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Sagefrakrobatik
18 June 2009, 06:28 AM
I got a collection of handouts my professor passed on on India that I thought i would share with this forum. Some of you may already know this but it is still interesting;

1. Satyendranath Bose (1894-1974) Indian Physcisit, who solved one the mysterious of quantum mechanics, showing that in the quantum world some particles are indistinguishable. His collaborations with Albert Einstien led to a new branch on statistical mechanics known commonly as the "Einstein-Bose" Statistics.

2. Amartya Sen (b-1933); 1988 The Nobel Prize for Economics for his redefining work on ethical welfare economics.

3. Sir Jagdish Candra Bose, (1858-1937) USA based IEEE has proved what has been a century old suspcion amongst academics that the pioneer of wire-less radio communication was professor Jagidesh Chandra Bose and not Guglielmo Marconi.

4. The World's first university was established in Takshila in 700 BC Students from all over the world studied more than 60 subjects.

5. The University of Nalanda build in the 4th century was one of the greatest achievments of ancient India in the field of education

5. Sanskrit is considered the mother of all higher languages, it is the most precise and therefore suitable language for computer software--Forbes Magazine july 1987. It is the the oldest and most scientific systematic language of the world. It means "perfected" (I wonder what measures someone would use to test the precisness of language??)

Here are some sanskrit words similar to english counterwords;

Matar=mother
Bhratar=Brother
Trikonamiti=Trigonometry
Smi=Smile
gyaamti=geometry.

6. Bhaskaracharya calculated Earth's revolutions around the sun in the 5th century to 365.2587756484.

7. Aryabhatta also propounded the Heliocentric theory of gravitation, thus predating Corpenicus by almost a thousand years.

8. Algebra, trignometry and calculus came from India.

9. Maharshi Sustra is the archetype of surgery. He performed complicated surgeries like cataracts and urinary stones etc. 2000 years ago!

10. Modern day maritial arts can be traced back to Kerela. connected to the science of war (Dhanur-veda) and medicine (ayur-veda).

11. Bodhidharma started Kung-fu and traveled to China from India.

12. Although the summer temperatures are usually mild and balanced by moonsoons temperatures can reach as high as 120 degrees Farinheit in the Indo-Gangetic Plain.

13. Harppan Civilization-developed sophisticated sanitary systems by ancient standards and had produce surplus of crops just like the Pharoh did in the bible.

I dont know if any evidence has surfaced since this publication but it says that "No Harappan temples, shrines or religious writing have been found." So was hinduism aka Santa Dharma absent during this time? Is there any evidence to suggest otherwise? However the text says that the people of the Indus River depicted animals in their religious rituals.

14. Diamonds were only in India until the turn of the 20th century according to the Gemology Institute of America.

15. Chess (Shataranja or Ashtapada) was invented in India.

Eastern Mind
18 June 2009, 07:55 AM
Yup we gotta goes over dair and beckon dose discusting dirty backward idol worshipping bride-burning heathens to the opening arms of Geezuz, the Lord of mankind. Besides we need sum wurkers for dem dair cane fields.

Nice post, Sage. And that's just the beginning.

Aum Namasivaya

satay
18 June 2009, 11:50 AM
namaskar,
Thanks for sharing the information.

What is 'santa dharma'?


So was hinduism aka Santa Dharma absent during this time? Is there any evidence to suggest otherwise? However the text says that the people of the Indus River depicted animals in their religious rituals.

Abdul
19 June 2009, 10:06 AM
Yes mera bharat is mahan!


I got a collection of handouts my professor passed on on India that I thought i would share with this forum. Some of you may already know this but it is still interesting;

1. Satyendranath Bose (1894-1974) Indian Physcisit, who solved one the mysterious of quantum mechanics, showing that in the quantum world some particles are indistinguishable. His collaborations with Albert Einstien led to a new branch on statistical mechanics known commonly as the "Einstein-Bose" Statistics.

2. Amartya Sen (b-1933); 1988 The Nobel Prize for Economics for his redefining work on ethical welfare economics.

3. Sir Jagdish Candra Bose, (1858-1937) USA based IEEE has proved what has been a century old suspcion amongst academics that the pioneer of wire-less radio communication was professor Jagidesh Chandra Bose and not Guglielmo Marconi.

4. The World's first university was established in Takshila in 700 BC Students from all over the world studied more than 60 subjects.

