tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6294513404146314952024-03-12T17:27:14.956-07:00Vedic AstronomyAbout Astronomy, Siddhanta, the Science of the Heavens, which is the scientific basis for AstrologyGovind Kumarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04461087078133954772noreply@blogger.comBlogger653125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-629451340414631495.post-43891411723275561522024-01-04T17:12:00.000-08:002024-01-04T17:12:57.197-08:00The need arose, propelled by the Indian Emergence, to start a new blog
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OF WORLD PEACE
It is heartening to note,
That the Indian PM's name,
Hath been recommended,
For establishing World Peace !
"My chariots shall not be bloody,
Till the earth records my name",
Said the conscientious Buddha,
As he renounced War.
Milton averred " Peace hath her victories,
No less renouned than War " !
Man's essential nature is Peace,
War is only an abnormality !
How can a Nation which declares Peace,
Aum Shanti, Shanti, advocate War ?
From the ethical, moral angle,
Peace gets Fame, and War notoriety !
Love cognised is Truth
Love in action is Non VIolence
Love as pure Being is Wisdom
Love as Feeling is Peace.
Yet, many believe that war is a necessity biologic,
An outlet for the human desire to compete and excel !
Conquest by force is only half victory,
True victory is conquest by Love !
Harmony has to be established,
And perfection worked out.
We have to effectuate the Divine,
In a conflicting and contradicting world !
We have been instructed,
To rise from Non Being to Being,
Asado Ma Sad Gamaya,
And to rise from Darkness to Light.
In other words,
From the Negative to the Positive.
But we have a big problem here,
As we are confronted by qualities negative !
We have seen Death,
But not Immortality !
Mrutyor Ma Amritam Gamaya,
Appears to be difficult !
Death, Non Being, Ignorance,
Darkness, adversity, disease,
All these we have seen,
But never experienced the Positive !
Qualties Negative,
Are merely the first terms of the Formula,
Unintellible to us,
Till we work out its esoteric terms !
These qualities negative,
Are merely initial discords
Of the Musician's symphony,
Didnt He create a world miserable ?
That too deliberately flawing perfection,
Of His Own Creation ?
The discords of the world are Lord's discords,
To unfold the Godhead within us?
The tormenting Evil is He,
As well as the Redeeming Grace !
Oru Kai Praharikkave
Maru Kai kondu thalodum Easwaran !
Only when we have an integral vision,
Can we see beyond all masks,
The serene and lovely face,
Of the All Blissful Godhead !
His tests test our imperfection,
True friemd is He and Heart, the Teacher !
Mind is the greatest Guru,
And world, the true Book !
Let us be what the Seer Poets recommended,
What Lord Krishna recommended to Arjuna,
Realised souls viewing Becoming,
Under the metaphor of Being !
Let us rise from Death to Self Realisation,
From the Darkness of Nescience to Light Supernal,
From the mirage of Non Being to True Being,
Thus fulfilling that eternal Prayer Asato Ma Sadgamaya !
Did not Bhagavan Aurobindo,
Say that Strive and thou shalt have ?
Trust and thy trust shall be justified ?
That the Divine Crown is within our reach ?
That we have to overcome the Negative,
And reach the Positive !
And Implement Positivity,
Then only shall the world be redeemed !
