Friday, August 13, 2010

6. Vedas, Four pillars of Hinduism.

There were many advanced technical books on many fields like Engineering, Chemical, Medical etc. written in Tamil. Saint Vyasa transferred most of them into Sanskrit and included them in Vedas.

When saint Vyasa compiled Vedas, the religious practices in north India got mixed up with many new additions due to foreign invaders. They were also included unintentionally in Vedas.

As there was no proper script and grammar for Sanskrit, the Vedas were kept oral. But later, the same practice continued stating that Vedas were sacred. Also, they were taught only to a particular community.

The language Sanskrit was taught as Divine and ladies were disallowed to read Vedas. To the worst, the priests chanting Vedas were advised to speak in Sanskrit in the middle if required.

Because of all the above restrictions, Vedas became foreign to common men. The knowledge of their own ancestors on various fields were also denied to them. But, Max Muller, a Christian who came to spread Christianity could learn Sanskrit and read Vedas!

Let us hope that the restrictions will get relaxed in future.

Rig Veda consists of roughly 10,150 slokas (Songs). Yajur Veda is having about 6700 slokas. Sama and Adharva Vedas are having about 5000 slokas in each. While Rig, Yajur and Sama Vedas are concentrating on more philosophical subjects, Adharva Veda deals with fully on materialistic world.

Adharva Veda is a treasure of knowledge. It has Mathematics, Medical, Chemicals and Engineering. During last century, one Sankara mutt seer who was a master in mathematics tried to explore various formulae in Adharva Veda to solve mathematical problems. He said that easy solutions are available for all  the divisions of mathematics. But he could not complete the project. He called that method as 'Vedic mathematics'.

Vedas were compiled two thousand years before. There are many Vedic scholars in India as well as few in foreign countries. Everyone of them will chant the Vedas even today in the same meter if sung from the same Veda and with out a change in words.  How is it possible?

It is very interesting but very tough. Our ancient masters developed a method of chanting the Vedas called 'Gana paatam'. The method is explained with an example.

If there are 10 or more words in a sloka, it will be sung like as follow:

1. First four words will be repeated.

2. Second word to fifth word will be repeated.

3. Third word to sixth word will be repeated ...... and so on.

There are so many similar methods are there to learn. So, no word can change in the process.

The present day Sanskrit and the Vedic Sanskrit are not the same. It requires special training to know the meaning of the Vedas. Very few selected people alone are there  in this level.

To keep the meaning, many seers in the past have written explanations to Vedas. they are called 'Bashyams'. Explanations may change but Vedas will not change. Adhi Sankaracharya, Ramanuja and Madhvacharya
have written 'Bashyams' to Vedas at different times in the past. All of them were South Indians because they knew and have the real philosophical knowledge.

Vedas are the standing four pillars of Hinduism. Also, they are the proof for the knowledge of ancient Indians.

Search will continue.                 

Thursday, August 12, 2010

5. Sanskrit, a vedic language

Indus valley civilisation is not only connected to one area but also to other parts of India too. India was a vast country on those days. When comparing with the southern part, north was vulnerable to the influence of language and the culture of the neighbouring countries.

The people who lived in Indus valley until 2000 B.C and a century further vacated the area due to some reasons.

While the south India was concentrating on building 'kattumarams' and ships on it's own, north India was very much adopting the other cultures and the words from their language.

Catamaran is a Tamil word used as such in English. 'Navai' is the Tamil word for ships. It is used as 'Naval' in English. After constructing ships, south India attracted many business people from Greece and Rome. We understand from litterateurs that at one period of time, these foreigners occupied a full street in a southern port city called Poompugar. So, that street was named as 'Yavana street'. 'Yavana' represents Roman (business) people. Dravidian (Indus valley) civilisation never changed even after the business contacts with the foreigners in the south.

But, foreigners' influence with north India in between 2000 B.C and 1000 B.C changed them completely. Their language they spoke changed to 'Pali'. The original philosophical knowledge got mixed up and contaminated with the new concepts.

