Sanskrit is the one of the original language which has retained its crystal purity. Sanskrit diction maintained its affable style and original structure its age old vocabulary works even today as it was in old civilisation and primitve ages, the past.An ancient literature of the world, the Vedas, book for humanity of minds development the Upanishads and their richness connecting old Indian values with modern value, still available in the same form as were written since ages. There are lot many mentors in India who can interpret them today, as they were during their original framing.Vedas interpretation comes by continous steady process of assimilation of knowledge linking a variety of disciplines via Sanskrit.Veda meaning knowledge or Wisdom in Sanskrit related to Vedic (VAY-dik) Tradition (Hinduism), the oldest living system of thought on earth. Vedas envisage Vedic concepts, teachings, philosophy, scriptures, sciences and everything that we can think of related to the Sanatana Dhrama or also known as Hindu tradition.The Vedic tradition of knowledge, based on the extensive Vedic literature, is the oldesttradition of knowledge in the world. Though it has been long preserved in India, this traditional wisdom has been almost lost in recent centuries-due in part to repeated foreign invasions. The Vedic tradition includes detailed information on a wide range of topics-from astronomy to music, architecture to health care, administration to economy. But it is all based on the knowledge of consciousness-including technologies of consciousness, and evolution to the highest state of consciousness (enlightenment).Albert Einstein:"We owe a lot to Indians who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made."Mark Twain (1835-1910)"Land of religions, cradle of human race, birthplace of human speech,grandmother of legend, great grandmother of tradition. The land thatmen with intellectual bent desire to see and having seen once even bya glimpse, would not give that glimpse for the shows of the rest ofthe globe combined."Julius Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967) One of the world's greatestphysicists, known as 'the father of the atomic bomb'"Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claimover all previous centuries."T. S. Eliot" Indian philosophers' subtleties make most of the great Europeanphilosophers look like schoolboys."George Bernard Shaw,(1856-1950) Dramatist, Nobel Laureate inLiterature"The Indian way of life provides the vision of the natural, real wayof life. We western veil ourselves with unnatural masks. On the faceof India are the tender expressions which carry the mark of theCreators hand."H. G. Wells(1866-1946), English author and political philosopherThere is space in its philosophy for everyone,which is one reason why India is a home to every single religion inthe world.Sir William Jones,English philologist"Wherever we direct our attention to Hindu literature, the notion ofinfinity presents itself."Ralph Waldo Emerson(1803-1882) American author, essayist, lecturer,philosopher, Unitarian minister"I owed a magnificent day to the Bhagavad-Gita. It was as if an empirespoke to us, nothing small or unworthy, but large, serene, consistent,the voice of an old intelligence which in another age and climate hadpondered and thus disposed of the same questions which exercise us."Andrew Tomas(1906- 2001) an Australian UFO pioneer, author ofseveral physics, astronomy and spiritual booksThe atomic structure of matter is mentioned in the Hindu treatisesVaisesika and Nyaya. The Yoga Vasishta says, there are vastworlds within the hollows of each atom, multifarious as the specks ina sunbeam - which we have now assumed as true.Arthur Schopenhauer(1788-1860), great Germanphilosopher and writer"In the whole world there is no study so beneficial and so elevatingas that of the Upanishads. It has been the solace of my life; and itwill be the solace of my death. They are the product of the highestwisdom."Francois Marie Voltaire(1694-1774) France's greatest writers andphilosophers." I am convinced that everything has come down to us from the banks ofthe Ganga - astronomy, astrology, metempsychosis, etc."" It is very important to note that some 2,500 years ago at the leastPythagoras went from Samos to the Ganga (Ganges) to learngeometry...But he would certainly not have undertaken such a strangejourney had the reputation of the Brahmins' science not been longestablished in Europe"Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831),great German philosopher"India has created a special momentum in world history as a country tobe searched for knowledge."Friedrich Hegel(1770-1831), great German philosopher"It strikes everyone in beginning to form an acquaintance with thetreasures of Indian literature, that a land so rich in intellectualproducts and those of the profoundest order of thought"Roger-Pol DroitFrench philosopher, and Le Monde journalist,"The Greeks loved so much Indian philosophy that Demetrios Galianoshad even translated the Bhagavad-Gita". There is absolutely not ashadow of a doubt that the Greeks knew all about Indian philosophy."Frederich von Schlegel,(1772-1829), German philosopher, critic, andwriter, the most prominent founder of German Romanticism"There is no language in the world, even Greek, which has the clarityand the philosophical precision of Sanskrit," adding that " India isnot only at the origin of everything she is superior in everything,intellectually, religiously or politically and even the Greek heritageseems pale in comparison."Voltaire,(1694-1774), France's greatest writersand philosophers,"the Veda was the most precious gift for which the West had ever beenindebted to the East."Alfred