Hinduism: What Really Happenned in India (PDF) - Oration

Hinduism: What Really Happened in India – M. M. Ninan
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Swami Vivekananda asks:” First, was Bhagavat Gita part of Mahabharatham and
was the author of Gita really Veda Vyasa?"
(pages from 506 to 509 of Volume IV of complete works of the Swami
Vivekananda)
“A great many people do not believe that he ever existed. Some believe that [the
worship of Krishna grew out of] the old sun worship. There seem to have been
several Krishnas; one was mentioned in the Upanishads, another was a king,
another general. All have lumped into one Krishna.”. CW, Vol.1: Krishna, p.438.
“Before Sankara Acharya mentions about Gita in 8th century A.D, the book
Bhagavat Gita was not known anywhere. Some people believe that
Sankaracharya was the real author of Bhagavat Gita and he simply inserted it in
the Bharatham epic.”
http://www.geocities.com/ejking2002/prajapathi.html
We know for sure that the scriptures that speak of Krishna came into
existence well after 600 AD. A local astrologer tells me that the
astronomical data for the date of birth of Krishna would place his birth in
600 AD. (Hence, I have seen vehement denunciation of the horoscopic
determination of Janmashatami on the basis that no body could have
known his birthday, because he was born in a prison.) It certainly could
not have been earlier than 150 AD. There are no historical records of
such a King anywhere and there is no evidence of such a person. Major
Vedas do not speak of these Gods at all. Archeologically the evidence is
that if Krishna ever lived it was later than 300 AD. The search for
similar planetary position before the Christian Era will have to go very
very long back. Because of the cyclic nature of the planetary motion, we
can certainly find several dates that will fit the given positions. One only
has to estimate the LCM of the orbital periods of the Navagraha. This
cycle is indeed around 3000 to 3500 years. Thus in the “Determination
of the Date of Mahabharatha War”, Srinivasa Raghavan calculate the
birth of Krishna as 27 th July, 3112 BC. Using the position of planets
mentioned in Mahabharata, dates have been calculated for the Great