Slavic and Indian Vedas. Indian Vedas - an ancient source of amazing knowledge
"Veda" is translated as "knowledge". "Veda" means "true knowledge", "complete knowledge", "perfect knowledge". Why complete, true knowledge? Because the Veda gives knowledge of the Natural Law, that is, the totality of all the laws of the universe. Knowing these laws, you can get an answer to any question, you can know about everything, both in the past and in the future. (An analogy: knowing the law of change of any quantity, for example, a sinusoid, you can get the value of the quantity at any time, in the same way, having complete knowledge ...
Indian society is clearly divided into varnas or castes. There are four "pure" varnas: Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas and Shudras. Brahmins are scientists, ascetics, priests. Kshatriyas - warriors, rulers, kings. Vaishyu - artisans, merchants, farmers, as well as "employees" who sell their labor for money - healers, artists and others.
Initially, belonging to one or another varna was determined by abilities. The Brahmin teacher studied the behavior of the child, looked through his past births. The children were then divided into...
The Vedas are the sacred ancient Indian books, which contain the philosophical wisdom of the East. In addition, the Vedas also describe spells, rituals and hymns.
In Sanskrit, the word "Veda" means "knowledge".
The Vedas are the most famous sacred scriptures of Hinduism. It is believed that they do not have an author, and that they were "clearly heard" by the holy sages of the distant past, and after many millennia, when due to the spiritual fall of mankind with the onset of the Kali Yuga, fewer and fewer people sought to study them and transmit them orally (like that demanded tradition) from generation to generation.
Vedavyasa ("who compiled the Vedas") structured the scriptures that remained available at that time and organized ...
Consider the difficult topic of the duties of husbands and wives in the family from the point of view of ancient wisdom - the Vedas.
Some may say that the Vedic family duties are not suitable for our time (difficult to observe), but at the same time, it should be noted that failure to observe these duties leads to problems in the family and causes divorce. For example, in the CIS countries the number of divorces exceeds 50%.
Moreover, divorce does not at all guarantee that the next marriage will be more "successful", especially if a person is not ...
Taken together, the various experiences and evaluations of the inner light witnessed in India and Indo-Tibetan Buddhism form an extremely ramified system. The experience of light means, par excellence, an encounter with a higher reality; this is why the morning light is discovered when one realizes one's own Self (Atman), or when one penetrates into the very essence of life and the cosmic elements, or, finally, when one dies.
In all these circumstances, the veil of illusion is torn and...
Myths selected, accumulated, classified and preserved the richest knowledge and observations accumulated over many centuries by previous generations. This knowledge was intended to establish norms and organize the behavior of people in all spheres of life.
Myths substantiated the structure of society, its laws and regulations, its traditional values. Myths explained how the world surrounding a person, and the person himself, works. Myths indicated how a person should go through his life path, placing milestones on it ...
In the understanding of the Hindus, this is not science, not a prescription for diseases, not a daily weather forecast. Astrology is the basis of life for every Hindu. This secret knowledge is available to very few and is passed down from generation to generation. In Kullu, only a few families possess the secret knowledge.
They make up the astrological charts of the inhabitants of this city.
Until now, the birth of a new person in northern India is done mainly at home. The place of the woman in labor is prepared for a long time and carefully. There are daily services...
Veda are the most famous sacred scriptures of hinduism. It is believed that the Vedas do not have an author, and that they were “clearly heard” by the holy sages of the distant past, and after many millennia, when due to the spiritual fall of mankind with the onset of the Kali Yuga, fewer and fewer people sought to study the Vedas and transmit orally (as required by tradition) from generation to generation, Vedavyasa ("the Vedas compiled") structured the scriptures that remained available at that time and organized their recording, formalizing these texts into four Vedas: Rigveda, Samaveda, Yajurveda and Atharvaveda.
