Saturday, October 7, 2017

Dharma Vahini - Post 27


Dear All,

Continuing with the Vedic era, Swami gives the significance of Vedas and Vedic rituals in a discourse.


The Significance of Vedic Rituals and Scriptures




Look for the real meaning of Vedas

Most of you always bypass the real meaning of the legends, tales, and descriptions given in the ancient scriptures. For example, Brahma’s lotus is not a stalk that grows in mud and rises above the waters to catch the rays of the sun and blossom but the many-petalled lotus of the heart, each petal being the direction in which a particular tendency attracts the individual. 

The bull on which Shiva is said to ride is not the animal called by that name but the symbol of righteousness (Dharma), which has the four legs truth, righteousness, peace, and love. Gopala (Krishna) did not graze cattle but protected and fed living beings, known also as “Go”.


Be proud of your ancestry

You have to trace your ancestry and be proud of it. From the Supreme Soul, i.e. the Source, nature descended with the emergence of illusion; and from the stuff of that illusion, space; from space, wind; from wind, fire; from fire, water; from water, earth. By a combination of the five elements, this tabernacle of the Divine (Paramatma), that is, you, was produced. 


The entire ladder has now to be climbed up in order to reach the Divine, the origin of all. There is a regular syllabus for the promotion of the spiritual aspirant, which is given in that form in the Veda and in an elaborate story form in Bhagavata.





(Source: Divine Discourse on October 7, 1962 on the penultimate day of the first Veda Purusha Saptaha Jnana Yajna in Prasanthi Nilayam).




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