Vedas & Upanishads.. Quite interesting..

Hoping that all of you are enjoying life at its best, lets get to know another interesting fact.

This blog is about what our Vedas and Upanishads tried to impart. There are N number of  famous Vedas and Upanishads with thousands of verses that were created with lot of details and intensity. Scholars have been dedicating their whole of life to provide us these assets. Since the past, many went to 'Gurukulam', 'Veda paatshaala' to acquire the knowledge hiding in them. Even today they are run at different places and students are lighting their cognition.

So, what are these Vedas and Upanishads anyway.. Lets have a glimpse on both of them.

Vedas..

Vedas were created by scholars long long time ago. They were basically a set of principles that a man was supposed to follow in his life time. Though the way they were expressed was complicated, the theory was simple. It was all about what a man should do and what not. This was the prescript written for a man to follow the ethics of life. There was no relation to believing God or for that matter any person. There was nowhere written about God or about following any religion.

What was Upanishads then?

Upanishads were subsets of Vedas, having many properties similar to Vedas.  There was no representation of God or about any religion in the whole of it like the Vedas. Vedas expressed  the principles of man's life, while Upanishads shared general science.
For example : Evolution of universe (Big Bang theory), astrology, learning process, determination of seasons based on geographic science, evolution of a civilization, all natural processes like formation of a fetus and what not.

These were not related to an individual man but to mankind and world in relation to science.

In simple words, Vedas dealt with code of ethics for a man's living, while Upanishads dealt with knowledge on General science and facts. Both were no way connected to any religion. Both had no relation to God/divinity as well. 

Then how did evolved a 'religion'..

Both Vedas and Upanishads were ideally meant for mankind in general. There were no religious interference in any of them. Then how came the religion. Some people in the past, accepted all the principles meant to be followed by the Vedas, while others omitted a few that were not feasible to them. The reason could have been there interest in following all or that they had no choice other than omitting a few due to some reasons. Thus emerged a set of people with new/altered principles, called themselves a religion with a name. Some people from this set who might have disliked one or more principles of their existing principles,  created another database of rules and created a religion. Thus one by one, religions came with their own set of principles. Still the mother of all of them is none other than our own Vedas. After a long time when people started owning their own set of principles, our Scholars afraid of losing our original universal base, named it as a new religion 'Hinduism'. Thus came into existence 'Hinduism', which is undoubtedly the mother of all religions following all the norms expressed in Vedas and Upanishads.

So, the base of all of these so called religions have emerged from our Vedas and Upanishads.

The four vedas that we are familiar with are Rigveda, Yajurveda, Sama-Veda,Atharva-Veda.

Some of the well known Upanishads are Aitareya, Kauṣītaki and Taittirīya etc. There are umpteen number of others unknown and hidden. So, what is that one thing that all of these try to teach us.

There is a slokam that has evolved on its own, but bears in it the meaning of our entire Vedas and Upanishads.

"Slokardhena pravakshyami yad uktam grantha kotishu

   Paropakarah punyaya papaya parapeedanam"

What does it mean?

   "The meaning of millions of Vedas is that, helping others fetches you punyam(punyaha) while committing sin pushes you to hell".

There is no restriction on the amount of virtuous deeds or bad deeds that one does. Small or big everything counts. So beware, keep up doing your duties and book yourself a place at heaven by helping others [Serious :-)].

Next topic.. Believe it or not.. 

"Summation theory - not by German Mathematicians,

                Pythagoras theorem - not by Pythagoras''...  proof available in my next blog...

Take care till then..