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If the Vedas can guide the humanity towards a
Manava Dharma
and it did so for several millennia then how did it happen that
the mankind following the
dharma
deviated from the
dharmik
path about 6000 years ago.
In answer to this, we want to submit that even the best
constitution will fail if people do not follow it in letter and
spirit. The failure of the people does not mean failure of the
book. Human beings by nature tend to take life easy and begin
to degrade with the passage of time, especially when the going
is good. However, the strength of the Vedic path is that it guided
the humanity for many thousa, , ds of years, even millions of
years and that should be well recognized. Indeed, the last 6000
years has witnessed the downfall of India and consequent
mushrooming of so many religions. The failure of the religions
to give true spiritual knowledge to the mankind demonstrates
in no uncertain terms that we must follow the path of the Vedas.
The Dark Age: Despite India's downfall in the last 6000 years,
India was the torch bearer and lighthouse for the entire
humanity until a few hundred years ago. Everyone from east
and west wanted to come to India for its knowledge and wealth.
Some even came with the intentions to loot its rich wealth.
Being divided that it was in the recent past (by our standard of
the length of the human history of several million years, the
last two thousand years represent a very small time period
indeed!) the aggressors could gradually succeed in penetrating
into the country though some of our brave warriors made their
full efforts to arrest the attacks. This has been the predominant
history of the last few centuries. Finally, India did buckle under
the constant aggressions and a major part of it came under
Mughal rule a few hundred years ago. Even then it maintained
its prime position in both knowledge and wealth by then world
standards. But then the things went down in a quantum mode
after the recent industrial revolution in Europe when European
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