western Wall is to the Jews, the Vatican to Catholics, Bodh Gaya to the Buddhists and Mecca to Muslims,” said Kusum Vyas, president and founder of Esha Vasyam. It is an unacceptable breach of the religious rights of over one billion Hindus to destroy such a sacred landmark without even consulting us. We will not let this happen”.
Ramesh Kallidai, secretary general of the Hindu Forum of Britain asked the Government of India to open a second round of consultation under an independent Commission so that post-tsunami data and analysis could be included in a second impact assessment. “The old data used to make this monumental decision was rendered obsolete by the tsunami of 2004 which radically altered the environment and conditions”, he added.
The Save Ram Sethu Campaign (www.RamSethu.org) requests that: The SSCP should immediately stop all dredging work and withdraw all equipment forthwith from the site. The Government of India should immediately set up an independent Commission that will oversee a second round of consultations. This is to ensure that views of important stakeholder groups not consulted in the first round are taken into account. This should include the oft repeated warnings, highly critical reviews and troubling questions raised by world renowned specialists and experts on the disastrous effects on the environment and livelihood of people in the region, which have not been included in the previous public consultations. The SSCP should take into account the offence and hurt being felt by millions of Hindus around the world about the destruction of one of their holiest religious sites. Organizers of Save Ram Sethu Campaign have asked Hindus from all over the world to write letters of protests to the leaders in the Indian Government.[xxx]
A historic Pad'Yatra to Save Ram Setu began today in Chennai. It is hot May summer. The sky is slightly clouded but Sun is intense. Yatra from Chennai to Rameshwaram has to begin from the famous Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Statue at Marina Beach. Yatra was initiated by Col. Rajan and Sanjay Shirodkar from Bangalore. He expressed hope that he and Sanjay would be able to complete the Yatra in some 35 to 40 days time. This walk is for the spiritual upliftment of the whole nation. Raam Setu is a vital monument.[xxxi]
Media is the opinion-maker to the Nation. Have they discharged their duty in this context? Have they done anything at all to raise public awareness about what our government is up to? What have they done so far to build public opinion against it? How much coverage have they given to the efforts like Pad'Yatra, etc.?
How much did our media tell us when NASA and ISRO satellite cameras captured images of this (now submerged) bridge?
Even as NASA and Indian Space Research Organization images dramatically establish the land bridge between Bharatam and Sri Lanka today, these historical references to Rama Sethu come alive, aflame with fire and aglow with light, as an indestructible part of the imperishable tradition of the Bharatiya civilization.[xxxii]
Now that we have hard evidence of SetuBandhan Raam Setu which was built by the Vaanar Sena of Shri Raam Chandr, our present day government is bent upon destroying it. They have to come to realize that someday children will become aware of the fact that Raam Setu exists till today and they will start questioning the credibility of those textbooks that tell them that Raamaayan is mythology, not history.
I mentioned above "if it disappears"... well, do not think of it as an unwarranted cynicism. The manner in which our present day government is attempting to destroy Raam Setu today under the pretext of building Sethusamudram Shipping Canal, in the same manner they will find another excuse to destroy the Garud'Dhwaj Iron Pillar at Delhi. So long people of the nation, at large, remain under the false notion that it is a Muslim heritage our present government has no problem with it. Once Hindus put up a claim on it as a Hindu heritage all behind the screen activities will begin. The current popular identity of that Iron Pillar is not a matter of concern to them because people at large associate it with the Kutub Minaar. And, we have already been brainwashed since childhood reading history textbooks that tell us Slave turned Sultan Qutubuddin Aiybak build the famous Kutub Minaar of Delhi, which of course is a lie. And that lie can be proven if government was interested in listening and giving Hindus the due credit for their architectural heritages. But an impotent and opportunist government has no interest in truth for they do not have the guts to face Muslim wrath and give up vote bank politics. Ruling the country is more important to them than the interests of the nation. This is nothing special about India. It happens everywhere under the pretext of democracy. It happens in so-called transparent system of United States of America as well. President Bush takes huge amounts of money from other people to win the presidential election. Once he gets elected the people who gave him the money they all want their share of favours from the office of President. The difference between India and WesternWorld is the perception. In the context of India it is all corruption because it is illegal. In the context of ChristianWorld it is not corruption because everything is legally done. Every cent is supposedly received strictly within the framework of the Law of the Nation. And the lawyers are the highest paid professionals in the North America. They will take care that everything is done in a manner which is within the boundaries of law. The lawyers keep the politicians well protected. But in India politicians are not so suave. They go to the lawyers when they are in trouble. Whereas, in North America they engage the lawyer before they do the transaction. However, there are some fundamental differences between the way things happen in India and in the US. The reason is simple though often not well understood. In India, people that mattered were mentally enslaved by the ChristianBritish before they left, and therefore, these stooges kept following the ChristianBritish thumb-rule of "divide and rule". Whereas in the US, they kicked ChristianBritish out of their soil. It was possible because the so-called Americans themselves have had ChristianBritish ancestry and they knew bloody well what the ChristianBritish were like. So they chose to give themselves the identity of Americans, and decided to kick out imported ChristianBritish.
Returning to the primary issue of "if it disappears"... let us see what happened here within our country ever since the submerged Raam Setu (Setu meaning bridge) was rediscovered and evidence was made public. Normally, any nation would be jubilant upon rediscovering such extraordinary evidence of their past that can make them proud. How would that normally happen? First, the media will cash on spreading the news like wild fire. Second, the intellectuals will talk about it on television, write about it in periodicals and journals and make people aware about it. Third, the educators will include such findings and the photographs and the related history in curriculum, children will be made aware of it, they will be encouraged to write essays about it, students will find it a hot topic of discussion and debate, householders will speak of it over the tea; in totality there will be awareness all around. What happened in reality? The years passed, rarely people have been aware of it, no one seems to be talking about it, media seems to be totally disinterested, intellectuals have no apparent interest in the subject, educators simply ignored it; children of the nation remained largely unaware of it. The end result: future generations will continue to perceive the events of Raamaayan as not historical, but only fictional. Why did this so happen? Did this happen because the country is being effectively reigned by one Christian woman (a) who made it a point that her lover converted himself into Christianity before she would marry him, (b) who also made sure that her son and daughter both remained Christian, married off to Christians, but maintained Hindu sounding names as masks for public consumption so that their claim to the prime minister-ship of the country faced no hurdles, at the same time their real names on the passports remained as their real Christian names? Did this happen because the country is being superficially reigned by one who is spineless, and like a puppet of that Christian woman, and he himself happens to be a hidden Marxist, and while not publicly declaring it but remains to be a non-Hindu? Did this happen because most states are being effectively reigned by 'chamchaas' (puppets) of that Christian woman? Did this happen because the educators are predominantly Marxists sitting at JNU and AMU controlling NCERT and ICHR and have full support of Marxist Education Minister who keeps his Hindu Kshatriya name as mask to fool the public? Did this happen because the President of the country effectively did nothing about it (except giving occasional lip service), whereas he effectively bypassed Supreme Court decision in case of Muslim Terrorist Afzal Guru because the President himself is a Muslim first, and then anything else. You must realize one basic thing: a Muslim or a Christian is never ever loyal to anything that is Hindu, and if he or she is loyal to the country, it is not because it is a Hindu nation but because he/she secretly perceives it as a Muslim or Christian nation, and patiently waits for the day it will officially become so. Did this happens because educated people and the bureaucrats are by and large product of Christian missionary schools of one order or the other (Catholic, evangelical Protestant, etc.)? Did this happen because the stocks of major media houses are held by Christian and Muslim organizations, the front-men being puppets for show, mostly manned by those who declare themselves as secularists but have effectively sold their souls for money to foreign Churches and Arab Trusts? Does this all sound like a madman's imagination? Well let's have a look at the following details:
Figure 5 NDTV Logo [xxxiii]
NDTV: Funded by Gospels of Charity in Spain supports Communism. Recently it has developed a soft corner towards Pakistan because Pakistan President has allowed only this channel to be aired in Pakistan. Indian CEO Pronoy Roy is co-brother of Prakash Karat, Gen. Secretary of Communist Party of India. [xxxiv]
Figure 6 CNN-IBN Logo [xxxv]
CNN-IBN: 100% funded by Southern Baptist Church with its branches in all over the world with HQ in US. The Church annually allocates 800 Million Dollars for Promotion of its channel. Its Indian Head is Rajdeep Sardesai and his wife Sagarika Ghosh. [xxxvi]
Figure 7 The Times Group Logo [xxxvii]
TIMES GROUP: Times of India, Mid-Day, Nav Bharat Times, Stardust, Femina, Vijaya Times, Vijaya Karnataka, Times Now (24-hr News Channel) & many more. Times Group is owned by Bennet & Coleman. 80% of the funding is done by World Christian Council, and balance 20% is equally shared by an Englishman and an Italian. The Italian Robertio Mindo is a close relative of Sonia Gandhi. [xxxviii]
Star Empire
STAR TV: Is run by an Australian, who is supported by St. Peters Pontifical Church, Melbourne.[lx]
Figure 8 Star India Logo [xxxix]
Figure 9 Star India - Asianet – Malayaalam [xl]
Figure 10 Star India - Asianet Plus – Malayaalam [xli]
Figure 11 Star India - Channel [V] [xlii]
Figure 12 Star India – ESPN [xliii]
Figure 13 Star India - Sitaara – Telugu [xliv]
Figure 14 Star India – Star Aanondo - Bengali News [xlv]
Figure 15 Star India - Star Cricket [xlvi]
Figure 16 Star India - Star Gold [xlvii]
Figure 17 Star India - Star Jaulsha – Bengali [xlviii]
Figure 18 Star India - Star Maajha - Marathi News [xlix]
Figure 19 Star India - Star Movies [l]
Figure 20 Star India - Star News – Hindi [li]
Figure 21 Star India - Star One [lii]
Figure 22 Star India - Star Plus [liii]
Figure 23 Star India - Star Pravaah – Marathi [liv]
Figure 24 Star India - Star Sports [lv]
Figure 25 Star India - Star Utsav [lvi]
Figure 26 Star India - Star Vijay – Tamil [lvii]
Figure 27 Star India - Star World [lviii]
Figure 28 Star India - Star Suvarn - Kannada [lix]
Figure 29 Hindustan Times Logo[lxi]
HINDUSTAN TIMES: Owned by Birla Group, but hands have changed since Shobana Bhartiya took over. Presently it is working in collaboration with Times Group.[lxii]
Figure 30 The Hindu Logo[lxiii]
The HINDU: An English Daily, started over 125 years has been recently taken over by Joshua Society, Berne, Switzerland.[lxiv]
Figure 31 The Indian Express Logo[lxv]
Figure 32 The New Indian Express Logo[lxvi]
INDIAN EXPRESS: Divided into two groups: The Indian Express and New Indian Express (southern Edition). Acts Ministries has major stake in the Indian express and later is still with the Indian counterpart.[lxvii]
Figure 33 Eenadu Logo [lxviii]
EENADU: Still to date controlled by an Indian named Ramoji Rao. [lxix]
Figure 34 Andhra Jyothi Logo [lxx]
Andhra Jyothi: The Muslim Party of Hydrabad known as (MIM) along with a Congress Minister has purchased this Telegu daily very recently.[lxxi]
Figure 35 The Statesman Logo[lxxii]
The Statesman: It is controlled by Communist Party of India.[lxxiii]
Figure 36 Kairali TV Logo[lxxiv]
Kairali TV: It is controlled by Communist Party of India (Marxist).[lxxv]
Mathrabhoomi
Leaders of Muslim league and Communist leaders have major investment.[lxxvi]
Figure 37 Asian Age logo[lxxvii]
Figure 38 Deccan Chronicle Logo[lxxviii]
Asian Age and Deccan Chronicle: Is owned by a Saudi Arabian Company with its chief Editor M J Akbar.[lxxix]
Figure 39 Sethusamudram Corp Ltd executing SSCP[lxxx]
So, with the help of bought out media, intellectuals, visible personalities, educators, etc. a conspiracy was hatched to ignore the rediscovery of Raam Setu. Thus, years passed and people remained largely unaware of its existence. This was to buy time. Meanwhile, work has continued in full swing to chalk out the plan to destroy this rediscovered evidence under the pretext of Sethusamudram Shipping Canal Project (SSCP).
