Why the Histories of Great Souls of Bharat are not available ?

April 23, 2009

Namaste

I always wondered about why our ancestors have not kept

records of their times like their European, Arabian and Chinese

counterparts. Even the histories of forefathers like Krishna and Buddha

are so sketchy..

This post is about how I got convinced that

our forefathers did the right thing by not paying attention (and

infact, hiding) to the chronological time.

Please read the blog at

http://sanatanavenkat.blogspot.com/2009/04/why-histories-of-great-souls-of-bhara\

t.html

J Venkatasubramanian

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April 26, 2009

It is the enlightened souls like Krishna, Buddha etc who have transcended time

and space who doesn't need history. But not rest of the population. Even Jesus

Christ doesn't talk about history or timeline.Neverthless, Christians (who

created the religion after Christ) kept the history live through recorded

timeline and that is one important criteria for Christianity to have spread

across 2/3 the planet in such short time-span of 2000 years. Hindu way of life,

all its incarnations, and its history dates back to more than 15000 years B.C.

(using Gregarion calendar for common basis), yet due to lack of sense of

history, all our scriptures are now mere epics and mythology. The development of

human life through advancements of science and technology at exponential rate

has depleted the Indians of their spiritual consicousness due to lack of

historical proof which depletes faith and belief. Not all are born with faith &

belief in God naturally. Even if so, the

up-bringing in this fast materialistic world, it fades away. Everyone is now

thinking logically and looking for rationale and reasoning behind happenings.

Without solid recorded proof future generation will not carry forward the

belief. Osho's (who is not a good reference anyway due to his failure as a

spiritual master)justification is simply a demonstration of his inability to be

dhoor dhristi. Our ancestors couldn't keep the future generations in mind. But I

am glad that research based on astronomy (which are luckily recorded as star,

planetory and constellation positions in our age-old scriptures) is now ready to

reveal the historical basis. It is our moral duty to keep the record for the

benefit of future generations. Trying to justifying the mistakes and inabilities

of our ancestors simply portrays the repetition of mistakes. For example, we can

notice all the questions that are raised in this forum related to several

spriitual topics. These are

not in vain, but first steps in our progress in wisdom (jnana yoga). However,

it becomes a 'TRUE' progress only when these questions are preceded

and enscribed with unfathomable bhakti and belief. Not when they are raised due

to our arrogance, ego and ignorance.

For example, in the western world, the concept of last name is simply to trace

their ancestoral geneology. In India, we cannot trace back our geneology except

to the direct levels of grand parents and their forefathers. The ancestoral

geneology must be able to take us to the very origin and build the family

tree. But in India, it is possible through Kula, and Ko'thra. Just something

to thing about.

At Mother's Lotus Feet,

Shakti Thondan