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Vedas have guided Indian civilization for thousands of years. They are the pillars of Bharatavarsha.

'''"Veda is the source of all Dharma". '''

The knowledge contained in the Vedas is very abstruse, and is well beyond the comprehension of ordinary human beings.

Science was institutionalized among the ancient Rishis. It was considered sacred and as good as their moral codes for society. Scientific activities had important functions that were valued in society. The role of astronomers to fix the calendar, to set dates of religious festivals, and to predict eclipses or other astronomical events became as important as their moral codes.

Our ancestors Rishis believed that their knowledge was in danger of being lost. They could have written it down, but writings could be destroyed. Therefore, it was memorized and passed on orally. This would also explain why extraordinary steps were taken to preserve the Vedas, and the honor given to the Vedas, even though its meaning is little understood today.

Slavery in India <span style="font-family:'TimesNewRoman',serif;background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">  <span style="font-family:'TimesNewRoman',serif;background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">in ancient times, with invasions of India in 8th century, and particularly after the 12th century had complicated the Vedic cultural values by contested definitions, ideological and religious perceptions. It became the predominant system in North India in the thirteenth century and retained considerable importance in the fourteenth century. Slavery was still vigorous in fifteenth-century Bengal, while after that date it shifted to the  Deccan <span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif""> <span style="background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">where it persisted until the seventeenth century. It remained present to a minor extent in the Mughal provinces throughout the seventeenth century and had a notable revival under the Afghans in North India again in the eighteenth century.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;text-indent:.5in;line-height:normal;tab-stops:4.5pt"><span style="font-family:'TimesNewRoman',serif;background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">The  Mughals  continued the slave trade. The institution of slavery continued (in India), in various manifestations, well after the decentralization of the Mughal Empire in the early 18th century. <span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:Georgia,serif;background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;"> <span style="font-family:'TimesNewRoman',serif;background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">In fact, eighteenth century Europeans, including some Britons, were involved in buying, selling and exporting Indian slaves, transferring them around the subcontinent or to European slave colonies across the globe.

<p style="margin:0in0in0.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:0.5in;background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;"> One of the biggest assumptions of modern society is that, anything that is being discovered or invented today is being done so for the first time in Human history. In other words, in spite of having the same brain for over two million years, and known history of ancient civilizations for over past 10000 years or so, we assume that only in the last 4-5 centuries did the human beings started thinking scientifically and are doing technological inventions and scientific discoveries. We assume that all our ancient ancestors were dumbs who spent time in blind faiths, unscientific practices, and uncivilized activities and so on.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;text-indent:.5in;line-height:normal;tab-stops:4.5pt"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Many people in the Western world think of India as an inert and distant of people and poverty, a combination of the exotic and tragic. This misperception, popularized through years of media stereotyping, conceals reality.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;text-indent:.5in;line-height:normal;tab-stops:4.5pt"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">The reality is that India is a vibrant society with an increasingly vigorous internal dynamic and an increasing influence, directly and indirectly, in the world. Its significance lies not only in its size -- some 930 million Indians are 15% of the planetary population -- but also in the questions raised by the path India has chosen in domestic and foreign policy. This nation is the largest functioning democracy, with regular and freely contested elections. India's economic policies have also broken new ground. They were the first large-scale test of the modern mixed economy: central government planning with a combination of both private and public ownership of economic enterprises.''' '''

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;text-indent:.5in;line-height:normal;tab-stops:4.5pt"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Diversity is the first feature of India. It is a country in which there are 15 official languages, over 300 minor languages and some 3,000 dialects. Twenty-four languages have more than one million speakers each.

<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in"> A second feature is the depth of culture, which contrasts with the newness of the nation in its present form. There has been over 4,000 years of philosophical and cultural development in India, going back to early Aryan civilization. Every Indian, even the poorest illiterate, can tell stories of myth and history, a consciousness of a great civilization heritage which is unusually widespread. Yet, there was no India as we know it until the achievement of independence in 1947. The consciousness of the great past and the newness of the present sometimes produce an abrasive reaction.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;text-indent:.5in;line-height:normal;tab-stops:4.5pt"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">The third feature is that India is a land of minorities. About 80% the population is Hindus. But Hinduism is an amalgam of pluralistic beliefs and forms, often containing conflicting elements.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;text-indent:.5in;line-height:normal;tab-stops:4.5pt"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">A fourth feature of modern India is that, broadly speaking, its future depends on the interaction between two worlds: the cities of India, where 20% of the population lives, and rural India, where about 600,000 villages contain the rest of the population. Urban India is the India of modern industry, national politics and foreign policy, government planning, the national media, the major universities, business, the armed forces, science and technology. Its best products are frequently as good as the best in the world, its orientation is cosmopolitan. Rural India is the India of age-old patterns where tradition is the principal dynamic of society, where outsiders come and go but life continues, often without much change. When the two Indians mesh effectively, India is a success, as in the expansion of education, the reduction of illiteracy, the extension of the average lifespan, the introduction of some basic health care, the sustenance of a democratic political system.

