Adi Shankara , star among the collossal of intellectuals from ancient India.

To explain to Youngsters who want to know Ancient Indian wisdom,  I  will say , "What Einstein is to Science,  Adi Shankara is to Religion and Spirituality.

How many of us know and understand :"The theory of relativity "  to know the contribution of Einstein to Science ? In short,  E= m C2  explained the relation between Energy and matter hither too thought to be different are related by Einstein. So also Relative theory puts whole universe into comparison to other which includes time also. Again this is a new concept which changed world science beyond recognition.

Coming to shri Adi Shankara, He is the proponent of  "Advaita"  philosophy  declared unity of   Humanity and Divinity,  which were hither too thought to be separate entities.  Vedas proclaimed it earlier but the proof  and convincing  is required as it is not followed , applied and realized. Not only that,  two most tested paths to Divinity ie., Devotion and Jnana( knowledge) are  unified by Adi Shankara which gave him a unique distinction of  unifying  6 different religions and establishing  " Brhma Satyam and Jagan Mithya ( means Universe is illusion and  God is Truth) . In Indian philosophy, there is no final thing. Like in Science, one has to prove all past experiments with the theory while proclaim a new theory and prove it. As a result, Indian wisdom is always questioned and always Truth prevails with new findings and old  experiments with Truth are respected. Hence Ancient Indian wisdom never condemns old theories , but refines and re-defines the Truth. This is a very complex process and masses can not understand this like we all can nto prove or disprove "Theory of relativity " though we know Einstein is a colossal figure in modern science. Unfortunately, in modern times, people who never experimented  with Truth nor experienced Truth argue for known or unknown reasons. Adi Shakara explained" Advaita theory" which is in essence Unity of creation. on similar lines, Einstein proposed "Unfed theory, but could not prove it. it remained Utopia for him till his end.
Where as sri Adi Shankara not only proved , but also lived his theory and remained as one of the most profound figures in Spiritual  history.

 The intellectual level of Adi Shankara is so high that even to-day, what he postulated is NOT fully understood by common man and require high evolved spiritual saints to ponder, debate and get explanation for it. There is only one intellectual  in spiritual India who is Buddha  who has explained Jnana yoga and touch the heights of explanation  in the last 2000 years. Other spiritual leaders  relied on  devotion and faith which saved the intellectual  labor for the people to understand their theory.

The Advaita theory of Adi Shankara is explained in two ways. one is Maya Theory  which negates all the visual world as we have to prove unseen Divinity. In other words, If I car head lights have to see the road, they can nto see inside of the car. If  we have top  see in side of the car, we can use the head lights. Our senses are designed to see outside universe  and God is not seen by  as Allah is also not seen for the same reason. So Adi Shankar used logic and proved the substance used for universe is not new as God existed before universe is created. hence  God is universe and universe is God. the reason we are not able to see it is explicitly same as  those who click photos will not be in the picture. But greatness of Adi Shankara is in living and proving the unity of world. and His super natural powers which are un paralleled though he never used them to convince others for the logic of Advaita. 

Other  way of explanation  of  "Advaita(Unity)  theory is  unity of all human beings, unity of universe which explains how one substance is seen as different substances by the vision rather than existence.
Adi Shankara re-proclaimed 4 Maha vakyas  from Vedas to sum up Advaita tehory.
"Prajananam Brhma" means knower, known and Knowledge is one and same.
Ayam Atma Brhma " means I am the Divinity as "I " alone is the seer for all. if "I " does not exist, see'er does not exist and universe is nto existing for "i".
Tatvam Asi " You are that Divinity. as what ever we see is Divinity. "Sarvam Khalvidham Brhma"
Aham Brhmasmi , I am Divinity , as who proclaims "I" is Divinity.

if I am not able to explain these 4 sentences, it is because the author is not a self realized soul.Not realizing self is by ignorance. Knowing is not getting rid of ignorance, living or seeing in real life is self realizing.

Adi Shankara  has a title of " Jagat Guru( Teacher for the whole Universe) which does not limit him to any particular religion . His principles are applicable to all religions and all human beings and whole universe.

Ancient Indian Strategy - Chanakya head and shoulders above many contemporaries

Recently, I was reading a book titled " Corporate Chanakya"  and  wondering how Chanakya's strategy  humbled " Alexander,  the Great " . History recorded that Alexander came to conquer India and went back humbled by Magadha Army which stood like an Ocean. In fact, Alexander has not done a war against Magadha army , but reached up to  Pruthviraj Chauhan who was ruling northern Punjab at that time.
In fact, Chankya's strategy was such that, Alexander has not waged war against Magadh. His soldiers were not willing to continue the war. He employed Seleucus, his major general in India and returned . No body heard about Seleucus  after wards. Alexander himself realised richness of India is not in Gold and opulence ,but in their treasure of Spirituality. There was a story of a naked fakir( actually called Sanyasi  in India) who taught Alexander "Fear" and  vairagya , means giving up all worldly attachment. 

