In Search of the Cradle of Civilization: New Light on Ancient IndiaContrary to schoolbooks, India--not Sumer--may have been civilizations birth place. Current geological, archaeological, and linguistic evidence shows the ancient Indians had a highly evolved culture that still holds important answers for us today. |
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Page 186
... sages and seers , the rishis , who gained immortality in the company of the Gods and to whom appropriate reverential offerings are to be made . It is they who , as one Rig - Vedic hymn ( X.14.15 ) puts it , anciently created the ...
... sages and seers , the rishis , who gained immortality in the company of the Gods and to whom appropriate reverential offerings are to be made . It is they who , as one Rig - Vedic hymn ( X.14.15 ) puts it , anciently created the ...
Page 225
... sages and yogins have always aspired to piercing through all the layers or sheaths of the body- mind in order to realize the transcendental Self , or spiritual Singular- ity . According to an esoteric teaching transmitted in the ...
... sages and yogins have always aspired to piercing through all the layers or sheaths of the body- mind in order to realize the transcendental Self , or spiritual Singular- ity . According to an esoteric teaching transmitted in the ...
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... Sages and Kings : Vedic Secrets of Ancient Civilization , Part III : Vedic Astronomy ( Salt Lake City , UT : Passage Press , 1991 ) . 6 Ibid . pp . 180-184 . 7 H. Kulke and D. Rothermund , A History of India ( London : Routledge , 1990 ) ...
... Sages and Kings : Vedic Secrets of Ancient Civilization , Part III : Vedic Astronomy ( Salt Lake City , UT : Passage Press , 1991 ) . 6 Ibid . pp . 180-184 . 7 H. Kulke and D. Rothermund , A History of India ( London : Routledge , 1990 ) ...
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