<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in"> The fifth and final feature we must remember is that poverty; spirituality and modernity mix and coexist in India, without the paradoxical implications which a Western perspective suggests. It is the essence of Indian spirituality which enables even the most deprived to endure poverty and it is modernity which provides the prospect of improvement.

<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in"> It is this spirit, a composite of many small individual visions and inspirations, which characterizes modern India and offers the best hope for the nation and its people.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;text-indent:.5in;line-height:normal;tab-stops:4.5pt"><span style="font-family:'TimesNewRoman',serif;background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">Hindu Americans have moved away from the rigidity with which they grew up in India. Yet they seem to have certain degree of social conservatism compared to the major Western culture. We have seen their children want to be in interfaith marriages more often than not. Their parents do not endorse wholly the permissiveness in their adopted land. Hindu partners often wish a marriage celebrated with both faiths. The Hindu partner tries to make a compromise with the active co-operation of his non-conservative and pervasive partner and continues to attend Hindu temples in order to keep the relationship and Hindu values more so when the partner happens to be male. Hindu partner also tries to bring up their children with broad based Hindu Values and openness to adopt what is good in the   partner’s faith or culture. Hindu Americans realize in a globalized world India too   has become more socially liberal and religiously relaxed focusing on spiritual and human values with its secular adopted political system. Compatibility, commitment shared values have taken priority over caste, creed religion and family background.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;text-indent:.5in;line-height:normal;tab-stops:4.5pt"><span style="font-family:'TimesNewRoman',serif;background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">Vedic Rishis <span style="font-family:'TimesNewRoman',serif;background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;"> discovered recitation of Vedic hymns and Suktas change the habit of mind’s chatter over vain thoughts or idleness. The process of understanding the real meaning of the Mantras and rituals started in the Yajurveda, Aranyaka and Upanishads expounding the principles contained in the Mantras and in describing the rituals in Rig Veda throwing light on the spiritual aspect.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;text-indent:.5in;line-height:normal;tab-stops:4.5pt">'''<span style="font-family:'TimesNewRoman',serif;background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">English educated intellect-scholars of modern days with their enquiring mind are struggling hard to know and understand the original teachings of Vedas and Upanishads in Sanskrit and their core meanings. So, People started neglecting their study. '''

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;text-indent:.5in;line-height:normal;tab-stops:4.5pt"><span style="font-family:'TimesNewRoman',serif;background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">The reasons are many for the prevalent corrupted religious practices of today which includes political influence and interference as seen in India. One main reason for the corruption is that religion and religious ceremonies have become gradually a business and core focus of profitability and job security for those who claim to be the owners of God’s messengers or expression of their ego as philanthropists. No one wants to challenge them because of the fear of God and the curse that such authority may impose on the religiously faithful. We do not know who is genuine and who is not! We have heard of many popular Sadhus (self-proclaimed Gurus) going out of circulation or behind bars. We are helpless in such situations. Considering the pros and cons the spiritual focus with proper understanding of religious practices, which were regulated by later Agamas without proper explanation, seems more appealing to the modern educated, particularly to Hindu Americans. Hindu Americans are also caught between inter-faiths and cultures and influenced by the major culture or religion. The result is hotchpotch approach in our religious practices without focus on the Supreme.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;text-indent:.5in;line-height:normal;tab-stops:4.5pt"><span style="font-family:'TimesNewRoman',serif;background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">The fact is that in the <span style="font-family:'TimesNewRoman',serif;background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">Present day, Yajnas (Fire sacrifices) in temples and at home performed meaninglessly and lots of money is spent without any attempt to understand consistently the ideas of rituals in the light of Rig Veda Mantras on which it is based. Even if it is known to some priests the knowledge is not seen as having influenced the vast participants who follow the rituals in blind faith. The rituals which are aimed at deifying the vessels, the fagots and the ingredients used have to be understood by the devotees as well as the performers in the light of the Tantric concept of the Mantras being practiced and a consistent real meaning of the ritual has to be known and conveyed to the participants.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;text-indent:.5in;line-height:normal;tab-stops:4.5pt"><span style="font-family:'TimesNewRoman',serif;background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">We must get back to our original thoughts of Sanatana Dharma for which the proper understanding of true meaning Veda mantras used in our worships and rituals is necessary and need of the hour living in multi-cultured society yet trying to preserve Hindu values.

