a small book on Hinduism by Jura Nanuk
The main goal of both Hinduism and Buddhism is basically the same – attaining higher state of existence in which one is free from endless cycle of births and rebirths. This state is called Moksha in Hinduism and Nirvana in Buddhism. SCIENTIFIC ASPECTS OF VEDA First Western studies of Vedas were carried out by scholars who came to India as part of administrative machinery of the British empire. They wished to control and convert the followers of Vedic Culture, therefore they widely propagated that the Vedas were simply mythology. Max Muller, perhaps the most well known early sanskritist and indologist, although later in life he recognized the value of Vedas, initially wrote that the “Vedas were worse than savage” and “India must be conquered again by education... it’s religion is doomed”.
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