The Gayatri mantras you will learn about in this book prasing Aryan gods. The power of these gods was used by Adolf Hitler, swastica is the arian symbol of sun. Adolf Hitler achived tremendous influence, but was misusing these powers, and faled. This is why when the power is yours, you need to be responsible. Vedic religion is the religion of Aryans, and the main source of our knowledge about them comes from Vedas, four in number, the oldest sacred script, known to be given by the God to his son, and from him, to a first man, Manu, and from him to all his sons and daughters, called people.
The Aryans were people of European origin, who spread on the west as fare as Ireland and on the east all the way through Iran and India. They entered India in about 1700 BCE and replaced the dominance of the Indus Valley culture with their own. The early Aryans build no cities and left very little information about them, they were nomadic people. Most of what we know about them comes from Vedas, acollection of prayers, hymns and religious teachings. The period between 1500 B.C. and 500 B.C. is called Vedic Age.
Here is a little history of Indus valley civilisation, that was blooming from about 2500 BC for about 1000, than "vanished without a trace". Excavations carried from 1920 in the Indus Valley show that the kingdom had carefully planned beautiful cities, houses had surprisingly modern plumbing system, with baths, drains and water chutes. Merchants used a uniform system of weights and measures. Cities had huge warehouses to store grain produced in outlying villages. The local people honored the mother goddess that is represented by many carver figures of woman and followed a fertility cults, represented by fallic symbol. There was found a seal, bearing image of a horned, three-faced male with erect phallus, seated in yogic position, surrounded by a goat, a tiger, an elephant, a bull, a cobra, and a rhinoceros. This is a figure of Shiva Pasupati, Lord of Beasts, the oldest gods in modern hindy pantheon. So, Shiva is not one of the vedic gods. He is equvalent to a witch craft Horned God, the father of antient times. The fertility cults honoring the god and goddess are not Arian, the latter are carring more of a male warrior personality.
When the culture of Indu Valley people begin to decline, Arians came, conquered and settled. They called the local people "Dravidians" or "Dasa" - dark-skinned worshippers of the phallus and the bull, and regarded them with derision. Much of the emphasis in Arian religion was upon a successful happy life here and now, they didn't care about the afterlife too much. Arian didn't belive in trasmigration of the souls and the life after death, they was concentrating on the present lifeime. However, later Vedic textx have few passages about afterlife and considered to be an influence of Indus Valley tradition. During their early centuries of their stay in India they lived like they used to at home: ate rich diet including fish, meat, vegetables and milk and enjoyed intoxicating liquor and all other good things. Their attitude to food was liberal, prompted by by a phylisophy of having healthy minds and healthy bodies. A later Vedic text, called the Taittiriya Upanishad, says that food is eaqual to Brahnam, the Supreme God and that the eating is not an act of only filling the stomach but a religious sacrifice, in which oblations of food are offered to the fire in the stomack. This is why people say grace before meal. Later, as a result of the ahimsa, non-injury religions like Buddhism and Janism meat eating became impure. Local Dravidians was defeated by Arians who worshiped Indra the warrior god, and Agni, the god of fire. In Rig Veda about quater of all himns dedicated to Indra, who helped Arians overcome the Dasa people as well as Vritra, the force who holds back the lightning and rain. Another important god is Varuna, the god responcible for moral order. Despite their racial pride, Aryans mingled with the people they conquered, gave up their nomadic ways, learned farming and crafts. Aryans divided people by occupation. The three basic groups were Brahmins, the priestes, Kshatriyas, the warriers and Vaisyas, the traders and farmers. Although Dravidians had build an advanced sivilization, Aryans separated them from the non-Aryans and put them into the fourth group, called Sudras. This group include farm workes, servants and considered to be the lowest class of people. This system gave birth to a modern cast system in India. There were lot of intermarrieges between the local people and Arian happened, interpenetration of cultures, and by 500 B.C. a new Indian civilization had emerged. Although it consisted of many kingdons, the people shared common culture rooted in both Aryan and Dravidian traditions. By this time, people had developed a written language, Sanscrit and priests now recorded the sacred texts that before was taught by the word of mouth. Scholars agree on the fact that Aryan traditions and belifs formed a framework for later Indian sivilization. Aryan religious belifs would evolve into major world religions. Just as the Middle East gave rise to three world religions- Judaism, Christianity and Islam, South Asia was the birthplace of Hinduism and Buddhism. Hinduism has the theory of the reincarnation cycles of the lives of souls, which are sent back to earth until they are judged to be worthy of going up to heaven and becoming immortal, like the gods.
