Vedas are the essence of human life, observed noted Avadhani
(literary performer) Garikapati Narasimha Rao.
Speaking on the concept of ‘Vedam – Ramayanam’ at Veda Agama
Vidwat Sadas in Dharmagiri on Sunday, he said the values required in leading a
pious life are taught in the Puranas and epics through the celebrated mythological
characters.
He also dealt at length with several aspects of the
illustrated Ramayana and enthralled the audience with his humour-filled talk.
The audience remained captivated by his spell-bound orating skills all through.
Vedas are not only the spiritual books but are the full of scientific information about how to lead a pious life healthy and moral life.
How to avoid Different sin and diseases and how to cure them even the creation of universe is also given in nasadiya sukta.
Following are the verses
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नासदासीन्नो
सदासीत्तदानीं नासीद्रजो नो व्योमा परो
यत् |
किमावरीवः
कुह कस्य शर्मन्नम्भः किमासीद्गहनं गभीरम् ॥ १॥
न
मृत्युरासीदमृतं न तर्हि न
रात्र्या अह्न आसीत्प्रकेतः |
आनीदवातं
स्वधया तदेकं तस्माद्धान्यन्न परः किञ्चनास ॥२॥
Then even nothingness was not, nor existence,
There was no air then, nor the heavens beyond it.
What covered it? Where was it? In whose keeping?
Was there then cosmic water, in depths unfathomed?
Then there was neither death nor immortality
nor was there then the torch of night and day.
The One breathed windlessly and self-sustaining.
There was that One then, and there was no other.
तम
आसीत्तमसा गूहळमग्रे प्रकेतं सलिलं सर्वाऽइदम् |
तुच्छ्येनाभ्वपिहितं
यदासीत्तपसस्तन्महिनाजायतैकम्
॥३॥
कामस्तदग्रे
समवर्तताधि मनसो रेतः प्रथमं यदासीत् |
सतो
बन्धुमसति निरविन्दन्हृदि प्रतीष्या कवयो मनीषा ॥४॥
At first there was only darkness wrapped in darkness.
All this was only unillumined water.
That One which came to be, enclosed in nothing,
arose at last, born of the power of heat.
In the beginning desire descended on it -
that was the primal seed, born of the mind.
The sages who have searched their hearts with wisdom
know that which is kin to that which is not.
तिरश्चीनो
विततो रश्मिरेषामधः स्विदासीदुपरि स्विदासीत् |
रेतोधा
आसन्महिमान आसन्त्स्वधा अवस्तात्प्रयतिः परस्तात् ॥५॥
को
अद्धा वेद क इह प्र
वोचत्कुत आजाता कुत इयं विसृष्टिः |
अर्वाग्देवा
अस्य विसर्जनेनाथा को वेद यत
आबभूव ॥६॥
And they have stretched their cord across the void,
and know what was above, and what below.
Seminal powers made fertile mighty forces.
Below was strength, and over it was impulse.
But, after all, who knows, and who can say
Whence it all came, and how creation happened?
the gods themselves are later than creation,
so who knows truly whence it has arisen?
इयं
विसृष्टिर्यत आबभूव यदि वा दधे यदि
वा न |
यो अस्याध्यक्षः परमे व्योमन्त्सो अङ्ग वेद यदि वा न वेद ॥७॥
Whence all creation had its origin,
he, whether he fashioned it or whether he did not,
he, who surveys it all from highest heaven,
he knows - or maybe even he does not know
From times immemorial Human beings have wondered about the
mystery of creation and destruction, life and death, cosmos and consciousness,
energy and matter. He has always been looking for the Creator. He has wondered
about the forces of nature and tried to solve the mystery of his own Existence.
He has formulated different views, theories and beliefs
based on his experiences. The search is eternal. In this struggle human
societies have developed all types of religious beliefs and theories from total
rejection of God to full faith in God, from One God to No God.
Today we have a full
spectrum of world views from total liberalism, to pluralism to fundamentalism.
