Thursday 4 December 2014

Mixing the True with the Untrue


In the front page of ' Indian Express ' today ( 4.12.2014 ) is a news item that a former Chief Minister of Uttarakhand and present M.P.said that in ancient India a nuclear test had been conducted, and that in ancient India head transplants could be done. He also qouted the Prime Minister who had earlier claimed that in ancient India we had genetic engineering and head transplants.

  I have explained in my article ' A Visit to Akshardham ( which can be seen on facebook and on my blog justicekatju.blogspot.in ) that while we had undoubtedly made great achievements in science in the past, by mixing up what was true with what was untrue we dilute the former.

  It is true that we were ahead of the whole world in science in ancient India.

 Our mathematicians had invented the decimal system, which was one of the greatest and most revolutionary scientific achievements in the world, without which scientific progress in the world would have been considerably retarded ( see my article ' The Decimal System in Mathematics ' on my blog and on my facebook page ). Aryabhatta, Brahmagupta, Bhaskar, etc made great contributions to the progress of mathematics and astronomy

 It is true that Sushruta had invented plastic surgery in ancient India, and had made a great contribution to the development of surgery, as did Charak in medicine.

  It is true that Panini and Patanjali made grammar truly scientific

 It is true that in the Harappa-Mohenjodaro ( Indus Valley ) Civilization we had developed the concept of town planning ( which exists only on paper in most of our cities today ), an excellent drainage and sewage system ( which has largely collapsed in many cities in India today ), and had created a surprisingly modern port ( at Lothal ).

 However, it is not true that we had aeroplanes, atom bombs, guided missiles, and genetic engineering in ancient India. And we certainly did not have head transplants.

  In plastic surgery, no plastic is used. In plastic surgery a piece of one's own body is removed and placed in another part of one's body. For instance,in a heart bypass surgery ( which may become necessary because a heart artery has become blocked ), a part of a vein in one's leg is removed and placed in one's own heart. We cannot put a piece of someone else's body in our body because our immune system will reject it. All this was discovered by Sushruta in ancient India, whereas Westerners learnt it only a century or so ago.

 However, this does not mean that we can do a head transplant. This is because firstly a lot of our blood while circulating goes to the head ( may be one third of the total ), and therefore a head surgery causes a lot of blood loss, which one's body may not be able to sustain.

  Secondly, it must be realized that one is really one's brain. All one's thinking, reasoning, memories, commands to the various parts of the body, recording of sensations, etc  are functions of the brain.

  If one loses one's leg or hand, an artificial limb can replace it. Also, there can be a heart, kidney or liver transplant. But if one's head is transplanted ( assuming that can be done ), and another person's head is put in its place, it will be that other person living in one's body.

By making such exaggerated and untrue claims we mix up the true with the untrue, and thus make even the former, of which we can be justly proud, questionable in the eyes of foreigners.

10 comments:

  1. sir have u visited the temples of Ellora(Kailasa natha temple), they are made by cutting rocks from top to bottom,even with modern drilling technology it will take ages to make,how was it possible.

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  2. ONE OF MY READERS MUST PUT THIS COMMENT IN MODIs, SWAMYs, RAJNATH SINGHs, PARIKKARs, JAITLEYs WEBSITE -

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWzWsql94_Q

    THE CRIMINAL GYPSY ROHTAK SISTERS MUST BE HANDED OVER TO THE KHAPS-- WE INDIANS DEMAND THIS .

    IF THE GIRLS ARE GIVEN BRAVERY AWARDS AT REPUBLIC DAY PARADE , THE WHOLE OF INDIA WILL BOOOOOOOOOO ---

    -- AND PM MODI BETTER BE READY TO EXPLAIN WHY FAKE AWARDS ARE BEING GIVEN AT A NATIONAL FUNCTION .

    RAJNATH SINGH AND PARRIKKAR MUST INSTRUCT THEIR TOP CHIEFS - NOT TO ALLOW ANY OFFICERS TO SUBJECT THEMSELVES TO A BENAMI MEDIA INTERROGATION IN A WITNESS BOX .

    WE INDIANS HAVE NOW LOST TRUST IN OUR ARMY --

    THE ARMY OFFICER WHO TOOK ORDERS FROM THE BENAMI MEDIA OR ACTED ON BEHALF OF SCANTY INFORMATION MUST BE SACKED --

    WE INDIANS HAVE LOST TRUST IN OUR DEMOCRATIC SYSTEM .

    WE INDIANS DEMAND INSTANT ACTION -- NOW !!

    KHAPS DELIVER FREE/ INSTANT/ FAIR JUSTICE-- CONSONANT WITH LOCAL CULTURE -- AND THESE RESPECTED VILLAGE ELDERS HAVE A EAR TO THE GROUND .

    R HAD HIJACKED THE ENTIRE JUDICIAL SYSTEM BEFORE 1947, I AM SURE OUR INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES KNOW WHICH ALL JUDGES ARE STILL UNDER THE R PAYROLL .