Rig Veda (Rig Veda Samhita is its actual text) consists of 10522 (or 10462 in another version) shlokas (verses), each of which is written in a certain meter, such as gayatri, anushtup, etc. These 10522 mantra verses are grouped into 1028 suktas (hymns), which in turn are grouped into 10 mandalas (books). The size of these mandalas is not the same - for example, the 2nd mandala contains 43 suktas, while the 1st and 10th contain 191 suktas each. The verses of the Rigveda in Sanskrit are called "rik" - "the word of enlightenment", "clearly heard". All the mantras of the Rig Veda were revealed to 400 Rishis, 25 of whom were women. Some of these Rishis were celibate while others were married. The Rig Veda is mainly devoted to hymns-mantras praising the Lord and His various incarnations in the form of deities, the most frequently mentioned among which are Agni, Indra, Varuna, Savitar and others. Of the deities of the Trinity, only Brahma is generally mentioned in the Vedas. (Brahma, "God the Creator"), which in the Vedas is actually personified as Brahman Himself ("God"). Vishnu and Shiva are only mentioned as minor deities at the time of the writing of the Vedas. Samaveda consists of 1875 verses, and 90% of its text repeats the hymns of the Rigveda, selected for the Samaveda for their special melodious sound. AT Yajurveda, consisting of 1984 verses, contains mantras and prayers used in Vedic rituals. Later, due to contradictions between the numerous philosophical schools of Yajurveda, it was divided into Shuklayajurveda. ("Bright Yajurveda") and Krishnaya Jurveda ("Dark Yajurveda") and thus the Vedas became five. At the time of the writing of the Yajurveda, out of the 17 sakhs (branches) of Shuklayajurveda that existed in antiquity, 2 remained; out of 86 branches of Krishnaya Jurveda - 4. Approximately the same ratio of lost texts applies to other Vedas. AT Atharva Veda, consisting of 5977 shlokas, contains not only hymns, but also comprehensive knowledge devoted, in addition to the religious aspects of life, to such things as the sciences of agriculture, government and even weapons. One of the modern names of the Atharva Veda is Atharva-Angirasa, after the holy sages and great magicians of this line. This is how the four Vedas arose, although sometimes they speak of five Vedas, taking into account the division of the Yajurveda into Shuklayajurveda and Krishnayajurveda.
Manuscripts of sacred texts in the Kannada language in the Oriental Library, Mysore
The practical emphasis of the Atharva Veda played a role in the fact that for a long time it was not recognized by the supporters of the Traya Veda (three Vedas) as one of the Vedas. The tough confrontation that began during the time of the Atharvi sages Bhrigu and Angiras and the trayavic Vasistha, in particular, cost the lives of Vasistha, His grandson Parasara and other holy sages, and only the son of Parasara - Krishna Dvaipayana (name given to Vedavyasa at birth) at the cost of heroic diplomatic and not only efforts, it was possible to reconcile the supporters of these four Vedas, when at the court of Emperor Shantanu (father of Ganga, better known as Bhishma - "terrible ["grandfather"]") a 17-day yagna was held for the first time with the participation of priests from each of the four Vedas, and Atharvalora ("lora" - "heap of knowledge") recognized by the Atharva Veda. During these events, Vedavyasa married the daughter of the holy sage Jabala, the chief hierarch of the Atharvaveda at that time, who bore the title "atharvan", and from this marriage one of the most prominent holy sages of India, Shuka, was born. (Sukadeva Gosvami).
In 1898, the famous Indian scientist Bal Gangadhar Tilak (1856-1920) published a book in which he claims, analyzing the oldest literary monuments - the Vedas and Avesta, that the ancestral home of the Aryans existed in the Arctic region, and the last glaciation forced the Aryan races from the north to the lands of Europe . The Indian scientist saw in ancient texts an accurate reflection of not only historical, astronomical, but also geophysical realities associated with the Arctic. This discovery allowed Tilak to be decades ahead of the findings of archaeologists, philologists, physicists and astronomers and contribute to the general progress of knowledge about the original history of the human race and the history of the planet inhabited by this race. On the basis of a comprehensive analysis - perhaps the first in the history of the tradition of transmission of the Vedas - Tilak proved that the Vedas were created not in the territory of modern India, but in the Arctic, and not by the Hindus, but by the Aryans, whose core migrated from the Arctic through the course of millennia with a gradual cooling. Kola Peninsula (from the point of view of Ukrainian orientalists - through Ukraine 😉 and then still comfortably-warm Siberia (city OM sk and local river OM b 😉 to India, bringing with him in the end the remnants of the teaching, which was then even more lost in Hindustan over several millennia and, ultimately, was written down by Vedavyasa in the form of the four current Vedas. There is no need to say what a grandiose black PR 😉 B.G. Tilak underwent after the publication of this book from the side of orthodox Indian brahmins and nationalist circles of India, and he was not always saved even by the status of one of the leaders of the national liberation (from British Raj) movement of India, who always gave absolute indulgence to everyone else, including Subhas Chandra Bose. Subsequently, in honor of the visits of Chandra Bose to Hitler, the "Indian Nazi Party" was formed, which still exists, as evidenced by the posters that hung in the spring of 2007 in Haridwar and Rishikesh. Moreover, even during the lifetime of this living icon of the national liberation movement of India, the Brahmins actively treated B.G. (i.e. not local Hindustani-Dravidian) homeland of the Vedas;). In general, studying India while living in it for seven years unimaginably changes the perception of advertising and glamorous clichés dominating outside Hindustan about the exoticism of this pearl of the East 😉 As, for example, “the biography of [Chandra Bose] to a certain extent dispels the myth of pacifism and Tolstoyanism of the Indian people” .
