".... who speaks of Aryan race, Aryan blood, Aryan eyes
and Aryan hair, is as great a sinner as a linguist who speaks
of a dolichocephalic dictionary or a brachycephalic grammar.
Aryan, in scientific language, is utterly inapplicable to race.
It means language and nothing but language, and if we
speak of an Aryan race at all, we should know that it means
no more than x + Aryan speech."^5
From a truly Hindu point of view – one which accepts
the role of reincarnation in history – religious cultures and
philosophical teachings do only spread, diversify and evolve
through migrations and dispersions of peoples – whether
from East to West, North to South – or vice versa. The
essential weakness of both the ‘Aryan Invasion Theory’ and
the ‘Out of India’ theory lie in substituting migratory
genealogies with linguistic or spiritual-reincarnational
understandings of the foundations of both Indic and
Germanic culture – and their inner connection. This is also
the essential weakness in the current Indian legal definition
of what or who constitutes a ‘Hindu’. Restricting this
appellation to ethnic Indian or Asian Hindus not only goes
against the Hindu doctrine of reincarnation, but prevents
the recognition of Western Hindus as ‘twice born’ Hindus^7
in the reincarnational sense. And as we know, the true
meaning of ‘Arya’ is ‘noble’ – not by virtue of birth or race,
caste or class, but by virtue of karma and dharma.