What Do Hindus Believe?

Stop any  Christian or a Muslim on the road and ask him or her the question,

“What do Christians believe?”

or

“What do Muslims believe?”

and you will get an earful.

STOP a Hindu and ask the same question.

He or she will shy away from answering that important question.

It is NOT that a Hindu wants to evade that question, nor the Hindu is apathetic towards his culture. 

Fact of the matter is, poor Hindu  does not know  how to answer any  question concerning his/her culture or religion.

He cannot even answer a simple question such as What is the Hindu Concept of  God? That is the reason why he is running away from answering any question.

So  Hindus  have to learn, how to answer  questions concerning our beliefs, when ever some one asks  them.

Hindus  cannot and should not run away from answering questions regarding our culture & beliefs...

I firmly believe in the saying

"All that is needed for the  evil to triumph is that good people do nothing."

If  we  do not study and answer questions concerning us, someone else, who is an alien to our culture will define & explain  ‘what our culture is all about’  and propagate their version of Hinduism all over the world. 

Just Google the question  “What  Do Hindus  Believe?” and you will be surprised to see many  who are explaining what Hinduism is all about are those who have just studied about Hinduism.

If  Hindus do not define or explain  our culture and religion, some one else will  explain  it for the world…Sad, but true.

When we see false details of culture and beliefs spreading all over internet and among media,  we have nobody to blame except ours self.  When  we keep our mouth shut this is the result we will always get.

So my advice to every one is to study all about our  culture first and then boldly answer any question with a smile on your face.

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Hindus have nothing to fear, except fear itself.

 GOD:----

Hinduism is a CULTURE and not an organized religion like Islam or Christianity. 

Hindus believe in ONE & ONLY GOD --Brahman which expresses itself in trillions of forms.

Hindus believe in a ONE , all-pervasive Supreme REALITY which is both immanent and transcendent, Creator, preserver as well as destroyer.

Hinduism is NOT polytheistic at all. H

induism promotes Monism that the whole universe is just one thing or one thought despite its many appearances and diversities.

That is the reason why,

you don’t have to be a Hindu to attain salvation.

Every one including atheists and agnostics will finally attain salvation.

According to Hindu scriptures,  there are FOUR paths or ways to attain salvation

[ Self Realization ]  such as

A.           Jana Yoga [ Path of Knowledge ]

B.           Karma Yoga [ Path of unattached thoughts and actions];

C.           Raja Yoga [ Path of Pranayama and breathing exercises ];

D.           Bhakti Yoga [ Path of total surrender to God ].

Every one, even those who have nothing to do anything with Hinduism follow one of the FOUR methods. In fact, most people follow Bhakti Yoga, the path of devotion. 

ABSOULTE FREEDOM OF THOUGHTS AND ACTIONS.

Even an atheist has the right to condemn Hinduism in the market and still proudly proclaim he or she is a Hindu. Nobody is thrown out of Hinduism.

Nobody is  killed since he supported a wrong theory or wrote a book condemning Vedas or any Hindu beliefs or openly declaring that there is no God. 

Hinduism welcomes thoughts and ideas from every where.

Rig Veda 1, 89-I states Aa no bhadrah kratavo yantu vishvatah"Let noble thoughts come to us from all the sides.” and that is the reason why Hinduism is growing into mammoth proportions. 

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18 Missing Years of Jesus Christ. Was he in India?

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The entire birth & life of Jesus Christ is shrouded in mystery, fable and legend. The Holy Bible records the birth of Jesus as well as his life until he was 12 years old in vivid detail.

After that, there is no discussion about Jesus’s life for the next 18 years.

Where was he during those years? Some will say that it does not matter where he was. But how can Bible fail to tell us about those 18 missing years, when it gives vivid details about the first 12 years of his sermons, life, his crucifixion & resurrection.

Where was Jesus of Nazareth during the 18 missing years of his life? That is a million dollar question.

A ------- Holy Bible does not shed much light on this matter except Luke 2:40 states "And the child grew and became strong in spirit, filled with wisdom; and the grace of God was upon Him."

