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Vedas- The Storehouse of Knowledge, Deeds and Worship

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In Samveda mantra 7, two kinds of languages are stated.

स्वर रहित मन्त्र एह्यू षु ब्रवाणि तेऽग्न इत्थेतरा गिरः । एभिर्वर्धास इन्दुभिः ॥(Samveda mantra 7)

First "Ittha" and second "Ittra". Ittha is the divine Sanskrit language which emanates directly from God in the shape of four Vedas to preach to human beings.

(Yajurveda Mantra 31/7 also refers to the same).

स्वर रहित मन्त्र तस्माद्यज्ञात्सर्वहुत ऋचः सामानि जज्ञिरे । छन्दाँसि जज्ञिरे तस्माद्यजुस्तस्मादजायत ॥(Yajurveda Mantra 31/7)

Naturally, the Ved Mantras are not in worldly language but in divine Sanskrit language. Ittha is preached at the time of every creation.

So when we talk about the present creation i.e., about more than 1 Arab, 96 crores, 8 lakhs, 53,111 years ago, when this earth came into existence, the knowledge of Vedas emanated from God as usual.

As God is immortal so the said language is immortal too. It is not out of place to mention here that immortal power can only generate immortal language.

Keeping the said statement in mind it is very clear that Vedas have not been written by any Rishi-Muni, saint, men or women etc. Another language is called "Ittra language", made by human beings.

The second one is not immortal because it is generated from the mind of human beings and the mind being made of Prakriti is destructible and not immortal.

It concludes that whenever we want to know the truth, we will have to tally it with the Vedas.

If any kind of material, deeds, worship, action is to be checked as to whether it is true or false, it is to be verified from Vedas.

If it is mentioned in Vedas as true then it is true otherwise it will have to be declared false. (Yog Shastra sutra 1/7 and Samkhya Shastra 1/52 refer).

है प्रत्यक्षानुमानाऽगमाः प्रमाणानि ।। (Yog Shastra sutra 1/7)

न कर्म्मणाप्यत्तद्धर्मत्वात् ।। (Samkhya Shastra 1/52)

This is fundamental law so cannot be changed. Now we discuss the form of Almighty God from Vedas.

Yajurveda Mantra 31/18:

वेदाहमेतम्पुरुषम्महान्तमादित्यवर्णन्तमसः परस्तात् । तमेव विदित्वाति मृत्युमेति नान्यः पन्था विद्यतेयनाय ॥

Says - God is the form of light, the light which is the source of light and energy to sun, moon and to the whole of the world i.e God is Himself the perennial source of light.

He is enlightened through His own light. He gives the light to all but He Himself never takes light from any source.

When anyone (Yogi), through the power of Ashtang Yoga, realises the light within his soul, he overcomes the death and gets final liberation.

It means we must worship the God who is formless and Himself a light.

The idea of Rigveda Mantra 10/121/1

छन्दः हिरण्यगर्भः सम॑वर्ततायै भूतस्य॑ जा॒तः पतिरेके आसीत् । स र्दाधार पृथिवीं द्यामुतेमां कस्मै दे॒वाय॑ ह॒विर्षा विधेम ॥

and

Yajurveda mantra 40/8

स पर्यगाच्छुक्रमकायमव्रणमस्नाविरं शुद्धमपापविद्धम। कविर्मनीषि परिभूः स्वयम्भूर्याथातथ्यतो अर्थानव्यदधाच्छाशवतीभ्यः समाभ्यः ।। (यजुर्वेद मंत्र- 40/8)

is that all the powers rest in God, i.e., why He is called Almighty. He is light. God was before creation i.e He was in the past, is in the present and will remain in the future unchanged after destruction of this earth/world.

He is the only matter who creates, nurses and destroys the universe that is why Yajurveda Mantra 27/36

न त्वावौ२ ॥ ऽअ॒न्यो दिव्यो न पार्थिवो न जातो न ज॑निष्यते। अ॒श्ववा॒यन्नो॑ मघवन्निन्द्र वा॒जिनों गुव्यन्त॑स्त्वा हवामहे ॥३६॥

also states that the God is one and equivalent to this God, no other God was either born or will ever be born. We must worship the said God only.

God gives birth to everybody but He never takes birth.

Yajurveda Mantra 31/3

ए॒तावा॑नस्य महिमातो ज्यायया॑श्च॒ पूरु॑षः । पार्दोऽस्य॒ विश्वा॑ भूतानं त्रिपाद॑स्य॒मृते॑ दवि ।।३।।

says that His (God's) greatness is beyond description. We can only say that God is so great that this creation is nothing before the greatness of Almighty God.

Now we must discuss how many Gods are there to be worshipped.

In this connection, all four Vedas, six shastras and holy books of all religions clarify that there is only one God, who was present before creation, He is present now and will remain present after destruction of this world, being immortal.

