Amazing Vedas

सरल वेद का प्रयास (बच्चों के लिए): अब ऋग्वेद के पहले सूक्त के पहले मंत्र का दूसरा पद लेते हैं यज्ञस्य देवमृत्विजम् यज्ञ क्या है? यज्ञ विष्णु हैं । आप यह भी कह सकते हैं यज्ञ बाहरी रूप से हवन है, आग जलाकर उसमे लकड़ियाँ और घी डालें और कुछ मंत्र पढ़ें । किंतु यज्ञ नारायण हैं और आपको उनसे जोड़ने का रास्ता । तो उसकी अग्नि को अपने हृदय में जलती आग या प्रेम मान लें और उस आग में सब कुछ प्रेम से डाल दें । यदि यह बात आपको जंच जाए तो आगे अर्थ सरल हो जाएगा। यज्ञ आपका धर्म है- धर्म से मतलब वह जो आपको धारण करता है या जिसने आपको ऐसा बनाया जैसे आप हैं और आपको ऐसा रखता है। यदि यह बात कठिन हो तो कोई बात नहीं। फिर इस पर लौटेंगे । यज्ञ योग भी है जो आपको जोड़ता है देव कौन? वे जो प्रकाश से भरे हैं जो पूरे जगत में एक शक्ति cosmic power हैं । जो हमें कुछ देते ही रहते हैं । ऋत्विक कौन? वे जिन्हें सच से आनंद मिलता है और जो सही तरह से यज्ञ चलाते हैं तो अर्थ क्या हुआ? अग्नि जिनसे मुझे प्रेम है जो मेरे आगे मेरे पुरोहित हैं, जो यज्ञ के देव हैं, वे इस यज्ञ को सही तरह से चलाने वाले हैं । अग्नि केवल आग नहीं । वे मेरे अंदर भी हैं और वे यज्ञ के अध्यक्ष या मास्टर भी हैं ।वे बड़े रहस्य mystery से भरे हैं। अभी हम कुछ समय में तीसरा पद भी करेंगे। और फिर इस मंत्र का पाठ भी किसी तरह सरल तरह से सीखेंगे सुधार करने के लिए टिप्पणियाँ भेजें । 🕉️ @MakrandParanspe

I’ve been reading the Vedas a lot recently, and what’s stood out is how it doubles as an encyclopedia as well as a religious text. Astronomy, medicine, mathematics, metallurgy, linguistics, are all woven through hymns and rituals as one body of knowledge. Simply calling it “religious” forces it into a Western category that didn’t have the apparatus to recognize what it actually was. It’s closer to a tradition of formalized epistemology in which metaphysics, observation, and language form one continuous inquiry, which as a result led Indian civilization to develop along a fundamentally different path because of it. You can see the effect most clearly in the sciences. Around 600 BCE, the Vedic record describes a surgical procedure that matches modern rhinoplasty and is still foundational to reconstructive surgery today. Centuries before Western Europe stopped treating eclipses as supernatural, Indian scholars had calculated the circumference of the earth within 0.2% and explained eclipses as shadows. Centuries before Plato and Aristotle rejected atomism, the Vedic tradition already held that matter is composed of indivisible particles combining into binary and triatomic compounds, transformable by heat. The first formal rules for zero and negative arithmetic appear in the Vedas, along with infinite-series derivations of π, sine, and cosine centuries before Newton and Leibniz. The interesting question is how did they get so much right, so early? My best guess is language. The Vedic tradition is unique compared to other oral traditions as it demanded letter-perfect oral transmission across generations. Around 500 BCE, scholars composed a generative grammar of Sanskrit called Panini so rigorous it anticipates Backus-Naur form, the notation that defines programming languages today, by 2,500 years. Sanskrit is recursive, rule-based, and built to minimize ambiguity. It reads more like mathematics than English. When you think in a language built like that, the precision of the language becomes the precision of your reasoning. The West didn’t formalize this until much later. Kant argued our categories of understanding shape what we can know, Wittgenstein wrote that the limits of language are the limits of one’s world, and Kripke showed that naming doesn’t just describe things, it constitutes what they mean and how we can reason about them. All three touch the same insight which is that thought is downstream of language. The Vedic tradition operated on that insight thousands of years earlier. To the point that they built a whole language first and used it to think clearly about everything else after. I find that all really fascinating.

इंद्र कौन हैं? वे हमारी ही बुद्धि की सबसे ऊँची शक्ति हैं। वेद में वे हमारे ही मन का सबसे ऊँचा शिखर peak हैं वे हमारे विरुद्ध कभी नहीं होते हैं बल्कि वे यज्ञ में हमारी सहायता करते हैं इंद्र वे हैं जिन्हें इंद्रियों पर पूरा नियंत्रण है। इंद्र हमारे चित्त में अग्नि जला सकते हैं। उनकी एक धातु है इद- या इंध- जिससे भाव है ईंधन में आग लगाना या हमारी बुद्धि को प्रज्ज्वलित light up कर देना इंद्र हमारे ग्वाले हैं जो गौ का दूध हमारे लिए दोहते हैं। किंतु वेद में गौ केवल गाय नहीं बल्कि प्रकाश की किरण भी है। प्रकाश यानि ज्ञान या उच्च दृष्टि व दर्शन इंद्र के बारे में अनेक भ्रांतियाँ हैं। आइए इन्हें जानें। @MakrandParanspe

