{"id":1985,"date":"2023-01-16T15:31:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T10:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vishwanadh.com\/?p=1985"},"modified":"2024-06-09T13:39:03","modified_gmt":"2024-06-09T08:09:03","slug":"what-do-the-vedas-teach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vishwanadh.com\/?p=1985","title":{"rendered":"What do the Ved\u0101s teach us?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"385\" height=\"243\" src=\"https:\/\/vishwanadh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Scriptures_flatIcon.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1986\" style=\"object-fit:cover\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vishwanadh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Scriptures_flatIcon.jpg 385w, https:\/\/vishwanadh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Scriptures_flatIcon-300x189.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 385px) 100vw, 385px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size\"><strong>\u092a\u094d\u0930\u0924\u094d\u092f\u0915\u094d\u0937\u0947\u0923\u093e\u0928\u0941\u092e\u093f\u0924\u094d\u092f\u093e \u0935\u093e \u092f\u0938\u094d\u0924\u0942\u092a\u093e\u092f\u094b \u0928 \u092c\u0941\u0927\u094d\u092f\u0924\u0947 \u0964<br \/>\u090f\u0928\u0902 \u0935\u093f\u0926\u0928\u094d\u0924\u093f \u0935\u0947\u0926\u0947\u0928 \u0924\u0938\u094d\u092e\u093e\u0926\u094d \u0935\u0947\u0926\u0938\u094d\u092f \u0935\u0947\u0926\u0924\u093e \u0965<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size\"><em><strong>pratyak\u1e63e\u1e47\u0101numity\u0101 v\u0101 yast\u016bp\u0101yo na budhyate \u0964<br \/>ena\u1e43 vidanti vedena tasm\u0101d vedasya vedat\u0101 \u0965<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Knowledge of the ultimate &#8216;<em>tattva<\/em>&#8216; (essence \/ subject) which cannot be obtained by various <em>pram\u0101\u1e47a<\/em>-s (evidences or criteria of truth) like (1) direct perception (<em><strong>pratyak\u1e63a<\/strong><\/em>)  (2) inference (<em><strong>anum\u0101na<\/strong><\/em>) (3) presumption (<em><strong>arth\u0101patti<\/strong><\/em>) (4) comparison (<em><strong>upam\u0101na<\/strong><\/em>) (5) negation (<em><strong>anupalabdhi<\/strong><\/em>) can only be obtained through the <em>Vedas<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the true nature of the <em>Vedas<\/em>, also known as the sixth (6) <em><strong>\u015babda<\/strong> pram\u0101\u1e47a<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <em>dra\u1e63\u1e6da<\/em>-s (seers) enjoin that the <em>Vedas<\/em> always exit in the womb of the <em>para<\/em> <em>chaitanya<\/em> (supreme consciousness). Through the medium of accomplished sages endowed with sophisticated consciousness, this knowledge comes to light in every <em>Kalpa<\/em>.  At the end of each cycle of the age, they are absorbed into the consciousness again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Vedas<\/em> have two components.  (1) <em>karma k\u0101\u1e43\u1e0da<\/em> (<em>samhita-s, brahma\u1e47a-s, ara\u1e47yakam<\/em>-s) helps achieve <em>dharma puru\u1e63\u0101rdha<\/em> through <em>prav\u1e5btti m\u0101rga<\/em>) (2) <em>j\u00f1\u0101na k\u0101\u1e43\u1e0da<\/em> (<em>upani\u015bad-s<\/em>) helps achieve <em>mok\u1e63a puru\u1e63\u0101rdha<\/em> through <em>niv\u1e5btti m\u0101rga<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Image courtesy:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flaticon.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Flaticon<\/a><br \/><strong>P.S.: <\/strong>All errors \/ mistakes are my own<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><!-- wp:image {\"id\":1986,\"scale\":\"cover\",\"sizeSlug\":\"full\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\",\"align\":\"center\"} --><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/vishwanadh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Scriptures_flatIcon.jpg\" alt=\"\"...\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,29],"tags":[13,14,27,28,21],"class_list":["post-1985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sanskrit-verses","category-subhashitas","tag-ancient","tag-culture","tag-sanskrit","tag-subhashitas","tag-tradition"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vishwanadh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1985"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vishwanadh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vishwanadh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vishwanadh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vishwanadh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1985"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/vishwanadh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4311,"href":"https:\/\/vishwanadh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1985\/revisions\/4311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vishwanadh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vishwanadh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vishwanadh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}