Let us return to the origin of all this talk-
In AD 1068, Andalusi[lxxxi], an Arab writer from Spain, wrote: The Indians (*Hindus), among all nations, through many centuries and since antiquity, have been the source of wisdom, fairness and moderation. They are creators of sublime thoughts, universal fables, rare inventions and remarkable concepts.[lxxxii]
We were speaking of rare inventions by the Hindus, like Garud'Dhwaj of Delhi, and the possibility of its disappearance someday, under the circumstances as described earlier. Now, let us familiarize with some physical, historical and scientific details about that Iron Pillar.
Figure 40 Garud'Dhwaj Delhi [lxxxiii]
The Pillar is 6.7 m above the ground and 0.5 m below, tapering from 420 mm diameter to 300 mm at top, the whole weighing 6 tonnes.
The three Sanskrit Shloks on the pillar are in Gupta-Braahmi script. On the basis of palaeography, content, language, style of writing and so on, scholars from both Europe and India have concluded that:
1. The date of Iron Pillar is 370-375 A.D.
2. The date of inscription on the pillar is 380-385 A.D.
The iron pillar is a Dhvaj'Stambh (symbolic flag staff), installed originally in a Vishnu Temple in Mathura by a royal devotee, who was also a mighty conqueror and empire-builder -- most likely Emperor Chandr Gupt II -- also known as Vikramaaditya. The inscription is by his son and successor. The pillar remained there till the temple was looted and destroyed (*by the Muslims) in 1018 A.D.
The iron pillar was brought to Delhi to its present site, by the Tomar King Anang'Paal, founder of Delhi, around 1050 A.D. It was originally buried into the earth up to the start of the smooth section i.e. 1.3 m from the platform level, from where the inscription on the pillar is at the face level. The stone platform was erected in 1871 by Beglar, assistant to the noted archaeologist Cunningham, to provide further support and stability.
Figure 41 Garud'Dhwaj (view of the top) [lxxxv]
Following elaborate scientific studies, it was concluded that: The iron pillar was made of wrought iron and has 99.7% iron content. The pillar iron is a low carbon steel heterogeneous structure with rather high phosphorous content. The pillar was not cast in one piece but fabricated ingeniously by forging and hammer-welding lumps of balls of hot pasty iron in step by step process. The presence of lead solder in the joint between the decorative bell capital and the main body of the Delhi pillar, confirmed by X-ray analysis, establishes the use of lead based solders.
Scientific studies point to several factors contributing to corrosion resistance of the exposed portion of the pillar: unusual chemical composition, adherent protective film - 67% Fe3O4, 13% FeO, 2% FePO4, 3% SiO2 etc., micro-structural heterogeneity and comparatively dry and unpolluted (till recently) climatic conditions around Delhi.[lxxxiv]
Figure 42 Garud'Dhwaj (dimensions) [lxxxvi]
So, we see that over sixteen hundred years ago they had not only figured out the chemical composition but also perfected the technology to give it physical shape of rust-less iron. This would mean that the knowledge of such chemical composition was developed much before that period as perfecting any technological innovation requires long span of time. Don't you think that it is something to be proud of that our ancestors were so very advanced as compared to the rest of the world? But then, why should your educators tell you all this? If they do, you will begin to lose faith in them. Isn't it they who had been teaching you that for everything that can be attributed to scientific advancement of the mankind, it is the ChristianWest towards which you need to look up to?
At this point, I cannot hold my eagerness but to familiarize with yet another extraordinary scientific achievement of your ancestors that can make you truly proud of your Hindu heritage.
Figure 43 Garud'Dhwaj (inscriptions) [lxxxvii]
European surgery has borrowed the operation of rhinoplasty (*formation of artificial noses, plastic surgery) from India. They had attained such finesse in surgery that they could cut a hair longitudinally!
The ancient medical men beginning from the great Dhanwantari (whose prescriptions were said to be infallible), Sushrut, Charak and others down the line were bold and skilful in their surgery. They conducted amputations, arrested bleeding by pressure, bandage or boiling oil, performed operations in the abdomen and uterus, cured hernia, fistula and piles, set broken bones and dislocations and could deftly remove foreign substances from the body. The great surgeon Sushrut is said to have advised dissection of dead bodies to a student of surgery and stressed the importance of knowledge gained from experiment and observation.[lxxxviii]
How often have you been told that ChristianWest learned plastic surgery from HinduEast? Didn't you carry the impression, by and large, that all such scientific advancements were the gift of the modern science, and that the modern science originated from the ChristianWest? So often you have heard that योग Yog (incorrectly pronounced as योगा since it is written as Yoga with a tailing-a) is very popular in the Americas. Just investigate, how often do they give credit to Hinduism for developing this branch of science and raising it to the State of Art? You will be highly disappointed. Initially they said it was work of the devil but now looking at its enormous popularity they have coined a new term ChristianYoga. Remember that the ChristianWest specializes in plagiarizing (claiming someone else's work as their own) and they cannot be trusted because they have not risen to the level of acknowledging someone else's superiority, and for this reason they simply cannot tolerate the existence of Hinduism. As you will proceed through this work you will find umpteen number of documented evidence of how they have continued to sabotage Hinduism.
Figure 44 Aayur'Vedic Plastic Surgery of Nose (Hindu) [lxxxix]
Figure 45 Aayur'Vedic Plastic Surgery of Ear (Hindu) [xc]
Figure 46 Different types of Plastic Surgery of Ear (Hindus performed) [xci]
Now look at the statement "They had attained such finesse in surgery that they could cut a hair longitudinally!" Any barber can cut your hair latitudinal. But how many surgeons can cut hair longitudinally (length-wise)? In those days, Hindus had attained that level of scientific advancement and taken it to the State of Art. True to their nature, the ChristianBritish could not tolerate existence of any superior discipline of education to exist on this planet earth. So, what they did? First they de-recognized ancient Hindu scientific disciplines like Aayur'Ved, etc. Then they withdrew all state grants that helped sustenance of these branches of ancient Hindu education. Third, using (abusing) their imported Christian missionary education system they filled-in the minds of Hindu children the rubbish that disciplines like Aayur'Ved, etc. were practiced by quacks and their approaches towards treatment were unscientific. Britain was a country of petty traders. They arrived here as traders but using their cunningness they became the rulers. Now they needed to sell their products. So, it was necessary for them to destroy our industry. They did not stop at medicines. They needed to sell their textile manufactured at Manchester. Our craftsmen made malmals -- such fine saaris that forty yards would pass through a ring that you wear on your finger -- such fine saaris that forty yards would fit into a matchbox! The products from Manchester had the modern science to back them but they were no comparison to Dhaka Malmal where ancient science had attained the State of Art. As you will learn from my other works the ChristianWorld had one and only one solution to all such competition. Destroy the competitor. Eliminate the competitor from its roots. So what did they do in this instance? The ChristianBritish ordered that the thumbs of all those craftsmen be cut so that they cannot use their fingers for producing such fine quality of cloth as Malmal. Brilliant, isn't it? Or, horrendous? Such ChristianWorld today declares itself as those who champion the cause of humanity, the protectors of human rights, they call themselves religiously tolerant, and what not. They have no remorse towards their ugly past, and they do nothing to change their present, except that they talk a plenty. They talk good things, they talk such things that will sound good, will be acceptable for its face value. They create an environment filled with so-called "positive" talks, positive thinking; everything that is apparent should look like positive, feel like positive. And, there ends everything; the actions, their real-life conducts, if examined, will not match their "positive" talks, positive thinking, "apparently" positive everything. The "show" ends with everything positive, and the show continues with everything "seemingly" positive. They practice it so very "sincerely" that it has become their habit, their second-nature, so much so that they hardly ever realize that all that they are doing is "show".
