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VEDAS vs GITA
Vedic Religion was the original Hinduism. It only recognized Vedas as Divine Words.
But it was different from the Hinduism known latter which recognizes a number of
other books , which the original Hinduism did not.Vedic religion was an other
religion . It may be called the oldest religion in India. But with the passage of time
different religions emerged in India.How ever with the emergence of each religion, it
was not the custom to declair each new religion out of the folds of Hunduism. The
Gitaic religion was another religion different from Vediv religion. It is a different case
that the Gitaic religion accepted Vedas and Upinishads but it is a Non Vedic religion.
Unfortunately this religion gained majority
And Vedic religion became a minority.
CONTRADICTION IN VEDAS AND GITA
COMMON FEATURES
The Bhagvad Gita and the Vedas are well known religious scriptures within the large collection of Hindu texts, they
stand out from others because they are considered to be the direct words of God, in contrast to to other Hindu
scriptures which are known to be written by men.
Now The Gitaic God became the Original God and all the Vedis Gods and gods became not
only his subordinates but also His subsjects as1 well.
Vedas from being the Head of Holy Books of Hinduism but took all the powers from them and
made the
puppets in hand of Gita. Looking carefully it implicitly claims that Vedas are
nolonger VALID AND ARE JUST RALICS OF THE PAST. Gita made Vedas a city of ruins. Now
Vedas cease to be the Supreme Holy Scriptures of Hinduism. If they are stydied the should
be studied in light of Gita , And Gita should not be studied in light of Vedas.
Gita is not an original work like Vedas but a synthesis . The author who so ever he was had
the knowledge of several pre existing Sanskrit Scriptures .
Thus Bhagavad Gita combines many different elements from different Sanskrit works like and Vedanta philosophy.
In matters of religion, its impo rtant contribution was the new emphasis placed on devotiUpanishads,Puranas, Itihasa,
Vedangas,
etc.
Vedas remained a central path in Hinduism for a time.But then new religions began to appear in Hinduism. One of
them is what may be termed as Gitaism. It tried to augment the , incarnative theism and transcendentalism of the
Upanishads resulting , a God of personal and human characteristics identified with the Brahman of Upnishashad a
God with out these characterstics. Thus identifying two opposite concepts impossible to be identified. The Bhagavad
Gita thus gives a typology of the three dominant trends of Indian religion: dharma-based householder life,
enlightenment-based renunciation, and devotion-based theism. All of these are absent from Vedas .Things does not
stop here that Gita preach a number of new things but the problem is that Gita claims that its central Character is the
Incarnation or Manifestation of the Supreme Personality Of Godhead Of Vedas and Upnishads the BARAHMAN or
Barmh. In this way Gita begins to rule over Vedas and Vedic gods as well as Vedic God.
Authorship of Gita:=
Argument in circle:
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Was Krisna God or his claim for being a God or Incarnated God is not true is key to the problem
of superiority of Gita over Vedas.
If Krishna was a God or a God Incarnate then Gita becomes either equal to Vedas or ever
superior to them. If not then Gita becomes a book of fanatical Philosopher. But is there any
Evidence from Vedas about the divinity of Krishna. There is none.
There is no prophecy of Krishna in four Vedas. This means that Gita is independent of Vedas.As per rule
Gita wins freedom from Vedas , and an ultimate interpreter of them. But neither Gita nor the Divinity of
Krishna canbe proved from Vedas. This disproves the claim of Gita that its central Character Krishna is
God or Incarnated God or God Incarnate, what so ever. If Vedic God is Unincarnable then all the
quotations ascribed to Krishna in Gita , that he is God i.e Supreme Personality of Godhead becomes
untrue, implying that entire Gita in Unreliable in Particular and Maha Bharta in General.
Pandit Dianand how ever was convinced that Great war of India did occur , but if his claim was based on
Maha Bharta , it cannot be accepted .For Maha Bharta itself is unreliable. If there was an Indian war even
then it would not be so great as alleged by Maha Bharta.But to accept that such a war did occur in the
past cannot be certain just because of Maha Bharta.
OTHER CONFLICTS
At several places in the Vedas, emphasis is laid on desires and wishes. In many verses desires and wishes are
expressed and prayers are made to fulfill the wishes.
In contrast to this the Gita denouces keeping desires and expressing them. It vehemently ridicules those
who pray to God for fulfillment of desires.
Nature of Gita from Vedas is so different that both types of these scriptures cannot be said to be of the same
religion. This does prove that a new religion was born in India which tried to displace Vedas from their position AND to
plant Gita by removing Vedas. Gitaic religion was successful in throwing the pillars of Vedas.
Gita was successful in throwing down Vedic religion, it not only minimized the importance of four Vedas in also
attacked the sanctity of Upnishads.
The influence of Gita s so great that the Vedic religion soon ended and a new religion emerged which took Vedas just
as academic books , making them inert and idle, just for scholars.