Arabians were calling the river 'Sindhu' as Indu and the religious  practices of the people who lived there as Hinduism.

As they (North Indians) parted away from their original,  the supporting texts on the original religious practices became foreign to them. Using their weakness, new religions like Jainism and Buddhism were started one after the other. The new religious people tried to eliminate the original by burning the existed religious books.

We are calling the years between 1500 B.C  and 500 B.C. as 'Vedic period'. Because of weak structure and age, the Pali language changed into Sanskrit. The people in north started using Sanskrit in all their religious practices.

There were many ancient technical books on various fields available with them. As they were in Tamil, they could not use them. At the same time, Sanskrit was not fully developed. It was in 200 B.C., when Chandra Gupta Mourya was ruling, a panel was appointed at Nalandha, a north eastern city to enrich and strengthen Sanskrit with required grammar.

Most of the Tamil texts were translated into Sanskrit and the originals destroyed during the above process. But, the panel could not find all the original philosophical Tamil books called 'Agamams'. They traced only one 'Agamam' and translated it into Sanskrit.

Veda Vyasa was only a poet and a saint on those days. He appointed four of his assistants called Bailar, Vaisambayanar, Jaimini and Sumanthu to collect all the religious practices prevailing in India. Their collections were later compiled by Veda Vyasar and given names as Rig, Yajur, Sama and Adharvana Vedas.

As there were no proper scripts in Sanskrit, all the four Vedas were left unwriten. Later, the Vedas were considered as sacred and orally transfered from masters to their students. The Vedas were not writen even today.

Then, how they were preserved without any change till date? Interesting.

Let us dig further.



         

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

4. Tamil, an ancient classical language.

Tamil is an ancient spoken by the people of Lemuria, Indus valley and continued till today. The name 'Tamil' was called as 'Thamizha', 'Thiramila' and 'Dravida' at various times in the past.

A scholar on various languages including English, French, Latin apart from many Indian wrote 'Tamil was a developed language with grammar when others started their speach'.

It seems that the people of Lemuria had good knowledge on many fields. Their knowledge was recorded in books (Palm leafs). We understand from the available ancient books that there was an authorising acadamy first at kabadapuram, then at Madurai (Mudhal and Idai Sangams), both in Lemuria to justify the books. But, most of such books were lost while the land was drowned. Most of the knowledge treasures have gone.

The time of Indus valley civilisation was much later than the Lemuria erosion period. The layout and other civic facilities in Indus valley clearly shows the lineage of Lemuria people. The writing passion never vanished among Tamils. We can understand this from the establishment of third academy (kadai Sangam) at the present Madurai before 200 B.C and continued till 200 A.D. We are having many litterateurs authorised by the third Sangam. So, writing practice would have been there during Indus valley period also.

We must note that Tamil scripts were changed several times in the past. The present average Tamil youths can not read fully the scripts written even 500 years before. Then, how they can read the scripts belonging to Indus valley people of 5000 years old.

We are having thousands of old books in palm leaves even today unattended. The available old books are mentioning about many other ancient books connected to architecture and other sciences. But, we could learn the names alone with out the contents.

'Anu' is a word used in ancient Tamil litterateurs to refer atom. How they can have a word with out knowing the subject?

There are many names suffixing with 'UR' to represent a village or a city in Tamilnadu, India. 'UR' means a place in Tamil where people are residing. Bangalore, Mangalore, Nellur, Kolapur in south and Sholapur, Kolapur, Kanpur and Nagpur are few examples to mention in India. Singapore, Kolalambur and Lahore are few cities in other countries to mention the usage of 'UR'. The holy Bible also refers to a place called 'UR' from where Abraham went to Jerusalem.

There are more than 200 Tamil words in English with a little difference. Sanskrit also borrowed many Tamil words to it's use.

Tamil is a rich language which can stand on it's own. It's richness can be found from many meanings for a word and vice verse.

Tamil had more than 18 philosophical books. They were referred to be called as 'Agamams'. But we are having only one: that too in Sanskrit. What happened?

