The first one...

I was blogging for a while when at school doing MBA, nothing spectacular just my thoughts on various things. But the interest waned out and I eventually stopped. I wanted to start blogging again not for someone to read what I write but for me to read what I am writing. It may sound paradoxical but the idea here is to explore if what I am thinking that I am thinking is really what I am thinking. I don't mean to be cryptic here but the statement truly reflects what I go through in my mind.

Of late, I have had this new interest in vedic scripts and have been curious to understand them from a historian's perspective. The perspective that I am trying to have here is why was it written in the first place. Is there really advanced knowledge hidden in them as believed by a billion Hindus all over the world? Were people really that advanced socially and scientifically, several millenia in the past?

If all the answers to the above questions are as they are believed by the present day Hindus then it surely contradicts with the evolutionary theories of Nature in which we believe that the as time goes by, people become more knowledgeable more wiser both by new thoughts and by learning from the past. The current conditions in India where most Hindus live does not reflect this progress. On the other hand we seem to have regressed in the last thousand years.

So the questions that I ponder about are:

1. Are the Vedas really to be considered massive source of knowledge and are there still opportunities for us to learn from it even today, i.e., Is there still knowledge in them that is yet to be recognized by all cultures in the world.
2. If not, why do people still cling on the the Vedas and fool themselves in the process. In other words, why are people being ignorant and unwilling to come out of that blind belief mode. On the contrary if they are to be recognized as massive source of knowledge then why is the world not embracing it completely and devouring it for what's hidden in them?
3. The third question is if they indeed are a treasure house of knowledge why did the Indians regress instead of progress and dominate the current world society in terms of both theoritical and practical knowledge
4. And my final questions - Am I asking the right or the wrong questions. Are my thoughts aligned here so that I have a reasonable chance of pursuing answers to these questions.
   

I have no idea if I will ever find the answers to these questions, but I enjoy pursuing the answer.

I have always been interested in history, culture, traditions, philosophy, religion, spirituality, human expressions and thoughts, behaviour, psychology, civilizations, race, ethnicity and theoritical science. And I am agnostic by nature. I would like to believe in 'God' possessing no knowledge in me to question, but unfortunately I think I have crossed the line. I don't think I have a choice but to seek 'God' by pursuing and acquiring knowledge.

The pursuit of the answer for the questions above inexorably involves cocepts like faith, God, belief in the orally transfered knowledge and a very deep involvement and understanding of the culture, traditions and finally the willingness to take leap of faith. And hence I say that I have no idea if I will ever find the answers.

What I intend attempting in the blogs is a serious introspection about myself and my thoughts and to figure out the answers to the questions that is always hovering in my mind. I shall touch upon everything that I feel strongly about and weave a common link between those disparate topics which I inexorably think that they indeed are linked.