Returning to Andalusi's testimony, lot can be said about rare inventions by Hindus, pages after pages can be filled and books can be written but the objective of my this work is not to produce a thesis but to make you aware of what all is deliberately withheld from you. Thereafter it becomes your duty to make your peers aware of such things, dig into the past and pass them on to your next generation so that Hindus learn to be proud of their ancestors. Lot more can be said about the fables which originated from Hindu wisdom, carried to the West by visiting Greeks and Arabs (before Muhammad was born) and those very fables are taught today to our Hindu children in modified form as imported Aesop's Fables. In this manner we learn of them as the products of the ChristianWest not knowing that they are our own Hindu products, plagiarized be the ChristianWest as usual. Our children have to be made proud of their ancestry not of the foreigners, or else they will be thoroughly cut out from their roots. For six generations that had been happening, and if it continues to happen this way then Hindu will soon lose his identity.
Andalusi has spoken of Hindu wisdom and as you will proceed with this work you will find many more visitors -- through the course of centuries that followed -- testifying the same. But then today you hear about Chinese wisdom but not of Hindu wisdom. Go to the North America and you will hear aplenty, read aplenty, see on television aplenty of what is termed as ancient Chinese wisdom but you won't ever hear, read or see anything about ancient Hindu wisdom. At least that is how it had been until year 2000. Why is it so? The term Chinese represents a nationality not a religion. Hindu represents a religion not a nationality. ChristianWorld does not perceive a nationality as a competition. It perceives another religion as in competition with it. For they believe in their subconscious mind (though they attempt to suppress it in conscious mind lest others notice its presence) that any religion other than their own is in direct conflict with them. This thought process comes to them from their religion. Jesus Christ was their religious messiah and he was very clear in his mind that anyone who was not with him was to be treated as being against him (see Christian Bible Mathew 12:30). A Christian will never admit this in open for he/she is well trained to express to others only that which will sound acceptable at large.
Anyhow, we have gone pretty far and its time to return to the base. However, you need not treat all this discussion as out of place because I have already clarified in the beginning of Part-2 that history and religion are inseparable disciplines of study as far I am concerned, and that is how I shall present my work. But then, the difficulty I am now facing is with regard to time it consumes. Almost the entire material in Part-2 is new and also of Part-3 until now is addition to the 4th edition. If I were to carry on like this, my other work will suffer. I intend to complete this book (in form of split edition) and then move on to Hindi and Marathi versions of all my works so far presented in English. Therefore, hereafter I shall have to restrict myself only to the material presented up to 3rd edition without attempting to bring any further enhancement.
Christian era 13th-century
13th Century Bedi ezr Zenan vouches for Hindus as FREE from all Deceit ~ Bedi ezr Zenan vouches for Hindus as FREE from Violence ~ Bedi ezr Zenan tells us Hindus DO NOT Fear Life NOR Death
Again in the thirteenth century, Shems-ed din Abu Abdallah quotes the following judgment of Bedi ezr Zenan “The Indians are innumerable, like grains of sand, free from all deceit and violence. They fear neither death nor life”.[xcii]
This very sentiment (free from all deceit) is expressed by Professor Wilson in early 19th century as you will come to see very soon. Look at the consistency: 13th to 19th century.
Your history did not tell you these things about Hindu society, things that could have made you proud of your heritage. Why? Is it because they wanted to Christianize you?
What would have happened if you would have known enough about your heritage? Would you have looked up to the ChristianWest with awe? Would you have tried to ape them if you knew that your heritage was far superior to theirs?
Would you have started seeking answers to the following questions? How did you get totally cut off from that heritage? Would you have smelled foul play? Would you have wondered ‘if this heritage lasted two thousand years’ could it have been around from much earlier? Would you have asked something that lasted so long (up to 19th-century), where did it disappear in a matter of one century?
13th Century Italian Marco Polo vouches for Hindu Braahmans as MOST Truthful and they DO NOT tell a lie for ANYTHING on the Earth
Figure 47 Marco Polo (Venezia, Italia) [xciv]
In the 13th century we have the testimony of Marco Polo, who thus speaks of Abraiaman, a name by which he seems to mean the Braahmans who, though not traders by profession, might have been employed for great commercial transactions by the king. This was particularly the case during times which the Braahmans would call times of distress, when many things were allowed which at other times were forbidden by the laws. “You must know,” Marco Polo says, “that these Abraiaman (Braahmans) are the best merchants in the world, and the most truthful, for they would not tell a lie for anything on earth”.[xciii]
This is 13th century. Six hundred years later somewhat similar sentiments have been expressed by Professor Wilson who lived amongst Hindus and mixed with them. It was part of his official job to communicate with them. In that process he came to observe the inherent character of the Braahmans.
But then what have you been told about those Braahmans? Check for yourself if the two images match. Then ask yourself where the foul play is? We will later see how the image of Braahmans was methodically tarnished to encourage conversion of Hindus into Christianity. We will also look at evidence in from of letters written by Jesuit Christian Saint who initiated the process centuries ago.
As you will proceed you will be amazed to see the amount of historical fraud that had been carried out, over the centuries, with the sole motive to cut you off from your roots. And, if you will examine today your current attitude towards Hinduism, you will come to realize that they have been mighty successful in their venture and you have been the victim.
Christian era 14th-century
14th Century Friar Jordanus vouches for Hindus as True in speech and eminent in Justice
In the 14th century we have Friar Jordanus, who goes out of his way to tell us that the people of Lesser India (South and Western India) are true in speech and eminent in justice.[xcv]
Friar Jordanus recorded his journeys to India, Asia and the Middle East, reporting on local customs, products, and religion. He was also known as Jordanus Catalani de Séverac. He was French by nationality and Roman Catholic (OP) by religious affiliation. [xcvi]
Christian era 15th-century
15th Century Kamal-eddin Abd-errazak Samarkandi vouches for Perfect Security under Hindu Raaj
In the 15th century Kamal-eddin Abd-errazak Samarkandi (1413-82), who went as ambassador of the Khakan to the prince of Kalikut and to the king of Vidya Nagar (about 1440-45), bears testimony to the perfect security, which merchants enjoy in that country. He seems to have been one of the first to state that the Persian text of the Kalilah and Dimna (*Panch’Tantr) was derived from the wise people of India.[xcvii]
Christian era 16th-century
16th Century Abul Fazl speaks of Hindus as lovers of Justice ~ Abul Fazl speaks of Hindus as admirers of Truth and of unbounded fidelity ~ Abul Fazl tells us Hindu Soldiers NEVER run away from battle field
In the 16th century, Abul Fazl, the minister of the Emperor Akbar, says in his Aayine Akbari “The Hindus are religious, affable, cheerful, lovers of justice, given to retirement, able in business, admirers of truth, grateful and of unbounded fidelity; and their soldiers know not what it is to fly from the field of battle.[xcviii]
Look at the consistency. Greeks started telling this ever since 5th century before Christ and two millenniums later in the 16th century, Muslim minister also says the same thing about the Hindus. What was behind it? What made the Hindu such great a character? What retained that pattern? The answer is in the ancient Hindu education system and those who imparted such education. Education is what builds a character by influencing the mind and heart. And, it was Hindu Braahmans, the poor Braahmans, who imparted this education.
Figure 48 Warren Hastings [xcix]
Christian era 18th-century
18th Century British Warren Hastings vouches for the Hindus as LEAST revengeful against wrongs done to them than ANY people on this earth
Warren Hastings (*1st Governor General of India) thus spoke of Hindus in general “ They are gentle and benevolent, more susceptible of gratitude for kindness shown to them, and less prompted to vengeance for wrongs inflicted than any people on the face of the earth; faithful, affectionate, submissive to legal authority.[c]
This legendary tolerance is now being abused to the hilt. Some cultures do not understand the value of tolerance. They perceive it as weakness. That is what Kauravs did all along. Eventually, Bhagavaan Shri Krishn had to tell Arjun to lift Gaandeev. MahaaBhaarat was the result of excessive tolerance by Yudhishthir. History repeats itself. We are now moving in that direction.
