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The Eight Sacred Texts of India Summary
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Millions of Hindus all over the world believe in Krishna and Rama. What they do not know is that in about 500 B.C. India was at a time of enormous tragedy. Barbarians had conquered their land. Indians were being butchered left right and centre. Women were being raped. The Bhagavad Gita was a song of the capturing rulers. Krishna was one of them. The Ramayana was not Indian but was modified by the Indian priests of the time who served their rulers in order to instill some sense of ethics into the princes and princesses of the foreigners. Gradually, the priests of India became powerful and were able to hoodwink the rulers with their knowledge of magic and ritual and mysticism as outlined in the Vedas which the rulers were not allowed to hear. All these ancient "Scriptures" of India, these myths of Shri Krishna and Shri Rama, were needed by the Indians for a specific purpose. Now, hundreds of years later, this purpose is gone. There is no longer any point in singing a song worshiping barbarians who savaged India. The time has come for Indians to worship God and not to worship foreign heroes. About the Author: Shyam Mehta has been practising yoga since 1957 and been teaching yoga since 1973. He had a Christian upbringing, in England. At Cambridge University he became interested in yoga philosophy and Hinduism. Later he gave up his Hindu sacred thread in order to fully devote his life to helping all nice people become happy. He has had a variety of religious experiences in his life and worships God almost every moment of his waking hours. |
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Millions of Hindus all over the world believe in Krishna and Rama. What they do not know is that in about 500 B.C. India was at a time of enormous tragedy. Barbarians had conquered their land. Indians were being butchered left right and centre. Women were being raped.
The Bhagavad Gita was a song of the capturing rulers. Krishna was one of them. The Ramayana was not Indian but was modified by the Indian priests of the time who served their rulers in order to instill some sense of ethics into the princes and princesses of the foreigners. Gradually, the priests of India became powerful and were able to hoodwink the rulers with their knowledge of magic and ritual and mysticism as outlined in the Vedas which the rulers were not allowed to hear. All these ancient "Scriptures" of India, these myths of Shri Krishna and Shri Rama, were needed by the Indians for a specific purpose. Now, hundreds of years later, this purpose is gone. There is no longer any point in singing a song worshiping barbarians who savaged India. The time has come for Indians to worship God and not to worship foreign heroes. About the Author: Shyam Mehta has been practising yoga since 1957 and been teaching yoga since 1973. He had a Christian upbringing, in England. At Cambridge University he became interested in yoga philosophy and Hinduism. Later he gave up his Hindu sacred thread in order to fully devote his life to helping all nice people become happy. He has had a variety of religious experiences in his life and worships God almost every moment of his waking hours. |
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