The steady and constant operations of rain originating from the clouds and the reproductive element, the origin of the physical body, are two lucid examples of these orderly functions that are steady and unchangeable. Neither rain nor the physical body can come into being without clouds and sexual union respectively. Thus virgin birth is a breach of natural laws. Likewise, the active senses, optic, auditory, olfactory, gustatory and tactile, cannot be disputed since these organs have their own specific functions of seeing, hearing, smelling tasting and touching respectively. Meaning, that at no time can the ears perceive color nor the eyes sound. The same holds good for the principles of action, speech, grasp, locomotion, reproduction, and excretion. These functions being constant, steady, repeated and unchangeable enable us to infer that it is so now as it will be in the future, and so it must have been from the very beginning.

Always keep in mind, only that which has no beginning and no end is eternal, meaning that everything else must come to an end. It is also evident that decay follows, after each manifestation and creation, natural and man-made respectively. A child is born, age and dies, representing not only the natural decay of the physical body but also the subtleness of innocence and purity that comes with it. Similarly, a house, a car, a watch, etc. are all created and by usage and passage of time, they will suffer the same fate of decay. It is obvious that however hard we try to maintain them they can be resurrected to neither their original state nor the dead resurrected back to life. Furthermore, even though we grow in spirituality by acquiring knowledge it can hardly be called progress since we are merely trying, many with enormous effort than others, to maintain all or some of the purity and innocence of childhood, which becomes more and more polluted with sin as we age. Thus, the continuous practice of virtue, good ethics, and morals, guided by the correct knowledge is desirable to prevent further or severe pollution of the soul from sinful actions, the natural way of created beings.

"There is no turpitude in drinking wine, eating flesh and committing adultery, for that is the natural way of created beings, but abstinence brings great reward." Manu

Similarly, by applying the same reasoning to the creation of the universe and the planet we live in perfection, purity, righteousness, and the highest of intellectual reasoning and science (divine) were the norm of the earliest civilizations and what we have been reduced to, is nothing short of inferior. In short, prevention is better than the cure, so while we seek a cure, earlier civilization applied prevention. Where science is not applied to cure, it is used to satisfy curiosity, we have become materialistic thus relegating the intellect not only to the static state but brought upon ourselves enormous pain and misery.

Faith in harmony with reasoning, science and in conformity with natural laws brought the earliest civilization immense wisdom to know and now we have been reduced to doubts of false theories and dogmas, succumbing us to fear of the worst kinds. Thus the science of prevention claim its superiority by freeing early man from the agony of diseases, crimes, and persecutions, while the science of cure and curiosity displays its inferiority by reducing man (in this age) to quite the opposite.

On the other hand, analogy plays a most important part in the performances of intellectual functions of man. The slightest semblance or visage of semblance is enough to justify the exercise of analogy. The most palpable of the forces of nature impress the human mind in such a period of rude beginnings of human experience, by motions mainly.

"The wind blowing, the fire burning, a stone rolling, or a fruit dropping, affects the senses essentially as moving. Now throughout the range of conscious exertion of muscular power, will precedes motion, and since even the most grotesque experience of a savage in this world assumes this knowledge, it is no great stretch of intellectual power to argue that these natural forces also, to which the sensible motions are due, are endowed with the faculty of will.

The personification of the forces of nature being thus affected, their deifications soon follows. The over-whelming potency, the unhindered might, and often the violence, with which, in the sight of a savage, these forces operate, strike him with terror, awe and reverence.

A sense of his own weakness, humility, and inferiority creeps over the savage mind, and, what was intellectually personified, becomes emotionally deified. According to this view, the Vedas undoubtedly books of primitive times, consist of prayers from such an emotional character addressed to the forces of nature including wind and rain - prayers breathing passions of the savage for vengeance or for propitiation, or, in moments of poetic exaltation, hymns simply portraying the simple phenomena of nature in the personified language of mythology.

