Recently, I realized the complications that we face in today's environment and how people need to understand why "Big Tents" are necessary.
My own opinions on various topics are quite different from that of Shri Kalavai Venkat. Yet, I was needlessly abused for taking a straightforward ideological position on the notion of "Let there be more opinions" and stepping out to support him.
Kalavai Venkat and I have very different opinion notably on the Hindu-"Judeo-Christian" relationship - as religions and as peoples. Today, I am not a believer in the divide with "Abrahamic Faiths" vs "Dharmic Faiths". There are people with different faiths. And we must consider a greater idea of "Common Roots" as we look to build bridges into the "Big Tent". The notion of a "Big Tent" unity is called for.
I am going to continue to challenge those who seem to stereotype me as a "Type 4" as well as those who are not happy with the "Big Tent". They need to understand my positions. All IKs need to understand my positions. They are laid out in the "The H-Source of the Bible".
My positions are different from Kalavai Venkats on a range of issues. On the most recent furore over the AIT vs OIT debate, I am of the following view
(1) In certain cases Y-Chromosomes AND Comparative Theology point to the same evidence. Turks have much in common with South and Central Asia genetically.The Druze people of the Middle East AND the Levite Tribe of Israel shares common gene markers with South Asians. When we look at the R1a migration patterns and the "Migration Map" like the following , we notice the more traditional viewpoints on R1a, namely AIT. But I believe that the important idea that these people mix is the commonality between Religious groups in South Asia and Religious Groups in the Middle East like the Levites and the Druze represent the "Westward Migration of Amavasa" and the movement westward toward "Aratta" - namely Modern day Turkey.
(2) This does not represent a full OIT view. Everything and everybody did not originate in the Indian Subcontinent, but important cultural migration "OUt of India" did happen.
The great Archaeologist B. B. Lal shares this view. To provide further evidence on this topic, please take a look at the Indus Seal below -
This seal was found in the Indus Valley and to understand this seal, you must first understand that it represents the Composite Bow (or AjaGava). Recently I attempted to make a post discussing this Seal in important Indologically discussion Groups and was ruthlessly silenced after that. The post is enclosed here. The Western Migration of Amavasa, brought about the great religious traditions that we now know as the "Abrahamic Faiths".
The Mitanni positioned themselves as Kings who ruled as representatives Raghuvamsa - the Solar Line of the Hindus. They portrayed this in three ways,
(A) the King Names of the Dynasty
(B) their relationship to the Haritasva. Sarga 55 of the Bala Kanda curiously carries this connection as well.
(C) Through the Legend of Keret which parallels its equivalent from the Bala Kanda Ramayana, namely the story of Bhageeratha.
If you read my book, "The H-Source of the Bible" and visit my facebook page you will understand that the process of helping ordinary Indians, South Asians as well as Judeo-Christians and Muslims understand the true commonality of Religions has begun.
I am going to continue to discuss these topics to help Hindus notably Intellectual Kshatriyas, understand why they must reach out to me. Before we can explain our heritage to others we must help each other understand our own positions. I invite Intellectual Kshatriyas to understand, where I also differ with Rajiv Malhotra.
(A) We cannot be "Porcupines" - we are bigger and have a legacy that we must be proud of. The Great Swami Vivekananda said, "Garv Se Kaho, Hum Hindu Hai". We must not forget our pluralistic heritage nor that of the religion we represent. And this means finding common ground with all the religions that are part of Secular India. They must respect us and we must respect them.
(B) We need to build a "Big Tent". This is very important also. Our pluralistic heritage cannot be ignored. We cannot have only one voice, namely Rajiv Malhotraji, represent Hinduism. All truth matters. We must speak the truth and respect multiple opinions. Both Kalavai Venkat and I, despite having diametrically opposite points of view, are important opinions in the Kurukshetra. Both struggle to be heard and have important opinions that will shape the overall dialog to a greater enlightened position.
We must be heard by all, notably our opponents.
(C) We do not need "Poison Pills". Only the disunited and the small need poison pills. We must operate at the size and stature we are meant to occupy.
The Way Forward - The way forward is to build bridges into American Academia where we can express our relationship to the "Western Cosmos" on the right terms.
Postmodernist thinkers like Wendy Doniger and Sheldon Pollock by their own admission do not understand all of our Paramarthika or all of our tradition, history and glory. There is therefore a need for a new set of Academics in US Academia who can represent both the Transcendentalists from the great Adi Sankara to Emerson and Thoreau and Eliott and Schrodinger. We must bring the tradition to the "New Alexandria". We must explain the Atenism of Akhenaten, and both "What is the Significance of Abraham" in the Abrahamic Tradition and its important Eastern Linkage to Westerners.
I invite Rajivji along with Shrikant Talageri and Dr. Koenraad Elst and others to join this new battle. We must battle with the spirit that people like the great B. B. Lal and Dayanand Saraswati showed us. To open new dialogs, to open new frontiers and to engage the West in a new formal discussion on the Rightful Heritage of Hindus as free equals in a pluralistic world.