5. The University of Nalanda build in the 4th century was one of the greatest achievments of ancient India in the field of education

5. Sanskrit is considered the mother of all higher languages, it is the most precise and therefore suitable language for computer software--Forbes Magazine july 1987. It is the the oldest and most scientific systematic language of the world. It means "perfected" (I wonder what measures someone would use to test the precisness of language??)

Here are some sanskrit words similar to english counterwords;

Matar=mother
Bhratar=Brother
Trikonamiti=Trigonometry
Smi=Smile
gyaamti=geometry.

6. Bhaskaracharya calculated Earth's revolutions around the sun in the 5th century to 365.2587756484.

7. Aryabhatta also propounded the Heliocentric theory of gravitation, thus predating Corpenicus by almost a thousand years.

8. Algebra, trignometry and calculus came from India.

9. Maharshi Sustra is the archetype of surgery. He performed complicated surgeries like cataracts and urinary stones etc. 2000 years ago!

10. Modern day maritial arts can be traced back to Kerela. connected to the science of war (Dhanur-veda) and medicine (ayur-veda).

11. Bodhidharma started Kung-fu and traveled to China from India.

12. Although the summer temperatures are usually mild and balanced by moonsoons temperatures can reach as high as 120 degrees Farinheit in the Indo-Gangetic Plain.

13. Harppan Civilization-developed sophisticated sanitary systems by ancient standards and had produce surplus of crops just like the Pharoh did in the bible.

I dont know if any evidence has surfaced since this publication but it says that "No Harappan temples, shrines or religious writing have been found." So was hinduism aka Santa Dharma absent during this time? Is there any evidence to suggest otherwise? However the text says that the people of the Indus River depicted animals in their religious rituals.

14. Diamonds were only in India until the turn of the 20th century according to the Gemology Institute of America.

15. Chess (Shataranja or Ashtapada) was invented in India.

shian
26 June 2009, 09:02 PM
danta = dental = tooth

is very much of sanskrit , we can learn from history about europe peoples and english language history etc...

Indonesian language also much of sanskrit

bhaktajan
13 August 2009, 01:37 PM
Here are some suggested topics for teachers of Hindu theology, history, and meta-physics from the 'Vedas' of India:


1) Vedas=Knowledge. Knowledge is defined in the Vedas as the ability to discriminate the difference between matter and spirit.
The famous first verse of the Rig-Veda: "om atha-atho brahma-jigyansah" Now, therefore, in the human form of life we should inquire as to nature of Brahman (the Supreme Personality of Godhead).

2) God=The original Supreme Personality of Godhead, Shree Krishna who is infinitely full in all opulences ("Bhagavan"), specifically:
God is the original person who possesses all Beauty, Fame, Intelligence, Power, Wealth, and Renunciation;
also,
God is the first person, with his own eternal and transcendental name, fame, form, personality, paraphernalia, entourage and pastime.
God's body is the absolute form of 'Sat-Chit-Ananda'—Eternity. Cognizance, and Bliss

2A) The 5 topics of discussion addressed in the Bhagavad-gita:


Three are eternal:
1 Isvara - (Controller) - God
2 Jiva-atma – (Indiviual Soul) - Living Entity
3 Prakriti – Energy (Material & Spiritual)
4 Kala – “Time”


One is transient:
5 Karma – Action = a) artha—wealth, abundance b) kama—enjoyment, pleasure
c) dharma—work, duty

3) Definition of 'Yoga' = to link up to, to re-unite (also see entomology of the word 'religion'.)


4) Ayur-Vedic medicine and Hatha Yoga=holistic use of Herbs and physical therapy.


5) Mantra Meditation=classical sitting silent prayer.

6) The three stages of yoga practice=
A) Karma-yoga, yoga of action.
B) Sankya-yoga, yoga of analytical study of scripture.
C) Bhakti-yoga, yoga of Devotion to Krishna

7) The three progressive stages of yogic enlightenment


I) Brahman-Realization, ---the impersonal manifestation of God, nothingness, the field, the void; Brahman is also used as a general reference for God, et al.

