Ancient Hindu Science Claims

I always fear orientalism when reading articles like this. There is a mix of the word philosophy in these articles as if they are discovery. In the west science relies on discovery, observations, evaluation then conclusion to create new invention. Indian texts like those that outline the yoga moves aren't inventions in the same way and neither is ayurveda. The Hindu sages did not do scientific experiments to realise these great benefits to human society. They knew them from disciplic succes

People outside the westernized population don't know what "Vedism" and "Brahmanism" and all these other "deconstructed" monstrosities are, so the question itself is a bit loaded. In anycase, to answer your real question - no, its not a point of contention that Yoga (and Vipassana etc.) are the accumulation of the work of many gurus from radically different traditions of India.Since you're hopelessly caught within the webs of orientalist spiders, suffice

Indian nationalism can get especially weird where it intersects with Hindu fundamentalism. A common pattern I've seen is claims that a modern invention or scientific discovery (like the speed of light, or the light bulb, or a space probe) was actually "inspired by", or "predicted by", or even "stolen from" the Vedas.(This isn't to detract from the technological discoveries which really did originate in India, of course! A few commonly cited true

Hindus and Buddhists ? Evidence ?

Is this a veiled criticism of Hinduism?

Hinduism? Seems like a pretty big one to forget :)

You seem rather influenced by Indian right wing pseudohistory. It's similar to arguing Ayurveda isn't very harmful because it is ancient. An appeal to tradition.> stacking shit like rocks on top of each otherThey still do in India. Cow dung cakes are a rural fuel.I am not doubting that India is likely the first to write about derealization. But it was mistaken to be the ultimate reality.

You may have picked up on the author's not-so-subtle self-congratulation in the use of the phrase: "our great culture".There is a lot of wonderful material to be absorbed in the ancient texts of India, but the text of that page has a strong Hindu religious nationalist tone (which in Indian languages is called "Hindutva", or "Hindu-ness").The vast (in time and space), and diverse Indian culture that produced these works was far more tolerant and open to th

That's a very interesting observation. I'd had to read an eye-opening book called "The Heathen in his Blindness" [1] to understand the cultural grounding I stand on.As an Indian, whose own mother tongue has been neglected by the neo-colonial state, and thus whose own epistemological roots are muddied up with those from an over-bearing English imposition, it has become very difficult for me to see the difference between Abrahamic traditions and the contemporary Indian ones

Aryabhatta to Bramhagupta were all pretty much Hindus. Jain or Buddhists might be distinct religions in modern political parlance but were generally considered from the same family of Hinduism.