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- From: system@kalki33.lakes.trenton.sc.us (Kalki Dasa)
- Newsgroups: sci.skeptic
- Subject: Re: Krishnas, Vedas, and all that (was: TM debunking needed)
- Message-ID: <ePgVXB3w165w@kalki33.lakes.trenton.sc.us>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 93 03:13:37 EST
- References: <1993Jan22.014554.7281@s1.gov>
- Organization: Kalki's Infoline BBS, Aiken, SC, USA
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- lip@s1.gov (Loren I. Petrich) writes:
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- > ...... Indian astrology is based on Hellenistic
- > astrology; even the names of the constellations are similar. So I'd
- > presume it would include the belief that the Moon is closer to the
- > Earth than the Sun.
-
- This is false. Vedic astronomy is not based on Greek astronomy. If
- anything, it is the other way around. See the book Vedic Cosmography and
- Astronomy by Richard L. Thompson. Also see the paper On the Antiquity of
- the Star Coordinates from Indian Jyotisha Shastras, by the same author.
-
- > As to Vedic astronomy, I wouldn't be very surprised if it
- > wasn't very sophisticated; apparently the Vedas teach explicitly that
- > the Earth is flat, which may give pause to Hindu fundamentalists like
- > the Hare Krishnas.
-
- No, the Vedas teach that the Bhu-Mandala planetary system, of which the
- spherical Earth planet is a tiny part, is a higher-dimensional disk
- embedded in higher-dimensional space. The Vedic Jyotisha shastras
- explicitly acknowledge that the earth "as we know it" is a sphere.
- Translators who know nothing of Vedic philosophy and science lump many
- different Sanskrit terms together and call them all "Earth."
-
- Sincerely,
- Kalki Dasa
-
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- | Hare Rama Hare Rama, Rama Rama Hare Hare |
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