Vedas and Advaita Vedanta

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Vedas and Advaita Vedanta

 

Every name used in the Rig-veda is the name of the Sun, at least you can say it

for the 99%. Different names for his different qualities. A mantra in the praise

if Aditya states, "some call him Indra, Mitra, varuna and Agni, some suparna and

garutman, but the truth is one, scholars name it differently, some call him Yama

and matarishwa". Where than a place for Paganism? Eka eva rudro na

dvitiyovatasthe = "there is only one Rudra, there doesn't exist a second."

 

In fact the mentality behind the sun was, suryah aatma jagatastasthushashca,

surya is the self of the conscious and unconscious things. The problem is that

those who condemn the Vedic system don't understand it the least, that is why

we don't have any cause to dislike them, we just pity for their ignorance.

 

Look at this mantra, "with a golden disc the truth is covered, O Sun, take the

disk away that I may be able to see the truth, O Pushan, O Yama, O Surya, O

Prajapatya, take away your rays, that I may be able to see your most radiant

form (even more than this one), which is the most blissful, that Purusha which

you are, I'm that too".

 

Purusha is the Vedic equivalent to the Brahman of the Upanishads. You would

clearly see the concept of "Aham Brahmasmi" in the above stated Mantra. Brahman

litterely means the mightiest, or the all pervading and Purusha verbally means

the thing existing in every being. The following Mantra would make it more

clear, "Purusha is all this, that which was existing and that which is going to

come in to existence. This is his mightiness, but the Purusha is even greater

than this".

 

In the end, I would quote the mantra, "I know that great Purusha, which is the

mightiest, and above darkness, about which it can be told only by the sun, only

by knowing him one transcends the death, there is no other way for it". This is

the secret of Sun worship. That only the sun is the direct manifestation of the

Supreme and contains mostly all of the qualities of the Supreme, at least more

than any other of his manifestation.

 

In the end, those who condemn the Vedic religion just see the outer sun, but the

realization behind the sun was utterly different in the case of the Rishi's or

Vedic seers. Looking in to the condemnation of sun worshipping in the old

testament, also suggests that those people didn't understand this hidden secret

in sun worshipping.

 

As the Rig-veda states it, "some see the voice (Vedic voice), but still they

don't see, some hear it, but still don't hear it, it is only one among the

chosen few, to whom this voice opens itself, as a newly married wife opens

herself to her husband".

 

I think, Jesus Christ, being a self-enlightened great soul, understood this

fact, and used the terms "my father" for the supreme God, which are similar to

the Vedic statements, "O you all the sons of the immortal supreme! Hear unto

me". And many things more than that, which have yet to be discovered by a Vedic

Scholar.

 

Did you know that word Yahvah (I think, I don't need to tell you about this

word, tettragrammaton, sorry I don't how to spell it) is frequently used in the

Vedas for the sun and Supreme. The word literally means the biggest, same

meaning as the word Bhuman of the Upanishads has.

 

In the end I would like again to quote a Rik from the Rig-veda, "That, which

resides in the letters of the Riks and which resides in the Highest space (in

the form of the sun) and in which the entire universe and all the Devas reside,

if one doesn't know that, what is the use of the Riks to him? (i.e. each Vedic

Mantra becomes meaningless to him)" (Note that Deva in plural means "rays", so

it can't be translated with "Gods", as there is only one God).

 

All that which I have quoted here, are of the Vedas and not of the Upanishads,

or later Veda related books.

 

Loving Regards,

 

Siddhartha

 

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