North Whitehead,British MathematicianThe vastest knowledge of today cannot transcend the buddhi of theRishis in ancient India; and science, in its most advanced stage now,is closer to Vedanta than ever before.Dr. Fritjof Capra,American physicistTo the Indian Rishis the divine play was the evolution of the cosmosthrough countless aeons. There is an infinite number of creations inan infinite universe. The Rishis gave the name kalpa to theunimaginable span of time between the beginning and the end ofcreation.Herman Hesse(1877-1962) German poetnovelist, awarded the NobelPrize for literature in 1946 says:"The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation oflife's wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion."Henry David Thoreau(1817-1862), American Philosopher, writer,Unitarian, social critic, transcendentalist:"In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonalphilosophy of the Bhagavad Gita in comparison with which our modernworld and its literature seems puny."John Archibald Wheeler,(1911 - 2008) American physicist,he was the first involved in the theoretical development of the atomic bomb and first to coin the Black Hole' who later occupies the chair that was heldby Einstein.It is curious that people like Schroedinger, Niels Bohr, andOppenheimer were Upanishad scholars.Ella Wheeler Wilcox,(1850-1919) famous American poetessand journalist" India - the land of Vedas, the remarkable works contains not onlyreligious ideas for a perfect life, but also facts which science hasproved true. Electricity, radium, electronics, airship, all are knownto the seers who founded the Veda.Hans Torwesten,German philosopher and writerThe Vedas and the Upanishads are India's proudest and most ancientpossessions. They are the world's oldest intellectual legacies. Theyare the only composition in the universe invested with Divine origin,and almost Divine sanctity. They are said to emanate from God, and areheld to be the means for attaining God. Their beginnings are notknown. They have been heirlooms of the Hindus from generation togeneration from time immemorial.Professor F. Max Muller,German philosopher , philologist"The Vedic literature opens to us a chapter in what has been calledthe education of the human race, to which we can find no parallelanywhere else."Jean-Sylvain Bailly,great French Astronomer"The motion of the stars calculated by the Hindus before some 4500years vary not even a single minute from the tables of Cassine andMeyer (used in the 19-th century). "The Hindu systems of astronomy areby far the oldest and that from which the Egyptians, Greek, Romans and- even the Jews derived from the Hindus their knowledge."Aldous Huxley'Hinduism, the perennial philosophy' that is at the core of allreligions.Arthur Schopenhauer(1788-1860), German philosopher and writer"How entirely does the Upanishad breathe throughout the holy spirit ofthe Vedas! How is every one, who by a diligent study of its PersianLatin has become familiar with that incomparable book, stirred by thatspirit to the very depth of his Soul !'Romain Rolland(1866-1944) French Nobel laureate, Historian"Religious faith in the case of the Hindus has never been allowed torun counter to scientific laws, moreover the former is never made acondition for the knowledge they teach, but there are alwaysscrupulously careful to take into consideration the possibility thatby reason both the agnostic and atheist may attain truth in their ownway. Such tolerance may be surprising to religious believers in theWest, but it is an integral part of Vedantic belief."Julius Robert Oppenheimer(1904-1967) Nuclear physicist, philosopher,The famour scientist and was the developer of the atomic bomb'The Gita, the most beautiful philosophical song existing in any knowntongue.'H. G. Wells(1866-1946), English authorand political philosopherHinduism is synonymous with humanism. That is its essence and itsgreat liberating quality."Lord Curzon(1859-1925) British statesman, Viceroy of India from 1899to 1905, and later became chancellor of Oxford University" India has left a deeper mark upon the history, the philosophy, andthe religion of mankind,than any other terrestrial unit in the universe."William Butler Yeats(1856-1939) Irish poet, dramatist, and essayistand Nobel Laureate"It was only my first meeting with the Indian philosophy thatconfirmed my vague speculations and seemed at once logical and boundless."Mark Tullyformer BBC correspondent in India, authorBut I do profoundly believe that India needs to be able to say withpride,"Yes, our civilization has a Hindu base to it."Paul William Roberts Professor at Oxford , award-winning televisionwriter, producer, journalist, critic and novelist.'India is the only country that feels like home to me,the only country whose airport tarmac I have ever kissed uponlanding.'Pierre Simon de Laplace( 1749-1827) French mathematician,philosopher, and astronomer, a contemporary of Napoleon.Laplace is best known for his nebular hypothesis of the origin of the solarsystem. " It is India that gave us the ingenious method of expressing allnumbers by ten symbols, each receiving a value of position as well asan absolute value, a profound and important idea which appears sosimple to us now that we ignore its true merit. But its verysimplicity, the great ease which it has lent to all computations, putsour arithmetic in the first rank of useful inventions, and we shallappreciate the grandeur of this achievement the more when we rememberthat it escaped the genius of Archimedes and Appollnius, two of thegreatest men produced by antiquity."Naresh SagarAuthor:Naresh Sagare-mailWeb: www.nksagar.comPhone: 9810974027
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