Hey Guys! We all hear about the greatness of Indian Culture, Indian History & Vedic Knowledge. In my opinion everyone should at least know what's there inside Ved. Then to follow or not is an individual choice!
I am not a habitual reader. But this book made me think about what we are doing & why we are doing? I am very much sure that problems bothering our mind can be solved by understanding history.

  Following are the words of author. I do not own anything but everyone should understand the importance of this book and hence I am posting a short description of “The True History and the Religion of India” in this blog. Copy of this is available online. 

Publisher’s Note

· “The True History and the Religion of India” reveals the divine authenticity of Hinduism and dispels the cloud of ignorance that has prevailed for centuries. 

· How did this incredible work come into being? 

It so happened that once a visiting professor gave some material on Hinduism to His Divinity Swami Prakashanand Saraswati (see p.807) when he was in Barsana Dham, USA. He casually glanced through it and was surprised to see that every aspect of Hinduism was being reproached. He called one of his devotees (a professor in New Delhi) who sent a number of books which are prescribed for post graduate study in Hinduism. They were all published renowned publishers and written by the renowned scholars and professors of the universities of India. 

Shree Swamiji says, “I read those books and I was in tears. I couldn’t believe my eyes that Bhartiya culture was being so badly derogated and misrepresented by the Indian scholars.” He was shocked to find what was still being taught in the schools and colleges of India even after more than 55 years of Independence. He further explored and discovered that the libraries of India and the whole world are flooded with such derogatory writings of western and Indian scholars. Originally these derogatory books were the outcome of English diplomacy that tried to degrade Hindu culture by all means according to their well planned scheme. In this way an enormous amount of such books were written during those days. Later on the same trend was adopted by the Hindu writers. (It is all described in this book.) 

Shree Swamiji’s whole life is dedicated to spread the universal teachings of his beloved Master, Bhakti-yog-rasavatar, Jagadguru Shree Kripaluji Maharaj, the supreme Acharya of this age (see p.638). He taught to do something to save India’s Vedic heritage and re-establish its divine glory. It was a monumental task to research on such a wide subject, but, it was truly a miracle that with the Grace of his beloved Master this encyclopedic work was completed in a year’s time. 

It reveals that Hinduism is a Divine manifestation. It is not only the religion of a country, but it is the universal religion showing the true path to God for the entire world. “The True History and the Religion of India” is an encyclopedia of authentic Hinduism that gives complete information about: Hindu (Bhartiya) scriptures, the Divinity of Sages and Saints, science of creation and the Divine History of Bharatvarsh in contrast to the history, scriptural, logical, scientific and documentary evidences. 

Now, the book is in your hand. Understand the greatness of Hinduism and take pride in being a part of re-establishing authentic Hinduism for the benefit of mankind. 

This book is written with the intension of guiding a true seeker of God’s love with the true path of God realization which is prime aim of Hinduism. 

Introduction 

The religion of Bharatvarsh is the direct descension of the Grace of God which is manifested in the form of our Divine scriptures. They reveal the total philosophy of each and every aspect of God and the creation of this universe, and, at the same time, they also reveal the process of God realization with all the necessary informations, whatever a devotee may need during his devotional period. It is all done by the eternal Sages and Saints whose Gracious deeds and the events of their life form the major part of our Divine history. Thus, the history and the religion of Bharatvarsh are not like the history and the religion of the western world which contains the accounts and the ideologies of the material begins; this is the description of the Divine personalities, Divine acts of our Sages and Saints, Divine descensions, and the knowledge of the Divine approach to God that enables a soul to receive God realization. 

Our scriptures describe about: (a) The omnipresence of all the forms of one single God; His Divine abodes, virtues, absoluteness, Blissfulness and omniscience; and His unlimited Graciousness that reveals His glory, greatness, kindness and Divine love to the souls, making them equally Blissful as Himself. (b) The origin, evolution and the creation of this universe which is apparently the manifestation of an endless, eternal and lifeless energy called the maya that works with the help of God and involves unlimited number of infinitesimal souls which remain under its bondage. (c) The quality, nature, behavior and the eternal existence of unlimited number of souls along with the cause, nature and the strength of their worldly attachments which keeps them under the bondage of maya. (d) The procedure, practice, drawbacks and the helping factors which are related to the attainment of the Grace of God that reveals His Divine knowledge, Divine vision and Divine love, and which makes a maya-inflicted soul absolutely Blissful forever; and (e) our scriptures also reveal the various sciences (Sanskrit grammar and language, astrology, sociology, defense and medicine etc.) for the good of the people of the world in general. All of these philosophies with their intricate details are described in an absolutely coordinated manner. 

It is, thus, very obvious and everyone could understand this fact that the above mentioned knowledges are way beyond the limits of human intelligence; so they must have been produced by God Himself; and the fact is that they are produ by God Himself. 

It is an axiom that everything that is produced by God is eternal, because God is eternal. Thus, the knowledge of God and the knowledge of the path to God are both eternal, and the scriptures containing those knowledges along with the Sanskrit language are also eternal. The eternal existences are the Divine powers of God, so all of our scriptures like the Vedas, Upanishads, Puranas etc., are also the Divine powers, residing in the above of God in their Divine personal form. 