It was the most powerful conspiracy against the Vedas and Rliable Upnishads.
There is no doubt that Gita rejects the Vedas and Vedic principles. It contains
many teachings opposed to the Vedas. A book which compares divine Vedas to a
small pit of water and claims that the Vedas teach nothing but three modes of
material nature, how can we accept such a book?
Gita either disposed Vedic Gods or made them lower gods and presented a new non vedic God
who was not known to the Vedas. Actually it became the New Testament of Sanskrit
Scriptures.How ever the Greek New Testament does acknowledge Hebrew Bible yet is is a
different planet. But Gita is a different World.
SCILENT CONFLICTS::
Gita preaches transmigration and reincarnation theories. But Vedas do not
mension them as if they are ignorant of them. As these are the central doctrine of
religion of Gita. For sake of argument let is assume that Gita and Vedas both were
from one and same God , then if salvation is related to Transmigration then their
absence from Vedas is not just the absence of a thing present Gita but a scilent
conflict. This is not possible if Vedas and Gita are from one and Same Vedic God.
Similarly gods of Vedas are neglected in Gita, as if Gita considers them unworthy
to mention. This is an other conflict. This is very important one. If such silent
conflicts had existed in Vedas , it would have been the case of internal conflict of
four Vedas. This does shew that Vedas conflict Gita, and Gita conflicts Vedas both
silently and Non-silently.
An Apology:-
When ever inconsistency ,contradictions,improbabilities BETWEEN Gita and Veda are shewn it is
responced that:=
1]The Gita can only be understood, like any other great work of the kind, by studying it in its
entirety and as a developing argument.
But it may be recalled that:=
1] Text of Gita is not preserved as text of Vedas are.
With the Vedas the ancient Hindus were very careful to pass on the scripture with no interpolations. The same
can not be said of the Gita. It seems that at one time there was 745 verses now there are 700.
1] Contradictions in many of its verses, with some verses in the same chapter contradicting each other and
verses in one chapter being negated by verses in another chapter.
2] Lack of
3] Lack of orderliness in the sequencing of chapters, where one gets a feeling that the current Chapter IV
should have come before Chapter III
4] Inclusion of verses that are repugnant to human values even going by old primitive standards (verses 9.11,
9.32 and 9.33)
5] The Gita purported to achieve at the level of philosophical and religious discourse.
This fact is crucial not only for the understanding of the principal themes of
the Gita but also to locate the essence of the Gita in the overall picture of ancient
Indian doctrines. The Gita attempted, for the first time, to reconcile the teachings of
two very abstract Indian religious doctrines into one whole. The task was a formidable
one. This does shew that Gita was just a deliberate attempt to reconcile non Vedic
ideas which has some how evolved in Indian MINDS. In order to validate its
reconciliation the it was claimed that its Central Figure Krishna is God or God
Incarnate.
6] Once it was accepted that Gita is of Divine Origin Believers in Gita attempted th remove all the
contradictions by taking different commentaries and explanations of contradicting proof texts of Gita. If
Gita was considereds pof human origin they would not have done this. Thus the intelligent scheme
worked perfectly.
7] Gita owes to Upnishads but manipulate them as it likes it. Gita is not upanishadic in strict
sInce.Upanishads are more of philosophical works dealing with states of consciousness. This shews that Gita
was a work of a lower Philosopher/ Philosophers..
8]
It is said that Ved Vyasji composed the Bhagvatam is in Bhagvatam itself. After compiling
the Vedas, still he had a feeling of ?"emptiness" or "not satisfied". Sage Narada asked him
to compose a Scripture with divine leelas of Pragat God's Avatar in its center. After
composing the leelas of Lord Krishna he gets that feeling of "fullness" spiritually. Meaning,
knowing Pragat God Himself in a human form is the end of all Sadhanas. This is a proof
that Gita is an other religion. A religion which claims that Vedas are simple ,crude, un
philosophical, and of little value. The problem that Vedas are pre existed Ved Vyasji , and
they did not required him. Further the ascription of Gita as Gita is now cannot be ascribed to
Vyasji with certainity. As Vedas are independent of Vyasji , one must clomment at Gita to be
a book of an other religion which emerged in India attempted to merge in Hinduism.
8] Gita may be a great work , but this is not the question , the question is that whether Gita
and its central character Krishna are Divine or a product of human mind.
9] When different commentaries and other eulogies of the Gita, is critically studied it is found that the authors
seemed to look at the verses in isolation and whether unintentionally or not, ignore its relations to other verses and
chapters and even Upnishads the original sources of Gigta.
10] As Gita tried to ride on Vedas , these Gitaists tries that that their commentators ride upon Gita.
When there is a contradiction shewn they owe to commators instead of the verses.
11] It is very strange to see that those who do not have knowledge of Sanskrit try to satisfy them
selves by saying Gta is more deep then pure literalism. But they cannot shew how and why. They are
satisfied with this type of dogmas. But when asked what authority they have , they cannot c=answer..
