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Originally Posted by vimoh  I completely agree with this niranjan. But this only goes on to prove that Hinduism was not a religion and was more about life itself. And thanks for the bits on the theory. Hadn't read any of this. Care to point me to some resources on this if you know any? |
Here are some....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krishna http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryan_I...roversies %29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_Aryan_Theory http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarasvati_River http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out_of_India_theory
Aurobindo writes: "But the indications in the Veda on which this theory of a recent Aryan invasion is built, are very scanty in quantity and uncertain in their significance. There is no actual mention of any such invasion..."
Also Vivekananda remarked: "As for the truth of these theories, there is not one word in our scriptures, not one, to prove that the Aryan ever came from anywhere outside of India, and in ancient India was included Afghanistan. There it ends."
"Even if it is assumed that a group of people, called 'Aryans,' invaded, or immigrated into, India,... they have left no trace, if ever there was any, of any link, much less the consciousness of any link, much less any loyalties associated with such a link, to any place outside India."
---Shrikant G. Talageri
According to an examination by Trautmann (1997), the racial evidence of the Indian texts is soft and based upon an amount of overreading. He concludes: "That the racial theory of Indian civilization still lingers is a miracle of faith. Is it not time we did away with it?"
"There is not a particle of evidence suggesting the invasion of India by the Aryans from outside India...The Aryan Race theory is so absurd that it ought to have been dead long ago."
--Ambedkar
Ambdekar also claimed that the racialist and invasionist interpretation of the Rig Veda is "a perversion of scientific investigation" by western scholars who are on a mission "to prove what they want to prove, and do not hesitate to pick such evidence from the Vedas as they think is good for them."