RELEVANCE

The reason why the veds are relevant even today is that they are not mere volumes of arm-chair philosophy. They are more than mere literature. The veds contain a way of life. They contain a message a path to better living culled by great sages who passed on their immense knowledge to mankind. The veds contain everything that would make life better on this planet. They explain the compatibility between man earth and the elements. They also contain answers to all human questions. TShere is perhaps no subject that the veds have ignored - general science, geography, medicine, astronomy, light, sound, particle, magnets, and geometry. A total constitution explains the intricacies of animal and plant life too. So it takes immensely narrow perception to regard the veds as ancient script.

 

Here are some reasons why the veds should mean a lot to us today :

There is no religion in the veds. It merely reminds one of a supreme state of mind that few chosen men can achieve, and others through. This supreme state of mind is also referred as the Supreme Being. It is clear that the many deities that are worshipped today were originally manifestations of nature.


The Veds prescribe a life of high moral values that is today recognized as the best way a civilized human society can live. It asks man to live life with faith, austerity, piety, selflessness, fearlessness, dedication, generosity and peace.

 

The Veds tell us that a man is not an individual. In the spiritual scheme of things he is an integral part of the universe. The universe doesn't exist without him as much as he doesn't exist without the universe. From a social point of view, he is a unit of the society.

 

The scientific insights of the veds are astounding. Apart from explaining climatology, the veds contain data that astrophysics discovered only recently for the example the big-bang.

 

Stunning revelation from the rig ved :

 

In the beginning, there was neither naught nor aught,

 

Then there was neither sky nor atmosphere above,

 

What then enshrouded this entire universe?,

 

In the receptacle of what was it contained?,

 

Then was there neither death nor immortality,

 

Then was neither day nor night nor light nor darkness,

 

Only the Existent One breathed calmly, self-contained.

 

One of the most remarkable insights of the veds is its estimate of the big bang. The veds put it at approximately 15 billion years. Modern science had initially put the figure at 10 billion years but following the discovery of heavenly bodies that were older than 10 billion, calculations were remarked and the figure of 15 billion years forced the scientists to revise the age of the universe.

 

The sound of the mother bang which created the universe, scientists say, could be reproduced using various attributes of physics and astronomy. This is called the gong. But this record is not very different from something that is already documented in the veds through the pronouncement of om omkara which is the voice of the creator. From this mother bang came sargam and there came music all known vibrations which include sound and light.

 

The big-bang theorists point out that today it is believed that all energy and matter was densely packed in condensed space. One day it exploded and all matter known today as the universe was formed. It is s also believed that the universe will contract and life will end. This too is mentioned in the veds. It has also predicted the end of the Sun, which scientists have confirmed. The veds have predicted this cycle of life will end 2,333,227,018 years from now, when the Sun disintegrated and dies. According to scientists this is the estimated time left for the Sun before it dies and becomes a black hole.

 

What we have to understand is that since the veds where formulated without the help of any equipment, we have to take one of its advices very seriously all knowledge is there in the human mind, one has to just realize it.

More modern we become, more relevant the Ved's will seem to be.