Imagine the shock of the first European explorers going to India and seeing it’s splendor. Europeans were raised to believe they were the greatest and that their history, culture and scientific achievements were the finest in the world. Well, we will try to ignore the time when they believed the earth to be flat and that they did not discover America (since people where already living there), but stumbled into it while trying to find a better trade route to India. Recent archaeological discoveries and historical facts are now being presented to dispel centuries of deceit started by the British, and to expose it as a deliberately scheme to impose the Christian religion, as the Spaniards did with Latin America.
Discoveries of Indus Valley Civilization and the Harappan Civilization have unearthed important breakthroughs that put historians which participated in this plot to shame. Here is Part 1 of 3 episodes.
Jyothi Raju is a 23 year-old from Chitradurga, Karnataka in India is a building climber. He says the locals call him Koti Raju (Monkey King), a name he got when he started observing and imitating the movements of monkeys in the area. He gets inspired by watching Spiderman movies. Koti has developed incredible climbing skills and hopes to get government sponsorship to develop and teach this sport to others.
Last century British historians would prefer that you keep considering Vedic literary works like The Mahabharata and Ramayana as mythological legends. Never mind the fact that ancient India and Vedic Civilization provided foundations for most of the worlds philosophical doctrines, the mathematical use of the zero and so called “arabic numbers” (brought into Arabia by Indian merchants), and descriptions of the atom and the soul. Western egocentric civilizations refuse to acknowledge their sources, so one must play Indiana Jones and try to bring credit where credit is due. Lord Krishna’s lost city of Dwarka was one of these so called “legends,” but remains are now being uncovered by Dr. S.R. Rao, one of India’s preeminent archeologists. Find more about Vedic souces at www.arisearjuna.org
Like moths bumping into a light bulb we instinctly search for our home. We somehow conclude that because we feel the warmth and see the light, that God must be “that” or “it” …some sort of ambiguous glowing blob. We equate the energy with the generator. Our little moth brains cannot fathom the possibility that maybe the light bulb is merely the energy produced by the personality setting it a glow. Of course, that would demand that we humbly accept our predicament as diminutive creatures in an infinitely complex and expanding reality. We can robustly claim that we can create a computer but ignorantly assume that no one else could do better. I sometimes think that if aliens did happen to come out of the closet and admit to their existence, the world population would sink into a deep depression knowing that there is are smarter cultures out there. It’s like a human microbe pride parade wanting to feel better about being in a situation we have very little control over. Yeah Yeah we are small!!! Yeah Yeah we know it all!…. The four rules of birth, age, disease and death apply to all in this material dimension. Those who seek a remedy to this cycle of birth and death (samsara) are considered lunatics or egomaniacs for trying to escape, how dare they feel so superior? You must join all the other Lemmings and happily jump off the cliff. Is it just ego or intelligence to try and find out how to transcend this limitation, to say the emperor is wearing no clothes? We concentrate most of our time either ignoring these limitations or try foolishly beating the odds like some Las Vegas junkie. I recently heard that scientists discovered a gene modification that coincides with some people’s desire to seek out spiritual enlightenment. We all have that gene but a certain modification determines whether that person will seek out God or a transcendental mystical experience. Hmmm…
When faced with chaos, most of us try to make some sense of the situation. The most common symptom is to blame God or the government. But I see that some people, in their present search for global peace, are seeking out the truth behind the media veil, in some cases curiously dabbling in the ancient mysteries for some sort of guidance. But with busy work and social schedules few have the time or desire to commit to an authentic practice and wind up choosing some quick results program. Also, there is the tendency to speculate about the nature of the universe and quickly reach a pseudo-conclusion to set the mind at ease. Other people reach the same conclusions and soon you have movements centered on convenient superficial truths to satisfy that group. The problem arises when the modern philosophy dabbler comes up against time-tested disciplines which require one to put one’s ideas into practice. We can talk about being a vegan or Buddhist, but have we ever been one? So how can we give opinions about things we’ve never truly experienced? Yes, we read a book or watched a program on the subject, does that make one qualified? Does reading a label on the bottle give the same benefit as taking the medicine inside the bottle? (to be continued…)
When speaking of divine incarnations, avatars or prophets of God, most people mention Jesus Christ, Krishna, Buddha or Prophet Muhammad. But when I ask about Lord Chaitanya or Gauranga “The Golden Avatar” I very rarely get an answer.
As predicted in ancient vedic scriptures, Lord Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu appeared during an eclipse on the full moon night of March in Mayapur India about 500 years ago, He performed many miracles and converted sinful people into saints.
Many have seen or heard of the Hare Krishnas (probably and unfortunately through jokes or bad publicity focused on human errors and a few bad apples), but rarely do they bother to trace the origins of this great mission and what’s behind all the divine ecstacy and madness. The more scholarly inclined will know about my dearest Guru His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami and his now legendary work of translating the most important Vedic Sanskrit and Bengali scriptures of all time. His books and explanations, especially the edition of “Bhagavad Gita As It” have been praised as the richest translations and held in high esteem by University scholars all over the world.
With so much media emphasis on bad news and the lack of proper information, I feel an urgent need to present the mission of Lord Chaitanya and His Associates to this ever worsening state of global affairs (welcome to The Kali Yuga “The Age of Quarrel and Hypocrisy”), I hope that people will be able to get past human mistakes and discover the real treasure found in these timeless teachings on the science of God realization, Bhakti Yoga and Lord Chaitanya’s Sankirtan Movement which promotes the chanting of the Divine Names of God as the simplest and most ecstatic way in Kali Yuga to awaken our true eternal spiritual blissful nature and our dormant love of God. I hope this video will explain nicely:
I wanted to start this Vedic category with a video clip from Devavision Productions, describing how early European explorers and Indologists misinterpreted their findings. This ancient treasure of knowledge has been passed down from guru to disciple from time immemorial. It is recommended that one should study the Vedas from experienced teachers, not from so called scholars who merely poke around and speculate without practicing the spiritual disciplines described in these shastras (scriptures).
