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Selasa, 08 Januari 2013

How to send gifts to India?

Q. I'm in USA and want to send gift to my gf in Delhi. I was wondering if there any good reliable online gift shops which I can use?

A. Please visit http://www.buygiftstoindia.com to send gifts to your gf in Delhi. This site contains an amazing variety of gifts with some dazzling options and never before seen gifting ideas. They are cheap as in don't charge a hefty amount, effecient with their service and diverse with their gift choices.


What are several scientific legacies from ancient India?
Q.

A. W. Heisenberg, German Physicist: "After the conversations about Indian philosophy, some of the ideas of Quantum Physics that had seemed so crazy suddenly made much more sense."

P. Johnstone: "Gravitation was known to the Hindus (Indians) before the birth of Newton. The system of blood circulation was discovered by them centuries before Harvey was heard of."

Sir W. Hunter, British Surgeon: "The surgery of the ancient Indian physicians was bold and skilful. A special branch of surgery was dedicated to rhinoplasty or operations for improving deformed ears, noses and forming new ones, which European surgeons have now borrowed."

Will Durant:"India was the motherland of our race, and Sanskrit the mother of Europe's languages: she was the mother of our philosophy; mother, through the Arabs, of much of our mathematics; mother, through the Buddha, of the ideals embodied in Christianity; mother, through the village community, of self-government and democracy. Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all".

Albert Einstein: "We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made."

Hu Shih, former Ambassador of China to USA: "India conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border."

William James: "From the Vedas we learn a practical art of surgery, medicine, music, house building under which mechanized art is included. They are encyclopedia of every aspect of life, culture, religion, science, ethics, law, cosmology and meteorology."

Max Muller: "There is no book in the world that is so thrilling, stirring and inspiring as the Upanishads." ('Sacred Books of the East')

Dr Arnold Toynbee: "It is already becoming clear that a chapter which had a Western beginning will have to have an Indian ending if it is not to end in the self-destruction of the human race. At this supremely dangerous moment in history, the only way of salvation for mankind is the Indian way."

Sir William Jones: "The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity is of wonderful structure, more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin and more exquisitely refined than either."


Emmelin Plunret: "They were very advanced Hindu astronomers in 6000 BC. Vedas contain an account of the dimension of Earth, Sun, Moon, Planets and Galaxies." ('Calendars and Constellations')

Schopenhauer: "Vedas are the most rewarding and the most elevating book which can be possible in the world."


Lancelot Hogben: "There has been no more revolutionary contribution than the one which the Hindus (Indians) made when they invented ZERO." ('Mathematics for the Millions')

Wheeler Wilcox: "India - The land of Vedas, the remarkable works contain not only religious ideas for a perfect life, but also facts which science has proved true. Electricity, radium, electronics, airship, all were known to the seers who founded the Vedas."

Sir John Woodroffe: "An examination of Indian Vedic doctrines shows that it is in tune with the most advanced scientific and philosophical thought of the West."

B.G. Rele: "Our present knowledge of the nervous system fits in so accurately with the internal description of the human body given in the Vedas (5000 years ago). Then the question arises whether the Vedas are really religious books or books on anatomy of the nervous system and medicine." ('The Vedic Gods')

Adolf Seilachar : "One Billion-Year-Old fossil prove life began in India"

Will Durant"It is true that even across the Himalayan barrier India has sent to the west, such gifts as grammar and logic, philosophy and fables, hypnotism and chess, and above all numerals and the decimal system."

We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.
-Albert Einstein

If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some of its choicest gifts, has most deeply pondered on the greatest problems of life, and has found solutions, I should point to India.
- Max Mueller

French scholar Romain Rolland said: If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India.

