In the beginning there was the word--OM

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What has hitherto been understood to be mere Hindu or Indian culture or at best Southeast Asian culture has been in fact Universal Vedic culture of all humanity from the very down of creation. Only when that culture got gradually eclipsed from other regions (due to Christian and Muslim coersions) and got confined to the Sindhu (Indus) region, then it acquired the regional name Sindhuism pronounced as Hinduism.That is how universal Vedic culture got the regional name Hinduism.That is why the word Hindu does not figure in any basic Vedic scriptures.

 

Hinduism alias Vedic culture does not pin down a person to any scriptures, prophet or mode of worship or prayer. Because being a universal culture of all mankind it embraces all human beings from Staunch theists to Stark atheists. As much Muslim and Christian modes of worship and prayer could happily form part of Vedic culture provided Muslims and Christians give up their penchant for conversions through coercion or temptation. Because the basic rule of the Vedic club is non-interference in anybody's theological and spiritual thinking. It is hoped that the analysis presented above would induce serious scholars all over the world to found an Academy alias University of World Vedic Heritage, with centres in major state capitals to train teachers, writers, speakers and researchers in Universal Vedic history. Such centres should display large sketches or sculptures of Lord Vishnu reclining on the eternal serpent, as the main stag of all creation. All activities at such centres should begin early every morning with Vedic recitations. At such centres there will be no distinctions of cast or creed, high or low. Sanskrit should be a compulsory subject for all since all Vedic scriptures are in Sanskrit. Sanskrit will also be promoted as a conversational language.

 

It will be made clear to all that the term Vedic times signifies the day of the creation and nothing less. The Vedic slogan "Krunwanto Vishwam Aryam" implies training every human being to lead a life of dutiful selfless service like a mother devoted to the service of her household. The serious and age long lapse in proper study of Vedic history as explained above has also resulted in misinterpretation of the word Arya as a haughty overhearing person denouncing others as non-Aryans and therefore inferior. This should underline the need for universal study of Vedic history.

 

The very through manner in which Christian and Muslim religious tutoring and training has rendered the minds of Christians and Muslims totally impervious to all earlier history is all appalling. For instance, Muslims and Christians are totally unaware of even the very meaning of the names of their own cities and regions since those are all Sanskrit. How many Muslims would know that Arabia alias Arvasthan and Turkey alias Turagasthan are Sanskrit words signifying a land of horses ? Likewise Baghdad, the capital of Iraq, was Bhagawad-nagar i.e., The City of God. European countries still retain their Sanskrit names. Russia is Rishiya (land of sages), Siberia is Shibiria (land of temporary hutments), Austria is Astriya (land of missiles), Hungary is Sringery (signifying a scenic country), Romania is Ramaaneeya (i.e., enchantingly beautiful region), Denmark gets is name from Danu and Mark (two leading members of the Vedic Daitya clan), Bulgaria is Bul-gareeya (i.e., strength of high order), Belgium is Balam-Ajeyam (i.e., invincible strength). All this points the need to reopen and reorientate the study of all history and archaeology.

 

Recently, I have published a book titled 'Fowlers' Howlers' pointing out how the etymology set out in the Oxford English Dictionary by its editors H.W. Fowler and F.G. Fowler has gone awry because they are unaware of English being a branch of Sanskrit. Any Englishman would simply blink if asked why London has only has Upminster but no Downminster? And why an expert mathematician is called a Wrangler? Problems such as these can be solved only by recourse to Sanskrit. Under the Vedic system, boys when 5 to 8 years old were sent to Sanskrit hermitage schools. There they studied for 12 to 20 years in a celibate state. They were known as Brahmacharis (i.e., Bachelors). The consonants 'B-ch-r' common to both are proof that the English (European) word Bachelor is a malpronounciation of the Sanskrit word Brahmachari. Not only that the modern 'Bachelor' degree is incongruously conferred even on married or unmarried women though even the English dictionary rules out the use of the word Bachelor in relation to a woman. There are many such emphatic proofs indicating that the network of Sanskrit-Vedic Hermitage schools covered the whole world in ancient times. Those schools were known as Guruculams. And since the Sanskrit word 'Gow' is pronounced as 'Cow' in English, it should be apparent that the modern word 'curriculum' is an hangover of the Vedic 'guruculam'.

 

Another major indication of the Vedic social system having been in vogue all over the ancient world is found in the so-called Christian marriage procedure which is entirely Vedic. The word Wedding is in fact 'Vedding' since the union is solemnized through Vedic chants. The Vedic term is "Pani-Grahan" meaning (the groom) clasping the hand (of the bride). The European term 'taking the bride's hand in marriage' is an exact translation of the Vedic Sanskrit term Pani-grahan.

