The Supreme Science - The Where, What, Why of Vedic Knowledge

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Traditionally, Veda and the Vedic Literature is held to bet he total knowledge of life and creation. It has been transmitted in the oral tradition of the Vedic Families of India for thousands of years. In recent times, Veda and the Vedic Literature has been recorded in book form. Many commentators, over the centuries, have looked at Veda and the Vedic Literature from different perspectives, depending on their interests and their level of knowledge, experience, and understanding.

 

Now let’s see what Veda itself says about itself:

 

The Where, What, Why of Vedic Knowledge

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Where is the Veda? In India? No. In the Himalayas? No. In any part of the world? No. In any phase of the finite? No. Then where should we look for the Veda? The Rik Veda itself answers the question of its location. It says:

 

Richo Akshare Parame Vyoman -Rik Veda 1.164.39

---The Richas (the hymns of the Veda) reside in the imperishable transcendental field‑pure awareness, pure intelligence, pure consciousness.

 

What, then, is the Veda? Is it the books of Sanskrit hymns? Here also, the answer is no. The four books known as Rik Veda, Sama Veda, Yajur Veda, and Atharva Veda are not the Veda: books serve to record the words of Vedic Literature, but they themselves are not the Veda.

Again, the Rik Veda itself tells us what it is:

 

Yasmin devaa adhi vishve nisheduh -Rik Veda 1.164.39

---In which reside all the impulses of creative intelligence.

 

Veda is the home of all the impulses of creative intelligence. How can one come to know the Veda, which is located in the transcendent and which is the home of all the impulses of creative intelligence? By developing pure awareness, the one key to Vedic study. The Rik Veda says~

 

Yojaagaaratam richah kaamayante -Rik Veda V.44.14

---The hymns seek out him who is awake

 

To be fully “awake” means to be established in pure consciousness. The development of pure consciousness is the key to all knowledge and the prerequisite of Vedic study.

 

What is the purpose of knowing the Veda? The purpose is to live the wholeness of life. The Rik Veda says:

 

Ya ittadvidusta ime samasate -Rik Veda 1.164.39

---He who knows it (pure consciousness) is established in evenness – wholeness of life.

 

The study of the Veda has its purpose in structuring the home of all knowledge in one's awareness. Thereby one owns the home of all the impulses of creative intelligence and gains maximum effectiveness in every action, leading to the most rewarding achievements and to fulfillment‑the wholeness of life encompassed in every wave of living.

 

How can this purpose be achieved? The Bhagavad-Gita gives a practical formula for achieving this goal, in the words:

 

Nistraigunyo bhava -Bhagavad-Gita 2.45

---Be without the spur to activity – get to the home of all the impulses of creative intelligence (and from there perform action).

 

Yogasthah kuru karmaani -Bhagavad-Gita 2.48

---Established in Being, in Unity, perform action.

 

Furthermore, the Gita says that there is no obstacle to realising this status; the process is natural and free from any resistance:

 

Pratyavaayo na vidyate -Bhagavad-Gita 2.40

---There is no obstacle

 

The path being free from resistance, “even a little of the practice results in freedom from great fears, problems, and weakness.” (Bhagavad-Gita 2.40)

 

So the goal of Vedic study is established by going beyond activity to the field of pure creative intelligence; the procedure to do so is natural, without barriers, and immediately results in the tangible growth of strength. The Rik Veda summarizes this development in one word:

 

 

Nivartadhvam -Rik Veda 10.19.1

---Transcend.

 

 

Ved is not an intellectual concept that only intellectually reveals the reality at the basis of creation. Rik Veda, the source of the dynamics of creation in the self-referral state of consciousness, is the holistic expression of the organizing power of pure knowledge.

 

 

Rik Veda presents the mechanics of transformation of the unified value of Natural Law (Atma) into the diversified values of all the innumerable Laws of Nature that uphold life everywhere, and uphold the evolution of life everywhere.

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In the past 40 years, the complete knowledge of Veda, its structuring dynamics in the Vedic Literature, and its infinite organizing power have been discovered by His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, who received the supreme wisdom of Veda from his master, His Divinity Swami Brahmananda Saraswati, Jagad-Guru, Shankaracharya of Jyotir Math, Himalayas, a shining light in the line of the great teacher of the Holy Tradition of Vedic Masters.

 

 

Maharishi Vedic University is the custodian of this knowledge of the absolute administration of creation, the absolute administration of the universe.

Experience of pure consciousness is a prerequisite to Vedic study. That is why the foundation of Vedic Study is laid by the students' discussion of personal experiences as they arise through the practice of the Science of Creative Intelligence (i.e. the technique of Transcendental Meditation) and intellectually understanding the phenomenon of existence and its evolution as it unfolds to one's awareness in daily life.

 

Having intellectually understood the various phases of the phenomenon of existence and its growth from the different disciplines of modern science, the student should briefly review the theoretical principles of modern science and Science of Creative Intelligence with reference to Vedic Literature in general; this leads to the student's discovery that on the basis of his own EXPERIENCES of Transcendental Meditation and daily activity, he has gained REAL knowledge of the fundamentals of existence and evolution.

 

---From H.H. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in the Catalogue 1974-75 of Maharishi International University (now Maharishi University of Management), Fairfield, Iowa, USA

 

(His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, teaches the Programme of Transcendental Meditation that has gained world-wide recognition for its scientific verification by more than 600 research studies of the benefits in the field of physiological, psychological, and sociological health, conducted in over 200 scientific institutions all over the world and published in over 100 scientific journals.

 

Over 60 published sociological studies show that Maharishi’s Transcendental Meditation is a powerful Vedic technology of World Peace. Currently, all efforts and means are being directed to establish in India a group of 10,000 Vedic expert pandits who by their deep meditation, experience of Atma-the pure consciousness-and performance of Vedic yagyas will achieve and perpetuate world peace).

 

http://www.mum.edu/tm_program/04_nolimits.html

 

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