Did Greek thought come from Vedic thought?
So I said the Greek thought was quite similar to so was that coming from the Vedic culture yes at the same time it is very difficult to historically establish this there is the attempt to all religions they try to rewrite history in the way that proves that everything good came from them so if you go to Pakistan no need to go they don't accept that Pakistan was created in 1947 they say Pakistan was created in the 10th, 11th, 12th century and somehow some people, some Hindus took away the land which was meant for Allah and then we again liberated ourselves from Hindus in 1947 so they have their own version of history so once we start going in that zone of trying to prove historically that this came from here that becomes a strong, that becomes an ego battle and there are there is scope for doing this kind of research and there are some devotees who do this research some devotees and some Hindu scholars who have done this research well but there is a lot of simplistic analysis given in this way see this thought was here, this thought was here so for example Australia, now that was Astralaya now Astralaya is a place where weapons are stored, now the name might sound similar but there is no correlation so sometimes in attempts to try to prove how the Vedas are the source of everything we, many Hindu scholars or many Hindu I would say people who think they are scholars, they use very simplistic correlations which actually don't stand historical stand serious historical scrutiny so that attempt to try to prove that everything good everywhere in the world originally came from the Vedas, that can very very easily become an ego exercise, it can become an ego trip so now there is scope for doing that kind of research and if it is done carefully, yes a lot can be found out, so for example there are some things which are well documented, say for example long before Pythagoras came up with Pythagoras theorem, there is a Shulba Sutra in which that same Pythagorean theorem is mentioned and historians also, academics also acknowledged that Shulba Sutra was at least 300-500 years before Pythagoras so research has to be done very rigorously so that it will stand scrutiny so yes we could say, this is not historically provable but this is a hypothesis which we could make and Prabhupada points to it in some places that after the Mahabharata war although the Pandavas won the war but there was so much devastation in the war and after that after Pariksha's departure then the central rulers in India became weak and then every country, every part, different parts of the world, they started disconnecting themselves and they evolved in their own ways so there are some strands of thought which are similar and some which evolved locally and there it is similar, so it could also be that some people immigrated from here to there and they carried the thoughts over there so there are three points in this, there is undeniable similarity in the Upanishadic thoughts and the Greek thoughts but there is also significant amount of dissimilarity among the Greeks also there were people who were totally materialistic those who did not believe in the soul or anything beyond that so Epicurean was a materialist, Epicure was a materialist something like Charvaka in our tradition so there are similarities now to go back and prove that this similarity indicates that one came from the other that requires serious historical research, so if some devotees are adequately some people are adequately scholarly, adequately rigorous, they can do that research but in general rather than focusing on historical origins in today's world if you want to reach out to people it's much better to focus on on practical importance now how is this going to help you, how is this this understanding, this wisdom can help us get deeper meaning, deeper purpose in our life it can help us to become better human beings, it can help us to have a purposeful life, so focusing on the principles that bring, that make logical sense and that bring our practical transformation, that is a much better way of outreach rather than trying to prove that the good thoughts in whichever part of the world, they came from the Vedic tradition, if that has to be done, that has to be done with very careful scrutiny does it answer your question?