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).
