by DAVID FRAWLEY (VAMADEVA SHASTRI)
VOICE OF INDIA, New Delhi, First published, 2000, First Reprint, 2000, Second Reprint, 2007
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CONTENTS:
Foreword by Subhash Kak 1
Preface 6
- Introduction: Encountering Hindu Dharma 9
The Hindu Tradition
Discovering Hinduism through the Vedas
Overcoming Anti-Hindu Stereotypes
The Question of Becoming a Hindu - Early Years: Growing Up Out of Catholicism 20
Science and History/Leaving the Church
Intellectual Awakening and the Counterculture
Mystical Poetry and Discovery of Eastern Spirituality
The Anti-War Movement - Spiritual Paths and Discovery of the Vedas 38
Discovery of the Inner Paths
First Yoga Practices
Buddhism and Vedanta: Becoming a Vedantin
Ramana Maharshi, the Ultimate Sage
Sufism
Discovery of the Vedas/Sri Aurobindo
Anandamayi Ma
Writing on the Vedas
M.P. Pandit
J. Krishnamurti and the Question of Tradition
Into the Vedic Work — Ayurveda and Vedic Astrology - India and Hinduism, the Spiritual Traditions 56
Sri Aurobindo and Pondicherry
The Ramanashram: Encounter with Lord Skanda
The Goddess
Sadhu on the Hill
Ganapati Muni and Sri Natesan
The Goddesses and Bhakti Yoga
Brahmarshi Daivarata
The Himalayas
Shankaracharyas
Alandi – Swami Ram Das - Discovery of Social and Political Hinduism 69
Encounter with Dr. B.L. Vashta
Anti-Hindu Media
RSS and the Propaganda Against It
Dealing with Caste
Royal Asiatic Society
Reimportation
Not so Good Hindus
Becoming Vamadeva Shastri
Vedantic, Vedic, Hindu - Journalistic Work 90
Voice of India: Ram Swamp and Sita Ram Goel
Writing for Voice of India
Ashok Chowgule — Hindu Vivek Kendra
Hinduism Today
Prajna Bharati
Bharatiya Janata Party
An Intellectual Kshatriya
Karma Yoga/Hindu Activism
Becoming a Pandit - Ancient India: Myth of the Aryan Invasion 104
The Myth of the Aryan Invasion
Subhash Kak
N.S. Rajaram
The Birla Science Conference
World Association for Vedic Scholars (WAVES)
Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU)
Gaining the Ire of Academia
The Vedic Yoga
The Vedic Samaj - Hindu Groups in the West 115
Hindu Students Council
Global Vision 2000
The Swami Narayan Order
Tour of UK
Trinidad - Additional Studies of Christianity and Islam 121
Islam and the Sufis
Anwar Shaikh
Visit to Israel
Vedic Pluralism and Biblical Monotheism
Religion and Superstition - Return of the Pagans 137
Hinduism and Native Traditions
Christian Oppression of Pagans
Becoming a Pagan - Debate with the Archbishop of Hyderabad 144
Speech at Prajna Bharati - The Debate Goes On 157
Rediff Interview
A Hindu Response to the Pope’s Call for Evangelization - Systems of Vedic Knowledge 169
Ayurveda
Vedic Astrology
Dr. B.V. Raman
Vedic Physics
Sanskrit, the Language of the Gods
Yajnas, Pujas and Temples
Vedic Ecology
Yoga - Towards a New Western Hinduism 178
Western Yoga Teachers and Yoga Groups
The New Age Movement
American Hinduism - Conclusion 183
The Importance of Culture
The Future of the Planet
Appendix: The Meaning of the Term Hindu 188
Index 190
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