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Vedas are not just meant only for Indians. It is universal, the very word Veda means knowledge. Therefore, without knowledge whether material or spiritual one remains in darkness. The Vedas are like manual for human beings so that they can mold their lives comfortably and at the end of life return back to the spiritual world.

Srimad Bhagavatam 1.4.23
All these learned scholars, in their turn, rendered their entrusted Vedas unto their many disciples, grand-disciples and great grand-disciples, and thus the respective branches of the followers of the Vedas came into being.
Purport by A.C.Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada,
Founder-Acharya of ISKCON
(International Society for Krishna Consciousness)
The original source of knowledge is the Vedas. There are no branches of knowledge, either mundane or transcendental, which do not belong to the original text of the Vedas. They have simply been developed into different branches, They were originally rendered by great, respectable and learned professors. In other words, the Vedic knowledge, broken into different branches by different disciplic successions, has been distributed all over the world. Nobody, can therefore, claim independant knowledge beyond the Vedas.

From Isopanisad Purport by Prabhupada
The Vedas are not compilations of human knowledge. Vedic knowledge comes from the spiritual world, from Lord Krishna. Another name for the Vedas is sruti. Sruti refers to that knowledge which is acquired by hearing. It is not experimental knowledge. Sruti is considered to be like a mother. We take so much knowledge from our mother. For example, if you want to know who your father is, who can answer you? Your mother. If the mother says, "Here is your father," you have to accept it. It is not possible to experiment to find out whether he is your father. Similarly, if you want to know something beyond your experience, beyond your experimental knowledge, beyond the activities of the senses, then you have to accept the Vedas. There is no question of experimenting. It has already been experimented. It is already settled. The version of the mother, for instance, has to be accepted as truth. There is no other way.

The Vedas are considered to be the mother, and Brahma is called the grandfather, the forefather, because he was the first to be instructed in the Vedic knowledge. In the beginning the first living creature was Brahma. He received this Vedic knowledge and imparted it to Narada and other disciples and sons, and they also distributed it to their disciples. In this way, the Vedic knowledge comes down by disciplic succession.

2007-03-12 04:58:59 · answer #1 · answered by Gaura 7 · 1 0

Why is it important to live closer to the Indian Vedas?

It's not, religion is a philosophy of mind, and the mind is always with you.

2007-03-12 07:47:21 · answer #2 · answered by Julian 6 · 1 0

Need at least one more verb to make sense.

2007-03-12 07:45:33 · answer #3 · answered by Answergirl 5 · 0 0

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