    KARUNANIDHI HAD HIS OWN PET JUDGE - KATJU HAD THE BALLS TO EXPOSE HIM .

    capt ajit vadakayil
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    1. Ashwin vadakayil ka asli baap kaun? Is it the dhobi or the milkman? Even Mrs Vadakayil isn't sure. This is what happens when husband Ajit is impotent.

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  3. Dear Sir,
    You are just repeating what we were taught in our school books. Nothing new. But Indians have contributed much more than what you have written, Sir.

    Again Sir, "questionable in the eyes of foreigners.", why should we always get approval from foreigners ? Isn't this very colonial mindset that Indians need to get rid of to become a great nation ?
    Ignore the Politicians, but can we start thinking and do scientific studies of our own without depending on what the west will think?
    Did ancient Indian seers always get approval of the foreigners before they penned their thoughts ?
    The Western scientists have got no clue about consiousness. But we are centuries ahead of them regarding consiousness studies. via Meditaqtion/Yoga.
    So why should we get permission from the west who are inferior in terms of consiuosness studies ?

    Thanks,
    Krishna.

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    1. Hi Krishna,
      I think that in global times of today, we do need to consider what foreigners think. Not because they are super awesome or anything, but global trade actually is affected by their views about us. Not directly obviously but through policies which work based upon such views.

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  4. Dear Sir, You forgot to mention the rest of the contributions from Ancient Indians.

    ANCIENT INDIAN MYSTIC GEOMETRY HOLDS THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING . Google search - SRI YANTRA ,108 AND THEORY OF EVERYTHING VADAKAYIL
    HERE IS ANCIENT INDIA KICKING NASA ON THEIR COLLECTIVE BAL#S. Google search - DNA , NASA, ARSENIC AND PHOSPHORUS VADAKAYIL
    FIBONACCI SERIES AND GOLDEN MEAN IS STOLEN FROM SRI YANTRA AND ANCIENT INDIA. Punch into Google search - PERFECT SIX PACK VADAKAYIL
    CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE DOUBLE SLIT EXPERIMENT IS DESCRIBED IN OUR VEDAS. google search - QUANTUM DOUBLE SLIT EXPERIMENT VIDEO VADAKAYIL
    MAHARISHIS FROM KERALA BUILT THE EGYPTIAN PYRAMIDS. Google search -SRI YANTRA AND THE EGYPTIAN PYRAMIDS VADAKAYIL
    QUANTUM PHYSICS IS LIFTED FROM VEDANTA. Google search - SCHRODINGER, THE FATHER OF QUANTUM PHYSICS AND VEDANTA VADAKAYIL
    JOHN DALTON STOLE HIS ATOMIC THEORY FROM ANCIENT INDIA .
    punch into google search - DALTON'S ATOMIC THEORY , SAGE KASHYAPA AND TESLA VADAKAYIL
    THE WHITE CHRISTAIN MAN RIDICULES HINDUS FOR BELEIEVING IN RE-INCARNATION CONCEPT. BUT HEY, THE IDI0TS WILL PERSIST WITH PAST LIFE REGRESSION. Google search- TIME REVERSAL OF BODY CELLS BY SCALAR WAVES VADAKAYIL
    IF PEOPLE RIDICULE SHIVA LINGAM AS A PEN#S OR A PHA#LUS - SO BE IT .
    THIS BLACK METERORTIE STONE GAVE DNA SEED TO THIS PLANET AS PER NASA . Google search - NASA DNA BUILDING BLOCKS IN METEORITE VADAKAYIL
    THE N*ZI SYMBOL SWASIKA IS HINDU- WITH DEEP MEANING. Google search -
    POLARIS AND THE GREAT BEAR VADAKAYIL
    TOTAL INTERNAL REFLECTION SCIENCE ( FOR MODERN FIBRE OPTICS ) WAS LIFTED FROM ANCIENT INDIA. Google search - TOTAL INTERNAL REFLECTION VADAKAYIL
    INDIANS FLEW AN MERCURY PLASMA AIRPLANE MUCH BEFORE THE WRIGHT BROTHERS. Google search - SHIVKUR BAPUJI TALPADE, NOBEL PRIZE AND RACISM VADAKAYIL
    THE STONE HENGE OF ENGLAND AND ARKAIM RUSSIA ( MUCH BIGGER ONE ) WAS MADE BY ANCIENT INDIANS ,THE DRYUHUS. Google search -STONEHENGE OF ARKAIM RUSSIA VADAKAYIL
    THE GERMAN QUANTUM PHYSICISTS WHO WANTED TO BE CREMATED DECLARED -
    SCIENCE MUST BREACH THE LAST FRONTIER- VEDANTA TO BE COMPLETE .
    punch into Google search - SCIENCE MEETS VEDANTA , THE LAST FRONTIER VADAKAYIL
    THE WHITE MAN STOLE REVERSE OSMOSIS SCIENCE FROM ANCIENT INDIA .
    Google search - AYURVEDA, REVERSE OSMOSIS BATHS IN 4000 BC VADAKAYIL
    THE WHITE INVADER CRIED - CHEE CHEE, THE ANCIENT INDIANS THOUGHT THAT THE WORLD WAS FLAT . THIS IS AFTER STEALING EVERY KNOWLEDGE OF THEIRS FROM OUR VEDAS . Google search - HELIOCENTRICITY VERSUS GEOCENTRICITY VADAKAYIL
    THE WHITE MAN LIFTED THEIR ALPHA , BETA, THETA, DELTA , GAMMA BRAIN WAVES FROM OUR ANCIENT SCRIPTURES. YET THEY CALLED MEDITATION SUPERSTITION. Google-BEYOND THETA STATE TO TURIYA VADAKAYIL
    THE WHITE INVADER SAID CHEE CHEEE - SUPSTITIOUS INDIANS WORSHIP SNAKES . IT WAS NOT ABOUT SNAKES- BUT SNAKE GROVES WHICH HELD FANTASTIC AYURVEDIC HERBS . TODAY ALL HERBS ARE LOST BECAUSE THE WHITE INVADER DESTROYED 6000 YEAR OLD SNAKE GROVES CREATED BY LORD PARASHURAMA. Google search - KING COBRA AND SNAKE TEMPLES OF KERALA VADAKAYIL
    The TRIDENT of Lord Shiva symbolizes the dance of the opposites , rather the cosmic dance of Lord Shiva. The symbol is Lord Shiva’s trishul, where the centre prong SATTVA is the midpoint of duality, between TAMAS and RAJAS . The Chinese have lifted it ( after thousand of years ) and converted it to the modern Yin Yang
    Punch into Google search: YIN YANG , TAMAS RAJAS , DYNAMIC BALANCE VADAKAYIL
    KOREANS WANT TO ADOPT AYODHYA. YET OUR WAITRESS SAYS THAT RAM DID NOT EXIST .
    Google search - THE KOREAN BRAHMINS, KIM HEO CLAN VADAKAYIL

