The True History and the Religion of India by H.D. Swami Prakashanand Saraswati

Chapter 1

The origin of Indian history, and the Upnishads and Puranas.............................

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(1) The Divineness of Bhartiya history and the definition of Bharatvarsh........................

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(2) The unbroken continuity of Indian civilization and its history.......................................

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Definite principles of the functioning of this world and common nature of the human beings..............

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It is God Himself Who reveals all the related knowledge for the good of the souls through His eternal Saints on the land of Bharatvarsh because the Divine subject is beyond human intellect. Incapability of the material science................................................................................................

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A brief history of creation, and the Puranas...................................................................................

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Bhartiya civilization after the destruction of the Mahabharat war, and the Harappan culture..............

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(3) How do the stories of the Puranas maintain their eternity?.........................................

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The Puranas and the affiliated descriptions....................................................................................

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(a) The main body of the Puranas and the eternal Sages and Saints.................................................

60

(b) Variations and the timely descriptions of the Puranas................................................................

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Secret of Sages and Rishis taking rebirth and their longevity............................................................

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The eternity of the holy rivers and places, and the peculiarity of certain Divine forms of God............

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(4) Revelation of the Vedas, Upnishads and the Sanskrit grammar.................................

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Perfect vegetarianism in the Vedas and Vedic yagyas...................................................................

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The personality of Ved Vyas and the scriptures relating to the history, religion and the path to God....

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The written form of the scriptures.................................................................................................

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History, religion and the path to God..............................................................................................

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(5) Evidences of their Divine authenticity, and the characteristics of the myths of the world.................................................................................................................................

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Evidences of the Divine authenticity of Bhartiya scriptures.............................................................

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Divine writings cannot be analyzed in a material way......................................................................

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Myths of the world and their characteristics...................................................................................

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The source of mythological imaginations........................................................................................

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(6) General theme of the Upnishads........................................................................................

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The 33 celestial gods....................................................................................................................

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General definitions of soul, maya and God......................................................................................

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Divine forms of God, and Their abodes..........................................................................................

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Illusive nature of the world............................................................................................................

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Correct understanding of the ‘self’ and ‘soul’.................................................................................

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The terms atma and brahm in the Upnishads.................................................................................

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A fallacy about Upnishadic philosophy...........................................................................................

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Another fallacy relates to the period of their availability in the world and their Divine authenticity .....

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(7) A glimpse of the perfection of the Sanskrit grammar....................................................

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The Sanskrit grammar and the formation of Sanskrit words and phrases..........................................

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The Divineness of Sanskrit language.............................................................................................

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