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•Power
Point Presentation
•By
•Avdhesh
Kumar Mathur
•Senior
member of ICC and Anandvan Saratoga
•at
•Senior
center Cupertino
•On Monday 19th June 2017
•Blog Hinduism: Omkar Avdhesh Mathur
•Introduction
•By
grace of God and thanks to Sri Dineshji for giving time for this talk , I have first tried to give a summary , how vedas are generally understood by common man.
•Then
I have given an introduction of Vedas as I
have read and understood
•I
have read all four Vedas and many of Upanishads in Hindi and English as I do not have any knowledge of Sanskrit and
may have missed the true meanings .
•
I am
sharing my knowledge with you.
•Gayatri Mantra
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•What
are Vedas
•The Vedas are a large
body of knowledge texts originating in the ancient Indian subcontinent.Composed in Vedic Sanskrit, Hindus
consider the Vedas to be apauruṣeya, which means
"not of a man.
•Each
Veda has been subclassified into four major text
types – 1. the Samhitas (mantras and
benedictions),
These four Vedas
are 1. RIG 2. Sam. 3.Yajur 4. Arthava
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• All four books of four Vedas
•Picture
of Vedic Manuscript
•Vedic Litrature
•Rigveda
1.Rigveda comprises of 10589
hymns for Agni,Varun,Indra,Chandra,Sun,Saraswati,and
other god and goddesses who represent different energies inherent in God.
•The Rigveda It is one of
the four canonical sacred texts (śruti) of Hinduism known as
the Vedas.[2][3] The text is a
collection of 1,028 hymns and 10,600 verses, organized into ten books (Manda
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•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.
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•Sama Veda
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•Soma
veda – It refers to
ecstatic melodies ,music ,art ,drama, and the science ofsound.
•The
classical Indian music and dance tradition considers the chants and melodies in
Samaveda as one of its roots.
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•Upveda
of abive vedas
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•3.Gandharvaveda
from Samveda comprises the
specific sets of laws of Nature that are engaged in promoting the quality of Rishi ,the observer, the
witnessing quality
•4.
Dhanurveda, from Yajurveda . Archery is noted
to be one of the noblest form of defence within Indian cultural heritage.
•5.Artha Veda from Atharva
Veda: It deals with social, economic, and political
systems. In the early medieveal times Artha Shashtra was also authored by
Chanakya
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•Dhanur vidya
•Introduction
Of Veda’s
by
Avdhesh Kumar Mathur
by
Avdhesh Kumar Mathur
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•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 / visualised by ancient saints of India in their ecstasy while in
meditation .
•.
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.
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•Guru and Shishyas
•Different poses in sadhana
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•Ved Vyas Compiled the
Vedas which were in eternal existence as
shruties which were heard or visualised by great rishies in
trance
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•Division
of Vedas
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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 along with a set of
Vedas vaishnavite version translated by
renowned author }
•Upanishads
are end parts of Vedas.
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•Vedas are available
in Audio now
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•Pictures of Vedic age
•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.
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•Brahadnayak self and Self
•The
Eleven Upanishshads on whom commentary has been written by AdiShanker
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•Parts
of Universe
•Universe
has been subdivided into three main parts
•1.Bhu Earth
•2.Bhuva Atmosphere and ether
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3 swaha Heaven and
Beyond
•And
, human civilisation into four Varnas and four ashrams so that we may live according to laws
of nature.
•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.
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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.
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•Civilisation in Vedic
period
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•Provisions
in Rig veda
•1.
Origin of creation
•2
introduction of each of devi and devta and
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3. includes prayers for different Devies and Devtas for getting particular desire.
•4.
Rig Veda teaches us how to live better
life and obtain Gods grace who is father of all of us
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•Provisions
in Sama veda
•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.
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•Provisions
in Yajur veda
•1.
It contains several mantras needed in
doing hawan
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2. it contains taitarya ,sathpat brahman and tatarya anarya and brh and brahadnaik, and taitarya and katha upanishds.
•These
three vedas are estimated to be written 30,000 year B.C
•There
was great emphasis on teaching of Vedas to disciples with correct grammar and
pronunciation and memorising them by heart.
•Provisions
in Atharva veda
•1.
it contains all mantras used in doing household works and means and
methods used in socialization
•2.this
Veda deals with important matters regarding
arya and anarya and gives their
customs and rituals
•3
contains prayers and methods for removing and eradicating bad symptoms and things
•4. Gopath Brahman and prashna and Mandookya Upanishad are its product.
•History
of Vedas
•1.
according to hindu dharma the Vedas
existed before creation and are direct
gift from GOD
•2.