12] It means that each and every verse of Gita should be seen in the light of all the verses of Gita.
Granted but this cannot be accepted unless the alleged meaning of a veses is proved by using all the
related verses. The method must be shewn other wise this claim is with out any proof . For an example
if it is claimed that a verse of Gita is not in its literal meaning , and the meaning from the verse is yield
in light of other verses ,Of Gita then it must be shewn who the alleged meaning is yield by using other
verses of Gita. It is only then one may accept or reject the socalled meaning ascribed to a verse. One
must see the deduction of the allegednon literal meaning
critically.. Just a claim is unacceptable. As
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far as the derivation steps are not presented for each verse , such a claim is inconvincing.. A single
flaw in the derivational steps may result in the inaccuracy of the non literal meaning.
IS GITA AN UPNISHAD
By its official designation, the Gita is called Upanishad, since it
derives its main inspiration from the remarkable group of scriptures,
the Upanishad. The Bhagavadgita. But it is not. Upnishads are well
known works. Gita does excludes them. We have not included it in Upnishads.It is at
best Smirti which acts like Shruti. But it fails to be so.
If it is included it is among unreliable ones. It is a Purana but not an Upnishad.
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Agenda of Gita:=
There are several agenda of Gita. First it appear that it tried to advocate
immorality. One may see Gita in context of Maha Bharta , not
independent of it.
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Some critics of the Gita have labored to point to the sectarian agenda of the BG as the most realistic basis of its
composition beneath all its specious and pretentious gloss and dross of philosophy, metaphysics and devotional
appeals. This sectarianism is obviously against Vedic sect as well.
Gita tried to replace Vedas by Itself and to revert Upnishads to hapazad thoughts. It did the
following harms to Vedas:=
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3] Gita claimed its own need . A need which cannot be neutralized be Vedas .
4] It convinced its believers that Gita is the more perfect form of Words of God, that is why Vedas
5]Gita convinced its believers that what so ever is preached in Gita is far more superior that what
so ever is preached in Vedas.
6] It convinced its believers that extract of Vedas are present in Gita , so they are needed not to be
studied in particular. This made believers in Gita to neglect Vedas PRACTICALLY and Actually.
7]This made believers of Gita to be the ultimate criteria of selection of an explanation from a
number of explanations of Vedas and Upnishads.
8] By claiming Divinity for the central figure of Gita i.e Krishna Gita neutralized all the Vedic gods
wheter they were just names of one God or suppostumic gods.
9] Although Gita did not revert Vedas to nothingness explicitly but did the very same thing
implicitly and trickly. This was a more powerful method to cut the believes on Vedas indirectly.
10]Gita convinced its believers that Superior Knowledge of Gita is absent from Vedas.
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Pandit Dianand Sarsuti who attempted to reform Hinduism , rejected a number of Hindu Sanscrit
scriptures but did not condemned Gita as a fabrication in clear and explicit words , and a heresy
to ancient Vedic religion. He very softly rejects it. He should have declared Gita in particular and
Arya Samajis do accept that the believes of Incarnations and Manifestations od God in human and
Super HUMAN BEINGS AS IMPOSSIBLE and out of Power of God. So If Gita preaches that God
Incarnated in Krishna then this preaching cannot be true; consequently Gita cannot be true.
Pandit Dianand in his work S-thyarath P-r cash , chapter 11 had said:=
Question: We know that the God is Bodiless , but he assumed the forms of Shiva , Vishnu etc. and
then incarnated in Rama , Krishna.
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For that reason there idols are made. Are these also lies.
Answer:= Yes , yes , they are liesbecauseit is told in Vedas, that God is above being begotten,
death and Assumption of Bodily forms.
This is a proof that Arya Samajis cannot believe in Gita , since Gita contradicts Vedas on these
issues.[It is a free tranlation]
A few rationalists have tried to interpret Gita otherwise , that Krishna did not claimed to be God,
and such claims are either fabrications some how crept inGita or Misunderstood be its
commentators. They think that Krishna was only a made sign of God , but the poetic form of Gita
was taken in literal meaning. Any how the challenge of Gita to Vedas is clear even under this
interpretation.
Vedas do not shew any inclination towards the Eternity of Spirits , Point
Masses and Space. Upnishads how ever explain Vedic God in some detail.
But Vedas do not consider vedic gods as manifestations and incarnations
of Vedic God. [Upanishads how ever made this Vedic God Omnipresent and Immense
/immanent, God]. Vedas only consider gods as made things.
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Epilogue:=
If some one believes in Gita then it is implied to believe in the supremacy
of Gita over Vedas and inferiority of Vedas .
And substance of all Substances and accidents. But this where they all stop. A
philosophy of Barahman is developed from this. But Gita is a different world. It is
a world of contraries and contradictions.
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