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Kirtanman
USA
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 Posted - May 14 2007 : 11:58:15 PM
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History is indeed written by the winners.
Time to get back to the facts.
How does this apply to AYP? For me, it helps to highlight the incredible scientific / spiritual advancement of the civilization and spiritual system which gave us yogic science in the first place.
These folks knew a thing or two ... including several "things or two" the arrogant West has never known, or which the British invaders knowingly buried.
Scientific Verification of Vedic Knowledge Video
*Dispels Aryan Invasion Slander-Myth
*Showcases factuality of the Rg Veda's Saraswati river, long thought to be fictitious or symbolic, due to non-availability of satellite imaging for most of history.
*Offers scientific verification of Vedic scriptural assertions.
The narrator is Dr. David Frawley, head of the American Institute of Vedic Studies.
Also, please see the awesome Hindu Wisdom site ... the Quotes section alone is worth the price of admission!
"When I read the Bhagavad-Gita and reflect about how God created this universe everything else seems so superfluous."
-- Albert Einstein
"Yoga had to meet all the deepest needs of the Indian soul. In the universal history of mysticism, Yoga occupies a place of its own, and one that is difficult to define. It represents a living fossil, a modality of archaic spirituality that has survived nowhere else. Yoga takes over and continues the immemorial symbolism of initiation; in other words, it finds its place in a universal tradition of the religious history of mankind." "From the Upanishads onward, India has been seriously preoccupied with but one great problem - the structure of the human condition. With a rigor unknown elsewhere, India has applied itself to analyzing the various conditionings of the human being.
The conquest of this absolute freedom, or perfect spontaneity, is the goal of all Indian philosophies and mystical techniques; but it is above all through Yoga, through one of the many forms of Yoga, that India has held that it can be assured."
-Mircea Eliade (Philosopher)
"As we study the philosophy of the Upanishads, the impression grows on us that the attainment of this path is not exactly the simplest of tasks. Our Western superciliousness in the face of these Indian insights is a mark of our barbarian nature, which has not the remotest inkling of their extraordinary depth and astonishing psychological accuracy."
-- Carl Jung
Peace & Namaste,
Kirtanman
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