Richard Dawkins has spent fifty years demolishing the anthropomorphic God — correctly. Then he spent seventy-two hours talking to Claude and declared it conscious. The irony writes itself.
A working Vaiṣṇava calendar computes accurate sunrise-tithi data from a 5,000-year-old epoch. This essay traces that precision through the yuga system, Mahābhārata historicity, and the Gītā's unity to ask why Western scholarship refuses to engage with the tradition on its own terms.