I was reading Apte’s Sanskrit dictionary. One of the meanings of gau according to him is a ray of light Swami Dayanand and Sri Aurobindo both see the gau as shlesha alankara representing not just the cow but also the illumination or realization of Truth When we see in RV 1.4.1 that Indra is milking cows as he creates beautiful forms, the meaning suddenly becomes clear. Indra is our higher consciousness in the mind. He creates for us perfect structures while he draws down the higher knowledge and wisdom for us @MakrandParanspe

An inspirational story 🧡 An ancient step well, which took 16 yrs to dig was in a very bad condition, filled with garbage. Hindus, by raising Jai Sree Ram slogans have cleaned it despite hot sun🧡 Women performed puja and decorated it with haldi & kumkum after cleaning. Maddileti Reddy garu has provided breakfast, lunch, etc for all the volunteers. An organisation named Purva Sampada Rakshana team has raised awareness and united Hindus for this noble work. 📍Ramireddi Palle, Sanjamula, Nandyal, AP.

A Soul-Stirring Prayer 🙏🏾 ॐ क्रीं कालिकायै नमः 🙏🏾 In the soft dusk of Old Dhaka, a young Bengali Hindu girl sits before a clay murti of Maa Kali and hums a song in 1971 in Dhaka, Bangla words flowing into the ancient Sanskrit Beej Mantra. Bengal's Shakta tradition has loved Kali as Maa for a thousand years, and this song carries that unbroken thread from Dhaka's courtyards to every Hindu heart. 🔱🙏🏾🔱 Jai Maa Kali 🔱🙏🏾🔱 Credit : Beyond Conscious

Who is Aditi? Aditi is the Divine Mother, the original Mother of the Universe. She is Adi + ti, the primordial Light From her is born Daksha, the discriminating Mind. In turn, she is born of Daksha in the lower worlds. This should not be confusing; rather this is a most beautiful and true Symbol She is the Mother of Surya who is also her second husband. Again, no need to be offended by this as this is again a powerful mystical truth. All these are realizations that are spiritual and not on a human scale with our social assumptions She is the infinite but also Mother Earth. She is intimately personal as our Mother, yet is she the ruler of stars and galaxies. From her are derived the later panthas of Shaktism as Sanatana Dharma evolved along the original Vedic lines @MakrandParanspe

Ratri is the Devi of our unconsciousness. Not Devil. Sorry for the error

Who is Ratri? She is Night in the Veda but more than that she is the symbol of our unconsciousness. She is the devil of ignorance and all our stumbling Dawn is the awakening that grows increasingly as we evolve Yet are they sisters, the Veda says (RV 1.113.3). They are two mothers nursing the same child You see, the Veda sees even the darkness as part of a bigger picture. The two sisters jointly give birth to Agni. Night is the avyakta or unmanifest state of knowledge and being. Night fosters Agni in secret in the activities of Avidya. Dawn manifests him again and again until he is ready for the continuous light of Sun @MakrandParanspe

We have studied the first anuvaaka of the Rig Veda in the last few months and there is so much more treasure there than we have discovered But for now let us move on to the second anuvaaka dedicated solely to Indra In the Vedic tradition, Indra is an extremely powerful deva. He is not present to our awareness usually but we can climb to him with the help of Agni. We can bring him down with the help of Soma. It is Indra who removes the higher blocks in our awareness. It is he who frees the Truth that is imprisoned in the caverns of dense matter. Without Indra we cannot be free. He is our greatest ally and the next level of our evolution We may not bypass him. We must honor Indra and grow in his light. For without Indra we cannot go any further @MakrandParanspe

Khuda, ख़ुदा, خُدا, "God", from Sanskrit "स्वतवस्" is widely known. sva=>kha, as in sva (स्व) => khod (خود); svāpa स्वाप, dream => khāb (خواب) Less known -- Parwardigar (پروردگار), God as protector and nourisher, from प्रवर्धन => pravardhikāra, प्रवर्धिकार Farishtah (فرشتہ): angel.  प्रेष्यति, "sent forth" Malak (ملک), angel. मलाका, malākā, f. messenger

Wonderful to be in a #satsang with the Krishnamurti Foundation of Kolkata. It was hosted by Kamal Thacker Ji & expertly moderated by Mr Sayan Mukerji @ChiroTauran. youtube.com/watch?v=8dmqWE… @krishnamurti @K__Quotes @orgKrishnamurti @krishnamurtibot @PariksithSingh @AmazingVedas

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In The Literary Genius of the Bhagavad Gita, Pariksith Singh explores how Krishna weaves dharma, karma & yuddha through the Gita’s literary structure. A fresh way to experience this timeless text. #BhagavadGita #IndianLiterature #BluOneInk @PariksithSingh

@AmazingVedas I think the chanting of Vedas, the sounds and vibrations has more.... information in it than the words and sentences

Found this interesting definition of Ratna by Sayana for RV 1.1.1 He says it is ramaniyam dhanam रमणियम् धनम् The riches which are worth reaching out for or where one visits or which are attractive Not too far from the bliss or joy that Sri Aurobindo is describing The dhatu rat- implies ananda Similarly, rayi used in RV 1.1.3 also corresponds to ananda It seems that even in the Agni Suktam we are prepared for the appearance of Soma by the beginning of second Suktam with ananda mentioned as being borne or brought by Agni twice @MakrandParanspe

To avoid the life which is given him [man] for the realisation of that possibility, can never be either the indispensable condition or the whole and ultimate object of his supreme endeavour or of his most powerful means of self-fulfilment. #SriAurobindo #IntegralYoga

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