THE ANTIQUITY OF THE VEDIC CIVILIZATION

  Every Indian is aware of Tribeni Sangam which occurs in Allahabad also called Prayagraj. It is the confluence of three rivers — the Ganges, the Yamuna, and a third river the Saraswati. The two rivers maintain their visible identity and can be identified by their different colors. The water of the Ganges is clear, while that of the Yamuna is greenish in color. A place of religious importance and the site for historic Kumbh Mela held every 12 years, over the years it has also been the site of immersion of ashes of several national leaders, including Mahatma Gandhi in 1948. The auspiciousness of the confluence of two rivers is referred to in the Rigveda which says, "Those who bathe at the place where the two rivers flow together, rise up to heaven". If we study the river map of Indian subcontinent we will see that the two rivers ie Ganges and the Yamuna meet at Allahabad but the river Saraswati is not there at all. Ev...

  Many of us may not know that the first recorded sentence was, “ agni milee purohitam” This is the starting Shloka of the Rig Veda. This recording was done by Thomas Edison and the words were spoken by Max Muller. Max Muller said on that very day to all the scientists and theologists present there, “ when you were all jumping in the forest like the chimpanzees India had a civilization which gave us the Vedas which is the storehouse of Science and astrophysics.” Max Muller was an Indologist and had an exceptional understanding of the Vedas and he realized that the Vedas needs be studied and understood as it will open up an entire gamut of science and discoveries and who so ever possesses this ethereal knowledge will surely rule the world that was yet to take a political shape as we find it today. Unfortunately, we Indians never realized the importance of Vedas as the Germans have. Today they have the Sanskrit language in their curriculum and Vedas is studied very seriously. It is...