Re: why Indra is not worshipped?
Pranam
Originally Posted by
Omkara
Did you actually see the thread I linked to? So you support the Yajur, Sama, Atharva Veda, Brahmanas, Aranyakas and Upanishads being labelled as 'heretical creations'?
No and no
The apaurusheyatva of the vedas is not a medeival concept. It is established in the Vedas itself.
O sage, Virupa, praise him in eternal words.(RV 8.75.6)
‘Thousands are the glories of Brahman and they are individually thousandfold. The speech of the Veda is co-extensive with Brahman. What man of intelligence is there who can comprehend the significance of the Vedas and who is there, who comprehending it, can expound it ?’ (RV 10.114.9)
The Katyayana-sruti says: ‘The highest object of knowledge is Brahman and the highest source of knowledge is the Sruti. Sruti is unoriginated and eternal and even so is Brahman. Independent of Sruti he cannot be known.'
Originally Posted by
Shasarnama
He has probably read to much nonsense from indologists who claim that the Rigveda is the only authentic source.
I certainly was not questioning the apurushya nature of Vedas nor was I endorsing his rejection of other Vedas yajur, sama or Arthava, but I am getting bit tired of hearing,this constant harping on about "traditional" don't get me wrong I am all for following the "tradition" but question remains what is tradition or kuala dharma,will depend on what has been handed down from generation to generation.gotra, sakha, parvar, Veda, deva etc will decide ones predilection.
For him if it is Rig why should I get worked up about it. Initially there was but one Veda which was divided in to four by Vyasdeva.
Jai Shree Krishna
Rig Veda list only 33 devas, they are all propitiated, worthy off our worship, all other names of gods are derivative from this 33 originals,
Bhagvat Gita; Shree Krishna says Chapter 3.11 devan bhavayatanena te deva bhavayantu vah parasparam bhavayantah sreyah param avapsyatha Chapter 17.4 yajante sattvika devan yaksa-raksamsi rajasah pretan bhuta-ganams canye yajante tamasa janah
The world disappears in him. He is the peaceful, the good, the one without a second.
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