#Ancient Culture ( Samskaram ) of Bharatham-3.2 : Swami Krishnananda
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#OPINION : 04/02/2020 : 2044.
Chapter 3: The Vedas – the Foundation of Indian Culture -2.
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#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 is sociologically restrained and limited.
*A human being is a physical body with hunger and thirst and other demands, so a human being also is physical and material.
*A human being is very active and is compelled to do some work or the other; therefore, action-oriented also is a human individual.
#And every individual is restrained by a law or a regulation; either it is a socially-bound regulation, a community-bound regulation, a governmental regulation or a moral regulation. Some regulation is there which keeps us within bounds.
#We cannot overstep certain limits of human behaviour.
#You appreciate now that a single person is four things at the same time, and also a fifth thing in the sense that you are never satisfied with anything in this world. You look up for satisfaction to some reality which is above this world.
##The adhidaivika aspect also is working within.
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##If a human individual is involved in five ways at the same time, the teachings connected with the welfare of an individual also should have a fivefold connotation.
###So do not say that Indian culture is religion and it has no connection with the material world, it has no connection with duties in this world, and it is always looking to the skies above.
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3.
##The Bhagavadgita, to mention only one instance among many others, is a very precise statement of this fivefold involvement of reality and value, the essence that has been set down from the Upanishads and the Veda.
###A passage says that the Upanishads are like a cow which yields milk, and the milk of this cow of the Upanishads is the Bhagavadgita.
#And the Upanishads are the essence of the Veda Samhita.
I need not go into further detail as to the importance of the Veda Samhita, repeating the same thing again and again. Briefly I mentioned to you that the Veda Samhita is the foundation of Indian culture, but it is not religious in the sense people wrongly understand it because we always have a peculiar notion of religion being something connected with that which is not in this world, that it is connected with the divinity that is above.
#Not so is the truth.
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4.
*The Veda is called Sruti.
*Sruti is a Sanskrit word which means ‘that which is heard’.
*In ancient days, the Vedas were studied by word of mouth.
*The teacher or the Master or the Guru would pronounce the Veda, and the disciple or the student would listen.
#The mantras were repeated several times in different ways by the teacher, and the student learned the art of pronunciation and articulation of the mantras of the Vedas through hearing only.
##The Guru split the particular verse or the mantra into its divisible parts. Nine times he said it, and the student repeated it nine times.
###It is understood that when a mantra is repeated nine times, the student has captured the art of proper articulation of the mantra. If the student is dull, it is repeated more than nine times.
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5.
#So now you have some idea of the significance of the Vedas. Art and science, technology, material science, physiology, psychology, religion, metaphysics, and the art of living in this world – all these you will find implicit in the mantras of the Veda Samhita.
##This is why the Vedas are considered as the most holy of the scriptures.
To be continued ....
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JAYA HIND
JAYA BHARATHAM
VANDHE MATHARAM
BHARAT MATHA KI JAY.
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#OPINION : 04/02/2020 : 2044.
Chapter 3: The Vedas – the Foundation of Indian Culture -2.
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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 is sociologically restrained and limited.
*A human being is a physical body with hunger and thirst and other demands, so a human being also is physical and material.
*A human being is very active and is compelled to do some work or the other; therefore, action-oriented also is a human individual.
#And every individual is restrained by a law or a regulation; either it is a socially-bound regulation, a community-bound regulation, a governmental regulation or a moral regulation. Some regulation is there which keeps us within bounds.
#We cannot overstep certain limits of human behaviour.
#You appreciate now that a single person is four things at the same time, and also a fifth thing in the sense that you are never satisfied with anything in this world. You look up for satisfaction to some reality which is above this world.
##The adhidaivika aspect also is working within.
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###So do not say that Indian culture is religion and it has no connection with the material world, it has no connection with duties in this world, and it is always looking to the skies above.
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3.
##The Bhagavadgita, to mention only one instance among many others, is a very precise statement of this fivefold involvement of reality and value, the essence that has been set down from the Upanishads and the Veda.
###A passage says that the Upanishads are like a cow which yields milk, and the milk of this cow of the Upanishads is the Bhagavadgita.
#And the Upanishads are the essence of the Veda Samhita.
I need not go into further detail as to the importance of the Veda Samhita, repeating the same thing again and again. Briefly I mentioned to you that the Veda Samhita is the foundation of Indian culture, but it is not religious in the sense people wrongly understand it because we always have a peculiar notion of religion being something connected with that which is not in this world, that it is connected with the divinity that is above.
#Not so is the truth.
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4.
*The Veda is called Sruti.
*Sruti is a Sanskrit word which means ‘that which is heard’.
*In ancient days, the Vedas were studied by word of mouth.
*The teacher or the Master or the Guru would pronounce the Veda, and the disciple or the student would listen.
#The mantras were repeated several times in different ways by the teacher, and the student learned the art of pronunciation and articulation of the mantras of the Vedas through hearing only.
##The Guru split the particular verse or the mantra into its divisible parts. Nine times he said it, and the student repeated it nine times.
###It is understood that when a mantra is repeated nine times, the student has captured the art of proper articulation of the mantra. If the student is dull, it is repeated more than nine times.
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5.
#So now you have some idea of the significance of the Vedas. Art and science, technology, material science, physiology, psychology, religion, metaphysics, and the art of living in this world – all these you will find implicit in the mantras of the Veda Samhita.
##This is why the Vedas are considered as the most holy of the scriptures.
To be continued ....
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JAYA HIND
JAYA BHARATHAM
VANDHE MATHARAM
BHARAT MATHA KI JAY.
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