Fw: [hc] Vedic astrology! Eh? Nothing Vedic about it--K N Rao

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shankarabharadwaj <shankarabharadwaj[hc] Re: "Vedic astrology! Eh? Nothing Vedic about it"--K N Raohinducivilization Date: Friday, December 5, 2008, 5:58 AM

 

 

Well both tendencies are there - to mindlessly link everything to Vedaand to mindlessly delink everything from Veda. In this case, thelatter holds. It is also not a remote link, and there is sufficientmaterial available on this. And the objections are not new either, itis again the same obsession of demanding references in samhita for itto be "Vedic". hinducivilization, "Jit Majumder"<jitmajumder212@ ...> wrote:>> > <<<It is either Indian astrology or Hindu astrology. Vedic astrology > does not exist at all. Having said that, the term â€Å"Vedicâ€Â� > is a great marketing tool especially in the new age movement. So > whether it is true or not, I suspect Vedic astrology will continue to > be the preferred name for Indian

Astrology specially in the west.>>>> > > > and the primarily responsible for this trend are people like David > Frawley, George Fuerstein, Stephen Knapp, Michael Cremo and some of > their "students" like a young self-appointed "vedic historian" rodney > Lingham. These western Hindus have an unbalanced "vedic" fetish. They > are uncomfortable without being able to "trace" everything Hindu to > the "vedas", and thereby reduce hinduism into hindu=only vedic. and > thus copntribute more to the damage in the Hindu's self-understanding > of his own culture and traditions. Not that by itself that brings to > question their intentions, contributions or talents. > David Frawley is not so extreme as Stephen Knapp, Cremo, or Lingham, > who claims Frawley as his mentor. Stephen knapp and Michale Cremo are > hard-core iskonites (hare krishnas). that may

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