In verse 26.2 of the Yajurveda it is explicitly stated that everyone is entitled to study the Vedas - Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas, Shudras, Chandalas (untouchables), degraded people and outcasts. But still, the orthodox brahmins, who apparently read the Vedas as often as "Christians" read the Bible (in fact, in Russia it is very difficult to find a person who at least once in his life has read at least all 4 canonical gospels and the Acts of the Apostles, not to mention the five-volume "Philokalia"), in their blind egoism in every possible way limit the right of the Shudras (and even more so non-caste untouchables!) to study the Vedas. The reason for this is generally understandable - maintaining the status of a representative of an elected caste and, accordingly, a collector of "taxes" for conducting all kinds of obligatory religious rituals, of which there are many dozens in Hinduism, and the cost of which is very considerable. Brahmanu (Brahmin) caesarean 😉 At the same time, from the point of view of the moral norms of antiquity, there is no longer a caste division in India, since the vast majority of the population actually belongs to only one caste - to the Shudras (this is the best). India's craze for meat-eating (India's chicken production and consumption has been doubling annually since 2001, according to official statistics, and the highly controversial nationalist party BJP is lobbying for legislation to allow the construction of slaughterhouses across India - so far they are legal only in communist Kerala and West Bengal) from the point of view of Hindu traditions, it takes such Hindus out of the caste system, in fact turning them into non-caste pariahs. In such a formerly sacred place of pilgrimage as Gokarna, orthodoxly dressed brahmin priests with sacred laces over their shoulders right on the streets in front of the temples, as always, sell marijuana, obsessively offering it to foreigners. Religion is the opium of the people (in literal form 😉 Gokarna itself is rapidly turning into a kind of besotted Goa.
Veda consist of their main text, which is called samhitas, as well as three additional sections that most pundits (Vedic scholars) do not belong to the actual text of the Vedas: 1) wall sconce- hymns and mantras that are used for Hindu rituals, 2) aranyaki- commandments for forest hermits and 3) upanishads- Philosophical texts. It is worth mentioning here that texts such as Mahabharata, Srimad Bhagavatam, Ramayana and other Hindu epics and teachings (as well as all Hare Krishna literature) From a completely official scientific point of view, Vedology, both in India and throughout the world, are not Vedic texts, and they refer to “Vedic literature” only in a figurative sense, in fact, in the desire of the Krishnaites-Prabhupadas to wishful thinking. Samhitas of the Vedas reflect on the verbal level the ecstasy of the rapture of God by the ancient rishis, who realized God with their whole being, with every particle of it. Sanskrit (lit. "culture", "ennobled"), in which the Vedas are written, is a language that is as close as possible to the world of the gods, and the sound and vibrations of Sanskrit literally convey the meaning and vibrational essence of things from the subtle plane, which actually makes any Sanskrit word or sentence a mantra (spell), and the Sanskrit alphabet graphically conveys vibrations of spoken words (Sanskrit alphabet - Devanagari - literally means "from the abode of the gods"), being somewhat similar to the figures of Liszt, and this is one of the reasons why it is so complicated compared to other more modern alphabets, in the creation of which the convenience of using language has become more important than the accuracy of conveying the vibrational essence of things. Here we can mention the long-standing dispute between "naturalists" and "conventionalists", dating back to Plato's dialogue "Cratylus". The naturalist Cratyl argues that the words reflect the "natural resemblance" between the form of the word and the thing it depicts; the conventionalist Hermogenes, who objected to him, on the contrary, says that "whatever name someone has established for something, this will be correct." Socrates' argument in favor of naturalists is interesting, in particular, because it starts from the thesis about the "instrumentality" of language: "the name is a kind of tool ... for distributing entities, like, say, a shuttle is a tool for distributing a thread." Since language is an instrument, and names serve to distinguish the things they stand for, they cannot fail to reflect the nature of the things themselves. And although this dispute is still relevant for modern scientists, the point of view on this issue of the holy sages of antiquity, who created Sanskrit, is quite clear. But, despite all this, the Vedas are a vivid example of texts in which almost the entire essence of the things described is lost when it is reduced to the verbal level. Further aggravating the situation is the fact that due to the huge number of discourses contained in the Vedas (superphrasal units) multilevel nesting, it is impossible to perform at least some full-fledged translation of them into any other verbal language. To make matters worse, so many Sanskrit words have three or more (often five) different meanings, depending on the level of their use - worldly, connected with the subtle worlds or spiritual, and the meaning of a word on a worldly level can be completely opposite to it. meaning in the spiritual, as, for example, in the case of the word "aghora", and the same verse in Sanskrit, depending on the level of understanding of the reader, can have different meanings. The following are examples of a typical text of the Vedas:
Who surpassed the sky in majesty -
Mithra, far reaching,
Glory (he) ascended the earth.