18-19th Century German Christian Dohm speaks of Hindus as The GENTLEST people
When, going deeper, a few European thinkers began in the eighteenth century to try and fathom India’s philosophy and religion, they were so struck by the wisdom, the ancientness, the richness they saw, that they soon declared India to have been the “cradle of the human race” and the “birthplace of civilizations,” in the words of Christian Dohm, a German scholar, and described the Hindus as “the gentlest people”.[ci]
18th Century French Voltaire tells us early Greeks travelled to Hindu land for acquiring knowledge
Voltaire[cii]: Our European nations have mutually destroyed themselves in this land where we only go in search of money, while the first Greeks travelled to the same land only to instruct themselves.[ciii]
Voltaire: I am convinced that everything has come down to us from the banks of Ganga, astronomy, astrology, metempsychosis[civ], etc.[cv]
18th Century William Macintosh confirms all Science and Arts were BORN on this Hindu land and Greek philosophers came to this land to improve themselves
Many of the early travellers to India of the time (the exceptions being found mostly among missionaries) tended to share this enthusiasm. “All history points to India as the mother of science and art,” William Macintosh wrote “This country was anciently so renowned for knowledge and wisdom that the philosophers of Greece did not disdain to travel thither for their improvement.[cvi]
18th Century French Pierre Sonnerat confirms that Hindus gave the knowledge of Religion and Law to the World and Egyptian and Greek got Fables and Wisdom from the Hindus and that Pythagoras went to India to study under Brahmins, who were the most enlightened of human beings
Pierre Sonnerat: We find among the Indians the vestiges (*trace, remains) of the most remote antiquity. ... We know that all peoples came there to draw the elements of their knowledge. ... India, in her splendour, gave religions and laws to all the other peoples; Egypt and Greece owed to her both their fables and their wisdom.”[cvii]
Sonnerat writes "Ancient India gave to the world its religions 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."[cviii]
Christian era 19th-century
19th Century German Friedrich Schlegel tells us that the Hindus can bring Westerners back more SAFELY towards the DIVINE
Everything without exception is of Indian origin.[cix]
Figure 49 Friedrich von Schlegel[cx]
Whether directly or indirectly, all nations are originally nothing but Indian colonies. ... The oriental antiquity could, if we consented to deepen it, bring us back more safely towards the divine.[cxi]
Figure 50 Alexander Hamilton[cxiii]
18-19th Century Alexander Hamilton speaks of Hindu polished manners, Hindu mild temperament, and extensive Hindu kindness and charity
When we read in the valuable production of those great Oriental scholars ~ those of a Jones, a Wilkins, a Colebrooke, or a Halhed ~ we uniformly discover in the Hindus a nation, whose polished manners are the result of a mild disposition and an extensive benevolence.[cxii]
19th Century Max Muller tells us that even modern Muslims speak of Hindu Straightforwardness
And given in quite modern times the Mohammedans seem willing to admit that the Hindus, at all events in their dealings with Hindus, are more straightforward than Mohammedans in their dealings with Mohammedans.[cxiv]
Figure 51 Sir Thomas Munro[cxv]
19th Century Sir Thomas Munro vouches for Hindu good system of agriculture, incomparable manufacturing skills, schools in EVERY village, hospitality and charity, Respectful treatment of Women ~ Sir Thomas Munro vouches for the Superiority of Hindu civilization as compared to Christian civilization of the British
Sir Thomas Munro (*Eminent Governor of Madras Presidency) bears even stronger testimony. He writes “If a good system of agriculture, unrivalled manufacturing skill, a capacity to produce whatever can contribute to either convenience or luxury, schools established in every village for teaching, reading, writing, and arithmetic, the general practice of hospitality and charity amongst each other, and above all, a treatment of the female sex full of confidence, respect, and delicacy, are among the signs which denote a civilized people – then the Hindus are not inferior to the nations of Europe, and if civilization is to become an article of trade between England and India, I am convinced that England will gain by the import cargo”.[cxvi]
Think it over
Think about what he said: England would gain if civilization were to be traded. What made Hindu society so great? It was the kind of education that the society had received. Education that had built the character of the Hindus in general! Education that had shaped the thought process and value system of the Hindu society! Education that had guided the conducts of Hindu people through the ages!
Who were those Hindu educators? Who were those educators to the society who gave this society such a great character? To whom Hindu society had entrusted the task of educating its children? Do you know the answer? Is it very difficult to speak out the name of that class of Hindu society? Why is it so very difficult to admit who were they? Is it because you have been repeatedly told many nasty things about that class of Hindu society? Is it because you have come to think of that class of Hindu society as a necessary evil? And what drew that picture in your mind?
The ancient Hindu education system that was evolved, maintained, and nourished by Hindu Braahmans until ChristianBritish uprooted it from its root, destroyed the infrastructure, and replaced it with ChristianEnglish Missionary education system.
Braahmans did not defend themselves. They only gave knowledge. It was Kshatriya’s duty to defend the Braahman. Christian missionary education for past six generations taught Kshatriyas to hate Braahmans.
The Christian Governor of a Hindu dominated state in Southern India, Madras Presidency, pointed at excellent treatment of the female sex. This had been possible due to the kind of education that those Braahmans gave to Hindu children and also guided them through their adult life wherever necessary. Hindus not only believed in ‘one wife one husband for the life’ but they also practiced the same. Divorce was unheard of in Hindu society.
With Muslim culture around for centuries, Hindu men became corrupt. Muslims would have many wives. They would use force to pick up Hindu women and marry them after converting into Islam or make them concubine. They made Tawaaif system (prostitution) very common. They brought women to streets. Muslims had major presence in the Northern India. They corrupted Hindu value system beyond repair.
19th century Professor Wilson vouches for childlike Simplicity of Hindu Braahmans and he clarifies that if such simplicity was Lost it was due to European (Christian) influence
Max Muller: Then, speaking of much-abused Indian Pundits, he (*Professor Wilson) says: “The studies which engaged my leisure brought me into connection with the men of learning, and in them I found the similar merits of industry, intelligence, cheerfulness, frankness, with others peculiar to their avocation. A very common characteristic of these men and of the Hindus especially, was simplicity truly childish, and a total unacquaintance with the business and manners of life. Where that feature was lost, it was chiefly by those who had been long familiar with Europeans. Amongst the Pundits, or the learned Hindus, there prevailed great ignorance and great dread of the European character. There is indeed, very little intercourse between any class of Europeans and Hindu scholars, and it is not wonderful, therefore, that mutual misapprehension should prevail”.[cxvii]
Here speaks a Christian professor from his experience with Hindu Braahmans. Before quoting his testimony, Max Muller adds ‘much abused pundits’.
Why, does he do so? He was aware that pundits were abused by many. Who were those people that abused the Braahmans? Naturally, not Hindu Braahmans themselves.[cxviii] Not true Hindus either. Who then? Christians primarily! Why would they all have done that? We will discuss that later at considerable length. And why does Max Muller add the adjective ‘much abused’? It is because he was about to tell you the truth, which others hide from you. And why they hide the truth from you? And why they tell the lie to you? It is because of their vested interests. There is conflict of interest, and one who is deceitful, uses every means of available media to abuse the system. Social frauds of this nature are specialty of many, and you will find ample case studies in other works.
And, our Christian professor speaks of child like simplicity of Hindu Braahmans. Can you visualize what that truly means? Go back and look at a small child, and you will know. But do not select a child for this purpose who knows all about what Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky did together by watching those prime time television exposures and newspaper headlines. Christian dominated modern civilization can rob children of all their simplicity by misusing what they pride as information explosion, or technological advancement.
The second thing our witness Professor Wilson tells us that, there are cases where this simplicity is lost. But when is it lost? He clarifies that too. It is then, when these childlike simple creatures are exposed to the adult like cunningness of Europeans who are primarily Christians. You may have heard that foul association spoils good people. This is a case in point. The professor says it is the long familiarity with Europeans that robs their child like simplicity.
Now, try to visualize what would be the true character of those Europeans, more precisely the ChristianBritish, who carefully cultivated the opposite image about these simple Braahmans, in the minds of the Hindu masses in India, by using the Macaulayite English Christian missionary education system, and English media. That is what we call intellectual conspiracy and social fraud.
Voltaire: We have shown how much we surpass the Indians in courage and wickedness, and how inferior to them we are in wisdom.[cxix]
Professor Wilson vouches for extreme Frankness of the Hindus
Max Muller continued: I knew the late Professor Wilson, our Boden Professor of Sanskrit at Oxford, for many years, and often listened with deep interest to his reminiscences. Let me read you what he, Professor Wilson, says of his native friends, associates, and servants: “I lived, both from necessity and choice, very much amongst the Hindus, and had opportunities of becoming acquainted with them in a greater variety of situations than those in which they usually come under the observation of Europeans. In the Calcutta mint, for instance, I was in daily personal communication with a numerous body of artificers, mechanics, and labourers, and always found amongst them cheerful and unwearied industry, good-humoured compliance with the will of their superiors, and a readiness to make whatever exertions were demanded from them: there was among them no drunkenness, no disorderly conduct, no insubordination. It would not be true to say that there was no dishonesty, but it was comparatively rare, invariably petty, and much less formidable than, I believe, it is necessary to guard against in other mints in other countries. There was considerable skill and ready docility. So far from there being any servility, there was extreme frankness, and I should say that where there is confidence without fear, frankness is one of the most universal features in the Indian character. Let the people feel sure of the temper and goodwill of their superiors, and there is an end of reserve and timidity, without the slightest departure from respect…”[cxx]
Here Professor Wilson mentions of extreme frankness of common Hindus. Do you notice the significance of this statement? People of this kind do not use their words lightly. Here I am referring to Prof Wilson who displays the rare honesty to admit truth that most others would want to deny to help protect their self-interest.
Think: extreme frankness comes when?
It comes when (a) there is nothing to hide, nothing to manipulate, nothing to fear, (b) there is utmost reverence for truth and truth alone, as one sees it, (c) there is no suppression of facts on purpose, no deliberate misrepresentations, no half-truths with malicious intent, and no hypocrisy that is so typical of Christian dominated world of today.
19th century Bishop Heber vouches for Hindu character on many counts
The Hindus are brave, courteous, intelligent, most eager for knowledge and improvement; sober, industrious, dutiful to parents, affectionate to their children, uniformly gentle and patient, and more easily affected by kindness and attention to their wants and feelings than any people I ever met with.[cxxi]
Bishop Heber spoke of Hindus as ‘more easily affected by kindness and attention to their wants and feelings than any people I ever met with’. This is true even today. Look at the respect Hindus gave to Mother Teresa, who truly did so little for Calcutta but publicized such a lot to the world. Surprised at my comments about someone so very respectable? Read Popes Saints cardinals archbishops Bishops. You will find ample documented evidence.
