Thursday, November 27, 2003

Dick Teresi: 2,400 years before Issac Newton.... 

"Twenty-four centuries before Isaac Newton, the Hindu Rig-Vedas asserted that gravitation held the universe together. The Sanskrit speaking Aryas subscribed to the idea of a spherical earth in an era when the Greeks believed in a flat one."

India: Jews live in peace 

In a recent report, UNESCO pointed out that out of 128 countries where Jews lived before Israel was created, only one country, India, did not persecute them and allowed them to prosper and practice Judaism in peace.

Friday, November 21, 2003

India builds worlds largest Buddha statue to last 1000 years.... 

The Maitreya project will build the world's largest statue, to become the eight wonder of the world. A representation of the future Buddha, the Maitreya Buddha. The height of the proposed monument is, at 150 metres, the equal of the great pyramid of Cheops in Egypt.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/1313508.stm

Monday, November 10, 2003

Lord Krishna - Bhagavad Gita 

"I am the beginning, the middle, and the end"

Karma - SWAMI VIVEKANANDA  

"Karma is the eternal assertion of human freedom... Our thoughts, our
words, and deeds are the threads of the net which we throw around ourselves" - the essence of hindu philosophy.

Sunday, November 09, 2003

Interview with the Warchowski Brothers (director of the Matrix Trilogy) 

Wachowski Brothers:"There's something uniquely interesting about Buddhism and mathematics, particularly about quantum physics, and where they meet. That has fascinated us for a long time."

Reference: http://www.warnervideo.com/matrixevents/wachowski.html

Sati - Matrix Revolutions 

Sati is the name of the first wife of Lord Shiva of the Hindu Trinity.

The process of Sati was expedite and largely a response of Hindu Queens whose husbands were killed by invading Islamic armies. In order to save their chastity, the Hindu Queens committed Sati to avoid being raped by Islamic invaders.