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- From: lip@s1.gov (Loren I. Petrich)
- Subject: Re: Krishnas, Vedas, and all that (was: TM debunking needed)
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- References: <1993Jan22.014554.7281@s1.gov> <ePgVXB3w165w@kalki33.lakes.trenton.sc.us>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 01:36:21 GMT
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- In article <ePgVXB3w165w@kalki33.lakes.trenton.sc.us> system@kalki33.lakes.trenton.sc.us (Kalki Dasa) writes:
- >lip@s1.gov (Loren I. Petrich) writes:
- >
- : ...... 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.
-
- Does he distinguish between the Vedas proper and later
- writings?
-
- : 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."
-
- Can you quote for me the verses in the various Vedas (like the
- Rig Veda) that discuss this cosmology om detail?
-
- --
- /Loren Petrich, the Master Blaster
- /lip@s1.gov
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