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Dear Sampath Kumar:

 

I am thrilled to read your email which illuminates the

Hindu Truth and enlightens Hindu Wisdom of Earthly

Science. I enjoy the scientific framework of Hindu

Thought and Evolution of Logic and understanding of

Life on Earth much more than the extrapolation to the

definition of Supreme Being,Salvation by Saranagathi

and blissful abode of Srivaikundham. Life on Earth is

Creation of God. To deny and distort the truth and

awareness of this physical world and science of

Creation is disservice to God and is even blasphemous

and will never gain us access to Moksham. Marvellous

power of God emthralls you as you tread the path of

science with logic, rationality and intellect. This

is the power of wisdom of our Rishis of Hindu

Philosophy. We should open up our eyes to the

renaissance of Hindu Scientific Thought and Practice

and kick out colonial ignorance thrust upon us.

Everybody should follow your example in illuminating

Hindu Science to break away from the chains of

colonial bondage so that we are not corrupted in our

mind with misinformation.

 

Adiyen

S.Raghavan

--- sampath kumar <sampathkumar_2000 wrote:

>

> Dear friends,

> Adiyane read a lot of mails in the last few days

> about the New Year

> (Tamil and Yugadi). adiyane enjoyed a private one

> received from a

> highly respected family-friend (a very high-ranking

> official in the

> Government of India, New Delhi, whose name adiyane

> is not able to

> divulge) which is being reproduced below for your

> information and

> delight too.

> dAsan,

> Sudarshan

>

>

> >new year distortions-result of long

> colonialism- an

> analysis

> >Tue, 16 Apr 2002 23:34:09 +0000

> >

> >A yugaadi is not a mere 'Telugu New Year's Day' or

> 'Gudi Padwa' and

> >another is not a mere 'Tamil New Year's Day' or a

> 'Baisaki,' as we

> see characterized >by us the English schooled. And

> the day after

> Deepaavali is not the >beginning >of the samvatsara

> or Gujarati New

> Year's Day (but it is a reckoning >used by

> >merchants, and for the

> beginning of Vikrama era), or Baisaki is not >mere

> >Punjabi New

> Year's Day. Such were the 'six blind men and an

> >elephant'

> >distortions introduced by the British, who never

> understood our

> >calendar or

> >our traditions, during their colonial rule over

> India, while we

> >forgot and >slept (and we still are practically in

> deep coma);

> whatever little >the 18th >century European writers

> grasped, they

> freely distorted, debased, >and then >taught it to

> the “heathens” of

> India, and we the children of those >“heathens” now

> put down each

> other using their same cliché >methodically >imbibed

> in our sacred

> westernized schools!

> >

> >Ultimately history may judge all such distortions

> and

> >trivializations as a >great loss in enhancing the

> spiritual life and

> real happiness of >almost 70% >of humanity, unless

> we sincerely learn

> and properly teach India's >hoary >traditions

> following the

> Upanishadic dictum “svaadhyaaya >pravachanaabhyaam

> na >pramadi

> tavyam.”

> >

> >Moreover, it is astonishing that in our temple

> calendars and Hindu

> >religious >activities shaped by Hindus all over USA

> and the West, we

> call the >Roman/Christian Gregorian new year's day

> as 'THE New Year's

> Day', >Hindu >chaandra yugaadi as 'Telugu New Year's

> Day' or 'Gudi

> Padwa', Hindu >saura >yugaadi as 'Tamil New Year's

> Day' or 'Baisaki'

> -- just as the >British had >taught us. This

> reflects our deep-rooted

> mental slavery to British >colonial >distortions and

> no familiarity

> with, and even some hidden contempt >to, our >real

> history, shastra-s

> and scriptures. We somehow consider >ourselves

> experts >on such

> subjects by reading faulty 18th century European

> >interpretations and

>

> >their carbon copies, almost all of them quite

> primitive to my humble

>

> >grasp, >and pooh-pooh anything natively Hindu!

> >

> >Some Other New Year's Days and Mix-ups:

> >

> >Truth is: January 1 is the seasonal Gregorian new

> year's day

> >tradition about >2,000 years old while the others

> cited above flow

> from the >all-encompassing >cosmic new year's day

> traditions well

> over 8,000 years old and still >thriving. The former

> strokes the ego

> (cf. the wild parties); the >latter helps >us touch

> our inner

> divinity. It is the sura-asura tussle within and

> >without >like day

> and night, and it is immaterial or in spite of our

> >religions. Thanks

> >to our slave educational laurels, I am yet to see

> even a single

> >Hindu temple

> >calendar in the West that prints this truth!

> >

> >It is seen in Tamil Nadu that every year on January

> 1 people visit

> >temples, >wish “Happy New Year” to each other and

> offer puja, but on

> saura >yugaadi >day, the celebrations are mostly

> home-centered, or

> even derided as >'brahminical'. During British rule

> in the then

> Madras Presidency, >the alien >rulers imposed

> January 1 New Year's

> Day celebrations on their >government >employees,

> who were mostly

> tradition-bound Hindus, so as to 'teach' >them

> >Western culture and

> thus bury the native culture. Our social leaders

> >saw >through this

> British game of cultural conquest, and advised the

> >government

> employees to use the day to go to temples as a

> protest! But these

> >days very >few in Tamil Nadu or anywhere know why

> some Indians have

> the habit >of going >to temples on January 1st! It

> started as a

> protest against the >imposition of >an alien

> culture, but now many

> among us wonder what all these >'confusing'

> >Yugaadi-s are since

> January 1 is THE new year's day! We have become

> >frogs in >a new

> pond! How much lower can we the English-schooled

> Indians >reach? We

> need

> >to rise ourselves up -- uddharaet aatmanaatmaanam.

> >

> >As noted already, the Gregorian calendar is a

> seasonal calendar --

> >January 1 >of the Gregorian new year's day is based

> on seasons on

> earth, moving >in >reverse about a degree in 70-71

> years with respect

> to the fixed >nakshatra-s >(due to earth axis

> precession, ~26,000

> years). This renders the >Sun's >position with

> respect to the

> nakshatra-s on every January 1 not the >same, and

> >moon is just not

> considered.

> >

> >Moreover, January 1 was Roman dictator Julius

> Caesar's birthday,

> >and, in 45 >BC, he decreed it as the new year's

> day! No one should

> object to or >can stop >giving undue prominence to

> January 1 as THE

> only new year's day, but >I feel >it reflects how we

> humans are still

> slaves to some bygone brutish >ego >disconnected

> from our real inner

> divinity.

> >

> >Islamic calendars are lunar calendars -- strictly

> based on the

> >moon's phases: >New Moon to New Moon is one month,

> and 12 such

> months form a year. >Muhammad >decreed so, and hence

> the tradition.

> We just celebrated Moharum new >year's >day on March

> 16 (Hijri era

> 1423) after the first moon. It appears to >be based

> >on the Vedic

> tradition but got disconnected from the full scheme

> of >time

> >tracking.

> >

> >Chinese and some Jewish calendars use Sun and moon

> in their

> >reckonings but >not the nakshatra divisions, and

> they are often

> described as >'lunisolar' >calendars. Westerners

> have used this term

> 'lunisolar' to describe >the Hindu >calendar (called

> panchangam) --

> this is a misrepresentation. Least >of all, >the two

> yugaadi-s have

> little to do with purely lunar and solar >calendars.

>

>

> >Hindu panchangam is not merely 'seasonal', 'lunar'

> or

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