Coming back to Chanakya, who was considered as an all time wisest of men , can easily compete
 with western intellectuals in materialistic pursuits and also uphold Indian penchant for spiritual vairagya. 
He wrote a book called"Artha sastra" which is a treatise not only on Politics , btui also on Finance. 
He created " akhand Bharat" concept of united India almost after few thousand years after  a greatest King called "Bharat" on whose name, India is formed. This Bharat was a king before Sriram which shows he must be dating back to history as far as it was recorded. Here we have to remember one thing, the Washington museum has a Golden "Vishnu" statue from India which dated about 35,000 years and it is shame on world politicians to hide this fact. Even Shiva temples in Middle east are suppressed. I saw one Shiva temple in Bahrain which dated back to 5000 years ,where a Nandi (Bull) and a traditional prakara( boundary wall) are found in suburbs. In fact, with great confidence I can tell, when several western countries were struggling with fire and wheel , India was ahead of them by thousands of years with Bhrmastra ( nuclear war heads)  and Vimana  (aeroplanes).

Chanakya's credit is to come out with war as well economic sutras( principles) which are time tested .
In a sense Chanakya is a kin to Western thinking as far is strategy is considered like punishment, control and discipline is concerned , where as Indian wisdom is on compassion, non-violence and even forgiving the enemy. to an extent, the Buddhism also affected Indian thinking. But Vedic culture  is firmly based on Universal oneness and hence there is not palce for vengeance and punishment  as all creatures were considered God. 
in short, Chanakya  has integrated western and Eastern thinking which is more like to-days' world where even west accepted the fallacy of elimination and  superiority of transformation. 
Chanakya did that and he defeats Nanda dynasty and established their prime minister as advisor to Chandra Gupta which is clear case of Transformation. 

one example of Chanakya's  principle is we should not be residual enemy which means we have to completely eliminate enemy . this is like western strategy. another is King should be aware of what is happening in his kingdom for  which he has to be in disguise and roam in streets in the night to know public opinion. there are several principles written By chanakya which are compiled in "Artha Sashtra".

Ancient Indian way of Non -violent wars - Ashwamedha yaga

War is unimaginable without violence. Non-violence is the outcome of Truth realized by Ancient Indians which is based on unity of Humanity and Single source of Life which is called Paramatma. All creatures have Atma which is called Jivatma. essentially Atma is same. But when it dwells in individual creatures , it is given a name "Jivatma". other wise, it is called "Paramatma", hence violence is nothing but one is against himself. In this context, how a war can be waged against others. A very interesting way is called "Ashwametha". Unfortunately, like all Indian scriptures symbolism is missed by all western , and of course now, by  Indian readers also.  Let us understand "Ashwa" means that which moves continuously. As Horse sleeps while standing and always moves one or other part of his body to ward of flys and otehr insects, a horse also called "Ashwa". When some body says,"Ashwa, all people know they are talking about a horse. As Hinduism is about Symbols( please read my earlier blogs on Symbolism). Ashwa stands for "Mind".

Now let  us see what are the rituals for "Ashwametha".  A king brings a horse and does a puja along with his wife and then leave the "Horse" to go around the kingdom as well as outside the Kingdom. If any person is capable of defeating the king, he will capture the horse and there will be a fight and if they king is the winner , he will release the horse. other wise, horse will be captive by capturer.

if you go by the meaning of Ashwa as horse, it is physical war with or without violence. Now if horse is  mind, what you have to do is to conquer the territories by mind .That is ideological war than physical war. Long back Mao tse Tung , the Former  China chief said," India conquered China without single soldier". that is called cultural war. Holdign horse symbolically means mind control.

let us see more in details in subsequent posts.

How ancient Indian wisdom is related to Sanskrit language ?

