The Vedas are of Divine Origin

Are the Vedas Texts Of India?

Let’s now look at the next question. Are the Vedas a tradition of knowledge of India? If it was, it would not belong to us born in the West and it would be useless to us.

Srila Prabhupada rejects the theory that the Vedas are Indian texts and says:

“You may call the Vedas Hindu, but ‘Hindu’ is a foreign name. We are not Hindus.”

Here Prabhupada says that the Vedas are a source of knowledge that belong to the whole of mankind and not just to India.

 

The Vedas are of divine origin

We can not discard the possibility that there is a God and that he has left us instructions on how to live in this world and how to return to the spiritual world. It would be a nonsense to assume it and we would condemn ourselves to close a window opened to a horizon of immense knowledge. It is a common sense idea to accept the possibility that the Vedas are truly of divine origin. And at the end of the day nobody forbids us to test the perfection of Vedic information.

 

Srila Prabhupada says:

“Vedic principles are accepted as axiomatic truth, for there cannot be any mistake. That is acceptance. For instance, in India cow dung is accepted as pure, and yet cow dung is the stool of an animal. In one place you’ll find the Vedic injunction that if you touch stool, you have to take a bath immediately. But in another place it is said that the stool of a cow is pure. If you smear cow dung in an impure place, that place becomes pure. With our ordinary sense we can argue, “This is contradictory.” 

Actually, it is contradictory from the ordinary point of view, but it is not false. It is fact. In Calcutta, a very prominent scientist and doctor analyzed cow dung and found that it contains all antiseptic properties.”

 

We accept that Vedas are of divine origin, therefore perfect, and during our studies and practices we tested and are still testing them. This is what a scientist does. He doesn’t discard any possibilities and puts them to the test. The students of the Veda are scientists in the noblest sense of the word.

This is a section of the book “Brilliant As the Sun”(English).

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