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A book about... Ancient & Modern India's greatness in Science & Technology, Astronomy, Medicine, Commerce, Arts, Political Science & Global influence of Indian Culture & Spiritual Excellence.

We are glad to publish Eternally Talented Indian – 108 Fact featuring the numerous fields in which our motherland has excelled from time immemorial. The readers will be amazed to find that India has surpassed every nation through the ages in all the possible branches of study, investigation and action that the western world is credited with in recent times.

It is not just for spirituality that the west has looked up to India. Our mother land is the birth place of many a field such as-sciences, mathematical concepts, medicine, astrology, astronomy just to mention a few.

As Swami Vivekananda said, "Drink deep the eternal foundations that are behind us and then march forward, and make India brighter, greater and much higher than She ever was." There have been "wonderful treasures of our forefathers" in store for us. However we the legal heirs of these treasures instead of claiming them and realizing that the roots of the tree are here are enticed by the fruits borne in foreign lands. We hope this book while facilitating us acknowledge the million milestones we have touched will help us awaken our Mother after a long lull once more, and see her "rejuvenated and more glorious" thus fulfilling Swamiji's dream.

The first and second edition of this book was published by Vivekananda Life Skills Academy, and now the copyright of the same has been given to us. We are thankful to them. The present edition is the revised edition and we hope that readers will get pleasure and benefit by reading this book.

If there is any land on this earth that can lay claim to be blessed Punya Bhumi.. the land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness, above all the land of introspection and of spirituality, it is India.

We find that the Indian race never stood for wealth. Although they acquired immense wealth, perhaps, more than any other nation ever acquired, yet the nation did not stand for wealth. It was a powerful race for ages, yet we find that nation never stood for power, never went out of the country to conquer. The debt, which the world owes to our motherland, is immense. As I look back upon the history of my country, I do not find in the whole world another country, which has done quite so much for the improvement of the human mind. Therefore, I have no words of condemnation for my Nation. I tell them, "You have done well; only try to do better."

India has given to antiquity the earliest scientific physicians (Susruta & Charaka) and according to Sir William Hunter, she has even contributed to modem medical science by discovery of various chemicals and by teaching you how to reform misshapen ears and noses.

Even more it has done in Mathematics, for Algebra, Geometry, Astronomy and the triumph of modern science-mixed mathematics - were all invented in India, just so much as the ten numerals, the very cornerstone of all present civilization, were discovered in India and are in reality, Samskrta words.

In philosophy we are even now head and shoulders above any nation, as Schopenhauer, the great German philosopher has confessed.

In music, India gave to the world her system of notation with the seven cardinal notes and the diatonic scale.

In philology, our Samskrta language is now universally acknowledged to be the foundation of all European languages.

In literature, our epics and our poems and dramas rank as high as those of any language; Our "Shakuntala" was summarized by the German greatest poet as "heaven and earth united." India has given to the world the fables of Aesop, which were copied by Aesop from an old Samskrta book; it has given the Arbaian Nights, yes, the story of Cinderella and the Bean Stalks.

In manufacture, India was the first to make cotton and purple (dye), it was proficient in all works of jewellary and the very word sugar as well as the article itself is the product of India.

Lastly, she invented the game of chess and the cards and the dice.

Three-quarters of the wealth of the world has come out of India, and does even now. The commerce of India has been the turning point, the pivot, of the history of the world. Whatever nation got, it became powerful and civilized. The Greeks got it and became the mighty Greeks; the Romans got it and became the mighty Romans.

India has been the one country to which every nation that has become strong wants to go and conquer - it being reputed to be very rich. The wealth of the people had become a fable, even in the most ancient history. [Many foreign invaders] rushed to become wealthy in India and conquered the country.

Everyone of these invasions destroyed one or more of these families, burned many libraries and houses. And when that was so, much literature was lost. It is only within the last few years that ideas have begun to spring up about the retention of these various religions and books.

So great, in fact, was the superiority of India in every aspect that it drew to her borders the hungry cohorts of Europe and thereby indirectly brought about the discovery of America.

And I challenge anybody to show one single period of her national life when India was lacking in spiritual giants capable of moving the world. But her work is spiritual and that cannot be done with blasts of war trumpets or the march of cohorts.

Her influence has always fallen upon the world like that of the gentle dew, unheard and scarcely marked, yet bringing into bloom the fairest flowers of the world.

The education that you are getting now has some good points, but it has a tremendous disadvantage, which is so great that the good things are all weighed down. In the first place, it is not a man- making education, it is merely and entirely a negative education. A negative education or any training that is based on negation is worse than death.

The child is taken to school, and the first thing he learns is that his father is a fool, the second thing that his grandfather is a lunatic, the third thing that all his teachers are hypocrites, the fourth that all the sacred books are lies! By the time he is sixteen he is a mass of negation, lifeless and boneless. And the result is that fifty years of such education has not produced one original man in the three Presidencies. Every man of originality that has been produced has been educated elsewhere, and not in this country or they have gone to the old Universities once more to cleanse themselves of superstition.

A nation that has no history of its own has nothing in this world; Out of the past is built the future. Look back, therefore as far as you can, drink deep of the eternal foundations that are behind and after that, look forward, march forward and make India brighter, greater and much higher than she ever was. Our ancestors were great. We must recall that.

The more, therefore, the Indians study the past, the more glorious will be the future and whoever tries to bring the past to the door of everyone is the great benefactor to the nation.

For a complete civilization of the world is waiting, for the treasures to come out of India; waiting for the marvelous spiritual inheritance of the race. Little do you know how much of hunger and thirst there is outside of India for these Wonderful Treasures of our Fore- Fathers?

The more you go out and travel among the nations of the world, the better for you and for your country. I went to America and Europe, to which you so kindly allude; this reviving national life, expanding inside, threw me off and thousands will be thrown off in that way. Mark my words, it has got to come if this nation lives at all.

But one vision I see clear as life before me that the ancient Mother has awakened once more, sitting on her throne- rejuvenated, more glorious than ever. Proclaim her to the entire world with the voice of peace and benedicition.