Surya Namaskar Disturbs anti-vedic Forces

Thank God for the anti-hindu forces. They are the best measure of the success and effectiveness of various Hindu actvism efforts. So Surya Namskar disturbs them that much...very nice. Look forward to more Surya Namskar Marathons. V

Secular row on Surya namaskar

The ancient Sun God Yave (Yayash in Sanskrit) “continued to be worshipped in northern Arabia till the time of Moses. But of course this worldwide Sun worship was done without namaskar to Surya, no?

Secular wonders never cease. The latest of them is that Surya namaskar is anti-Islamic. A communal state government in secular India is trying to make it a school activity, and Muslims, India's most devout secularists, have rightly and righteously opposed it on the same olden golden ground that the Quran teaches them to bow before nobody except Allah, and so they would rather keep their children out of school rather than insult Islam with an anti-secular salutation to Surya, the Sun God.

Well, now, that is most commendable for citizens of secular India—at least so long as they choose to ignore the communal history of the Middle East, the Muslim homeland. That history, alas, is horribly Hindu. For instance, take Syria, a prominent country of the Muslim Middle East.

According to an encyclopaedia in an Indian language, the name ‘Syria’ is evolved from its Vedic name Surya. Now, normally secular Satiricus would have summarily dismissed this atrociously anti-Islamic and hatefully Hindu claim, but what can he do about that Western scholar E. Pollocke and his woeful book India in Greece? In that book he too writes: “The term ‘Syria’ derived from the Indian tribes that, under the appellation of Surya, or the Sun, gave its enduring name to the province of Suriya, now Syria.” To make matters worse, Pollocke adds that once upon a time Hinduism prevailed all over ancient Mesopotamia, and the people worshipped the Vedic Sun-God. So from Syria to Assyria, it is the same sad story. The Indian encyclopaedia points out that in the Iskhavasyopanishad the word ‘Asurya’ in the verse Asurya nama te loka strikingly resembles ‘Assyria’, the ancient land of the Asuras. Their capital was also called Asura, and the citizens of Asura were known as Assurian,

later Assyrian. Even the Greeks were communal enough to agree with this Bharatiya (as against Indian) claim, as the Greek word “Assurios” means “of Assyria”.

In those faraway times Devas and Asuras had brotherly relations, and—believe it or not, oh ye Indian-cum-Muslim secularists—even the Hindu God Krishna’s mother Devaki was an Asur-Kanya, an Assyrian. After Syria and Assyria, what about Ayatollah’s Iran?

Alas, history repeats itself, the unholy history of the sun’s adoration. Mithra, that is Mitra, the Vedic Sun God, occupied an important place in the Avestan pantheon. He was an associate of Ahura Mazad himself, who praised him literally to the skies. Says Yast X : 1—“Thus spake Ahura Mazad to the holy Zarathustra, when I created Mithra, Lord of wide pastures, then, oh Spitama, I created him as worthy of sacrifice and as worthy of prayer as myself, Ahura Mazad.” For Ayatollah’s ancestors Mithra was an inveterate enemy of falsehood, representing light synonymous with truth. Could there be a more heinous Hindu untruth for those for whom the only truth is Arab truth? Ah, the Arab truth! And what was the Arab truth? Truth to tell, the Arab truth was truly terrible. For, in Arabia and other semitic languages the Sun is identified with the goddess Al-Lat.

The cult of Al-Lat flourished in the sanctuary at Taif, a town situated to the east of Mecca. The tribe residing in this district calls Al-Lat their ‘mistress’ even today. Poems were written in her praise in Arabic, and one Arabic poet wrote: “I swore to him in the presence of the throng by the salt, by the fire, by Al-Lat, who is the greatest of all.” The inhabitants of the Semitic Peninsula held this feminine form of the Sun in such high esteem that proper names of some tribes like the Nabateans and Palmyreans generally end in Al-Lat, the Mother Goddess. To cap it all, making an unholy mess of the holy of Islamic holies, the Kaba, is the scurriously strong, pernicious possibility of its being a Sun Temple.

Once upon a communal time the most widely worshipped Arabic deity was Baal, the Sun God Surya. The First Encyclopaedia of Islam (Vol. IV) refers to Al-Masudi’s “Murudj”, the only existing Muslim chronicle of a pre-Islamic tradition of Kaba, according to which some believe it to have been a temple devoted to the Sun.

Sita Ram Goel says, that the Kaba was a centre of Sun-worship is also confirmed by whatever memories of the pre-Islamic Haj pilgrimage survive in Muslim accounts. Now, can we secular Indians (including Satiricus, born Hindu by anti-Islamic accident) give credence to such a calumnious claim by a cussed communalist? Of course we cannot.

But then, it takes all silly sorts to make the world. And that includes an American researcher by name David King, who read a paper titled “Astronomical Alignment in Medieval Islamic Architecture” in a conference in New York in 1981 in which he flatly said that “upto the time of Mohammed” the Kaaba was “already known to have been a shrine associated with Sun worship”.

Should Satiricus conclude with the world-famous and ever-cautious European archaeologist Hrozny? In his considered opinion “it is not impossible” that the ancient Sun God Yave (Yayash in Sanskrit) “continued to be worshipped in northern Arabia till the time of Moses. But of course this worldwide Sun worship was done without namaskar to Surya, no?

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