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Christianity's Similarities with Hinduism

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from " Proof of Vedic Culture's Global Existence " by Stephen Knapp

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In fact, Hinduism's pervading influence seems to go much earlier than

Christianity. American mathematician, A. Seindenberg, has, for

example, shown that the Shulbasutras, the ancient Vedic science of

mathematics, constitute the source of mathematics in the antique

world of Babylon to Greece: " The arithmetic equations of the

Shulbasutras were used in the observation of the triangle by the

Babylonians as well as in the edification of Egyptian pyramids, in

particular the funeral altar in the form of pyramid known in the

Vedic world as smasana-cit. "

 

In astronomy too, the " Indus " (from the valley of the Indus) have

left a universal legacy, determining for instance the dates of

solstices, as noted by 18th century French astronomer Jean Sylvain

Bailly: " The movement of stars which was calculated by Hindus 4,500

years ago, does not differ even by a minute from the tables which we

are using today. " And he concludes: " The Hindu systems of astronomy

are much more ancient than those of the Egyptians-even the Jews

derive from the Hindus their knowledge. "

 

There is also no doubt that the Greeks heavily borrowed from

the " Indus. " Danielou notes that the Greek cult of Dionysus, which

later became Bacchus with the Romans, is a branch of

Shaivism: " Greeks spoke of India as the sacred territory of Dionysus,

and even historians of Alexander the Great identified the Indian

Shiva with Dionysus and mention the dates and legends of the

Puranas. " French philosopher and Le Monde journalist Jean-Paul Droit

recently wrote in his book, The Forgetfulness of India, that " the

Greeks loved so much Indian philosophy that Demetrios Galianos had

even translated the Bhagavad-gita. "

 

Many Western and Christian historians have tried to nullify this

India influence on Christians and ancient Greece by saying that it is

the West through the Aryan invasion, and later the onslaught of

Alexander the Great of India, which influenced Indian astronomy,

mathematics, architecture, philosophy-and not vice versa.

 

 

But new archeological and linguistic discoveries have proved that

there never was an Aryan invasion and that there is a continuity from

the ancient Vedic civilization to the Saraswati culture.

The Vedas, for instance, which constitute the soul of present day

Hinduism, have not been composed in 1500 B.C., as Max Muller

arbitrarily decided, but may go back to 7000 years before Christ,

giving Hinduism plenty of time to influence Christianity and older

civilizations which preceded Christianity.

 

Thus, we should be aware of and point out the close links which exist

between Christianity and Hinduism (ancient Vedic culture), which bind

them into a sacred brotherhood. Conscientious Christian and Western

scholars can realize how the world humanity's basic culture is Vedic

through proper research.

 

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