The Kingdom of Heaven,
Is both worldly and transworldly
To implement this Rama Rajya,
India, US and Russia exist !Govind Kumarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04461087078133954772noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-629451340414631495.post-88999123396651441862014-02-25T03:30:00.000-08:002014-02-25T03:30:37.417-08:00Meissa or Mrigasira, the Head of Orion !<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b>The Head of Orion was called by the Rishies as Mriga Sira. Mriga means the beast and Sira means head. Mrigasira is known in Malayalam as Makiryam ! </b><br />
<b><br />Those born under Mriga Sira ( when the Moon tenants the constellation of Mriga Sira ) were found to be egotists and calumniers ! Ahamkaree paradweshee mrige bhavathi manava. </b><br />
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Govind Kumarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04461087078133954772noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-629451340414631495.post-68895721827989400182012-03-05T01:40:00.001-08:002013-06-23T00:48:08.757-07:00Indian Astrology sidereal<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Govind Kumarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04461087078133954772noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-629451340414631495.post-26341506623573093662012-03-05T01:18:00.001-08:002015-02-26T22:34:11.666-08:00The story of Trisanku, Alpha Centaurus<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138;">We will explain the mythological allegory of Trisanku. Trisanku wanted to reach Heaven with his body, much against the wishes of his Guru Vasishta and family. He was hurled back in space and he appealed to Vishwamitra for help. Vishwamitra with his yogic power created a Trisanku Swarga for him.<br /><br />Although this is a mythological allegory, astro information is contained in this story. The nearest sta</span></b><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138;">r to our Solar System is Proxima Centuari, a member of the Alpha Centauri system. The two bright components of Alpha Centauri are only slightly farther away, some 4.3 light years away from us. It is logical that Trisanku or Alpha Centaurus is just half way to the nearest bright star Sirius, which is 8.7 light years away. In between, in space, we do not have any other star, save Barnard's star, Wolf 359 and Lalande' s star, which are closer to Sirius, from where the real Heavens can be deemed to commence. Doesnt this story explain what Trisanku or Alpha Centaurus is ?<br /><br />Bacon, in his De Sapientia Vaterum ( Of the Wisdom of the Ancients ) opined that scientific truths are contained in Greek and Indian Myths !</span></b></span></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f1c232;">The constellation of Ursa Major, known as the Big Dipper, or the Big Bear and known as the Seven Rishies in Indian Astronomy. Atri, Angiras, Mareechi, Pulastya, Pulaha, Kritu, Vasishta.</span></b><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f1c232;">In his ' Asiatic Researches", Prof Drayson says that</span></b><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f1c232;"> ' the Hindus thought proper to connect their Mythology with an astronomical period of a strange nature. It is that of the Seven Rishies, moving along the Zodiac in a retrograde motion of 100 years in a constellation. As the Ecliptic is tenanted by 27 constellations, they take 2700 years to make a circuit of the Zodiac. This 2700 years is known as an Ursa Major Cycle or Sapta Rishi Yuga.<br /><br />The first astronomical calender was erected by the Hindu Emperor, Vaivaswata Manu ( circa 8736 BCE ). It was based on the Ursa Major Cycle or Sapta Rishi Yuga.</span></b></span><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138;">The Center of our Galaxy, the Milky Way, which lies in Sagittarius. Is it by chance that the Rishies called her the Navel of the Preserver, Vishnu Nabhi ?</span></b><br />
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<b>The Occultation of Rohini. Aldebaran coming out of the occultation.
Sanskrit poets called Moon Rohinipriya, as he shines bright and brilliant in
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The size comparison of Vega with our Sun. Vega was the Pole Star <br />around
12000 BCE and now it is Polaris or Dhruva<br /><br />I forgot to add that Vega is
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Mizar and Alcor in Western Astronomy and in Indian Astronomy Vasistha and his
consort Arundhathi.<br /><br /> Amongst Hindus, there is a custom of showing the
bride the star Arundhathi to highlight chastity. Also Polaris or Dhruva to show
steadfastness. Vasistha and Arundhathi are just 11 minutes apart and have nearly
identical proper motion. They both are in Ursa Major or the constellation of the
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Antares or Jyeshta or Thrikketa. Her radius is 883 times that of our Sun ! A red
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Orion. With a diameter of more than 600 million miles, she has a color index of
