Some newly found old facts about Sanatana Dharma (Hinduism)

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Some "newly found" old facts about Sanatana Dharma (Hinduism) Postedby: "Sidharth Pannu" sid_temple sid_temple Tue Aug7, 2007 2:05 pm ((PDT)) 1. Natural history of tropical Asia shows that the origins of Indiancivilization go back to the end of the last Ice Age, more than 10,000years ago. 2. Archaeologically, India has the most extensive and continuous recordof all ancient civilizations, much more than Egypt, Sumeria orMesopotamia of the same time periods. Yet its role as a source ofcivilization has largely been ignored by the historical biases of theWest. 3. The Vedic

literature is the ancient world's largest, with its manythousands of pages dwarfing what little the rest of the world has beenable to preserve. This literature reflects profound spiritual concepts,skill in mathematics, astronomy and medicine, special knowledge oflanguage and grammar, and other hallmarks of a great civilization. Itcannot be attributed to nomads and barbarians or to the short space of afew centuries. 4. The ancient Indian literature, the world's largest, and ancientIndian archaeology, also the ancient world's largest, must be connected.We can no longer accept the idea of Ancient India without a literatureand Vedic literature reflecting no real culture or civilization. Vedicliterature and its symbolizm is clearly reflected in Harappanarchaeology and its artifacts. 5. Greater India, which

included South India, was the home of most humanpopulations which migrated after the end of the Ice Age when the waterreleased by melting glaciers flooded the region around ten thousandyears ago. Greater India, not the Middle East, is the likely cradle, notonly of populations, but culture and agriculture as well. 6. The Sarasvati River, the dominant river in India in the post-Ice Ageera, after 8000 BCE (10,000 BP), and the main site of urban ruins inancient India, is well described in Vedic texts. It ceased to flowaround 1900 BCE (3900 BP), making the Vedic culture older than thisdate. All stages of the development and

drying up of the Sarasvati canbe found in Vedic texts down to the Mahabharat, showing that the Vedicpeople were flourishing along the river at all phases. 7. There is no scientific or archaeological basis for any Aryan orDravidian race, which are now discredited concepts. No skeletal remainsof the so-called Aryans have ever been found in India. Whatever remainshave been found are similar to the existing populations in the countrygoing back to prehistoric times. There is no archaeological evidence ofany Aryan invasion or migration into India but only the continuity

ofthe same populations in the region and their cultural changes. Thisrequires that we give up these old ideas and look at the data afreshapart from them. 8. Connections between Indian languages and those of Europe and CentralAsia, which can be found relative to both Sanskritic and Dravidianlanguages, are more likely traceable to a northwest movement out ofIndia after the end of the Ice Age. The late ancient Aryan and Dravidianmigrations, postulated to have taken place c. 1500 BCE (3500 BP), intoIndia from Central Asia of Western linguistic theories occur too late,after populations and cultures were already formed, to

result in thegreat changes attributed to them. Besides no records of such proposedinvasions or migrations have yet been found. Archaeology, literature andscience, including genetics, all contradict it. 9. Vedic spirituality of rituals, mantras, yoga and meditation, based onan understanding of the dharmic nature of all life, created thefoundation for the great spiritual traditions of India. It emphasizedindividual experience of the Divine and spiritual practice over outerdogmas and beliefs. Such a spiritual ethos is the fruit of a great andmature ancient civilization. 10. The Hindu view of time, through the Hindu Yuga theory, connectshuman history with natural history of tens of thousands of years markedby periodic cataclysms and makes sense in the light of new scientificdiscoveries relating to natural

history through genetics and climatechanges So the Hindu Yuga theory may be seen as a way of describing therenewal of habitation on earth in phase with the climate cycles. 11. This ancient, eternal Vedic culture is still relevant to the worldtoday and lives on in the great ashrams, mandirs, and spiritualpractices of India. Reclaiming this ancient spiritual heritage of Indiaand spreading it throughout the world is one of the greatest needs ofthe coming planetary age, in which we must go beyond the boundaries ofcreed and materialistic values. Dharmo rakshati rakshitah

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