Long before the current so called western or materialistic word view started
dominating the world over the last two centuries, the Rishis of Bharat dwelled
deep into understanding the above mentioned issues.
The search was to explore the Inner Being through many
techniques or methods of Sadhana and acquiring Supra-mental powers called
Siddhis. The knowledge acquired by many great Rishis has been compiled by Ved
Vyas in the four great books of knowledge known as Vedas.
Today we have met under the auspices of Poojya Dada
Bhagwan’s forum to pay tribute to his great contribution in the lineage of our
great Vedic Rishis. The subject matter is too complex to deal with in a short
talk of a few minutes but for devotees the joy of grasping the essence of the
subject by learning from the austere life of Poojya Dada Bhagwan is relatively
simple.
The Vedic
view of life is based on the Holistic science of life. It is a method to grasp
the Whole and visualize the Reality as a One Single Entity, an Integral Whole
in contrast to the modern scientific method of looking at Reality composed of
small individual units put together giving an impression of synthetic unity.
This method is known as reductionism giving the mechanistic world view. The
beginning of earlier science and technology depended on this Newtonian model
but in the last century, a big transition has occurred due to the development
of quantum physics introduced by Einstein. It has not only transformed the
world due to nuclear power, worldwide web and high speed transportation but
challenged the Objective world view of science by introducing the interplay of
consciousness and matter.
The modern scientific theories have crossed the
borders of physical reality and accepted the idea that what is known as reality
is influenced by the consciousness of the observer. The Rishis of Vedic times
and the modern Rishis like Paramhansa Ramkrishna, Swami Vivekananda,Sri
Aurbindo, Sri Raman Maharshi and others have gone beyond by becoming one with
Satchidananda.
The holistic view of life has declared the Reality as the
wholeness of creation and Oneness of Self. This realization is also known as
Self Realization as Self is our Aatman and it is only a holographic image of
Parmatman or Infinite Bliss. The experience of Bliss or Ananda is the attribute
of Chit (the full awareness of everything known and unknown in our universe and
beyond
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Types Of Vedas
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Rig Veda -
The Rigveda Samhita is the oldest extant Indic
text.It is a collection of 1,028 Vedic Sanskrit hymns and 10,600 verses in all,
organized into ten books (Sanskrit: mandalas.] The hymns are dedicated to
Rigvedic deities.
The books were composed by poets from different priestly
groups over a period of several centuries from roughly the second half of the
2nd millennium BC (the early Vedic period), starting with the Punjab (Sapta
Sindhu) region of the northwest Indian subcontinent.
Samaveda
The Samaveda Samhita consists of 1549 stanzas, taken almost entirely
(except for 75 mantras) from the Rigveda.[50][84] The Samaveda samhita has two
major parts. The first part includes four melody collections (gāna, गान) and the second part
three verse “books” (ārcika, आर्चिक.A
melody in the song books corresponds to a verse in the arcika books.
Just as in the Rigveda, the early sections of Samaveda
typically begin with hymns to Agni and Indra, but shift to the abstract. Their
meters shift also in a descending order. The songs in the later sections of the
Samaveda have the least deviation from the hymns derived from the Rigveda.
Yajurveda
The Yajurveda Samhita consists of prose mantras.[88] It is a
compilation of ritual offering formulas that were said by a priest while an
individual performed ritual actions such as those before the yajna fire.
The earliest and most ancient layer of Yajurveda samhita
includes about 1,875 verses, that are distinct yet borrow and build upon the
foundation of verses in Rigveda.
Atharvaveda
The Artharvaveda Samhita is the text 'belonging to the
Atharvan and Angirasa poets. It has about 760 hymns, and about 160 of the hymns
are in common with the Rigveda.Most of the verses are metrical, but some
sections are in prose.Two different versions of the text – the Paippalāda and
the Śaunakīya – have survived into the modern times.The Atharvaveda was not
considered as a Veda in the Vedic era, and was accepted as a Veda in late 1st
millennium BC. It was compiled last.probably around 900 BC, although some of
its material may go back to the time of the Rigvedaor earlier.
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