The Indian Institute of Scientific Heritage (IISH) on Bharat, Culture & Science
Posted by Sree Pillai on September 5th, 2007 under category General
Topics: Bharat, IISH, Inspirational, Spiritual
Many of us have a lot of questions on India, Sanathana Dharma, Karma, Superstitions, Idol Worship, etc… If you really want to understand India’s culture and heritage in a scientific way, listen to Dr. N Gopalakrishnan of Indian Institute of Scientific Heritage (IISH). Everyday at 6:30 am, Amrita T V airs Dr. Gopalakrishnan’s Paithrukasandesham programme, in Malayalam.
Indian Institute of Scientific Heritage (IISH), is a charitable organization founded by Dr. N Gopalakrishnan. The Institute serves as a research center for studies regarding the History of Arsha Bharatham, its Science & culture.
IISH publish a lot of books, audios and videos with the objective of learning and teaching the scientific and cultural heritage of India with a scientific vision. IISH also started publishing Heritage India News recently.
You can download speeches of Sri. Gopalakrishan from Download Center of IISH, file size varying from 50MB to 110MB. There is a lot of recordings worth listening for months, download them into your cell phone or iPod!
You can also buy online. These are also available as smaller files at Coolgoose.com.
Hope you apprciate the effort and listen to the MP3s. If you have questions questions and or doubts on Indian heritage, superstitions, etc.. you can email to doubt123 {at} india {dot} com
If you wish to conduct a seminar or study class in your organization or in your locality, IISH can be contacted at gopaln {at} india {dot} com
11 Responses to “The Indian Institute of Scientific Heritage (IISH) on Bharat, Culture & Science”
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Hallo Dr.gopalakrishnan sir
last week i heared a speech of hindu ikya vedi which held at chalakkudy .in that speech they saying that we must separate the devaswom board from the administration of temples and has to rule its on power.and all church and mosque were runinng under their own people.is it any way is there to separete temples from under the kerela goverment.and income from all temples from kerala going to goverment but income from church and mosque were going to their people .single rupee is not coing to kerala goverment.from guruvayoor and sabarimala govt getting more than 200 crores of rupees i a year.why it is happening only for temples.is any way is there to stop this.pls advice me and hindu people of india.also hoping advice from readers.
thanks & regards
unni
Yes Sujith, Reservation is required for atleast sometime, to uplift them economically. That is the only reason . Otherwise they will remain servants forever and the caste system will build more firmer ground than it has already for 5000 years. Only teaching them about Hindu Dharma is no use.
The economically lower people are scheduled under the constitution so that they benefit economically. Here in Australia the ‘aboriginals’ also have reserved seats as they are economically backward therefore the government is helping them to build themseleves. Aboriginal children are granted finance to study in universities and there is a percentage of reservation in the Government jobs.
Hindu Dharma is very racist in its nature and other dharmas like christian missionaries have taken advantage of this.
Absolutly right… agree 100% with what you say Raju…
We all need to work against this.. This Community problem becoming a great issue among Hindus. Very pathetic situation i see now days are there are many socities or groups coming out from these communties like Nair Service Socity(NSS), SNDP like that.. In Hindu Dharma there is no such word used like Nair, Dalith, Ezhava etc. in ancient vedas/upanishath or in Geetha or anything.. The only classification mentioned in Hindu Dharma is based on the duty of each hindu is doing. That is Brahmins(those who take learning/teaching as their duty, by that way they are protecting vedas), Kshathriyas(those who protect rashtra), Vaishyas, shoodras etc.. This is very flexible classification. if a kshathirya take his duty as learning and teaching he will be treated as brahmins and vice versa… so here one need not be arrogant by belongs to a brahmin or kshathriya or any other groups.
My understanding is this classification like Nairs, Ezhava, Theeyar like that.. (i dont know how much…) came by the invasion of foreigners.. may be offcourse by Portuguese/Dutch/French/British.
Nowdays we can see that there are many types of reservation for the backward hindus (i dont know why they named like this). Is that needed..??? They are seperated to their own colonies. If this go like this it will become a great issue and the number of peoples who follow or know about Sanathanam will reduce..
We need to bring them forward.. treat them as Hindu.. teach them.. make them aware about Hindu Dharma… take this as our Karma.. and enlighten our life by doing such a great karma.. we will experience the Karma phalam..
Namaskar
Sujith
Absolutly right… agree 100% with what you say Raju…
We all need to work against this.. This Community problem becoming a great issue among Hindus. Very pathetic situation i see now days are there are many socities or groups coming out from these communties like Nair Service Socity(NSS), SNDP like that.. In Hindu Dharma there is no such word used like Nair, Dalith, Ezhava etc. in ancient vedas/upanishath or in Geetha or anything.. The only classification mentioned in Hindu Dharma is based on the duty of each hindu is doing. That is Brahmins(those who take learning/teaching as their duty, by that way they are protecting vedas), Kshathriyas(those who protect rashtra), Vaishyas, shoodras etc.. This is very flexible classification. if a kshathirya take his duty as learning and teaching he will be treated as brahmins and vice versa… so here one need not be arrogant by belongs to a brahmin or kshathriya or any other groups.
