Please Review my budding blog on the Vedas

A very nice blog and surely one of a kind. I like the arrangement too. For a blog of these kind of contents we need to make sure the contents are easily accessible for the readers. Try adding a search bar on top of the side bar to search for any particular piece of information.

A nice site and effort to bring the Vedas in a language that can be understood by many. But, there are some broken links. Please take care of those.

@Zeon : Thanks for your nice words. i cheked your blog out and found that we have a few more common areas of interest. Try oldthoughts.wordpress.com and you will know what I mean. I will move the search bar to the top... that is a good idea.

@Vinay : Thank you, I'll set some time aside and hunt out the broken links. The point is not really the English. Griffiths's translation is available free on the internet in english and pandey's translation is reasonably priced. Aurobindo said that the interpretation based on Sayana is itself not correct since it is animistic and not spiritual. So I want to see if I get the 'right' interpretation.

A very interesting and informative blog indeed! A treasure house of information about our vedic culture and past. A pleasure to read!

Cheers!

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Hi Roshmi,,

I enjoyed going through your not a penny.. blog. Good fun!

I am glad you liked satyaveda.

From your name and spelling of kabiguru.. I am guessing you are a bengali.

Best,

Satya

You have guessed it right! I am a bengali or bangali... but if you delete the last 3 alphabets from 'Bangalore' what remains??

Our vedic culture and past is of immense interest to me... and I try to read up on them... but I must confess that I am still picking up pebbles and shells on the sea shore... while the vast ocean of our Art and Culture lies unexplored before me...

Tagore is my favourite poet and I am fascinated by the great polymath Chanakya and the Orange-Monk (from India) Swami Vivekananda... I am new to blogging - having started to blog on Jan 16th, '09; but have written a few posts on them... you can read the posts here: Chanakya , Tagore  and Swami Vivekananda .

I feel that I will have a fair understanding of our vedic culture and religion (and by that I mean the 'sanatana dharma' and not what it has been reduced to now-a-days) if I continue to study about them for seven births!! So, hats off to you!!!  

I have deliberately kept my blog as an eclectic mix and have not focussed on any specific topic/area...

Great to know that you liked it... I will visit your blog often...

Cheers!

Roshmi

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Nice observation about Bengal -uru! Never noticed it before.

The vedas typically do give that several births needed feeling... but some gurus (including Jagadguru Sri Krishna) say that you can carry that knowledge forward... So that may be an advantage.

I understand the difference between Sanatana Dharma and the new 'Hindutva'. Sanatana Dharma is all our science, philosophy, sociology, economics etc and it is captured in our scriptures etc.

Hindutva is an innocent attempt to band together what appears to be a local majority of diverse faiths and cultures (rainbow religion), in a dominant global context of the white Christian and green Islamic nations. Will half a billion poor, illiterate and diverse people hold out against 5.5 billion people, powerful and rich out to systematically 'convert or eliminate them?' I am amazed and delighted that we have lasted so far!!

I always think that Indian Hindus are like Asterix and the Gauls, one small village (tribe) holding out against the dominant religions and nations of the worlds with the single magic potion of faith in the freedom to follow your own faith.  There is a nice animation here. Check it out! http://mapsofwar.com/images/Religion.swf 

Regards,

Satya

Yes, what Sri Krishna has said is very apt indeed. Even Swami Vivekananda has said pretty much the same thing... that the soul was always there, it never dies and is timeless... and that each of our previous births are very much ingrained in our soul. All of us 'know' or 'can perform' several functions which has never been 'taught' to us and some which we pick up very fast with little tutoring... e.g., speaking alien languages, painting, sculpting, drawing, performing arts, our flair for the arts/science/maths, public speaking, writing skills, and many more... each 'speak' about or 'represent' various aspects of our previous births...! Interesting, isn't it?!

Thanks for the link... interesting animation.

And Hinduism was never meant to be a 'religion' as we know today, right? The word 'Dharma' meant righteousness or righteous knowledge... and 'Hinduism' was a way of life... representing the ancients wisdom and the accumulated knowledge through the ages... This 'knowledge' was always there... isn't it? It is said that Newton 'discovered' the 'laws of gravity' but this was always known to the ancients. The so-called fight against terror can be won in no time if the defence equipment production is stopped... but that will sink the economies of a lot of powerful countries... right? 

Unfortunately, it is all about commerce and economics and above all 'power'. Sadly!

A lack of internet 'power' destroyed my long response to your post. I just can't type it all again.. so maybe we'll discuss this in one of the indiblogger meets...

Sure thing! Too bad, the power outrage happened at a wrong time.

Looking at your blogposts and your knowledge of our ancient vedic culture, hats off to you!!!

Cheers!

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Hey Hey, I am thankful first to Renie to create this forum. And then you for your idea of translating it to English.

I have read some mails which came to me about English people not realising that Hinduism is a religion.. and this blog will even help them understand our culture better... When some one asks you about your religious book, Hindus often refer multiple books. Gita, Ramayan, etc...

To help people know what Indian Culture is all about, I can refer to your website.

Thank you Roshmi and Hemal.

Hemal : I notice you're seriously into economics... Kautilya's Arthasastra and Visnu Sarma's Pancatantra should hold some interest for you!

Satya