B--------Even DEAD SEA SCROLLS did not deal with this subject. The Dead Sea Scrolls span the lifetime of Jesus Christ, Old Testament to New Testament, yet fails to shed any light on the life of Jesus during the 18 missing years.

By the way, The Dead Sea scrolls consist of roughly 900 documents and they were found in caves 20 miles east of Jerusalem in 1947 and 1956 by a Arab boy.

C--------There is no detail about this matter in world history.

Did Jesus Christ visit India during the "missing" 18 years of his life? If he did not visit India, Where was Jesus during those EIGHTEEN MISSING YEARS?

Belief it or not, those thought provoking questions cannot be answered even by Christian theologians.

1 -------When I was writing my book, AM I A HINDU?, I wrote to few Christian missions asking them those questions and only answer I got from them was Jesus was not in India during those 18 years. They did not answer where was Jesus during that period.

2------- I feel there is some kind of a cover up on their part. Since all of them vehemently oppose the importance of Gnostic gospels which resemble Hindu philosophical concepts in many ways, I feel they want to deny any connection of Jesus with India.

3 -------There are who will argue that Jesus’s teachings was adversative to the view of Hindu concepts and beliefs and his teachings were based on the Hebrew concept of God and reality. I strongly disagree.

4------- To me his statements such as “Love thy enemy”, “'I and my father are one' have to do a lot with Hindu concepts and ideals than Old Testament teachings. The “born again ritual” in the Bible has much to with Hindu Dwija [twice born] concept and Hindu Upanayana ritual than any other Jewish Ritual

5 -------Let us search more. For example, in the Gospel according to St. Thomas, Jesus said : He who takes the word out of my mouth will become just like me. To me all those statements are repetitions of some of the statements in the Hindu Upanishads.

6------- When Jesus said “ I AM GOD”, he was actually repeating the Upanishad statement AHAM BRAHMANASMI [Brihadaranyaka Upanishad] meaning I am God as well as the statement Tat Tvam Asi - Thou Art That [Chandogya Upanishad ] meaning again that the individual immortal soul within the body is indeed the supreme soul or Paramathman or God.

7 -------When Jesus Christ said: “ I am the way, the truth, and life: No man cometh unto the father, but by me” [John 14:6]. , he was repeating what Lord Krishna said in the Bhagavad Gita,

“I am the source of all spiritual & material worlds. Everything emanates from me. ” [GITA 10:8]

“ Everything is born of me. I am the original source of all. No one is above me .” [GITA 12:6, 7]

“Those who worship other gods and those who worship them with faith, are actually worshipping me. I am the receiver of all devotion ” GITA 9:23

8 -------It is my opinion that Jesus was in India during his 18 missing years and much of Jesus taught like showing the other cheek, was a repetition of what Gautama Buddha taught. Compassion and love of Jesus for humanity is similar to what Lord Buddha had. I wish to speculate that Jesus's teaching of chastity, non-violence, and renunciation were derived from Hinduism & Buddhism rather than from Old Testament. "Hatred is not conquered by hatred at any time, but hatred is won by love; this is an eternal truth" Gautama Buddha and Jesus said: LOVE THY ENEMY [Luke 6:27]

9------- What Jesus taught was an exact contradiction to what Old Testament taught. Old Testament taught EYE FOR AN EYE, where as Jesus taught LOVE THY ENEMY and SHOW THE OTHER CHEEK.

10------- When Jesus said: " Man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God' (Matthew 4:4) he was actually referring to Prana associated with breath mentioned in Raja Yoga.

11------- When Jesus said: "If thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.", he was actually referring to the Hindu belief that anyone who meditates at the center of the eyes called “ Kuthastha Chaitanya” or “Cosmic Conciousneess” will see light alone.

12 -------According to a Video LOST YEARS OF JESUS (1976) 92 min, during the “missing years” Jesus was in Tibet learning Buddhism along with Tibetan monks and they called him Saint Issa.

