My next upcoming Book: Eva and Shiva
“ Untold Vedic Culture (Eva and Shiva)” is the name
of my next book.
Here
is an extract of my upcoming book.
This
is a story of Eva. This story is some 70 years ago. Eva was an innocent, bubbly
girl from London. She spent most of her childhood in the city of London.
Somehow, she did not enjoy life in cities and she wanted to try something
different. Eva always loved adventures and people. She thought she should visit
a calm soothing place. She was looking for something scenic and virgin. She
wanted to live in some remote secluded place; something other than Europe, but
beautiful. Someone suggested her to try Asia. Even she liked the idea and she
decided to go on an adventurous trip to Asia.
While travelling she was deeply
attracted towards India and she decided to travel each part of the country and
learn more about the country. While travelling throughout the country Eva had
interesting observations. The customs and traditions in every region were very
different. Neither she heard about so many languages nor did she know so many
cuisines.
She wondered why this country did not
have rulers who pushed their culture on the country. Why didn’t they
standardize the language? Then she thought the people of this country must have
spent most of the time in wars. To her surprise, many of her understandings
were incorrect. She also realized that there are many common things across the
country. Surprisingly people of different regions have common understanding!
Finally, she decided to increase her
stay further and understand more about the country, its culture, history and
almost everything.
As
she learnt more and more she liked India more and more. To her surprise, Eva
was searching for something similar. She liked India and enjoyed every moment
of her travel. This book is about everything Eva learnt about India and Indian
culture.
Eva first thought of learning from the
oldest literature of the world. She knew that Mr Max Muller recorded on
phonogram the first hymn ‘Agnimeele purohitham’ from Vedha, the oldest
literature of the world. She also knew that Albert Einstein said: “We owe a
lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count without which no worthwhile
scientific discovery could have been made.” She found out that British historian
Grant Duff said: “Many of the advances in the sciences that we consider today
to have been made in Europe were in fact made in India centuries ago.”
Another British Historian Dr Arnold Toynbee thought “It is already becoming
clearer that a chapter which has a western beginning will have to have an
Indian ending if it is not to end in the self-destruction of the human race...
At this supremely dangerous moment in history, the only way of salvation for
mankind is the Indian way.” She somewhere read that T. S Elliot, great
American poet, philosopher and Nobel Laureate said “Indian philosophers’
subtleties make most of the great European philosophers look like schoolboys”.
Finally, she got to know that Mark Twain said “India is the cradle of the
human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the
grandmother of legend, and the great grandmother of tradition. Our most
valuable and most constructive materials in the history of man are treasured up
in India only.” As she was very curious about the Indian cosmology and theory
of evolution that she decided to first explore more about these topics.
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