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The
Vedas
are the most
celebrated possessions
of the Indian
civilization.
reflect the growth and
development of human
thought
picture of the
Shruti literature :
the knowledge attained by the rishis
while doing their Tapasaya or Sadhna
or in their Supra-normal
Consciousness, as Shri Aurobindo
said.
Origin of Vedas
The Vedas are among the oldest
sacred texts in the world dating
from c. 1500-500BCE.
Rigveda : roughly around
1700-1100 BCE
and the last veda
Atharvaveda : 900 BCE
Vedanta
The word Vedanta is a compound word made
up of two Sanskrit words: Veda and Anta.
broadly covers the philosophy enunciated by
the holy Scriptural Trinity
the Upanishads,
the Brahma-Sutraand
the Bhagavad Gita.
"The goal, which all Vedas declare, which all
austerities aim at, and which humans desire
when they live a life of continence, I will tell
you briefly it is Aum" (1.2.15)
Vedic Impacts
1.Literature
2. Science
3.Mathematics
4.Music
Religion
5.Practices and
Literature
Eliot:
The Waste Land ends with
the reiteration of the Three
Cardinal Virtues damyata
(restraint), datta (charity)
and dayadhvam
(compassion) and
ends with Shantih shantih
shantih
Prof. Philip R. Headings has
remarked in his study of
the poet, "No serious
student of Eliot's poetry
can afford to ignore his
early and continued
interest in the Bhagavad
Gita."
Science
Cosmology:
French astronomer JeanClaude Bailly stated "the
movements of the stars
calculated 4,500 years ago,
does not differ by a minute
from the tables of today.
Metallurgical Science:
Cast in approximately the
3rd century B.C., the six
and a half ton pillar has
sustained over two
millennia.
Mathematics
The decimal system , the introduction
of zero and the concept of infinity.
Voltaire, the famous French writer and
philosopher) stated that "Pythagoras
went to the Ganges to learn geometry."
Abraham Seidenberg, author of the
authoritative "History of Mathematics,"
credits the Sulba Sutras as inspiring all
mathematics of the ancient world from
Babylonia to Egypt to Greece.
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places.
Music
Beatles:
Recorded the
White Album
after their time
with an Indian
mystic based on
the antimaterialism and
the vedic
transcendental
thoughts.
Culture
Rituals and ceremonies
Prayers
lifestyle and thinking.
Misinterpretation of the
Vedas
Caste system
Irrationality
Mysticism
Conclusion
Vedas:
the unexplored
ocean of
knowledge.
Bibliography
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vedas
http://images.google.co.in/
http://indianscriptures.50webs.com/