Trai-vidya means Vedas

Trai-vidya means Vedas. There are three kinds of knowledge in the Vedas, trai-vidya: 

karma-kanda, 

upasana-kanda, and 

jnana-kanda. 

 

Karma-kanda means this, how we can adjust to material happiness or material living very nicely. That is called karma-kanda. 

And then upasana-kanda. Upasana-kanda means how to worship the Supreme Lord or the demigod or different types of… There are demigods. The demigods are living beings like us, but they are very powerful. So that upasana-kanda, worship of different demigods is also mentioned there in the Vedas. That is called upasana-kanda. 

And jnana-kanda. Jnana-kanda means knowledge, philosophical. 

So therefore Veda is known as trai-vidya, trayi. Trayi means three kinds of knowledge there are. So the persons who are more or less materialists — they are not transcendentalists — they take shelter of this Vedic trai-vidya, three kinds of knowledge. And to prepare themselves to be transferred in other planets they become freed from all sinful reaction.

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