How Arise Arjun' was born
After return from Venezia, Italia, I completed work on Turning Point—my Journey to 'HIM'. Next, I started work on Gita Today. It was sometime around October-November 2002. While dealing with the concept of धर्म Dharm' and अधर्म Adharm' a new vision developed:
BhagavadGita was enacted to raise men of virtue like Arjun' to take the stand against Adharm'
That was when 'Arise Arjun Awaken my Hindu Nation' was born...
...and work on Gita Today was put in abeyance.
Arise Arjun' was written during the three months of Nov. 2002 Dec. 2002 and Jan. 2003. It was sent to press in Feb. 2003 and became available to readers by end of March 2003.
It was published by Shri P Deivamuthu of Hindu Voice Publications, Goregaon, Mumbai, and very well by the readers as reflected through their feedbacks.
Publication history
| Edition | Year | Format | ISBN-10 / ISBN-13 | Contents | Title |
| 1st | 2003 | 81-89746-01-4 | - | Arise Arjun: Awaken my Hindu Nation | |
| 2nd | 2005 | 81-89746-01-4 | Additions / Substrations | Arise Arjun: Awaken my Hindu Nation | |
| 3rd | 2006 | 81-89746-23-5 | Arise Arjun: Awaken my Hindu Nation Part 1 | ||
| 2006 | 81-89746-24-3 | Arise Arjun: Awaken my Hindu Nation Part 2 | |||
| 2007 | Reprint | 978-81-89746-23-0 | - | Arise Arjun: Awaken my Hindu Nation Part 1 | |
| 4th | 2008 | 978-81-89990-14-5 | Enhanced | Seed 1 comprising Seed 1a & 1b | |
| 5th | 2009 | Internet | Based on 4th edition | Seed 1a | |
| 1st | 2011 | 81-89746-01-4 | Back to 1st edition | Arise Arjun: Awaken my Hindu Nation |
About Authors quoted in this Book
Max Muller (1823-1900) has long been regarded as the ‘Western Indologist par excellence’. He was born on 6 December, 1823 in Dessau, the capital of the German Duchy of Anhalt-Dessau. His father Wilhelm Muller (1794-1827), a famous poet and teacher, died leaving his wife and two young children in dire poverty, supported only by a modest pension. After his early years in Dessau, he was sent at the age of twelve to Leipzig to finish his schooling, receiving a thorough grounding in Greek and Latin. As a student at Leipzig University, he fought duels and left with a doctorate before he was twenty. After his wanderjahre spent in Berlin, Paris and London, he arrived in Oxford in 1848, where he settled. He became Taylorian Professor of Modern European Languages (1854), a Fellow of All Souls College (1858) and Professor of Comparative Philology (1868). Max Muller’s oeuvre was marked by encyclopaedic range and scholarship. His edition of the Rig Veda (1849-73), and the forty-nine volumes of the Sacred Books of the East, made Max Muller pre-eminent among interpreters of Indian thought in the West. His work on Vedic literature, Sanskrit, philology, mythology and comparative religion aroused wide interest. He was an important influence not only on his Western contemporaries, but also on Indian thinkers. Max Muller died on 28 October, 1900.
Source: INDIA what can it teach us? F Max Muller, ISBN 0-14-100437-1 [2000]
Koenraad Elst was born in Leuven, Belgium, on 7 August 1959, into a Flemish (i.e. Dutch-speaking Belgian) Catholic family. He graduated in Philosophy, Chinese Studies and Indo-Iranian Studies at the Catholic University of Leuven. During a stay at the Benares Hindu University, he discovered India’s communal problem and wrote his first book about the budding Ayodhya conflict. While establishing himself as a columnist for a number of Belgian and Indian papers, he frequently returned to India to study various aspects of its ethno-religio-political configuration and interview Hindu and other leaders and thinkers. His research on the ideological development of Hindu revivalism earned him his Ph.D. in Leuven in 1998. He has also published about multiculturalism, language policy issues, ancient Chinese history and philosophy, comparative religion, and the Aryan invasion debate.
Source: Ayodhya: The Case against the Temple Koenraad Elst, ISBN 81-85990-75-1 [2002]
Navaratna S. Rajaram is a mathematician, computer scientist, linguist and historian of science. He has more than twenty years of experience in teaching and research at several universities in the United States. Since 1984, he has been an advisor to the National Aeronautical and Space Administration (NASA). His most recent interest is in the Study of the scientific foundations of ancient history, particularly the history of ancient India. He has worked on the connections between Vedic mathematics and the mathematics of ancient Egypt and old Babylonia. His other books published by Voice of India, are The Politics of History: Aryan Invasion Theory and The Subversion of Scholarship (1995), Secularism: The New Mask of Fundamentalism (1995), and Vedic Aryans and The Origins of Civilization: A Literary and Scientific Perspective (1997) written in collaboration with David Frawley.
