Vedic Beliefs

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THE AUTHOR: Born 1st July 1932. Odisha (India)- graduated from Bihar College of Engineering. Patna (1954) in Civil Engineering, did Post-graduation from Brighton College of Technology, (UK)- served in fifferent highway projects for thirty four years- worked as Chief Engineer, R & D, Works Dept, Odisha state- represented India in World Roads Congress (1966)- Wrote biographies of eminent engineers Dr. M. Visweswaraya, Dr. A.N. Khosla.

Under the guidance of his scholarly father, studied Vedic grammar and Texts in childhood. At the age of twentysix, his first book 'Veda Manushya Kruta ki ?' (Are the Vedas a creation of man) in Odia was a landmark in Vedic Literature. The book received Odisha Sahitya Academy Award in the same year. Rigveda Saurabha, Yajurveda Saurabha, Sama Veda Sourabha, Atharva Veda Saurabha, Upanishad Prakash (Vo I and II), Shuddha Manusmruti, Patanjala Yoga Darshan are a few to mention out of forty and odd books edited and published. Established the Arya Samaj and Vaidika Anusandhan Pratisthan at Bhubaneswar for propogation of Vedic knowledge.

A crusader against social evils- encouraged and conducted inter-caste and widow marriages- supported women priest-hood in Vedic worship and ceremomies- fought against caste system, slaughter of animals in religious places etc.

A few outstanding recognitions and awards- Meghji Bhai Puraskar, Mumbai (1994), Maharshi Dayandan Puraskar, Nasik (2005), D. litt. Utkal University (2006), D. litt. Tirupati Sanskrit University (2014), Ganga Prasad Upadhyaya Puraskar, Allahabad (2008). Rastriya Vaidik Sahitya Puraskar (2015), Hindon city Rajasthan, Upadhi- Vidya Vagish, Arya Bibhusana, Arya Ratna, Acharya etc.

Islamism, Christianism, Judaism, Zoroastrianism, Buddhism, Jainism-each of these religions had a founder or propounder. And every founder admitted that he had only rectified and cleared up the aberrations and distortions that had crept into his religion. He had not conceived the religion as such since it had been there from the beginning of creation. These preceptors were historic persons. The tenets of their religious precepts depended on how they lived their own lives. If, in future, historical research unearths hitherto unknown facets of their lives, that is very likely to generate doubt about what they had propounded.

Svami Vivekananda writes in this context, "If at any time, the historical evidence about the existence in these personages in ancient times became weak, the whole building of these religions tumbles down and is broken to pieces. We escaped this fate because our religion is not based upon persons but on principles. That you obey your religion is not because it came through the authority of a sage, no, not even of an incarnation, Krishna is not the authority of the Vedas, but the Vedas are the authority of Krishna himself". (Complete works of Vivekananda vol. III, page - 249)

A study of the history of the religions will tell us that the Islamism came after all religions. This school of religion was born out of Judaism. The metaphysical contents of Christianity evolved out of Judaism and its ethical contents evolved out of Buddhism, Buddhism had reached Palestine before the birth of Christ. In the same way, Judaism had taken its roots from Zoroastrianism. That Buddhism, Jainism and Zoroastrianism have been born out of Hinduism does not need much of research to be established.

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