LONG LONG AGO, IN ANCIENT INDIA – THEY SANG A PRAYER FOR GOOD HEALTH and FORTUNE TO ALL A benediction from the Brihadraranyaka Upanishad (a philosophical treatise on man, mind and mortality, circa 10th to 5th century BCE, Ref. 5) went as follows: ‘Om sarve bhavantu sukhinaH, Sarve santu niraamayaH Sarve bhadraaNi…
IN CONTINUATION ….. In Part I of this issue we had promised: “In the next instalment, we will see how smallpox ravaged the entire World, how the West finally accepted being inoculated, and how India continued to use inoculation to prevent serious epidemics of smallpox. “
In Part I of this issue we had promised: “In the next instalment, we will see how smallpox ravaged the entire World, how the West finally accepted being inoculated, and how India continued to use inoculation to prevent serious epidemics of smallpox. “ We shall now proceed. THE SPECKLED MONSTER RAMPAGED ON… BUT…
THE POWER OF EVERYTHING COMES FROM THE POWER OF NOTHING. A popular Hollywood song went something like this, “Nothing comes from nothing, nothing ever could…” But, at the end of this article you may want to sing, “Everything comes from Nothing, Nothing is really good…” Mystified? Is Nothing good? Or…
“India was the motherland of our race, and Sanskrit the mother of Europe’s languages: she was the mother of our philosophy; mother, through Arabs, of much of our mathematics; mother, through the Buddha, of the ideals embodied in Christianity; mother, through the village community, of self-government and democracy. Mother India is in…