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Significance of the Vedas
Many of us know that the basic scriptures of the Hindus are the Vedas, just as the Bible is for the Christians and the Koran for the Muslims. But not many of us are aware us to what their value is, and their relevance is in modern times.
Veda means to know. The Vedas are the greatest scriptures humanity can think of. They don't belong to any religion in particular but are eternal, everlasting truths. It's very important to know that "by the Vedas no books are meant. They mean the accumulated treasury of spiritual laws discovered by different persons in different times." Swami Vivekananda, who said this, added that just as the gravitational law was there before Newton discovered it and will be there if all of us forgot it, so are some eternal truths in the universe. These laws are discovered from time to time according to the need of the age. 'The discoverers of these laws are called Rishis and we honour them as perfected beings. Of the Rishis who discovered the truths, many were women and many more were children. Everyone can be a Rishi. You, I, the streetwalker, anyone can become a Rishi: this is the glorious positive note of our ancient religion.
If the cosmic mind is one, why can't all of us discover truths? It's only because we simply don't want to. This leads us to the question: How to discover truths? That's precisely what the Vedas contain.
If you ask a modern person about the Vedas, he or she will say : 'Oh, come on ! What else is there in the Vedas? Sacrifice, sacrifice, and sacrifice. Pour ghee into fire. 'This is called 'knowledge' and scientific 'spirit'! The Vedas contain methods of discovering truths as well as discovered truths. That there's a jar of gold hidden in your garden and you'll have to dig it out is a truth. That there's gravitational force is a truth. That there's a heaven and we can go there is a truth. That there's a God and you can see him is a truth. That there's the Atman or self within us and we can see it is a truth. So, there are gradations of truths. And the Vedas contain all these and many, many more truths. What do you want to attain? - they speak.
Suppose, you buy a lottery ticket from a Pooja pandal during the GANESH Chatuthi festival near your house. The organizers have a house, a car, a computer, a TV, and a cycle and a hundred other prizes. You don't buy a ticket because you will get the last prize, a five-rupee note. You buy the ticket only because you imagine sitting in a beautiful new house. So also, the Vedas contain a hundred truths. It's for us to choose the one we want, and we naturally go for the greatest truth. |
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