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A Study of History

Book Review by: madhuprem    

Original Author: Arnold Toynbee
 
That
is you, that is your manifestation. YOUI1 (Phoenicians in New Zealand say "Tamaki" - That is what
happened to
Original Sanskrit!
Ancient
sages on the slopes of Caucasus saw a vivid glow in the northern night sky
predominantly greenish yellow particularly when sun spot activity is at its
maximum. Cause was not known in those ancient days. It was good enough to say,
today science explains to us that it is caused by charged solar particles
attracted to the magnetic poles meeting the atmosphere at heights of 60500
miles, but the process is still not fully understood. The corresponding
Antarctic phenomenon is called the Aurora Australis" Phoenician word
"Baal" is misconstrued to be having meaning as god, Assyrians called
it "Bel". In the Bible it was promptly and vehemently defined as a
false god. We can closely look at names like Hannibal, Beelzebul, and Baalbek
etc. In Sanskrit "Bal" Bal or young, tender, inexperienced, Normally
5 to 16 years old child (male) is termed as and female child is or, pigmy sages.
"Beelzebub" -1L oung "Varuṇa"
or god Varuṇa in the form of a fine misty rain (drizzle). This was
also a name of a z King hannibal had protruding chin is chin in Skt.) - to break.-
"Baalbek" is the ancient center of Syrian
BAAL-worshipJH.Ud1>uuiJima ven Greeks and Romans built, The side effects of
evolution have provided the creative element in the evolution that exists in
terms of the 4 continual thrust of the life force. This force in turn
strengthens the will power and accelerates man''s development into superior
species. May be he will understand death and see God face to face.
However
it cannot be denied that in the long period of evolution there were chapters of
accidents as       postulated by Darwin''s theory of "Natural Selection". This
perhaps made us tolerant of wide vacation in one or more physical factors of
the environment. The word for this physical factors of the environment*. The
word for this was coined in 1945 as "eury-topic" from GK & German
- eury (G) topos (Gk) - place Skt. W controlled breathing in Yoga, to enhance
duration in meditation. 
Nature''s
whims and fancies found their interpretations in legends and folklores In Greek
legend danae earth), the daughter of a king of Argos was looked up by her father because of a prophecy
that her son would destroy him. Zeus wind that brings rain clouds) visits her in
disguise and fathers Perseus: rain, roaring cloud, lightening). Among the main
starting points are Darwiris study of legends and his observations in nature. Darwin had visited the Galapagos Islands during the voyage of the Beagle in 1840. This is Darwin''s journal of his trip (1831-36) to South America and Australia as naturalist aboard the survey ship Beagle. Darwin
Studied Finches (numerous sengbirds as the sparrows, gros-beaks, crossbills,
Gold finches, linnets and buntings of the family Fringillidae) having a short
stout conical bill adapted for crushing seeds. There is a Skt. root
availableorder of birds OHG - Fincho, Gk-spiza, Set There are more words for
bird: perhaps spiza is near to fg, Darwin observed that these birds, isolated
on the scattered islands of the archipelago had developed widely differing
beaks to deal with the food locally'' available.
Charles
Darwin (1809-1902) let it be said, believed in God. What he didn''t believe in
was the Christian myth of creation in which God took six days to make the world
and all its contents. So after misspent youth, drifting between professions and
collecting beetles, he set off on the HSM Beagle and came back with a head full
of ideas, and the protoplasm of a theory of the evolution of the species.0rigin
of Species and ascent of Man had a simple basis: Living things change producing
descendants with different characteristics in a process that has been going on
for as long as tbeen life. This caused uproar in the Church but even
today, when words like the selfish gene and punctuated equilibriums are bandied
about, Darwin''s basic theories still hold. And that is saying some
thing to the Church and the people connected to the Church.
English
belongs to the Indo-European family of languages, which consists of about 100
related tongues, all descended from the prehistoric language of a pastoral,
bronze-working, horse-breeding people, the Aryans, who inhabited the steppes of
Central Asia about 4500 B.C. Scholars refer to their language at this stage as
Proto-Indo-European, or simply Indo-European.
Over
the next 3,000 years or so, the community of Indo-European speakers splintered
off, to Iran and India (where their idiom developed into the sister
languages, Old Persian and Sanskrit) and elsewhere in many other directions,
mainly westward. The farther a field they ranged, the farther their manner of
speaking the ancestral tongue diverged. The old national name, Aryan (meaning
"noble"), survived in both Persia and India and is in fact the source of the present-day name of Iran.
Within
a few hundred years after the primeval Aryan community started breaking up,
there were already several Indo-European languages where there once had been
only one. Derivative idioms grew even farther apart, so that by the dawn of
recorded history a dozen branches of the Indo-European language family
overspread most of western Eurasia from the Himalayas to the Atlantic.
The
most important of these branches are: Indo-Iranian (comprising-in Iran- Persian
and-in India-Sanskrit, together with the derivative Hindi, Urdu, Bengali, and
other languages including Romany, the language of the Gypsies); Slavic
(Russian, Polish, etc.); Hellenic (Greek); Italic (Latin and derivative Romance
languages such as French and Italian); Celtic (Gaelic, Welsh, Breton, etc.);
and finally, Germanic (English, Dutch, German, Yiddish, and the Scandinavian
languages).
The thought is strange but meaningful. It
was observed that the moon goes through the phases of waning and waxing; that
is, moon goes through the process of rebirth and thus lives healthier. So the
"Batu" too is considered to be dying and immediately coming to life
second time with more vitality. This is the conceptual dying and taking second
birth. New Southwelse’s Australian tribe has similar ritual version though
conceptualized differently. It is believed that a divine animal called
"Therinaline" carries a young child to be killed, and as a token of
that one tooth is removed and returned to the community (Fraser, "the
Golden Bough"- sec. 2, page 348), In Queensland in the similar type ritual
an equipment called "Bul Roarer" is used to make extremely loud sound
and all the children of that age are gathered in a hut outside the village, and
returned after the ritual, to their parents. (Andrew Lang, "Custom &
Myth").
The ''''Advocates'''' of ''''Sanatan Dharm''''
appreciated Buddha''s idea of mixing with the people of working class and
drawing them in the main stream of the society. Mingling with them created
love, respect and affection and desired mental ground could be prepared for the
awareness of morality as a religious cause. The effect was profound and Buddha
was honored as 9th incarnation of Vishnu. This awareness created the sense of
duty. This was a philosophical evolution. It suggested irresistibly that the
sense of duty is a social deposit in the individual, and guides this individual
towards required social behavior. This was a lesson that social man, the moral
self, is no special creation'''' coming mysteriously from the hand of God. The
spirit of morality is imbued on a raw but rational mind. Morals very with the
nature and circumstances of the group of people; and all these groups can be
bound together as a society on a w
Published: October 18, 2007
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