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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...

======================================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #OPINION : 31/01/2020 : 2040 Chapter 3: The Vedas – the Foundation of Indian Culture -1. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. The culture of India can be traced back to the Vedas, especially the Rigveda Samhita. Generally, the Veda is regarded as a religious scripture, and practically every so-called scripture in the world is considered as the basis of a particular religion. Therefore, an idea or an opinion has been formed by people generally that the culture of India is principally a religious culture, and inasmuch as religion is connected with the existence of God, this thought was further developed into the consequence thereof that Indian culture is not connected with this world so much as with ...

======================================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ #OPINION : 27/01/2020 : 2035 ##Chapter 2: The Evolution of Culture (SAMSKARAM)-7. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. #The Rigveda Samhita is a great wonder. As a scripture it is a wonder, as a book of prayer it is a wonder, as a poem it is a wonder, and as a mystical guide to understand life as a whole also it is a wonder. The Vedas are said to have been edited by a great Master called Krishna Dvaipayana Veda Vyasa. ##It appears that one day students went to the great master and said, “Please teach us Vedas.” ###And the answer was ananta vai veda?: Infinite is the Veda. It was not easy to explain the meaning of the Veda because its profundity is infinite. --------------------------------...

======================================================================= ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #OPINION : 24/01/2020 : 2034. ##Chapter 2: The Evolution of Culture (SAMSKARAM)-6. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Vice President Venkaiah Naidu addressing the gathering at the inauguration of World Conference on Vedas, in New Delhi on Friday. (Photo: PIB) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. #The mystery behind the very consciousness of it being necessary to be righteous, and the mystery of the heavens, are said to be the greatest mysteries. ##The contemplation on these mysteries makes one a philosopher above the psychologist, the physicist or the sociologist. *The physicist studies the components o...