II) Paramatma Realization, the presence of god as the nucleus of every inanimate spark and particle of matter and energy in the universe, and also god as present in every animate individual soul as the witnessing 'Supersoul'—hence the word, 'Param (super) atma' (soul)

[ Note: Conscience living beings are capable, by birth-right, of progressing through the following 5 stages of spiritual maturity:


A) anna-maya = recognize the manifest mercy of god as 'food'.
B) prana-maya = recognize god as 'living force in all life forms'.
C) Sankya-maya=recognize god as 'thinking, willing, and feeling'.
D) vigyana-maya= 'mind and ego seen different from the soul'.
E) ananda-maya= 'all-blissful nature' Via prema-bhakti-seva. (loving devotional service to Krishna

III) Bhagavan Realization, God as he is reveal in the Vedas of India—(krsnas tu bhagavan svayam . . . )

8) The "3 Gunas" = 'sattva, raja, & tamas' = respectively, the “Qualities of Creation, Maintenance, & Desolution”---the “3 material principle forces” that propel the aggregate material elements into flux—[this may be paralleled to the "ying and yang principles of Duality as expounded in Taoist and Buddhist metaphysics"; the difference being that there is the third/middle principle of Duality per Vedic metaphysics. This third principle parallels the small black and white dots found in the classic Chinese symbol of ‘ying & yang’.]
The Vedas say that all ‘Actions’ are always affected by one of the “three modes” vying for, and achieving dominance over the other two ‘modes’ during their innate interplay with all material elements and in all stratums of material affairs.
Ed.note: Thus, the source of Murphy’s Law, Chaos theory, Bad luck, Irony.

8A) The Modes (‘3 Gunas’) and their attributes (from Bhagavad-gita)

8B) 4 defects “flaws of conditioned soul= mistakes; illusioned; cheating; imperfect senses”

9) 'Sanskrit' alphabet's arrangement=same as established by professional theatre school text books to teach 'International Phonetics' (I.P.A.) so as to teach "Dialects and Accent-Elimination". [note: Professor Higgins in the G.W. Shaw's play, 'My Fair Lady' introduces himself as a professor of Linguistics and a scholar of Sanskrit.]

10) "Indo-European" languages =Sanskrit's position in this family tree is indicated by the word 'Indo'. [Ed. Surmises that the word ‘Europa’ can equate to the following Sanskrit compound word: ‘Uru-purusa, Uru (vast) + purusa (person)

11) 'Maha-Bharata' =5000 year old Epic of ancient India describing the court intrigue and culture of Brahminical India during the end of the last [dwarpa yuga] epoch.

bhaktajan
13 August 2009, 01:38 PM
12) 'Bhagavad-gita' =after reading the Tao te ching, and the Art of War, and Book of Five Rings, and the Japanese Code of Bushido, the Buddhist Sutras, after life times of monastic contemplation and services to humanity one might read a authorized translation of the 'Bhagavad-gita' as it is; see A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami's edition for this great spiritual 700 versed dialogue translated from the chapter in the Ancient Sanskrit Epic of Antiquity, the 'Maha-Bharata' in its original Devotional Tradition.

13) The Two Schools of thought=the Theist—Vaishnava devotee of Krishna (bhagavata school) & the Impersonalist---the seeker of release from the individual ego and attain refuge and thus merge in the primodial impersonal state of nirvana (sunyavada school). [Ed note: The individual vector point of the soul is 'active by nature', thus nirvana is not eternal.]

14) Vegetarianism is all about ‘AHIMSA—non-violence”. Not about our sentiments. Meatless living is all about warding-off bad (ugra-) karma for humans. It’s not about compassion for the animals welfare but about the welfare of children being indoctrinated into a life based on killing inorder to live up to a false standard of ‘living’.

15) Chakras=the balanced circulation of prana amongst the energy centers along the spine that correspond to functional aspects of a person [ie: throat chakra/speech, Head chakra/mind, bottom chakra/tribal-clan relations, etc.]

16) "Maya"= the Cosmic Material Energy' recognized as a field of temporary matter and energy in flux, whence, the soul appears, to lord it over as best as can be had. All the whilst identifying with the present body, which was afforded by the fruits of prior actions.

17) Karma & Reincarnation=Karma means, 'action'. All living creatures Eat/sleep/mate/defend---one must rise above the mundane order of life and death. We are all destined to take repeated births in various bodies until we are re-acquainted with The grace of Mukunda (a name for Krishna---the sole Bestower of Liberation from the material ocean of repeated births and deaths—since time immemorial). This is done by approaching the top experts in the world authorized to instruct novices in the science of Bhakti-yoga.

18) Priyas-citta= (traditional atonement) pursued at the end of household life, or after legal retirement. Typically, to surrender all wealth and remain in ashram life till death.

19) Polytheism=This is a misnomer. The many Demigods of the Indian religion are actually India's Vedic Literature's claim to have a record of the family tree(s) of the superintendents of cosmic affairs since time immemorial, nay, since the first moment that the ‘present Brahma’(-anda) was exhaled from Maha-Vishnu's Breathing, etc, etc, etc . . .

