Opinion

======================================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #OPINION : 31/01/2020 : 2040 Chapter 3: The Vedas – the Foundation of Indian Culture -1. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. The culture of India can be traced back to the Vedas, especially the Rigveda Samhita. Generally, the Veda is regarded as a religious scripture, and practically every so-called scripture in the world is considered as the basis of a particular religion. Therefore, an idea or an opinion has been formed by people generally that the culture of India is principally a religious culture, and inasmuch as religion is connected with the existence of God, this thought was further developed into the consequence thereof that Indian culture is not connected with this world so much as with ...

======================================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ #OPINION : 27/01/2020 : 2035 ##Chapter 2: The Evolution of Culture (SAMSKARAM)-7. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. #The Rigveda Samhita is a great wonder. As a scripture it is a wonder, as a book of prayer it is a wonder, as a poem it is a wonder, and as a mystical guide to understand life as a whole also it is a wonder. The Vedas are said to have been edited by a great Master called Krishna Dvaipayana Veda Vyasa. ##It appears that one day students went to the great master and said, “Please teach us Vedas.” ###And the answer was ananta vai veda?: Infinite is the Veda. It was not easy to explain the meaning of the Veda because its profundity is infinite. --------------------------------...

======================================================================= ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #OPINION : 24/01/2020 : 2034. ##Chapter 2: The Evolution of Culture (SAMSKARAM)-6. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Vice President Venkaiah Naidu addressing the gathering at the inauguration of World Conference on Vedas, in New Delhi on Friday. (Photo: PIB) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. #The mystery behind the very consciousness of it being necessary to be righteous, and the mystery of the heavens, are said to be the greatest mysteries. ##The contemplation on these mysteries makes one a philosopher above the psychologist, the physicist or the sociologist. *The physicist studies the components o...

======================================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #OPINION : 20/01/2020 : 2032. ##Chapter 2: The Evolution of Culture (SAMSKARAM)-5. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Now, having taken note of the roots of human culture being connected with human needs, we have also to go a little deep into what these needs are. Cultures arise on account of the needs of people. The basic needs, of course, are very clear, as I mentioned: hunger and thirst, and security. You have to eat in order that you may live, and you have also to be protected from any kind of onslaught from outside. Towards this end cultures move, but this is not a refined form of culture because this definition of culture limiting itself to bodily needs, physical survival, does n...

======================================================================== #National Bird – Indian Peafowl ##Indian Peacock or Indian Peafowl is the national bird of India, best known for long feathers and Peacock Dance before rain. The bird is found in the drier lowland areas and a resident breeder across the Indian subcontinent. ======================================================================== #National Flag – Tiranga ##Tiranga also called Tricolour is the national flag of India, has three colours saffron at top which signifies sacrifice and patriotism, middle is white stands for truth with Ashoka Chakra in the middle of the white is a blue wheel, at bottom green for life and prosperity. ======================================================================== #OPINION : 16/01/2020 : 2028. ##Chapter 2: The Evolution of Culture (SAMSKARAM)-4. ======================================================================== 1. #National River – Ganges ##Ganges ri...

======================================================================== ======================================================================== #OPINION : 12/01/2020 : 2023. Chapter 2: The Evolution of Culture (SAMSKARAM)-3. ======================================================================== 1. In the beginning, every person is like every other person. There is not much of a difference between or among people from the point of view of the basic instincts or physical nature, etc. Hunger and thirst, the need for security, and the urge for survival are common features in all individuals. Primitive man, in the earliest of stages of the anthropological development of human nature, is said to have lived mostly under the pressure of the basic needs of the physical personality, if we are to go along the lines of the evolutionary process of nature, which seems to have risen gradually from mineral to plant, plant to animal, and animal to man, etc. This way of thinking ...