more than +1.83. This redness is the advanced evolutionary stage of a super
giant. Is it by chance our forefathers called Antares Jyeshta or the oldest ?</div>Govind Kumarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04461087078133954772noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-629451340414631495.post-76617652830869467372012-03-01T06:43:00.000-08:002012-03-01T06:43:01.300-08:00Karthika, the Pleiades<div style="text-align: left;">
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The Pleaides or the Seven Sisters of Western Astronomy, known in the Indian as
the constellation of Karthika.<br /><br />The Pleiades or Karthka is presided by
Agni or Fire, according to Indian tradition.<br /><br /> The Sun's transit of
the Pleiades, Karthika Njattuvela, is a season of extreme heat. Does not the
birth of Subramanya, have something to say about the Pleiades as a heat
generating group of stars, now confirmed by modern discoveries ?</div>Govind Kumarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04461087078133954772noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-629451340414631495.post-22164972777238374212011-11-03T20:48:00.001-07:002011-11-03T20:48:22.377-07:00The Alpha Numeric System of Mathematica Indica<iframe width="480" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/viR5g6qnv44" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /><br /><br />Known as Paral Sankhya, the Alpha Numeric System was developed by Vararuchi. It is also known as Katapayadi, as 1 represents the letters Ka, Ta, Pa and Ya, whose corresponding digit is 1. <br /><br /><br />Number Letters<br /><br />1 ka ta pa ya<br />2 kha tta pha ra<br />3 hu da bha la<br />4 gha da ba va<br />5 nga na ma sha<br />6 cha tha sha<br />7 chha dha sa<br />8 ja dha ha<br />9 jha ddha<br />0 nja na ksha <br /><br />The Value of Kaa ki ku ke and ko was 1<br /><br /><br />31 was represented by Kala <br /><br />Kala is ka + la = 31 ( The digits are counted from the right )<br /><br />and 351 by Kamala<br />Kamala = ka + ma + la = 351Govind Kumarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04461087078133954772noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-629451340414631495.post-39262849837077483982011-11-01T20:53:00.000-07:002012-03-02T01:14:25.473-08:00Elemental Numbers in Mathematica Indica<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/ZJoukCNNky4" width="480"></iframe><br />
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Sanskrit poets used Elemental Numbers in their poems. As eyes are 2, two represents eyes. As the Vedas are four, four represents the Vedas. Netra Netra ( eyes , eyes ) means 22 and Veda Veda means 44. <br />
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1 - Earth, Moon<br />
2. Eyes, hands, feet, ears<br />
3. Worlds, trinitarian unity, three yogas, three vedas.<br />
4. Vedas <br />
5. Sense organs.<br />
6 Rithus or the six seasons.<br />
7. Rishies<br />
8 Directions, eightfold prosperity<br />
9 Digits, numbers<br />
0 Ether<br />
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10 - Ego and its ten heads.<br />
11 - Rudras<br />
12 Months, Zodiacal Signs<br />
13 Universe<br />
14 Vidyas, Manus<br />
15 Lunations, thidhis<br />
16 King<br />
17 Athushti<br />
18 Treatises astronomical, mythological<br />
19 Athi Dhruthi<br />
20 Nails<br />
21 Uthkruthi <br />
22 Akrithi<br />
23 Vikruthi<br />
24 Gayathri<br />
25 Principles<br />
27 Constellations<br />
33 Deities<br />
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Bham = Stars = 27<br />
Nandan = 9<br />
Agni = 3<br />
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Bhanandagni = 3927<br />
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<br />Govind Kumarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04461087078133954772noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-629451340414631495.post-66422405988735971372011-10-30T03:01:00.001-07:002012-03-02T01:09:52.965-08:00Of Scholarship<iframe width="480" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/905toTTplI8" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /><br /><br />Scholarship is great and is like an expanding flower<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">Pandityam nava pallavam vikasitham pushpam prayogajnatha</span><br /><br />In order to have scholarism graced, one should strive hard to gain it. It is said that the hard work done by the scholar is known only to the scholar ! How can others know it ?<br /><br />The scholar and the world, the endless strife<br />The discord in the harmonies of Life<br />The love of Learning, the sequestered nooks<br />And the sweet serenity of Books<br />The marketplace, eager love for gain<br />Whose aim is vanity, whose end is pain !<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><br />Vidwaneva Vijanathi<br />Vidwajjana parishramam<br />Na hi vandhya vijanathi<br />Gurveem prasava vedanam !</span><br /><br />How can others know the work hard <br />Which the scholars have indulged in ?