Buddha and Ashoka: Crash Course World History #6
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Date: 2022-04-04
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Bipasha
The Aryan migration story was a fairy tale of the British who couldn't explain the vast racial diversity of the Indian subcontinent. While there may have been a migration of people from Central Asia down south which would only be normal considering the need to be in a land of resource, this blind repetition of a century old factually inaccurate Invasion Theory time and again is irksome, especially when we compare it to the latest data on the indus civilisation. I'm certain that there were a group of people who moved to South Asia and ended up mingling with the existing inhabitants culturally and socially but this misconceived notion that those people literally brought the Vedas, the Upanishads and the Puranas along with them in a bag pack is laughable, especially when at the time this -invasion- has supposed to have happened there was no concept of writing. The Hindu culture for centuries relied on memory based education systems and though not ignorant to writing, due to cultural reasons propagated oral traditions. There is a difference of centuries between the Vedas and the Upanishads and both were taught orally initially. Factually, Aryan is not even a race. It's a title. Most people in the Western culture teach Hinduism with their own biased perspective despite knowing that it's an outdated and inaccurate one. New studies have brought to light how the DNA of the entire subcontinent is homogenous and indigenous which scraps the Aryan theories completely and even suggests that it could very well have been the other way around.
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The Aryan migration story was a fairy tale of the British who couldn't explain the vast racial diversity of the Indian subcontinent. While there may have been a migration of people from Central Asia down south which would only be normal considering the need to be in a land of resource, this blind repetition of a century old factually inaccurate Invasion Theory time and again is irksome, especially when we compare it to the latest data on the indus civilisation. I'm certain that there were a group of people who moved to South Asia and ended up mingling with the existing inhabitants culturally and socially but this misconceived notion that those people literally brought the Vedas, the Upanishads and the Puranas along with them in a bag pack is laughable, especially when at the time this -invasion- has supposed to have happened there was no concept of writing. The Hindu culture for centuries relied on memory based education systems and though not ignorant to writing, due to cultural reasons propagated oral traditions. There is a difference of centuries between the Vedas and the Upanishads and both were taught orally initially. Factually, Aryan is not even a race. It's a title. Most people in the Western culture teach Hinduism with their own biased perspective despite knowing that it's an outdated and inaccurate one. New studies have brought to light how the DNA of the entire subcontinent is homogenous and indigenous which scraps the Aryan theories completely and even suggests that it could very well have been the other way around.
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Bipasha
Correction: The Mahabharata is the legend of two warring Clans and not to two Kingdoms. The two clans of the Pandavas and the Kauravas who belonged to the same family tree.
The caste system as we know it is not Hinduism. If one has read the Bhagavad Gita or the Vedas then they will know that movement between castes was not an issue. So for example, if Arjun had happened to display the qualities of a really good baker and a really bad warrior in training, Dron Acharya his mentor would've immediately recommended to him the benefits of changing caste. But Arjun, for those who don't know, is known to be one of the most skilled shooters in ancient history, whom none but the gods could rival and so Krishna sought to remind him his duty when his determination faltered at warring with his family. Without reading the Mahabharata one will not know the context of Gita in it's entirety.
It was later on in something BC when a Brahmin priest called Manu (who I think was one of the greatest assholes in history) wrote this trash called the Manusmriti. Two things he wrote in it and actively propagated created the rigid caste hierarchy of today-- that Brahmins were Lords of all castes and there would be no more movement among castes so it's pretty clear why he did this. The man was a misogynistic tyrant and I wish he'd never been born.
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Correction: The Mahabharata is the legend of two warring Clans and not to two Kingdoms. The two clans of the Pandavas and the Kauravas who belonged to the same family tree.
The caste system as we know it is not Hinduism. If one has read the Bhagavad Gita or the Vedas then they will know that movement between castes was not an issue. So for example, if Arjun had happened to display the qualities of a really good baker and a really bad warrior in training, Dron Acharya his mentor would've immediately recommended to him the benefits of changing caste. But Arjun, for those who don't know, is known to be one of the most skilled shooters in ancient history, whom none but the gods could rival and so Krishna sought to remind him his duty when his determination faltered at warring with his family. Without reading the Mahabharata one will not know the context of Gita in it's entirety.
