On May 23, 2006, at 12:53 PM, authfriend wrote:
> OK, Vaj, I've now read both parts of the two-parter you
> posted here by Nanda, as well as the additional essay
> you just put up.
>
> Your subject heading is misleading in several different
> ways.
>
> First, "Vedic Creation Science" is your term, not
> Nanda's. You created it with the intention of
> conveying a highly misleading guilt-by-association
> between MMY's Vedic Science and Christian Creation
> Science.
>
> Second, in neither essay does Nanda "debunk" even just
> plain Vedic science. Her treatment of it is extremely
> superficial and essentially polemical, not analytical.
> (As I noted elsewhere, she is said to go into more
> detail in part 2 of her book "Prophets Facing Backward,"
> but one certainly finds no debunking in the essays.)
>
> Third, although she mentions TM and MMY in passing, she is
> clearly not familiar with MMY's Vedic Science (she refers
> to it as his "Unified Science," apparently conflating
> "Unified Field" and "Vedic Science"). She also refers to
> Transcendental Meditation as if it were an integral part of
> the Hindutva version of Vedic science, which is of course
> not the case at all.
>
> What she's actually debunking has very little to do with
> Maharishi's Vedic Science. It's of interest to observers
> of the Indian political scene, and to political-type
> trends in the philosophy of science, but it has only the
> most remote and fuzzy connection to anything TM-ish.
>
> If I had been the one to post her essays here, I would
> have noted this up front, so as not to misrepresent her
> work or mislead readers into thinking MMY's Vedic Science
> had been conclusively debunked by Nanda.
It's probably either that you lack the necessary insight to see the
connection or you're still stuck inside the TM Vedic paradigm (or
both). Suffice to say, since this first appeared on a Sanskrit
scholarly list, I've shared it with a number of TMer's and they (for
the most part) got it without having to have me spell it out for
them. Others have even commented on the political machinations behind
it. Mahesh is a key figure in this revisionist Vedic Creationism.
It's not a problem, I understand you either can't or do not want to
see this this! If you still haven't got it (obviously the case)
there's nothing anything else to say.
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