Malhota Ji: While agreeing 100%, I would like to add the following. When we learn Sanskrit in Schools, it is in English or Hindi medium. Sanskrit is a medium of instruction, and should be taught as such.
This is very intuitive. Rajiv Malhotra is brilliant in his "poorva Paksha". He exposes the dangers of western interpretation of Sanskrit and its potential distortions. Sanskrit could be politicized by western intellectuals for their own ends. Take the example of: Max Muller the 19th century Sanskrit scholar who distorted and made up a fantastic fairy tale about the origin of the Aryan people. He described them as a racial grouping commonly to describe peoples of European and Western Asian heritage. Max Muller’s fairy tale derives the idea that the original speakers of the Indo-European languages and their descendants up to the present day constitute a distinctive race or sub race of the putative Caucasian race and not of Indian origin. What a fantastic fairy tale that keeps propping up even today after its widespread discrediting.
+Santi Dash No I am aware of the distortions and did something about it. The question is are you sleeping over it or are you doing something about it.???
+Santi Dash : If you are from Odisha, you may be aware that Sanskrit was second language of all the students of Odisha board. Till 1982 All the students used to take Sanskrit as second language. How advanced is state of Odisha compared to other states of India because of Sanskrit Language?
Paul Nalini Kumar Mohanty Currently the maximum sanskrit speaking people are from TN and Karnatak. Are they economically backward? Do they leave their mother tongue Tamill and Kannada. The current trend in Bhubaneswar fot the kids to speak in Hindi. They think that their status goes up by speaking in Hindi. Odia is considered backward by them. Odias are infected by mental slavery. They have high sense of inferiority complex. They lack critical thinking. This slave mentality of Odia's are the reason for backwardness. It's nothing to do with Sanskrit in curriculum. Have you read the book of this author? If not please do so. Sanskrit is the DNA of a vast knowledge system which is currently being digested and appropriated into different field of Western science, such as psychology, Astronomy, Environmental science, cognitive science etc. Author is talking about revival of the sanskrit at that level.
The alienation of the traditional people from tradition or the discourse is on two counts. One, they are least bothered about what is going on in India and bogged down by the customs and rituals. Secondly, the foreign land presents them vast scope to earn and learn with albiet hidden costs (I. e, creative recreation )
One amongst many who are in debt and grateful for all your efforts Shri Rajiv Malhotra - thank you! Prolific author Aditi Banerjee's articulation "Malhotra's Call to Action", an excerpt from her review of the book, is included below for ready reference; thank you Srimati Aditi Banerjee for the same. indiafacts.org/the-battle-for-sanskrit-a-battle-we-cannot-afford-to-lose/ "Malhotra’s Call to Action - A Call We Must Heed In many ways, this is Malhotra’s most challenging book yet. The subject matter is tough and vast in scope. It requires deep study. Pollock is not obnoxious in his writings or overtly anti-Hindu the way Doniger and her ‘children’ have been. To engage him meaningfully requires deep research and careful study. Much is at stake. Mere armchair activism will not suffice. We have to assert ownership over our own traditions. We have to study our traditions and define them for ourselves. For, the core problem is not what Pollock and others are doing. The core problem is what we ourselves have not done. We have abdicated our responsibilities towards Dharma. We have not preserved our Sanskrit manuscripts; we have not created classics libraries of our own; we have not written proper English translations of our shastras. It is a very sorry state of affairs indeed. Our traditional institutions of religious learning were destroyed by the British and have yet to be rebuilt. Sanskrit is studied more seriously outside of India than within India. There are no proper Hinduism studies or Indology programs in India, none that would rival the clout of Harvard or the University of Chicago. The study of Indic civilization, the history of our people and our lands, the substance of our religious traditions, are being researched and written about not by us but by those who are studying us from the outside. In this vacuum, in this complete absence of a Hindu ‘home team’ of scholars, it is inevitable that others would step in and take up the mantle we have discarded. If we do not take up ownership of our own traditions, if we do not invest the resources to study and practice and preserve them, it is inevitable that others will rewrite our history and samskriti for us. And in the process we will have lost that which is the most valuable to us, that which defines us and binds us together. And this is the central challenge and plea embedded in Malhotra’s book, that we must realize before it is too late the game that is being played by the other side, what is at stake in this battle, how is it to be fought, and then we must act. We have to rebuild our traditional institutions of learning. We have to develop a generation of Hindu scholars immersed in the tradition and yet also conversant in Western philosophy and lingo and savvy enough to debate and debunk it. We have to stop outsourcing the work of studying and teaching our samskriti. Hindus can no longer afford to be content with taking shortcuts to learn about Hinduism from TV serials or Facebook posts or articles in the mainstream media. We must delve deep into our tradition, into the primary sources, into the wonders of Sanskrit. We must learn and experience for ourselves the great treasures of spirituality, philosophy, ethics and literary masterpieces bestowed upon us by our ancestors. The battle for Sanskrit is on, and it is a battle we cannot afford to lose."
all along with this I want to translate all sanskrit texts and world literature into indian regional language.so that coman people can also understand all this play.
I have read your books , and this new one battle for sanskrit , looks great, will you be reading them for an audible audio version? have pre ordered it on amazon .. Thank you
Most of the question posted seems that we have had been spoon fed all the way and we also listen to this speech as a listener... Spoon feeding has made us watch everything from outside and never participate as a player... Everyone needs to be a player here and never wait for spoon feeding. we should also do a bit of Research... and keep a floating...
In a masterly sweep of about 2 hrs plus this most selfless person is echoing the call to Indians to "wake up" ; the same call that came through the ages with Swami Vivekananda, Sri Aurobindo and Swami Chinmayananda - the call on the preservation of Self-identity and inherent Sanskriti. Alas, colonial themes has seeped into our conquered genes! And today's great IT brood, that I see in the west, is perhaps the poorest representatives to any of India's great heritage ; on the contrary they make great 'indentured servants' as in the past but only now calling themselves sophisticated! The key lies in the word 'sacred' which Mr. Malhotra points out. The modern world, abetted by colonizers and world war heroes is ratcheting up that color, sound and bad vibrations to drive anything 'sacred' out of the away. Ask yourself what are the biggest scourges in today's world? - bashing someone, gun running, intrusion into everyone's privacy and drugs! Will an India that follows the west so blindingly be ever free of the same? Did India's past Sanskrit and Sanskriti ever set these modern educator's goal?
@rajiv ji hindi m kafi kam speech hy ,hindi m bhi aapki speech honi chahiye jisse english n janne waly kai Village k log bhi gyan paa sake . jai sri krishan :)
Rajiv ji already does very important work all by himself , it our duty as his supporters to do these kind of jobs , a humble suggestion would to you sir , if you want to show this in your village , can you translate the video and and add a Hindu recording to it and share it with people .
I think using the terminology Charvak for crooked communists and atheists is not appropriate. There are Hindus who are agnostic or atheist but they are staunch Hindus too. in fact they are the ones who read about Hinduism and debate with the enemies of Hindus.