 

Likewise covering the bride's face with a Muslin veil, lining up bride's maids, an elderly relation formerly 'giving away the bride' (Vedic Kanyadaan),, tying the apparel of the bride and the groom into a knot, the showering of the newly-weds with rice-grains is all total Vedic procedure. When the groom clasps the hand of the bride a sacred thread is tied around their wrists indicating a hust-band (in Sanskrit) i.e., a hand-tie. The word 'husband' in English is that Sanskrit word 'hust-band' (with the letter 't' missing') indicating that the male whose hand is being tied to that of his bride, has no right thereafter to run after another women.

 

The Brahmand Puran stated that before the creation it was all dark. There was no sound and no movement. Then there arose a gentle breeze. The word OM reverberated through the high heavens. Lord Vishnu, the mainstay of all creation, appeared in the firmament floating on a milky, frothy ocean reclining on the coils of a huge serpent. From his navel emerged Brahma on a lotus stem carrying the (written) Sanskrit texts of the Vedas. After him were created some founding fathers known as ' Prajapatees' and 27 founding mothers known as 'Matrukas'. From them human procreation started. That initial stock of men and women were of godly calibre. They were reciters of the Vedas as bees are congenital experts in honey making. The language of the Vedas being Sanskrit became humanity's first God-given language. That is how human procreation started exactly in the manner in which one starts a poultry farm by procuring an initial stock of hens, roosters and eggs. The above Vedic account has its echoes in the Bible too. For instance, the Brahma of Vedic tradition is spelled as Abraham in Jewish and Christian and Ibrahim in by Muslims. The very first line of the Genesis chapter of the Bible stated "The Spirit of God was seen floating on water." That was Lord Vishnu (The Undestructible, Undiminishing Divinity) floating on the milky ocean exactly as recorded in age-old Vedic scriptures. The Bible also records "first there was the word." That was the OM mentioned in the Vedic tradition. Vedic tradition states that the Sanskrit was mankind's first God given language. The Bible also records "At first the world was of one speech." That language was Sanskrit. Unlike Darwin's speculation about the evolution of the diverse species from a proto-plasm, Vedic tradition clearly records that humanity started from a state of divine-excellence and expertise as a full-fledged on-going concern with a perfect Godly-language Sanskrit and a book of knowledge of all highest technologies, sciences and arts and of moral guidance. The beginning of human life was like a drama begun by drawing aside the curtain. Consider a drama. One doesn't know how the dramatist conceived the plot, how and when did he write it, when did he collect the actors, how did he train them and so on. The audience only sees a full-fledged play being enacted before it. Similarly, humanity is unaware of the behind-the-scenes preparation that divinity made. An occasional Darwin indulging in idle, fanciful speculation as to how the world began and how life and speech began is absolutely of no use

 

written by professor P.N.Oak

 

source:http://www.geocities.com/cheese7sandwiches/Cities_And_Regions_Since.htm

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Vac came from HIM.

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As yourself this!

[Hilarion]

That's a great post and thank you for it.

 

Many terms and also concepts came from 'Hinduism'.

 

There are two minor quibbles here though:

 

First, many religions proclaim themselves as 'the original' e.g. Taoism, esotericism, Islam also actually. What they mean is that they are a repository of truth, and to me this means that ideally all could converse amicably; this also means that the ultimate truths are not 'Hindu' but even more universal.

 

Second, the terminology of religions, on how they have been socially constructed, is fascinating. Yes, 'Hindu' beliefs were there long before England arrived in India. However there was then no idea of 'religion' such as Hinduism as a religion. People simply worshipped as a part of natural life.

 

Ironically, the English (I am English) presented 'isms' to many religions, effectively forming them as discrete religions, whereas before they may not have been. Thus came the words in the late 1800s and not earlier, Confucianism, Hinduism, Taoism, etc.

 

These are English constructions which lead away from the real diversity.

 

But the irony lies in that, in order to form a body of natioanlism against the English, Indians too began calling themselvees 'Hindus' and using the word 'Hinduism' (given to them by the English) only as recently as the 1800s! This was done in order to identify oneself as something 'other' than the imperialist English - a name was needed, and ironically the English 'Hinduism' did meet the bill. People in India have called themselves as part of Hinduism ever since - but the ism is from England and a poor attempt to try to understand or construct beliefs outside of christianity.

 

'Hinduism' as a word began among the ENGLISH in the 1800s. All attempts since then to make Hinduism appear to be simply one universal and unified religion have since then looked rather weak, as Hinduism is many things. Just as are all the main religions.