We want to meet this desired
Shine of the god Nurse,
Which should encourage our poetic thoughts!
It is noteworthy that the last three lines is a translation of the Gayatri mantra, made in Soviet times in the Order of the Red Banner of Labor, which allows us to conclude about the "quality" of their other translations, "made from Sanskrit." When reading the text of the Vedas, it is impossible to understand the sublime state experienced by their "author" - the rishi-seer. The main character of Pelevina's fifth novel spoke about it this way: “Dead crusts of words will remain, and you will think that something is still wrapped in them. That's what all people think. They seriously believe that they have spiritual treasures and sacred texts.” The smoky acquaintance of the author of Pelevin's fifth novel with other worlds has led to the fact that on the pages of this decent Internet project "Spiritual and Holy Scriptures", dedicated to such a purely indecent anti-social topic as spirituality, not even the name of the main character of this novel can be mentioned, not even its middle name. But still, after the aforementioned acquaintance of the author of "The Recluse and the Six-Fingered" and even despite the attempt to bribe him from 4 (!) oil giants at once - KUKIS, YUKIS, YUKSI and PUKS - offering him a bribe in the form of building a playground for potential candidates of the Matrix "in the polar Hyperborea (the birthplace of the Vedas), so that he does not bring down (peel) the humanitarian mission of Coca-Cola, McDonald's and other offices useful from the point of view of the "junta" governments and commercial medical institutions, the author nevertheless found in himself a civil the courage to break free from philistine stereotypes and recognize that "the smoker borrows his well-being from his future and turns it into health problems." In fact, any drug from alcohol to heroin operates on the same principle - being an unconscious matter, in which for this reason there is and cannot be any "independent" pleasure, the drug turns part of the potential most refined energy of the human soul accepting it into a coarser kinetic (only valued by the Rakshasas, the vulgar crowd and the "Hatha Yogi" athletes) the energy of prana moving along the meridians, which often leads to an artificial sensation of blunted pleasure and, in some cases, a slight momentary increase in the speed of thinking (although drug addicts and drug addicts themselves are weakly sane "spiritual" radicals and members of various semi-spiritual cesspools founded by "spiritual terrorists" (maybe the quotes are not needed?), like to actively rant about the need to "kill the mind" and carry other nonsense, incl. about his exclusive spiritual coolness), imperceptibly quickly replaced by a long-term drug addict's stupor. At the same time, accumulated by merits - meditations, introspection and good deeds - the stock of potential human energy that stores the soul decreases accordingly. Substances that intoxicate consciousness can really turn off the mind (manomaya-kosha), forcing the “assembly point” to leave the restless mind, but instead of the longed-for transition to superconsciousness, which does not occur due to the lack of any developed vijnanamaya-kosha among radicals and rakshasas (not to mention anandamaya kosha), they descend and find themselves face to face with their subconscious and hellish worlds, the gates to which are slightly opened by foolishness. Regular use of weak drugs such as marijuana will make intoxicauna worse in a dozen or two years only several times worse, which can be attributed to senile insanity 😉 But with drug contamination of unnaturally overloaded meridians (similar to scale in pipes) and the descending of the soul into hell at the same time begins to require the transfer of more energy each time, which leads to the transition to harder drugs, which, drawing more voluminous portions of the potential energy of the soul, consume its entire typical supply in a maximum of a few years and turn an ordinary person into a complete idiot, throwing him back dozens of lifetimes in the process of the development of the soul to the animal or plant level of existence. In actual meditation, one also experiences pleasure, but it is due to the movement of energy “up” and not “down” (as with drugs) which makes meditation not only enjoyable, but also beneficial for personal development.