<br />Like a barren woman who cannot know<br />The pain of delivering !Govind Kumarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04461087078133954772noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-629451340414631495.post-63898667865406343612011-10-27T20:42:00.003-07:002011-10-27T20:48:25.781-07:00Indian names for big numbers<iframe width="480" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/FMlisMg4VPo" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /><br /><br />Ganitha Kerala, the Kerala School of Astronomy and Maths, has given a lot of names for big numbers.<br /><br />Like the Western <br /><br />Myriad = 10^4<br />Million = 10^6<br /><br />Indian names are <br /><br />Shata = 10^2<br />Sahasra = 10^3<br />Ayutha = 10^4<br />Laksha = 10^5<br />Dasa Laksha = 10^6 ( Million ) <br />Koti = 10^7<br />Dasa Koti = 10^8<br />Vrinda = 10^9<br />Kharva = 10^10<br />Nikharva = 10^11<br />Mahapadma = 10^12<br />Mahakharva = 10^13<br />Padma = 10^14<br /><br />In the Western, we have<br /><br />Million = 1000^2<br />Billion = 1000^3<br />Trillion = 1000^4<br /><br />or <br /><br />Nillion = 1000^(n+1)<br /><br />where n is the number. Tri meaning 3 and trillion = 1000^(3+1)!Govind Kumarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04461087078133954772noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-629451340414631495.post-15764865468681776732011-10-17T23:15:00.001-07:002011-10-17T23:15:34.427-07:00Of Mathematica Vedica<iframe width="480" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/oRAORiHhcyU" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /><br /><br />By one more than the one before<br /><br />Ekadhikena Purvecha is Sanskrit for " One more than the previous one". This <br />sutra can be used for multiplying or dividing algorithms.<br /><br />You can use this formula to compute the squares of numbers.<br /><br />For example.<br /><br />35×35 = ((3×3)+3),25 = 12,25 and 125×125 = ((12×12)+12),25 = 156,25<br /><br />By the sūtra, multiply "by one more than the previous one."<br /><br />35×35 = ((3×4),25 = 12,25 and 125×125 = ((12×13),25 = 156,25Govind Kumarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04461087078133954772noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-629451340414631495.post-38624966579598747712011-09-18T04:24:00.001-07:002011-09-18T04:24:59.928-07:00The Churning of the Milk Ocean at Bangkok Airport<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xYPxeWaIvDs/TnXP95n6qkI/AAAAAAAAB4I/RKTEq1wFWYU/s1600/DSCN1414.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xYPxeWaIvDs/TnXP95n6qkI/AAAAAAAAB4I/RKTEq1wFWYU/s320/DSCN1414.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5653653569580739138" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br />We were amazed to see Palazhi Madhanam, the Churning of the Ocean, depicted at <br />Thai Suvarnabhoomi Airport.<br /><br />The Churning of the Ocean is allegorical, symbolising the great fight in the human bosom between Virtue and Vice. The forces of Virtue, the celestials, the devas fight the forces of Vice, the demons, the asuras. In this fight Immortality is the end result and Immortality is nothing but Self Actualisation !<br /><br />P N Oak's theory that the base Civilization was Vedic from which everything began seems to be proved right !<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-wuPHaTe0EmY/TnXOux2sliI/AAAAAAAAB34/Yx39oWjzN3U/s1600/DSCN1407.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 223px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-wuPHaTe0EmY/TnXOux2sliI/AAAAAAAAB34/Yx39oWjzN3U/s320/DSCN1407.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5653652210285581858" /></a><br /><br /><br />Dr Kenneth Chandler averrs that the Vedic Civilizations is 10,000 years old.<br /><br />He writes in his thesis " The Origins of Vedic Civilization" .... <br /><br />How Ancient is Vedic Civilization?<br /><br />Astronomical References in the Rig Veda and Other Evidence<br /><br />Evidence from other sources known since the late nineteenth century also tends to<br />confirm the great antiquity of the Vedic tradition. Certain Vedic texts, for example,<br />refer to astronomical events that took place in ancient astronomical time. By calculating<br />the astronomical dates of these events, we thus gain another source of evidence that can<br />be used to place the Rig Veda in a calculable time-frame.<br /><br /><br />A German scholar and an Indian scholar simultaneously discovered in 1889 that the<br />Vedic Brahmana texts describe the Pleiades coinciding with the spring equinox. Older<br />texts describe the spring equinox as falling in the constellation Orion. From a<br />calculation of the precision of the equinoxes, it has been shown that the spring equinox lay in Orion in about 4,500 BC.