New-Age-Center

By: Amlan Roychowdhury


Statistically there are over 700 million Hindus in Bharat India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and world over. Hinduism is also reffered to as Sanatan Dharma which means eternal faith. Hinduism is a religion, but strictly speaking it is not a religion. It is based on the practice of Dharma, the code of life.The very word BHARAT comes from a Sanskrit phrase "bhayam ratah bharatah" means the one who is totally dedicated to the way of life based on the divine knowledge, even today this is the official name of our country i.e. bharat, India. Since Hinduism has no founder anyone who practices the dharma can call himself a Hindu. He has so much freedom that he can even question the authority of any scripture or even the existence of the divine. So how does Hinduism differ from other religion? The difference is very basic. Religion means to bind and dharma which means to hold, and hold what? It is the inner laws that man holds on to and this is what leads man from ignorance to truth. It does not have a bible or a Koran to which controvercies can be reffered for resolution. This way of life or the sanatan dharma comes out from the scriptures which are the oldest in the history of man’s development and evolution.The Bhagawat Geeta is the synopsis of all the vedic scripture. It is like the cream from millions of litres of milk.

This religion is widely percepted to have originated in the Indian subcontinent. This religion is practiced by the inhabitants and also by the people and the families who have migrated to various other geographical areas and countries. What is Hinduism and how is it connected to the vedic civilization. Sanatan dharma. To answer these questions we have to know what is vedic civilization and who are the representative of the vedic civilization.the antiquity of the vedic civilization.

About three year ago I was reading a book by Bob Bryer, a renowned Egyptologist, titled "The Murder Of Tutankhamen”. While reading the book I found that there were some very fundamental similarities between the then Egyptian civilization and that of the present Vedic civilization i.e. the Hindus living wherever they are.

The similarities can be enumerated as follows:

1. Tutankhamen’s Father Akhenaten, the pharaoh, shifted his capital to a place called Amarna and erected a temple dedicated to the Sun god and named the temple as " THE KARNAK" Temple.The sun god in the Hindu pantheon is an important deity and a temple dedicated to the Sun God is situated in the state of Orissa build in 1278 CE by Narasimha Deva. This temple is called "THE KONARAK TEMPLE." We do see a phonetic similarity here.

2. When the Pharaoh dies he is first mummified and then taken on a last journey along with all his belongings. All along the route through which his body passes, paid mourners stand lined on both sides of the route and they wail beating their chest. This is exactly what the "rudalis" of Tribal Purilia in west Bengal does. Beating their chest and crying loudly is a means of livelihood. It is done to express the grief when a person of wealthy means dies

3.In the Egyptian phonetics the word “Wadi” prounced as waadi means beautiful valley, lush and green . In the devnagri phonetics of which the language Hindi is a derivative the word “Wadi” also means the same thing.

Seeing so many similarities between the Egyptian and the vedic civilization I decided to probe into this further.

What I found in the course of my studies, which is still continuing as I have to find time between my job as a cabin crew and my studies, can be surmised as follows.

Vedic civilization is the only civilization which does not have a start up date. Every other civilization can be said to have started on so and so date but not the vedic civilization

Vedic civilization can be defined as that civilization which wrote the vedic scriptures and which follows the vedic way of life as per the scriptures. Such a civilization today are the Hindus all over who are the followers of the vedic scripture. Therefore Hinduism is also called the Sanatan Dharma.

If this is the oldest civilization then the time frame of this civilization has to be established.

The Vedic Civilization can be dated as far back as 10000 years BC that means 12000 years from present.The evidence of this antiquity is found in the book by Dr.B.G.Sidharth titled " The Celestial Key To The Vedas"

Amlan Roychowdhury