13------- The life story of St. Essa or Issa closely resembles the life of Jesus Christ revealing what may well be the lost years or missing years of Jesus Christ.

14 -------Jesus later left Tibet and went to Benaras and learned all Hindu scriptures under Hindu saints. Jesus was sick of the caste system existed among Hindus.

15 -------Jesus wanted to fight “Caste System” in India, but he was told that his mission is back in Middle east to take care of his own people. So he returned to Judea through an Arab caravan.

16 -------It is said that there is historical evidence of Jesus Visit to Ladak, Tibet, India. That fact is documented in a Russian Nicolas Notovitch' works. It is stated that In 1887, Notovitch, a Russian Jew converted to Greek Orthodoxy visited the city of Leh, capital of the district of Ladakh on the border of India and Tibet.

17------- In 1894 he wrote a book a prophet named Issa, who sounded strikingly like Jesus. According that book he saw a manuscript in a Tibetan lamasery dealing with Jesus’ visit.

18------- There are two more books dealing with Jesus visit to India. One is "A Search for the Historical Jesus. From Apocryphal, Buddhist, Islamic & Sanskrit Sources" written by Fida M. Hassnain (first published 1994 by Gateway Books, U.K.); the second one is "Jesus lived in India" by Holger Kersten.

19------- Once again, we do not know the exact truth. I agree. Life of Jesus is a mystery. Anyway, I see Jesus Christ to be the WESTERN LORD BUDDHA, since Jesus taught the world “unmotivated selfless compassion and love” like Lord Buddha did.

20------- It is stated in the video that in 1890's after a trip by Nicolas Notovitch, a Russian, to Tibet, he found this amazing, ancient manuscript in a lamasery concerning Jesus.

21 -------In Hindu BHAVISHYA PURANA, there are statements regarding a person who is similar to Jesus Christ. It is stated, once upon a time a Hindu king named Himatunga met a very auspicious man who was living on a mountain near Himalayas. Complexion of this man was golden and his clothes were white. (Bhavishya Purana 19:22.)

ko bharam iti tam praaha
su hovacha mudanvitah
iishaa purtagm maam viddhi
kumaarigarbha sambhavam


The king asked, 'Who are you sir?' '

The man answered blissfully “You should know that I am Isha Putra, the Son of God'.

And added , 'am born of a virgin.' "(Bhavishya Purana 19:23.)

Who was that man?

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 What makes Michael Jackson great & unforgettable?

He was a legend when he was alive.   Who can ever forget his song "BLACK OR WHITE?"

But much  more than that  his sad life of so many " ins and outs"  make him unforgettable.

Everything he did was his cry for recognition and love,  right from his constant association with children of all colors and all ages.. 

I have no clue whether there was wrong doings in his  affairs with children.

If there was none, he was one of  the humble men who was haunted by false accusations.

What do you think??

You don't have to be a Hindu to attain salvation.

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Beauty of Hindu scriptures is that they never ever states one has to be to a Hindu to attain salvation.

SALVATION IS FOR ALL IRRESPECTRIVE OF ONE IS A HINDU OR NOT.

Any one who searches after truth will finally attain truth, whether one belong to any religion or not. 

Even an atheist who searches truth will finally attain salvation or self realization.

Salvation is known as SELF REALIZATION meaning "Relaizing one is the immortal soul within and not the perishable material body.

What should we do?   

We have to some how break the cycle of illusion [Maya] that we are the body and realize that we are the Atman, the immortal soul within the body.

How can we do that?

Hinduism talks about four distinct methods of self-realization.  You are at liberty to choose any one of them or combination of all the four methods. Those methods are

 1. BHAKTI YOGA ‑ PATH OF DEVOTION

2. KARMA YOGA ‑ PATH OF SELF‑LESS ACTION

3. JNANA  YOGA ‑ PATH OF KNOWLEDGE

4. RAJA YOGA ‑ PATH OF BREATH CONTROL, PRANAYAMA ETC

You can also mix up all those methods and practice in your life. Most people in the world, irrespective of what religion they belong to are  Bhakti Yogies.

