VEDIC DHARMA is Monotheistic

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VEDIC DHARMA

 

PRELUDE:

What a pity that the very country which gave the Vedas to the world

is now

dire need of such a work on Vedic Dharma. Vedic Dharma has remained

an easy

target for Western gibes .The uneducated in Bharat (so very

preponderant

numerically) are naturally ignorant of the vedas.

 

One of the most misunderstood and misinterpreted word is

"Dharma".The popular English translation of the term

is "religion".But the

term religin is not fully expressing all that "Dharma" connotes.At

best, the

term "religion" may be an acceptable equivalent for the term, "sect"

but not

for the term,"Dharma".

 

"Dharma"is the name given not to any set of dogmatic beliefs, but

to all

noble qualities that save the human soul from sinking to the depths

of

spiritual fallen-ness and destitution. If there is any scripture

which

upholds the equality of all human beings and stands for the

development and

all-round progress of the undivided human society, it is

undoubtedly the

Vedas. No doubt ,the Vedas are the oldest books in man's library,

infact

they are as old as human society itself.

 

THE UNIVERSAL SPIRIT

The most intricate and perhaps the most absorbing question before

mankind

has always been this; "Is there a God?" The vedas declare quite

unequivocally that there certainly is God and that he is absolutely

formless

, omnipresent, omnipotent and omniscient. We quote the following

Mantra in

support of our contention[Yajurveda:40.8]

 

"He is every where, he is effulgent, formless, unulcered, senwless,

pure,

unpenetrated by sin, he is omniscient, the reveler of hymns, the

inspirer of

minds, the supreme lord and self existent. He ordains the requirement

for

the external subjects in the proper manner as they indeed are."

(Yajurveda;40.8) "That moves everything , but that, itself moves not

that is

far off, that itself is near, That is within all this, that again is

without(outside) all this"(Yajurveda;40.5)

 

Vedas reject the multiplicity of gods in the clearest possible

terms(Atharva Veda 13-4-16,18,20)and speak about one god, who is

omnipresent, omnipotent and omniscient and absolutely formless, who

never

assumes human forms. And finally, God is neither a He nor a She. Sex

is

invariably a characteristic of the physical body. God being formless,

there

is no question of God's possessing anything like a form, figure or a

body.

God is neither a male nor a female. In order to impress on the human

mind

that god possesses all the noble qualities that human beings