Accomplishments of Vedic People
The modern-day Arjuna has no knowledge of the ancient teachings of Vedic culture and civilization. These teachings maintained a society that was honest, vibrant, vigorous, successful and peaceful. Great and tremendous technological advances were acheived in the sciences, medicine and in every other field of human endeavour.
Great strides were made in technology and in all the arts as well. Yet the people themselves, learned from a young age to be at peace within themselves. They lived in harmony with each other. Society itself guided them to move away from pure materialism towards a path that led to the achievement of spiritual bliss.
Letter From Father to Son : Ancient Vedic Science
By: Dr. Sharad Wagle
Dear Nikhil and Neil:
I am most grateful that you took the time to read what I wrote. I am hoping I will get better at this as time goes on, and I become more practiced at writing. I am glad that you found it interesting.
The theory is that the calendar all over the world was the Vedic calendar and at one point in history Julius Caesar decided to have his own calendar. Thats when the current Western calendar and the Vedic calendar started to part company because each had a different number of days in each year. The concept of 'leap year' came much later when the Pope Gregory developed the Gregorian calendar. At that point to 'make up the difference ' they just arbitrarily eliminated two years!
Because they had not calculated on the difference. Whereas the ancient Vedic calendar had, so all of a sudden there was a gap which nobody could understand until they came upon the stone inscriptions from Pope Greg's time actually mentioning which months in the Vedic calendar were sacrificed.
Why is this important? Because the Vedic calendar has been plodding along for centuries and it gives all kinds of dates for various occurences, for example the date of Buddhas birth, the Mahabharat war, the Ramayan, and most importantly the drying up of the rivers in India which caused the Vedic people to leave India and settle in new lands to the West.
The ancient writings gave the positions of the stars and planets for each occurence so modern Computers and software are able to tell us the western dates of these occurences but it would be nice to correlate the two calendars and be able to say ' Krishna ended his life on earth on xyz B.C.' instead of just the Vedic calendar which most people today dont even know about. The discovery of the lost two years made it possible but the Pundit still had to work for tem years to do the correlation so its not as easy as that, it seems. I am no mathematician so its over my head but it feels as if its one more piece of the ancient puzzle that is falling into place.
With love,
Dad.