Post to http://hindublog.blogspot.com/2006/09/origin-of-hinduism-i.html Wednesday, April 04, 2007

The Vedas (Sciences) have no history, but Hinduism is its product, is a mixture of different cultures and religions, that's why you cannot define it. It is similar to Europeism, Asianism, Americanism, Sovietism or Africanism. All of them are territorial amalgamations of different cultures. Hinduism presents Nothing special. History in ancient terminology is parampara. Without respect to parampara India could not preserve its Vedic legacy. The great scientists-philosophers who gave us the Upanishads, Vedas and other Holy Scriptures, never talked about the history of their clan or kingdom. Why should they? What's the need to talk about your clan in a book on physics or astronomy? History is of no use only to animals not in any way to the mankind.

The great thoughts found in the Upanishads are really eternal, but they do not have any practical use in everyday life of an individual. They form the chronomatrix of an organized cosmos and are precious foundations of a peaceful and civilized society.

Our world is dominated not by religions, especially not by monolithic ones (Hinduism, Islam, Christianity are amalgamations composed of innumerable sects). Our world as any world is governed by Time (Shiva Mahakala). All religions have symbolic mythological founders (Hinduism is not an exception). But in reality, these founders were simply symbols of certain subdivisions of very complex Vedic (scientific) texts. Do not try to reduce the value of true Vedic religion to an abstract way of life. There are texts, which talk more about day-to-day obligations, but there are still others, which expound mathematics, programming, astronomy, linguistics and many other brunches of knowledge. Why cannot you see? The question ‘Who am I?’ is of primordial importance. Try to answer it first before jumping to unverifiable mundane conclusions about something ambivalent, extraordinary complex and eluding all plain explanations.

The question of origin of Hinduism is one of such difficult scientific problems. You are trying maybe unconsciously to denigrate the efforts of many scholars all over the world to solve this problem.

Read my book Key to the Vedas and find scientifically proved theory and methodology of Vedic interpretation.

Dr. Mikhail Mikhailov (Belarus)

http://key.itved.com