'Jnana yoga ( yoga of the intellect ) considers Brahman as the impersonal absolute.': The Upanishads (part of Vedas) say 'Ayamatma Brahma', 'Tat twam asi', 'Aham Brahmasmi'. Where is the Supreme Being?
The Supreme Being is Brahman, the allpervading consciousness which comprises everything including you.
Sat Chit Anand -- Truth ,Being ,Bliss.
This is our true nature.
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'Aryan Invasion Theory/Migration theory is counter to the teachings of the Vedas, ..': In what way Aryan Invasion/Migration Theory is contrary to the teachings of the Vedas? That was my question, and you have not answered it.
I have answered it clearly in my post.Read it again.
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'The Arya is the name of the indigenous religion and culture that came up in India. Not a race of people which is absurd and idiotic to believe ..': The word 'Aryavarta' or 'Brahmavarta' refers only to the area irrigated by Rivers Saraswati and Drishadvati (roughly modern Haryana). That means that all people in India were not Aryans.
Again , irrevalent arguments.
And was Ayodhya, among the area irrigated by Saraswati or Drishadvati.After all the dark-skinned Rama of Ayodhya, which is in the east, was considered among the foremost of Aryas.
The Ramayana's description of Rama is as follows ,"
arya sarva samascaiva sadaiva priyadarsanah, meaning "Arya, who worked for the equality of all and was dear to everyone."
I wish to again emphasize that Arya according to the Vedas and Hindu scriptures means 'noble'. It has never been affiliated with any race.
Beyond Vindhya Mountains, it was Dakshinavarta, and Sage Agastya was supposedly the first Aryan to cross it. Similarly the movement of Aryans to east along River Ganges is well recorded. If later, the word was used to signify 'a noble and a civilized person', that is besides the point. How do you, then, account for the vast difference in skin-color between people living in North India, some are so fair, and some are so dark (it does not mean that the fair are superior to the dark; but it does mean that they may be from two or more racial groups)?
RAma, Krishna,Veda Vyasa,Draupadi and many of the Rishis were all dark-skinned. How do you account for that!!!
Lord Vishnu himself ,whom the Hindus worshipped, is black-skinned according to the scriptures.
India has always receieved peoples from all over the world, who later embraced the sanatana dharma and blended with the local peoples and traditions.
The Greeks, Huns, Tartars, Scythians ,Kushanas are some of these foreigners who settled in Indian and embraced the dharmic traditions.
As Swami Vivekananda ,who was of tartar blood himself, stated emphatically ,"Hindus are a mixed race."
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Read about Aryan at
Aryan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia and Aria (modern Herat) at
Aria (satrapy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia). Harahvaiti (another equivalent of Saraswati, Aryans usually named the principal river of the region in which they lived as Saraswati), probably Herat and the valley of the River Hari-Rud is mentioned at the tenth homeland of Aryans in Avesta.
And the very fact that the River Saraswati , which has been mentioned in the vedas, Ramayana and Mahabharatha, has been estimated by geologists on the basis of scientific research to have dried up around 5000 and 3000 B.C., is enough to prove the Aryan Invasion Theory wrong,as it far predates the arrival of the so-called 'foreign aryans ' to India which had been stated by racist historians and experts.( ironically leaving no significant trace or base of their dynamic civilization anywhere in central asia from which they are supposed to 'emerge'.)
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'The term also remains a frequent element in modern Persian personal names, including Arya and Aryan (boy's and girl's name), Aryana (a common surname), Iran-Dokht (Aryan daughter, 'Aryan-duhita', a girl's name), Aryanpour (or Aryanpur, a surname), Aryamane, Ary among many others. The terms "Aryan" and "Iranian" are sometimes used interchangeably, as in the Iranian bank chain, Aryan Bank.'
The persians followed zoroastrianism in persia,which is next door to India.Hence cultural exchanges are sure to happen.
However Zoroastrianism, if studied in depth, easily shows no resemblance to the henotheistic sanatana dharma. While zoroastrianism worships the monotheistic God Ahura Mazda, Sanatana Dharma worships the monistic Brahman.
Many important concepts in Zoroastrianism is missing in the Sanatana Dharma and vice versa.
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Pancha-janas: 5 tribes namely Anus, Druhus, Yadus, Turvasas and Purus.
* Seven-sistered, sprung from threefold source, the Five Tribes' prosperer, she must be Invoked in every deed of might. (6.61.12)
* Indra who rules with single sway men, riches, and the fivefold race
Of those who dwell upon the earth. (1.7.9)
* All manliness that is in heaven, with the Five Tribes, or in mid-air,
Bestow, ye Asvins, upon us. (8.9.2)
* The Twain invincible in war, worthy to be renowned in frays,
Lords of the Fivefold People, these, Indra and Agni, we invoke. (5.86.2)
* Who for the Fivefold People's take hath seated him in every home
Wise, Youthful, Master of the house. (7.15.2)
* Agni, may we show forth our valour with the steed or with the power of prayer beyond all other men;
And over the Five Races let our glory shine high like the realm of light and unsurpassable. (2.2.10)
These were 5 tribes that followed the Aryan culture. Nothing more is to be inferred from this.
The Vanaras in the Ramayana,themselves called themselves as Aryas.Same too with Ravana, who lived in the south in Sri Lanka, who was a Brahmin adept in the Vedas,and who called himself and his followers as Aryas.
Even now there are Brahmins in India, who condemn Rama, a Kshatriya, for killing Ravana, a Brahmin.
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The problem is that the Arya Samajis have only one thing to depend upon, the Vedas (of course, as understood by them). That is why they cannot swallow that Aryans may have come from outside India.
It is not just the Arya Samaj, but the Ramakrishna Mission , the Aurobindo Mission and all other major Hindu institutions and organisations who staunchly state that Aryas are an indigenous religion and culture, and not a race.
And not only the Vedas, but all the other Hindu scriptures support the fact that Arya is an indigenous culture and religion of India.
Vedas are the main authority in Hinduism, but all other scriptures too have their
own authority and stand in Hinduism,and none of them should be discounted.
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Arya Samaj is nothing but a concoction, an artifice.
I remember reading that during the islamic invasions in Kashmir, many Hindus were forcibly converted to Islam.When later they demanded the Kashmiri Brahmins to bring them back to Hinduism, the orthodox Brahmins opposed this, though their stand was without any basis in the scriptures.
I believe if the Arya Samaj was present in those times, the great tragedy that happened to Kashmir later on could have been easily avoided.