Sorry guys!! I was very busy with my CAT exam. Here I am at Xaviers Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar after a really tough GD&PI. Life's gonna be really tough. Interacting with highly intellectual professors and highly spirited students is fun. I never thought it would be such a great opening of my MBA innings. I promise to address most of your concerns as soon as I see them. Just shoot out your queries.
BBC says about Taj Mahal—Hidden Truth – Never say it is a Tomb
Aerial view of the Taj Mahal
The interior water well
Frontal view of the Taj Mahal and dome
Close up of the dome with pinnacle
Close up of the pinnacle
Inlaid pinnacle pattern in courtyard
Red lotus at apex of the entrance
Rear view of the Taj & 22 apartments
View of sealed doors & windows in back
Typical Vedic style corridors
The Music House–a contradiction
A locked room on upper floor
A marble apartment on ground floor
The OM in the flowers on the walls
Staircase that leads to the lower levels
300 foot long corridor inside apartments
One of the 22 rooms in the secret lower level
Interior of one of the 22 secret rooms
Interior of another of the locked rooms
Vedic design on ceiling of a locked room
Huge ventilator sealed shut with bricks
Secret walled door that leads to other rooms
Secret bricked door that hides more evidence
Palace in Barhanpur where Mumtaz died
Pavilion where Mumtaz is said to be buried
NOW READ THIS…….
No one has ever challenged it except Prof. P. N. Oak, who believes the whole world has been duped. In his book Taj Mahal: The True Story, Oak says the Taj Mahal is not Queen Mumtaz’s tomb but an ancient Hindu temple palace of Lord Shiva (then known as Tejo Mahalaya ) . In the course of his research O ak discovered that the Shiva temple palace was usurped by Shah Jahan from then Maharaja of Jaipur, Jai Singh. In his own court ch ronicle, Badshahnama, Shah Jahan admits that an exceptionally beautiful grand mansion in Agra was taken from Jai SIngh for Mumtaz’s burial . The ex-Maharaja of Jaipur still retains in his secret collection two orders from Shah Jahan for surrendering the Taj building. Using captured temples and mansions, as a burial place for dead courtiers and royalty was a common practice among Muslim rulers.
For example, Humayun,Akbar, Etmud-ud-Daula and Safdarjung are all buried in such mansions. Oak’s inquiries began with the name of Taj Mahal. He says
the term "Mahal" has never been used for a building in any Muslim countries from Afghanisthan to Algeria . "The unusual explanation that the term Taj Mahal derives from Mumtaz Mahal was illogical in atleast two respects.
Firstly, her name was never Mumtaz Mahal but Mumtaz-ul-Zamani," he writes. Secondly, one cannot omit the first three letters ‘Mum’ from a woman’s name to derive the remainder as the name for the building."Taj Mahal, he claims, is a corrupt version of Tejo Mahalaya, or Lord Shiva’s Palace. Oak also says the love story of Mumtaz and Shah Jahan is a fairy tale cre ated by court sycophants, blundering historians and sloppy archaeologists Not a single royal chronicle of Shah Jahan’s time corroborates the love story.
Furthermore, Oak cites several documents suggesting the Taj Mahal predates Shah Jahan’s era, and was a temple dedicated to Shiva, worshipped by Rajputs of Agra city. For example, Prof. Marvin Miller of New York took a few samples from the riverside doorway of the Taj. Carbon dating tests revealed that the door was 300 years older than Shah Jahan. European traveler Johan Albert Mandelslo,who visited Agra in 1638 (only seven years after Mumtaz’s death), describes the life of the cit y in his memoirs. But he makes no reference to the Taj Mahal being built. The writings of Peter Mundy, an English visitor to Agra within a year of Mumtaz’s death, also suggest the Taj was a noteworthy building well before Shah Jahan’s time.
Prof. Oak points out a number of design and architectural inconsistencies that support the belief of the Taj Mahal being a typical Hindu temple rather than a mausoleum. Many rooms in the Taj ! Mahal have remained sealed since Shah Jahan’s time and are still inaccessible to the public . Oak asserts they contain a headless statue of Lord Shiva and other objects commonly used for worship rituals in Hindu temples Fearing political backlash, Indira Gandhi’s government t ried to have Prof. Oak’s book withdrawn from the bookstores, and threatened the Indian publisher of the first edition dire consequences . There is only one way to discredit or validate Oak’s research.
The current government should open the sealed rooms of the Taj Ma hal under U.N. supervision, and let international experts investigate.
Do circulate this to all you know and let them know about this reality…..
Never mind, who built it. its a great piece of art. Feel proud tat its in INDIA.
After years of constant search for answers & a lot of thought I decided to blog all what I have concluded. My only motive is too feed your thoughts. I have no intention to disgrace somebody’s belief or religion.
What is god & what is religion? Many believe in concept of god as a supernatural being who is the overseer of all & the source of moral obligations. All polytheists unanimously agree that any divine entity must possess the four O’s to be considered as god viz. Omnipresence, Omniscience, Omnipotence & Omnibenevolent. Similar criteria can be established for any ideology to be considered as a religion. The ABC criteria as they call it i.e. Assure, Believe, Convert. Religions assure salvation; religions believe in a precise theology; and religions convert nonbelievers. So in layman terms or say, my terms, God is a supernatural being & a religion is an ideology or simply what man says about god.
Now what I was thinking on was whether belief in god warrants belief in religion or vice versa? According to me belief in god and belief in religion are tangible or in my opinion two totally different things. God is supernatural but religion isn’t. Religion is an ideology or set of rules, ethics & moral obligations. Religion can also be described as a way of life or a non-anthropomorphic guide to life.
Consider the case of an institution where you have to follow a certain set of rules & ethics. Do we ever wonder who created these rules or who the source of all these obligations is? The motive behind the obligations in any institution is to maintain a symbiotic relation between yourself and the institution. I would like to quote an anonymous person I overheard in a market that if it hadn’t been for religion, mankind would have lost its path. It is religion that keeps us grounded. Even if your broad minded and cosmopolitan and if don’t believe in idol worship or the addictive concept of god, you must not stop following your religion. May it be any religion; it always shows the proper way of life though the methods may be different. After all the tenets of any religions must have been checked and cross checked by our ancestors before being put into religious texts.
I can’t force anybody to think this way neither can I guarantee you salvation if you do follow what I said. But if you have it on your conscious that you are morally & ethically pure, it really works wonders on your confidence & gives you the power to stay put in tough times. Give it a thought…
