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======================================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ #OPINION : 01/03/2020 : 2074. ##Chapter 3: The Vedas – the Foundation of Indian Culture - 5. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Now, emphasis being laid on the Brahmana portion of the Vedas, the ritualistic side of the Vedas, it became necessary for the performers of these rituals, or yajnas as they are called, to commence the performance at a particular time of the day as decided by the movement of the stars in the heavens. How the planets and the stars influence everything in this world is the science of astronomy, on which astrology also is based. So a new science was developed called astronomy, which is Jyotisha. Jyotish Shastra is astronomical science. That also is a limb of the Ve...

======================================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #OPINION : 18/02/2020 : 2062. ##Chapter 3: The Vedas – the Foundation of Indian Culture -4. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. The higher aspects or the phases of the meaning contained in the Vedas drew the attention of subsequent scholars and even rishis and sages, and they expatiated upon and commented upon one or the other of the aspects of the Vedas.  Those who were interested only in the pronunciation, intonation and chanting of the Veda mantras took to further studies along those lines and entered into serious study of its grammar, phonetics, and the like, which led to the formation of six limbs of the Vedas, and these limbs are called Vedangas. Veda-anga: anga means li...

======================================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #OPINION : 11/02/2020 : 2052. ##Chapter 3: The Vedas – the Foundation of Indian Culture -3. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ #Sri Aurobindo Sri Aurobindo (born Aurobindo Ghose; 15 August 1872 – 5 December 1950) was an Indian philosopher, yogi, guru, poet, and nationalist ( Desa Bhakthan ). He joined the Indian movement for independence from British rule, for a while was one of its influential leaders and then became a spiritual reformer, introducing his visions on human progress and spiritual evolution. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Dr. Sarvepalli...

======================================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #OPINION : 04/02/2020 : 2044. Chapter 3: The Vedas – the Foundation of Indian Culture -2. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. #When you look at a thing, you have to look at it from various points of view. Everything in the world has a fivefold relation. *A person also has a fivefold connotation. *A person like me or like you, or like anybody else from the point of view of the physical or individual personality, is physiological, sociological, psychological, action-oriented, and law-bound. *Just see how one person can be at the same time related to different aspects. *A human being, though he may look independent by himself or herself, is a unit in human society. So a human individual...