My Journey into Sanatana Dharma

I started writing this letter to my father, but thought this blog is a better place, in the hope that some young kid somewhere on earth will heed to my regret and research further to avoid the same for her/his life. These are thoughts at my core today at the age of 31. I wish I could turn back time. When i see westerners who have travelled to India live there for decades and learnt yoga, meditation, Pranayama and many other ancient sciences from our guru's living in India and then these ppl come back and teach it to the world here in the west, I am so sad and depressed and lost that living in India I never knew much about these possibilities, the greatness, the finality and the importance to life it self that can be realized by mastering the above. And now i am having to start here all alone sitting in a room, reading a book, watching some video introduced to me by a westerner as part of some workout routine as the most important part of the routine, and here i am, too o...

Some time back I had blogged about this neurosurgeon that wrote about his near death experience. Now remember he is a Christian with a frame of context of Christianity through out his life. What this picture below shows is mind blowing. When you learn enough of esoteric "hinduism" in the advaita school of thought (and i am sure many others), the "Pranavam" or the syllable "OM" is described as GOD. The bottom line of the description of God in human vernacular stops at OM in the Vedas. Now read on. Here are a few other excerpts: These are actual excerpts of the book "Proof of Heaven" written by Eben Alexander. And as you read these excerpts, without quoting the Vedas, I can tell you, this is the literal translation of many quotes from the Vedas themselves, from the Purusha Sukta especially that attempts to describe the qualities of "God". The claim of the Vedic apologists is also that the Vedas were so...