EMINENT SUPPORTERS AND UPHOLDERS OF VEDIC TRUTH

VEDAS are not a set of books. They are a cosmic matrix of fundamental knowledge, embedded in the very fabric of existence, echoing the scientific and spiritual laws of the universe that was revealed to and cognized by the ancient Vedic rishis in their advanced states of consciousness. - Tina Sadhwani

They represent the eternal truth, expressed in the most purest form. Vedic knowledge is in fact universal and applies to the entire mankind. The word VEDA means Knowledge. Vedas include not only spiritual knowledge, but also fundamental volumes of information on Science, Architecture, Avionics, Astrobiology, Astronomy, Atomic Physics, Chronometry, Dietetics, Embryology, Gastroenterology, Health Sciences, Metallurgy, Meteorology, Psychophysiology, Science of warfare, Sociology etc.

SCIENTISTS

ALBERT EISTEIN (SCIENTIST): "When I read the Bhagavad-Gita and reflect about how God created this universe everything else seems so superfluous."

ROBERT OPPENHEIMER (THEORETICAL PHYSICIST): "Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries. The general notions about human understanding which are illustrated by discoveries in atomic physics are not in the nature of things wholly unfamiliar, wholly unheard of or new. In 'Hindu' thought they have a more considerable and central place. What we shall find [in modern physics] is an exemplification, an encouragement, and a refinement of old wisdom."

WERNER HEISENBERG (FATHER OF QUANTUM PHYSICS, Nobel Prize winner): "After the conversations about Indian Philosophy, some of the ideas of Quantum Physics that had seemed so crazy suddenly made much more sense." ERWIN SCHRODINGER (PHYSICIST), awarded the Nobel prize in Quantum Mechanics, in 1933. He said "The unity and continuity of "Vedanta" are reflected in the unity and continuity of wave mechanics. In 1925, the world view of physics was a model of a great machine composed of separable interacting material particles. During the next few years,

Schrodinger and Heisenberg and their followers created a universe based on super imposed inseparable waves of probability amplitudes. This new view would be entirely consistent with the Vedantic (Veda) concept of All in One." http://adbhutam.wordpress.com/2010/01/09/advaita-and-science-ix-schrodinger-and-vedanta/

BRIAN DAVID JOSEPHSON (PHYSICIST, Nobel Laureate): "The Vedanta and the Samkhya hold the key to the laws of the mind and thought process which are correlated to the Quantum Field, i.e the operation and distribution of particles at atomic and molecular levels." Dr. CARL SAGAN (ASTROPHYSICIST): "The Hindu religion is the only one of the world's great faiths dedicated to the idea that the Cosmos itself undergoes an immense, indeed an infinite, number of deaths and rebirths. It is the only religion in which the time scales correspond, to those of modern scientific cosmology. Its cycles run from our ordinary day and night to a day and night of Brahma, 8.64 billion years long. Longer than the age of the Earth or the Sun and about half the time since the Big Bang. And there are much longer time scales still."

FRITJOF CAPRA (PHYSICIST): Outlines parallels between Vedantic worldview and Quantum Physics- in his book TAO OF PHYSICS. "Modern physics has thus revealed that every subatomic particle not only
performs an energy dance, but also is an energy dance; a pulsating process of creation and destruction. The dance of Shiva is the dancing universe, the ceaseless flow of energy going through an infinite variety of patterns that melt into one another. For the modern physicists, then Shivas dance is the dance of subatomic matter. As in Hindu mythology, it is a continual dance of creation and destruction involving the whole cosmos; the basis of all existence and of all natural phenomenon. Hundreds of years ago, Indian artists created visual images of dancing Shivas in a beautiful series of bronzes. In our times, physicists have used the most advanced technology to portray the patterns of the cosmic dance." Richard Waterstone has written in his book: Einstein and Shiva's cosmic dance : "There is a striking resemblance between the equivalence of mass and energy, symbolized by Shiva's cosmic dance and the Western theory, first expounded by Einstein, which calculates the amount of energy contained in a subatomic particle by multiplying its mass by the square of the speed of light: E = mc2. "

AMIT GOSWAMI (THEORETICAL NUCLEAR PHYSICIST): "Everything starts with consciousness. That is consciousness is the ground of all being". He wrote a book called 'The Self Aware Universe: How Consciousness creates the Material World' which propounds the same Vedic view of Brahman being the ground of all existence, immanent in all things.

NIKOLA TESLA (SCIENTIST) -contributor to the field of electricity and electromagnetism, influenced by Vedic Science and Philosophy.

STEPHEN HAWKING (SCIENTIST) in describing his mathematical model of the universe said that whereas in Western religions a creator god precedes man and the universe, the Hindu gods are preceded by creation; the origin of the world is envisaged not so much as an act of creation but as one of organization, the making of order out of chaos. The universe is often said to be born from the sacred syllable Om, or from an inert void in which " there was neither being nor non-being ... death nor non-death", a single principle from which emerged the diversity of life. From this void desire was born, and from desire came humans, gods and creation."

http://www.hinduwisdom.info/Hindu_Cosmology.htm http://transontology.org/articles/vedic_quantum.htm

PHILOSOPHERS AND HISTORIANS

General PHILOSOPHY and its concepts of 'mind', 'unity', 'universal consciousness', 'nature of existence', 'ontology', 'metaphysics', 'dualism', 'non-dualism' etc. are sourced from the Vedas and Vedanta.