When I read the Bhagavad-Gita and reflect about how God created this universe everything else seems so superfluous.
- Albert Einstein

India - The land of Vedas, the remarkable works contain not only religious ideas for a perfect life, but also facts which science has proved true. Electricity, radium, electronics, airship, all were known to the seers who founded the Vedas.
- Wheeler Wilcox


Please help with similarities and differences with ancient india and china in society?
Q. please help with similarities and differences with ancient india and china in society
like ( examples include the roles and legal status of women, class structure, and family life)
please help im very behide and have to do 15 of these if already done all the others and would really like to go to bed please help ill give you to 10 points right away

A. India has made the most inventions and discoveries!! India's intellectual contribution is more than every other civilization combined! The 19th and 20th centuries are the only 2 centuries that India was not the wealthiest civilization on the face of the planet. From when time began, up until, and including the 17th century, India was the centre of the world & was also the wealthiest civilization on the planet! THE WEALTH IN ANCIENT INDIA WAS MORE THAN TWICE THE WEALTH OF THE REST OF THE WORLD COMBINED! India is the world's oldest and oldest continuing civilization I will give you a few quotes for you to make up your mind:

We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.
- Albert Einstein

If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some of its choicest gifts, has most deeply pondered on the greatest problems of life, and has found solutions, I should point to India.
- Max Mueller (German scholar)

India is, the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand mother of tradition. Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only.
- Mark Twain

If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India.
- French scholar Romain Rolland

Besides the discoverers of geometry and algebra, the constructors of human speech, the parents of philosophy, the primal expounders of religion, the adepts in psychological and physical science, how even the greatest of our biological and theologians seem dwarfed! Name of us any modern discovery, and we venture to say that Indian history need not long be searched before the prototype will be found on record. Here we are with the transit of science half accomplished, and all our Vedic ideas in process of readjustment to the theories of force correlation, natural selection, atomic polarity and evolution. And here, to mock our conceit, our apprehension, and our despair, we may read what Manu said, perhaps 10,000 years before the birth of Christ: The first germ of life was developed by water and heat. Water ascends towards the sky in vapors; from the sun it descends in rain, from the rains are born the plants, and from the plants, animals.
-Louis Francois Jacolliot (French diplomat & author)

The multiplicity of the manifestations of the Indian genius as well as their fundamental unity gives India the right to figure on the first rank in the history of civilized nations. Her civilization, spontaneous and original, unrolls itself in a continuous time across at least thirty centuries, without interruption, without deviation. Ceaselessly in contact with foreign elements which threatened to strangle her, she persevered victoriously in absorbing them, assimilating them and enriching herself with them. Thus she has seen the Greeks, the Scythians, the Afghans, the Mongols to pass before her eyes in succession and is regarding with indifference the Englishmen - confident to pursue under the accidence of the surface the normal course of her high destiny.
-Sylvain Levi (French Orientalist)

Since you also mention China, here is a quote from Hu Shih, the former Ambassador of China to USA:

"India conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border."

Any one who has even a half - decent grasp of history would not even utter China in the same breath as India as India is a much more ancient civilization that has contributed a hell of a lot more than China! In fact, The Chinese learnt Yoga, martial arts and Buddhism from India! The first priest of the Shaolin Temple was from India! So let us understand human history before we make ludicrous comparisons!


Gift ideas for a friend in another country?
Q. One of my friends recently moved to India & I didn't have a chance to give her something before she left. I want something kind of cheap (good quality, but not expensive) that can be sent to India. Any ideas?
We went to school together in Florida

A. Whatever you select, try make sure that it has documentation of some sort that it's made in the USA! That will make it a special memory of her visit. Try the gift shops in your area or check those on line. What places did you visit together in the US? A memento of one of these places might be a good idea. Perhaps a nicely framed picture of both of you would also be appreciated.





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Kamis, 03 Januari 2013

Throughout history, who has created the most advanced and affluent civilizations in the world?

Q. exotic
china was way ahead of europe and middle east technologically and econonically for 1,820 years. What would the West be like without gunpowder and paper?