My understanding is this classification like Nairs, Ezhava, Theeyar like that.. (i dont know how much…) came by the invasion of foreigners.. may be offcourse by Portuguese/Dutch/French/British.
Nowdays we can see that there are many types of reservation for the backward hindus (i dont know why they named like this). Is that needed..??? They are seperated to their own colonies. If this go like this it will become a great issue and the number of peoples who follow or know about Sanathanam will reduce..
We need to bring them forward.. treat them as Hindu.. teach them.. make them aware about Hindu Dharma… take this as our Karma.. and enlighten ur life by doing such a great karma.. we will experience the Karma phalam..
Namaskar
Sujith
Dear Dr. Gopalakrishnan,
Yes I agree with the facts stated in the above e-mail. As far Kerala is concerned both Nair and Ezhava communities are divided in the name of reservation rules. Nair is considered as forward and Ezhava as backword. Is in sanatana dharma everybody is equal? Then why this division prevailing? The alien rulers or the rulers of that time made this forward / backward cast. Both these communities are followers/believers of Hindu Dharma, but when money matters they are not in union. So here we have to find out solution to unite these two communities to preseve our Dharma. Not only these two communities but all the other foward and backward communities as well should unite to save our sanatana Dharma. Otherwise believers in sanatana Dharma will reduce and it will be swallowed by the other cultures. So financial and cutural aid is required to save Hindu Dharma.
Regards,
Raju
Hello Dr Gopalakrishnan,
Further to my e-mail above please also note that in the yester years we lost a lot of Hindus in Kerala because of oprression by the higher castes and therefore Kerala has a 80% Christian population.
To save Hinduism, we need to help our own Hindu brethren and enlighten the youth of the higher castes regarding this long pending issue. I am doing as much as i can in my own capacity though i know it is so hard to abolish the caste system. I only wish people of your high calibre can address this issue in your speeches. That is all that i want to say.
Regards
Padmaja
I donot have the e-mail address of Dr N Gopalakrishnan.
Please forward this e-mail to Dr N Gopalakrishnan.
Hello Dr Gopalkrishnan,
I had the honour of hearing your speech in Sydney. A very powerful speech and very thought provoking speech.Your speech was on promoting Hinduism thru reading the vedas and spreading the knowledge of Hinduism by distribution of documents and CD’s .You then touched the issue of how we are losing 29,500 hindus every minute or everyday.
Before i proceed ,please note that i belong to a high caste Maharashtrian Kshatriya family and am married to a Bengali Brahmin. I have a Masters in Social work and have worked as a social worker helping Hindus of the lowest caste. I have seen poverty at its closest .
Hinduism is correctly, as quoted by you, a very flexible religion (unquote).
Yes but, a very racist religion as well and the world knows about it. So the first thing we need to do is promote Hinduism as a FAIR religion . We also need to alleviate our own Hindu brethren economically and socially and we need to pass this message to our youth.
We also need to educate our Hindu youth of the origins of the caste system…a system promoted by the invaders who later became the rulers and the higher castes.
I did approach you after one of your speeches at the Strathfield Library on 5/9/2009, but was very unhappy with the rude reply that i received from you for a topic on which we could have had a conversation on a totally different level.
Regards
Padmaja Sahani Sarkar
Inorder to keepup Sanatana Values/Hindu Dharma, may I putfoward the following suggestions. once in a while, like Swami Ramdev is doing, gathering of all prominent Saints, Sadhus and Hindu religious personalities from all the parts of India to be organized so that our dharma should reach and reinforce all the Hindu masses. Can IISH undertake this endevour. I think it is better IISH to start a new TV channel in Malayalam to propogate Sanatana Dharma because this void is still not filled despite the advent of Amrita Tv which is becoming full time entertainement channel now, giving less importance to Hindu Dharma. Absence of visual media to save Dharma is one of our main weaknesses.
Pleas tell me, What is ” Satrusamhara Pooja”? I think it must be to end the satrubhavam in our own towards others. But one of my colleague says it is to eliminate the sathrubhavam of others towadrs us.
Too much simplification of the indecribable makes at least some people atheists and despondent. It is like taking away a habit, to be replaced, the
Oversimplification of a truth,like the Geetha or Bhagavatham , makes people think for themselves-oo hh is that all,and I knew it all the time, So what is NEW
hai sir,
please tell about the lord of sivan history.somebody gave wrong information