Now, read the following comments. You will notice that the qualities described by different people have something in common fundamentally. They all speak about the character of the Hindus. That speaks for the Hindu society. All these people came from different backgrounds. They all represented different generations, different cultures, different sentiments. Yet, what they found about Hindu character in general is not in conflict with each other.
That would simply mean those who taught you the opposite, taught you lies. Why did they do so? You have to investigate into their background
Do they have something in common, as far as their vested interests and their political agendas are concerned? Is there anything common in the ideology they all subscribe to? Could their attitude towards the Hindus be part of an ideological warfare?
19th century British Elphinstone[cxxii] vouches for Hindu merciful nature and Hindu Superiority in Purity of manners and thoughts towards Sex
The Hindus are mild and gentle people, more merciful to prisoners than any other Asiatics. Their freedom from gross debauchery[cxxiii] is the point in which they appear to most advantage; and their superiority in purity of manners is not flattering to our self-esteem.[cxxiv]
Michel Danino adds that it was in 1841, Mountstuart Elphinstone, the first Governor of the Bombay Presidency, wrote above-mentioned comments in his History of India.[cxxv]
Here the Christian Governor of Bombay Presidency speaks of Hindu superiority in context of excessive indulgence in sensual pleasures. But things have changed now. Hindu value system has been corrupted by close association with, and cultivated admiration for, the culture of ChristianWorld. We call it West not realizing that it is primarily the world of Christian people. The ChristianWorld loves to put its women on public display half-naked or even ninety percent naked[cxxvi] wherever they can manage. They proudly call it the times of women’s liberation where women need to be liberated in every possible way, from all kinds of inhibitions, and all hindrances, and if clothes that cover the body become a hindrance, the body should be liberated from such bother.
This ChristianWorld treats pornography as an expression of art and the Internet is infested with it. Then we see big headlines in our intelligent (?) media like the Times of India posing the question: what’s happening to our youngsters who are getting involved in rapes of minors. Well, it is a gift of liberation, the liberty to do with what one pleases. Those who want to make money calling pornography as a form of art and suitable for public display through the Internet are at liberty to do so! Similarly those teenagers who rape other teenagers are also at liberty to do so. After all, you must enjoy the fruits of aping the Western world, the ChristianWorld about whose latent character you can learn much more from Christianity in a different Light - Face behind the Mask.
19th century English merchants repeatedly vouched that Commercial Honor stood higher among Hindus than any other people in the world
Max Muller: Let me add that I have been repeatedly told by English merchants that commercial honor stands higher in India than in any other country, and that a dishonoured bill is hardly known there.[cxxvii]
Why is it that we do not see much of that kind of commercial honor today? Instead, we often feel as if the situation now is quite opposite. Have you ever thought, in this context, what a disaster bad company of bad cultures can bring? Have you also considered what bad leaders, philosophers, and guides can do to a society? Carry on the journey with me, and you will see the faces carefully hidden behind masks. You will gradually know whom all I am referring to.
Do not give up at this stage, if I have been able to arouse your curiosity, even if it bothers you that whatever I am saying seem to be in direct conflict with all that you may have known so far. You may have read with interest works of fiction dealing with mystery. Those works deal with individuals. Now you can get a taste of a different kind of mystery involving societies, and civilizations. You will find that the truth is truly stranger than fiction!
Max Muller vouches that he could go on quoting from Book after Book that NO one EVER accused the Hindus of Falsehood and he places the Hindus Higher than the British and the French in this context
So I could go on quoting from book after book, and again and again we should see how it was the love of truth that struck all the people who came in contact with India, as the prominent feature in the national character of its inhabitants. No one ever accused them of falsehood. There must surely be some ground for this, for it is not a remark that is frequently made by travellers in foreign countries, even in our time, that their inhabitants invariably speak the truth. Read the accounts of English travellers in France, and you will find very little said about French honesty and veracity, while French accounts of England are seldom without a fling at Perfide Albion! [cxxviii]
Interesting, isn’t it? What made this possible? Nothing, but ancient Hindu education system that shaped the psyche of the Hindus! And, now we see hardly any trace of this, why? The only reason is the shift to modern Christian education system. With that education, comes the long association with Christian culture. That reshaped Hindu psyche and Hindu behaviour thoroughly. That corrupted Hindus fully.
You would ask why corruption of same degree is not seen in Christian societies. The answer is twofold. One, Christian societies do have their own kind of corruption, and that too of very significant magnitude[cxxix]. But they have mastered the technique of covering it with mask. Their expertise remains in showing their strengths, and at the same time, highlighting weaknesses of others; thereby, creating an image of all clean that belongs to Christianity, and all dirty that belongs to Hinduism. They use media and money very effectively for that purpose.
I spoke of twofold reason. The second reason is imposed poverty, and borrowed affluence. It may be difficult for you to visualize that only two centuries ago, Hindu society of India enjoyed affluence far greater than any Christian society of the West does today. The ChristianBritish systematically robbed this nation, siphoned the wealth out, gave us imposed poverty, and acquired the borrowed affluence that they enjoy today. Poverty has its own disadvantages, be it any scenario, and similarly, affluence has its own advantages, in that particular context. The difference is that poverty encourages corruption in small doses, and borrowed affluence induces corruption in large measure. Notice that, here, I mention of borrowed affluence. The genuine affluence, like the one Hindu society had, encourages honesty. Earlier I hinted at Christianity having mastered the technique of covering truth with masks of different kind. The Christian education to Hindus, through six generations during past 170 years, and Christian education to the Christians of the world, did not deny Hindu affluence. Only they altered the outer cover.
They taught every one that Hindus did have affluence, but it was in few pockets, that of rajas and maharajas. They created an image that an average Hindu was poor all along as they are today. Think: when money remains in few pockets and masses suffer, you do not see such testimonies about truth and justice as have been credited to Hindu society [Hindus in general] for two millenniums without break.
British historian William Digby tells us that 18th century Bengal was wealthier than whole of Britain ~ Another historian Brooks Adams asserted that Britain’s Industrial Revolution was financed by Loots from Bengal
While most eighteenth-century European travellers to BhaaratVarsh described her as “flourishing,” less than a century later she had sunk into depths of dismal misery. One British historian noted in 1901: “Time was, not more distant than a century and half ago, when Bengal was much more wealthy than was Britain.” Another even asserted that Britain’s Industrial Revolution could not have taken off without the influx of money that followed the conquest of Bengal: “Very soon after Plassey [in 1757], the Bengal plunder began to arrive in London, and the effect appears to have been instantaneous, for all the authorities agree that the ‘industrial revolution’ ... began with the year 1760. ... Possibly since the world began, no investment has ever yielded the profit reaped from the Bhaaratiya plunder[cxxx].”[cxxxi]
Professor Wilson speaks of higher class Hindus of Calcutta who can be stamped Gentlemen in any country in the World
Speaking, lastly, of the higher classes in Calcutta and elsewhere, Professor Wilson says that he witnessed amongst them polished manners, clearness and comprehensiveness of understanding, liberality of feeling and independence of principle that would have stamped them gentlemen in any country in the world.’ ‘With some of this class,’ he adds, ‘I formed friendship which I trust to enjoy through life.’[cxxxii]
19th century Colonel Sleeman who saw the core of Hindu BhaaratVarsh in its villages spoke highly of Village Self Governance system which happens to be the best form of democracy ~ Colonel Sleeman vouches that he witnessed numerous cases where the man’s property, liberty and life depended on telling a lie but the Hindu refused to tell it ~ Max Muller asks can we find in England equivalents of such extraordinary Hindu Truthfulness ~ This was documented in 1835-36 and immediately thereafter ancient Hindu education system was replaced by Christian missionary English education system in 1835-36 ~ The extraordinary Hindu Truthfulness that Colonel Sleeman vouches for represents Hindu Past based on ancient Hindu Education System ~ What you witness today the total lack of such high moral values represents ChristianizedHindu Present based on ChristianEnglish education system
Colonel Sleeman saw BhaaratVarsh, where alone the true BhaaratVarsh can be seen, namely, in the village-communities… Now what Colonel Sleeman continually, insists on is that no one knows the Bhaaratiyas (*Hindus) who does not know them in their village-communities – what we shall now call their communes. It is that village-life which in BhaaratVarsh has given its peculiar impress to the Bhaaratiya character, more so than in any other country we know. When in Bhaaratiya history we hear so much of kings and emperors, of rajahs and maharajahs, we are apt to think of BhaaratVarsh as an Eastern monarchy, ruled by a central power, and without any trace of that self-government which forms the pride of England. But those who have most carefully studied the political life of BhaaratVarsh tell you the very opposite. In their Panchaayats [*village self-governance], Sleeman tells us, men adhere habitually and religiously to the truth, and “I have had before me hundreds of cases,’ he says, ‘in which a man’s property, liberty, and life depended upon his telling a lie, and he has refused to tell it.” Could many an English judge say the same?[cxxxiii]
Here we see Colonel speaking of extraordinary, yet hundreds of cases of Hindu love for truth, and Max Muller asks: Can many an English judge say the same?
What does this indicate? Does this not speak of superiority of Hindu moral values, as compared to the ChristianBritish moral values? And what image do you carry today? Why this extraordinary downfall? All other factors being constant only significant variable is Christian education system. Education that shaped our thoughts, our values and our conducts! And you think highly of that education system and lowly of our education system!