<br /><br /><br /><br />The German scholar, H. Jacobi, came to the conclusion that the Brahmanas are from a<br />period around or older than 4,500 BC. Jacobi concludes that “the Rig Vedic period of<br />culture lies anterior to the third pre-Christian millennium.”22 B. Tilak, using similar astronomical calculations, estimates the time of the Rig Veda at 6,000 BC.23<br />More recently, Frawley has cited references in the Rig Veda to the winter solstice<br />beginning in Aries. On this basis, he estimates that the antiquity of these verses of the Veda must go back at least to at least 6,500 BC.24 The dates Frawley gives for Vedic civilization are:<br /><br />Period 1. 6500-3100 BC, Pre-Harappan, early Rig Vedic<br />Period 2. 3100-1900 BC, Mature Harappan 3100-1900, period of the Four Vedas<br />Period 3. 1900-1000 BC, Late Harappan, late Vedic and Brahmana period<br /><br />Professor Dinesh Agrawal of Penn State University reviewed the evidence from a<br />variety of sources and estimated the dates as follows:<br /><br />• Rig Vedic Age - 7000-4000 BC<br />• End of Rig Vedic Age - 3750 BC<br />• End of Ramayana-Mahabharat Period - 3000 BC<br />• Development of Saraswati-Indus Civilization - 3000-2200 BC<br />• Decline of Indus and Saraswati Civilization - 2200-1900 BC<br />• Period of chaos and migration - 2000-1500 BC<br />• Period of evolution of syncretic Hindu culture - 1400-250 BC<br /><br />The Taittiriya Samhita (6.5.3) places the constellation Pleiades at the winter solstice, which correlates with astronomical events that took place in 8,500 BC at the earliest.<br /><br />The Taittiriya Brahmana (3.1.2) refers to the Purvabhadrapada nakshatra as rising due<br />east—an event that occurred no later than 10,000 BC, according to Dr. B.G.Siddharth<br />of India’s Birla Science Institute. Since the Rig Veda is more ancient than the<br />Brahmanas, this would put the Rig Veda before 10,000 BC.Govind Kumarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04461087078133954772noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-629451340414631495.post-66225053751339746642011-09-17T22:11:00.001-07:002011-09-18T02:36:13.679-07:00Ramayana Garden in Thailand<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xnDKvRrw4JQ/TnV73HwbEpI/AAAAAAAAB3w/dW3_OTn64Ko/s1600/DSC01570.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xnDKvRrw4JQ/TnV73HwbEpI/AAAAAAAAB3w/dW3_OTn64Ko/s320/DSC01570.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5653561094138696338" /></a><br /><br /><br />This is the photo of the Ramayana Garden in Thailand. <br /><br />The first poem and the greatest was Ramayana, opined Aurobindo. When the poet Valmiki saw two birds mating and a native killing one of the two said " Ma Nishada ", meaning " Dont do that, for it is Sin, it is Evil, it is against the Law of Conscience"!<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">Ma nishada pratishtantva nigama shashvathi sama<br />Yat krouncha midhunath eva avadhim kamamohitam<br /></span><br />Ramayana is an allegorical and epic poem. As the Aryan Invasion Theorists argue, it is the not onslaught of the " Aryans" against the " Dravidians". The Aryan Invasion Theory has been proved wrong by scholars like Dr Konrad Elst, Dr Dennis Chandler, Aurobindo and Vivekananda. <br /><br /><iframe width="480" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/DwVZeCLEWrE" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /><br />Man's dual aspect is highlighted in this poem. The Ego is the imperfect term in Man and Self or the Divine in the perfect term. The Ego is the lower imperfect term of our being; Self is the higher, perfect term. <br /><br />The Ego is symbolised as Ravana, the ten headed demon king. His ten heads represent Mind, Intelligence, Processing Mind, Ego, Lust, Greed, Anger, Avarice, Jealousy, Gluttony and Sloth.The Self is symbolised by Rama, who goes in search of Peace, Seetha, his beloved consort. The great struggle for supremacy between good and evil, light and darkness, prosperity and adversity, happening in the human bosom, is the Ramayana, where the forces of the Ego clash with the forces of the Self. <br /><br />Ramayana is part of Buddhist lore and the Ramayana Garden is a testimony to this fact. This strengthens P N Oak's theory that the mother civilization of all was Vedic.Govind Kumarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04461087078133954772noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-629451340414631495.post-68319736073114774642011-09-15T21:06:00.001-07:002011-09-15T21:06:35.963-07:00Saturn in Thailand<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xiafV8qyW7c/TnLE2vcOwSI/AAAAAAAAB3o/uD7tamDhJ-c/s1600/DSC01547.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xiafV8qyW7c/TnLE2vcOwSI/AAAAAAAAB3o/uD7tamDhJ-c/s320/DSC01547.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5652796927030247714" /></a><br /><br />Shani, the deity of Justice, Destiny and Retribution, has His presence in Thailand. In ancient Siam, one can see his statue.<br /><br />Saturn, the melancholy planet, was rising at the birth of Dante. He is prominent in the horoscopes of Goethe and other poets and philosophers like Sankara. Without His Grace, liberation is not possible. <br /><br />The most ancient Civilization was the Vedic and Dr Kenneth Chandler puts the origin at 4900 BC. According to him, the Aryan Invasion Theory is not correct. <br /><br />Will Durant opined that India " is the mother of us all, through Sanskrit, the mother of Europe's languages".