If you had been around in the third millennium B.C.E. ( and if the Hindu theory of reincarnation is correct, you might have been!), India is where you would have wanted to be. The quality of life was higher there than practically anywhere else in the world. In fact, the towns of North India in 2600 B.C.E. were more comfortable and technologically advanced than most European cities till nearly the time of the Renaissance!
Religious life was vibrant in ancient India. Some of the oldest surviving spiritual writings come from this part of the world. They reveal a religion that was both biosterously earthy and trancendently mystical-not unlike Hinduism today.
But somewhere between then and now the history of these deeply religious people was erased. What happened?
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