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Aryan Invasion — Theory or History or Politics?

History as a Colonial Tool “For Western historians anything that is pre-Christian has to have been heathen, barbaric, godless or pagan, and traced back to Greek or  Rome. Thus, their religious loyalties stunt their intellectual horizons."  -  Stephen Knapp , author of  Proof of Vedic Culture's Global Existence  p. 272. Since the nineteenth century, Bharat's ancient history from Vedic times and the true content of the Veda have both been distorted by a blinkered and unsympathetic scholarship. British rulers, European scholars and missionaries combined in a campaign to disparage the roots of Indian civilization, and used the wholly groundless Aryan Invasion theory to sow seeds of division in the Indian society - "divide and rule," but also "divide and convert." The same fallacies continue to be promoted today. Unfortunately, many of the wounds the Aryan invasion theory inflicted on Indian society are still painfully open today, nurtured as th

Jesus V/s Churchianity

By Swami Abhedananda ( A direct disciple of Sri Ramakrishna Paramhansa ), Ramakrishna Vedanta Math, Calcutta Why a Hindu Accepts Christ  and Rejects Churchianity ! A Hindu distinguishes the religion of the churches from the religion of Jesus Christ. Speaking from the Hindu standpoint, the religion that the churches uphold and preach today, that has been built around the personality of Jesus the Christ, and which is popularly known as Christianity, should be called ‘Churchianity’, in contradistinction to that pure religion of the heart that was taught by Jesus the Christ and practiced by his disciples. The religion of Christ or true Christianity had no dogma, no creed, no system, and no theology. It was a religion of the heart, a religion without any ceremonial, without ritual, without priest-craft. It was not based upon any book, but upon the feelings of the heart, upon direct communion of the individual soul with the heavenly Father. On the contrary, the religion of the chu