Stephen Knapp & P.N. Oak

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I wonder if anyone has undertake a critical study of (1) Proof

of Vedic Culture's Global Existence by Stephen Knapp and (2) World

Vedic Heritage by P. N. Oak.

 

S.Tilak

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Let my answer to Tilak.

In vediculture, "shrinivast_k11612 <tilak@c...>"

<tilak@c...> wrote:

> I wonder if anyone has undertake a critical study of (1)

Proof

> of Vedic Culture's Global Existence by Stephen Knapp and (2) World

> Vedic Heritage by P. N. Oak.

Dear Mr. Tilak:

Namaste!! I thing that your are arise a very good question. I let put

my views about the topic. Exactly like your appointed in your letter.

Both of them are representatives cases of a answer from the category

of Hindhu natiolistic and religious scholarship. If your read to

Thomas S. Kuhn works abut the extructures of Revolutions in the

science. Any scientific comunity is not free to the etnocentrical

and apriori, subejtives feelings. The basic problem that I see, is:

there are tree tipe of scholars about India. 1) The enthusiastic

Indian and believers nationalist that condem any occidental

indological studies like and tactic of weternized and conquer for

manipulate to Indian history.2)The conservative eurocentric, or

wenstercentric school that they thing any liberal approach that

diverged to the paradigm of history create for the firts Ingland

Indologogist like Mueller is purely ilusion of fantastic or lunatic

seudocience. 3)The neutral and objetive scholars with out pasion,

auocritical and inovatives, compromised with the new founds looking

the advance of sciencitific knowledge abut the reality of India

history. So, is very easy to put down with rethorical denigrative

discurse to the Knapp and Oaks works. But other wenster guy said, the

research of 1) and 2) are like the bread and butter. If your see with

out pasion, you can found many extrapolations in the books of Oaks

and Knapp. But you can found the same thing in the Witzel works. So

in the Bhagavata Purana 11 canto Krisna said it is good to be like a

been, and take the nectar or essence of the flowers, and don´t be

like donky take a big burden to so called esceptical and unwarranty

konowledge. So. Yes, you are right in to down the enthusiams and the

pasion in the extrapolted dates and strong criticism to other

relgions etc. Because the agresive aproach is not very welcome in the

neutral scientific studies. So hoping the letter can encourage to all

of us.

With my best wishes

Horacio F Arganis

Resarcher of U A de C

 

 

> S.Tilak

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vediculture, "indologia2000 <indologia@l...>"

<indologia@l...> wrote:

 

<in the Bhagavata Purana 11 canto Krisna said it is good to be

like a been [bee], and take the nectar or essence of the flowers, and

don´t be like donkey take a big burden to so called esceptical and

unwarranty konowledge>.

 

Thanks for sharing your views on promoting a proper methodology

abtracted from the Srimad Bhagavatam for appropriating knowledge from

the Veda useful for the context and the needs of our times. I believe

Shri Dattatreya also advocated a similar approach. I agree with you

that if the works of Stephen Knapp and P.N. Oak are subjected to

scrutiny along the above lines, they will reveal much useful

knowledge.

More recently, I came across a reference to a similar work in

Marathi dating from 1860s and written by Vishubawa Brahmachari, a

good Vedic scholar. It is called "Vedokta-dharma-prakasha [Light of

Vedic Religion] and like Knapp and Oak books, runs to over 800

pages.

The book originated in the debates that Vishnubawa carried out

with Missionaries who were aggrssively enagaged in condemning many

Hindu practices. Yet, he also advocated reforms and revival based on

Vedic precepts and practices. In that, he anticipated Swami Dayanand

and his mission.

 

S.Tilak