Colonel Sleeman travelled extensively, and witnessed for himself the truth of Hindu society that today our Macaulayite elite, Marxist intellectuals, Christian educated media men and women paint in a very poor light. Movies that reach the masses and television serials that are viewed by the millions, till today reflect at those days of Hindu society in a different colour. What they propagate all along is that there existed a Hindu society that was ridden with meaningless, superstitious, and socially unjust rituals and practices, behind which laid the sole objective of exploitation, and oppression of the poor gullible masses.
Actually speaking, this is all true, but the actors have been replaced
The oppressors in the real life assumed the position of saviours through media coverage and control over school textbooks. And to substitute the roles, they needed someone to assume the character of the oppressors. What better scapegoat they could find other than the Hindus themselves? Thus, those who lived an exemplary life were shown as the villains, and by control over school textbooks, print media and electronic media, the true villains assumed the face of the sympathizers, and the saviours! Here, I am gradually exposing you to the game that was, and is, being played, you being the pawns on the chessboard.
Part of the evidence is being gradually opened up in front of you, and much more will follow in due course. As you will continue your journey with me through my various works, the whole game, in slow motion, will be before your eyes. Enjoy every reel.
Max Muller vouches that Hindu literature in its entirety represents Hindu love and respect for Truth
Max Muller: I have left to the last of the witness who might otherwise have been suspected ~ I mean the Hindus themselves. The whole of their literature from one end to the other is pervaded by expressions of love and reverence for truth.[cxxxiv]
Max Muller says it is unlikely that you will find an equivalent of this in any ancient literature of the world
Max Muller: I doubt whether in any other of the ancient literatures of the world you will find traces of that extreme sensitiveness of conscience which despairs of our ever speaking the truth, and which declares silence as gold, and speech silver, though in a much higher sense than our proverb.[cxxxv]
Max Muller says he has known Hindus who were better than him
What I should wish to impress on those who will soon find themselves the rulers of the millions of human beings in BhaaratVarsh, is the duty to shake off the national prejudices, which are apt to degenerate into a kind of madness. I have known people with a brown skin whom I could look up to as my betters.[cxxxvi]
Max Muller says Hindus can teach the ChristianBritish at least one major lesson in ‘truthfulness to themselves’ besides Hindu literature and law
Max Muller: If you approach the Hindus with such feelings, you will teach them neither rectitude, nor science, nor literature. Nay, they might appeal to their own literature, even to their law-books, to teach us at least one lesson of truthfulness, truthfulness to ourselves, or, in other words ~ humility.[cxxxvii]
What a great tribute! Wish you had the eyes to see, the heart to feel, and the mind to understand. But how could you, when your mind has been clouded with the untruth that has been presented to you as the truth by the very educators whom you learned to respect from childhood? Beware of your friends, philosophers, and guides. Choose them carefully. But do you have the choice? You are given, none. They make the selection of your guides from your very childhood, the day you get into a school of Modern Christianized English education. They elect your philosophers who keep you company as you grow, step in to your adolescent days, and graduate towards your adulthood.
You are never free to keep your mind and perceptions free. You are being bombarded every moment with thoughts, concepts, ideologies, morals, and ethics of an alien culture that you have come to embrace as your own. The print media, and the electronic media, which you consider to be the exaltation of technological advancement of the contemporary modern civilization, is being used very effectively to keep you prisoners of the thought process that is being imposed on you, not your quite realizing what is being done to you!
Final Verdict by Max Muller stating “I should point to India...”
Max Muller: If I were to look over the whole world to find out the country most richly endowed with all the wealth, power and beauty, that nature can bestow, I should point to India.
If I were asked under what sky the human mind has mostly deeply pondered over the greatest problems of life and has found solutions of some of them which well deserve the attention even of those who have studied Plato and Kant, I should point to India.
And if I were asked myself from what literature, we here in Europe, we who have nurtured almost exclusively on the thoughts of Greeks and Romans, and of Semitic[cxxxviii] Race, the Jewish, may draw that corrective which is most wanted in order to make our inner life more perfect, more universal, in fact, more truly than, a life not for this life only, but a transfigured and eternal life, again I should point to India.[cxxxix]
| All that you read so far - did that sound like a fairy tale? |
How is it that the image we all along carried was quite opposite of this?
How is it that we carried the impression that we have essentially advanced over our predecessors, as far as values are concerned, as far as social systems are concerned, as far as delivery of justice is concerned? This inflated ego of our progress over our ancestors - does it feel punctured with discovery of this suppressed history of our past?
Does this question surface on our mind:
Why is it that all this information was suppressed from us when it was actually readily available? Does your common sense tell you that there has to be a deeper conspiracy behind it?
Yes, I call it conspiracy because it fits into dictionary definition of conspiracy
Conspiracy as a secret plan by a group to do something unlawful or harmful and a conspiracy of silence as an agreement to say nothing about an issue that should be generally known [cxl]
So, if you want to know more, you are welcome to continue your journey with me through my works and I shall demonstrate as to how there had been a conspiracy and also a conspiracy of silence.
Think my dear friends, think!
What have you lost in the bargain, can you visualize? What are you after, today, which your past could not offer you in richer ways? What have you settled for, something far inferior to what you yourself possessed as your heritage?
What is that attraction, which keeps you glued to something that only takes you downwards, but makes you think that you are moving upwards?
When would you open your eyes, open your minds, open your inner perceptions, and recognize the truth? When, when?
How long do you wish to wait?
How many life times do you need before you will want to reach out for the truth? What is so very attractive in your life that keeps you away from the quest for truth?
The knowledge, the awareness of the truth alone can free your soul, but it is only you who has to reach out for that
No one, and I repeat no one, will ever lead you towards that ultimate truth. It is you, the inner you, who alone would be able to experience it, in your own individual way.
For that, you have to open up your perceptions
Do not go after those who want to sell you that capability. You, yourself can evolve it, provided you want to reach out for that and that badly!
You need to realize that this ~ the Hindu literature from one end to the other ~ pervaded by expressions of Love and reverence for Truth ~ has been the basis of all the goodness that you witnessed through the earlier pages, as documented by people coming from different continents, different countries, different centuries, different background, different expectations from life ~ but all said more or less the same thing about the Hindus ~ same good things ~ spread over 2,400 years ~ not a small period to show that kind of consistency!
Hinduism is not a missionary religion desirous of increasing the number of its followers through conversion from other religions. Hinduism is not a prophetic religion, founded by a prophet, who would be the only link between man and God, whereby preventing man from direct access to God. For Hinduism, the Journey to the Supreme Soul is every man’s own quest! Everyone will reach it, but only at his or her own time.
In our heart we may feel like a Hindu but we would not be expected to adopt Hinduism formally and give up our birth religion unless we ourselves want to do so, and that has to be essentially a deep-seated desire emanating from within our self
Coercing or tempting others to give up one’s own birth religion is inspired by gross selfishness of one kind or other, and that is not a divine characteristic!
Hinduism shares with others whatever it knows
Hinduism does not seek anything in return. It does not try to capitalize on the weaknesses of other religions.
Hinduism encouraged open debates and experiments on individual experiencing and understanding of God
Unlike Christianity and Islam, it did not formulate a hypothesis on God and made it mandatory for all seekers to accept it. This process over thousands of years allowed true seekers to experience God in their own respective ways and then share with others. This helped enrich the understanding about God better amongst all seekers.
The collective knowledge gathered by the ancients who were in closer communion with the Supreme Soul and the Mother Nature has come to be known as Sanaatan Dharm, later named as Hinduism.
Why do I speak of religion in a work of history?
Religion shapes history. It has shaped history of mankind since time immemorial. It has shaped history of every known civilization. History accounts for human actions through the ages. Human actions are shaped by human thought process. Human thought process is shaped by human values. Human values are shaped by religion. Without religion humans drift without direction.
Why today there are so many attempts to separate religion from education, from work place, and from many other spheres of human activity?
People have seen the ugly face of carnivorous religions. People have come to think it is better to live without religion than with it. They have not seen the true face of Hindu religion. They have been shown a highly distorted image of Hinduism, and with purpose, due to conflict of interest. People have not known how beautiful specimen of humanity the influence of Hindu religion produced.
Every time the word Caste System is uttered it puts Hindus on the defensive
Centuries long Christian missionary propaganda followed by CommunistMarxist intermittent offensive has made the word Caste a dreaded one for the Hindus. Therefore, anti-Hindus and self-professed Hindu reformers do not miss an opportunity to drop this dreaded word Caste whenever they want Hindus to take a retreat. Bhaaratiya Christianized media makes it a point to constantly keep this word Caste into focus every now and then as if Hinduism and Caste system were synonymous.
Given this scenario, I urge you to think about it differently
The very thought of Caste system triggers an image in your mind that feels like an epitome of Social Injustice. If Hindu society practiced social injustice at such massive scale as it is made out to be then all those foreign visitors must have noticed it and mentioned it. But what did they do? Each of them invariably praised Hindu Justice.
Now, it is a matter of plain common sense that the following two contradictions cannot simply exist together
One that Hindu society practiced gross social injustice. Other that Hindu justice and love for truth were unmatched by any civilization of which any such documentation is available.
Naturally, one of them is the liar. Which one?
Either all those foreign visitors from 4th century BC joined together from their graves to conspire and praise Hindu justice and its love for truth. Or all those Christian missionary educators conspired to systematically tarnish the image of Hinduism. And all those Christian educators harvested new crops of educators, generation after generation, which continued to carry out the legacy of those liars and conspirators.
