Welcome to Eternal Path Musings, a weekly newsletter for the modern and curious Hindu, featuring highlights around: religious texts, practice, history, politics, people, and ways to better our engagement and personal progress.
We’ll be experimenting a bit with the style and format over the coming weeks. This week we highlight: short reads, Greek-Hindu exchanges, a Balinese temple tour, and an aesthetic.
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Reading Highlights: Short Reads
Hamsanandi in the the piece “What’s Wrong With Our History Education?” masterfully uses textual analysis of the Rigveda to show how India’s previous historians misrepresented the prominence of the word “dasyu” in the Rigveda to argue that the so-called “Aryans” brutally suppressed existing populations.
We’ve covered in earlier issues the topic of Hinduism’s ancient history in Afghanistan, Tajikistan, and other parts of West and Central Asia. Subhash Kak has a great article about Hinduism in Xinjiang province of China, most well known in Western media as the home of the Uyghurs, a minority ethnoreligious group in China.
Ramesh Rao in this piece outlines clearly the New York Times’ dishonest coverage of Hindus in this piece.
History Highlight: Hindu-Greek Interactions
We’ve covered the interactions between Hindus and Greeks, including Indo-Greek Kingdoms in a few previous issues: Week 2 (Heliodorus), Week 20 (Indo-Greek Kingdoms), and Week 42 (Indo-Greek Kingdoms in Yemen) . Here is an interesting thread from Sukarma outlining one Greek philosophers conversation with a Brahmin of Takshashila.
Video Highlight: Pura Batur - Balinese Hindu Temple Tour
Aesthetic: Pashupatinath Temple, Nepal
