Continuing the narrative from Volume One of: From Bharata to India, this second volume spans the years from the Muslim conquests down to the present era. The Volume begins by contrasting the stifling theocracy of the Abrahamic religions (Judaism and Christianity), and of Islam, to the pristine ideation of compassion, love and universal wellbeing inherent in the Vedic world. The forced conversion of "pagan" peoples and their places of worship was consequently institutionalized by intolerance, savagery, barbarism, cruelty, and unparalleled brutality. This cultural and religious Invasion shook the very foundations of the Vedic patrimony as the native Hindus adapted Alien lifestyles where Vedic values were repackaged as European and/ or Islamic. Consequently, the modern Indians began to despise what had once been their own legacy, the Cradle of civilization, and embraced imported modes of behavior. The transformed, native polity, supported by foreign vested interests, exploited their own country even more than the alien invaders. As the Western world frees itself from the shackles of Middle Age conformism and depravity, this second volume concludes that the eternal values of Vedic Bharata are to inspire the nascent Civilization of tomorrow. Eastern introspection will replace, then, the Western tradition of a 'wholly other' divinity.
FROM BHARATA TO INDIA
VOLUME 2: THE RAPE OF CHRYSEEBy M. K. AGARWALiUniverse, Inc.
Copyright © 2012 Manjul K. Agarwal
All right reserved.ISBN: 978-1-4759-0768-1Contents
21. The Rise of Dogmatic Religions.....................................122. The Harsha Empire..................................................11623. Rajput Decadence...................................................12124. Bharata under the Muslim Yoke......................................13825. The Rise of the Marathas...........................................18726. The Abandoned Waif Called Europe...................................19027. European Miasma Decimates the World................................28328. The Rise and Demise of the Aryan Invasion Cult.....................34329. God and America: A Special Relationship............................38530. The Freedom Struggle...............................................40931. The Egocentric Dictatorship of Gandhi..............................43832. Neocolonialism under the Dynasty of Despots........................45933. Belated Reforms and Reversals......................................50834. When the Mother Goes a Whoring.....................................51935. Tale Telling Tells.................................................531Bibliography...........................................................539Index..................................................................563
Chapter One
THE RISE OF DOGMATIC RELIGIONS
ANCIENT PAGANISM
Human beings are spiritual animals who devised the idea of God to justify their own helplessness. God could be pampered during the age of plenty and approached for help during incertitude and penury. The Mother Goddess, during the agricultural Paleolithic, expressed fertility and was depicted all over Europe, The Middle East and Bharata, as a naked pregnant woman She was known as Inana in ancient Sumeria, Ishtar in Babylonia, Anat in Canaan, Isis in Egypt, and Aphrodite in Greece. Sumer around 3000 BC was a collection of walled city-states in a land called Kengir whose denizens spoke Emegir, and referred to themselves as Sag-giga or "the black-headed ones". Their gods had life giving and death wielding powers: Anu, Enlil, Enki, Ninhursag (sky, air, water, earth, respectively); Nanna (Sin) bore a son Utu (sun god) and a daughter Inanna. Anu (sky) had some fifty children (all gods) while a less significant group is called Igigi. These hundreds of gods had human attributes but death could never claim them. Each city had a patron god who communicated through omens, dreams and oracles; illness was caused by demons. Their hero Gilgamesh went off in search of immortality around 2600 BC as Sumerians lived in constant fear of their gods and accepted serfdom. There was no free will as all was ordained by gods and man appeased them by daily offerings of animals, vegetables, food, wine, beer and water.
The myth of Marduk and Timat inspired the myth of Baal (storm god who makes the earth fertile) and Yam (hostile aspect of seas and rivers); both lived with El, the High God of Canaan. El's wife was Asherah and he married his three sisters one of whom was Astarte who presided over war and fertility. Baal defeated Yam and slayed the seven-headed dragon Lotan but Baal died and descended to the world of Mot (god of death and sterility). Anat, Baal's lover and sister, slew Mot and Baal was revived, as in the stories of Inana, Ishtar and Isis, to fertilize the cattle with rain. An annual feast of ritual sex in Canaan celebrated fertility by imitating the gods, in a manner somewhat similar to the way in which they were imitated in the Devadasi tradition in ancient Bharata. Phallus, too, was worshipped as the male symbol of fertility. Fertility worship in Canaan extended to everyday life and the dead of the family were offered water, wine, oil, animal blood and flesh; El (static, unapproachable) and Baal (dynamic, active, actual) were later replaced by Yahweh (YHWH or Jehovah).
Gods were placed in inaccessible hills to underline the toil needed to approach such a Father figure e.g. Hill Zion in Jerusalem, Athenian Acropolis, Diamond Head in Hawaii, Mount Kailasha, Badrinath, Amarnath etc. in Bharata. Babylon itself was supposed to be an image of heaven where the New Year festival recited the epic poem of Emma Elish to celebrate the victory of the gods over chaos. Three important gods were Apsu (sweet water of the river), his wife Tiamat (the salty sea) and Mummu (the womb of the chaos. Thereafter, the gods emerged in pairs from a watery, formless raw material that had existed from all eternity: Lahmu and Lahman (water and earth), Ansher and Kishar (sky and sea), Anu and Ea (heavens and earth). Ea gave birth to Marduk the Sun God who slew Tiamat because she was giving birth to monsters, and devised the laws to govern the sacred Babylon, the center of the new earth, where a great ziggernaut was built to honor him. Marduk created man by mixing blood from the body of Kingu, the consort of Tiamat, with dust such that humanity and divinity shared the same nature. Pindar expressed this as follows: Yet we can in the greatness of mind or body be like the Immortals.
The Egyptian goddess Isis was conceived by the God of the Earth and the Goddess of the Sky. Isis and her twin brother Osiris were married and ruled over the Egyptian cosmos, according to the Pyramid texts dated 2600 BC. Greeks developed the myths of Demeter and Persephone from the Egyptian Isis and her sister Nephthys; Demeter and Persephone were transformed into Sophia before the rise of Christianity and she was later on taken by the Gnostics. In the Eleusinian mysteries, Persephone is the fallen psyche and her mother Demeter is the pure psyche. The abduction of Persephone by Hades represents incarnation and she was rescued by Hermes to be united with her Mother in an enlightened state. Hades had given pomegranate seeds (seeds of future lives) to Persephone and because she ate them she had to return to the underworld for a third of every year.
Sometime around 2000 BC, a history of kingship was attempted and eight kings were said to rule five cities for 241,000 years but a devastating flood then ravaged the land, as per a Sumerian tablet. After the flood, kingship got started in Kush around 2900 BC, then inhabited by the Acadians, and all of Sumer was conquered by Saragon (meaning the true king), the son of a gardener, around 2300 BC who ruled for 56 years. Soon after his birth, his mother put him adrift on a reed boat; he was found and raised by a drawer. He won the love of Ishtar (Sumerian Inanna) and had himself declared god of Akkad. Sumer and Akkad were finally conquered by Hammurabi, the Amorite king of Babylon, whose empire lasted 1800 to 1600 BC. During the Axial Age (800-200 BC) power was shifting from the king, priest and temple to the marketplace and witnessed the birth of beliefs that were irreversibly linked to the destiny of Bharata. It produced Aristotle and Plato in Greece, Confucius in China, Buddha and Jain in Bharata, Zarathustra in Persia, and Hebrew prophets in Judah and Samaria.
Manes (Egypt), Minos (Greece), Manu (Bharata), and Moses (Hebrews) all instituted a theocratic, priestly society along an archetypal pattern. Thus, Moses is...