Now this happens to be only one aspect of the massive conspiracy and social fraud committed by them
As you will proceed through this work and other works of mine you will see on how many fronts they have worked to destroy a civilization that was superior to their own. As they could not raise themselves to the level of this great civilization, they chose to pull it down below the level of their own. They worked at it systematically and consistently spreading their wings in every possible direction to consign this great civilization to the oblivion. And, as you will read their own admissions, the most amazing thing that you will learn is that it was not their nationality which drove them to do so but their religious faith lead them to destroy this civilization.
| MahaaBhaarat needs to be put in proper perspective and children must be taught the following facts from the very beginning as part of their character building process |
I have heard Hindus mention:
O! You have started another MahaaBhaarat! Or, You have made it a KuruKshetr!
When they say so, notice their tone
There is an undeniable streak of disapproval, or even disgust. What does this attitude reflect at? It indicates that MahaaBhaarat or KuruKshetr is not perceived in favourable light.
They do not realize that MahaaBhaarat was a necessity of time
The battle of MahaaBhaarat was fought about 3138 BC to re-establish Dharm. Foreign visitors’ accounts of what they witnessed, which we read in the earlier pages, are testimony that Dharm, indeed, was re-established. They all arrived at same Conclusions. These visitors came from different lands, they had different backgrounds, they came from different centuries, and they had different value system. They visited different segments of Hindu society, placed in different parts of BhaaratVarsh. They witnessed Hindu society over a vast period of time, more than two thousand years. In their own ways they each evaluated Hindu society, and invariably came to similar conclusions.
What does this say?
There must have been something inherent in Hinduism that would have inculcated such fine qualities amongst Hindu men, women and children. These values must have been so deep that they lasted for so long (almost 5000 years) and, uniformly, since the time they were reinstituted following the battle of MahaaBhaarat. These accounts are dated 404 BC onwards. Similar conditions must have prevailed after MahaaBhaarat, until this time, because suddenly such strong social fabric could not have developed overnight. The structure must have evolved from the time battle of MahaaBhaarat ended, and Dharm was re-established.
Finally, we may want to ask ourselves one question:
Whatever held Hindu society together for 5,000 years, could it have been of small value? For once, we may want to be honest to ourselves and start thinking if we need to look back and study the value system that ancient sages of BhaaratVarsh had evolved with due respect that it deserves. For this, we may have to first set aside our ego that we have essentially advanced over our predecessors.
But before that, let us understand one thing very clearly
Hindu society without Hinduism (Sanaatan Dharm) would be nonexistent. The foundation of Hindu society lies in spiritualism of Hinduism. That is where its soul is, and that is where its life support system has been. Therefore, Hindu society cannot be viewed without Hinduism.
No nation can prosper dwelling upon borrowed values, particularly those, which have not stood the test of time
It is important that we Hindus realize, that we did have a glorious past. It is very essential that we recognize our roots. It is important that we Hindus examine in-depth, what lay behind our glorious past that gave us such enviable character, as a society and, as a nation? Then only, and then alone, we will be able to recreate our past once again, and see its reflection in our present; or else, we will keep drifting, like one who knows not his roots.
If it existed once before, as is evident from the testimonies of so many people coming from such diverse background, and if it existed for such a long time period as is evident from these accounts, and if it had stood the ‘test of time’ then it must be capable of recreating itself, in today’s context, provided we have the desire and the determination.
| Everyone wants Peace but we lose sight of the most important question: Peace at what Cost? |
Peace is necessary for life but obsession for peace that prompts many to buy peace at any cost is nothing but foolishness, though many of our leaders and preachers are very fond of this obsession
Battle is equally necessary for life, be it the battle that has become part of our daily life today, or be it the battle for the right, and battle against the wrong!
Today’s media driven world has raised our aspirations too high for peace of mind
Advertising oriented campaigns have pushed our needs too high to be fulfilled with ease. Inevitable is the result that drives us consistently towards new ambitions. This puts us into a never-ending cycle of battle with the self. Today we want to have everything that we do not possess, and that leads us into a maze from which we are unable to find our way out.
Battling with the self-driven desires all the while, we have hardly any time or inclination left to get into the battle with wrongs
Such wrongs that are potentially harmful to any society but we have no energy for that. Some, however, appear to be strongly obsessed with ‘righting’ the wrongs, but often these characters have their hidden motives. Many of them are politically motivated in one way or the other, but being in command of excellent communication and presentation skills, they fool the world in believing that they happen to be the crusaders of truth. Hang on with me, and you will get to know of many a specimen.
What is important is the right purpose for the battle
And for that, it is necessary to have the right understanding of the purpose. Battle is necessary for re-establishing Dharm, but then what is Dharm that needs to be understood well. I have discussed this in Gita Today ~ a different perspective in detail.
Those who have led you to believe that MahaaBhaarat was nothing but a whole lot of bloodshed; they have misled you with purpose
Having learned to look down upon MahaaBhaarat, you have only learned to give up your self-defense, and bid good-bye to your better counsel that taught you to uphold truth, and stand up always for protection of Dharm.
You do not realize how far you have drifted from your core values by not understanding the significance of MahaaBhaarat in your life, for you have been taught of MahaaBhaarat with a different kind of orientation in mind
Your education system has successfully built many a mental blocks that keep you away from getting back to your roots.
Summing Up
Hindu BhaaratVarsh was like this! Do your school textbooks tell you all about it? Or, do they hide most of it from you? If they do so, why do they do so? Do they want to keep you uprooted from your roots? Do they want you not to know of your true heritage? Why is that? Is it because they fear, you might dream of recreating your glorious past?
I never knew humanity could have seen such wonderful days in the past as is described above by people coming from different nations, seeing Hindu society through their eyes, over a period of more than 2,000 years. I never knew this because not much of it has remained now to be seen often, and the history that I was taught in school did not care to mention any of these. Yet they happen to be well-documented facts and not creation of fiction.
We have seen that foreign travellers, businessmen, writers, educationists, diplomats and conquerors, who visited BhaaratVarsh during a period of 2,300 years as to what they had to say about the Hindu Society in their own words. We have seen that those people came during different centuries, from different continents, different nations, different cultures, different societies, different backgrounds, different mental makeup, different expectations but all of them invariably documented the same qualities about Hindu society. We have seen that these people visited different parts of BhaaratVarsh and lived in different sections of Hindu Society and they all came to the same conclusions. This could not have happened by coincidence. This could have happened only if it had been a constant and consistent truth about Hindu Society through the ages.
[i] William Digby, "Prosperous" British India (London: 1901), p 141, quoted in "Golden Bengal", The Modern Review (Calcutta), October 1908, pp 298-299 and Brooks Adams, The Law of Civilization and Decay (London: 1900), quoted in "Golden Bengal", op. cit., quoted in The Invasion That Never Was, Michel Danino, p 20
[ii] A. Anquetil-Duperron, Legislation orientale (Amsterdam: 1778), quoted in Les Indes Florissantes ~ Anthologie des voyageurs francais (1750-1820) by Guy Deleury (Paris: Robert Laffont, 1991), p xv-xvi, quoted in The Invasion That Never Was, Michel Danino, p 21
[iii] Christians were negligible in number those days. Muslims were not as pampered as they are today. Sikhs, Jains, etc. considered themselves as Hindu. Muslims were never known to be peaceful people in the history. So that leaves only Hindus in this context.