A. India has made the most inventions and discoveries!! India's intellectual contribution is more than every other civilization combined! The 19th and 20th centuries are the only 2 centuries that India was not the wealthiest civilization on the face of the planet. From when time began, up until, and including the 17th century, India was the centre of the world & was also the wealthiest civilization on the planet! THE WEALTH IN ANCIENT INDIA WAS MORE THAN TWICE THE WEALTH OF THE REST OF THE WORLD COMBINED! India is the world's oldest and oldest continuing civilization I will give you a few quotes for you to make up your mind:

We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.
- Albert Einstein

If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some of its choicest gifts, has most deeply pondered on the greatest problems of life, and has found solutions, I should point to India.
- Max Mueller (German scholar)

India is, the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand mother of tradition. Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only.
- Mark Twain

If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India.
- French scholar Romain Rolland

Besides the discoverers of geometry and algebra, the constructors of human speech, the parents of philosophy, the primal expounders of religion, the adepts in psychological and physical science, how even the greatest of our biological and theologians seem dwarfed! Name of us any modern discovery, and we venture to say that Indian history need not long be searched before the prototype will be found on record. Here we are with the transit of science half accomplished, and all our Vedic ideas in process of readjustment to the theories of force correlation, natural selection, atomic polarity and evolution. And here, to mock our conceit, our apprehension, and our despair, we may read what Manu said, perhaps 10,000 years before the birth of Christ: The first germ of life was developed by water and heat. Water ascends towards the sky in vapors; from the sun it descends in rain, from the rains are born the plants, and from the plants, animals.
-Louis Francois Jacolliot (French diplomat & author)

The multiplicity of the manifestations of the Indian genius as well as their fundamental unity gives India the right to figure on the first rank in the history of civilized nations. Her civilization, spontaneous and original, unrolls itself in a continuous time across at least thirty centuries, without interruption, without deviation. Ceaselessly in contact with foreign elements which threatened to strangle her, she persevered victoriously in absorbing them, assimilating them and enriching herself with them. Thus she has seen the Greeks, the Scythians, the Afghans, the Mongols to pass before her eyes in succession and is regarding with indifference the Englishmen - confident to pursue under the accidence of the surface the normal course of her high destiny.
-Sylvain Levi (French Orientalist)

Since you also mention China, here is a quote from Hu Shih, the former Ambassador of China to USA:

"India conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border."

Any one who has even a half - decent grasp of history would not even utter China in the same breath as India as India is a much more ancient civilization that has contributed a hell of a lot more than China! In fact, The Chinese learnt Yoga, martial arts and Buddhism from India! The first priest of the Shaolin Temple was from India! So let us understand human history before we make ludicrous comparisons!


What is the main cultural difference between India and china?
Q.

A. India has made the most inventions and discoveries!! India's intellectual contribution is more than every other civilization combined! The 19th and 20th centuries are the only 2 centuries that India was not the wealthiest civilization on the face of the planet. From when time began, up until, and including the 17th century, India was the centre of the world & was also the wealthiest civilization on the planet! THE WEALTH IN ANCIENT INDIA WAS MORE THAN TWICE THE WEALTH OF THE REST OF THE WORLD COMBINED! India is the world's oldest and oldest continuing civilization I will give you a few quotes for you to make up your mind:

We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.
- Albert Einstein

If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some of its choicest gifts, has most deeply pondered on the greatest problems of life, and has found solutions, I should point to India.
- Max Mueller (German scholar)

India is, the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand mother of tradition. Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only.
- Mark Twain

If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India.
- French scholar Romain Rolland

Besides the discoverers of geometry and algebra, the constructors of human speech, the parents of philosophy, the primal expounders of religion, the adepts in psychological and physical science, how even the greatest of our biological and theologians seem dwarfed! Name of us any modern discovery, and we venture to say that Indian history need not long be searched before the prototype will be found on record. Here we are with the transit of science half accomplished, and all our Vedic ideas in process of readjustment to the theories of force correlation, natural selection, atomic polarity and evolution. And here, to mock our conceit, our apprehension, and our despair, we may read what Manu said, perhaps 10,000 years before the birth of Christ: The first germ of life was developed by water and heat. Water ascends towards the sky in vapors; from the sun it descends in rain, from the rains are born the plants, and from the plants, animals.
-Louis Francois Jacolliot (French diplomat & author)

