What are Vedas
and Introduction to veda's
Power Point Presentation
and Introduction to veda's
Power Point Presentation
By
Avdhesh Kumar Mathur
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On Monday 19th June 2017
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•The Vedas are a large body of knowledge texts originating in the ancient Indian subcontinent.Composed in Vedic Sanskrit, the texts constitute the oldest litrature. Hindus consider the Vedas to be apauruṣeya, which means "not of a man.
•Each Veda has been subclassified into four major text types –
4. and the Upanishads (texts discussing meditation, philosophy and spiritual knowledge).[12][14][15] Some scholars add a fifth category – the Upasanas (worship).
There are four Vedas 1. RIG 2. Sam. 3. Yajur 4. Arthava
Sloka from rig veda in English
‘Agni’ means fire. This fire refers to the aspiring flame that rises from our inmost being; again, ‘Agni’ also refers to the fire god himself.
We are all aspirants; we are all seekers of the infinite Truth.
It is we who have to embody Agni, the flame of aspiration, in the inmost recesses of our hearts.
We also have to grow upwards with this flame until we become the embodiment of Agni, the fire god himself.
•3.Somaveda – It refers to ecstatic melodies ,music ,art ,drama, and the science ofsound.There are 1875 mantras imbued with sweet melodies of devotional love for God that renders inner peace and tranuality
• Three recensions of the Samaveda have survived, and variant manuscripts of the Veda have been found in various parts of India.
• Embedded inside the Samaveda is the widely studied Chandogya Upanishad and Kena Upanishad, considered as primary Upanishads and as influential on the six schools of Hindu philosophy, particularly the Vedanta school.
•The classical Indian music and dance tradition considers the chants and melodies in Samaveda as one of its roots.
2.Yajurveda- The total no. . of Mantra’s is 2086. It gives methods of living a prosperous life with a spirit of yajna.(sacrifice)The melodious hymns of the yajurveda provide a large description 0f Yajna’s meant to bring equilibrium peace ,happiness,freedom,and prosperity in society..
This oontains great Mahamritiju Mantra.which is addressed to the indwelling Supreme Lord for a long healthy,wholesome life and liberation from fearful death.This veda deals with military sciences also.It has hmns for universal peace and harmony,
4. Atharva veda Comprises of total 5977 mantras. The Atharvaveda is composed in Vedic Sanskrit, and it is a collection of 730 hymns with about 6,000 mantras, divided into 20 books.[4
] About a sixth of the Atharvaveda text adapts verses from the Rigveda, and except for Books 15 and 16, the text is in poem form deploying a diversity of Vedic meters.[4] Two different recensions of the text – the Paippalāda and the Śaunakīya – have survived into modern times.[
It covers diversified sciences such as healing herbs ,and types of ailments,physics,chemistry,pharmology,psychology, arithmatics,astronomy,and astrology.and also covers every aspect of life such as matrimony and friendship,prayers for progney,happy married life,solidarity of family, cattle raering and the spiritual bond that exist between human beings and mother earth..
Upveda
The Up-Vedas are the texts on the auxillary themes of the Vedas. There are 5 Upveda that can be traced in some meaningful form, they are as follows:-
1.Shilpa Veda (Sthapatya Ved): It deals with architecture and various arts.
● 2. Ayurveda from Rig Veda
•Ayurveda Ayurveda is related to the secret of life and the science of long life. The originator of Ayurveda is supposed to be Lord Dhanwantari.
• At present, three important books of Ayurveda are: Charak Samhita, Sushruta Samhita and Vaagbhatta Samhita. -: 3.Gandharvaveda.
From Samaveda
•Gandharva Veda comprises the specific sets of laws of Nature that are engaged in promoting the quality of Rishi —
• the observer, the witnessing quality —
•within the Samhita level of consciousness, providing a structure to the eternally silent, self-referral, self-sufficient,
• fully awake state of consciousness, which is intimately personal to everyone.
4. Dhanurveda,fromYajurveda
•Archery is noted to be one of the noblest form of defence within Indian cultural heritage. Siddharta Gautama was a champion with the bow,
• while Rama, Arjuna, Karna, Bhishma, Drona and Ekalavya of the epics were all said to be peerless archers. Traditional archery is today practiced mainly in the far northern states of Ladakh and Arunachal.