Atharvaveda Mantra 13/4/16 to 21

न द्वितीयो न तृतीय॑श्चतुर्थो नाप्य॑च्यते ।य एतं दे॒वमे॑क॒वृतं वेद॑ ॥(13/4/16)

न प॑ञ्च॒मो न षष्ठः स॑प्त॒मो नाप्युच्यते ।य एतं दे॒वमे॑क॒वृतं वेद॑ ॥(13/4/17)

नाष्टमो न न॑व॒मो द॑श॒मो नाप्य॑च्यते I य एतं दे॒वमे॑क॒वृतं वेद॑ ॥(13/4/18)

स सर्व॑स्मै॒ वि प॑श्यति॒ यच्च॑ प्राणति॒ यच्च न I य एतं दे॒वमे॑क॒वृतं वेद॑ ॥(13/4/19)

तमिदं निर्गतं सहः स एष एक एक्वृदेके I य एतं दे॒वमे॑क॒वृतं वेद॑ ॥(13/4/20)

सर्वे अस्मिन्दे॒वा ऐकवृतौ भवन्ति I य एतं दे॒वमे॑क॒वृतं वेद॑ ॥(13/4/21)

say that God is neither two nor three, four, five, six, seven, eight or nine. There is only one God. So we must only worship one God and no other.

In this connection, the guidance from a proper spiritual master (Acharya, guru who is learned of Vedas) is a must.

The form of God is light which is within each human being. God is always away from birth, death, or to face the result of any deeds etc.

(Yog shastra sutra 1/24 refers).

क्लेशकर्मविपाकाशयैरपरामृष्टः पुरुषविशेष ईश्वरः ।। 24 ।।

He is the only source of merriment. He whose several names have been mentioned in Vedas. He is the only God described in Vedas.

For example, Vishnu. The Vishnu word occurs in Vedas and it means omnipresent God.

Traditionally Vedas were being learnt and recited orally since Satyug by the grace of our ancient Rishi- Munis.

Afterwards, about more than 5,300 years ago Maharishi Vyasji wrote the Vedas on Bhoj patra.

Then few historic events which took place in Dwapar Yug were compiled in the form of Mahabharata epic by Vyas Muniji.

Mahabharata originally has 10,000 shlokas written in Sanskrit, which are true and give Vedas' knowledge too.

Presently, Mahabharata contains 1 lakh 20,000 shlokas out of which 10,000 shlokas are only true.

That is why untrue and impossible stories are being heard like birth from fire (agnikund). Vedas do not accept it.

Vedas do not contain any historic event. It is a knowledge which emanates directly from God.

So naturally the Vedas do not tell about any individual's name, place etc. After the destruction of the previous creation, there remains nothing in the world.

There was no sun, moon, human being, day and night, death and birth, space etc.

(Rigveda mandal 10 sukta 129 refers).

सप्तर्चस्यास्य सूक्तस्य परमेष्ठी प्रजापतिर्ऋषिः । भाववृत्तं देवता ।

So at the beginning of present creation, no event could take place in the absence of living-beings and other matters etc.

Then at a fixed time the power of Almighty God starts functioning in prakriti and the creation starts.

Thus, the world comes into existence.

It was a non-sexual creation of all living-beings. And naturally, they were not learned.

At this Juncture, a question arises, who was present there to educate the human-beings as without giving knowledge to men or women, no one can become wise.

God is merciful and therefore as usual He showers His eternal mercy in the shape of four Vedas on all the human-beings to educate them well.

The said knowledge of Vedas emanates from God and is originated in the heart of four Rishis of non-sexual creation, who then become wise.

Thereafter, the Rishis shower the knowledge of Vedas to aspirants.

So the first Guru of our ancient Rishis is God (Yog shastra sutra 1/26 refers).

स एषः पूर्वेषामपि गुरुः कालेनानवच्छेदात् ।।

Thereafter only Rishis have been our Guru to give Vedic knowledge not only to worship God, but to educate people about all kinds of science and pious deeds.

Hence, as said above Vedas are not a story.

Story describes an event or happening and will be destroyed at the time of final destruction of the world.

But God and His knowledge of Vedas being immortal, will ever remain, surpassing destruction. And this is the true knowledge.

So we must worship only Almighty God through Yajyen, reciting the holy name given by a guru (learned Acharya or Vedas).

Vedas state to discharge family duties besides worshipping God. We must always leave sins and accept the truth but to realise the truth, one will have to listen to the Vedas first.

It is unfortunate that often some people falsely state that Vedas are difficult.

In this connection, please remember that when a child first goes to school or first time starts studying, is the study easy for him?

Or is it easy to get B.Sc., M.Sc., PhD., degrees or to be a doctor, scientist or engineer?

Yes, the same is very difficult for those who are lazy and is quite easy for those who are hard workers.

So when a student listens carefully and works hard then no topic remains difficult for him.

So are the Vedas.

You have to listen to the Vedas and not read them.

In the matter of Vedas, these are to be listened to traditionally and not to be read. So listening is not difficult.

One has to seek his Acharya who is learned of Vedas, to listen to the Vedas from him. Listening of Vedas, is an order direct from God. And to oversight the same may be the order of man.

We have to decide either to obey God to become learned or to obey man to remain ignorant.