The Vedas are beyond doubt highly praiseworthy. But Dattatreya said the following: “The Vedas are the most beautiful of all. Carrying out all kinds of yajn- even better. Repetition mantras (japa) is even better than yajnas. Path of Knowledge (jnana-marga) - better japas. But even better Knowledge (self-study) a meditation in which all the cumulative impurities coloring it disappear (raga, i.e. dualism and attachments). [It is] in such [meditation] that the eternal Achievement-Awareness should be attained.” ("Yoga-rahasya" ("The Mystery of Yoga") 3.25) .
The main character of Pelevin's fifth novel, in a dialogue with her friend, said the following: "Being in a" bad place " (the character called in one word this place, which is located in the region of the lowest of the seven chakras, and in this word there are as many letters as there are petals in this chakra; it is symbolic that it is in this “fundamental” or “concrete” chakra that most often consciousness of most people, you can do two things. First, try to understand why you are in it. Second, get out. The mistake of individuals and entire nations is that they think that these two actions are somehow connected with each other. And this is not so. And getting out of a “bad place” is much easier than understanding why you are in it. - Why? - You need to get out of the “unfortunate place” only once, and after that you can forget about it. And to understand why you are in it, you need a whole life. Which you will spend in it.
In other words, the study of the Vedas without the much more important and beneficial effort to transform consciousness through meditation and introspection is an attempt at the mental level to understand the divine state of consciousness of the rishi, which has been emasculated by describing it in words. The semantics of the verbal language does not allow the transfer of transcendental concepts (© site author). This task is impossible and doomed to failure. Without meditation, the scholastic study of the Vedas will not bring the highest benefit, and this is exactly what Dattatreya said in the Yoga Rahasya. Swami Vivekananda said: “Clinging to books only corrupts the mind of a person. Is it possible to imagine a blasphemy more terrible than the statement that this or that book contains the knowledge of God? How dare a man proclaim the infinity of God and try to squeeze Him between the covers of a skinny little book! Millions of people died because they did not believe what was written in books, because they refused to see God on the pages of books. Of course, now because of this they no longer kill, but the world is still chained to bookish faith. ("Raja Yoga", 1896). The best description of raja yoga (the best among yogas, which is mainly devoted to working with the mind, not the body; as can be seen from the mention even of sex as a practice in the oldest and almost extinct authoritative Sanskrit text "Yoga Shastra" (there is no sex in yoga! in the current 😉, in ancient times there was one general teaching, which included all possible types of practices; then orthodoxies and dogmatists appeared, and practices that required a higher starting level of development of consciousness were forced to take shape in the form of separate teachings, such as tantra, etc.) and meditation sadhana, the author of this article met in the English book of the brilliant Samdhong Rinpoche, the prime minister of Tibet, beloved by all Tibetans, “Buddhist Meditation”, which the author of this article found in the ashram of Sheshadri Swamigala in the city of Tiruvannamalai and happily translated into Russian in 11 days in June 2003 It took one Moscow publishing house 2 years to publish this 80-page translation, and if the first edition of the translation made the text of the book simply nothing, then the second, which looked “better” (as much better as the witch's last name change was in Robin Hood - Men in Tights), in the struggle for its editorial minimum of 30% of the soiled text, in every possible way emasculated and “nailed” the meaning, in places distorting it to the exact opposite, as, for example, on page 34: “Most of us control our minds, more precisely, part of our fragmented and weakened mind." In the translator's version, this phrase (correctly translated from English) sounds like this: "Most of us are controlled by our minds or, to be precise, by some part of our fragmented and weakened minds." Apparently, the editor even for a moment did not allow the thought that he, “the man, the king and God of the universe”, could be under any control or conditioning, and when editing, as editors often do, he was either terribly inattentive towards meaning in general and the meaning of Russian words in particular in his desire to tarnish the required minimum of 30%, or felt himself to be the main co-author. It is noteworthy that in India, many "specific" monks-scribes of scriptures (And according to ashram rules, manuscripts must be copied at least once every 40 years due to the fragility of the textbook medium) not only made mistakes in copying, but also made conscious changes, feeling like co-authors of the ancient rishis and saints, and now there are many different versions of the classical scriptures of Hinduism. For example, at the time of Adi Shankaracharya there were 4 versions of the Bhagavad Gita, and it was His commentary, for which He chose the best version in His opinion, that allowed the other three to go into oblivion. For such a vulgar crowd that inhabits this world, any teaching, be it the Vedas or the gospels, will be quite meaningless, since their teacher is samsara. As it was said in the preface to the Avadhuta Gita, "without one's own inner transformation, a person cannot understand That advaitic state, nor learn about It from any books, for It is completely transcendental and transcendent in relation to human existence." This applies equally to the Vedas.
