MAX MULLAR WAS A GREATSCHOLER ON INDIAN MATTERS. I DO NOT KNOW SUCH A CONCLUSION IS ARRIVED AT AND BY WHOM. TODAY IT IS VERY DIFFICULT TO TEST THE AUTHENTHICITY OF HIS WRITINGS. MOST OF THE BOOKS REFFERED BY MULLAR ARE NOT AVAILABLE
I like one fact which Max Muller discusses in this book. That is most of the west first discriminated against Vedas sighting the reason that it was transmitted through one caste, Brahmins. But Max Muller states that not everyone in a community writes/preserves for the future. Even in our modern times, only some small percentage does this and they are called authors. Others might be simply busy in their day-to-day activities. So do not discriminate, and try to learn what the Vedas has to say first.
You know the chanting of a mantra is quite important. Slight changes in tone, tempo or enunciation can dramatically change a mantra. It is important to chant as specifically stated in the Vedic texts and traditions of India.
Thanks to Dr. Sundara Rajan we are knowing the good facts. Vruksha Ayurveda (Botany) is the subject matter of the video. As Dr says "Don't be a snub/fanatic. Try to learn what our ancestors knew and try to prove us to be their worthy descendants. Don't believe in all fantastic stories, what can be proved today, that itself is too huge." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFvzTH-q2Uw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFvzTH-q2Uw
Hindus mostly cremate the dead bodies. But the bodies of a Yogi or Sanyaasi is either buried or drowned in river. My question is, if this is the practice in case of Sanyaasis or Yogis, then why in the Ishavasya Upanishad, the last 2 verses call upon Agni to burn the body?
If I am not wrong, some vedic scholrs say, mullers writing is half baked .
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't arrive on such a conclusion before reading what he had to say. I am reading this now, have you read it before? What is your opinion?
ReplyDeleteMAX MULLAR WAS A GREATSCHOLER ON INDIAN MATTERS. I DO NOT KNOW SUCH A CONCLUSION IS ARRIVED AT AND BY WHOM. TODAY IT IS VERY DIFFICULT TO TEST THE AUTHENTHICITY OF HIS WRITINGS. MOST OF THE BOOKS REFFERED BY MULLAR ARE NOT AVAILABLE
ReplyDeleteI like one fact which Max Muller discusses in this book. That is most of the west first discriminated against Vedas sighting the reason that it was transmitted through one caste, Brahmins. But Max Muller states that not everyone in a community writes/preserves for the future. Even in our modern times, only some small percentage does this and they are called authors. Others might be simply busy in their day-to-day activities. So do not discriminate, and try to learn what the Vedas has to say first.
ReplyDeleteThe only thing Max Muller continuously repeats is the word Aryan. Is there any non-indians who did not believe in Aryan-theory?
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