Anyway, it is quite a long way from the days, when Hindus all over US had  to fight every Zoning board in every city to get permission to construct  Hindu temples during 70's and 80's.

I still recall the day, when CBS Atlanta radio station interviewed me to clear misconceptions, when people objected the construction of the Hindu temple in Atlanta. Hindus came a long way in US.

Considering Hindus make up less than  one percent of America’s population, the reference to Hindus as a very valid &  distinct group in Obama’s speech is indeed a very welcome news.

AM I A HINDU? International Best Seller

We do not know. We can only speculate. 

The Holy Bible records the birth of Jesus as well as his life until he was 12 years old in vivid detail.

After that,there is no discussion about Jesus’s life for the next 18 years.

Where was he during those years?Some will say that it does not matter where he was. But how can Bible fail to tell us about those 18 missing years, when it gives vivid details about the first 12 years of his sermons,life, his crucifixion & resurrection.

Where was Jesus of Nazarethduring the 18 missing years of his life? That is a million dollar question.

A ------- Holy Bible does not shed much light on this matter exceptLuke 2:40 states "And the child grew and became strong in spirit, filled with wisdom; and the grace of God was upon Him."

B--------Even DEAD SEA SCROLLS did not deal with this subject.The Dead Sea Scrolls span the lifetime of Jesus Christ, Old Testament to New Testament, yet fails to shed any light on the life of Jesus during the 18 missing years.

By the way,The Dead Sea scrolls consist of roughly 900 documentsand they were found in caves 20 miles east of Jerusalem in 1947 and 1956 by a Arab boy.

C--------There is no detail about this matter in world history.

1..........When I was writing my book, AM I A HINDU?, I wrote to few Christian missions asking them those questions and only answer I got from them was Jesus was not in India during those 18 years. They did not answer where was Jesus during that period.

2..........I feel there is some kind of a cover up on their part. Since all of them vehemently oppose the importance of Gnostic gospels which resemble Hindu philosophical concepts in many ways, I feel they want to deny any connection of Jesus with India.

3..........There are who will argue that Jesus’s teachings was adversative to the view ofHindu concepts and beliefs and his teachings were based on the Hebrew concept of God and reality. I strongly disagree.

4..........To me his statements suchas“Love thy enemy”,“'I and my father are one'have to doa lot with Hindu concepts and ideals than Old Testament teachings.The “born again ritual” in the Bible has much to with Hindu Dwija [twice born]concept and Hindu Upanayana ritual than any other Jewish Ritual

5.......... Let us search more.For example,in the Gospel according to St. Thomas, Jesus said : He who takes the word out of my mouth will become just like me. To me all those statements are repetitions of some of thestatements in the Hindu Upanishads.

6..........When Jesus said “ I AM GOD”, he was actually repeatingthe Upanishad statement AHAM BRAHMANASMI [Brihadaranyaka Upanishad] meaning I am Godas well as the statementTat Tvam Asi-Thou Art That[Chandogya Upanishad ]meaning again that the individual immortal soul within the body is indeed the supreme soul or Paramathman or God.

7..........When Jesus Christ said: “ I am the way, the truth, and life: No man cometh unto the father, but by me” [John 14:6]. , he was repeatingwhat Lord Krishna said in the Bhagavad Gita, “I am the source of all spiritual & material worlds. Everything emanates from me. ” [GITA 10:8] “ Everything is born of me. I am the original source of all. No one is above me .” [GITA 12:6, 7] “Those who worship other gods and those who worship them with faith, are actually worshipping me. I am the receiver of all devotion ” GITA 9:23

8..........It is my opinion thatJesus was in India during his 18 missing years and much of Jesus taught like showing the other cheek,was a repetition of what Gautama Buddha taught. Compassion and love of Jesus for humanity is similar to what Lord Buddha had. I wish to speculate that Jesus's teaching of chastity, non-violence, and renunciation were derived from Hinduism &Buddhism rather than from Old Testament. "Hatred is not conquered by hatred at any time, but hatred is won by love; this is an eternal truth" Gautama Buddhaand Jesus said:LOVE THY ENEMY [Luke 6:27]

9..........What Jesus taught was an exact contradiction to what Old Testament taught. Old Testament taught EYE FOR AN EYE, where as Jesus taught LOVE THY ENEMY and SHOW THE OTHER CHEEK.