It is, therefore, more agreeable for these scholars to believe that the Vedas, no doubt books of primitive times, are records of the mythological ore of the ancient Aryans." Life and teachings of Swami Dayanand.

"We have thus, little respect for a theory such as Darwin which propounds that human species are a development of inferior animal nature. For, if we were to accept this, we would be at a loss to trace the origin of human language and the possession of Divine knowledge, which are peculiar to mankind only, and which are not self-acquired, but can only be learned from others.

"Such theories may perhaps find supporters among those races which were originally savage, and which had improved within the memory of man. For, such races are apt to think that as their present development from a savage to a civilized state is a well-known fact, it may be possible that man himself is a development of the ape-like species. But the hypothesis which makes this theory possible is not reasonable in itself. No savage nation has ever become self-civilized, and we can always trace the civilization of one nation to another which is already civilized.

"The thoughts of learned men which pass as original can be traced to the authors whom they have studied, or to the society in which they lived and moved. With us, the Aryans of India, it is quite different. We have the very word of him (Manu), who was the founder of the human race, telling us that mankind is from the beginning a separate species of the animal kingdom and that the highest thoughts within the reach of mankind were revealed to him; and he, in his turn, revealed the same to his descendants." Vedic Philosophy.

Our countrymen (India), who have received western education, and who, with very few exceptions, disregard the time-honored traditions of their motherland, have followed in the same track. Their opinion is, that in the Vedic period of India when the people worshiped the elements of nature, and when, according to their incorrect information, the idea of one supreme Ruler of this universe was not grasped, the Aryan nation was just emerging from a state of barbarism and darkness, and that since that time the country has been continuously advancing in civilization.

These gentlemen, it seems, have studied only one phase of human life, and have not yet learned that nations are as much liable to decay as they are capable of making progress. All the great nations of antiquity who were famous for their valor, power, and enlightenment, have perished and left no mark of their greatness and glory except what is here and there found in the pages of history.

Where are the ancient Greeks, Romans, Phoenicians, Carthegians, and Egyptians? Are not the modern Greeks and Italians descendants of their once glorious ancestors? And have not fallen from their ancient greatness? It is true they have managed to regain their dependence and keep up some degree of civilization, but can their present state stand any comparison with that high excellence, that great development - physical, mental and moral - which was once enjoyed by their glorious ancestors?

They have surely fallen. We will say nothing with regard to our own country. Our object in this chapter is to show, by means of a concrete example, that it is possible for a nation, after arriving at a high stage of civilization to dwindle down into a condition of perfect savageness. Our readers will also learn, perhaps for the first time, that Christianity, if it has been the means of civilizing some countries, has, in one instance at least been the cause of the utter ruin and destruction of a whole nation.

Cases like the one which we are going to lay before our readers shall prove without a doubt that no uncivilized nation gains in civilization, only becoming in contact with a civilized and morally-developed people and not by the introduction of one creed or other.

Archbishop Trench after studying the languages of different countries, and gaining an insight into their histories, has come to this conclusion, that a deep study of the ancient histories of all nations will show that every country has received civilization from some other civilized country with which it happened to come in contact.

This opinion, of course, leads to one premise that there must have been one nation at least which must have been civilized or enlightened from the very beginning, and that must have been the means of spreading knowledge in all directions. We will not discuss in this short chapter which nation, among those of which we have the knowledge, has the honor of being the civilizer of the whole world.

After the above general remarks, we proceed to our proper subject and hope to prove, by referring to the state of the degenerate Red Indian of America, how a highly civilized nation can again fall into the very bottom of ignorance and barbarism. The history of the despised Redman is very curious and instructive in many ways. Many rude and savage nations are yet inhabiting the globe, but if none is so deplorable a condition as of the ancient inhabitants of the New World.

