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ORIGINS OF KOREA : As we watch the 2018 Korean winter Olympics, the history of King Sure-the iron king, and his wife Gauri from Ajodhya, India, bears mentioning. The world first heard about this story when a delegation of 100 high-level government officials from South Korea came unexpectedly to India in the year 2000. They traveled to what used to be Ajodhya in ancient times and looked for a Mr. Mishra. They were searching, they said, for a descendent of King Mishra of Ajodhya from about 50 AD. When they found the unsuspecting poor farmer, they showered him with lavish gifts, and millions of dollars. They told him that he was the direct descendant of King Mishra of Ayodhya from about 50 A.D, who was their ancestor, and the ancestor of the largest group of Koreans! They also gifted over 40 million dollars to make Ayodhya a Sister City to the City of Kimhae, Korea. They asked Mr. Mishra to travel back and forth between Ayodhya and Korea as their ambassador. Their story...

WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN was the Secretary of State of the United Sates of America 1913-1915 wrote a book called “ BRITISH RULE IN INDIA”  I have included below some key parts of the book.  William J. Gaynor, Mayor of New York City 1910-1913 wrote a preface in the book:  The constant aggression of the West upon the peaceful and unwarlike East, instigated by commercial enterprise if not commercial greed, has been invariably in the name of Christianity. We have taken possession of their choicest provinces and their best ports. And now, in the progress of time, we called for universal peace. Whether it is within God’s Providence that the long-gathering resentment engendered by Europe’s trespasses on the Eastern nation can be allayed without war, unless amends and restitutions be first made, is a matter for sober thought -William J. Gaynor, the late Mayor of New York City.    Key Parts of the Book                ...

We all know the story of Adam and Eve (Garden of Eden, sergeant, apple, right?) But we wonder what was the purpose of Mythology creating that story? What was the moral of the story? It seems there is a Vedic version of the Adam and Eve story, going back many thousands of years. Did you know that? The reason for the story was that the Vedic Brahmins were pushing people towards religion and God. But when bad things happened, people would ask “If God is all-powerful, then why did my infant son die of fever? Why did God not prevent that? I don’t want to pray to God anymore!” That kind of thing…. So, the Brahmins came up with the Adam and Eve myth to give the reason why God was allowing “bad” things to happen to humans. Because of what Adam did, which went against the orders of God, as you will see in the Vedic story to follow. Before you start, you may want to look on the internet - you see that the Island of Sri Lanka (earlier known as Ceylon. But when this Vedic version o...