10 ..........When Jesus said: " Man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God' (Matthew 4:4) he was actually referring to Prana associated with breathmentioned in Raja Yoga.

11..........When Jesus said:"If thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.",he was actuallyreferring tothe Hindu beliefthat anyone who meditates at the center of the eyes called“ Kuthastha Chaitanya” or “Cosmic Conciousneess” will see light alone.

12 ..........According to a Video  LOST YEARS OF JESUS (1976) 92 min, during the “missing years”Jesus was in Tibet learning Buddhism along with Tibetan monks and they called him Saint Issa.

13..........The life story of St. Essa or Issa closely resembles the life of Jesus Christ revealing what may well be the lost years or missing years of Jesus Christ.

14..........Jesus later left Tibet and went to Benaras and learned all Hindu scriptures under Hindu saints. Jesus was sick of the caste system existed among Hindus.

15..........Jesus wanted to fight “Caste System” in India, but he was told thathis mission is back in Middle east to take care of his own people. So he returned to Judea through an Arab caravan.

16 ..........It is said that there is historical evidence of Jesus Visit to Ladak, Tibet, India. That fact is documented in a Russian Nicolas Notovitch' works. It is stated thatIn 1887, Notovitch, a Russian Jew converted to Greek Orthodoxyvisited the city of Leh, capital of the district of Ladakh on the border of India and Tibet.

17..........In 1894 he wrote a book a prophet named Issa, who sounded strikingly like Jesus.According that book he saw a manuscript in a Tibetan lamasery dealing with Jesus’ visit.

18..........There are two more books dealing with Jesus visit to India. One is "A Search for the Historical Jesus. From Apocryphal, Buddhist, Islamic & Sanskrit Sources" written by Fida M. Hassnain (first published 1994 by Gateway Books, U.K.); the second one is "Jesus lived in India" by Holger Kersten.

19.......... Once again, we do not know the exact truth. I agree. Life of Jesus is a mystery. Anyway,I see Jesus Christ to be the WESTERN LORD BUDDHA, since Jesus taught the world“unmotivated selfless compassion and love” like Lord Buddha did.

20..........It is stated in the video that in 1890's after a trip by Nicolas Notovitch, a Russian, to Tibet, he found this amazing, ancient manuscript in a lamasery concerning Jesus.

21..........In HinduBHAVISHYA PURANA, there are statements regarding a person who is similar to Jesus Christ.It is stated, once upon a time a Hindu king named Himatunga meta veryauspicious man who was living on a mountain near Himalayas. Complexion of this man was golden and his clothes were white. (Bhavishya Purana 19:22.)

ko bharam iti tam praaha
su hovacha mudanvitah
iishaa purtagm maam viddhi
kumaarigarbha sambhavam


The king asked, 'Who are you sir?' '

The man answered blissfully“You should know that I am Isha Putra, the Son of God'.

And added , 'am born of a virgin.' "(Bhavishya Purana 19:23.)

Who was that man?

"Whoever drinks from my mouth will become like me; I myself shall become that person, and the hidden things will be revealed to him."

In the Upanishads it is written that the immortal soul [Atman] within every human being is indeed the God within.  

5------Amazing it may sound an important statement of John 1:1 in the Bible

“In the beginning was the Word (In principio erat Verbum), and the Word was with God (Et Verbum erat apud Deum) and the word was God (Et Deus erat Verbum)

" Heaven & Hell" concepts are very important in Islam and Christianity.  But they are NOT important in eastern religions.

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Once in NY Times square, a preacher told me

" Ed, being a Hindu, You will go to hell" ....

I answered:

" Dear Sir, why should I go to a Christian hell, when we Hindus have seven hells to go to."

