The Vedas are world’s oldest composite literature on religion, science,
humanities and spirituality, yet they are not treated as sacred in the
Biblical or religious sense. It is a priceless intangible, and unique
mystical world view of that era. It has documented mans culture, fear
and misery as a sort of reflection of the Rishis of yore.
It
deals with our attachment to our wild side and the sensual world we
inhabit with all its inbuilt suffering. The universe has sculpted our
connection with life forms and solidarity with sentient and insentient
beings. Earth is a picture where ideological and political crimes are
carried out everyday, a cruel place despite humans who are instilled
with humanity inhabiting it. The world is a merciless place, inhabited
by, cruelty, consumption, hatred lust, violence and untold misery.
Life is full of great joy and intense pain, we have lost something
both aesthetically and ethically with the shift of the ages from that
era to our modern culture, and we are on the brink of losing a priceless
intangible heritage. Mans condition to object against this human
condition is to protest or pray to God- as they live their entire lives
in the reflected glory of religions, losing their own identity in the
process. All religions, symbolize hope and despair to which mankind is
forever subjected.
Our relationship are filled either with
great happiness or intense sorrow shared with lasting pain, it is here
that the Vedas helps us learn about life. When we are stripped down to
own bare bones and the road ends, when nothing leads anywhere, and
religious hope explodes into despair and everything becomes groundless-
then the Vedas helps us to reclaim our lives.
As humans our
life is nothing but a slow journey through detours of bliss and intense
sorrow, the simple understanding which unless you have surrendered to
nature, the world refuses to answer your doubts and the meanings
therein. We must move into the solitude and silence of our inner self to
perceive the very images whose presence our hearts opened up to in the
first place.
What a fascinating world, its starkness like the
desert that is within us, with a vast expanse of silence which is the
real beauty. Order, chaos and reason, the will to survive, the imperious
obstinacy to change, all these secrets are revealed, the happiness in
those mystical moments of nature, the simple pleasures and to re
organize our life’s priorities till we can treat death itself is a
triumph over our spirits. It is all there in the Vedas. –Vinay-
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