The multiplicity of the manifestations of the Indian genius as well as their fundamental unity gives India the right to figure on the first rank in the history of civilized nations. Her civilization, spontaneous and original, unrolls itself in a continuous time across at least thirty centuries, without interruption, without deviation. Ceaselessly in contact with foreign elements which threatened to strangle her, she persevered victoriously in absorbing them, assimilating them and enriching herself with them. Thus she has seen the Greeks, the Scythians, the Afghans, the Mongols to pass before her eyes in succession and is regarding with indifference the Englishmen - confident to pursue under the accidence of the surface the normal course of her high destiny.
-Sylvain Levi (French Orientalist)

Since you mentioned China, here is a quote from Hu Shih, the former Ambassador of China to USA:

"India conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border."

Any one who has even a half - decent grasp of history would not even utter China in the same breath as India as India is a much more ancient civilization that has contributed a hell of a lot more than China! In fact, The Chinese learnt Yoga, martial arts and Buddhism from India! The first priest of the Shaolin Temple was from India! So let us understand human history before we make ludicrous claims!


What are the "quotes" or the statements of the countries of the world?
Q. I mean, like in the Philippines, they call it the "Pearl of the Orient Seas" and U.S.A "The Land of Dreams"... can you help me out, if there is a site about these stuff with all countries in the world included. and what is the proper term for that short phrase btw?

THANKS a lot!

A. You can find quite a few here. Some countries have, some don't. Most of it have to do with their word/name history, i.e. etymology (so even you can help derive some!) These are, by the way, nicknames or monikers, mostly encouraged by their own tourism agencies or what I would call affectionate country descriptors or ACDs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_country_name_etymologies

Here are a 'few':
Denmark - Land of the Little Mermaid
Trinidad and Tobago - Land of Gypsies and Calypsos
Hong Kong - Pearl of the Orient (It is no longer the Philippines who hold that name)
Mongolia - Land of Genghis Khan
Switzerland - Land of Milk and Honey
Australia - Land Down Under
India - Land of Prayers
Pakistan - Land of the Pure
Puerto Rico - Land of Enchantment
USA - Land of the Free, Home of the Brave
UK - Land of Hope and Glory
Egypt - Gift of the Nile
Thailand - Land of Smiles
Sabah - Land Below the Wind
Sarawak - Land of the Hornbill, Land of Many Rivers
New Zealand - Land of the Long White Cloud
Hong Kong - Pearl of the Orient
Japan - Land of the Rising Sun, Land of Anime
Singapore - Land of the Merlion, Land of Orchids
Britain - Land of Hope and Glory
Malaysia - Land of Fish
Chile - Land of Poets and Wine
Bhutan - Land of the Thunder Dragon
Nepal - Land of Truth
Cambodia - Land of the Killing Fields
Vietnam - Land of the Blue Dragon
China - Land of the Dragon Emperor
China (Yunnan) - Land of Eternal Spring
Tibet - Land of the Snow Lions, Roof of the World
Kathmandu - Land of the Gods
Portugal - Land to the Left of Spain, Land of Port, Land of the Three Fs (fado, fatima, football)
Spain - Land of the Matadors
Spain (Valencia) - Land of Flowers
Germany - Land of Ideas, Land of Beer, Land of Poets and Thinkers
Argentina - Land of Silver
Mexico - Land of Fiestas
Costa Rica - Land of Traffic Circles
Peru - Land of the Incas
Venezuela - Land of Beauty Queens
Brazil - Land of the Holy Cross, Land of the Bikini Tan
Turkey - Land of Eternal Blue
Sweden - Land of the Midnight Sun
Finland - Land of a Thousand Lakes
Norway - Land of the Vikings
Kazakhstan - Land of Borat
Tasmania - Land of the Devils
New Zealand - Land of the Kiwis
Iceland - Land of the Eskimos, Land of Fire and Ice
Latvia - Land that Sings
Croatia - Land of a Thousand Islands
Romania - Land of Dracula
Italy - Land of Wine, Land of Ferrari, Land of the Catholic Church


First time at a Hindu temple, how do I make an offering?
Q. I'm visiting a Hindu temple for the first time, and I'm looking for a little help. I'd like to make an offering (flowers) to one of the gods; what is the proper procedure for doing this? Also, any advice on dress, behavior, and service proceedings would be so so helpful. Thanks!

