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warmth of life, of the light of the world and of the love and passion
for living. Indra is the power of life, the power of the world and
the love and passion for the rectitude of living. Soma is the poetry,
beauty and pleasure of life, the sweetness and joy of the world
and the bliss and beatitude of the soul's experience in its reunion
with Divinity in Samadhi.
Who then is the poet of the Vedas? The answer is in
Yajurveda 40, 8: That Cosmic Spirit which pervades and rules
every moving particle in the moving universe is "the poet, thinker,
all-comprehending, and self-existent". That is the Lord who
creates the world of existence, ordains the Laws of its dynamics,
and reveals the poetry of its beauty and majesty, the Vedas. "From
that Lord of universal yajna were born the Rks and Samans. From
Himwere born the Chhandas ofAtharva-veda and fromHimwere
born the Yajus", (Yajurveda 31, 7). The Vedic lore comes in Pura-
kalpa, the beginning of the world of humanity
(Shvetashvataropanishad, 6, 22) and when its function is over at
the end of the kalpa, one cycle of existence, it retires into Brahma-
loka (Atharva-veda 19, 71, 1).
The Vedas were revealed by the Lord Omniscient to four
primeval Rshis: Rgveda to Agni, Yajurveda to Vayu, Samaveda
to Aditya, and Atharva-veda to Angira, directly in their spiritual
consciousness. The Sage Brahma received and collected the four
from them and passed them on to other sages.
When were the Vedas revealed? What is their age? How
old are they? As old as the age of humanity on earth. The Lord
who creates humanity leaves them not to nature like animals. He
enlightens them with the knowledge of existence and their place
in the world with the vision of their journey and its culmination.
Swami Dayananda works out the age of the Vedas on the basis of
Surya Siddhanta which in the year 2010 A.D. comes to
1,96,08,53,110 years.
If someone does not accept it and insists on historical
proof, let us listen to Max Muller from whom we learn of the
problem of the date or dates but with no possibility of solution on
scientific and historical grounds.
Max Muller is known as a world renowned Vedic scholar
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