<br /><br />Dr Kenneth Chandler writes<br /><br />"The original theory proposed by the early historical linguistics who considered these issues was that Vedic Sanskrit conserved the original sound system of the “proto-Indo-European” language most closely, and that Iranian and European languages underwent a systematic sound shift, creating break-away or daughter languages spoken by the people who populated India and Europe. According to this theory, Vedic Sanskrit was put at near the trunk of the proto-Indo-European language tree, if not the trunk itself.<br /><br />This theory has been challenged and hotly debated in recent years, most especially by<br />computer linguists.<br /><br />Since the 1990s, it is now common for computer linguists to hold<br />that Sanskrit is not so near the root of the Indo-European language tree, but a<br />subsequent branch. A currently dominant theory is that the original Indo-European<br />language stemmed from an Indo-European proto-language that has since been lost.<br />The first languages to break off from the proto-Indo-European root, according to the<br />dominant contemporary linguistic theories, was Anatolian (the language of what is now<br />central Turkey), followed by Celtic (a language found in nearby Thrace in northeastern Greece, and also Ireland suggesting that there was a commerce or colonization between Ireland and early Thrace), then Greek, and then Armenian. According to these theories, the Indian and Iranian language groups are still later branches off the proto-Indo-European “root.”<br /><br />The linguistic evidence appears to imply migrations of people from the Black Sea area<br />into India, and yet there is no anthropological evidence to support either a migration into northern India, or an invasion. Evidence from skeletal remains, as we saw, as well as pottery and other artifacts, show no cultural replacement at any time in north Indian Thomas V. Gamkrelidze and V. V. Ivanov, “Family Tree of the Indo-European Languages,” Scientific American, March, 1990, p. 110 and following.<br /><br />Dr. Don Ringe and Dr. Ann Taylor, two linguists at the University of Pennsylvania, with the help of computer scientist Dr. Tandy Warnow, developed a computer algorithm to sift through the Indo- European languages and look for grammatical and phonetic similarities between them. Their work, published in 1996, has thrown up four possible family trees. “We have come up with a favorite,” says Dr. Warnow. The tree shows that the first breakaway language was Anatolian, an ancient group of languages once spoken in Turkey. Celtic was quick to follow, spawning Irish, Gaelic, Welsh and Breton. Armenian and Greek then developed from proto-Into-European. Strangely enough, one of the later branches to emerge, according to the runs of the computer programs, was Sanskrit.<br /><br />It is interesting that the Celts settled in Thrace in northern Greece, just a short distance from Anatolia. Thrace was the birthplace of the Orphic mysteries which swept into Greece in the sixth century BC. Celtic is one of the earliest languages, along with Anatolian and Greek, to break off from the Indo European proto-language. The technique for self-knowledge described by Socrates were said to have come from Thrace. The Anatolians of central Turkey occupied the area near where the pre-Socratic tradition sprang up in the sixth century BC. This suggests that a technique was passed from India into the Celtic language.Govind Kumarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04461087078133954772noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-629451340414631495.post-53086528521073881262011-09-14T20:52:00.001-07:002011-09-14T20:52:59.267-07:00Thai Civilization Vedic ?<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-mHnOHjqHs-U/TnFyzKhQbyI/AAAAAAAAB3Y/YaCicBUekXY/s1600/DSC01544.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-mHnOHjqHs-U/TnFyzKhQbyI/AAAAAAAAB3Y/YaCicBUekXY/s320/DSC01544.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5652425230649421602" /></a><br /><br />This is the photo taken by my brother about my son taking a photo of the statue of Brihaspathi, the preceptor of the celestials. This highlights P N Oak's theory that the ancient civilization which permeated the world was Vedic.<br /><br />How ancient is Vedic Civilization?<br /><br />In his Origin of the Vedic Civilization, Dr Kenneth Chandler remarks " The body of literature produced by Greece and Rome from Homer to Proclus spans<br />roughly 1,300 years. The Vedic tradition produced an even larger body of literature<br />from the beginning of the Rig Veda to the end of the classical period, so it would<br />probably require at least 1,300 years for the Vedic tradition to generate a larger amount of literature. If we take 1,600 BC as the minimum date of the Mahabharata, this would put the beginning of the Vedic tradition sometime before 2,900 BC. If we take Wintenitz’s estimate of at least 1,900 years, this would put the beginning of the Rig Veda before 3,500 BC.