RIG VED

The Rig Ved derives its name from the word rig which means mantra. This beautiful collection of unimaginable cosmic wisdom has 10,589 verses. There are further divided into ten mandalas or books. Each mandala is further divided into anuvakas and suktas. Anuvakas mean lessons and suktas mean hymns. On the whole there are 85 lessons and 1080 hymns. Quite an exhaustive work, isn't it, for a genius or a group of team or geniuses who chose to be anonymous. The verses in the ved are rendered to the Gods.

The importance given to the Sun in the veds is significant. Those days when most of the world believed that the Sun was a huge orange ball, the sages of India seemed to have learnt somehow that it was the Sun that the source of life. They also seem to know that light was energy. More interesting, the veds understood the connection between the Sun and the rains, and the rest of the weather pattern