--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <sparaig@> wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings <no_reply@> > > wrote: > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, coldbluiceman <no_reply@> > > > > wrote: > > > > Now the "tmo" is in the provebial tiolet.>> > > > > > > > > What is that? -- a toilet that speaks proverbs? > > > > > > > > > in Mahesh, as *You get what Mahesh has*...Which is Mahesh's > > destiny > > > > that awaits him when he dies.> > > > > > > > > Are you fear-mongering....like the christian fundies do? > > > > > > > > OffWorld > > > > > > > > > > In case you hadn't noticed, the man believes that the British > > deliberately rewrote parts of the > > > vedic literature over a 150 year period in order to destroy > > Hinduism...>>> > > > > He may actually be right about that. There was one Victorian British > > officer in India that deliberately mistranslated some vedic > > literature for the purpose of specifically advancing the christian > > superiority complex over the hindu, and attempting to deliberately > > denegrate hinduism. This officer (I forgot his name) is recorded in > > letters and official documents that that was his specific aim and he > > was proud of his actions, and no-one questioned his actions at the > > time.. > > > > OffWorld > > > > > His tenure lasted 150 years?>>
No, but the influence of this and other European arrogancies did. Not long after the time of the British governer's (whatever title given) attempt to re-write some vedic writings to deliberately, systematically, and proudly, subordinate it to christianity....Max Muller, the hugely German scholar, for decades largely demened and incorrectly downgraded the Vedic culture's presence and stature in the region. So much so that to this day there is still an old school of respected scholars who still believe that the vast epics of the Vedas and Vedic tradition were largely the campfire stories of some wandering Afghan peasant sheepherders and their marauding heirs. However, the MAJORITY of modern scholarly thought is now realising that the Vedas were in India long before any Afghan migration. But Max Muller (along with other British repressions and other European short-sightedness) was a HUGE figure in Vedic scholarly field (even among westernised Indian scholars) and only very recently is being toppled from his god-like status towards a less pompous and humbled view of the vedic culture on the part of western scholars. (I really wanted to study this whole thing as a PHD, and travel to India to delve deeper into it, and write a book, but I don't suppose I ever will now) QUOTE: ""Max Muller represented the bes, and at times the worst, of nineteenth-century intellectual life. His work in the origins and growth of language, mythology, and religion, typified Victorian armchair scholarship: bold, adventurous, pioneering, sometimes triumphalistic, but always convinced of its social and cultural superiority. To be sure, there is much to admire, much to despise, and much to be embarrassed by, in the antiquated scholarship of the Victorian era as a whole. But as a pivotal period in the history of human ideas, the historical and intellectual import of its scholarly literature should not be ignored by historians or summarily dismissed by present-day researchers as utterly worthless. Rather, it should be read and understood within its own social and cultural context. In the case of the voluminous and, at the time, influential writings of Friedrich Max Muller, this observation proves no less true. "" http://www.wordtrade.com/society/mullermax.htm (If you have a one-liner, poorly thought out answer for your response sparaig, you will be called "spare egghead" for 3 days by me) OffWorld To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