<br /><br />Dr Frawley and Rajaram, as well as many others, now put the date of the Mahabharata<br />war at about 3,000 BC (Maharishi Mahesh Yogi also gives this date in his commentary<br />on the Bhagavad Gita). If we add 1,900 years incubation time as Winternitz estimates,<br />this would put the dates of the Rig Veda back before 4,900 BC."Govind Kumarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04461087078133954772noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-629451340414631495.post-57758909547631075612011-09-14T01:19:00.001-07:002011-09-14T01:19:55.743-07:00The Vedic Architecture of Thailand<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-QRcsWOsvAjA/TnBLwBTEZHI/AAAAAAAAB3Q/9XA_SsxEoaM/s1600/DSC01548.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-QRcsWOsvAjA/TnBLwBTEZHI/AAAAAAAAB3Q/9XA_SsxEoaM/s320/DSC01548.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5652100820704191602" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br />In Ancient Siam, which is a miniature replica of Thailand, there exists Vedic Art and sculpture. I was amazed to see the statue of Surya, the Vedic Deity, with seven horses, during my trip to Thailand.<br /><br /><br />Surya is the Sun and the seven horses represent VIBGYOR. He is the external symbol of the Absolute Self, who is the Cause of the septenary principles which pervade the Universe, as Life, Mind, Matter, Supermind, Existence, Consciousness and Beatitude ( Prana, Manas, Padartha, Prajnana and Sat Chit Ananda ) !<br /><br />O Thou riding on a chariot<br />Drawn by horses seven<br />O Thou whose sight annihilates sins<br />To Thy Transcendental Majesty, I bow.<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><br />Sapthasva Ratham Aroodham<br />Prachandam Kasyapatmajam<br />Sarva Papa Haram Devam<br />Tham sooryam pranamamyaham</span><br /><br /><br />This confirms P N Oak's theory that in the beginning there was only one Civilization, the Vedic, from which everything began. Many Thai words are derived from Sanskrit. Many English words are also derived from Sanskrit.<br /><br />Here are some words which are simliar. <br /><br />brother, bhratr<br /><br />Nova, nine, Nava<br /><br />Centum, Shatha<br /><br />Divya, divina, divine<br /><br />candle, chandra<br /><br />cardio, hrd<br /><br />come, gam<br /><br />deity, devata<br /><br />eight, ashta<br /><br />end, anta<br /><br />genus, janus<br /><br />gnosis, gnana<br /><br />idea, vidya<br /><br />identity, idamta<br /><br />immortal, amrta<br /><br />kalon, kalyana<br /><br />mega, maha<br /><br />man, manu<br /><br />mind, manas<br /><br />mortal, mrta<br /><br />mother, matr<br /><br />same, sama<br /><br />three, tri<br /><br />vivi, jiva<br /><br />voice, vaca<br /><br />wind, vata<br /><br />wit video, vid<br /><br />yoke, yoga<br /><br />young, yuvan<br /><br />advocate, adhivaktr<br /><br />agri, ajira<br /><br />bind, bandhi<br /><br />bright, bharajat<br /><br />In the "Origins of Vedic Civilization" Dr Kenneth Chandler remarks " India’s most substantial gift to world civilization was, however, the discovery of Pure<br />Consciousness and the mapping out of the architectonic structure of pure knowledge.<br />All other achievements derive from this great awakening of knowledge that took place<br />in ancient Vedic India."<br /><br />I was on a trip to Malaysia and Thailand with my family and we stayed with my brother in Bangkok. We went to Kaula Lumpur on 3rd and left Bangkok on the 12th. A great vacation it was !Govind Kumarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04461087078133954772noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-629451340414631495.post-83074190245400968462011-09-01T21:24:00.001-07:002011-09-01T21:26:08.801-07:00Of Intercalary months, Adhi Masas<iframe width="480" height="345" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/ZlYeWO5wbhk" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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<br />The solar month is 30.438030202068 days
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<br />Hence a solar year does not have a whole number of lunar months ( about 12.37 lunations ) So a thirteenth embolismic or intercalary month is inserted.
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<br />It was observed that 19 solar years or 19*12 = 228 solar months = 235 lunations and hence 7 Adhi Masas were found in every 19 years. An intercalary or 13th month had to be inserted in a 19 year cycle and 19/7 was the ratio. .
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<br />They are called <span style="font-style:italic;">Adhi Masas </span>in Indian Astronomy and they were computed using the Theory of continued fractions. The Theory of contiued Fractions is attributed to Euler. This 19 year old cycle is called the Metonic Cycle, named after the Greek astronomer, Meton.