Yes, even I was thinking that we shouldn't call them Charvaka; because Charvaka is a part of Sanatana Dharma. Charvaka is one of the six systems of Indian Philosophy too.
1.The........language can operate without sanskrit. the......language stands its own stand. The...... language Is there in india.we cannot ignore that language.
+Cibi Raj Majority really suffer and majoritarianism is wrongly interpreted. We are not a cult. We are the way we are. Takes a lot of guts for majority to stay up together defending each other, discuss and be assertive.
Nagarajan V sharing this from someone wise : We are living in a time when we have to think of protecting things that always nurtured us. This is the first time in the history of humanity that we have to talk about protecting the planet. Never before has anybody had such an insane idea to protect the planet, the planet always took care of us. Indian people always believed that Ganga, a sacred river which is supposed to have celestial origins, will always flow, that it is an eternal flow. Well, today, even Ganga is under threat. We have to protect Ganga, otherwise it will be gone. Something is being done to protect it, but it doesn’t seem to be enough. This is also happening with respect to the spiritual dimension, which is something people in India had always assumed would be forever. In the East, they referred to it as Sanatana Dharma or the universal religion or eternal law. Nobody ever felt this needed protection because everybody thought it is in the lap of dharma that we exist. But a time has come where we need to protect that too. The possibility of a human being to seek and inquire, and to find his own way towards his ultimate nature, has been the fundamental ethos of this culture and this part of the world. A few thousand years ago, when the rest of the world was steeped in strife and violence, and living in almost barbarian ways, people here evolved methods to seek the innermost core of life. People expressed the most profound things that human beings could think of, but now, even that is in danger. When dogmatic belief systems get propagated in a powerful manner, in a manner which is strategically correct and with the force of money and might behind it, the possibility of seeking, exploring and knowing will be obliterated on the planet. At least from popular access it will be taken away, which has happened in large parts of the world. The spiritual processes did abound almost every part of this planet at one time, but in the last 1,800 years, in large regions of the world, it has been systematically wiped out.
We need to be like Dr Subramanyam Swami...take all those writers who misrepresented Sanskrit on purpose to put it down in such mischievous way to the court...sue the hell out of them. I don't know how this youtube posting is going to help them stop spreading lies.
only solution is to dont buy any foriegn writer translation of indian texts. I wondering how it became boon to remain uneducated in westerner studies.now start freshly studying indologies. rajiv malohtra has given new approach to study ouraelf.
1.The greatest king ASHOKA period Golden age in india To Whom?why? 2.The greatest king ASHOKA period Dark age in india To whom ?why? 3.Why The Greatest king ASHOKA Spread Buddhism All over India & Srilanka? 4.Why The greatest king ASHOKA DID NOT Spread Vedas /Sanskrit Language All over India & Srilanka? 5.Why The greatest king ASHOKA accept Monks(son/doughter: mahendra/sangamitra)? why didnot accept Vedic pandits,rishis...?pls commant proper answer.
+Dinesh wo ai ni Need to understand the concept of "Integral Unity". This will tell you where it's similar and where it's different. Also understand the concept of "Differential anxiety". Unfortunately there is not one line aswer
world culture ; mizorem culture & maharasta culture.kerela culture & sikkim culture//.mizorem culture & taiwan culture.kerela culture & kenya culture.we can find similar and different.and the unityalso.my dear.so is not one culture in india.
1.samrat Asoka period was golden age or dark age of india? 2.Asoka period golden age in india To whom?why? (or) dark age in india To whom?why? 3.why Buddisam practiced by bali language not sanskrit in ancient times? why? 4.why asoka follow & sprate Buddisham all over india and srilanka?why asoka did not follow vedic tradition?
+kashsoldier and alexander & jesus & mohammed were real & great? As is the claim that jesus taugh Bhagwan krishna everything? & that the whites wrote the vedas & misplaced them, & are now back in India to pick them up?
3. thanks ur resbonds my 3rd QN? pali people language.ok. Is sanskrit based on strict rules?Whats that?Why? Is sanskrit not commen people language? Buddha not against anynvedic tratidions?Y or N? thanks ur responds.
1.what is the meaning of sanskrithi ?? 2.Is sanskrit living through sanskrithi?? 3. all indian culture born or living base on sanskrit vedic tradition? 4.nalantha or dhashasila university teaching sanskirt vedic or bali buddhist phylosopy? 5' ".OUR Sanskrithi"-who are belongs to this"OUR".all indian community ( or) one particular community(higher caste in india)?
+Dinesh wo ai ni 1. Sanskrithi means culture. 2. Yes, not only Indian culture lives and breathes sanskrit but also the whole world. Sanskrit or remnants of it can be found in so many other languages around the world, that a person can begin to say that it was the original language that the world first knew. In almost all languages, like Greek, Latin, French, English, Arabic, Urdu, Persian, Indian, Mayan, Slavic, Russian, and the Sanskrit derivatives like Bengali, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, or Malayalam, Sanskrit words are found everywhere. Either Sanskrit-speaking people carried them all over the world, or Sanskrit was the one world or main language, traces of which linger in all languages around the planet. In other words world had only one culture before 4000 BC. The culture was sanathana dharma. In other words, a culture which was built around laws of nature. 3. Yes, even though buddhists opposed vedas foolishly, they copied vedas pretty much for everything from karma, reincarnation, consciousness philosophy or non dual philosophy. But buddhists tried to be different from vedas by murdering hindu/vedic 9000 yrs old Sankhya philosophy. According to buddhists there is no individual self. But it was foolish on the part of buddhists to assume that vedas was wrong. ;According to hindu/vedic sankhya philosophy observed (matter) cannot be perceived without the observer (atman or individual self or divine). Hindu/vedic sankhya philosophy was validated by double slit quantum experiment. Now buddhists are trying to hide their flaws by saying there are different versions of buddhism. yeah right, No wonder buddhism failed in India even though colonial thugs tried to revive it through the creation of fake king Ashoka and BR Ambedkar to pit it against hinduism. 4. Core buddhist philosophies were copied from vedas. So, it does not matter what nalanda university teaches. BUDDHISTS DID NOT REFORM HINDUISM. THEY copied from vedas and to be different for the sake of it they MURDERED HIndu/vedic sankhya philosophy. Buddhists must understand that hindu/vedic darshanas (a sanskrit term for vision or revelation of nature of ultimate) are NOT just philosophies (the western definition of philosophy does not require embodied experience and it has ego). Hindu/vedic darshanas came out of higher levels of consciousness of hindu/vedic maharishis. You must remember 2 principles 1 Knowledge is different at different levels of consciousness. 