#LIBERATING_INDIAN_MIND–44
I believe that the semitic religions developed in violent societies as measures of reform. They used almost the same method that was used by Vedic poets and the later tradition In India. It is combination of miraculous with matter of fact to make the impact of the communication deep and lasting. Sometimes I feel upset as to how religions born after conspicuous gaps could have all kept a live touch with India. The only explanation is that they cherished the sweet memory of having come in contact with the wisest men from the East and took pride in associating them at each stage. This is not a guess but based on facts in each case.
The first inspiration drawn by the Jews is linked to the presence of the enterprising Indian merchants who monopolised horse domestication, training and trade, and settled first in Central Asia (Sintasta, Andronovo, extended their network to Anatolia and its surroundings and maintained their hegemony and Vedic identity for almost a thousand years before merging with the local population not totally obliterating the links with their past. The Kurd and Yezidi even after having embraced Islam have as yet retained some of the relics.*They bore torture and persecution and exile at the hands of ISIS but not deterred from the relics of their belief, shows the bond of tradition.
During their prime time estimated to spread 2000-700 BCE their language, culture, customs, mythology, way of life was avidly being copied creating proximate languages and cultures such as Dialects of Greek and Italy. We all know that Homer wrote his epics in Anatolian Greek which formed the foundation of classical Greek. Under the circumstances in which not even Egyptian monarchs could ward off the influence of this aristocracy, it was only imperative that the founder of Semitic religion should have imbibed from this fountain.
Regarding Christianity apart from deep impact of the Buddhist organisation and symbols Bible it self is vocal about the wise-men from the East having visited Jerusalem, “Soon afterward, some men who studied stars came from the east to Jerusalem and asked ‘Where is the baby born to the king of the Jews? We saw his star when it came in the east, and we have come to worship him….Mathews, 2-9’.”
Notable presence of Hindus on and around trade route in Arabia is a matter of history. For all that we know about Prophet Muhammad he had special regard both for the East and things eastern, including the ideas. The statement attributed to him that sweet breeze came from India forms the ground for tracings similarities to be attempted by us to establish Indian inspiration in emergence of the three versions of the same religion.
{fn. *The Yazidis are monotheists, believing in God as creator of the world, which he has placed under the care of seven holy beings or angels, the chief of whom is Melek Taus, the Peacock Angel. The Peacock Angel, as world-ruler, causes both good and bad to befall individuals, and this ambivalent character is reflected in myths of his own temporary fall from God’s favour, before his remorseful tears extinguished the fires of his hellish prison and he was reconciled with God.”(Wikipedia)