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Hinduism_ A Christian Heresy

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<strong>Hinduism</strong>: What Really Happened in India – M. M. Ninan 63<br />

Evidently, Vedas were transmitted orally and were later written down in<br />

the Vedic language. This is not the same language in which the later<br />

Upanishads and Vedanta are written. In total contrast, we have the<br />

Egyptian, Phoenician and Hebrew languages fully developed with<br />

written documentations in philosophy, art and science as early as the 16 th<br />

centaury BC.<br />

“The Vedic scholars believe that the essential purpose of the<br />

Vedas is to ensure the well being of the universe by spreading the<br />

sound of Vedic chants and ensuring the performance of Vedic rites. It<br />

is understood that the Vedas are vast and what is available to us as<br />

Vedas is only a small portion revealed to the sages.”<br />

==== The Vedas Shyam Narayan Shukla, Ph.D. (President, BSNA)<br />

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What evidently happened was that these were forgotten with time.

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