2.Perceptual reality is different at different levels of consciousness. 5.Like I said before dharmic culture (hinduism, jainism, buddhism, and also sikhism since they also cremate) is nothing but a culture built around laws of nature. Yes, there are superficial differences within the dharmic culture. Mallu women wear white sarees and sikkim women wear their own dress. We also eat different food in different states. But these are all superficial differences. We have to look at the core cultural/traditional similarities like karma, cremation, re-incarnation and presence of sanskrit words in all Indian regional languages in the range of 40 to 90% 6. Sanskrit has got nothing to do with any community. In fact one cannot even be a brahmin by birth. Sanskrit came out of vedic mahirishis. Temple priests are usually brahmins who follow yamas (Don'ts) and niyamas (Dos).In Buddhism, the term extends to the determinations of nature, as in the Buddhist niyama dhammas. Colonialists demonized brahmins (at the same time favoring them against others) to divide and rule. So that people like you hate sanskrit, hindu culture and accept christianity (If it fails then at least accept buddhism). People like you don't seem to hate cars (a creation of the west) which kept your ancestors as slaves for 400 yrs. Don't hate sanskrit since you hate brahmins for whatever reasons. Every community speaks sanskrit through their languages regardless of whether you are a dalit or sanskrit hating tamil guy who usually has a sanskrit name. 7. Moreover Sanksrit is a DIVINE language and hinduism is nothing but quantum physics. When Rig Veda's sanskrit hymns and mantras are recited, they generate vibratory frequencies similar to vibratory frequencies of sub-atomic particles (bosons and fermions). Rig Veda has the complete blue print of the universe. It is the reason why honest quantum physicists say that vedas are way more advanced than so called modern science which does not even know who the real observer is (atman) 8. Regarding Charvaka "fake" philosophy (taken from capt Ajit Vadakayil blog) Rothschild or jewish bankers(ex owners of East India company) tried their best to propagate the John Galt hedonist(material) philosophy by subverting our ancient literature. This is where the fake Sanskrit proverb invented “Rinam kritva ghritam pibet, yavan jivet sukham jivet” meaning -“Live so long you have a life and live with all comforts and luxury even if you have to take a loan” Charvaka is “materialist hedonism” and supposed to be propagated by a the “father of Carnatic music” Puranadara ( sic!). There is NO sage Charvaka in Indian history. As per the white Christian missionary , Purandara Dasa fought the evils of casteism through his songs. Indians have NO idea what all false and fake ways the white man tried to subvert indian thought. They created the fake “ Cārvāka school of philosophy” with its variety of atheistic and materialistic beliefs. Such a school of thought never existed in India. This Charvaka philosophy was about the virtue of selfishness ( Ayn Rand -mistress of Rothschild philosophy )and the belief that that wisdom lay in enjoying pleasure and avoiding pain. They were extremely critical of the Vedas giving propaganda that Vedas were just incoherent rhapsodies , and that the Vedas suffered from three faults - untruth, self-contradiction and tautology. The Charvaka philosophy spread the belief that Vedas were cooked up by men and had no divine authority. The false Cārvāka philosophy( Sarva-darśana-saṅgraha ) a fake poison injected work back dated and attributed to a 14th century Advaita Vedanta philosopher Mādhava Vidyāraṇya from Hampi India, which starts with a chapter on the Cārvāka system. This chapter was not there originally
+Santi Dash But in buddhism there is no Purusha (atman), no Prakriti (matter). Buddhism does not accept world as real. It is idealism. But hindu/vedic Sankhya darshana accepts the world as real. Also don't forget that sankhya darshana was validated by double slit quantum experiment. Sankhya darshana by hindu/vedic maharishi kapila combined both dvaita (dual) and advaita (non dual) darshanas of hinduism. 9000 yrs old Sankhya darshana is older than Bhagavad gita Maharishi Kapila (author of 25 tattvas of Sankhya darshana) is mentioned by Lord Krishna in the Bhagavad Gita of 4000 BC.
sir, whats your stand on any person becoming brahimin? also do you think vedas are perfect and never b challenged? and in the failure of what happened to our once great sanskriti, do you give all blame to outsiders or some blame to yourself too. yourself mean us!
+Krishna Raj Dear Krisha Raj. Do you believe that we are in this state without any introspection that there is some fault with us. I believe the issue Rajiv is trying to address is that western indologists represent sanskrit/sanskriti in such a way that we need to entirely reject everything we have and start new (Example: Death of sanskrit). Would it not be better for ourselves to weed out our failures and grow? Rather than ditch every last thing in our culture? Did we not have reformers Raja ram mohu roy/vivekananda. Saying that vedas have failed is very simple/reductive logic, I am sure there are things in veda that are still relevant. Who will come forward and lead us without having to ditch our Sanskriti? Definitely not those bred in western academia. Please read his books. He deserves at least that before you ask some questions in youtube and expect answers.
+Krishna Raj please watch his all videos and books he had explained many times any one can become brahmin and had blamed many times indian for not doing anything please see his all work u will automatically know
But the theory that Sanskrit and its ancestor Proto-Indo-European was indigenous to India, which resurrects some of the earliest speculations on the origins of the Indo-Europeans, has not a shred of supporting evidence, either linguistic or archeological.[Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture]. Rigvedic Sanskrit was first recorded in inscriptions found not on the plains of India but in in what is now northern Syria.
+CR Bijoy The theory that Sanskrit and its ancestor, if any, was non-indigenous to India has not a shred of supporting evidence. [The Quest for the Origin of Vedic Culture]. In fact all mainstream archaeologists have comprehensively dismissed anything but an indigenous origin theory [India: AN Archaeological History] within the last 12,000 years. At that time Europeans were still cave-men and middle-east was a land of barbarian hunter-gatherers.
+CR Bijoy Which record in Northern Syria? If you are talking about Mitanni Kingdom (1600 BCE to 1300 BCE), then no, because Mittani's were a Western Migration from India to Wassukhani. They were pure Vedic who worshiped Indra, Mitra and Varuna, spoke Sanskrit and not Avestan (a significant point). Egyptian records referred to them as Naharin, and talked about their eastern origin. Vedic people were therefore living in Indian subcontinent (democratic India, Islamic Pakistan and Islamic Bangladesh) much earlier than the Mittani. If there is some new non-Mitanni discovery please let me know.
