Vedas , Astronomy and Spirituality: is the Word mightier than Stone?
"In the incredible age of Indian civilisation new evidence arises from the one intact source of Indian records so far overlooked: the fact that the word may be mightier than rock. Generations upon generations have passed down the poem before it was written down, the verses remembered with uncanny precision through intricate exercise."
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"Oral tradition, the words themselves, may have carved a monument that withstands the ages better than rock, that is lost when it is written down; for it goes by the ear, by the rhythm of the heart. The sound silences the mind. It stills all thought: but as the book says, make one mistake, that’s when the snake strikes: when the ear hears. Oral tradition needed no written records. If it could be remembered faultlessly for a thousand years, why not for thousands, or more?"
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"If the Mahabharata has one message to deliver it is that man should most concern himself with inner peace and real happiness which do not lie here in this world. It’s through understanding this that one grasps the essence of Indian thought.
"The indifference to material possessions evinced by so many here and deemed almost a crime in the west stems from the knowledge that whatever one gains in this world is lost the moment the body is burns to earth, melts and vanishes into air So why concern oneself too much with ephemeral things? It may be a recipe for poverty, but t also one for the kind of riches you can take with you.
"It is there also where lies the greatness of the Mahabharata."
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"Spiritual science it seems, the precise technique of self realisation and liberation, has been a part of Indian society from the very start. Just as those new soldiers and civil servants of empire were told , who understands this understands everything about India, and those who fail to understand it will never understand anything about her."
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