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THE VEDIC LITERATURES

THE VEDIC LITERATURES. How can we understand the Supreme Person who is creator of infinite gigantic universes?. tene brahma hriday adi kavaye. The Vedic knowledge was revealed by the Supreme Person, within the heart of the first created being, Brahma.

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THE VEDIC LITERATURES

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  1. THE VEDIC LITERATURES

  2. How can we understand the Supreme Person who is creator of infinite gigantic universes?

  3. tene brahma hriday adi kavaye

  4. The Vedic knowledge was revealed by the Supreme Person, within the heart of the first created being, Brahma.

  5. This Vedic wisdom came down in disciplic succession through aural reception.

  6. Srimad Bhagavatam predicts about people in Kali-yuga • mandäù — lazy; • sumanda-matayaù — misguided; • manda-bhägyäù — unlucky; • hi upadrutäù — and above all disturbed.

  7. Vyäsadeva, a literary incarnation of God, recorded all the Vedas in writing 5,000 years back for the benefit of people inKali Yuga.

  8. The Vedas are also called as SHRUTIS or knowledge received through aural reception.

  9. The means of Vedic knowledge is to accept an authority & learn the truth by inquiring submissively.

  10. The Vedas offer insight into - • Who am I ? • Where have I come from ? • Where do I go after death ?

  11. The Vedas offer insight into - • What is the purpose of my existence ? • Who is God ? • How am I related to God ?

  12. VEDIC KNOWLEDGE SRUTI SMRTI VEDAS Rg, Yajur, Sama, Atharva UPAVEDAS Dhanurveda Ayurveda, etc. VEDANGAS Ritual Sutras Connected to Kalpa-vedanga Tantras Spoken by Lord Siva to Parvati Pancaratras Puranas Itihasas Six Darshanas Samhitas mantras Kalpa ritual details Srauta Sutras explains public yajnas Vaisnava worship 18 Major Brahmanas ritual explanation of mantras Siksa pronunciation Grhya Sutras explains home yajnas 18 Minor Tamasic Aranyakas esoteric explanation of mantras Vyakarana grammar Dharma Sutras Law books Rajasic Upanisads Jnana-kanda philosophy of Brahman Nirukta etymology Dharma Sastras including Manu- samhita and others Sattvic Chandas meters Jyotisa astronomy-time calculation 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) Revealed absolute Truth Every word unchanged eternally Composed by sages Wording may change from age to age sisters sisters sisters

  13. Three Divisions of the Vedas • Karma-kanda: Material elevation (pravritti). • Jnana-kanda: Decreasing material involvement through knowledge (nivritti). • Upasana-kanda: Decreasing material involvement through worship of the Supreme.

  14. Five Types of Liberation • Sayujya-mukti – to become one with the Lord • Salokya-mukti – to live on the same planet as the Lord • Svarupya-mukti – to obtain the same bodily features as the Lord • Sarsti-mukti – to have the same opulences as the Lord • Samipya-mukti – to have constant association with the Lord

  15. vadanti tat tattva-vidastattvaà yaj jïänam advayambrahmeti paramätmetibhagavän iti çabdyate (Srimad Bhagavatam 1.2.11)

  16. Learned transcendentalists who know the Absolute Truth call this nondual substance Brahman, Paramätmä or Bhagavän.

  17. Bhagavad Gita

  18. sarvasya cähaà hådi sanniviñöomattaù småtir jïänam apohanaà cavedaiç ca sarvair aham eva vedyovedänta-kåd veda-vid eva cäham (Bhagavad Gita 15.15)

  19. 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 Vedänta, and I am the knower of the Vedas.

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