A. >"I'm visiting a Hindu temple for the first time,"---

Let it be your pleasant experience

> I'd like to make an offering (flowers) to one of the gods

GOOD.Lord sri.Krishna in Bhagavad Geetha says:-

"Patram,(leaves)Pushpam(flowers),Phalam,(Fruits)Thoyam(water)"

In India Phalam=fruits are costly- well to do people can offer fruits(apple/orange/plum/banana/mango)--the preists after the ritualistic offeringgive back all-fruits --you can distribute the fruits-we call "Prasaadham"=God's gift--among your relatives,friends and poor people.--Flowers are a little cheap--in USA flowers are costly-fruits are a little cheap---Preists will keep the flowers on the Idol for the whole day-Patram=fragrant leaves--in india they are available "Free"-I do not know about other countries--Lord sri Ganesa(with an Elephant face=remover of all "Obstacles")--you can offer ANY leaf you get "Freely"-other Idols -"leaves"- there are some specifications-- Thoyam=very poor and very old people who can Not arrange to get Fruits/flowers/leaves can offer Pure Water to GOD--But your idea of flowers is GOOD.Give it to the priest--He will decorate the God(Diety) with flowers-he may/may not give one or two flowers back

Dress:- any DECENT dress--

Behaviuor:-Decent as required in any public place.

Service;-Priests will do the service--flowers-they will decorate the idol-you will not get back--fruits--ritualistic" "offering " to Deity(called "Naivedyam")-all fruits will be given back to you(normally we take fruits in EVEN numbers-2 or 6--or 12-.Hindu Scriptures say "One" fruit should be given back to the Preist for the ritualistic service he renders-we give..

Flower/Fruits/leaves/ -No charges. to the Temple or Preist


Other 'Special' services like-"praying for your/your family's welfare etc-Standrdised Vedic Recitations are there-the Preist will do-you have to pay a prescribed fee-very nominal- to Temple Authorities--it includes cost of fixed number of seasonal Fruits/Flowers(in USA -raisins as flowers are costly)+Preist service+ Temple maintainence

Preists'service:-they are Not to demand any charge as per Temple Norms--

but normally WE all Hindus use to give a "Token"gift(in India Rs 5 to 10=US one-two Dimes=US 10-20 Cents).In USA we give US--$1 to $-5--in USA even a barbar/taxi driver demands a "Tip"--poor fellow the Preist spends some time in Vedic reciting for our welfare.We Hindus feel we can NOT take "Free" service from him--it will make us indebted to him even in the next birth(Karma)-so we pay a little for his service.But this is ONLY for Special servicelike "Archana"etc--for ordinary offering of flowers/fruits NO charge.
P.S.:- Phalam(fruits)-Thoyam(Water) are missing in the main post





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Rabu, 12 Desember 2012

Why is race such a big thing?

Q. The main thing we should worry about is being human. Worrying about race is stupid because it doesn't define who you are on the inside. And for the people who think it matters, it doesn't. We are all one. We are human beings.

A. Interesting commentary about race.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSFDrOxWCXY&feature=channel_video_title

More like, why is race such a big thing to white people.

3)Dr. Robert Knox- wrote a book called -races of men - quoted in his book he wrote - "Can the black race become civilized, I think not" This book was widely circulated and said the superior races will dominate over all the others".He said its a war of extermination and one race or the other must go.

4)Samuel George Morton- Cranial pseudo scientist from America - he came to an unscientific conclusion that just because people had different head shapes, they must be different species, that everyone else but white people had the possibility of not being human at all.

5)Charles Darwin - Survival of the Fittest theory - During the time Britan was exacerbating famines in India - most white people believed that this was playing out because Indians where so easy to rule over, therefore social Darwinism gave them an alibi to commit atrocity all over the world because genocide was sanctioned and encouraged.

