Vedic Civilization
I noticed something the other day, or rather a website I was randomly googling pointed it out to me: Abraham, Brahma, Abraham, Brahma, Abraham, Brahma... It is not a co-incidence that those two words sound the same. So, where did the Jews get their monotheism from? India. And where did the Indians get it from? The mysterious soma drink, obviously :P
Also, the similarities between Ancient Greek and Sanskrit cannot be overlooked. This predates Alexander The Great, so I think its pretty clear who was inspiring who. Unfortunately, most Europeans don't much like the idea that their treasured Greek heritage is in fact founded on something much, much, MUCH older (just as Christians and Muslims hate being reminded that their religion is a cheap rip off of Judaism :P). There was no "pro-indo-european" people. No blonde haired blue eyed Aryans who invaded India from the North. Europe inherited its culture from India, plain and simple. Vedic Civilization pre-dates both Sumer and Egypt. They were reciting poetry and debating the sex of angels while we were huddling in caves trying not to freeze to death. Deal with it.
I'll leave it to the experts for a full analysis of the sacrificial rites described in Leviticus as compared to those required by Agni.
Imagine if Homeric bards were found today who could still chant the Iliad and Odyssey according to the oral tradition handed down from Homeric times! This would be heralded as a monumental event. Yet the Vedic tradition was possibly as ancient to Homer when he lived as Homer is to us today.
Vedic civilization centered around the discovery of pure consciousness and the
delineation of its structure. The Rig Veda and the Vedic literature gave a monumental
depiction of this structure of eternal consciousness. These remarkable works give a
complete science of the structure of pure knowledge that exists within the self of
everyone. It was from this cognition of the structure of Veda and the Vedic literature
that the civilization was born.
In the West, by comparison, there was no sustained theme of enlightenment remotely
comparable to the Vedic tradition. There was no sustained tradition of knowledge based
on the experience of consciousness. The early history of western Europe, including the
glory of ancient Greece, are sparks, brilliant though they be, from the great fire of
knowledge of Vedic India.
Veda means knowledge. It refers to the kind
of knowledge that comes from transcending activity to experience the knowledge
structured within the inner silence of consciousness itself. Veda is the self-knowledge
consciousness of itself, consciousness knowing its own nature. This knowledge exists
deep within everyone, deep within our own consciousness, but we are out of touch with
it because we have lost the ancient knowledge of how to go within. By diving deep
within the self, and beyond our own individual consciousness, to the universal allpervading consciousness,
when consciousness is still and deeply silent, we too can
experience the Veda. It is this experience from which all Vedic knowledge comes. On
the basis of this experience, we can know the structure of the Veda that exists eternally
in consciousness.
The Veda is the expression of the knowledge gained during transcending, or going
beyond active mind and finite mind, to experience the infinite consciousness that lies at
the basis of all created things. This experience gives knowledge of the eternal
consciousness that pervades all creation. It is not localized to individual awareness. It is
universal all-pervading consciousness. Anyone can gain access to this consciousness by
transcending activity to experience the infinite, unbounded silence at the basis of
creation.
The desert is always a nice place to meditate.
Also, the similarities between Ancient Greek and Sanskrit cannot be overlooked. This predates Alexander The Great, so I think its pretty clear who was inspiring who. Unfortunately, most Europeans don't much like the idea that their treasured Greek heritage is in fact founded on something much, much, MUCH older (just as Christians and Muslims hate being reminded that their religion is a cheap rip off of Judaism :P). There was no "pro-indo-european" people. No blonde haired blue eyed Aryans who invaded India from the North. Europe inherited its culture from India, plain and simple. Vedic Civilization pre-dates both Sumer and Egypt. They were reciting poetry and debating the sex of angels while we were huddling in caves trying not to freeze to death. Deal with it.
I'll leave it to the experts for a full analysis of the sacrificial rites described in Leviticus as compared to those required by Agni.
Imagine if Homeric bards were found today who could still chant the Iliad and Odyssey according to the oral tradition handed down from Homeric times! This would be heralded as a monumental event. Yet the Vedic tradition was possibly as ancient to Homer when he lived as Homer is to us today.
Vedic civilization centered around the discovery of pure consciousness and the
delineation of its structure. The Rig Veda and the Vedic literature gave a monumental
depiction of this structure of eternal consciousness. These remarkable works give a
complete science of the structure of pure knowledge that exists within the self of
everyone. It was from this cognition of the structure of Veda and the Vedic literature
that the civilization was born.
In the West, by comparison, there was no sustained theme of enlightenment remotely
comparable to the Vedic tradition. There was no sustained tradition of knowledge based
on the experience of consciousness. The early history of western Europe, including the
glory of ancient Greece, are sparks, brilliant though they be, from the great fire of
knowledge of Vedic India.
Veda means knowledge. It refers to the kind
of knowledge that comes from transcending activity to experience the knowledge
structured within the inner silence of consciousness itself. Veda is the self-knowledge
consciousness of itself, consciousness knowing its own nature. This knowledge exists
deep within everyone, deep within our own consciousness, but we are out of touch with
it because we have lost the ancient knowledge of how to go within. By diving deep
within the self, and beyond our own individual consciousness, to the universal allpervading consciousness,
when consciousness is still and deeply silent, we too can
experience the Veda. It is this experience from which all Vedic knowledge comes. On
the basis of this experience, we can know the structure of the Veda that exists eternally
in consciousness.
The Veda is the expression of the knowledge gained during transcending, or going
beyond active mind and finite mind, to experience the infinite consciousness that lies at
the basis of all created things. This experience gives knowledge of the eternal
consciousness that pervades all creation. It is not localized to individual awareness. It is
universal all-pervading consciousness. Anyone can gain access to this consciousness by
transcending activity to experience the infinite, unbounded silence at the basis of
creation.
The desert is always a nice place to meditate.