INTRODUCTION TO THE VEDIC CIVILIZATION … THE VEDAS
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...