It fills one's mind at once with melancholy when he learns, as we will show further on, that these intractable savages are the scions of a very old and civilized race. An inquiry into the gradual stages of the life of this fallen nation shall also give some blow to the generally recognized division of stone and iron ages. All such theories are founded on a presupposition that the world is not in existence from a very remote age, and the man has been continuously making progress onward.

"The conclusion towards which almost all the inquiries into the early history and past civilization of the red race of America seem to lead, are indeed of utmost interest, as they lead to a strong presumption that the nation and tribes inhabiting these regions at the period of the arrival of Spaniards were not people emerging from a state of barbarism, and slowly working their way up in the social scale, but that, on the contrary, they were descendants of a more civilized race sinking gradually from the high position they had once maintained, while some of them, having outstepped the others in their downward career, had already sunk into the condition of savages."

"When the Spaniards, in 1517, after twenty-five years' occupation of the West India islands -their first discoveries in the New World - landed upon the coasts of Central America, they were struck with amazement at the contrast between the state of the countries which now opened to their view and those with which they had previously become acquainted in these regions.

Instead of naked and timid savages, gathered together in tribes independent of, and often hostile to, each other, struggling for subsistence amidst the difficulties of uncultivated nature, unacquainted with the simplest arts of civilized life, they here beheld populous nations living under the dominion of powerful monarchs, subject to the rule of systematic governments and established laws, skilled in arts and manufactures, enjoying all the benefits of organized societies, and dwelling in cities which seemed to the dazzled eyes of the new-comers to rival in magnificence those of the Old World.

The city of Mexico was, at the time of the Spanish invasion, approached by artificial roads, thirty feet in width, and extending from two to three miles in length. The temples dedicated to the religious worship of the people the palaces of the monarch, and the dwellings of persons of distinction were according to the description of the invaders, of gigantic dimensions and magnificent structure, while the habitations of the lower classes were of the humblest character, being merely huts resembling those of the Indians of the rudest tribes.

The most striking architectural features in the city of Mexico were the temples; and foremost among these was the great Teocalli*-- that is, House of God - situated in the principal square, and one of the first destroyed by the Spaniards when they became the master of the city. **This temple which was dedicated to Tezcathlopia, the God first in rank after Teoth, the Supreme Being, and to Mariti, ***the God of war, consisted of a truncated pyramid formed by five terraces ascended by broad flights of steps.

The sides of the pyramid faced the four cardinal points; its base was 318 feet long, and its perpendicular height was 121 feet. On the truncated top of the pyramid were placed the sacrificial stone and statues of the gods, among which those of the sun and moon were of colossal dimensions, and covered with plates of gold. Around the main building was a wall of hewn stone, ornamented with knots of serpents in bas-relief. Within the precincts of the wall, or immediately adjoining it, were the dwellings of the priests.

Edifices of a similar character were represented as existing through Mexico and the adjoining countries; and the capital itself was said to contain no less than eight temples almost equal in size to that just described, besides two thousand of inferior dimensions."

Out of this seeding, the Ghana Arya Vedic Mission has grown dramatically, and broadcast the Samaj's Vedic teachings across Ghana through public speaking, satsangs, and literature. So successful is the movement that Ankoh is negotiating to begin a mission in neighboring Nigeria. A key to Ankoh's approach is maintaining the integrity of the Vedic rituals and chants while allowing reconciliation of Indian customs and traditional Ghanan cultural practices. For marriages, the bride may dress in Ghanian fashion. Members often keep their Ghanian ancestral name during the namakarana (name-giving sacrament). Vegetarianism and yoga practice are taught and encouraged, and the Ghanian youth excel at hatha yoga postures. Ankoh is particularly proud that spiritual leaders of other faiths, woefully ignorant of Hindu ideals and knowledge, are now well acquainted with, at least, the Arya Samaj presentations of the Vedic religion.

"Jesus says, "I AM the Way, the Truth and the Life, NO ONE comes to the FATHER except through ME" John 14:6"