The Aryan Invasion Hoax

The Indus Valley Civilization is not older than the Vedic culture. The idea that the Harappa & Mohenjo Daro urban ruins predate the Vedas is a clever hoax. This is based on the argument of the scholars of the early twentieth century. They said that the Saraswati river must be a myth as it's existence cannot be proved geologically. So the Aryan's must have come from outside India. That is the Aryan invasion theory. Furthermore, the historians during the British Raj were politically biased. They meant to subjugate the Indian morale by hook or, by crook. Max Muller opined that "The Vedas are worse than Savages!". Its was Muller who said that the Vedic civilization began no earlier than 1200 BC which is outrageous. The western scholars used his view against the Indian culture. They said that the Vedas were the songs composed by shepherds with no philosophical value!!! But after translating Sayana's treatise on the Vedas, Max Muller was filled with appreciation for the vast cultural wealth of ancient India. But the damage was done by then. The historian's refused to change their opinion of the Vedas even though Max Muller took back his earlier foolish words. Max Muller, Arthur Schopenhauer and other great thinkers realised that the Vedas were rich in Philosophy, Astronomy, Mathematics and spirituality.

Did the early Aryans migrate? Yes Indeed! From the recent satellite photographs its clear that the gigantic Saraswati river basin was located between Har-ki-Dun in the Himalayas and the Runn of Kutch, Thar desert in Gujarat. It dried up around 2600-2500BCE due to movement of the tectonic plates and the Rishis had to migrate to the Ganga basin. The early civilizations were all river based. Thats why the most ancient Vedas speak of river Saraswati and the later Vedic hymns of Ganga. Even the Ramayana, Mahabharata and Puranas speak of Bhagirath's penance and the emergence of Ganga from Shiva's matted locks.

Rig Veda 1/3/10:
The Vedic hymn states that Saraswati is the giver of cereal grains, food and prosperity. She inspires knowledge at the hearts of her devotees. Here the spirit of the river has been addressed as the Goddess.

Rig Veda 1/3/11:
Saraswati conveys wisdom to those who are on a truthful path. She enhances consciousness. By granting divine knowledge, she upholds yajnas, the fire sacrifices.

Such verses prove beyond doubt that the early Vedic Societies were situated on the banks of river Saraswati. The Indus Valley civilization was but a small part of the urban development that came much later than the early Rigveda. Majority of the Indus civilization was washed away with the movement of plates that shifted the course of the Saraswati river. This also proves unmistakably that the Aryan Rishis were ancient people of India; they originated, evolved into the highly intellectual, spiritual and philosophical civilization all by themselves in India. And there was never an Aryan Invasion from Russian Ural or, Europe as the early Western scholars have tried to imply.

The Aryan Invasion Theory had been a hoax hatched up for domination. Remember Germany's search for the origin of the Aryans. Was it for academic research or, political boost for the Germans? Who have profited the most from the Aryan Invasion myth?

What is samadhi? What is Turiya?

Question: We hear that there are 4 states of existence in every living being. Such as: waking, dreaming, deep-sleep and super-conscious (Turya). If Turya is just a separate state, how can it be the goal of samadhi? A finite state of mind cannot be the goal of yoga. Then it would become just another transient, time bound and worldly experience! So, is Turiya or, super-conscious a separate state?

Answer: This question is very important and subtle.
The 3 states of waking, dreaming and deep sleep are inside Turya.
Turya is all encompassing, all-embracing, all inclusive.
Turya is the natural state of liberated Atman. Its always there. It never disappears. Like the Atman, Whether we live or, die; sleep, eat, run or, become unconscious, the Atman is ever-present inside us. And so is Turya. Its always present.

So its not a separate state.
Only we have forgotten our original blissful state.
We are unaware that we are always in Turya and imagining to be in the 3 lower states. This illusion is the birth and death cycle. We laugh, cry, eat, sleep, take birth, die in a dreamlike state. Yet unknowingly we are in the ever peaceful Turya.

When we are able to control our ever turbulent mind and stop it, we attain samadhi and find ourselves in Turya. Why? Thats because, in samadhi the illusions of the mind, the 3 lower states disappear, leaving the reality behind.
The reality is nothing but the Atman or, Turya.

~Amitabha Chatterjee.

Yoga Sutras of Rishi Patanjali

Yoga sutra 1:12 Written in Sanskrit, with English translation. Practice relentlessly with dedication for a long period of time and be established in Yoga Samadhi.

Yoga sutra 1:14 written in Sanskrit script with English rendering. Practice and intense dispassion help to conquer the mental modifications.

Yoga sutra 1:27 and 1:28 written in Sanskrit script with the corresponding English translation. The word Om refers to God. Repeat the mantra and reflect on it's meaning.

~ Amitabha Chatterjee