Part III - Foundations of a New Indic School
| Vedic Knowledge And The Coming Planetary Age |
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The Vedas are the oldest literature of India, preserved by the people of the region for thousand of years to represent their unbroken culture. The Vedas have survived the vicissitudes of time better than any ancient literature in the world.
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| Consciousness And Mind In The Vedic Tradition |
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Three interrelated aspects of intelligence exist that we can examine as human beings. The first is the brain, the physical organ of intelligence subject to outer surgical and biochemical forms of examination.
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| Vedanta, The Foundation Of The Indic School Of Thought |
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The most characteristic system of thought coming out of India has always been Vedanta, the philosophy of Self-realization rooted in the Upanishads and the Bhagavad Gita. The Vedantic message of the unity of Atman and Brahman, the individual and the universal, is the prime message of all Indic thought.
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| Vedic Yoga, The Oldest Form Of Yoga |
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Yoga in various forms is popular throughout the world today. However, few Yoga teachers, much less Yoga students, understand the Vedic roots of Yoga. They are rarely aware of Yoga’s integral relationship with Hindu culture, which it pervades on all levels including music, dance, medicine, astrology and spirituality.
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| Ayurveda, The World’s Medicine For The Next Millennium |
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In 1989 I attended a conference on medical applications of Yoga in Mumbai. There were a number of Indian medical doctors on the panel but, strangely as a westerner, I was the only Ayurvedic speaker. After my talk promoting Ayurveda, someone in the audience remarked ....
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| Vedic Astrology : Space Age Science Or Superstition |
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The government of India recently (2001) decided to reintroduce the subject of Vedic astrology into the schools and to teach it at a university level in non-Sanskrit courses. Naturally, this movement has met with tremendous opposition by a number of so-called modern or secular thinkers.
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| Solar Power And The Gayatri Mantra |
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The Vedas worship the Sun, Surya, as the source of light for the entire world. But for the Vedic people, light is not a material force but a power of life, love and intelligence. Nor is the Sun a distant entity unrelated to us. It has a presence on Earth through the power of its rays, which not only pervade our environment but also touch our very hearts.
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| Outline Of A New Vedic School |
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The outlines of a new Vedic school are not hard to determine because the older Vedic school simply needs to be redesigned in a modern context. Naturally, each of these subjects is a field in itself. Here I will only aim at showing the basic structure.
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