Does Veda Have Everything?

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I felt this is a separate subject, so posting it separately.

 

Does Veda Have Everything?

 

In a way, yes. In a way, may be not. If Veda were to enumerate the

entire universe, the different views to it and different subjects,

Veda is infinite. This is exactly what Indra tells the Rishi who asks

for a third brahmacarya to study Veda. He shows three mountains to the

Rishi and tells him that in two extended brahmacaryas he could manage

to study a fistful of sand, while Veda is as big as those three

mountains. So yes, if it were to be taken in a sense that Veda has

everything, then what we have today in the form of Samhita is an

infinitesimal portion of it. In which case, there is much outside what

man could " see " in the form of the Veda.

 

But there is quite a different approach to it that seers themselves

suggested: through Veda one can know of that by which everything is

known. The One that can be known through any single Mantra of the

Samhita, is what can be known through the entire Veda and literature

put together. And that is not an enumeration or explanation of the

universe but its causal principle.