Irina Glushkova in the book "From the Indian Basket" writes:
Modern Hinduism has learned a lot from the Vedic religion, the individual elements of which have been transformed over time and taken their place in the new system. The former gods entrenched themselves in "minor roles", losing leadership to Vishnu, Shiva and Devi (Goddess). The Vedas were transmitted by oral tradition for thousands of years: the main thing was not understanding, but phonetically flawless articulation, because the Vedic mantras accompanied (and accompany) the Hindu throughout his life, marking the key stages: birth, naming, initiation into twice-born, wedding and funeral. Not for a moment, despite the heresy of individual Hindu persuasions, the Vedas did not lose their unsurpassed authority, although they had long and firmly become absolutely incomprehensible.
However, in the XIX century. in the wake of the emerging national identity of the Indians and attempts to consciously reform Hinduism, the Vedas came to the center of public attention and became the object of not mechanical repetition, but of careful study, followed by reconstruction and introduction of Vedic ritualism into practice.
Ram Mohan Roy (1772-1833), founder of the famous Brahmo Samaj Reform Society and the first Indian Brahmin to violate the ban on crossing the seas, is considered the "father of modern India." Passionately opposed to polytheism and idolatry, he proved the authenticity of "Hindu monotheism" by references to the Vedas. F.Max Müller on this occasion sarcastically remarked that Roy simply did not imagine the content of the Vedas. And yet, it was this man, supported by a group of associates, drawing on quotations from sacred books, including the Vedas, who ensured that in 1829 the custom of sati, the self-immolation of a widow on the funeral pyre of her deceased husband, was legally prohibited. Later Debendranath Tagore (1817-1905, father of Rabindranath Tagore), who headed the Brahmo Samaj, sent four young people to sacred Benares to study each of the four Vedas and search for a monotheistic concept in them, and then he himself joined the company and, having arranged a dispute with local experts, committed a shocking act - he abandoned the dogma of infallibility Vedas.
Dayananda Saraswati (1824-1883), another great Indian and the founder of the Arya Samaj society, devoted his whole life to proving the highest authority of the Vedas. He found in them not only a storehouse of information about the past, but also information about firearms, steam locomotives, chemical formulas, medical achievements, etc., which had not previously been revealed due to inept interpretation of texts. He declared: "Nowhere in the four Vedas is there a mention of a multitude of gods, rather there is a clear statement that God is one."
Saraswati believed that many names only individualize various aspects of the divine. In addition, he had no doubt that the Vedas could become a true basis for uniting the whole country, and made a sensational act by shifting them to colloquial Hindi - this is how women and lower castes gained access to sacred knowledge. Threads stretch from Saraswati to Hindu proselytism that did not exist before - it was he who rethought the traditional Hindu ritual shuddhi (purification), using it to return Indian Muslims and Christians to Hinduism.
Aurobindo Ghosh (1872-1950) Indian, whose name is Auroville, the city of world spiritual brotherhood (India), even more famous outside his country, wrote: “Dayananda claims that the truths of modern natural science can be found in the Vedic hymns. I would like to add to this that, in my firm conviction, the Vedas contain, in addition, a number of such truths that modern science does not yet possess ” (quoted by: Litman A.D. Ideological struggle in modern India on the issue of the place and role of Vedanta in the national cultural heritage. - Cultural heritage of the peoples of the East and modern ideological struggle. M., 1987, p. 128).