Poor preacher was speechless. Poor preacher does not know the fact that Hindu  Puranas  talk about  SEVEN HELLS.....hahahaha    Hindus have SEVEN HEAVENS , SEVEN HELLS and SEVEN EARTHS......

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Swami Vivekananda wrote :

"In India, the idea of the goal (salvation) is this: There are heavens, there are hells, there are earths, but they are not permanent. If I am sent to hell, it is not permanent. The same struggle goes on and on whatever I am. How to go beyond all this struggle is the problem ........ The Indian idea is not to go to Heaven. Get out of this earth, get out of hell, and get out of heaven! What is the goal? It is freedom! You must be free" (Complete Works 6:57)

1----------- In Rig Veda, heaven is the place Devandra lives and Hell is the place where Yama lives.

2-----------  Only thing I infer from reading Vedas & Upanishads, is that heaven [ SWARGA ] and hell [ NARAGA ] are NOT permanent places where the soul rests but “way stations” for short sojourn.

3-----------  After that immortal soul comes back to earth to continue life. Immortal soul [Atman ] governed by GUNAS take birth in appropriate bodies. After exhausting karmas immortal soul [Atman] merges with God.

4 ----------- So at the end every one of us, even the worst among us will merge with God. That is the beauty of the Hindu salvation or Hindu Self-Realization. By complete change of consciousness from material to spiritual, a man, irrespective one is Hindu or not will finally attain salvation. Nobody is denied salvation in Hinduism.

5 ----------- Even Lord Krishna states in the Bhagavad Gita, that "heaven" and "hell" are not permanent places where soul stays, but only temporary stations where soul rests.

6-----------  Man’s problem is his ignorance of his true nature that he is the immortal soul due to MAYA [illusion] and until and unless he realizes that he is the immortal soul – ATMAN within and not the perishable body, he will continuously undergo going to heaven & hell.

7 ----------- Adi Sankara stated, even celestial beings crave to have a human body since only being a human one can attain self-realization. Dealing with karmas can be done only through a human body.

8. -----------  Conclusion: A human being should not waste time thinking about heaven and hell. He or she should concentrate only on  "Spiritual Maturity" and how to achieve that.

9-----------  Do everything in your power to elevate yourself spiritually. It does not matter what religion or culture you follow. As long as you open up to truth and follow one of the four methods taught by Hindu scriptures, Jnana Yoga; Karma Yoga; Raja Yoga or Bhakti Yoga, you will attain self-realization.

CREATION AND DESTRUCTION OF THE UNIVERSE

A comet or meteor  may or may not  hit earth one  day and we will know about that only months before.    After all, amateur astronomers Shoemaker & Levy  found out about that comet  which hit Jupiter only  six months before, the comet actually hit planet Jupiter.

Our earth is only  a very small planet in a world of millions of galaxies and our end as we see it  may or may not  come any time in the future. It is a naked fact, whether we want to face that or not. 

Earth is 4.55 billion years old and our written history is only 4000 to 5000 years old.  So we have no idea about the thousands of meteors and  asteroids and comets routinely slammed into earth during the early stages of its history.  Believe it or not,  Earth is in the middle of a asteroid belt and as such anything can happen to it in future. 

If Shoemaker-Levy comet might have hit earth, it will be like several millions of rock in 1 to 2.5 square miles in sizes hitting earth at a speed of 134,000 miles per hour producing a surface impact temp. of 53,550 degrees Fahrenheit [Sun's surface temperature is 10,350 degrees Fahrenheit.

Instantly the temperature of earth would have  go up 30 to 40 degrees high and ice at poles will melt and flood the world; earth will be covered by 100 or 200 miles levels high dust. That dust cover would have make the world in few days a piece of ice, killing all the plants and animals.

There are countless theories of creation right from the Greek mythology to Bahaism.   All of them make same sense as the Genesis theory of creation. [Holy Bible Gen. 1:1-2:4 Gen 2:5].

Carl Sagan, said in Cosmos video series, Hinduism has a creation theory similar to modern astronomical theory.