Our search will continue.   
          
        

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

3. Indus valley.

Once, there was a time that Indians were considered to be tribal and suitable to be as slaves. Indus valley excavation and study there proved their judgement wrong. It was after Indus valley excavation in 1922, the vision of entire world turned towards India.

Archaeologists started excavating few old burial grounds in and around Punjab region of Pakistan. It was a surprise for them to find a buried town under the earth in that area. They started their full fledged investigations and found the following results:

1. The people would have lived in that area during 3000 B.C.

2. The layout of the town, usage of burnt bricks and others made the researchersrs to decide that the people  
    lived there were culturally forward on those days.

3. After comparing with other existing ancient sites, they conclude the the people lived there were
    Dravidian.    

4. Archaeologists found many hundreds of 'Siva Lingas', idols of lady Deity (Similar to Durga Devi) and 
    Vishnu. An idol of a man in yoga posture also was found. We can understand from the findings that
    Hinduism was in existence even on those days.    
   
This area was so fertile due to the presence of Sindh river on those days. The people in that area was forced to vacate after few centuries due to water scarcity as the river Sindh changed it's route.

Water is considered to be so sacred even today. It is a general belief that certain rivers or water from the falls can cure diseases. There is a scientific reason behind this belief.

"Gangaicha Yamunai chaiva Godavary Saraswathy Narmadhe sindhu Kavery Jalesmin sannidhim kuru" - This is a Vedic hymn.

We can understand from the above hymn about the importance given to rivers on ancient days. Hydro power projects and Hydro carbon fuels are examples to explain the liquid sources of energy.

Lemuria Dravids driven out from there by the water (Indian ocean's erosion). Indus valley Dravidian were forced to vacate due to scarce of water, in a contrast. It is my wild imagination that the Lemuria Dravids would have occupied the Indus valley after driven out from there during the first erosion of their land.

It is awful to note that the oldest Human sapience' origin was Lemuria Dravidian's (African forest which was a part of Lemuria). The oldest world civilisation also belongs to Dravidian. While all the other world civilisations became extinct, Indus valley Dravidian civilisation alone is still existing.

Digging continues.         

Monday, August 9, 2010

2. Lemuria

The earth where we live was not as we see today in the past. It has changed it's water and land portions several times.

There was no Arabian sea or Bay of Bengal or Indian ocean as we see today in ancient days. There was a big land portion below the southern tip of India. That land portion spread upto 250 Kilometers on south. Also it extended upto Madagascar on west and Borneo island on east. It may be a surprise to know that there was no Himalayas. (There is no reference about Himalayas in Hindu Vedas). Himalayas was under the sea. Fossils of sea living insects were said to be found on Himalayan rocks.

Since there were many Lemurs (A kind of monkey), this land portion was called as Lemuria. It is also called as 'Kumari Kandam' in Tamil language.

Eventhough the world research scholars have not yet confirmed the existence of Lemuria, there are many references in Tamil literatures as evidence to accept this fact.

We understood from the references that the people in this region were speaking in Tamil. 'Silappadhikaram' and 'Purananuru' are the two ancient Tamil literatures where there are references about Lemuria. There are evidences to tell that Tamil was the spoken language through out India on olden days.

Tribal in Australia are still speaking a language which is very close to Tamil. In a recent Tamil conference, one Korean scholar spoke that his language is having many Tamil words. It is not necessary to tell that Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada, Thulu and few other Indian languages are the sister languages to Tamil.

It was established few years before that the DNA test on the present Tamil community people confirms with the oldest human skeleton found at an African forest. This again partly confirms the connection of land portion between present India and Africa (Lemuria continent).      

The above literatures refer to the erosion of this land portion by the sea. During first erosion, Africa was separated from India. Then, Australia, Ceylon, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and other land portions were separated during consecutive erosions. We are understanding few more informations also from those literatures.

