bluemason3 said:Pretty much everything has been translated into English for ages, and well enough at that. Besides, plenty of people understand Sanskrit. You even have decent Indology programs in places like NYC where studying Sanskrit is a core focus.
Blavatsky was just spinning yarns that had little to do with the Vedas, selling her own narratives and interpretations that don't exist in the original texts. Just your typical romanticizing occultist peddler.
So yeah, I'm with you on that—the Madam definitely twisted a huge chunk of it just to fit the political and social vibes of her era.
Wait, are you seriously claiming that Theosophists, in general, are just manipulators of Vedism? I mean, come on... she had a massive influence on how Freemasonry, the Rosicrucians, the OTO, even those Nazi mystic groups developed—hell, she even touched on Darwinian thought and science back then...
Got any links or books for English or American translations of the Vedas?
Look, maybe I'm full of it, but she did provide some really exhaustive accounts and an understanding of the Vedas. At least, in my eyes... though she definitely leaned too hard into the political and social climate of Germany, or rather, Europe. I've read most of the Theosophical books, and there’s some seriously competent thought and ideas in there.
Not that I can fully wrap my head around it without being an expert on the Vedas myself, obviously...
Drop some links for Veda translations, either in ENG or American.
In your opinion, are there any actual, relevant Vedic communities in the US, specifically in Washington, D.C.? Like, anyone actually practicing the original Vedic knowledge?