Vedas, soul of India by Dina Nath Mishra

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Vedas, soul of India by Dina Nath Mishra

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Colonial rulers knew how to enslave the Indians. They derided Indian

civilisational treasure and its contribution to world. They planned

it meticulously, invented a number of theories, wrote hundreds of

biased and seemingly scholarly books and projected dozen of myths.

They knew that the Indians took pride in their Vedic traditions.

 

Disdainfully, they described the Vedas as shepherd songs. Let us

examine this description. For example take Vedic hymns number Rig

1.164.11, 2.27.11 and Yajur 18.40 alongwith their meaning and

essence, "The sun moves neither right nor left, nor east nor west

but around which this earth and its satellites keep continuously

moving and this secret only the serious and intelligent alone can

learn, let me live in the light without fear."

 

It talks about Solar System, with sun in the centre and movement of

planets and their satellites held together by gravitational

forces. "The twelve spoke wheel of twelve months revolves round the

sun continuously. Seven hundred and twenty pairs of suns in the form

of day and night also remain present where the number of days and

nights are 360 each."

 

This shows that Rigvedic people knew fairly well about the movement

of the earth on its own axis and also around the Sun due to which

they were able to calculate time, seconds, minutes, hours, weeks,

months and year. "The moon gets light from the ray of the sun named

Susumna, indicating that the people knew that the moonlight was due

to the reflected light of the sun. The Vedic period ended at least

5,000 years ago. The learned people of western civilisation were

still grappling over the size and shape of the earth.

 

They were unaware of its gravitational force, whereas Vedic Scholars

calculated the time of the rotation of earth, developed the calendar

of twelve months in a year. Yet the Britishers had the temerity to

call these Vedas containing thousands of hymns like these

as "shepherd songs."

 

Albert Einstein indirectly mentioning Vedic Mathematics opined, "We

owe a lot to Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no

worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made."

 

Noted Scientist and President of India, APJ Kalam, described the

Veda as, "They are the oldest classics and the most precious

treasures of India. The soul of Bharatiya sanskriti dwells in the

Vedas. The entire world admits the importance of the Vedas."

 

See the travesty of the situation. The myths floated under colonial

raj are flourishing even today. Presently, the cultural genocide

riding on electronic waves of the mass media is rapidly uprooting

cultural values of traditional India and handing over the younger

generation the western value.

 

Rupport Murdoch, the biggest media tycoon, through numerous channels

have acquired leadership of the media. Other foreign and Indian

Channel and Media Houses are fiercely competing with him without

contesting for Indian values.

 

We have only to look at about a dozen talent hunt contests on the TV

to realise what is happening. An Indian Idol, Abhijit Sawant, has

become the youngest celebrity with one crore-contract. For all the

competing channels, appeasing the base instincts of human beings is

a compulsion in order to be on the top of the TRP scale.

 

The community life is vanishing. A greeting card, or an occasional

gift from the children are the best rewards for the parents.

Alongwith individualism, licentious freedom is ruling the roost in

the west and they call it the best. What is more disturbing is that

they are thrusting it down our throats through various routes.

 

Globalisation is the latest slogan of the west. The ongoing cultural

genocide is symptomatic of the same old crazy idea. Pope John Paul

XVI during his visit to New Delhi few years back, gave a clarion

call to evangelise Asia in the third millennium for we did it in

Europe in the first millennium, Americas, Africa and Australia in

the second millennium and now it is the Asia's turn in the third

millennium. Already, there are many conflict areas existing on the

map of the world and the west is adding fuel to the fire.

 

The greatest historian, Arnold Toynbee said, "Today we are still

living in this transitional chapter of world's history but it is

already becoming clear that the chapter, which had a western

beginning, will have an Indian ending, if it is not to end in self

destruction of the human race. At this supremely dangerous moment in

human history, the only way of salvation for mankind is the Indian

way - Emperor Ashoka's and Mahatma Gandhi's principle of non-

violence and Sri Ramakrishna's testimony of religions."

 

 

 

 

 

 

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