RE: Digest Number 676 Bhattathiri on Veda, Vedanta

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Dear M P Bhattathiriji,

 

As much as I usually enjoy your contibutions to Vediculture, the last ones on

VEDA and VEDANTA from Microsoft's website encarta were quite useless christian

missionary interpretations of Vedic Literature. Utterly unspiritual and shallow.

But then... could we expect something better from the West?

 

It will be my pleasure to contribute a more proper evaluation - both scientific

and spiritual - of Veda and Vedic Literature from a book by H.H. Maharishi

Mahesh Yogi. Just in a few days. I hope you will enjoy, too.

 

All the best,

 

Shaas A. Ruzicka

Germany

 

 

--- On Tue 11/11, < vediculture > wrote:

[ vediculture]

vediculture

11 Nov 2003 12:09:41 -0000

[world-vedic] Digest Number 676

 

Message: 5<br> Sun, 09 Nov 2003 06:32:33 +0530<br> M P

Bhattathiri <mpmahesh<br>VEDANTA<br><br>

 

 

Message: 6<br> Sun, 09 Nov 2003 06:37:55 +0530<br> M P

Bhattathiri <mpmahesh<br>VEDAS<br><br> Veda

Special thanks to the Microsoft Corporation for their contribution to

our site. The following information came from Microsoft Encarta. Here is a

hyperlink to the Microsoft Encarta home page. http://www.encarta.msn.com

Veda (Sanskrit, "knowledge"), the most ancient sacred literature of Hinduism, or

individual books belonging to that literature. This body of ancient literature

consists primarily of four collections of hymns, detached poetical portions, and

ceremonial formulas. The collections are called the Rig-Veda, the Sama-Veda, the

Yajur-Veda, and the Atharva-Veda. They are known also as the Samhitas (roughly

"collection").<br><br> Origins and Transmission <br><br> The four

Vedas were composed in Vedic, an early form of Sanskrit. The oldest portions are

believed by scholars to have originated largely with the Aryan invaders of India

some time between 1300 and 1000 BC;

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