The word 'Hinduism' itself is a misnomer. In the old days, this religion was called Sanatana Dharma - or the way of the Universe. In Hinduism - there is no concept of evil or Devil. Every being created by the preceptor Brahma is good and sometimes, out of circumstances beyond his or her control, adopt bad ways. But even the baddies pray to God - there are several of them to get unlimited powers. After attaining them, the ambitious beings who think that they can excel the gods. But in the end, they are defeated and lo! they are rid of their curses and become Gods again. There is, however, a term for hell in Hindu mythology - Naraka. But even that region is governed by Dharma Raja - the king of righteousness who himself is a God. And any soul that has to suffer in hell, is there only for a temporary phase. The final destination is always heaven. If a soul has done enough good deeds on earth, rightaway, it goes to heaven - in layman's words for the Sanskrit term is Swarga or Paradise. Should sins outnumber the merits of a soul, the temporary destination, according to Puranas - or ancient texts, is Naraka. But the journey doesn't end there. According to the theory of Karma a human being is born as many times on this earth as is necessary to shed his or her bad Karma and finally attains Mukti - salvation.
The Arians belived in a principal of cosmic order, Rta. Gods keep the perfect order in the Univerce: the sun rises every morning and spring comes after winter. To maintain the same perfect order in the human society people learned how to connect to the very source of the principal: God. Different gods are manifestation of different fenomenas in nature, and to control defferent aspects of the society and the psykhe in order, people would call for the God who is in charge of the specific fenomena. The way to connect to a god is through prayer, or mantra dedicated to that god, and a ritual. Aryans knew that through correct rituals and prayers they can call on the gods of health, wealth and victory. Brahmins, or priests, who dedicate themselves to this work: talking to Gods, maintaining order in the world of mortals by connecting to the world of absolut perfection, knowledge and bliss, the source of all order in the Univerce. Their work was supported by shustras - manuals, that was handed down by the gods, on how to conduct the rutuals, live the proper life and the philosophical tracts, such as Laws of Manu. Later it was a Bible. Later Aryans recognized one God behind many, they called him Brahman, or Isvara. Vedas sing praise to many Gods, but despite the multiplicity of gods, the Rig Veda affirms that: "To what is One, sages give many a title; they call it Agni, Yama, Matarisvan..." The concept of One God repeated in Yajur Veda: " For an awakened soul Indra, Varuna, Yama, Aditya, Chandra all these names represent only one basic power and spiritual entity."
There are amazing similarities between old Slavic and Sanscrit languages, especially from the Vedic period. The very word "vedas" has same root with the russian word "vedat", meaning "to know". The name of Fire god Agni, sounds justb like "agon" in russian, meanin g fire. The word "varit", is , "to boil" sound similar to Varuna, the god of water. There are many same roots sheared between Sanscrit and European languages: the word "mother" is "matar" in Sansrit, "mama" in Russian, "mutter" in German, "madar" in Persian, "madre" in Spanish, "moder" in Swedish. So the modern group of languages that sprouted from Sanskrit is called Indo European group by linguists.
Svastica:
The svastika is an ancient symbol representing auspiciousness and a symbol of God. The word can be divided into the components sva (one's own) and astika (it is). Thus, it means "that which is one's own or that which is independent." Since the Divine is the only independent entity in the universe, the svastika is a symbol for God. Everything else is independent upon the Divine for its existence, maintenance and dissolution. The sign has been associated with Ganapati most probably because he is the lord of good fortune and this sign is the sign depicting good fortune. Where the blue pear (bindu) begins to move at the commencement of creation, its initial movement forms a line. If one extrapolates that movement into the the four cardinal directions, a cross is depicted. If one would like to convey the idea of omnipresence, one may put "flags" on the ends of the arms of the cross and thus a svastika is formed. Sometimes, it is said that the svastika represents the fact that all paths to the divine, whether straight or crooked, eventually only lead to the divine. It is a symbol of geometric perfection. In the minds eye, it can be conceived of either a stationary or as being in perpetual motion, with its arms whirling like a giant cosmic pinwheel. In a clockwise rotation, its seems to depict the outward dispersion of the universe, while in a counter-clockwise rotation, it seems to depict the universe imploding back into its essence.