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VEDAS AND US
The very word Veda means knowledge, derived from the root
vid.
Indeed, the Vedas are the fountainhead of the knowledge.
Entire humanity recognizes that
Rgveda
is the oldest book in
the library of the mankind. However, the truth is that the four
Vedas (Rgveda, Yajurveda, Samaveda and Atharvaveda) were
revealed to four Rsis at the dawn of the mankind on the earth.
God's Revelation of Vedas: Badaraymja, the author of
Brahmasutra (also called Vedanta-Dariana) declares at the
outset that God exists because Vedas exist —
ilistrayonitvdt.
It
must be so because the most benevolent God must reveal the
knowledge to the mankind once He creates the creation and
His masterpiece that the man is. Pataajali, the author of Yoga-
Dariana
declares that God is the original teacher for the
mankind —
sa parvesamapi guruh kalenanavacchedat.
The
common sense says that God's revelation must appear at the
onset of the creation so that everybody, the first generation
included, benefits from the same. Any book that appears into
the world after human beings have inhabited the earth for a
length of time can not claim to be God's revelation. Also, God's
revelation of knowledge includes the knowledge of the
language. So, any book that claims to be God's revelation must
appear before the knowledge of the particular language
developed. That means that a book in Arabic can not be God's
revelation if the Arabic language had developed before the
particular book appeared. Similarly, a book appearing in Latin
or Hebrew can not be God's revelation if these languages had
developed at the time of appearance of that book. On the same
token, Gird can not be called as God's revelation because the
language of Sanskrit was very much in its developed form when
Gita came into existence. Therefore, only Vedas can be God's
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