Stark Contrasts in Vrindavan

Life in Vrindavan is a life of stark contrasts. We daily witness in the Krishna Balarama temple the unparalleled beauty of Sri Sri Krishna Balarama, Who are dressed daily in an unending variety of jewelry and outfits. And then when we walk out of the temple into the town we see the street hogs foraging through the garbage for some morsels of food to eat. Of all the animals we see in Vrindavan, the hog is the fattest because he thrives on eating the human stool which is readily available everywhere because of Vrindavan's open sewer system. Seeing Vrindavan's "sanitation engineers" executing their daily duties is a sobering reminder of the stringent law of karma. Those who have no discrimination in the matter of eating are given in their next life the body of hog so they can enjoy eating anything and everything with no sense of discrimination. Therefore one is advised to follow the instructions given in the Bhagavad-gita that our diet should consist entirely of vegetarian foodstuffs which have been offered to Lord Sri Krishna with love and devotion.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

Beautiful Krishna Balarama

Beautiful Krishna Balarama

Vrindavan Sanitation Engineer

Vrindavan Sanitation Engineer

Answers According to the Vedic Version:

Question: Origin of India's Vedic Culture

I met one person who was claiming that it is a historical fact that there are older cultures in India then Vedic culture. He said that Vedic culture came to India with nomads from the mountains and before that in India there was some traividya culture, with farmers, and we can still see some remnants of that in South India where even the languages are not based on Sanskrit and people look different. How am I suppose to understand this and explain to him that Vedic culture is the original one?

Hoping one day to be the servant of your servants,

Bhaktin Laura

Answer: Historically Rooted in India

The concocted idea that Aryan culture came from outside of India has been tossed around by the mundane scholars for a long time. Because the original Indologists were European Christian missionaries paid by their respective governments to establish the superiority of Christian European culture, they purposefully concocted the Aryan invasion myth to propagate the idea that the advanced Vedic culture originated in Europe. This is a blatant example of cultural chauvinism.

The Vedic histories confirm that the Vedic culture is eternal. It has no beginning point in the pages of history. Within this universe we see it going back to the very beginning of the universe when Lord Brahma was enlightened with Vedic wisdom while sitting atop a lotus flower.

In the recent history within the last 5,000 years there is conclusive evidence to prove that the Vedic culture was thriving in India. It was not introduced into India by an invasion from Europe. The battlefield of Kurukshetra, the place where Krishna spoke the Bhagavad-gita 5,000 years ago is still there in India near Delhi. There is even a train station named Kurukshetra. According to the Aryan invasion myth, the Vedic culture was not present in India 5,000 years ago. If that was so, how could Krishna present the Vedic wisdom to Arjuna in India?

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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