+Subhodeep Mukhopadhyay Where does indignity begin and end? Is it connected with a land or people? If it is land, then can all people living on that land can lay claim to all that originated on that land for perpetuity? If it is people, then can all people irrespective of their residence, as long as they can trace their ancestry to that land, can lay claim to all that originated on that land for perpetuity? If we accept the fact that culture, science etc have originated with people everywhere, that it developed all over the world, and that their development does not follow a linear progression everywhere (the Mayans, Incas, the Egyptian, the Chinese Sumarians, Romans, Greeks etc), or for that matter in our present and recent past we see that Britian dominated a certain time period, then it was the Germans, then the Americans and Japanese, and now the Indians and Chinese..... civilisations have emerged and risen sky high, then collapsed...and from the ashes once again.. that is how it has always been and will always be. This is because of natural calamities and human errors as history and archaeology teaches us. Further, humans having the faculty of physical mobility and communications, cross cultural exchange and pollination and migration has been the norm then and now. And that is the reason, that many many rich traditions, science and knowledge of yore have been passed on from the past to the present. In other words, inclusiveness and not exclusivity that has transmitted knowledge over time and space. Languages have been lost and new languages evolved; so too knowledge lost and new knowledge evolved. Hierarchies of knowledge, superiority of cultures etc are anathema to a seeker. India is a recent creation just as Hinduism, a colonial and post-colonial construct. but the vedic period and the knowledge that generated then are real
+CR Bijoy I will comment only on your last line as the other portions are part of a separate discussion. You say that: a. India is a recent creation b. Hinduism is a recent tradition Both points are grossly incorrect. India India has historically for the last 7000 years continuously been a civilization-state, comprising directly of present day democratic India, Islamic Pakistan and Islamic Bangladesh, and a sphere of influence extending over Japan and south-east Asia. As a nation state (which is a 150 years old European construct), India is 69 years old. India has always been known as Bharat since very ancient times, and its geography very firmly defined by its Hindu pilgrimage sites. Read " India: A Sacred Geography" by Diana Eck of Harvard. Hinduism Hinduism is a term coined by British people, who viewed India's indigenous religion through an Evangelical Christian lens of God, Prophet and Holy Book - which is that there is only One external God (jealous and angry), there is only one messenger (son of God) and only one Holy Book. Anyone else is by default a pagan/ heathen - in earlier days he would be burnt at the cross, today he is to be converted. This is the drishti through which the term Hinduism came about. Hindus themselves call their system "dharma". Dharma as a practice has existed since most ancient times starting from earliest layers of Harappan Civilization at Mehargarh (7000 BC) till present day. Dharma encompasses all religions that have developed within Indian soil - starting from Shaivism, Vaishnavism, Smarta etc. Any religion can develop in any way it wants as long as it is based on the Vedic tents of religious democracy - everyone is accepted. There is no force, no coercion, no missionary activity, no hatred, no my-way or high-way concept, no my God is the best God etc. On the other hand, it is actually Christianity and Islam which are a recent creation (last 2000 years or so). There are recent studies which have clearly highlighted that people have used Christian and Islam as a political tool to legitimize their conquests and kings had used it to prove their near-divinity. They have an imperialistic agenda and like to increase their hegemony. That's why Evangelicals always proselytize instead of actual development. Among the Muslim nations, almost none of them have anything to offer. Among the Christian nations, only the ones which are the least religious (or Protestants) are better off than Roman Catholic nations. Before Islam and Christianity came to India, India was doing quite good, and then it started going downhill. The same will happen to Europe unless they return to their pagan roots.
+Subhodeep Mukhopadhyay (a) all regions of human habitation in the world are sites of continuous civilisation where continuity is not a straight linear line; (b) all regions shared their knowledge, fruits of civilisation (look at the way the practices of Indian sub-continent travelled widely across the globe just as other practices travelled to the Indian sub-continent) along with other human exchanges of goods and services; (c) all practices (call it religion, dharma whatever) themselves did not exist separately but were intricately and inextricably woven with the prevailing political ,economic, and social power structures and processes; (d) knowledge has never been the cause of destruction or decline of a people or a region or civilisation, but it is combination of human actions and natural calamities; it would be absurd to say that the Harappan civilisation declined due to any particular religion; for religions do not invade, but people surely do. Modern science & technology is definitely not christian. (e) Islam and christianity did not invade india but yes...sections of muslims and christians did invade and colonise India... yes.. religion was used as a political tool, where was it not used; when was it not used; which religion was not used... (f) wars were fought in Indian sub-continent since ancient days with kings and wars often sanctified by religions prevalent then
1.whats the different between culture and traditional? some of indian tribel(or)aathi vashi community people eating rats,beef,small birds .this is their culture or traditional?its also be belong to OUR Sanskruthi. 2.All indian lndian languages/everybody using english now a days(ex:bus,cricket,ball,bike,tooth brush,computer ,tv,engineer....)so we can say indian languages born from ENGLISH ? 3.why sanskrit cannot operate a seprate language?why should sanskrit operate holdon other languages or with other languages?
+Dinesh wo ai ni Stupid English is a flawed language and some of its words sound the same despite having different meanings. English words applicable within material realm cannot be applied to transcendental realm 1. Traditions remain the same. eg Karma, cremation, re-incarnation. Culture (superficial) changes based on yugas. In kaliyuga the culture changes. eg different dress, food etc. Is it just tribal community which eats rats, small birds and beef? Commies and leftists love their beef steak and birds at the same time yell animal cruelty when it comes to jallikattu (tamil culture) 2. Without being sarcastic let me give a straight answer to your stupid question English used to be spoken by shit cleaners in London 300 yrs ago. English just had 50,000 words then and borrowed most of its words from Sanskrit, latin and other languages. English does not even have a gender neutral word which forces its speakers to contradict its own grammar. When NASA was approached by English language supporters for its use in Artificial intelligence, NASA flushed english down the toilet and instead went for flawless Sanskrit. A report by NASA on Sanskrit and Artificial intelligence (by Rick Briggs, Roacs, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffet Field, California) can be read online 3. Sanskrit used to be the education language across India or link language across india (like English now). But interference of outside cultures, language (from outside India) is the number one reason why sanskrit was replaced as the link language or education language. But sanskrit words are present in most languages. Moreover Sanskrit is more than just a language. It is a divine language. In other words, when Rig Veda's sanskrit mantras are recited, they generate vibratory frequencies similar to sub-atomic particles (bosons and fermions) which are beyond space and time. Vedas call it as Akasha or the fifth element in pancha maha bootha or Quantum physics calls it as zero point field. One does not need to know the meaning of sanskrit mantras.
+Dinesh wo ai ni Somebody said "if we discuss a Good Thing with a People Like 'D wo ai ni' the Whole Group of people will become like "D wo ai ni', Sorry to say it's the Truth, This is what Mr.Malhotra is trying to say.
This is What I am also trying to ask my best.This is What I am trying to get Right answer from Right people.I am sorry to say if my QN hurt u. No Answer with out QN?
Wonderfully convincing arguments for saving Sanskrit and Sanskriti as our glorious heritage.
Malhota Ji: While agreeing 100%, I would like to add the following. When we learn Sanskrit in Schools, it is in English or Hindi medium. Sanskrit is a medium of instruction, and should be taught as such.
This is very intuitive. Rajiv Malhotra is brilliant in his "poorva Paksha". He exposes the dangers of western interpretation of Sanskrit and its potential distortions. Sanskrit could be politicized by western intellectuals for their own ends. Take the example of: Max Muller the 19th century Sanskrit scholar who distorted and made up a fantastic fairy tale about the origin of the Aryan people. He described them as a racial grouping commonly to describe peoples of European and Western Asian heritage. Max Muller’s fairy tale derives the idea that the original speakers of the Indo-European languages and their descendants up to the present day constitute a distinctive race or sub race of the putative Caucasian race and not of Indian origin. What a fantastic fairy tale that keeps propping up even today after its widespread discrediting.
+Ron Jagannathan Are you sleeping. It's already happened to a large degree? Whatever is left is going to happen in next 10 years.
+Santi Dash No I am aware of the distortions and did something about it. The question is are you sleeping over it or are you doing something about it.???