It was later on in something BC when a Brahmin priest called Manu (who I think was one of the greatest assholes in history) wrote this trash called the Manusmriti. Two things he wrote in it and actively propagated created the rigid caste hierarchy of today-- that Brahmins were Lords of all castes and there would be no more movement among castes so it's pretty clear why he did this. The man was a misogynistic tyrant and I wish he'd never been born.
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Nishant
Very nicely researched but you need to correct few points
1. Dharma translates into righteousness
2. The caste system was based on virtues and interest in particular actions of any individual ( Bhagvad Gita 4/13.
Krishna was not asking arjun to fight the battle because he is kshatriya rather he was one of the best warrior of that time and he must participate in war to establish Dharma in society. You also need to study karma theory to understand this. You need to read so much more to understand Hinduism and Buddhism.
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Very nicely researched but you need to correct few points
1. Dharma translates into righteousness
2. The caste system was based on virtues and interest in particular actions of any individual ( Bhagvad Gita 4/13.
Krishna was not asking arjun to fight the battle because he is kshatriya rather he was one of the best warrior of that time and he must participate in war to establish Dharma in society. You also need to study karma theory to understand this. You need to read so much more to understand Hinduism and Buddhism.
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Banuka
The ideas and deep concepts of Buddhism is completely different
than when we just see it from the out side
Buddhism is complex and scientific
The starting of life on earth is explained similar to the panespermia in science that says life came to earth from another universe
Find about Buddhism it's complex and interesting and scientific and peaceful
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The ideas and deep concepts of Buddhism is completely different
than when we just see it from the out side
Buddhism is complex and scientific
The starting of life on earth is explained similar to the panespermia in science that says life came to earth from another universe
Find about Buddhism it's complex and interesting and scientific and peaceful
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Deep
It's not Caste system it's Varna system. And your understanding of it is not correct. Caste system is based on blood relation whereas Varna system is based on merit. Also, Farmers are not Sudras. Even the Kshatriyas and Brahmans are farmers.
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It's not Caste system it's Varna system. And your understanding of it is not correct. Caste system is based on blood relation whereas Varna system is based on merit. Also, Farmers are not Sudras. Even the Kshatriyas and Brahmans are farmers.
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Ekansh
i know that 10 minutes is not enough but the caste system was not the way it is conceived today and same goes for dharma, video deals with modern reinterpretation of what those things were and that isn't totally true.
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i know that 10 minutes is not enough but the caste system was not the way it is conceived today and same goes for dharma, video deals with modern reinterpretation of what those things were and that isn't totally true.
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Abhishek
Hinduism is shitted when caste system became privilege to some
and suffering to others
thats why people from lower caste began to migrate into buddhism and the trend still continuing
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Hinduism is shitted when caste system became privilege to some
and suffering to others
thats why people from lower caste began to migrate into buddhism and the trend still continuing
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Kumkum
watching this as a Hindu and not for AP world history exam is fun as there were a few things I didn't even know about my own religion and John, you spelt half the things wrong but that's okay.
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watching this as a Hindu and not for AP world history exam is fun as there were a few things I didn't even know about my own religion and John, you spelt half the things wrong but that's okay.
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33.
Ok, nirvana means a priest glowing with neon lights in the space without a spacesuit with an astronaut flying behind him. (My indian religious mom slapped me when I told her this)
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Ok, nirvana means a priest glowing with neon lights in the space without a spacesuit with an astronaut flying behind him. (My indian religious mom slapped me when I told her this)
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Sandeep
Very shallow, incorrect, uninformed analysis. Ten minutes is obviously very little time for such avast subject, still if there is an attempt it should be an honest one.
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Very shallow, incorrect, uninformed analysis. Ten minutes is obviously very little time for such avast subject, still if there is an attempt it should be an honest one.
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