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All these evidences serve to show that our religion was once prevalent throughout the
globe. It may have been that for causes which we are not able to ascertain, the tenets and
practices of our religion began to decline in other parts and their prevalence came to be
confined to the land of their origin originally known as Bhaarata Varsha, India.
When it lapsed
into oblivion in other countries and when due to lack of any religious consciousness, the
people became godless and unethical, there arose in those lands great prophets who brought
to light one aspect or another of this forgotten religion.
They declared them selves to be founders of new religions and came
to be revered as such. But it must be noted that the fundamental moral principles
underlying these new religions only emphasized some feature or other of the universal
Vedic religion with certain theological variations. |
