Peoples Telangana

Dr. Devaraju Maharaju We have received a great deal of information about Jainism and Buddhism. But why has information about the Charvakas and their literature not survived? The answer is that Vedic religious propagandists deliberately destroyed that literature, leaving no trace of it! So how did even this much information reach us? It reached us through the writings of Vedic scholars who fiercely condemned the Charvaka/Lokayata school. In other words, some facts have come down to us from the opponents of the Charvakas. Whatever points these opponents disagreed with — in the course of writing about those disagreements — some of the Charvakas' ideas became known to us. Viewed through a rationalist lens, it appears that the Charvakas were speaking the truth. For example, Dayananda Saraswati, in his Satyartha Prakash , while describing how the Charvakas rejected the Vedas, wrote: "If Vedic knowledge is absent, ignorance will spread." Shall we accept that? Similarly, the Ch...

 

Very few people say, "Recognize the danger, don't be deceived, open your eyes." That is why these inequalities still persist in society. Why do some people lean toward God, toward spirituality, toward blind faith? Why do others want to stand in opposition to that — wanting to increase rationality in society, take into account biological evolution and human achievements, and live by humane values? Don't all human beings have the same thinking brain? Why has this internal war been going on in the human intellect since time immemorial? Must this conflict continue forever? In search of answers to these questions, some recent research has been conducted. Several hundred men and women had their brains scanned and studied. The details were published by the organization PLOS ONE. Through this research, scientists learned that differences in brain structure are one reason people behave so differently, while another reason is the way the brain is made to function, or how it is...

From the beginning, there has always been a great distance between the scientist and the common person. A scientist publishes the results of his experiments, but these appear in national and international science journals that are not accessible to ordinary people. Even when they are accessible, the technical and scientific terms scientists use are not understood by them. As a result, the average person leans toward fantasy literature that offers temporary, colorful dreams, rather than toward "scientific literature" that speaks of nature's mysteries and human achievements. Those who believe in palmistry, horoscopes, and auspicious timings continue to believe in them, even risking their lives in the process. Superstitions and belief in the theory of karma have still not disappeared. The heads of government bear no small responsibility for this. Therefore, the need to write science for the common person remains as great as ever. For a nation to achieve progress in social, ...

  History is not about proving faith. It is about examining the available evidence. The Vishnu Purana is said to be an extremely ancient text. But historically, some questions require answers backed by clear evidence. If the Vishnu Purana is truly an extremely ancient text, why have manuscripts of it not been found so far in ancient scripts such as Brahmi, Kharosthi, or Gupta Brahmi? Why is there no mention of the Vishnu Purana in the writings of Faxian (Fa-Hien), who came to India in the 5th century CE? Why is there no mention of the Vishnu Purana in the writings of Xuanzang (Hiuen Tsang), who came to India in the 7th century CE? Why do inscriptions found from the 1st century CE to the 10th century CE not contain any clear reference to a text called the Vishnu Purana? Why is the oldest dated manuscript of the Vishnu Purana currently available dated to 1207 CE? Why do some currently available textual variants contain words such as Mlechchhas or Turushkas ? Where is the co...

  Dr. Devaraju Maharaju Speaks: Albert Einstein once said, “Three powerful forces rule the world — stupidity, fear, and greed.” If we replace “the world” with “our country,” everything becomes clear. Our non-biological leader’s hatred knows no bounds — evident in his August 15, 2024 speech from the Red Fort, where he claimed, “Our civil code so far has been a communal civil code.” That statement insults Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, who introduced major reforms in Hindu personal law in the 1950s despite fierce opposition from the RSS and Jana Sangh. He once said he would open Subhas Chandra Bose’s file — and when he did, the first line read: “The RSS is dangerous to the nation.” The file was closed, and so was his mouth. Sudhanshu Trivedi, BJP MP, even claimed “Mahatma Gandhi’s name appears in Epstein’s files.” But Gandhi died in 1948, and Jeffrey Epstein was born in 1953 — five years later! How could a man born after Gandhi’s death record his misdeeds? Absurd — yet typical of BJP intellect...