How'd the world come into being? Who can prove there was a BIG BANG? And, if there was such, what does that tell us about life today and tomorrow?
The general conception, even among professional philosophers, is that Greece is the cradle of philosophy. Therefore, almost all the available histories of philosophy, and philosophers themselves, agree that the so-called Pre-Socratics were the first or earliest philosophers, at least, in the Western world. This is however a very mendacious contribution of history and has to be rectified in the interest of posterity. These corrigenda thus serve as my own contribution to the benefits of posterity.
Tilak authored the well-regarded “The Orion”, or, Researches into the antiquities of the Vedas (1893) in which he used astronomy to establish that the Vedic people were present in India at least as early as the 4th millennium BC. Later, in 1903, he wrote the much more speculative Arctic Home in the Vedas. In it he argued that the Vedas could only have been composed in the Arctics, and the Aryan bards brought them south after the onset of the last Ice age.
"O Teacher, what shall I do to reach to wisdom? wise one, what, to gain perfection? Search for the paths. But, 0 Lanoo, be of clean heart before thou startest on thy Journey. Before thou takest thy first step, learn to discern the real from the false, the ever-fleeting from the ever-lasting. Learn above all to separate head-learning from Soul-wisdom, the 'eye' from the 'heart' doctrine.”Page 1 of 11



