Ancient wisdom of the Vedas

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THE VEDICLITERATURES


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How can we understand theSupreme Person who is creator

of infinite gigantic universes?


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tene brahma

hriday adi

kavaye


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The Vedic knowledge was revealedby the Supreme Person, within the

heart of the first created being,

Brahma.


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This Vedic

wisdom came

down in

disciplic

succession

through auralreception.


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Srimad Bhagavatam predicts about

people in Kali-yuga

mand lazy;

sumanda-mataya misguided;

manda-bhgy unlucky;

hi upadrut and above all

disturbed.


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Vysadeva, a literary

incarnation of God,

recorded all the Vedas inwriting 5,000 years back for

the benefit of people in

Kali Yuga.


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The Vedas are also called

as SHRUTIS or knowledgereceived through aural

reception.


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The means of Vedic knowledge isto accept an authority & learn the

truth by inquiring submissively.


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The Vedas offer insight into -

Who am I ?Where have I come from ?

Where do I go after death ?


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Composed by sages

Wording may change from age to age

Revealed absolute Truth

Every word unchanged eternally

sisters sisters sisters

Rajasic

VEDIC KNOWLEDGE

SRUTI SMRTI

UPAVEDASDhanurveda

Ayurveda, etc.

VEDASRg, Yajur,

Sama, Atharva

VEDANGAS ItihasasPuranas Six DarshanasTantras

Spoken by Lord

Siva to Parvati

Ritual SutrasConnected to

Kalpa-vedanga

Pancaratras

Srauta Sutras

explainspublic yajnas

Grhya Sutrasexplains

home yajnas

Dharma SutrasLaw books

Vedanta(Vyasa)

(Metaphysics)

theology of

Upanisads

Mimamsa(Jaimini)

(Hermeneutics)

interpreting

scriptural texts

Nyaya(Gautama)

(Epistemology, logic)

philosophy of

knowledge

including logic

Vaisesika(Kanada)

(Metaphysics)

philosophy of

existence

Yoga(Patanjali)

(Sadhana)

Sankhya(Atheist Kapila)

(Metaphysics)

Dharma Sastrasincluding Manu-

samhita and others

18 Major

18 Minor

Samhitasmantras

Brahmanasritual explanation

of mantras

Aranyakasesoteric explanation

of mantras

Upanisads

Jnana-kandaphilosophy of Brahman

Kalparitual details

Siksapronunciation

Vyakaranagrammar

Niruktaetymology

Chandasmeters

Jyotisaastronomy-time

calculation

Vaisnava

worship

Tamasic

Sattvic


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Three Divisions of the Vedas

Karma-kanda: Material elevation (pravritti).

Jnana-kanda: Decreasing material involvementthrough knowledge (nivritti).

Upasana-kanda: Decreasing materialinvolvement through worship of the Supreme.


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Five Types of Liberation

Sayujya-mukti to become one with the Lord

Salokya-mukti to live on the same planet as theLord

Svarupya-mukti to obtain the same bodily featuresas the Lord

Sarsti-mukti

to have the same opulences as the Lord Samipya-mukti to have constant association with

the Lord


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vadanti tat tattva-vidas

tattva yaj jnam advayam

brahmeti paramtmeti

bhagavn iti abdyate

(Srimad Bhagavatam 1.2.11)


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Learned transcendentalists who know the Absolute

Truth call this nondual substance

Brahman, Paramtm or Bhagavn.


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Bhagavad Gita
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sarvasya cha hdi sannivio

matta smtir jnam apohana ca

vedai ca sarvair aham eva vedyovednta-kd veda-vid eva cham

(Bhagavad Gita 15.15)


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I am seated in everyone's heart, and from Me

come remembrance, knowledge and forgetfulness.

By all the Vedas, I am to be known. Indeed, I

am the compiler of Vednta, and I am the knowerof the Vedas.


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