6)Sir Francis Galton - the guy who invented eugenics. Galton concluded that it was possible to produce "a highly gifted race of men" by the process of selective breeding, which he later termed "positive" eugenics. Discouraging the reproduction of "undesirables", in other words, anyone but white elites would be sterilized, hence the sterilization of Indian women in America, and America at large, using poor whites, blacks and large segment of the population.(1904) Namibia genocide, first death camp.

7)Mein Kampf - written by Hitlet -By the end of the war, about 10 million copies of the book had been sold or distributed in Germany.Clubs sprang up in the USA and worldwide for touting the book's ideas

8)Eugen Fischer -He was one of those responsible for the Nazi German scientific theories of racial hygiene that legitimized the extermination of Jews, sent an estimated half a million Gypsies to their deaths, and led to the compulsory sterilization of hundreds of thousands of other individuals, deemed racially defective, such as the Rhineland Bastards, the mentally ill, and the mentally challenged.

9)Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (11 May 1752 � 22 January 1840) was a German physician, physiologist and anthropologist, one of the first to explore the study of mankind as an aspect of natural history, whose teachings in comparative anatomy were applied to classification of what he called human races, of which he determined five.
Blumenbach divided the human species into five races in 1779, later founded on crania research (description of human skulls), and called them (1793/1795):
* the Caucasian race or white race
* the Mongolian or yellow race
* the Malayan or brown race
* the Ethiopian, or black race
* the American or red race.

10)Joseph Arthur Comte de Gobineau (14 July 1816, Ville-d'Avray, Hauts-de-Seine � 13 October 1882, Turin) was a French aristocrat, novelist and man of letters who became famous for developing the racialist theory of the Aryan master race in his book An Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races (1853�1855). De Gobineau is credited as being the father of "modern" racial demography


Throughout history, who has created the most advanced and affluent civilizations?
Q.

A. India has made the most inventions and discoveries!! India's intellectual contribution is more than every other civilization combined! The 19th and 20th centuries are the only 2 centuries that India was not the wealthiest civilization on the face of the planet. From when time began, up until, and including the 17th century, India was the centre of the world & was also the wealthiest civilization on the planet! THE WEALTH IN ANCIENT INDIA WAS MORE THAN TWICE THE WEALTH OF THE REST OF THE WORLD COMBINED! India is the world's oldest and oldest continuing civilization I will give you a few quotes for you to make up your mind:

We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.
- Albert Einstein

If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some of its choicest gifts, has most deeply pondered on the greatest problems of life, and has found solutions, I should point to India.
- Max Mueller (German scholar)

India is, the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand mother of tradition. Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only.
- Mark Twain

If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India.
- French scholar Romain Rolland

Besides the discoverers of geometry and algebra, the constructors of human speech, the parents of philosophy, the primal expounders of religion, the adepts in psychological and physical science, how even the greatest of our biological and theologians seem dwarfed! Name of us any modern discovery, and we venture to say that Indian history need not long be searched before the prototype will be found on record. Here we are with the transit of science half accomplished, and all our Vedic ideas in process of readjustment to the theories of force correlation, natural selection, atomic polarity and evolution. And here, to mock our conceit, our apprehension, and our despair, we may read what Manu said, perhaps 10,000 years before the birth of Christ: The first germ of life was developed by water and heat. Water ascends towards the sky in vapors; from the sun it descends in rain, from the rains are born the plants, and from the plants, animals.
-Louis Francois Jacolliot (French diplomat & author)

The multiplicity of the manifestations of the Indian genius as well as their fundamental unity gives India the right to figure on the first rank in the history of civilized nations. Her civilization, spontaneous and original, unrolls itself in a continuous time across at least thirty centuries, without interruption, without deviation. Ceaselessly in contact with foreign elements which threatened to strangle her, she persevered victoriously in absorbing them, assimilating them and enriching herself with them. Thus she has seen the Greeks, the Scythians, the Afghans, the Mongols to pass before her eyes in succession and is regarding with indifference the Englishmen - confident to pursue under the accidence of the surface the normal course of her high destiny.
-Sylvain Levi (French Orientalist)

Since you also mention China, here is a quote from Hu Shih, the former Ambassador of China to USA:

"India conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border."

