The vedic seers were one with nature. They had realized the sloka, aham brahmasmi, that is, I am brahma. It might appear to be an egoistic statement to some, but herein lay the gyan of creation. To realize this statement is what is evolution. To be brahma is to be one with everything in the creation. It is a state where everything in creation is a part of you – the cow who has been converted into a milk machine, the farmer who was duped into growing bt cotton and committed suicide, the dog who was run down by a lorry driver, the girl child who was denied the right to live, the vulture who fed on cattle infested with diclofenac, the inhabitants of Fukushima, the marine life at Gulf of Mexico that was choked by the oil spill, your next door neighbor who cannot sleep because you have a party at home and the future generations who will only see green earth in their history textbooks if we do not wake up soon. Evolution is not the morphing of a monkey into a man or talking big. As Yogi Ashwini often says, ‘a clear indicator that you are evolving is that your sensitivity is increasing - towards creation - plants, animals, fellow beings and environment at large. If that is not happening, if you still can't look beyond yourself, something is not right...’ it is time to make it right.
Sanskrit is the oldest language known to man. It is considered to be the very origin of language itself; that from which all languages have arisen or evolved. Unlike popular belief, Sanskrit is not a language only of scriptures or hymns and chants chanted in rituals and ceremonies; it was used in earlier times by everyone - philosophers, scientists, mathematicians, poets and playwrights, grammarians etc. In grammar, Panini and Patanjali (authors of Ashtadhyayi and the Mahabhashya) have no equals in the world; in astronomy and mathematics the works of Aryabhatta, Brahmagupta and Bhaskaracharya opened up new frontiers for mankind, as did the works of Charak and Sushrut in medicine. In literature, the works of Kalidas (Shakuntala, Meghdoot, Malavikagnimitra, etc.), Bhavabhuti (Malti Madhav, Uttar Ramcharit, etc.) are known all over the world. Thus, Sanskrit literature is easily the richest literature in the history of mankind. Infact in 1786, when Sir William Jones, in a paper pres...
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