Russia’s ancient connection to the Vedic culture
The country name Russia can be traced to the Indian Sanskrit word Russi, or Rishi.
And Russiya means land of the rishis.
Indeed.
A long, long time ago, those seeking solitude would have quite easily travelled north west
from Greater India to reach what we now call Russia.
Moscow gets its name from its river Moskva.
When the town was founded in 1147, it was called Moskov.
What is less well-known is that the river’s name can be traced back to the Sanskrit moksha,
meaning a place for seeking liberation.
The long Volga river flows through central and southern Russia and into the Caspian Sea.
In ancient times there were remnants of Vedic culture there.
Those who had migrated away from the central Asian region, called the original Indo-Europeans
brought the culture with them.
That is why there are a great many uncanny similarities between Sanskrit and Russian
languages.
Here are just five examples: The word grad (used in Stalingrad, Leningrad
etc) - is from the Sanskrit graam, meaning town
Some Siberian people still call their land Shibir.
Meaning encampment or temporary habitation in Sanskrit.
The Russian Snokha and Sanskrit Snus-ha both mean daughter in law.
Lebedev comes from Lavadev, or divine Lava, a son of Lord Rama.
The name Svetlana, is from Sanskrit Svetanana, meaning fair-faced
On the west coast of the Caspian Sea is the busy port of Baku.
There is an ancient Temple of Effulgence there called Jwalamai.
Various Sanskrit verses and mantra are carved into its walls.
This stone image of Lord Vishnu, discovered in a village in the Middle Volga region of
Russia, dates to around the 7th Century.
The mountain there named Indyuk was named by a tribe that migrated to Adygea.
It was named after the Hindu Kush range, and the people of the region practiced a set of
exercises and meditations that closely resemble yoga.
And genetic studies have shown that a percentage of Adygean people are genetically related
to north-western Indians.
A Sanskrit text of the Ashtang Ayurveda was discovered in Russia.
People of Siberia are familiar with Ayurvedic preparations such as Triphala and Hingash-tak
powder.
Due to Siberia’s remote location, more of the ancient cultures of the country have survived
through the centuries, despite the influence of the Czar, Russian Orthodox Church , Communism
and, well, time itself.
“The Russian Veda” known as the Slavic–Aryan Vedas are ancient sacred texts that are said
to have been passed down from generation to generation in Siberia.
There were nine books, dictated by the Slavic god Perun to their ancestors.
Ancient Slavic cosmology: The oldest Slavic traditions say that in the
beginning there was dark sea and sky, the only existing thing created by Rod was a world-egg
in which rested Svarog, the creator.
Alatyr Rock is centre of Slavic universe.
A similar concept to the Puranic universe which has Mt Meru at the centre of it.
Both in Russia and Ukraine, modern followers of Slavic native faith, Rodnovers, include
both monotheists and polytheists: Some that emphasise a single god, while others put emphasis
on the distinct gods and goddesses.
That is the same as what we find in Hinduism.
Some say that the other gods are only Rod’s different faces, his incarnations that are
everywhere.
It is therefore a God similar to the Universal Form as described in the Vedas.
Namely the Supreme is not the master of the universe, but it itself the whole universe.”
For example this artwork represents the supreme being (Rod) manifested as a sevenfold hierarchy.
It was through the thoughts of Rod that the Universe was ordered into the three realms
of Jav, Prav and Nav.
The god in Slavic mythology known as Triglav is a representation of the three supreme gods.
He had three heads, or three forms as one, to show that he ruled over three realms: heaven,
earth, and the underworld.
This is similar to the Puranic universe which is divided into the middle upper and lower
worlds, or categories.
They are influenced by various degrees of the three modes of nature.
So Triglav is also comparable to the trimurti of Hinduism: Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva.
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