The Vedas we know contain eternal truths, and of all the truths, the knowledge of god or Atman is the most important one. Swami Vivekananda says ' the Vedas should be studied through the eyeglass of evolution. They contain the whole history of the progress of religious consciousness, untill religion has reached perfection in unity.' So the Vedas contain everything. The question is how did the Vedic truth appear in verse form? Who brought them to us?

An interesting incident happened some years ago. We shall not say whether the repercussions were good or bad; that's not our concern. But our concern is the incident itself. A revered monk sat as the president in some meeting. A musician started singing some Mantras from the Vedas set to her tunes. Unfortunately, the lady belonged to a race that finds it difficult to pronounce Sanskrit correctly. To this race, so becomes sho, ksha becomes sko. They pronounce daksha as dakko, Om becomes ong; sati as shoti, sahana vavatu as shohono bhobotu. She began singing the Mantras with the pronunciation characteristic of her race. This troubled the monk and he walked away. Immediately, there was an uproar that it was an insult to humanity; that woman were being insulted, that the monk had to be condemned. Perhaps, the monk was pained over something else. And what was that?

Imagine those bygone days of thousands and thousands of years ago when there was no writing imagine those days when there was no other civilization but the Aryan. Imagine the river and the sunrise and the trees. And the sages repeating Vedic truths to their disciples. And then the disciples memorizing them. For tens of thousands of years, this tradition of the teacher repeating mantras and the students memorizing them went on. It went on and on until writing was introduced. Suppose you could record the chants of two sages ten thousands years apart on two different cassettes-one sage of 15000 BC and another of 5000 BC and suppose you played both the cassettes simultaneously. You would not find any disharmony in the chants at all. Both sages, though thousands of years apart, would repeat the mantras in the same way, in the same tune, in the same rhythm and style. That was the wonder and greatness of our sages! So have truths, discovered some twenty thousands years back, come down to us today in their pristine purity, as they were! Only in modern times they have changed the tunes etc. but how did our Rishis achieve such a wonder?