Source: A Hindu View of the World - Essays in the intellectual Kshatriya Tradition, N S Rajaram ISBN 81-85990-52-2 [1998]
Arun Shourie, among India's best known commentators on current and political affairs, backs his distinctive writing, his conscientiously independent perspective with rigorous analysis and meticulous research. Born in Jallandhar in 1941, he studied at Modern School and St. Stephen's College in Delhi, and obtained his Doctorate in Economics from the University of Syracuse, USA. He has been an economist with the World Bank, a consultant to the Planning Commission and Editor of The Indian Express. His writings have gained him vast following across the country as well as several national and international honors. Among these are Padma Bhushan, the Magsaysay Award, the Dadabhai Naoroji Award, the Astor Award, the K. S. Hegde Award, the International Editor of the Year Award. The Federation of Indian Publishers recently conferred The Freedom to Publish Award on him. At present Arun Shourie is a member of the Rajya Sabha. This is his fifteenth book.
Source: Eminent Historians: Their Technology, Their Line, Their Fraud, Arun Shourie, ISBN 81-900199-8-8 [1998]
Born in 1921, Sita Ram Goel took his M.A. in History in 1944, from the University of Delhi. He won scholarships and distinctions in school as well as college. Well-versed in several languages, he studied literature, philosophy, religion, history and sociology of several cultures – ancient, medieval, and modern. For his judgments and evaluations, however, he draws his inspiration from the Mahabharata the Suttapitaka, Plato and Aurobindo. He has written several documented studies on Communism, Soviet Russia, Red China, Christianity and Islam. Author of eight novels, he has translated into Hindi quite a few books from English, including some dialogues of Plato and a biography of Shivaji. His other works include compilations from the Mahabharata and the Suttapitaka. Having become a convinced Communist by the time he came out of college, he turned against this criminal ideology in 1949 when he came to know what was happening inside Soviet Russia. From 1950, onwards he participated in a movement for informing the Indian people about the theory as well as the practice of Communism in Stalin’s Russia and Mao’s China. The numerous studies published by the movement in the fifties exist in cold print in many libraries, and can be consulted for finding out how the movement had anticipated, many years before, the recent revelations about Communist regimes.
Source: Hindu Temples: What happened to them Vol. II The Islamic Evidence, Sita Ram Goel ISBN 81-85990-03-4 [2000]
Ram Swarup graduated from the University of Delhi and has been an original writer and thinker ever since. His Gandhism and Communism stressed the need to raise the struggle against communism from a military to a moral and ideological level. The brochure caught the attention of several US Congressmen and some of its ideas were adopted by the Eisenhower administration in its agenda for the Geneva Conference in 1955. Around 1957, he took to a life of meditation and spiritual reflection and since then he has made a deep study of the scriptures of different religious traditions. His magnum opus, The Word As Revelation: Names of Gods is on linguistics, philosophy, Vedic exegesis and Yog. It shows how a religion of ‘many Gods’ represents authentic spirituality. Mr. Swarup’s latest book, Understanding Islam through Hadis: Religious Faith or Fanaticism has played an important role in opening up Islam for discussion, hitherto a tabooed subject in India. Mr. Swarup is a distinguished spokesman of renascent Hinduism, which he believes, can also help other nations to rediscover their spiritual roots.
Source: Hindu View of Christianity and Islam, Ram Swarup ISBN 81-85990-66-2 [2000]
David Frawley, O. M. D., born in 1950 at Wisconsin (USA) in a family (of European ancestry) with strong Catholic background where one son of the family generally would be a priest. Looking at his natural tendencies, his mother had thought he would be the Catholic priest. However, he turned to Hinduism. Finally, he formally adopted Hinduism and took the name Vamadeva Shastri. He is one of the few Westerners ever recognized in India as a VedAachaarya (teacher of ancient Vedic wisdom). He had been at the forefront of questioning the old colonial paradigm within which Indian history and Hindu religion had been situated by nineteenth century Indologists. His work shows the way not only for the Westerner who wishes to understand Hinduism but also for those Hindus who know their religion only through the interpretations of the Indologists. His field of study includes Aayurvedic medicine, Vedic astrology, Tantr, Yog and Vedic philosophy. His more specific work is with the Veds themselves, including a re-examination of ancient history in light of new archeological finds in India and a more critical examination of Vedic texts. In India, his translations and interpretations of Veds have received acclaim from both spiritual and scholarly circles. He has been able to visit with people in India from all backgrounds including swamis, yogis, traditional Braahman priests, Hindu social activists and political leaders, Aayurvedic doctors, Vedic astrologers, Hindu musicians, and modern Westernized Hindus of all types including writers and journalists.
Source: How I became a Hindu-my Discovery of the Vedic DharmaDavid Frawley (Vamadeva Shastri) ISBN 81-85990-60-3 [2000]
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