<p class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">There lays a responsibility to impart the Divine Vedic Knowledge to the younger generation. Make them to understand on the basic Vedic concept of ‘Love All’ the entire humanity, irrespective of caste, creed, nationality and religion, explain them on the doctrine of The Sanatana Dharma.

<p class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">This is a doctrine of virtuous living and of the religious and moral rights and duties of each individual to live a life of good conduct. Both Mother and Motherland are dearer than heaven itself. Love children, respect parents, respect elders, respect all by not doing mental, emotional, or physical harm to others; and by doing heart-centered works of selfless service, past life karmas were resolved. On the other hand they must be ready to help others. They must live a good life by following this divine law.

<p class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-family:'TimesNewRoman',serif;background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">It is necessary to make our worships and rituals more meaningful and spiritually appealing which appeals to all modern educated. Proper understanding of Veda Mantras used in our rituals and worships will go a long way in restoring Hinduism to its original spirit of Sanatana Dharma. <span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">

<p class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif";mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">My firm objective is to retentive interest in Vedas on the basis of scientific reality that the application of Vedas can benefit every area of human life and endeavor.

<p class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif";mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">My objective is to re-establish Vedic India with correct decodification of Vedic Hymns in modern scientific perspective.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;text-indent:.5in;line-height:normal;tab-stops:4.5pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'TimesNewRoman',serif;background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">My endeavor is to make every Indian to understand all Vedic rites, rituals, religious ceremonies, modes of worship, yoga practices, festivals and the principles of Vedic Science, verified by modern science and then to apply these principles in various fields of Indian life to elevate the life of the people of India and the world.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;text-indent:.5in;line-height:normal;tab-stops:4.5pt"><span style="font-family:'TimesNewRoman',serif;background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">This presentation on <span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">Vedic Scientific Excellence <span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"> unfolds the <span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Science of Vedic Suktas as well <span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"> Mysterious Cosmic Spinning Energy. This rediscovery is an eternal <span style="font-family:'TimesNewRoman',serif;background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">Vedic perspective and is far more superior to the advanced sciences. <span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "TimesNewRoman";mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;text-indent:.5in;line-height:normal;tab-stops:4.5pt"><span style="font-family:'TimesNewRoman',serif;background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">This presentation will run for 90 minutes. This could be either in the pre lunch or post lunch time.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;text-indent:.5in;line-height:normal;tab-stops:4.5pt"><span style="font-family:'TimesNewRoman',serif;background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">Once <span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">this “Elixir of Scientific Truth” <span style="font-family:'TimesNewRoman',serif;background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">is <span style="background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">brought to light, it lifts the <span style="background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;"> <span style="font-family:'TimesNewRoman',serif;background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">“warm glow” effect. Larger the participants, greater is the benefit of altruism that makes everyone "feels so good” on the glorious Indian wisdom, culture and heritage.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;text-indent:.5in;line-height:normal;tab-stops:4.5pt"><span style="font-family:'TimesNewRoman',serif;background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">This <span style="font-family:'TimesNewRoman',serif;background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;"> mystical profundity <span style="font-family:'TimesNewRoman',serif;background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;"> inspires them to behave with grace, towards different people. This concern is potentially a jumpstart for the well-being of others.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;text-indent:.5in;line-height:normal;tab-stops:4.5pt"><span style="font-family:'TimesNewRoman',serif;background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">This is bound to spread by three degrees—from person to person to person to person. As one person’s generous behavior triggers another’s and each person in a circle can influence dozens or even hundreds of people, some of whom he or she does not even know and has not met. Nevertheless, this public spirit of the participant will bring a big dose of happiness in the process of its instilling with a sense of national pride in the heart of every other.

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