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======================================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- # OPINION : 29/03/2020 : 2111. #Chapter 3: The Vedas – the Foundation of Indian Culture - 9. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. #The third specialisation is ethical and legalistic. To this we turn our attention now, the specialisation of the ethical and legalistic side of the import of the Vedas, known as the Smritis or the Dharmashastras.  ##All the things that I told you up to this time come within the purview of what is known as Veda Rashi – Sruti, to put it briefly.  ###Now, the second specialisation is Smriti, ‘the remembered’. Smriti means ‘that which is remembered’.  ####In Sruti, it is only heard from the Guru by the disciple, whereas in Smriti it is ...

======================================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ # OPINION : 24/03/2020 : 2105. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Chapter 3: The Vedas – the Foundation of Indian Culture - 8. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. #Then specialisation started. ##While during the time of the Vedas, I should say, there was no specialisation in a particular branch only, and it was necessary to acquire all-round knowledge in all aspects of the Vedas, time showed that this was not possible; therefore, people would take up only one side, one aspect. So some sections of people emphasised only the chanting of the mantras. Today we have got pundits who know the Vedas, b...

======================================================================= ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #OPINION : 14/03/2020 : 2089. #Chapter 3: The Vedas – the Foundation of Indian Culture - 7. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. #Many of you would not even have dreamt that the Veda contained so many things. You simply know some chanting of a pundit. Some mantra he recites, and this is all the Veda; it is a prayer to some god.  ##This is all you must have learnt in history books, but it is not so. History books will never tell you all these details. Sometimes wrong things are also told because many of the historians are not well equipped with this knowledge. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------...

======================================================================== -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #OPINION : 07/03/2020 : 2081. ##Chapter 3: The Vedas – the Foundation of Indian Culture - 6. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. #So I have mentioned something very important about the Veda Samhitas, the Brahmanas, the Aranyakas, the Upanishads, and the Vedangas, which are six. I will confuse you a little more by mentioning an additional item of these four Vedas.  ##There are auxiliary Vedas which are called Upavedas. Vedas are four, Vedangas are six, and the auxiliary Vedas, called Upavedas, are four. These four are Ayurveda, Dhanur Veda, Gandharva Veda and Artha Sastra. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------...

======================================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ #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...