" According to Vedic principles, the first part of life should be utilized in brahmacarya for the development of character and spiritual qualities.

According to Dumezil the forerunner of all frame gods is an Indian epic hero who was the image ( avatar ) of the Vedic god Dyaus.

According to Antonia Tripolitis, Roman Mithraism originated in Vedic India and picked up many features of the cultures which it encountered in its westward journey.

According to the late Vedic Sarvanukramani text, there were as many as 20 women among the authors of the Rig Veda, known as rishika.

According to Yaska, Sanskrit scholar of the 5th century BCE, who made various attempts to interpret difficult Vedic mythologies in his work Nirukta ( Etymology ) ( 12, 12 ), the time of Savitr ’ s appearance is when darkness has been removed.

According to J. Lynwood King, in his dissertation Fundamentals of Maharishi Vedic Science, the feedback Brahmachari Mahesh received from the diverse population that learned his technique suggested to him that it could be of wide benefit.

According to traditional views, the hymns of the Rigveda and other Vedic hymns were divinely revealed to the rishis, who were considered to be seers or " hearers " ( Śruti means " what is heard ") of the Veda, rather than " authors ".

According to MVAH, each of these 40 branches of Vedic literature has a direct correlation to various aspects of the human physiology.

According to the Maharishi and his successor, Tony Nader, there is a correspondence between the nine Grahas of Vedic Astrology and the structure of DNA, the brain and the structure of cells.

According to Venerable Tripitaka Master Bhikshu Shramana Hsuan Hua's " Shurangama Mantra Commentary " ( Buddhist Text Translation Society of the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas, 1981, Volume 1 ), the Shurangama Mantra mystically and literally includes all of the Buddha Dharma in its entirety, and its focus is on the Five Dhyana Buddhas ( Vairochana, Amitabha ), Akshobhya, Ratnasambhava, and Amoghasiddhi, with stress on Vairochana and Ashobhya Buddhas ) and their retinues of Dharmapalas and wrathful deities in male and female forms, such as Vajrapani, wrathful Manjushri, Mahakala, Tara, Pandaravasini, Prakruti, Uchushma Fire Head Vajra, Brahma, Indra, Shiva as Rudra, Raudri-Umapati form of Vajrayogini, Narayana, Ganapati, various Dhakinis, Naga kings, Yaksha kings, Rakshasha kings, and many other Dharma Protectors of the Buddhist Pantheon and Vedic pantheon.

According to the Rigveda, the Vedic Mantras were composed by various seers who had ' seen ' ( dṛś ) them in deep concentration ( dhī ).

According to the movement's Global Good News website, there are 23 Maharishi Vedic Health Centres in 15 countries, including Austria, France, Denmark, Germany, Israel, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, South Africa, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, and the United States.

According to its website, Ramraj TV is being established in India to introduce Vedic principles and practical programmes to the " World Family ".

According to Vedic and Hindu philosophy, every Yogi goes through Seven stages of development before achieving complete liberation.

According to Jan Houben, the early Vedic period was followed by a period of embarrassment about violence in rituals.

According to Jan Houben, the Sramanic period was followed by another period where Vedic ritualists tried to defend their actions against Buddhist and Jain criticism.

According to Oak, modern secular and Marxist historians have fabricated " idealized versions " of India's past and drained it of its " Vedic context and content ".

According to studies, women enjoyed equal status and rights during the early Vedic period.

According to a tradition preserved in Vedic literature, the Videhas marched eastwards from the Saraswati until they reached the banks of the Gandak and were informed by Agni, the God of fire, that their home lay to the east of its broad stream.

According to one source, " they could be a synthesis between Vedic deities and autochthonous Dravidian totemic deities.

According to Dr. Zimmer, Gandharas were settled since Vedic times on the south bank of the river Kubha ( Kabol ) up to its mouth into Indus itself.

The supposed prediction of an astronomical conjunction of the black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy with the winter solstice Sun on December 21, 2012, referred to by Jenkins in Maya Cosmogenesis 2012: The True Meaning of the Maya Calendar End-Date ( 1998 ) and Galactic Alignment: The Transformation of Consciousness According to Mayan, Egyptian, and Vedic Traditions ( 2002 ) as having been predicted by the ancient Maya and others, is a much-anticipated event in Mayanism.

According to Roy, the Narasimha-Sharabha encounter may be a shaivite version of Vedic tale of Vishnu piercing the boar.