1. There were 49 nations (Nadu) in Lemuria.

2. There was a big mountain running from south east to north west.

3. There was a river with a name 'Pahruli aru'.

4. There was a place called 'Kabadapuram', where a Tamil academy started. It consists of 48 Tamil scholars who were judging the merits of new literatures. This place drowned first. Most of the people and their literatures perished.

5. The second Tamil academy was established at a place called 'Madurai' (Not the present). This place also eroded by sea. Again many people and their literatures drowned.

  The third academy was established during second century B.C. at the present Madurai.

It is understood that the escaped people from this Lemuria have migrated to various areas in the north. One such group went upto England. Their lineage still living in England as tribal and called themselves as 'Aryans'.

Exodus continues.      

Sunday, August 8, 2010

1. Creation

We know that the Earth we live is a part of the Universe. The Universe consists of Space,Air,Heat,Liquid and Solids. Solids may be in the form of the Earth, the Planets, the Stars etc. We do not know the details, on 'who or which and when they were created?'

Modern scientists and ancient religious leaders have given different stories on the above creations. No one tried yet to know the origins for the Space, the Air, the heat and the Liquids but much importance is being given to the earth (Solid) since it is within our reach.   

What scientists say?:
'Big bang theory' is the explanation being given for creations of the Earth and other planets in the Universe. Still the experiments are going on.

Big bang theory: Around 450 crores of years before, the Sun relieved few of its portions to fly away. The theory says that such portions alone have become as the Planets, the Stars, the Earth etc. While coming out of the Sun, the Earth piece was with 4000 degree Celsius heat. There was rain over the Earth for about 300 crores of years to cool the surface and make the place suitable for the lives to start living.

The first single cell Amoeba was followed by other lives up to the present human species called 'homo sapients'. The oldest homo sapient skeleton was found in the African forest and it's estimated age was above 30,000 years.

According to research (Telecasted by BBC), the lineage of the oldest human was found in present community by using DNA test method. It is surprising to note that they are said to be living at Tinneveli, Tamilnadu, South India. The name of the community is 'Veerumandi'. They are 'Dravidians' or 'Tamils'.

What Hindu religion says: Before starting creations, there was only a potential energy called a creator or God. 'OHM' was the constant sound hearing from that / Him. That state was said to be 'Yoga Nithra' (deep meditation).
The energy or the God started moving after woke up from 'Yoga Nithra'. That movement made a vibration on the sound 'OHM'.

That vibration revealed the energy or the God as the Space. The same energy enters into the space as the Air. The vibration within the Air developed heat. The difference in heat created the Liquids. When the Liquid vibrated, foam was formed. That foam dried in heat and became solid.       

Being the parts of the main energy or the God, all the above five sources (Space, Air, Heat, Liquid and Solids) are called 'Pancha Boodhas' (Five resources of energies).

Combinations of one or more of the above energies are the cause for lives (Including the Human).

'Sankya dharshana of Kabila Saint' quotes Karmendriyas, Gnanendriyas, It's activities (Than maththras), Pancha boodhas, manas, sidha, budhdhi and Purusha joined together completes a human body. Here 'Purusha' means God himself.

What the Bible says:
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form. God said "Let there be light". God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light as day and the dark as night.

God said "Let there be firmament in the midst of the water". God called the firmament as heaven.

God said "Let the waters under the heavens be separated together into one place and let the dry land appear". He called the dry land as earth and the water as sea. He brought the plants on the earth.

God said "Let there be lights in the firmament to separate the day from the night"

God said "Let the waters bring forth swarms of living creatures and birds fly above"

God said "Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds"

All the above creations were made good according to God's command in five consecutive days.

Then on the sixth day God said "Let us make man in OUR image, after OUR likeness and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air .....",  So God crated man in his OWN image.
                                                                                - Revised Standard Version Second edition 'The Bible'.

To provide company to Adam, one of his bone was used to create Eve. 

One Irish Bishop has calculated 'the year in when Adam was created?' based on the information in the Bible and found that Adam's (First human) present age is around 6010 years (6005 years when that book was published). 

Let us continue with our research.