+Ron Jagannathan YES I have and still actively doing something. Good to know that you are doing the same.
+Santi Dash : If you are from Odisha, you may be aware that Sanskrit was second language of all the students of Odisha board. Till 1982 All the students used to take Sanskrit as second language. How advanced is state of Odisha compared to other states of India because of Sanskrit Language?
Paul Nalini Kumar Mohanty
Currently the maximum sanskrit speaking people are from TN and Karnatak. Are they economically backward? Do they leave their mother tongue Tamill and Kannada. The current trend in Bhubaneswar fot the kids to speak in Hindi. They think that their status goes up by speaking in Hindi. Odia is considered backward by them. Odias are infected by mental slavery. They have high sense of inferiority complex. They lack critical thinking. This slave mentality of Odia's are the reason for backwardness. It's nothing to do with Sanskrit in curriculum.
Have you read the book of this author? If not please do so. Sanskrit is the DNA of a vast knowledge system which is currently being digested and appropriated into different field of Western science, such as psychology, Astronomy, Environmental science, cognitive science etc. Author is talking about revival of the sanskrit at that level.
An eye opener. Thanks for this amazing work.
Jealous is one trait we have and we'll said Rajiv. It takes your life to fight this
I hope Modiji helps Rajeev in this noble mission. I still have hopes that he doesn't get bogged down in day to day politics.
Sir want to meet you some day
The alienation of the traditional people from tradition or the discourse is on two counts. One, they are least bothered about what is going on in India and bogged down by the customs and rituals. Secondly, the foreign land presents them vast scope to earn and learn with albiet hidden costs (I. e, creative recreation )
Sir, you are doing a great work....salute to you.
One amongst many who are in debt and grateful for all your efforts Shri Rajiv Malhotra - thank you!
Prolific author Aditi Banerjee's articulation "Malhotra's Call to Action", an excerpt from her review of the book, is included below for ready reference; thank you Srimati Aditi Banerjee for the same.
indiafacts.org/the-battle-for-sanskrit-a-battle-we-cannot-afford-to-lose/
"Malhotra’s Call to Action - A Call We Must Heed
In many ways, this is Malhotra’s most challenging book yet. The subject matter is tough and vast in scope. It requires deep study. Pollock is not obnoxious in his writings or overtly anti-Hindu the way Doniger and her ‘children’ have been. To engage him meaningfully requires deep research and careful study.
Much is at stake. Mere armchair activism will not suffice. We have to assert ownership over our own traditions. We have to study our traditions and define them for ourselves. For, the core problem is not what Pollock and others are doing. The core problem is what we ourselves have not done. We have abdicated our responsibilities towards Dharma. We have not preserved our Sanskrit manuscripts; we have not created classics libraries of our own; we have not written proper English translations of our shastras.
It is a very sorry state of affairs indeed. Our traditional institutions of religious learning were destroyed by the British and have yet to be rebuilt. Sanskrit is studied more seriously outside of India than within India. There are no proper Hinduism studies or Indology programs in India, none that would rival the clout of Harvard or the University of Chicago. The study of Indic civilization, the history of our people and our lands, the substance of our religious traditions, are being researched and written about not by us but by those who are studying us from the outside.
In this vacuum, in this complete absence of a Hindu ‘home team’ of scholars, it is inevitable that others would step in and take up the mantle we have discarded. If we do not take up ownership of our own traditions, if we do not invest the resources to study and practice and preserve them, it is inevitable that others will rewrite our history and samskriti for us. And in the process we will have lost that which is the most valuable to us, that which defines us and binds us together.
And this is the central challenge and plea embedded in Malhotra’s book, that we must realize before it is too late the game that is being played by the other side, what is at stake in this battle, how is it to be fought, and then we must act. We have to rebuild our traditional institutions of learning. We have to develop a generation of Hindu scholars immersed in the tradition and yet also conversant in Western philosophy and lingo and savvy enough to debate and debunk it. We have to stop outsourcing the work of studying and teaching our samskriti. Hindus can no longer afford to be content with taking shortcuts to learn about Hinduism from TV serials or Facebook posts or articles in the mainstream media. We must delve deep into our tradition, into the primary sources, into the wonders of Sanskrit. We must learn and experience for ourselves the great treasures of spirituality, philosophy, ethics and literary masterpieces bestowed upon us by our ancestors. The battle for Sanskrit is on, and it is a battle we cannot afford to lose."
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Thanks Sir!
all along with this I want to translate all sanskrit texts and world literature into indian regional language.so that coman people can also understand all this play.
Nice. Plz do it
I have read your books , and this new one battle for sanskrit , looks great, will you be reading them for an audible audio version? have pre ordered it on amazon .. Thank you
Great speech!
Nice speech.
1:31 no one helped rajiv ji on the question, that person was talking about "kaavyam" (poem) rajiv ji heard it as "carving"
Brilliant !
Jay Ho! Keep flame burning!
+Paresh Trivedi What do you mean?
+Santi Dash Flame of keeping our culture alive and uncontaminated. Jay Ho!
Most of the question posted seems that we have had been spoon fed all the way and we also listen to this speech as a listener... Spoon feeding has made us watch everything from outside and never participate as a player... Everyone needs to be a player here and never wait for spoon feeding. we should also do a bit of Research... and keep a floating...
well said, you're right.
In a masterly sweep of about 2 hrs plus this most selfless person is echoing
the call to Indians to "wake up" ; the same call that came through the ages with Swami Vivekananda, Sri Aurobindo and Swami Chinmayananda - the call on the preservation of Self-identity and inherent Sanskriti.
Alas, colonial themes has seeped into our conquered genes!
And today's great IT brood, that I see in the west, is perhaps the poorest representatives to any of India's great heritage ; on the contrary they make great 'indentured servants' as in the past but only now calling themselves sophisticated!
The key lies in the word 'sacred' which Mr. Malhotra points out. The modern world, abetted by colonizers and world war heroes is ratcheting up that color, sound and bad vibrations to drive anything 'sacred' out of the away.
Ask yourself what are the biggest scourges in today's world? - bashing someone, gun running, intrusion into everyone's privacy and drugs!
Will an India that follows the west so blindingly be ever free of the same?
Did India's past Sanskrit and Sanskriti ever set these modern educator's goal?
@rajiv ji hindi m kafi kam speech hy ,hindi m bhi aapki speech honi chahiye jisse english n janne waly kai Village k log bhi gyan paa sake . jai sri krishan :)
Rajiv ji already does very important work all by himself , it our duty as his supporters to do these kind of jobs , a humble suggestion would to you sir , if you want to show this in your village , can you translate the video and and add a Hindu recording to it and share it with people .
Rajiv ji get good security cover,u should live eternally
I think using the terminology Charvak for crooked communists and atheists is not appropriate. There are Hindus who are agnostic or atheist but they are staunch Hindus too. in fact they are the ones who read about Hinduism and debate with the enemies of Hindus.
Yes, even I was thinking that we shouldn't call them Charvaka; because Charvaka is a part of Sanatana Dharma. Charvaka is one of the six systems of Indian Philosophy too.
