Vedic religion, also called Vedism, the religion of the ancient Indo-European-speaking peoples who entered India about 1500 bce from the region of present-day Iran. The concept of Brahman is posited as that which existed before the creation of the universe, which constitutes all of existence thereafter, and into which the universe will dissolve into, followed by similar endless creation-maintenance-destruction cycles. The Samkhyas and Buddhists were encountered by a third philosophy called Purva Mimamsa which was long ago founded by Jaimini. [23] Many of the concepts of Indian philosophy espoused later like Dharma, Karma etc. The complex Vedic rituals of Śrauta continue to be practiced in Kerala and coastal Andhra. He had rejected the Brahamanaic and Vedanga based translations, which were Monotheistic in nature. Mantra-Yoga, Bhakti-Yoga, Karma-Yoga, Hatha-Yoga, Raja-Yoga and Ashtanga Yoga were the most famous of the various Yoga practices. 2002. His works have been praised by many scholars like Swami Vivekananda, Sri Aurobindo Ghose, Rabindranath Tagore, etc. There are a few historians, who have Marxist origins politically, who still claim Indo-Aryans to be foreigners. The Vedic religion of the later Vedic period was consolidated in the Kuru Kingdom, and co-existed with local religions, such as the Yaksha cults, and was itself the product of “a composite of the Indo-Aryan and Harappan cultures and civilizations”. The verse 10.129.7 further confirms this (trans. Vedic religion was followed by Upanishads which gradually evolved into Vedanta, which is regarded by some as the primary institution of Hinduism. The gods came afterwards, with the creation of this universe. Swami. (RV 10.15.14)[10][11], Though a large number of devas are named in the Rig Veda only 33 devas are counted, eleven each of earth, space and heaven. There existed no Idol-worship of that time in correspondence with Yajurveda 40.13 where worshiping Matter is prohibited. "...which states that, having become calm and concentrated, one perceives the self (, P. 164 The Doctrine of the Upaniṣads and the Early Buddhism By Hermann Oldenberg, Shridhar B. Shrotri, Robert E. Hume, Professor Emeritus of History of Religions at the. Many centuries later, after the invasions of Greeks, the Mauryan Empire was formed as a resistance by Chandragupta Maurya and his mentor Chanakya. FRACTAL TIME (ESSAY) Introduction In his book, first published in 2009, 'Fractal Time: The Secret of 2012 and a New World Age’, Gregg Braden gave wonderful clues into what we would expect to occur in our world and universe by the year 2012. Ashwa also meant horse, sun, etc. He revived the Vedic religion to its core. In the 20th century, a better understanding of the Vedic religion, its shared heritage and theology with contemporary Hinduism, has led scholars to view the historical Vedic religion as ancestral to “Hinduism”. There have been numerous hypotheses regarding the origin of the Historical Vedic religion. The Mitanni kings took Old Indic throne names, and Old Indic technical terms were used for horse-riding and chariot-driving. Shortly, Siddhartha Gautama Buddha of the Shakya clan founded a new religion of Shramanism under the term Buddhism. Today the Arya Samaj is the largest group of people who follow the Vedic religion. Texts dating to the Vedic period, composed in Vedic Sanskrit, are mainly the four Vedic Samhitas, but the Brahmanas, Aranyakas, and some of the older Upanishads are also placed in this period. Elements of the ancestors cult are still common in modern Hinduism, see Śrāddha. Though the Samkhyas had countered the Mimamsa proponents, Buddhism started taking a toll. Due to the nature of Vedic Sanskrit, the term Ṛta can be used to indicate numerous things, either directly or indirectly, and both Indian and European scholars have experienced difficulty in arriving at fitting interpretations for Ṛta in all of its various usages in the Vedas, though the underlying sense of “ordered action” remains universally evident.