In 1987, a huge scandal erupted in India when the unpublished works of Bhimrao Ramji (Babasaheb) Ambedkar (1891-1956), the creator of the Indian Constitution, the “father of Indian federalism” and the initiator of the transition of untouchable castes to Buddhism (although the Buddha never criticized the caste system, He ignored it in every possible way, looking only at the level of development of each individual; the Hindu Brahmins could not forgive this Buddha, as a result they declared Him a false avatar and subsequently ranked the Buddha among the avatars of Vishnu - the ninth out of ten - with the goal of finally destroying Buddhism in India as an independent teaching, and within the framework of Hinduism itself, regarding the Buddha as the most unrevered of all the avatars of Vishnu; a similar fate befell Dattatreya; note by the author of the site). On the pages of the "Mysteries of Hinduism" it was stated: "The Vedas are a worthless set of books. There is no reason to consider them sacred or infallible." (Ambedkar B.R. Writings and Speeches. Vol. 4. Unpublished Writings. Riddles in Hinduism. Bombay, 1987, p. 8). Further, Ambedkar explained that behind the exorbitant exaltation of the Vedas were the brahmins (brahmins) interested in power, whose origin the very same hymn about the sacrifice of the first man connected with the mouth of Purusha (His mouth became a Brahmin… X. 90, 12) (The story of Ambedkar's life is a heartbreaking story of a genius who was born as an out-of-caste "untouchable" in India and, on the one hand, became an "icon" of the national liberation movement and a man who created the Constitution of independent India and its legislative law, and on the other hand, constantly tested mockery of all the surrounding caste Hindus and former "friends in the ideological struggle", who, before the independence of India, used his authority as a genius and agitation for the equality of all people, regardless of caste, in their struggle against British rule in India, and after independence "suddenly" remembered him his origin and in every possible way made him understand that the untouchable had no place among those who became "new whites" (after British withdrawal in 1947) representatives of the Hindu political elite of India; approx. website author) .
The Rigveda has been repeatedly translated into Western European languages. The first complete translation into French was made by the middle of the 19th century. This was followed by two German translations at once - poetic (1876-1877) and prose (1876-1888). Later, a translation by K. Geldner was published in German, which became a milestone in Vedology, and others followed it. The first eight hymns of the Rig Veda were translated into Russian by N. Krushevsky in 1879. Much later, several hymns were translated by B. Larina (1924) and V. A. Kochergin (1963). And only in 1972 did the Russian reader have the opportunity to immediately get acquainted with the tenth part of the Rigveda (104 hymns) translated by T.Ya. Elizarenkova. In 1989, the Nauka publishing house published the first volume of the first complete scientific translation of the Rigveda into Russian: mandalas I-IV translated by T.Ya Elizarenkova with notes and a voluminous article "Rigveda - the great beginning of Indian literature and culture." In 1995, the second volume (mandalas V-VIII) was published, and in 1999, the third volume (mandalas IX-X); both contain scrupulous notes and extensive research articles reconstructing the world of ideas and things of the ancient Indians. All three volumes have recently been reprinted. Available in Russian and an anthology of conspiracies translated by T.Ya. Elizarenkova - Atharva Veda. Favorites ”(M., 1976) . (A few years ago, a translation from English into Russian of the entire Samaveda was also published, edited by S.M. Neapolitansky, note by the author of the site.)
In 1966, the Supreme Court of India formulated the legal definition of Hinduism in order to distinguish it from other Indian religions in the sphere of jurisdiction, and in 1995, considering cases of religious affiliation, it clarified seven main provisions that testify to the “Hinduness” of their bearer. The first was called "the recognition of the Vedas as the highest authority in religious and philosophical matters and the only foundation of Hindu philosophy."
In the West, the terms "Hinduism" and "Vedic teachings" are perceived almost as synonyms, but there is one subtlety. The author of the article has lived in Indian ashrams for several years, and he is well acquainted with, let's say, the reserved attitude of most Indian saints towards the Hindu masses. In accordance with the caste system of the Hindus themselves, every 6th Hindu is generally a non-caste outcast who, no matter how educated he may be, is not allowed to use a common drinking water tap, eat in ordinary cafes, live in ordinary hotels, nothing can be transferred to him from hand to hand (you should throw what is transmitted to the ground; if you want to feel untouchable - visit a village called Malanalocated between the Parvati and Kullu valleys, 4 km from the Chandrakhani pass - the inhabitants of this village consider the rest of the world untouchable 😉, you can’t drop anything on the fields and plots of land of caste Hindus, touch caste Hindus with your shadow, etc. (The words “Nedkastoval” - “outcast” - and “untouchable” in about 2007 received the legal status of offensive in India - akin to the status of the word “Negro” in America, and instead of them the term “dare” is now used - “oppressed”); in particular, in the jungles and pampas of Madhya Pradesh, where