Any one who has even a half - decent grasp of history would not even utter China in the same breath as India as India is a much more ancient civilization that has contributed a hell of a lot more than China! In fact, The Chinese learnt Yoga, martial arts and Buddhism from India! The first priest of the Shaolin Temple was from India! So let us understand human history before we make ludicrous comparisons!


Would it be appropriate to give my online b/f a Rakhi thread for his wrist? A small gift, sort of?
Q. I have just started a relationship with a man from India. I noticed the threads around his wrist in his photos. I would like to send him some really pretty ones.

Also, if this is not an appropriate thing to send....can u recommend small gifts from the USA that I might send him. Ones that could fit in an envelope, as shipping is so expensive!

Thanks for any advice or ideas!

A. No, rakhis are only bound by one's sister.


please help with similarities and differences with ancient india and china in society?
Q. please help with similarities and differences with ancient india and china in society
like ( examples include the roles and legal status of women, class structure, and family life)
please help im very behide and have to do 15 of these if already done all the others and would really like to go to bed please help ill give you to 10 points right away

A. India has made the most inventions and discoveries!! India's intellectual contribution is more than every other civilization combined! The 19th and 20th centuries are the only 2 centuries that India was not the wealthiest civilization on the face of the planet. From when time began, up until, and including the 17th century, India was the centre of the world & was also the wealthiest civilization on the planet! THE WEALTH IN ANCIENT INDIA WAS MORE THAN TWICE THE WEALTH OF THE REST OF THE WORLD COMBINED! India is the world's oldest and oldest continuing civilization I will give you a few quotes for you to make up your mind:

We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.
- Albert Einstein

If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some of its choicest gifts, has most deeply pondered on the greatest problems of life, and has found solutions, I should point to India.
- Max Mueller (German scholar)

India is, the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand mother of tradition. Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only.
- Mark Twain

If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India.
- French scholar Romain Rolland

Besides the discoverers of geometry and algebra, the constructors of human speech, the parents of philosophy, the primal expounders of religion, the adepts in psychological and physical science, how even the greatest of our biological and theologians seem dwarfed! Name of us any modern discovery, and we venture to say that Indian history need not long be searched before the prototype will be found on record. Here we are with the transit of science half accomplished, and all our Vedic ideas in process of readjustment to the theories of force correlation, natural selection, atomic polarity and evolution. And here, to mock our conceit, our apprehension, and our despair, we may read what Manu said, perhaps 10,000 years before the birth of Christ: The first germ of life was developed by water and heat. Water ascends towards the sky in vapors; from the sun it descends in rain, from the rains are born the plants, and from the plants, animals.
-Louis Francois Jacolliot (French diplomat & author)

The multiplicity of the manifestations of the Indian genius as well as their fundamental unity gives India the right to figure on the first rank in the history of civilized nations. Her civilization, spontaneous and original, unrolls itself in a continuous time across at least thirty centuries, without interruption, without deviation. Ceaselessly in contact with foreign elements which threatened to strangle her, she persevered victoriously in absorbing them, assimilating them and enriching herself with them. Thus she has seen the Greeks, the Scythians, the Afghans, the Mongols to pass before her eyes in succession and is regarding with indifference the Englishmen - confident to pursue under the accidence of the surface the normal course of her high destiny.
-Sylvain Levi (French Orientalist)

Since you also mention China, here is a quote from Hu Shih, the former Ambassador of China to USA:

"India conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border."

Any one who has even a half - decent grasp of history would not even utter China in the same breath as India as India is a much more ancient civilization that has contributed a hell of a lot more than China! In fact, The Chinese learnt Yoga, martial arts and Buddhism from India! The first priest of the Shaolin Temple was from India! So let us understand human history before we make ludicrous comparisons!





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