[iv] fragments historiques sur l'Inde, Voltaire, Euvres Completes, Hachette, Paris, 1893, vol. 29, p 386, quoted in The Invasion That Never Was, Michel Danino, p 21
[v] Oxford Dictionary, p 2070
[vi] Oxford Dictionary, p 612
[vii] Artaxerxes II - son of Darius II, reigned 404-358 BC, king of ancient Persia ~ Oxford Dictionary, p 93
[viii] Ktesiae Fragmenta (ed. Didot), p 81, quoted in INDIA what can it teach us? Max Muller, p 51, endnote 23
[ix] Indian Antiquary, 1876, p 333 Megasthenis Fragmenta (ed. Didot) in Fragm. Histor. Graec. Vol. ii. p 426, quoted in INDIA what can it teach us? p 51, endnote 25
[x] Megasthenes, quoted by Greek historians Arrian and strabo, in R C Majumdar, The Classical Accounts of India (Calcutta: Firma KLM, 1981), pp 224, 218, 270, quoted in The Invasion That Never Was, Michel Danino, p 23
[xi] Epictetus (c. 55-c. 135 AD) the Greek philosopher who preached the common brotherhood of man and advocated a Stoic philosophy ~~~ Stoic - a person who can endure pain or hardship without showing their feelings or complaining ~ Oxford Dictionary, p 619 & p 1830
[xii] Indica, cap. xii. 6. McCrindle in Indian Antiquary, 1876, p 92, quoted in INDIA what can it teach us? Max Muller, p 51, endnote 26, 27
[xiv] INDIA what can it teach us? Max Muller, p 256
[xv] More on NCERT books in subsequent volumes of this work
[xvi] BodhGaya is the place where Buddh attained his enlightenment and therefore, it is the most sacred place for the Buddhists
[xviii] INDIA what can it teach us? Max Muller, p 51
[xix] Elliot, History of India, vol. i. p 88, quoted in INDIA what can it teach us? pp 51-52, endnote 30
[xx] References: ISBN 81-85990-58-1 and ISBN 81-86632-00-X
[xxi] Andalusi, 1068, quoted in French A Concise History of Science in India editors D M Bose, S N Sen and B V Subbarayappa (New Delhi: Indian National Science Academy, 1989), p i, as reproduced in The Invasion That Never Was, Michel Danino, p 16
[xxii] James Ferguson in his book 'A History of Indian and Eastern Architecture - II', 208, 1910 as reproduced in Science and Technology in Ancient India, Vijnan Bharati, Mumbai, 2002, p 80
[xxiii] Hindu Voice, UK, newsletter
[xxiv] Hindu Voice, UK, newsletter
[xxv] NewsToday, Rama Sethu: Historic facts vs. political fiction - III, http://www.newstodaynet.com/2007sud/may07/090507.htm, downloaded on 29 May 2007
[xxvi] Ramanathapuram District Gazetteer in Tamil published by Tamilnadu Government in 1972, reproduced by V Sundaram, retired IAS Officer, published at http://www.newstodaynet.com/2007sud/may07/070507.htm, downloaded on 29 May 2007
[xxvii] NewsToday, Rama Sethu: Historic facts vs. political fiction - I, V Sundaram, retired IAS Officer (vsundaram@newstodaynet.com), published at http://www.newstodaynet.com/2007sud/may07/070507.htm, downloaded on 29 May 2007
[xxix] Hindu Voice, UK, newsletter
[xxx] HHR Press Release 27/3/2007: Save The Ram Sethu Campaign
[xxxi] GP Srinivasan & BR Haran, Marina Beach, Chennai, 20 May 2007, 11.30 AM
[xxxii] Published at http://www.newstodaynet.com/2007sud/may07/080507.htm
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[lxxv] Dr N S Rajaram (nsrajaram@airtelbroadband.in) forwarded by Sanatan Dharma (hindureligion@gmail.com) on Jan 7, 2007 11:02 PM
[lxxvi] Dr N S Rajaram (nsrajaram@airtelbroadband.in) forwarded by Sanatan Dharma (hindureligion@gmail.com) on Jan 7, 2007 11:02 PM
[lxxix] Dr N S Rajaram (nsrajaram@airtelbroadband.in) forwarded by Sanatan Dharma (hindureligion@gmail.com) on Jan 7, 2007 11:02 PM
[lxxxi] Said al-Andalusí (1029 – 1070), was an Andalusi qadi, scientist and historian. He was born at Almería and died at Toledo. Ref: Said al-Andalusí, Science in the Medieval World: "Book of the Categories of Nations" (trans. Sema'an I. Salem and Alok Kumar, 1991, University of Texas Press. ISBN 0-292-71139-5)
[lxxxii] Andalusi, 1068, quoted in French A Concise History of Science in India editors D M Bose, S N Sen and B V Subbarayappa (New Delhi: Indian National Science Academy, 1989), p i, as reproduced in The Invasion That Never Was, Michel Danino, p 16
[lxxxiii] Science and Technology in Ancient India, Vijnan Bharati, Mumbai, 2002, p 80
[lxxxiv] Science and Technology in Ancient India, Vijnan Bharati, Mumbai, 2002, pp 81-83
[lxxxv] Science and Technology in Ancient India, Vijnan Bharati, Mumbai, 2002, p 81
[lxxxvi] Science and Technology in Ancient India, Vijnan Bharati, Mumbai, 2002, p 82
[lxxxvii] Science and Technology in Ancient India, Vijnan Bharati, Mumbai, 2002, p 81
[lxxxviii] Prof MacDonnell, History of Sanskrit Literature, quoted in ISBN 81-7476-316-3, p 148
[lxxxix] Science and Technology in Ancient India, Vijnan Bharati, Mumbai, 2002, p 70
[xc] Science and Technology in Ancient India, Vijnan Bharati, Mumbai, 2002, p 70
[xci] Science and Technology in Ancient India, Vijnan Bharati, Mumbai, 2002, p 70
[xcii] Mehren, Manuel de la Cosmographie du moyen age, traduction de Shems-ed-din Abou Abdallah de Damas, Paris, Leroux, 1874, p 391, as reproduced in INDIA what can it teach us? p 257, endnote 26, with opening comments by Max Muller
[xciii] Marco Polo, ed. H Yule, vol. ii. p 350, as reproduced in INDIA what can it teach us? p 52, endnote 32, with opening comments by Max Muller
[xcv] INDIA what can it teach us? p 52, endnote 33 referring to Marco Polo, ed. H. Yule, vol. ii. p 354
[xcvii] INDIA what can it teach us? p 52, read with endnote 34 on p 231 referring to Notices des Manuscripts, tom. xiv. p 436
[xcviii] Samuel Johnson, India, p 294 as quoted in INDIA what can it teach us? p 52, endnote 35
[c] INDIA what can it teach us? Max Muller p 56
[ci]The Invasion That Never Was, Michel Danino, pp 17-18
[cii] Voltaire (1694-1778) French writer, dramatist, and poet; pseudonym of Francois-Marie Arouet. He was a leading figure of the Enlightenment, and frequently came into conflict with the Establishment as a result of his radical views and satirical writings. Notable works: Lettres philosophiques (1734) and the satire Candide (1759)” Oxford Dictionary, p 2070
[ciii] fragments historiques sur l’Inde, Voltaire, Euvres Completes, Hachette, Paris, 1893, vol. 29, p 386, as quoted in The Invasion That Never Was, p 18
[civ] Metempsychosis the supposed transmigration at death of the soul of a human being or animal into a new body of the same or a different species ~ Oxford Dictionary, p 1164
[cv] Lettres sur l’origine des sciences et sur celle des peuples de l’Asie, Voltaire, Paris 1777, letter of 15 Dec 1775 quoted in The Invasion That Never Was, p 18
[cvi] AL Wilson in A Mythical Image: the Idea of India in German Romanticism (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1964) as quoted in The Invasion That Never Was, p 18
[cvii] P Sonnerat, Voyage aux Indes orientales et a la Chine (Paris: 1782), quoted in Les Indes Florissantes--Anthologie des voyageurs francais (1750-1820) by Guy eleury (Paris: Robert Laffont, 1991), pp 16-17, as quoted in The Invasion That Never Was, p 18
[cviii] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Sonnerat (viewed 14-06-2008 IST 01:30
[cix] Friedrich von Schlegel, letter to Ludwig Tieck of 15 December 1803 (ref: Leon Poliakov in The Aryan Myth, quoted in The Invasion That Never Was, p 19)
[cxi] Friedrich von Schlegel, Essay on the Language and Wisdom of the Indians quoted by Roger-Pol Droit in L’Obli de l’’Inde (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1989) p 129, as quoted in The Invasion That Never Was, p 19
[cxii] TR Tratmann, Aryans and British India, p 34, as quoted in The Invasion That Never Was, p 19
[cxiv] INDIA what can it teach us? p 52
[cxvi] INDIA what can it teach us? p 57, read with endnotes 43, 44 seemingly referring to Mill’s History, vol. i. p 371
[cxvii] INDIA what can it teach us? pp 38-39
[cxviii] In this context please do not go by a Braahman sounding names. A Braahman born could have turned Marxist, given up faith in God, and yet retained his Braahman family name to take advantage for personal benefits.
[cxix] fragments historiques sur l’Inde, Voltaire, Euvres Completes, Hachette, Paris, 1893, vol. 29, p 386, as quoted in The Invasion That Never Was, p 18
[cxx] INDIA what can it teach us? Max Muller, pp 37-38
[cxxi] Samuel Johnson, l. c. p 293, quoted in INDIA what can it teach us? p 56 endnote 38
[cxxii] Mountstuart Elphinstone one of the most distinguished, learned, and judicious members of the Indian Civil Service [Max Muller, p 54]
[cxxiii] Debauchery excessive indulgence in sensual pleasures [Oxford Dict, p 474].
[cxxiv] Elphinstone’s History of India, ed. Cowell, pp 375-381, as quoted in INDIA what can it teach us? p 56, endnote 39
[cxxv] Arsha Vidya Newsletter, July 2004, p 24
[cxxvi] I am told, women walk around topless ~ without bra ~ on Goa beaches, a British citizen’s eyewitness account 23 February 2005
[cxxvii] INDIA what can it teach us? Max Muller, p 58
[cxxviii] INDIA what can it teach us? Max Muller, p 53
[cxxix] High level Corruption in the ChristianWorld •Ref 17 March 2005 TOI p 1 p 19 WorldCom CEO Ebbers found guilty of $11 Bn fraud. Richard Scrushy of HealthSouth is on trial. Kenneth Lay, ex-chairman of Enron, will be tried on fraud charges. •Ref 7 Aug 2005 DNA p 23 Prosecutors also have notified as many as 20 ex-KPMG partners that they may face criminal charges for their roles in selling the tax shelters, the Washington Post reported on Wednesday ~ KPMG may face charges it obstructed justice, sold abusive tax shelters to rich clients and misled investigators from the Internal Revenue Services.
[cxxx] Plunder = rob systematically [Collins English Gem Dictionary p 392]
[cxxxi] William Digby, ‘Prosperous’ British India (London: 1901), p 141, quoted in “Golden Bengal,” The Modern Review (Calcutta), October 1908, pp 298-299 and Brooks Adams, The Law of Civilization and Decay (London: 1900), quoted in “Golden Bengal,” op. cit., as quoted in The Invasion That Never Was, p 20
[cxxxii] INDIA what can it teach us? Max Muller, pp 38-39
[cxxxiii] Colonel Sleeman’s Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official, published 1844 but written originally in 1835-36 ref: INDIA what can it teach us? pp 40-47
[cxxxiv] INDIA what can it teach us? Max Muller, p 59
[cxxxv] INDIA what can it teach us? Max Muller, p 67
[cxxxvi] Source: INDIA what can it teach us? Max Muller, p 67
[cxxxvii] Source: INDIA what can it teach us? Max Muller, pp 67-68
[cxxxviii] Semitic relating to or denoting a family of languages that include Hebrew, Arabic, and Aramaic and certain ancient languages such as Phoenician and Akkadian, consisting the main subgroup of the Afro-Asiatic family; of or relating to the peoples who speak these languages, especially Hebrew and Arabic. Oxford Dictionary, p 1691
[cxxxix] Source: INDIA what can it teach us? Max Muller, pp xvi-xvii
[cxl] Oxford Dictionary p 393
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