20) The cow is sacred because = the cow is the quintessentially perfect species for agrarian society—the husband of the cow ‘the bull’ is the best beast of burden for farm life; the cow gives milk, cheese(s), yogurt, butter, panir, ghee, ice cream, whip cream, caramel sweets, medicinal urine, fuel, fertilizer. Oxen, leather.

21) Common words and concepts in the English lexicon derived from Sanskrit = mantra, yoga, guru, pundit, swami, kundalini, prana, Buddha, Brahma-Bull, sacred cow, bungalow, yoke, Lapsa- apsa, use of spices in cooking, ghee, Indiana, Europe, Juggernaut, ganja, oriental carpets, untouchables, the three Wise Men of Christ's birth, India considered the 'Crown Jewel' of the British Empire of old.

22) Politically sensitive topics, ie:
—The Indian and Buddhist 'Svastika' symbol = symbol denoting auspiciousness---it was usurped by the German dictator during World War II to rally citizens to kill the Jewish populace.

—The cow is the quintessentially perfect species for agrarian society—the husband of the cow ‘the bull’ is the best beast of burden for farm life; the cow gives milk, cheese(s), yogurt, butter, panir, ghee, ice cream, whip cream, maha-prashad sweets, medicinal urine, fuel, fertilizer & agrabatti.

—Our B-Rabbinical breatheren, the Jews, the descendents of Judah, who make Koshering of meat a religious ritual are the authorities that we must go to argue with, armed with scriptural references, to convince the Biblical scholars of the extent of the consequences of meat eating; especially the cow.

23) The Sanskrit word 'Arayan' = [those noblesse, who adhere to the Vedas]—also usurped by the German dictator during World War II to rally citizens to kill the Jewish populace.
Note: this word is the source of the Persian word Iran and hence 'Arab', Mt Arrarat, and Iraq.

24) The cover of Jimmy Hendrix's Double Album 'Axis' (sic?) = contains himself and his band members' faces superimposed over that of the multi-faces of 'Visnu's Universal form'---this Universal form is from the Bhagavad-gita.

25) —The very beginning of the child's film "The Muppit Movie" contains Kermit the frog ask, "Have you tried Hare Krishna?"

—Charles Dickens’ 19th Century English novel “Oliver Twist” [about the orphan boy named Oliver] starts with the Schoolmaster of the orphan-asylum arriving at the home of the new foster parents, inorder to the retrieve Oliver whose tantrums had made trouble for himself and his newest adopting parents. Upon arriving at the home, the Schoolmaster unlocked the closet whence the boy was arrested by the parent. As he drags the boy back to the orphanage the Schoolmaster scolded the parents thus, “I told you not to feed the boy meat, I told you to feed him porridge”.

26) 'Ekadasi' = one must check their local Iskcon temple for the local 'adjusted' time/day of ekadasi's appearance since the start of a lunar cycle is calculated per one's relative location on the planet. That's why some dates are a day apart. This is a detailed subject matter. 'Ekadasi' is the 11th day after both the waxing moon and the waning moon during each month.

saidevo
17 August 2009, 10:38 PM
The world, specially the US, is becoming more and more Hindu-like! Check this interesting news item (thanks to SrI Dharmadi of the Kanchi Forum for sharing it):

We Are All Hindus Now
By Lisa Miller | NEWSWEEK
http://www.newsweek.com/id/212155?GT1=43002

saidevo
17 August 2009, 10:49 PM
Bhuvan: ISRO's answer to Google Earth
http://in.news.yahoo.com/242/20090814/1334/tnl-bhuvan-isro-s-answer-to-google-earth.html

In what appears to be a challenge to Google Earth and Wikimapia, the Space Applications Centre (SAC) of ISRO has come up with 'Bhuvan', bringing India's name into the limelight yet again. Bhuvan, which literally means 'earth', is a web-based tool like Google Earth, but it promises better 3-D satellite imagery of India than what is currently being offered by other Virtual Globe software. Moreover, it brings you a host of India-specific features such as weather information and even administrative boundaries of all states and districts.

***

Bhuvan's Website:
http://bhuvan.nrsc.gov.in/

rkpande
17 August 2009, 11:17 PM
please look up
http//mahakal.ageoftruth.org/Presentations/Indias_Gift to the world.pdf

nac
07 September 2009, 05:42 PM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srinivasa_Ramanujan

saidevo
04 June 2010, 08:56 PM
Who says the wax museums at London and Paris are the ultimate? Let them try to beat these creations at the Siddhagiri museum, Kolhapur:
http://www.siddhagirimuseum.org/