Does Genesis refer to the Tatwams of the Vedas?

Wishing all of you and your dear ones the very best for 2017 and beyond…

As we are about begin the new year (calendar year that most part of the world celebrate) I was looking at wondering how everything began and then thought of creation itself, the very beginning, and the very essence. And thought it fit to share some of my findings from my research on the Vedas. I will make it a point to share with my readers at every stage of my research and progress. I would like to begin this year with the ‘Genesis’ itself (the very beginning, the apex).

This is an important subject by itself and we cannot afford to deal with it fully here. I would like to point out some salient points to our beloved readers, so as to enable them to grasp the exact mistakes which led to the miserable misinterpretation of a highly scientific matter.

If only we read a little carefully the first 10 paras of Chapter I, Genesis, we could easily discover the following facts as plainly stated therein. “God created heaven and earth. But the earth was then void and without form. It was all waters. The spirit of God then moved upon the face of the waters. God then created day and night. He then created the firmament in the midst of the waters. He thus divided the waters from the waters, by placing the waters above and below the firmament. The firmament then became heaven, and the waters below it became land and sea.”

Now, we find nothing said about the waters above the heaven. Probably God forgot all about them or has reserved them for future creation or for a future deluge in a fit of anger. Such is exactly the description furnished in the Genesis. No hairsplitting could alter the text now. The reputed Western critics of the Eastern books have probably said nothing about this curious creation of the universe as explained in their holy Bible.

Even the blind could perceive here that all the confusion is traceable to the utter ignorance of the technical significance of a single word namely waters. What doubt is there now about the fact that the above description was borrowed from somewhere without understanding the gist of it? The holy Bible cannot afford to deny that its contents are intended for religious instruction. Otherwise, it could not be styled holy. If it contains only history and geography as interpreted at present, it must necessarily lose its vale as a holy text. That is a serious matter for the Christian to consider in their own interest. As literally interpreted by the Christian authorities at present, has the above description any scientific, religious or practical value?

There is not the slightest doubt now that the Jews to whom the Old Testament belongs borrowed the Genesis or Purana both meaning the account of creation, from the Hindu literature through the help of our own Pseudo Pandit centuries ago, in spite of the so called Puranic period. The technical word that created all this ludicrous confusion is no other than ‘Apa’ which is even now foolishly misinterpreted by the quasi-educated Pundits as waters in India itself. APA refers only to the 24 sacred Tatwams (deep philosophical analysis of the Paramatma (Supreme Being)). The Purana describes only the creation of the 24 Tatwams which form the divine bases of the total cosmology of man. It does not treat of human history or earthly geography as foolishly misunderstood at present. The general name of the 24 Tatwams is ‘Apa’ or that by which the Ultimate Entity is discovered. AaPyte Aneneit Aap>, 

APA is always plural in Sanskrit and its translation into the same plural number as waters is sufficiently significant for our present purpose. This much is enough to understand the technical mistakes which misled the Jews in utilizing the incorrect information gathered from our own wiseacres. Besides this unhappy mistake, there is a more pitiable one which demands our immediate notice in this connection.

Even the philosophers of the West will surely admit that each man has his own specific cosmological conception. No two men have the same.  It is a purely philosophical matter which no civilized nation dare question. It is thus illogical and unscientific even to talk of a general creation of this material universe at any particular period. The conception of the Jagat is always mainly personal. Each man conceives differently, and separate descriptions of the creation of each man’s cosmology will have to be furnished. This is physically impossible. That is no function of the religious Puranas either. They are intended for more serious and useful religious (read Dharmic) purposes.

The vague and unscientific conception of a personal God creating a gross material universe as mentioned in the Old Testament, is entirely strange to Hindu philosophy. The God of the foreign religions is not even equal to the Iswara who directs the Buddhi of man according to the merits of his Karmas. This Iswara is only hypothesized to explain this Karmic Law to the inferior intellects. Iswara is treated only as the reflection of Brahman in Satwic Maya. Thus there are several distinct matters scientifically explained in our religious philosophy namely, the Brahman, the Satwic Maya, the Iswara, the Jiva, the Buddhi, the Avidya and the Jagat. Let me reproduce a Sanskrit shloka from the Upanishads.

ka buiÏ> kae=yma-as> kae va ýÇ jgtœ kwmœ, #Tyin[Rytae maeh> sae=y< s<sar #:yte.

 “What is Buddhi, who is the reflection of Atma, what is Atma and what is Jagat? Unless these are clearly understood one could not hope to get out of his ignorance.”

Our religious ( read Dharmic) literature which is thousands of years old, thus contains the highest philosophical truths which are not yet understood by the alien nations, but still the Christian Sanskritists, the Western Indologists and the historians of the West ( viz: Monier Williams, Max Muller, Dr Annie Besant, Windy Doniger, Sheldon Pollock to name a few and of course our own many Indian authors and writers who have interpreted the Vedic Philosophy literally) have the audacity to condemn our sacred literature as the product of barbarism and old world simplicity. 

The Ancestors of the westerners thought that their God has created everything imperfect in the beginning and that they were rendering them perfect. The present generation follow the footsteps of their Ancestors.  The contents of their holy book could not lead them to better or more sensible conclusions. If they sincerely wish to improve themselves, they must willingly borrow and correctly copy. Instead of doing so sensibly, why foolishly take to abuse?

To be continued...................

HariOm