Importance of the study of the Vedas: Study of the Vedas is essential, along with other factors, for the attainment of God’ One who labors in the study of works other than the Vedas gets Shuudratva with family. “It means the study of the Vedas has the supreme importance.”
Though the period of life to study is the Brahmacharya Ashrama (stage of celibacy and student life) yet even after entering the family life, there should be no slackness in the study of the Vedas. When the students used to leave the teacher’s abode after the completion of the study period, in his valedictory address (samaavartana) the teacher used to say-
Speak the truth. Follow the dharma. Never be sluggish in the study (of the Vedas)
God never dies and never decays. This is clear indication from Veda itself that the knowledge is from God, it is immortal and ever new.
There is no bar or restrictions of country, period, caste, creed, sex or colour for the study of the Vedas. God in the Yajurvedic mantra says, I bestow this knowledge of the Vedas for all persons, similarly you also preach it to all including the Braahmanas, the Kshatriyas, the Vaishyas, the Shuudras, servants, ladies and even persons lower than shuudras”. Hence knowledge of Vedas is for all human beings, any restrictions imposed by ignorant or selfish persons is against …show more content…
Zindavasta, the Bible, the Koran and the sacred books of other ancient civilization are regarded as knowledge received from God by the Persians, the Christians, Muslims and other religions respectively. The concept of the Vedic dharma is that the four Vedas are the boos of true knowledge. in the first principle, it has been established with clear logic and evidences that the Gracious, Almighty, Formless God, for the well being of his immortal sons (body does not the soul) viz the humanity at large bestowed knowledge at the time of emergence of human being on this
Though the period of life to study is the Brahmacharya Ashrama (stage of celibacy and student life) yet even after entering the family life, there should be no slackness in the study of the Vedas. When the students used to leave the teacher’s abode after the completion of the study period, in his valedictory address (samaavartana) the teacher used to say-
Speak the truth. Follow the dharma. Never be sluggish in the study (of the Vedas)
God never dies and never decays. This is clear indication from Veda itself that the knowledge is from God, it is immortal and ever new.
There is no bar or restrictions of country, period, caste, creed, sex or colour for the study of the Vedas. God in the Yajurvedic mantra says, I bestow this knowledge of the Vedas for all persons, similarly you also preach it to all including the Braahmanas, the Kshatriyas, the Vaishyas, the Shuudras, servants, ladies and even persons lower than shuudras”. Hence knowledge of Vedas is for all human beings, any restrictions imposed by ignorant or selfish persons is against …show more content…
Zindavasta, the Bible, the Koran and the sacred books of other ancient civilization are regarded as knowledge received from God by the Persians, the Christians, Muslims and other religions respectively. The concept of the Vedic dharma is that the four Vedas are the boos of true knowledge. in the first principle, it has been established with clear logic and evidences that the Gracious, Almighty, Formless God, for the well being of his immortal sons (body does not the soul) viz the humanity at large bestowed knowledge at the time of emergence of human being on this