emptybill: > ...distinguished swamis Vivekananda and Satchidananda; > Theosophist sympathizers Alice A. Bailey... > "Taimini superimposed Theosophy upon Patanjali ala Blavatsky/Bailey blah blah blah..." - emptybill
FairfieldLife/message/250125 It is a fact that Vivekananda did not read any Sanskrit and he was not a real 'Swami' by any measure. > The translations are as diverse as the scholars > who wrote them: Georg Feuerstein, Vyaas Houston... > Georg Fuerstien upholds the theory that the Aryan speakers *came out of India* - totally discredited! Read more: "A pair of Western scholars (Michael Witzel and Steve Farmer, "Horesplay in Harappa," Frontline Magazine, 10/13/00) have observed: "In the past few decades, a new kind of history has been propagated by a vocal group of Indian writers, few of them trained historians, who lavishly praise and support each other's works. Their aim is to rewrite Indian history from a nationalistic and religious point of view. Their writings have special appeal to a new middle class confused by modern threats to traditional values. With alarming frequency their movement is backed by powerful political forces, lending it a mask of respectability that it does not deserve." I believe this is precisely one such book, and will be happy to have it out of my house..." Read more: 'The True History and the Religion of India' A Concise Encyclopedia of Authentic Hinduism By H.D. Swami Prakashanand Saraswati Jagadguru Kripalu Parishat, Barsana Dham, 2003 http://tinyurl.com/2cdkhlv