1.      According to Hindu scriptures  everything emerged from that which is smaller than the smallest factor of matter named Anu.  

2         In Hinduism, the "Creation and Destruction of the universe" is a continuous, cyclical process. It never had a beginning and never will have an end. On one side creation happens in the universe and still on another side, Destruction also happens. This earth we see had been created and destroyed many times. It will never end.

Idol of Lord Nataraja symbolizes the “Creation & Destruction” of the universe..

3   The upper right hand of the Lord Nataraja idol  holds a drum to symbolize the primal sound of creation, the upper left hand bears a tongue  of flames, the element of destruction.   The two hands represent  the dynamic balance of creation and destruction in the universe.

11.      Sage Manu wrote in Manusmriti, UNIVERSE UNDERGOES ENDLESS CYCLES OF BIRTH AND DESTRUCTION. "Creation and Destruction" are part and parcel of everything including the universe. Each insect has its own cycle of creation and Destruction. The universe we see including the `milky way' will be destroyed and created time and time again.

“ In the beginning of time or KALPA, I create everything and at the end of time  KALPA,  the whole creation merge in me.   By my will the whole universe  is created & annihilated again and again “    [GITA  9:7,8]

12.      Lord Krishna states in Bhagavad Gita [8:18]:  

13.     This whole process is known as LEELA or CHILD PLAY OF GOD in Hinduism. Everything is MAYA or illusion and just like the ON and OFF switches on a digital computer makes thousands of forms of "illusion" for all of us, LEELA is creating all this illusion again and again.

14.    We are now living in KALI YUGA. The total number of years in KALI YUGA is 432000 human years. We are already 5000 years into Kali Yuga. At the end of Kali Yuga, that is about 427,000 years from today this universe will be destroyed and Another universe  will be built for creation to start again.

15. In Hinduism, time immemorial is measured in KALPAS.

1 KALPA =    8,640,000,000 years [8.64 trillion human years]
1 KALPA =    1 day and night for god of creation
1 KALPA =    2000 MAHAYUGAS

1 MAHAYUGA =       4,320,000 years

1 MAHAYUGA =       Sum total of 4 yugas KRITA YUGA, TRETA YUGA, DVAPARA YUGA & KALI YUGA

18.     Like Hindu astronomers Mayans computed the length of earth revolution around Sun to within 1/1000th of a Decimal point. Their recording goes up to 400,000 years in the past.

19    Mayan's 5125 year "GREAT CYCLE OF EVENTS" which began 3113 B.C [Hindu kali yuga started at the same time] ends in A.D. 2012.

MAYAN CALENDAR ENDS on December 21, 2012
What will happen after that date?

I  for one believe that all the humanity will enter into a super consciousness after that day, when all of us think alike------entering into NIRVIKALPA SAMDHI.

20     Like Hindus, Mayans believe in a universe of infinite cycles of time. Mayans believe that our solar system is 7th of that kind. Hindus mythology talks about 7 heavens 7 hells and 7 earths.

21   . Mayans like Hindus also believed in BODY FORCES and treatment of body by properly understanding those forces and treating the body accordingly. I feel, modern science will eventually will take lessons from Mayans and Hindus and will start treating the body just as BIO-ELECTRO MAGNETIC NET WORK and start treating it as a COMPUTER or as a ROBOT.

A day may come, when AIDS will be treated as a blockage in BIO-ELECTRIC NET WORK made by powerful negative GUILTY CONSCIOUSNESS THOUGHTS. [ Of course thoughts are just small specs of electricity in the brain].

21. Did Mayans get the name from Hindus? The word Maya in Sanskrit means ILLUSION. The name of Lord Buddha's mother was MAYA.

In the epic Mahabharata, there is a description of a wandering tribe of navigators, who are called Maya. Can that  Maya  be the Mayans  of Mexico? According archaeologists, the word  Mayan  came from the word MAYAB, the term usually used to describe  Yucatan Peninsula or  the name originate from the Roman goddess MAIA!!!

22.    How can we disregard Hindu & Mayan theories about creation if we decide to teach children about creation.