Greatness of the Vedas

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Greatness of the Vedas:

Vedic literature form the very foundations of all Hindu religious texts.

The greatness of the Vedas, which are praised as having no authorship, is

very sblime and unique.

The Vedas are a mine of faultless expressions conveying the greatest truths.

All the teachings of the Vedas are beginningless and spiritualistic. For

all righteous dealings in this world the Vedas form the basis. Righteous way

of life is most necessary if mankind is to be happy, making life auspicious.

The sole purpose of the Vedas is to be declare the path of righteousness.

All the religious faiths that we see in the world today have taken shapes

following the footsteps of Vedic teachings only. Long long ago, the learned

ones of Bharat went to different countries for various reasons and spread

Vedic knowledge in those countries. It is such Knowledge that bloomed into

different religions in course of time. Many western scholars have asserted

that this is true. Here is one such declaration-

"It is there in Aryavarta we must seek not only for the cradle of Brahmin

religion but also for the high civilization of the Hindus which gradually

extended itself in the west to Ethiopia, to Egypt, to Phoenicia; in the east

Siam, to China, to Japan; in the south to Ceylon and to Colchis, whence it

came to Greece and to Rome and at length to the remote abode of the

Hyperborans."

(Theogony of the Hindus P.168 Count Bjornstjerna.)

Will Durant, in his Our Oriental Heritage says:

"India was the mother of our race and Sanskrit the mother of Europe's

languages. She was the mother of our philosophy, mother through the Arabs,

of much of our mathematics, mother through the Buddha of the ideals of

Christianity, mother through the village community of our self-government

and Democracy. Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all."

 

a recent Russian History of India, in three Volumes, begins thus-

"India is the mother of a world civilization."

 

Warren Hastings who was Governor General of India, while recommending the

Vishnu puran to the chief Justice of England, Mr.Mannings, praises India

thus-

"There is nothing like oriental largeness for our narrow occident outlook.

Here you find thunder you have never heard, lighting you have never

experienced."