Saturday, January 7, 2023

Is Vedas made by God or Humans ?

Vedas are the base of Hindu religion and most ancient text of world. Vedas are divided into 4 parts. 1st part of Vedas is Rigved which is considered as most ancient and first one. 2nd part is Samved. 3rd one is Yajurved and 4th one is Atharvaveda. All four Vedas are completely different from each other in subject. In Rigveda, hymn / prayers for God and Goddesses are mentioned for various rituals. In Samveda, musical compositions and way of singing hymn and prayers are mentioned during rituals. Yajurved contains hymn and ritual method to be conducted during sacrifices (Yagnya). As name suggest, Atharva means here is Magic. It contains mantra and method to heal illness, to reduce sorrow of people, method to fullfill one's desire in life to achieve, to balance the society etc. 


As in modern age, major part of population are unknown about Vedas. The peoples who know about Vedas, they misinterpret Vedas that these Vedas are made up off by humans. According well known Hindu devotees, these Vedas are made by Bhagwan Vishnu and the tradition of Vedic knowledge is coming from Lord Vishnu. Here, questions is who had prepared or made Vedas. According to Hindu text, it is said that Vedas are received from mouth of Bhagwan Vishnu. It means Vedas are spelled by lord Vishnu during Yognidra. These knowledge of Vedas are heard and compiled by Lord Brahma by sitting on Navel lotus of lord Vishnu. Later on these Vedas were transferred from Lord Brahma to thier 4 sons Sanakadika rishi Kumaras (Sanak, Sanandan, Sanatan, Sanat). Transferring of Vedic knowledge is continued from one Yuga to another Yuga. It is considered that it was Satyug when Lord Brahama had given Vedic Knowledge to Sanakadika rishis. Later on, in Tretatayayuga,  it is transferred from Sanakadika to other seven rishis and Brahma putras. Till Tretatayayuga, it was being transferred through hearing from Guru to Shishya. No writen communication was available for Vedas. In dwaparyuga, Bhgwan Vedvyasa recieved these knowledge from his father Maharishi Bhrigu and some says it was narada. Then, he try to compile and write all Vedic hymn on Taal Patra (Palm leaf) and Bhoja Patra. It was the first time while Vedas had been written by someone. In Kaliyuga, again it purified and compiled by Bhagwan Adi Shankar. Each and every time, Vedas were purified by someone. Because peoples used to adulterate the actual knowledge of Vedas by adding some view point of thier own. Yes, Vedic knowledge don't need any purification. But timely people had adulterated it by adding some extra things. That's why lord Vishnu / Shiva had to come on earth timely and purify the same Vedic knowledge like Bhagwan Ved vyasa considered as incarnation of Bhagwan Vishnu and Bhagwan Adi Shankar considered as incarnation of Bhagwan Shiva.
In Hindu text, no where any rishi had said that this Vedic mantra or hymn is made by him. Each Deity has a special mantra, rishi and chhandas in Vedas. Ved says that rishis are drishta means who sees. Hence, it can be said that rishi are not makers of Vedic hymn but the individual who had experienced the mantra and attained siddhis of mantra are called as Drishta. It means Rishi are drishta and not the maker of Vedic hymn. For example, Bhagwan Surya (Sun) is the deity of this mantra, sage Vishwa Mitra is the rishi of this mantra and Anushutpa Chanda is the part of Veda where this mantra is mentioned. It is spelled out before initiation of chanting of Gayatri mantra. Which is also called as mantra Nyasa. So, from this, it can be concluded that hymn or mantras mentioned in Vedas are not human made. Vedas is not spoken by any human. It is spoken itself by Bhagwan Vishnu. Because Veda itself declared that Rishis are drishta.

Jai Mahakaal