Sanskrit and Hindu religion are linked . for that matter all ancient religions are linked to ancient languages. Holy Bible is written in Hebrew and Holy Quron is written in Old Arabic and Vedas are in Sanskrit.  Modern Indians do not know Sanskrit. By giving up Sanskrit, we not only left a scientific language which has phonetic power related to Vibrations, but also made all Hindus following rituals without knowing meaning . We do not know why we take Arghyam, why we give Arati, why we invite guests with Poornami kimbha and became robots while performing puja and no wonder self realisation is utopia not only for west and for us also. That is what Lord Shiva, taught tribal woman Parvati   how to reach God.  That is Guru Geetha. That is essentially ancient wisdom by which  humanity  could  ascend to divinity. Hindus  do not need a priest between man and God like other religions. Unless priest becomes an empty flute without ego to give us melodious music of krishna, There are allegations that  Brhamins  kept Vedas as secret  which is  NOT true as they were not taught ,but available for others like Rajas, while others were too poor to  afford education and sanskrit . Even for those who chanted without knowing Sanskrit , Vedas became  sacred texts which were worshiped than understood. Veda Vyasa and Valmiki were not B Sanskrit gives us direct knowledge of God and Vedas and Upanishads  so simple which explain God is inside every one. So a real Hindu who knows scriptures,  can never hate others . This is ancient Indian wisdom. Now you decide if we want to know God by knowing Sanskrit language or follow rituals like illiterate. I recommend to all Muslims to read Holy Quron in Arabic  read original Bible in Hebrew (not listen thru priests), If you do not understand, try to practicing and learning, not blindly listening. Every one explains in a way advantageous to him or her . Learn Sanskrit and we will not find one single sloka denouncing others , that is why India did not invade other countries though it was most prosperous till Alexander invaded . Even he accepted Ancient Indian greatness. Mera Bharst Mahan tha.  Phir mahan Banega. 

Origin of Sanskrit is not from humans and that is why it called "Deva Bhasha" meaning language of Gods.  It is the only language which is like  computer language very scientific and akin to binary language which makes it only language which is liek machine language which can be understood by even computers also.  while otehr languages are phonetic, Sanskrit is "derived" language". What is derived language? The meaning of a word is same as the name of the word. for example, if we say "Vishnu", which corresponds to the Hindu God Vishnu, which corresponds to the quality of Vishnu , which is "Sarva Vyapakatha" ( spread through out of universe.) . so also several words which explain  meaning for words built in the  meaning of every word. It is better and preferable to read the scritures in Sanskrit as this way , we can never looses the meaning of there words. 

Calculations in Ancient Indian texts - distance between Sun and Earth

Introduction:
In vedas, there is  mention about the location of God,which is fully explained in Purusha suktam, which my father used to explain me daily. in fact, this is repeated in all temples during main Puja, Abhishekam and in Yagnas and Homams which are Hindu rituals. However no body is either NOT bothered to know or not believing or not knowing it. . That is what is called "maya"
(illusion) where ignorance over takes Knowledge, not in one person, in several groups of people as our "eye" is external or vision is external NOT internal. let us see simple calculations in Hanuman Chalisa, a hymn or prayer to Lord Hanuman.. 

Ref: Hanuman Chalisa  :
"Yug sahastra yojan per Bhanu!
Leelyo taahi madhur phal janu!!
 
1 Yug = 12000 years
1 Sahastra = 1000
1 Yojan = 8 Miles
 
Yug x Sahastra x Yojan = par Bhanu
12000 x 1000 x 8 miles = 96000000 miles
 
1 mile = 1.6kms
 
96000000 miles = 96000000 x 1.6kms =
1536000000 kms to Sun
 
NASA has said that, it is the exact distance between Earth and Sun (Bhanu).
Which proves Hanuman ji did jump from Earth till Sun, thinking it as a sweet fruit (Madhur phal)...
 
It is really interesting how accurate and meaningful our ancient scriptures are...
Unfortunately barely it is recognized, interpreted accurately or realized by anyone in today's time

Indian Caste system- misunderstanding

Every body questions ancient Indian wisdom and caste system in India.

There was no proof or history where one caste killed another caste person by stating caste alone as a reason.

Kshatriyas married Brhamins.Brhmins married kshatriyas.

Kshatriyas married all castes.

Sahnatanu married fisher woman  and children ruled india . that is the story fo mahabahrata.

Yayati , kshatriya married Devayani( daughter of Shukra charya, Brhamin)

Vasishta married “Arundhaati “ , who is shudra lady.

However, castes are respecting each others thinking and life style and priority of their lives.

It is by “Guna”, Varna is defined.  I call it priority or value system.

Brahmins pripority is knowledge, especially spiritual knowledge.

Kshatriya’s prinority is protecting people and land.

Vuasya’s priority is agriculture and trade and making money for sthe society.

Shudras are working force , that means employees, like us.

Now read, western phiolosophy, who heavily criticize Hindu caste sytem.