Sir William Jones (English philologist and scholar) "I can venture to affirm, without meaning to pluck a leaf from the never-fading laurels of our immortal Newton, that the whole of his theology, and part of his philosophy, may be found in the Vedas."

T.S ELLIOT (AMERICAN WRITER): "Indian Philosophers' subtleties make most of the great European philosophers look like schoolboys."

LIN YUTANG (CHINESE SCHOLAR): "India was China's teacher in religion and imaginative literature, and the world's teacher in trignometry, quandratic equations, grammar, phonetics, arabian nights, animal fables, chess, as well as in philosophy,

and that she inspired Boccaccio, Goethe, Herder, Schopenhauer, Emerson, and probably also old Aesop." "Not until we see the richness of the Hindu mind and its essential spirituality can we understand India. Dr. D. T. SUZUKI (JAPANESE/ZEN SCHOLAR): "The study of Japanese thought is the study of Indian thought."

HENRY DAVID THOREAU (AMERICAN HISTORIAN, CRITIC AND PHILOSOPHER): "In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagavad Gita in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seems puny and trivial." "Most books belong to the house and streets only...But this (Bhagavad Gita) addresses what is deepest and most abiding in man. . . . Its truth speaks freshly to our experience. The sentences are filled with depth and serenity and I am sure they will have a place and significance as long as there is a sky to test them by." "One sentence of the Bhagavad Gita, is worth the State of Massachusetts many times over."

ALDOUS HUXLEY (ENGLISH PHILOSOPHER, AUTHOR): "The Bhagavad-Gita is the most systematic statement of spiritual evolution of endowing value to mankind. It is one of the most clear and comprehensive summaries of perennial philosophy ever revealed; hence its enduring value is subject not only to India but to all of humanity."

ROMAIN ROLLAND (FRENCH PHILOSOPHER, NOBEL LAUREATE, PROFESSOR OF HISTORY): "Religious faith in the case of Hinduism has never been allowed to run counter to scientific laws, moreover the former has never made a condition for the knowledge it teaches, but is always scrupulously careful to take into consideration the possibility that by reason both the agnostic and the atheist may attain truth in their own way."

"The vast and tranquil metaphysics of India is unfolded; her conception of the universe, her social organization, perfect in its day and still capable of adaptation to the demands of modern times; the solution which she offers for the feminist problem, for the problems of the family, of love, of marriage; and lastly, the magnificent revelation of her art. The whole vast soul of India proclaims from end to end of its crowded and well ordered edifice the same domination of a sovereign synthesis. There is no negation. All is harmonized. All the forces of life are grouped like a forest, whose thousand waving arms are led by Nataraja, the master of the Dance. Everything has its place,

every being has its function, and all take part in the divine concert, their different voices, and their very dissonances, creating, in the phrase of Heraclitus, a most beautiful harmony. Whereas in the West, cold, hard logic isolates the unusual, shutting it off from the rest of life into a definite and distinct compartment of the spirit. India, ever mindful of the natural differences in souls and in philosophies, endeavors to blend them into each other, so as to recreate in its fullest perfection the complete unity. The matching of opposites produces the true rhythm of life." ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER (GERMAN PHILOSOPHER): "In the whole world there is no study so beneficial and so elevating as that of the Upanishads. The Upanishads have been the solace of my life, they will be the solace of my death."

PAUL DEUSSEN (1845-1919) a direct disciple of Arthur Schopenhauer: "Whatever may be the discoveries of the scientific mind, none can dispute the eternal truths propounded by the Upanishads. Though they may appear as riddles, the key to solving them lies in our heart and if one were to approach them with an open mind one could secure the treasure as did the Rishis of ancient times"

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW (NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE, CO-FOUNDER OF LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS): "The apparent multiplication of gods is bewildering at the first glance, but you soon discover that they are the same GOD. There is always one uttermost God who defies personification. This makes Hinduism the most tolerant religion in the world, because its one transcendent God includes all possible gods. In fact Hinduism is so elastic and so subtle that the most profound Methodist, and crudest idolater, are equally at home with it."

RALPH WALDO EMERSON (AMERICAN PHILOSOPHER, AUTHOR, UNITARIAN MINISTER): "The Vedas haunt me. In them I have found eternal compensation, unfathomable power, unbroken peace."

DICK TERESI (AMERICAN WRITER): "Indian cosmologists were the first to estimate the age of the earth at more than 4 billion years. They came closest to modern ideas of atomism, quantum physics, and other current theories. India developed very early, enduring atomist theories of matter. Possibly Greek atomistic thought was influenced by India, via the Persian civilization."