1.The........language can operate without sanskrit. the......language stands its own stand. The...... language Is there in india.we cannot ignore that language.
Why Indian govt is not sponsoring Sanskrit studies in India?
+Nagarajan V its too busy in defending the secular fabric of india. As you know sanskrit studies is communal.
+Cibi Raj Majority really suffer and majoritarianism is wrongly interpreted. We are not a cult. We are the way we are. Takes a lot of guts for majority to stay up together defending each other, discuss and be assertive.
Nagarajan V
sharing this from someone wise :
We are living in a time when we have to think of protecting things that always nurtured us. This is the first time in the history of humanity that we have to talk about protecting the planet. Never before has anybody had such an insane idea to protect the planet, the planet always took care of us. Indian people always believed that Ganga, a sacred river which is supposed to have celestial origins, will always flow, that it is an eternal flow. Well, today, even Ganga is under threat. We have to protect Ganga, otherwise it will be gone. Something is being done to protect it, but it doesn’t seem to be enough.
This is also happening with respect to the spiritual dimension, which is something people in India had always assumed would be forever. In the East, they referred to it as Sanatana Dharma or the universal religion or eternal law. Nobody ever felt this needed protection because everybody thought it is in the lap of dharma that we exist. But a time has come where we need to protect that too.
The possibility of a human being to seek and inquire, and to find his own way towards his ultimate nature, has been the fundamental ethos of this culture and this part of the world. A few thousand years ago, when the rest of the world was steeped in strife and violence, and living in almost barbarian ways, people here evolved methods to seek the innermost core of life. People expressed the most profound things that human beings could think of, but now, even that is in danger.
When dogmatic belief systems get propagated in a powerful manner, in a manner which is strategically correct and with the force of money and might behind it, the possibility of seeking, exploring and knowing will be obliterated on the planet. At least from popular access it will be taken away, which has happened in large parts of the world. The spiritual processes did abound almost every part of this planet at one time, but in the last 1,800 years, in large regions of the world, it has been systematically wiped out.
What will they get, we morons will not vote them, and we will fight with each other bringing each other down. That's y they don't care.
We need to be like Dr Subramanyam Swami...take all those writers who misrepresented Sanskrit on purpose to put it down in such mischievous way to the court...sue the hell out of them. I don't know how this youtube posting is going to help them stop spreading lies.
only solution is to dont buy any foriegn writer translation of indian texts.
I wondering how it became boon to remain uneducated in westerner studies.now start freshly studying indologies.
rajiv malohtra has given new approach to study ouraelf.
1.The greatest king ASHOKA period Golden age in india To Whom?why?
2.The greatest king ASHOKA period Dark age in india To whom ?why?
3.Why The Greatest king ASHOKA Spread Buddhism All over India & Srilanka?
4.Why The greatest king ASHOKA DID NOT Spread Vedas /Sanskrit Language All over India & Srilanka?
5.Why The greatest king ASHOKA accept Monks(son/doughter: mahendra/sangamitra)? why didnot accept Vedic pandits,rishis...?pls commant proper answer.
Scholars are outsiders because they are not given Importance in India.
QN? india have only one culture??(OR) vareity culture? sanskrithi sanskrithi bholthey hain? yei kiska sanskrithi ki pare main?
+Dinesh wo ai ni Pleasre read Indra's NET and Being Different. That will provide you answer.
what is the answer?one or more?
+Dinesh wo ai ni Need to understand the concept of "Integral Unity". This will tell you where it's similar and where it's different. Also understand the concept of "Differential anxiety". Unfortunately there is not one line aswer
world culture ; mizorem culture & maharasta culture.kerela culture & sikkim culture//.mizorem culture & taiwan culture.kerela culture & kenya culture.we can find similar and different.and the unityalso.my dear.so is not one culture in india.
Please do read the book the book as suggested before we discuss on this. Or else it will be a futile attempt.
1.samrat Asoka period was golden age or dark age of india?
2.Asoka period golden age in india To whom?why? (or) dark age in india To whom?why?
3.why Buddisam practiced by bali language not sanskrit in ancient times? why?
4.why asoka follow & sprate Buddisham all over india and srilanka?why asoka did not follow vedic tradition?
+kashsoldier and alexander & jesus & mohammed were real & great? As is the claim that jesus taugh Bhagwan krishna everything? & that the whites wrote the vedas & misplaced them, & are now back in India to pick them up?
i need proper answer.
+kashsoldier adisankara didnot copited buddisam(or)not adope anything from buddisam?
3. thanks ur resbonds my 3rd QN? pali people language.ok.
Is sanskrit based on strict rules?Whats that?Why?
Is sanskrit not commen people language?
Buddha not against anynvedic tratidions?Y or N? thanks ur responds.
1.what is the meaning of sanskrithi ??
2.Is sanskrit living through sanskrithi??
3. all indian culture born or living base on sanskrit vedic tradition?
4.nalantha or dhashasila university teaching sanskirt vedic or bali buddhist phylosopy?
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".OUR Sanskrithi"-who are belongs to this"OUR".all indian community ( or) one particular community(higher caste in india)?
+Dinesh wo ai ni
1. Sanskrithi means culture.
2. Yes, not only Indian culture lives and breathes sanskrit but also the whole world. Sanskrit or remnants of it can be found in so many other languages around the world, that a person can begin to say that it was the original language that the world first knew. In almost all languages, like Greek, Latin, French, English, Arabic, Urdu, Persian, Indian, Mayan, Slavic, Russian, and the Sanskrit derivatives like Bengali, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, or Malayalam, Sanskrit words are found everywhere. Either Sanskrit-speaking people carried them all over the world, or Sanskrit was the one world or main language, traces of which linger in all languages around the planet. In other words world had only one culture before 4000 BC. The culture was sanathana dharma. In other words, a culture which was built around laws of nature.
3. Yes, even though buddhists opposed vedas foolishly, they copied vedas pretty much for everything from karma, reincarnation, consciousness philosophy or non dual philosophy. But buddhists tried to be different from vedas by murdering hindu/vedic 9000 yrs old Sankhya philosophy. According to buddhists there is no individual self. But it was foolish on the part of buddhists to assume that vedas was wrong. ;According to hindu/vedic sankhya philosophy observed (matter) cannot be perceived without the observer (atman or individual self or divine). Hindu/vedic sankhya philosophy was validated by double slit quantum experiment. Now buddhists are trying to hide their flaws by saying there are different versions of buddhism. yeah right, No wonder buddhism failed in India even though colonial thugs tried to revive it through the creation of fake king Ashoka and BR Ambedkar to pit it against hinduism.
4. Core buddhist philosophies were copied from vedas. So, it does not matter what nalanda university teaches. BUDDHISTS DID NOT REFORM HINDUISM. THEY copied from vedas and to be different for the sake of it they MURDERED HIndu/vedic sankhya philosophy. Buddhists must understand that hindu/vedic darshanas (a sanskrit term for vision or revelation of nature of ultimate) are NOT just philosophies (the western definition of philosophy does not require embodied experience and it has ego). Hindu/vedic darshanas came out of higher levels of consciousness of hindu/vedic maharishis. You must remember 2 principles
1 Knowledge is different at different levels of consciousness.
2.Perceptual reality is different at different levels of consciousness.
