My Journey into Sanatana Dharma

Found this excerpt of what an Indian National Congress man (yes the psuedo-secular) had to say about the contributions of the ancient Indian rishis to the world are. And if you see the list below, these are the foundations of EVERYTHING that resulted in the modern life. Oh and yes, ALL OF THEM were written/expounded in Sanskrit!! Similarly, in asserting that ancient Indians anticipated Pythagoras, Dr Harsh Vardhan was not incorrect and should not have been ridiculed. In fact he could have added Newton, Copernicus, Kepler and Galileo as well, every single one of whom had been beaten to their famous "discoveries" by an unknown and unsung Indian centuries earlier.   The Rig Veda asserted that gravitation held the universe together 24 centuries before the apple fell on Newton's head. The Siddhantas are amongst the world's earliest texts on astronomy and mathematics; the Surya Siddhanta, written about 400 A.D., includes a method for finding the times of planetary ...

So a month ago or so there was this news article of how an actress, Gauhar Khan, was slapped by an audience member belonging to the same community as she. The television media was obviously all over it. And the coverage of this caught my attention in the way the media worded this incident. The specific verbiage used by the media is, that this person, with a "regressive mindset" took offense to the way the actress was dressed and slapped her. First of all I don't think slapping an adult is the right thing to do. But I am not here to discuss how to deal with someone's ideas of what is right. But this post is about the idea of what is right, what is the right way for women or for that matter anyone to dress. So according to the media, the person who suggested that Gauhar Khan wear respectable clothes (we will come to what "respectable" is in a bit) in full public view has a regressive mindset. So my next question to the media in India (especially) ...

Recently I heard for the first time that there is a tradition in Nepal where they cull hundreds of thousands of animals in the name of "sacrifice". WHAT THE F***?!!! I am not sure where these traditions take root from. These traditions surely were part of ancient vedic Brahministic rituals in the past but that has changed over the millenia. The interpretations of these rituals is more symbolic than literal. I am horrified at what happened there in in Nepal. I condemn it and am ashamed of such a tradition being followed with no thought given to it. I have no further words. At the same time, I dont understand what the the meat eating population of the world is horrified about? Please dont have double standards about this. More than 10 times this number of animals are culled EVERY DAY of the year to fulfill your desire for a "tasty" meal. I as a researcher in the schools of thoughts of Santana Dharma have a right to be horrified because off the 6 main school...

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...

Here are a few studies I came across regarding intermittent fasting: http://fitness.mercola.com/sites/fitness/archive/2013/06/28/intermittent-fasting-health-benefits.aspx Fasting for two days could regenerate the immune system, according to research http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/fasting-for-two-days-could-regenerate-the-immune-system-according-to-research-9506168.html John Hopkins magazine article on Intermittent fasting. Considering some amazing claims by modern science that based on still ongoing research let us read through my notes of what ekadasi (11th day from full moon or no moon day) vrata upvasam entails from the speech of my guru. I stress on ongoing research, because eventually the other items listed below will be found as well. I am confident. How long from now? Who knows? It took western science 500 yrs to get here. This vrata per the sastra (orthodox rules) are expected to be followed by everyone without miss by EVERYONE who has any inclination ...

For time immemorial the rishi's of India have spoken about how "tendencies/likes/dislikes" or "vasanas" are not recorded in the brain but in the "manassu", a word for which I doubt there is an exact english translation. And these tendencies go with the "sukshma sharira" or the subtle body from birth to birth to birth. Here is a small recent finding that perhaps is scratching the surface of that very fact. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1237998/Heart-transplant-patient-gets-craving-food-eaten-organ-donor.html And of course there is no clear understanding in modern science yet about where memories are exactly stored... surely we'll get there someday. But may be the heart is one of the places you should look? I dont know, but the point is, we still are discovering so much in modern science, a long way to go before we write off the wisdom / knowledge of the ancient rishis of India.