Vedas: Ancient Indian Knowledge - Origin, Composition, and Significance, Exercises of Cosmology

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Learning Objectives

• What is/are Veda

• Origin and language

• Understanding and scholarship

• Scientific applications

• VEDAS ARE THE OLDEST EXTANT IN THE WORLD. ORIGINATED IN INDIA AS

AN ORAL TRADITION; BETWEEN 10000-7000 BC

DURING THE TIME OF MAHABHARATA~ 3300BC

IT WAS COMPILES INTO FOUR BOOKS

1. RIG VEDA

2. SAM VEDA

3. YAJUR VEDA

4. ATHAR VEDA

RIG/RUG VEDA:

* IS CONSIDERED TO BE THE OLDEST OF THE FOUR VEDAS, WRITTEN IN HYMNS.

***** SPREAD OVER 10 BOOKS CALLED MANDALAS (A NAME THAT IS ALSO APPLIED TO THE STELLAR CONSTELLATIONS)

• HYMNS ARE ORIENTED IN PARTICULAR METERS THAT CREATES CERTAIN VIBRATION

“O SUN! WHEN YOU ARE BLOCKED BY THE ONE WHOM YOU GIFTED YOUR OWN LIGHT (MOON), THEN EARTH GETS SCARED BY SUDDEN DARKNESS.” RIG VEDA 5.40.

IN “RIGVEDA THERE BREATHES A LIVELY NATURAL FEELING, A WARM LOVE FOR

NATURE” ALBRECHT WEBER, (GERMAN INDOLOGIST)

• PERSONIFICATION OF NATURAL ELEMENTS AS DEITY MOON AS SOMA, AIR AS VARUN, FIRE AS AGNI

“ Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim

over all previous centuries”. J. Robert Oppenheimer

SĀMAN "SONG" AND VEDA "KNOWLEDGE

1, A LITURGICAL TEXT WHICH CONSISTS OF 1,549 VERSES IN WHICH ALL BUT 75

HAVE BEEN TAKEN FROM THE RIGVEDA.

2. SAMA VEDA HAS THE ROOT OF MUSIC AND DANCE TRADITION. ALSO

MENTIONS MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

ACCORDING TO SONIC THEORY SAMAVEDA HAS THE ROOT OF MUSIC AND DANCE

TRADITION OF THIS PLANET.

3. DEALS WITH SCIENCE OF SOUND AND SONIC

“DESTROY ‘PEOPLE OF HATRED’ WITH THE HELP OF KNOWLEDGE .” SAM VEDA

TECHNOLOGICAL PART OF VEDA

FORTY CHAPTERS

1. HOW TO PRONOUNCE MANTRAS/CHANTS

2. CONSTRUCT OF ALTERS ,

3. VASTU SASHTRA: KRISHNA’S DWARIKA WAS BUILT ACCORDINGLY

4. ARCHITECTURE , GEOMETRICAL DESIGNS

USING

BINARY NUMBER SYSTEM (COMPUTING)

COMBINATORICS: COUNTING USING PERMUTATION COMBINATION

“WE OWE A LOT TO INDIANS WHO TAUGHT US HOW TO COUNT, WITHOUT

WHICH NO WORTHWHILE SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY COULD HAVE BEEN MADE .”

ALBERT EINSTEIN

1. SAMHITAS (TO ARRANGE/COLLECTION

MATHEMATICALLY PRECISE METRICAL ARCHAIC TEXT PERSONIFIED FORCES OF NATURE AS DEITIES

2. BTAHMANAS: TEACHINGS OF OBSERVATIONAL ASTRONOMY, GEOMETRY SCIENTIFIC METHODS FOR PERFORMING CEREMONIES TO OBTAIN DESIRED OUTCOME
3. ARYAKANAS: OFFERS HOW TO AWAKEN/ DEVELOP PSYCHOSOMATIC POWER WITHIN ONE SELF THE CREATION OF THE UNIVERSE, KNOWLEDGE OF THE ABSOLUTE

4. UPANISHAD (VEDANTA): THERE ARE 108 UPANISHADS

RICH WITH VEDIC COSMOLOGY

“KNOW AND EXPERIENCE SELF” ---- “I AM” ----IS THE CENTRAL IDEA OF ALL

UPANISHADS

“ QUANTUM THEORY WILL NOT LOOK RIDICULOUS TO PEOPLE WHO HAVE

READ VEDANTA.” VEDANTA IS THE CONCLUSION OF VEDIC THOUGHT”

HEISENBERG STATED,

“ THE UNITY AND CONTINUITY OF VEDANTA ARE REFLECTED IN THE UNITY AND CONTINUITY OF WAVE MECHANICS. THIS IS ENTIRELY CONSISTENT WITH THE VEDANTA CONCEPT OF ALL IN ONE.” ERWIN SCHRÖDINGER

“I GO INTO THE UPANISHADS TO ASK QUESTIONS” NIELS BOHR

“WHEN I READ THE BHAGAVAD-GITA AND REFLECT ABOUT HOW GOD CREATED THIS UNIVERSE EVERYTHING ELSE SEEMS SO SUPERFLUOUS ….” ALBERT EINSTEIN

“VEDANTA TEACHES US THAT CONSCIOUSNESS IS SINGULAR, ALL HAPPENIN GS ARE PLAYED OUT IN ONE UNIVERSAL CONSCIOUSNESS AND THERE IS NO MULTIPLICITY OF SELVES” ERWIN SCHRÖDINGER

“WHENEVER I HAVE READ ANY PART OF THE VEDAS, I HAVE FELT THAT SO ME UNEARTHLY AND UNKNOWN LIGHT ILLUMINATED ME. IN THE GREAT TEACHING OF THE VEDAS, THERE IS NO TOUCH OF SECTARIANISM. IT IS OF ALL AGES, CLIMBS, AND NATIONALITIES AND IS THE ROYAL ROAD FOR THE ATTAINMENT OF THE GREAT KNOWLEDGE. WHEN I READ IT, I FEEL THAT I AM UNDER THE SPANGLED HEAVENS OF A SUMMER NIGHT .” HENRY DAVID THOREAU