Very Interesting facts!!!

You know the Latin Catholic will not enter to Syrian Catholic Church,

These two will not enter to Marthoma church,

These three will not enter to Penthacost church,

These four will not enter to Salvation Army church,

These five will not enter to 7th day Adventist church,

These six will not enter to Orthodox Church,

These seven will not enter to Jacobite church.........

Like this, it appears there are 146 castes in Kerala alone for Christianity; each will never share their churches for Christians!

Wonderful!!!

One Christ, One Bible, One Jehovah....!!! 

Christians fought not among religions lines, but among countries for the rule.

It is created by rulers.

Yes, there were no fights among Indian religions, NOR among castes.

Of course, There were fights between Veera vaishanvas and Veera saivas in 1200- 1400. Ad.

Which was very short and restricted to South India.

Earlier, Shri Adi Shankaracharya improved  understanding between six sects of Hinduism. That is why he is called

“ snamata sthapana” ( established 6 religion sects in Hinduism) . In reality, there is no HINDUISM, as we have Sanatana Dharma, old religion.

We accepted all religions and decalred ”Buddha”  and Rishibha( jain originator)  as incarnation fo Vishnu.

Only politicians get votes among lines of castes. They divided people on castes.

There is only one class, Rich and Poor. They fight .But it is Rich who win.

Because, they divide and rule others.

It is not British, nor congress, who ever rules, he divides and rules.

When British tried to rule india, they thought there were not enough religions who fight in India

As Jains, Busshists  were not  fighting  with Hindus .

So they said, Sikhs are different religion. Even they never fought with Hindus

except under  Congress rule.

So castism was thought as dividing factor. Even that was not mentioned a single time as

Vaisya  caste Gandhi was leading others. He also called “sudras who are not part of  four Hindu caste system ” as panchama (Harijan) > how that caste was created as they were “untouchables”

Not because of caste, but as they were not sent out like British sent out crimilnals to Australia.

There was only one punishment called” desha bahishkarana”) sendng out of country.

These people had a choice to go to neighboring country.but many never went ,but stayed in outskirts of the city and were dependent on kingdom for survival. Many compassionate people fed them.But

They were not having citizenship. Thus they became a bid creed. Please do nto confuse them with

Tribals as tribal’s have their own customs and they never allowed any one in their group.

Westerners never had patience nor understood Ancient Indian culture ,but started criticizing castes

And multi God system, which shows we tolerate others ,But DO NOT ELIMINATE OTHERS

LIKE  Americans eliminated ”Red Indians” and Europeans eliminated “Nomads”.

In conclusion, Indian caste system was meant to be good for work classification. Subsequently, some un wanted elements or practices might have crept in, but on the whole, understanding

And mututal trust and co-operation if cultivated, society will benefit than aboloishing

Castes which will create more  confusion.

Any system can be a problem, instead of abolishing, it has to be resurrected.

Caste systems gives easy living as valvue system is different castes while “ justice “is same for all.

Pl. give your comments on “Ancient Indian system- Caste system”.

Athentication of Ancient Indian wisdom

The problem with Ancient Indian wisdom is that we do nto have authentic wisdom. Vedas are not published nor have author. so is knowledge of many fields. so we have to come out with a different way of authentication. for eg. we can not patent ideas,but prove with present methods or testing tools. our ancient Indian wisdom is by concepts. present  knowledge is by proof. our ancestors left the wisdom of a man to take it or leave it. he did nto bother to prove. pl. read my blog on the same title. this leaves us only two choices.one commenting on concept. or proposing new concept. how is it authenticated. God knows ! or self realization. thus Indian wisdom is most democratic. western wisdom is also coming to the same point. but right now, it is still hierarchical. so what is the problem with this ? any body can propose or publish and innocent people get misguided. in other words, there is a confusion. Even Dvaita, Advaita and Vishist-advaita gurus have not cleared he doubts and we are following all three.
so how do we document is a problem.   hence two essential principles. one source. second comment. eg. source. sage Vashishta : comment" Rajasekhar . now Vasishta has not documented nor other is no authentic document. there will be several Vashishta texts. Second one "comment is required as we have to realise and confirm. then only publish as  it becomes relevant for us. Take Ayurveda. we have several medicines. now which one we will use it? so Ayurveda universities have to publish book and give ref. and authentication. we will use it as ref.though they may not have patent, others can not use it without published or authenticated source.this will bring Ancient Indian Wisdom into a science. till then it is "mythology" copy right. P.B. Rajasekhar - blog Ancient Indian Wisdom.