Originally Posted by
Ganeshprasad
Pranam Atanu ji
The study of Vedas is to resolve contradiction, seems to me their sole objective.
Where else I think the sole objectives of our rishi were for self realisation.
Namaste Ganeshprasad Ji,
Nicely said.
-- according to them is that Agni is lowest and Vishnu is highest
There is also a verse which says: Agni tvam Vishnu. Agni you are Indra. You are Rudra. Vishnu and Agni Vaisvanara cannot be different.
Just as I don’t accept Lord Shiva being born with sins I do not accept Lord Vishnu as being killed, the very foundation of calling them supreme brahman in various places in Vedas is brought in to question.
Death of Vishnu, as in Satapatha verses I cited, I think, indicates that the pride in one being different (superior) from the truth (which is samaan) gives rise to ignorance. The Universe, which is divine Purusha is not recognised as such but as a conglomerate of different unconnected objects.
But Rig Veda says of Sumajjaya Vishnu -- one who has divine origin. Rig Veda also says that Vishnu has birth from Soma. And Satapatha surely mentions of His dismemberment.
Every man has divine origin and Vishnu is the pinnacle and He is the knower of the highest also (Rig Veda). As I repeat again and again, a knower of the highest cannot be different from the highest, as the highest is said to be pure knowledge.
When we see from the top view of one single Atman, everything originating and dissolving in ONE without a Second, the perspective is clear and clean.
The world dissolves in Him.
And in reverse:
Thou art woman, Thou art man; Thou art youth and maiden too. Thou as an old man totterest along on a staff; it is Thou alone who, when born, assumest diverse forms.
Also:
XXIV-1: All this verily is Rudra. To Rudra who is such we offer our salutation. We salute again and again that Being, Rudra, who alone is the light and the Soul of creatures. The material universe the created beings and whatever there is manifoldly and profusely created in the past and in the present in the form of the world, all that is indeed this Rudra. Salutations be to Rudra who is such.
XXV-1: We sing a hymn that confers on us happiness in the highest degree to Rudra who is worthy of praise, who is endowed with the highest knowledge, who rains objects to the worshippers most excellently, who is more powerful and who is dwelling in the heart. Indeed all this is Rudra. Salutations be to Rudra who is such.
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But when one sees Vishnu as a body and not as the spirit that pervades then the interpretation gets skewed and then the efforts to preserve that skewed idea gains importance. Then one invents new meanings and discovers difference in objects as indicative of permanent difference in parts of Atman (LOL).
Regards,
Om
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