5. Arthveda from Atherva Veda
Artha Veda: It deals with social, economic, and political systems. In the early medieveal times Artha Shashtra was also authored by Chanakya
Introduction Of Veda’s
by Avdhesh Kumar Mathur
by Avdhesh Kumar Mathur
•My self Avdhesh kumar mathur with grace of God , am going to write and narrate to you what is given in veda’s in brief.
•1. veda is knowledge of God
•2.which was heard / visualized by ancient saints of India in their ecstasy while in meditation in the beginning of creation
•. 3 On this basis Hindus regard and say their religion to be Sanatan or Vedic dharma
•4 . Vedas are a collection of such thoughts called slokas or mantras and these give us the rules of laws which govern the universe.. Vedas are old and from the beginning of creation.
Division of Vedas
• The shruties were passed on from one generation to another and so on until they were classified into Vedic hymns and upnishadic hyms and later on ved -vyas classified Vedic hymns into four scriptures given below
•1 Rig Veda
•2 Sam Veda
•3.Yajur Veda
•4. Arthava Veda
•( Fortunately I own a set of all four Vedas translated by
•Swami Dayanand ji and a set of Vedas vaishnavite version translated by renowned author }
•Upanishads are end parts of Vedas.
Two types of religious
scriptures
scriptures
•Hindu dharma has two types of scriptures
•1. shruti ;- for a very long time these were passed on from guru to shishya orally and remembered by heart and then again passed on till they were written and then classified by Ved vyas in 4 volumes of Veda's and also different versions of Upanishad with names of rishies.
Out of these eleven Upanishads are famous on which commentary ha been written by Adi shankeracharya 1. Isha 2 ken 3 katha 4 prashna 5 Aitarya 6 Mandaka 7 Taitarya 8 Mandukya 9 Chandogya 10 swetasavatara 11Brahadnaik
Fortunately I have all the four Vedas and a collection of 108 Upanishads by Sri Shree Ram Sharma of Gayetri Peeth.
2. smriti ; - These are old manually written scriptures which are as follows
1.Six Darsan shastras
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2. Various Puranas
3. Manusmriti
4.Bhagwat Geeta
5. Mahabharata
6. Ramayana & Ramcharita Manus
7. Savitri etc
Beliefs in Vedic times
•1.In those time there was no murti puja but havan and sacrifice only to please various gods who in turn looked after the humans, animals and plants etc on earth.
• In Vedas the slokas are given in poem form in Sanskrit . Each devta in turn is worshiped by doing hawan reciting mantras in praise of him and requesting him to bestow peace on earth according to his energies.
•2. In the first third part ,Vedas describe karma kand and then rituals and ways of living and the last on e third portion deals with brahm vidya and atm .jnan.
•These teachings from Guru to Shishya by various teachers are given in Upanishads and are ways of Self and God realisation.
•3.It is believed that every thought which can be visualised or thought for alreadyexist in nature and is mentioned in some form in vedas and
•what we innovate now is really a discovery of provision in vedas in some which could not be evaluated and understood so far.
7. RigVeda provide us knowledge from beginning of creation to
end of creation of all those thoughts which we cannot even think as it is the only truth which mankind has been searching .
8. Rig Veda's important prayer is “ Namaskar to earth,namaskar to either, Namashkar to Heaven.”
8. Rig Veda's important prayer is “ Namaskar to earth,namaskar to either, Namashkar to Heaven.”
We pray to that God who is Nrgun and
Nirankar and meditate on him who is sole cause of this creation, We pray that he may inspire our mind and give us wisdom to attain knowledge
Provisions in Samveda
•Samveda puts weightage on music. 1. It contains 1000 mantras.1. its mantras are usedin karma kand
•Samveda puts weightage on music. 1. It contains 1000 mantras.1. its mantras are usedin karma kand
2.It teaches behaviour of give and take and mantras regarding maintenance of our body and other material things.
3 it provides for sacrifice of somras in havans and contains several mantras giving methods used inused in performing havan.
4.from this Veda tejiyasya upanishad , Sanhita brahman, ken Upanishad and chandogya Upanishad have come on.
•Samveda puts weightage on music. It contains 1000 mantras.
•1. its mantras are usedin karma kand
•2.It teaches behaviour of give and take and mantras regarding maintenance of our body and other material things.
•3 it provides for sacrifice of somras in havans and contains several mantras giving methods used inused in performing havan.
•4.from this Veda tejiyasya upanishad , Sanhita brahman, ken Upanishad and chandogya Upanishad have come out.
See next blog for continuation
See next blog for continuation
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