5.Like I said before dharmic culture (hinduism, jainism, buddhism, and also sikhism since they also cremate) is nothing but a culture built around laws of nature. Yes, there are superficial differences within the dharmic culture. Mallu women wear white sarees and sikkim women wear their own dress. We also eat different food in different states. But these are all superficial differences. We have to look at the core cultural/traditional similarities like karma, cremation, re-incarnation and presence of sanskrit words in all Indian regional languages in the range of 40 to 90%
6. Sanskrit has got nothing to do with any community. In fact one cannot even be a brahmin by birth. Sanskrit came out of vedic mahirishis. Temple priests are usually brahmins who follow yamas (Don'ts) and niyamas (Dos).In Buddhism, the term extends to the determinations of nature, as in the Buddhist niyama dhammas. Colonialists demonized brahmins (at the same time favoring them against others) to divide and rule. So that people like you hate sanskrit, hindu culture and accept christianity (If it fails then at least accept buddhism). People like you don't seem to hate cars (a creation of the west) which kept your ancestors as slaves for 400 yrs. Don't hate sanskrit since you hate brahmins for whatever reasons. Every community speaks sanskrit through their languages regardless of whether you are a dalit or sanskrit hating tamil guy who usually has a sanskrit name.
7. Moreover Sanksrit is a DIVINE language and hinduism is nothing but quantum physics. When Rig Veda's sanskrit hymns and mantras are recited, they generate vibratory frequencies similar to vibratory frequencies of sub-atomic particles (bosons and fermions). Rig Veda has the complete blue print of the universe. It is the reason why honest quantum physicists say that vedas are way more advanced than so called modern science which does not even know who the real observer is (atman)
8. Regarding Charvaka "fake" philosophy (taken from capt Ajit Vadakayil blog)
Rothschild or jewish bankers(ex owners of East India company) tried their best to propagate the John Galt hedonist(material) philosophy by subverting our ancient literature.
This is where the fake Sanskrit proverb invented “Rinam kritva ghritam pibet, yavan jivet sukham jivet” meaning -“Live so long you have a life and live with all comforts and luxury even if you have to take a loan”
Charvaka is “materialist hedonism” and supposed to be propagated by a the “father of Carnatic music” Puranadara ( sic!). There is NO sage Charvaka in Indian history.
As per the white Christian missionary , Purandara Dasa fought the evils of casteism through his songs.
Indians have NO idea what all false and fake ways the white man tried to subvert indian thought.
They created the fake “ Cārvāka school of philosophy” with its variety of atheistic and materialistic beliefs.
Such a school of thought never existed in India.
This Charvaka philosophy was about the virtue of selfishness ( Ayn Rand -mistress of Rothschild philosophy )and the belief that that wisdom lay in enjoying pleasure and avoiding pain.
They were extremely critical of the Vedas giving propaganda that Vedas were just incoherent rhapsodies , and that the Vedas suffered from three faults - untruth, self-contradiction and tautology.
The Charvaka philosophy spread the belief that Vedas were cooked up by men and had no divine authority.
The false Cārvāka philosophy( Sarva-darśana-saṅgraha ) a fake poison injected work back dated and attributed to a 14th century Advaita Vedanta philosopher Mādhava Vidyāraṇya from Hampi India, which starts with a chapter on the Cārvāka system.
This chapter was not there originally
+kashsoldier Budha followed "Sankhya" principle to get enlightenment.
+kashsoldier
Is he genuinely asking the questions or another troll - do a purvapaksh of his account - another troll trying to muddy water.
+Santi Dash But in buddhism there is no Purusha (atman), no Prakriti (matter). Buddhism does not accept world as real. It is idealism. But hindu/vedic Sankhya darshana accepts the world as real. Also don't forget that sankhya darshana was validated by double slit quantum experiment.
Sankhya darshana by hindu/vedic maharishi kapila combined both dvaita (dual) and advaita (non dual) darshanas of hinduism.
9000 yrs old Sankhya darshana is older than Bhagavad gita
Maharishi Kapila (author of 25 tattvas of Sankhya darshana) is mentioned by Lord Krishna in the Bhagavad Gita of 4000 BC.
+Sadanand Kalasabail yeah probably a troll but my comment is also aimed at others who have doubts
sir, whats your stand on any person becoming brahimin?
also do you think vedas are perfect and never b challenged?
and in the failure of what happened to our once great sanskriti, do you give all blame to outsiders or some blame to yourself too. yourself mean us!
+Krishna Raj Dear Krisha Raj. Do you believe that we are in this state without any introspection that there is some fault with us. I believe the issue Rajiv is trying to address is that western indologists represent sanskrit/sanskriti in such a way that we need to entirely reject everything we have and start new (Example: Death of sanskrit). Would it not be better for ourselves to weed out our failures and grow? Rather than ditch every last thing in our culture? Did we not have reformers Raja ram mohu roy/vivekananda.
Saying that vedas have failed is very simple/reductive logic, I am sure there are things in veda that are still relevant. Who will come forward and lead us without having to ditch our Sanskriti? Definitely not those bred in western academia.
Please read his books. He deserves at least that before you ask some questions in youtube and expect answers.
+Krishna Raj please watch his all videos and books he had explained many times any one can become brahmin and had blamed many times indian for not doing anything please see his all work u will automatically know
But the theory that Sanskrit and its ancestor Proto-Indo-European was indigenous to India, which resurrects some of the earliest speculations on the origins of the Indo-Europeans, has not a shred of supporting evidence, either linguistic or archeological.[Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture]. Rigvedic Sanskrit was first recorded in inscriptions found not on the plains of India but in in what is now northern Syria.
+CR Bijoy The theory that Sanskrit and its ancestor, if any, was non-indigenous to India has not a shred of supporting evidence. [The Quest for the Origin of Vedic Culture]. In fact all mainstream archaeologists have comprehensively dismissed anything but an indigenous origin theory [India: AN Archaeological History] within the last 12,000 years. At that time Europeans were still cave-men and middle-east was a land of barbarian hunter-gatherers.
+CR Bijoy Which record in Northern Syria? If you are talking about Mitanni Kingdom (1600 BCE to 1300 BCE), then no, because Mittani's were a Western Migration from India to Wassukhani.
They were pure Vedic who worshiped Indra, Mitra and Varuna, spoke Sanskrit and not Avestan (a significant point). Egyptian records referred to them as Naharin, and talked about their eastern origin.
Vedic people were therefore living in Indian subcontinent (democratic India, Islamic Pakistan and Islamic Bangladesh) much earlier than the Mittani.
If there is some new non-Mitanni discovery please let me know.