The western civilisation puts emergence
of Vedas to 1900 to 1000 B.C. They
believe that Aryans who came from caucacios mountains created them after coming
to india .
•Krishnas Bhagwat Geeta has
mention of three vedas and this is beleived to be written 1500
BC and therefore western thinking is not only rong but a myth. Even prior to 800
years BC there is mention of all
four vedas in western
literature.
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•Vedic
rituals
•This includes both
domestic and samohic social rituals, riti rivaj .
•Now a days most of
rituals are done according to puranas but still some of them are done according
to vedas. Swami dayanand has revived all
rituals aaccording to Vedas in Arya
Samaj.
•1. still all yagyas are performed according to vedas for welfare of
people a
•2. Those who wish to
go to heaven must perfom some form of
yagya including mansic yagya.
•3. Manu Smriti has a long list of yagyas to be perforformed on different occassions and purposes as well as the sixteen Sanskars.
•4. . There are different methods of God realisation given in Vedas which have been summed up in Bhagwat Geeta
and Vedanta which are much easier such
as karma, jnan , bhakti or raj yoga and dhyan yoga.
•Performing Yajna
•Yajna as one of rituals
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•Rishi Guru doing
Meditation in presence of Shishyas
•The early vedic period
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•Lord
Agni
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• Lord Vishnu
•Lord Indra
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•Lord Vasudev
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• Lord Daksh
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•Lord
Ansh or Siva
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• Lord Surya dev
• Lord Surya dev
•Sons
of sun adityas
•1.mitra
•2.
ayarma
•3.
bhang
•4.varun
•5.daksh
•6.
ansh
•Without
sun life is impossible.
•Several
devtas and devi’s in vedas but there is one God
•There
are several descripitions of dev and devi;s ( shaktiyan) in veda. In mahapralaya none (even life and death disappear)remains except the allmighty God
•God’s
will creates and dissolves the universe.
•It
is also written that both parmatma and jivatma remain in body like two bird on a tree and parmatma is drista , and jivatma is bhokta
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• Description of creation in veda.
•In
Arthava Veda mantra 42-7 it is stated
that first of all in the beginning there was a golden egg which is called Hirdaya garbh and from this
creation was done.then came fire and light
rig veda 10.121 and then all creation.
•All
this creation exist in God. The mode of creation in different manvantars is
given, in different slokas of Vedas and full
knowledge of universe is also given.
• God alone is seen in different forms and vibhuties. It has also been
in Vrdas ,how to pray and worship him in different forms and
ways.
•Creation
of Universe
•Creation of universe
•Method
for God realisation
•God
has given main paths of His realisation
as karma, jnan and bhakti and Raj Yogaa and meditation to
realise him.
•He
has given to us , in Vedas, the methods
to realise him by doing Karmkand
including yagya, tap and jap to purify the Antahkaran and then how to
meditate and how to concentrate and fix our Mana, Budhi , Chit and Ahankar in Him .
•We
can obtain deliverance from cycle of birth, death and rebirth and get mukti or
mokch as per individuals liking and get rid of all pain ,sufferings in this
very life and thereafter.
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•Parity,
maya, bandhan and mukti
how to get eternal peace
how to get eternal peace
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Vedas in detail describe in their last chapters how get eternal peace called
anand by letting us have the knowledge about
•1.
universe
•2.
self and Self
•3.
prakriti and maya
•4.
bandhan and mukti
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mukti is the goal of our life and it can be achieved by visualising God as our
internal Guru, have total devotion and faith in him , and by total surrender to
him to obtain his ashirvad , blessings and grace and realise self and
realise the almighty God
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•Conclusionn
•I
have no words to conclude.
•Suffice
to say that for Hindus, there is no need to study Vedas and all Upanishads in detail now, as our
ancient Rishies have brought all this knowledge for common man in three books
namely,
•1.Vedanta/Brahmn Sutra
•2
Bhagwat Geeta
•3.Ramayan/
Ramcharitra manus.
•Further
the running of day to day life, is now
to be done as per rules of the society and constitution of land and positive
thinking for following sayings.
•I
am the problem and I am the solution and we can mould our life according to our
thoughts and overcome our emotions by patience and positive thinking and live a
healthy prosperous life in this world and by our spiritual knowledge and
practice attain the eternal peace and Anand thereafter.
•OM SHANTI, SHANTI, SHANTI
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•The
End
• I
am thankful to the chair person Jaishri Keri and Khatriji for conducting
the programme successfully and finally to you august audience to have listened
to me so peacefully , with your full
attention.
•
Over to Chairperson , for question
Answer session.
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