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  5. and Some more
    The Vishnu Nabhi has to do with the precession of the earth of 24000 years . The Vishnu avatar Varaha ( boar ) adjusted this to 25765 years and adjusted the tilt of the axis of the planet to 23.4 degrees. Google search- VISHNU AVATAR VARAHA BOAR , TILTING THE EARTH AT AN AXIS OF 23.4 DEGREES VADAKAYIL
    and VEDIC COSMOLOGY OF INDIA VADAKAYIL
    THE MAYAN CALENDAR WAS INDIAN .
    THE MAYAN GOD MAYA DANAVA WAS INDIAN .
    THE WHITE MANs GOD WAS BRIHASPATI ( ZUES/ THOR ) , THE ARABAIN / MIDDLE EAST GOD WAS SHUKRACHARYA. before 7000 BC, India ruled the americas. Google search - MAYA , INCA , AZTEC CIVILIZATIONS DECODED VADAKAYIL
    WHITE WOMEN GET BREAST CANCER . THEY CAN PREVENT IT BY UNDERSTAND THE 6000 YEAR OLD AYURVEDA METHOD. Google search - YOGA AND AYURVEDIC MASSAGE FOR DRAINING LYMPH NODES VADAKAYIL
    HE STUPID WHITE MAN SAID , CHEE CHEE GANAPATI. BUT QUIETLY HE IS DOING GANAPATIs SUPER BRAIN EXERCISE. Google search - DVAU BHUJA KARANAM, THOPPU KARANAM VADAKAYIL
    THE WHITE INVADER SAID -- SUPERSTITIOUS HINDUS DRINK COWs UR#NE .
    WELL, THE UR#NE IS OF HUMPED COW , NOT HUMPLESS WHOSE UR#NE IS TOXIC .GOMUTRA CAN PREVENT ALMOST ANY DISEASE INCLUDING GENETIC DISEASES .
    Google search - GOMUTRA , DRINKING COW’S UR#NE AS AN ELIXIR VADAKAYIL
    THE STUPID WHITE INVADER THOUGHT THAT A CONCH IN THE TEMPLE WAS A SUPERSTITION. Google search - SECRETS OF SHANKH OR CONCH, THE PRODUCT OF SAMUDRA MANTHAN VADAKAYIL
    THE STUPID WHITE INVADER THOUGHT THAT HINDUS DRAWING DESIGNS ON THEIR DOOR STEPS WAS SUPERSTITION. TODAY THEY HAVE HEARD OF CYMATICS . Google search - KOLAM DESIGNS , INAUDIBLE MANTRAS VIDE VISUAL CYMATICS VADAKAYIL.
    HOW MANY OF YOU HEARD OF VARAHA MIHIRA OR MIHIRA MUNI WHO WROTE ABOUT PRECESSION OF PLANET EARTH 6660 YEARS AGO ? Google search -
    MIHIRA MUNI , THE GREAT ASTROLOGER ASTRONOMER VADAKAYIL
    EVER HEARD OF THE DYING Y CHROMOSOME ? EVER HEARD OF THE BOOM IN RETARDED CHILDREN . EVER HEARD OF GRATITUDE ( SORRY NOT BY KILLING 47 MILLION TURKEYS ON THANKSGIVING OR 105 MILLION CATTLE ON BAKRI ID ) ? Google search - PITRU PAKSHA , SHRAADH, PITRU THARPANAM

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  6. Ashwin Vadakayil ka asli baap kaun?

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