+Subhodeep Mukhopadhyay Where does indignity begin and end? Is it connected with a land or people? If it is land, then can all people living on that land can lay claim to all that originated on that land for perpetuity? If it is people, then can all people irrespective of their residence, as long as they can trace their ancestry to that land, can lay claim to all that originated on that land for perpetuity? If we accept the fact that culture, science etc have originated with people everywhere, that it developed all over the world, and that their development does not follow a linear progression everywhere (the Mayans, Incas, the Egyptian, the Chinese Sumarians, Romans, Greeks etc), or for that matter in our present and recent past we see that Britian dominated a certain time period, then it was the Germans, then the Americans and Japanese, and now the Indians and Chinese..... civilisations have emerged and risen sky high, then collapsed...and from the ashes once again.. that is how it has always been and will always be. This is because of natural calamities and human errors as history and archaeology teaches us. Further, humans having the faculty of physical mobility and communications, cross cultural exchange and pollination and migration has been the norm then and now. And that is the reason, that many many rich traditions, science and knowledge of yore have been passed on from the past to the present. In other words, inclusiveness and not exclusivity that has transmitted knowledge over time and space. Languages have been lost and new languages evolved; so too knowledge lost and new knowledge evolved. Hierarchies of knowledge, superiority of cultures etc are anathema to a seeker. India is a recent creation just as Hinduism, a colonial and post-colonial construct. but the vedic period and the knowledge that generated then are real
+CR Bijoy I will comment only on your last line as the other portions are part of a separate discussion. You say that:
a. India is a recent creation
b. Hinduism is a recent tradition
Both points are grossly incorrect.
India
India has historically for the last 7000 years continuously been a civilization-state, comprising directly of present day democratic India, Islamic Pakistan and Islamic Bangladesh, and a sphere of influence extending over Japan and south-east Asia. As a nation state (which is a 150 years old European construct), India is 69 years old. India has always been known as Bharat since very ancient times, and its geography very firmly defined by its Hindu pilgrimage sites. Read " India: A Sacred Geography" by Diana Eck of Harvard.
Hinduism
Hinduism is a term coined by British people, who viewed India's indigenous religion through an Evangelical Christian lens of God, Prophet and Holy Book - which is that there is only One external God (jealous and angry), there is only one messenger (son of God) and only one Holy Book. Anyone else is by default a pagan/ heathen - in earlier days he would be burnt at the cross, today he is to be converted. This is the drishti through which the term Hinduism came about.
Hindus themselves call their system "dharma". Dharma as a practice has existed since most ancient times starting from earliest layers of Harappan Civilization at Mehargarh (7000 BC) till present day. Dharma encompasses all religions that have developed within Indian soil - starting from Shaivism, Vaishnavism, Smarta etc. Any religion can develop in any way it wants as long as it is based on the Vedic tents of religious democracy - everyone is accepted. There is no force, no coercion, no missionary activity, no hatred, no my-way or high-way concept, no my God is the best God etc.
On the other hand, it is actually Christianity and Islam which are a recent creation (last 2000 years or so). There are recent studies which have clearly highlighted that people have used Christian and Islam as a political tool to legitimize their conquests and kings had used it to prove their near-divinity. They have an imperialistic agenda and like to increase their hegemony. That's why Evangelicals always proselytize instead of actual development.
Among the Muslim nations, almost none of them have anything to offer. Among the Christian nations, only the ones which are the least religious (or Protestants) are better off than Roman Catholic nations.
Before Islam and Christianity came to India, India was doing quite good, and then it started going downhill. The same will happen to Europe unless they return to their pagan roots.
+Subhodeep Mukhopadhyay (a) all regions of human habitation in the world are sites of continuous civilisation where continuity is not a straight linear line; (b) all regions shared their knowledge, fruits of civilisation (look at the way the practices of Indian sub-continent travelled widely across the globe just as other practices travelled to the Indian sub-continent) along with other human exchanges of goods and services; (c) all practices (call it religion, dharma whatever) themselves did not exist separately but were intricately and inextricably woven with the prevailing political ,economic, and social power structures and processes; (d) knowledge has never been the cause of destruction or decline of a people or a region or civilisation, but it is combination of human actions and natural calamities; it would be absurd to say that the Harappan civilisation declined due to any particular religion; for religions do not invade, but people surely do. Modern science & technology is definitely not christian. (e) Islam and christianity did not invade india but yes...sections of muslims and christians did invade and colonise India... yes.. religion was used as a political tool, where was it not used; when was it not used; which religion was not used... (f) wars were fought in Indian sub-continent since ancient days with kings and wars often sanctified by religions prevalent then
1.whats the different between culture and traditional? some of indian tribel(or)aathi vashi community people eating rats,beef,small birds .this is their culture or traditional?its also be belong to OUR Sanskruthi.
2.All indian lndian languages/everybody using english now a days(ex:bus,cricket,ball,bike,tooth brush,computer ,tv,engineer....)so we can say indian languages born from ENGLISH ?
3.why sanskrit cannot operate a seprate language?why should sanskrit operate holdon other languages or with other languages?
+Dinesh wo ai ni Stupid English is a flawed language and some of its words sound the same despite having different meanings. English words applicable within material realm cannot be applied to transcendental realm
1. Traditions remain the same. eg Karma, cremation, re-incarnation. Culture (superficial) changes based on yugas. In kaliyuga the culture changes. eg different dress, food etc.
Is it just tribal community which eats rats, small birds and beef? Commies and leftists love their beef steak and birds at the same time yell animal cruelty when it comes to jallikattu (tamil culture)
2. Without being sarcastic let me give a straight answer to your stupid question
English used to be spoken by shit cleaners in London 300 yrs ago. English just had 50,000 words then and borrowed most of its words from Sanskrit, latin and other languages. English does not even have a gender neutral word which forces its speakers to contradict its own grammar. When NASA was approached by English language supporters for its use in Artificial intelligence, NASA flushed english down the toilet and instead went for flawless Sanskrit. A report by NASA on Sanskrit and Artificial intelligence (by Rick Briggs, Roacs, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffet Field, California) can be read online
3. Sanskrit used to be the education language across India or link language across india (like English now). But interference of outside cultures, language (from outside India) is the number one reason why sanskrit was replaced as the link language or education language. But sanskrit words are present in most languages. Moreover Sanskrit is more than just a language. It is a divine language. In other words, when Rig Veda's sanskrit mantras are recited, they generate vibratory frequencies similar to sub-atomic particles (bosons and fermions) which are beyond space and time. Vedas call it as Akasha or the fifth element in pancha maha bootha or Quantum physics calls it as zero point field. One does not need to know the meaning of sanskrit mantras.
some indian language can operate without sanskrit.it is sperate their own stand.
is animal cruetly used in indian army.ex; horse,camel.
+Dinesh wo ai ni Somebody said "if we discuss a Good Thing with a People Like 'D wo ai ni' the Whole Group of people will become like "D wo ai ni', Sorry to say it's the Truth, This is what Mr.Malhotra is trying to say.
This is What I am also trying to ask my best.This is What I am trying to get Right answer from Right people.I am sorry to say if my QN hurt u. No Answer with out QN?