Frederich von Scheigel (GERMAN SCHOLAR) "The Indians possessed a knowledge of the true God, conceived and expressed in noble, clear and grand languageEven the loftiest philosophy of the Europeans, the idealization of reason, as set forth by the Greeks, appears in comparison with the abundant light and vigor of oriental idealism, like a feeble spark in the full flood of the noonday sun."

COSMOLOGY

John Major Jenkins (RESEARCHER OF ANCIENT COSMOLOGY) "The Vedic civilization is perhaps the oldest continuous living tradition in the world. Its extremely ancient doctrines and insights into human spirituality are unsurpassed. We might expect that its cosmology and science of time has been as misunderstood as its true antiquity. In looking closely at Vedic doctrines of time, spiritual growth, cosmology, calendars, and astronomy, we will see that a central core idea is that of our periodic alignment to the Galactic Center. And, according to these ancient Vedic beliefs, the galactic alignment we are currently experiencing heralds our shift from a millennia-long descent of deepening spiritual darkness (kalyug) to a new era of light and ascending consciousness (satyug). "

OTHERS:

Dr. A.P.J ABDUL KALAM (FORMER PRESIDENT OF INDIA): "Vedas are the most precious treasures of India. The soul of Bharatiya sanskriti dwells in the Vedas. The entire world admits the importance of the Vedas."

VENCENTE AVELINO who was the CONSUL GENERAL for Brazil in India in 1930, said"India is the only country which has known God and if anyone wants to know God he must know India."

QUEEN FREDRICKA OF GREECE (1931- 1981) The wife of King Paul of Greece: "It was my advanced research in physics that had started me on a spiritual quest. It culminated in me accepting the non-dualism or absolute monism of Shankara as my philosophy of life and science. You are fortunate to inherit such knowledge.... I envy you. While Greece is the country of my birth, India is the country of my soul."

FRANCOIS GAUTIER (French Journalist, founder of FACT-INDIA): "The greatness of India is spiritual. The world has lost the truth. We have lost the Great Sense, the meaning of our evolution, the meaning of why so much suffering, why dying, why getting born, why this earth, who we are, what is the soul, what is reincarnation, where is the ultimate truth about the world, the universe... But India has kept this truth. India has preserved it through seven millennia of pitfalls, genocides, and mistakes. And this was meant to be India's gift to this planet in this century: to restore to the world its true sense, to recharge humanity with the real meaning and spirit of life. India can become the spiritual leader of the world, if only its own people will allow it.

W.J GRANT (BOOK-Spirit Of India): "India indeed has a preciousness which a materialistic age is in danger of missing. Some day the fragrance of her thought will win the hearts of men. This grim chase after our own tails which marks the present age cannot continue for ever. The future contains a new human urge towards the real beauty and holiness of life. When it comes, Hinduism will be searched by loving eyes and defended by knightly hands."

David Frawley (American Hindu and Vedic Scholar/Mystic) "The Hindu mind represents humanitys oldest and most continuous stream of conscious intelligence on the planet. Hindu sages, seers, saints, yogis and jnanis have maintained an unbroken current of awareness linking humanity with the Divine since the dawn of history, and as carried over from earlier cycles of civilization in previous humanities unknown to our present spiritually limited culture." Sanskrit literature is a great literature. We have the great songs of the Vedas, the splendor of the Upanishads, the glory of the Upanishads, the glory of the Bhagavad-Gita, the vastness (100,000 verses) of the Mahabharata, the tenderness and the heroism found in the Ramayana, the wisdom of the fables and stories of India, the scientific philosophy of Sankhya, the psychological philosophy of yoga, the poetical philosophy of Vedanta, the Laws of Manu, the grammar of Panini and other scientific writings, the lyrical poetry, and dramas of Kalidasa. Sanskrit literature, on the whole, is a romantic literature interwoven with idealism and practical wisdom, and with a passionate longing for spiritual vision. Juan Mascaro I can venture to affirm, without meaning to pluck a leaf from the never-fading laurels of our immortal Newton, that the whole of his theology, and part of his philosophy, may be found in the Vedas. Sir William Jones (english philologist and scholar) In India I found a race of mortals living upon the Earth. but not adhering to it. Inhabiting cities, but not being fixed to them, possessing everything but possessed by nothing. Apollonius Tyanaeus (Greek Neopythagorean Philosopher) The Indian way of life provides the vision of the natural, real way of life. We veil ourselves with unnatural masks. On the face of India are the tender expressions which carry the mark of the Creators hand. George Bernanrd Shaw

For me the most important thing is to spread the Hindu knowledge about the soul. This is more important than any other knowledge and is my main priority. Alfred Ford When doubts haunt me, when disappointments stare me in the face, and I see not one ray of hope on the horizon, I turn to Bhagavad-Gita and find a verse to comfort me; and I immediately begin to smile in the midst of overwhelming sorrow. Those who meditate on the Gita will derive fresh joy and new meanings from it every day. ( Mahatma Gandhi)