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<br />But then the Indian mathematicians correctly computed the <span style="font-style:italic;">Adhi Masas</span>, centuries before Meton or Euler ! The Indian National Calender is lunisolar, whose dates both indicate the solar year and the moon phases and the next date when the New Moon or Full Moon will occur. The length of the synodic month is given as 29.5305879 days in the <span style="font-style:italic;">Surya Siddhanta</span>, which is correct to six decimals. <span style="font-style:italic;">Surya Siddhanta</span> stated that there are 15933396 Adhi Masas in 51840000 solar months ! Govind Kumarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04461087078133954772noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-629451340414631495.post-416762404398264732011-08-30T20:51:00.000-07:002011-08-31T00:32:43.755-07:00Of Vedic Maths<iframe width="480" height="345" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/kZKOPKIHsrc" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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<br />Consisting of 16 basic aphorisms or Sutras, Vedic Mathematics is a system of Maths which prevailed in ancient India. Composed by Bharati Krishna Thirtha, these 16 sutras help one to do faster maths.
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<br />"Whatever the extent of its deficiency, lessen it still further to that very extent; and also set up the square (of that deficiency)"
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<br />When computing the square of 9, as the nearest power of 10 is 9, let us take 10 as our base. As 9 is 1 less than 10, we can decrease it by the deficiency = 9-1 =8. This is the leftmost digit
<br />On the right hand put deficiency^2, which is 1^2.
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<br />Hence the square of nine is 81.
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<br />For numbers above 10, instead of looking at the deficit we look at the surplus.
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<br />11^2 = (11+1)*10+1^2 = 121
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<br />12^2 = (12+2)*10+2^2 = 144
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<br />14^2 = ( 14+4)*10+4^2 = 196
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<br />25^2 = ((25+5)*2)*10+5^2 = 625
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<br />35^2= ((35+5)*3)*10+5^2 = 1225
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<br />Govind Kumarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04461087078133954772noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-629451340414631495.post-40348346843036348542011-08-27T21:34:00.000-07:002011-08-27T21:35:04.594-07:00Mathematics and Philosophy<iframe width="480" height="345" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/x22o8TUdOuw" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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<br />In India, mathematics is related to Philosophy. We can find mathematical
<br />concepts like Zero ( Shoonyavada ), One ( Advaitavada ) and Infinity
<br />(Poornavada ) in Philosophia Indica.
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<br />The Sine Tables of Aryabhata and Madhava, which gives correct sine values or values of
<br />24 R Sines, at intervals of 3 degrees 45 minutes and the trignometric tables of
<br />Brahmagupta, which gives correct sine and tan values for every 5 degrees influenced
<br />Christopher Clavius, who headed the Gregorian Calender Reforms of 1582. These
<br />correct trignometric tables solved the problem of the three Ls, ( Longitude, Latitude and
<br />Loxodromes ) for the Europeans, who were looking for solutions to their navigational
<br />problem ! It is said that Matteo Ricci was sent to India for this purpose and the
<br />Europeans triumphed with Indian knowledge !
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<br />The Western mathematicians have indeed lauded Indian Maths & Astronomy. Here are
<br />some quotations from maths geniuses about the long forgotten Indian Maths !
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<br />In his famous dissertation titled "Remarks on the astronomy of Indians" in 1790,
<br />the famous Scottish mathematician, John Playfair said
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<br />"The Constructions and these tables imply a great knowledge of
<br />geometry,arithmetic and even of the theoretical part of astronomy.But what,
<br />without doubt is to be accounted,the greatest refinement in this system, is
<br />the hypothesis employed in calculating the equation of the centre for the
<br />Sun,Moon and the planets that of a circular orbit having a double
<br />eccentricity or having its centre in the middle between the earth and the
<br />point about which the angular motion is uniform.If to this we add the great
<br />extent of the geometrical knowledge required to combine this and the other
<br />principles of their astronomy together and to deduce from them the just
<br />conclusion;the possession of a calculus equivalent to trigonometry and
<br />lastly their approximation to the quadrature of the circle, we shall be
<br />astonished at the magnitude of that body of science which must have
<br />enlightened the inhabitants of India in some remote age and which whatever
<br />it may have communicated to the Western nations appears to have received
<br />another from them...."
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<br />Albert Einstein commented "We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count,
<br />without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made."
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<br />The great Laplace, who wrote the glorious Mechanique Celeste, remarked
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<br />"The ingenious method of expressing every possible number
<br />using a set of ten symbols (each symbol having a place value and an absolute
<br />value) emerged in India. The idea seems so simple nowadays that its
<br />significance and profound importance is no longer appreciated. Its
<br />simplicity lies in the way it facilitated calculation and placed arithmetic
<br />foremost amongst useful inventions. The importance of this invention is more
<br />readily appreciated when one considers that it was beyond the two greatest
<br />men of antiquity, Archimedes and Apollonius."
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