According to puranic legend Dabas are the descendants of Maharishi Dadhichi the great king of Sindh in Vedic period.

According to Stalin's biographer, Simon Sebag Montefiore, the Boss was well aware that Mandelstam, Pasternak, and Bulgakov were geniuses, but ordered their writings suppressed.

According to his writings, Braid began to hear reports concerning various Oriental meditative practices soon after the release of his first publication on hypnotism, Neurypnology ( 1843 ).

According to some of these sources, the Koh-i-Noor was originally found more than 5000 years ago, and is mentioned in ancient Sanskrit writings under the name Syamantaka.

According to the Book of Mormon, a man named Mormon compiled nearly 1000 years of writings as well as chronicled events during his lifetime.

According to the writings in the New Testament, Paul was known as Saul prior to his conversion, and was dedicated to the persecution of the early disciples of Jesus in the area of Jerusalem.

According to a rumor repeated by Gassendi in his Regiomontanus biography he was assassinated by relatives of George of Trebizond whom he had criticized in his writings.

According to Bahá ' í writings, there will not be another messenger for many hundreds of years.

According to Gould the most influential political books he read were C. Wright Mills ' The Power Elite and the political writings of Noam Chomsky.

According to some of the actors, and confirmed in the writings of Godfrey Baseley, in its early days the show was used as a conduit for announcements from the Ministry of Agriculture, one actor reading an announcement almost verbatim to another.

According to author Jami Carlacio, Grimké's writings opened the public's eyes to ideas like women's rights, and for the first time they were willing to question conventional notions about the subordination of women.

According to the 16th to 18th century writings of Silver, Swetnam and Wylde, the quarterstaff is held with the back hand at the butt end of the staff and the other hand about a foot to a foot and a half ( 30 to 45 cm ) above it.

According to his autobiographical writings Asimov included the First Law's " inaction " clause because of Arthur Hugh Clough's poem " The Latest Decalogue ", which includes the satirical lines " Thou shalt not kill, but needst not strive / officiously to keep alive ".

According to the writings of Samuel Hartlib, composer and violinist Johann Schop was one of those instructors.

According to scholar Elaine Pagels, " In AD 367, Athanasius, the zealous bishop of Alexandria ... issued an Easter letter in which he demanded that Egyptian monks destroy all such unacceptable writings, except for those he specifically listed as ' acceptable ' even ' canonical ' — a list that constitutes the present ' New Testament '".

According to the Durant Report on the CIA's top-secret 1953 Robertson Panel, " The writings of Charles Fort were referenced to show that ' strange things in the sky ' had been recorded for hundreds of years.

According to Daniel C. Peterson, then editor of the FARMS Review, FARMS tried to quiet the attack by Signature Books down by emphasizing that the attack was on the writings and not the beliefs or character of the authors reviewed.

According to Lawrence S. Stepelevich, Edgar Bauer was the most anarchistic of the Young Hegelians, and "... it is possible to discern, in the early writings of Edgar Bauer, the theoretical justification of political terrorism.

According to the Party's official historian this period was marked by a growing division between the practitioners of cultural politics – heavily inspired by the writings of Antonio Gramsci and party's powerful industrial department which advocated a policy of militant labourism.

According to his card he was imprisoned for his writings ( possibly about magic ) because Muggles thought they were works of evil.

According to early historians such as the Venerable Bede and Gildas, whose writings were later brought together in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, in 449 Angles, Saxons and Jutes were invited to Britain by King Vortigern as mercenaries to help defend Britain against Picts and Scots.

According to Carolina Armenteros, Maistre's writings influenced not only conservative political thinkers, but also the Utopian socialists.

According to Rudolph's own writings, he survived during his years as a fugitive by camping in the woods, gathering acorns and salamanders, pilfering vegetable gardens, stealing grain from a grain silo, and raiding dumpsters in a nearby town.

According to K. van der Toorn ; P. W. van der Horst, this tradition is first attested in the writings of Pseudo-Philo.

According to these writings, mystical knowledge must be distinguished from the rational knowledge by which we know God, not in his nature, but through the wonderful order of the universe, which is a participation of the divine ideas.

According to its text, the Book of Mormon contains the writings of ancient prophets who lived on the American continent from approximately 2200 BC to AD 421, describes the visit of Jesus after his resurrection and his establishing his church among the indigenous people, and includes important gospel truths lost during the Great Apostasy.