certain clarifications

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Jai Srimannarayana Sriman Phanidraji!

 

ANS' ABOUT VEDAS: Grossly Vedas have been classified as 4. They are Rug Veda,

Yajur Veda, Sama Veda and Attharva Veda. Again these Vedas have been

sub-classified into 1131 branches.

 

Though initially the whole veda appeared as a single mass, people also used to

learn the entire Veda by heart, during the period of the Sage Veda Vyasa the

Great, these classification have teken place. He was able to foresee the future

generations and their inability to retain the entire Veda in their brains.

Hence, he restricted those disciples to be contended to their own branches. Or

otherwise, he assigned certain branches of Vedas to particular sect of disciples

and put certain rules like not to learn other branches, without learning their

own branch. One may learn any number of branches, but he should get his own

branch by heart first. Then the rest. Thus he tried to preserve the

peculiarities of those branches and Vedas. Inspite of the effort only 12

branches are available now. Rest of the swaras were forgotten by the vedic

lineages.

 

At the superficial level division of the Vedas may be understood like this. Rug

Veda: eulogizing the Universal powers with certain Manthras. So that they are

available to work.

 

Yajur Veda: Sequence of the activities that are to be performed by the human

beings to attained, particularly in other worlds.

 

Sama Veda: Pleasing the Universal Powers, so that they become positive in

yeilding good results.

 

Attharva Veda: mainly deals with the activities at are to be performed to get

the benifits related to this world.

 

No doubt, all Vedas deal with all the subjects in general, yet, this is general

classification.

 

Lord Krishna said that He is the Sa:maveda, because, it is filled up with the

tunes, ragas. Everybody likes songs no matter whether they are human beings,

animals, trees or something else. This entire universe intuned with ragas, This

is because, God's energy in raga is filled up in high volume than other objects.

 

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