To hold, to retain, to reproduce and to protect such a great Divine knowledge of our scriptures, the Divine personalities are needed. So, the creator of our brahmand (planetary system with all the celestial abodes), Brahma, with the Grace of God, produces such Divine personalities called Sages and Rishis who do this job. These Divine personalities are the eternal associates of God who live in His Divine abode and who descend on the earth planet to maintain and to protect the Divine knowledge for the good of the souls of this world. 

Apart from that, supreme God Bhagwan Ram and Krishn also descend (avatar)** on the earth planet to reveal the glory of Divine love. 

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*Krishn’ is the correct pronunciation and spelling. Adding and pronouncing ‘a’ after Krishn makes it कृष्णा (Krishna) in Hindi and Sanskrit language, and then it means ‘Radha’ not ‘Krishn.’ Whoever started this, was totally unaware of the Sanskrit language, and other writers blindly followed it since hundreds of years without even confirming its correnctness. Thus, it became a tradition to add ‘a’ after certain nouns. Similarly, there are many other words which are incorrectly spelled and pronounced like: Rama for Ram, Arjuna for Arjun, yoga for yog and jnana for gyan etc. We use correct spelling in our writings. 

**When the supreme God makes Himself appear and stay in the world for sometime, it is called the avatar of God. The equivalent word for ‘avatar’ in English is ‘descension.’ But a totally wrong word ‘incarnation’ has been used for avatar by all the writers and the scholars of India for the last hundreads of years. The word ‘incarnation’ signifies a material body of flesh and blood. So, technically, philosophically and factually, a material being incarnates in the world; but God descends in His absolute supreme Divine form on the earth planet. The philosophy of avatar (descensions of God) is described in detail in “The Divine Vision of Radha Krishn.”

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From time to time many more eternal Saints descend whom we call Jagadgurus, acharyas and the bhakt and the rasik Saints, who directly help the souls build their faith in God and proceed on the path to God realization. This is the general configuration and the Divine system of the establishment of Bhartiya religion called Sanatan Dharm or Hinduism. 

(This topic is detailed in the first chapter of Part One of this book.) 

This is the age of materialism called kaliyug that started 5,101 years ago (3102 BC). The effects of kaliyug are to despise the Divine truth and to elevate the anti-God elements in the name of God. Its effects were clearly visible since the last 2,500 years when Jagadguru Shankaracharya descended in India. But in the last 200 years such despisations were much greater when the English regime tried to destroy the culture and the religion of India by all means, and, during that time, they deliberately produced such derogatory literatures in huge quantities that confused and misguided the whole world. 

Trying to impose the worldliness of their own culture upon the Hindu faith, they introduced such fictitious theories and disparaging dogmas that produced a derogatory and demeaning view of Hinduism. These publications affected the minds of Hindu writers to such an extent that they also began to think and write on the same lines. As a result of that, the reputed organizations like Ramakrishna Mission (p.381) and Bhartiya Vidya Bhavan (p.391), and world known learned scholars like Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (p.357) etc., produced books that were the replicas of the same trend that was promoted by Sir William Jones, the associates of the Astiatic Society of Bengal, Max Müller (who was a highly paid employee of East India Company), and many more. 

Thus, to establish the eternity and the Divineness of Sanskrit language, the scriptures (Vedas, Upanishads and the Puranas etc.), Bharatiya religion, and our Sages and Saints who produced all the scriptures, it was essential to give a comparative view of the western culture, literature, religion and civilization, so that the reader could right away understand the whole truth. Accordingly, in the second chapter we have discussed about the origin and the development of the western writing systems, languages, civilizations, religions, religious practices, religious books and mythologies along with the history of the West from the 4th millennium BC and up to the 20th century AD. 

The third chapter discloses the hidden documentary evidences and reveals the secrets of the diplomatic schemes of the British as to how they abused the Hindu religion and how they mutilated and destroyed the history books of India. It was important to disclose these facts so that a true lover of Hinduism should understand the negative aspects of all such publications, and, discarding them forever, he should resort to the authentic Divine teachings of Bhartiya religion. 

With the development of cosmic sciences and the evolution theories, the intellectuals have begun to think that the creation theory of Upanishadas and the Puranas may be just a casual write up. We should know that our scriptures are the manifestations of the same Divine power which has created this universe and so they bear the true principles of the creation and the evolution science. Thus, the descriptions of the fourth chapter delineate our scriptural sciences and specify the initial drawbacks of the modern sciences. The fourth chapter also describes the history of Bharatvarsha since the creation of our brahmand 155.52 trillion years ago, the unbroken continuity of Bhartiya civilization since 1,900 million years, and details the authentic chronology with definite evidences from 3228 BC to 1947 AD. 

Part Two of this book describes the creation of brahmand according to the Bhagwatam, the Divineness of the stories and the references of the Puranas, the theme of all of our main scriptures, philosophies of our Jagadgurus and Acharyas and a brief account of the Divine personalities and the prime religions of India. In the end it gives a complete review of Sanatan Dharm and describes the simplest universal path of God realization which was revealed by supreme God Krishn Himself. In this way, in an encyclopedic style, this book gives complete information about Hindu (Bhartiya) religion, scriptures, history, and their Divinity. It is, in fact, the Grace of my soul beloved Master Jagadguru Shree Kripaluji Maharaj that this monumental work came into being. Jai Shree Radhey.