My own opinions on various topics are quite different from that of Shri Kalavai Venkat. Yet, I was needlessly abused for taking a straightforward ideological position on the notion of "Let there be more opinions" and stepping out to support him.
Kalavai Venkat and I have very different opinion notably on the Hindu-"Judeo-Christian" relationship - as religions and as peoples. Today, I am not a believer in the divide with "Abrahamic Faiths" vs "Dharmic Faiths". There are people with different faiths. And we must consider a greater idea of "Common Roots" as we look to build bridges into the "Big Tent". The notion of a "Big Tent" unity is called for.
I am going to continue to challenge those who seem to stereotype me as a "Type 4" as well as those who are not happy with the "Big Tent". They need to understand my positions. All IKs need to understand my positions. They are laid out in the "The H-Source of the Bible".
My positions are different from Kalavai Venkats on a range of issues. On the most recent furore over the AIT vs OIT debate, I am of the following view
(1) In certain cases Y-Chromosomes AND Comparative Theology point to the same evidence. Turks have much in common with South and Central Asia genetically.The Druze people of the Middle East AND the Levite Tribe of Israel shares common gene markers with South Asians. When we look at the R1a migration patterns and the "Migration Map" like the following , we notice the more traditional viewpoints on R1a, namely AIT. But I believe that the important idea that these people mix is the commonality between Religious groups in South Asia and Religious Groups in the Middle East like the Levites and the Druze represent the "Westward Migration of Amavasa" and the movement westward toward "Aratta" - namely Modern day Turkey.
(2) This does not represent a full OIT view. Everything and everybody did not originate in the Indian Subcontinent, but important cultural migration "OUt of India" did happen.
The great Archaeologist B. B. Lal shares this view. To provide further evidence on this topic, please take a look at the Indus Seal below -
This seal was found in the Indus Valley and to understand this seal, you must first understand that it represents the Composite Bow (or AjaGava). Recently I attempted to make a post discussing this Seal in important Indologically discussion Groups and was ruthlessly silenced after that. The post is enclosed here. The Western Migration of Amavasa, brought about the great religious traditions that we now know as the "Abrahamic Faiths".
The Mitanni positioned themselves as Kings who ruled as representatives Raghuvamsa - the Solar Line of the Hindus. They portrayed this in three ways,
(A) the King Names of the Dynasty
(B) their relationship to the Haritasva. Sarga 55 of the Bala Kanda curiously carries this connection as well.
(C) Through the Legend of Keret which parallels its equivalent from the Bala Kanda Ramayana, namely the story of Bhageeratha.
If you read my book, "The H-Source of the Bible" and visit my facebook page you will understand that the process of helping ordinary Indians, South Asians as well as Judeo-Christians and Muslims understand the true commonality of Religions has begun.
I am going to continue to discuss these topics to help Hindus notably Intellectual Kshatriyas, understand why they must reach out to me. Before we can explain our heritage to others we must help each other understand our own positions. I invite Intellectual Kshatriyas to understand, where I also differ with Rajiv Malhotra.
(A) We cannot be "Porcupines" - we are bigger and have a legacy that we must be proud of. The Great Swami Vivekananda said, "Garv Se Kaho, Hum Hindu Hai". We must not forget our pluralistic heritage nor that of the religion we represent. And this means finding common ground with all the religions that are part of Secular India. They must respect us and we must respect them.
(B) We need to build a "Big Tent". This is very important also. Our pluralistic heritage cannot be ignored. We cannot have only one voice, namely Rajiv Malhotraji, represent Hinduism. All truth matters. We must speak the truth and respect multiple opinions. Both Kalavai Venkat and I, despite having diametrically opposite points of view, are important opinions in the Kurukshetra. Both struggle to be heard and have important opinions that will shape the overall dialog to a greater enlightened position.
We must be heard by all, notably our opponents.
(C) We do not need "Poison Pills". Only the disunited and the small need poison pills. We must operate at the size and stature we are meant to occupy.
The Way Forward - The way forward is to build bridges into American Academia where we can express our relationship to the "Western Cosmos" on the right terms.
Postmodernist thinkers like Wendy Doniger and Sheldon Pollock by their own admission do not understand all of our Paramarthika or all of our tradition, history and glory. There is therefore a need for a new set of Academics in US Academia who can represent both the Transcendentalists from the great Adi Sankara to Emerson and Thoreau and Eliott and Schrodinger. We must bring the tradition to the "New Alexandria". We must explain the Atenism of Akhenaten, and both "What is the Significance of Abraham" in the Abrahamic Tradition and its important Eastern Linkage to Westerners.
I invite Rajivji along with Shrikant Talageri and Dr. Koenraad Elst and others to join this new battle. We must battle with the spirit that people like the great B. B. Lal and Dayanand Saraswati showed us. To open new dialogs, to open new frontiers and to engage the West in a new formal discussion on the Rightful Heritage of Hindus as free equals in a pluralistic world.
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