the aforementioned Ambedkar was born, the untouchables must wear a “tail” of palm leaves tied to their belt, covering their tracks on the ground, so that other Hindus do not accidentally step on their tracks and thereby defile themselves . The generally marginal behavior of the aboriginal Hindu masses (including those belonging to various castes) and their typical attitude towards the environment and India as one big garbage dump and toilet the size of Hindustan causes a slightly noticeable (sometimes not a little 😉 the displeasure of sophisticated Hindu aesthete saints. Because of this, the latter try never to use the term "Hinduism" in relation to the local religion, using the terms "Vedanta", "Vedic dharma" and "Vedic-oriented teaching" instead; in particular, Robert Svoboda also speaks about this in the book "Aghora III" - “Vedic-oriented (like most Hindus, Vimalananda hated the word Hindu)”. Swami Vimalananda is a holy Hindu and teacher of R. Svoboda. Many saints and simply refined natures of India perceive the term "Hinduism" as something that would be tantamount to the teachings of African Negroes, if such (comparable in scale) they had (The word "Negro" in the West has become abusive and offensive, and many Russians, historically not having the experience of communicating with Negro in Russia, which have long created a very definite "image" in the West, out of habit, they call "blacks in the West of the African ”, without implying any negative, which, nevertheless, causes a conflict due to the changed semantics of the space there). Westerners are misled by the fact that the Vedic teaching refers only to the Hindus, because, although the Vedic teaching (the so-called Hinduism) covers a billion flock and is spread throughout the world, it is still not a classical world religion, because until the end of the 20th century, proselytism was not characteristic of the Vedic teachings (active conversion of non-believers and foreigners to their religion), and therefore it is quite clearly limited by Indians scattered around the world (genetic descendants of the inhabitants of Hindustan)– India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Singapore, South Africa, Mauritius, Kenya, United Arab Emirates, Guyana, Suriname, USA, Canada, UK, etc. Nevertheless, a clear line should still be drawn between the Vedic teaching (“Hinduism”) and the caste Hindus, among whom this teaching was formed by ancient saints who stand above nationality and, like all saints, actually belong to the whole world due to their breadth of mind and unlimited narrow-minded interests and the framework of castes and dogmas. So to speak, "within the framework of advaita".
The beginning of the folding of the Vedas dates back to the period when the ancient Aryans had not yet moved to India, and even the separation of the two main branches of this people, the Indian and Iranian, had not yet occurred.
There are only four Vedas: , Samaveda, Yajurveda, Atharva Veda. Each Veda consists of three divisions: Samhitas, Brahmins and Sutra.
Samhitas, Brahmins and Sutras
1) Samhitas - this is that part of the Vedas that contains collections of hymns, prayers and sacrificial formulas of the Vedic religion, arranged according to the families of the singers to whom they are attributed, and belonging to different times.
2) Brahmins , as the famous scholar Albrecht Weber says in the History of Indian Literature, have as their purpose "to give sacrificial hymns and forms along with an exposition of sacrificial rites." These divisions of the Indian Vedas contain the oldest statutes of the rites of the Vedic religion, the oldest explanations of the words of this ritual, the oldest of the stories preserved in tradition, and the oldest philosophical speculations. “All these departments of the Vedas,” continues Albrecht Weber, “belong to the times of transition from Vedic customs and concepts to the Brahminist way of thinking and life. They are intermediate degrees of this transition, and some of them are closer to the beginning of it, others to the end.
Indra, one of the main gods of the Indian Vedas
3) Sutra - this is that part of the Vedas, which sets out additions and explanations to the Brahmins, containing dogmatics; their purpose is to give a coherent overview of the mass of dogmatic details found in the Brahmins, so that it will be easier to remember all this. They deal especially with the ritual of Indian religious sacrifices, other liturgical rites and the rules that must be observed in the celebration of birth, marriage and other important occasions. In addition, in the Sutras there are attempts to present Indian laws and set out the rules of versification.
Almost all those scholarly and philosophical treatises of ancient India, which are called upanishads(sessions, lectures); they belong to different times, some quite early, others very late; there are 225 of them. The Upanishads can be called philosophical commentaries on the Brahmins.
The Vedas themselves are collections of works belonging to different times. The oldest part of the Vedas is without a doubt the songs of the Rigveda; it contains over 1,000 hymns. Some of them belong to the time when the ancestors of the Indians lived only on the Indus and its tributaries, and the Vedic religion, which was still in a childishly naive form, was reduced to a primitive worship of the forces of nature.
Manuscript of the Rigveda from the early 19th century
The chronological ordering of the hymns of the Vedas is a work far from being fully completed by scholars. The Indian Vedas were collected already after the conquest of the Ganges basin by the Aryans, hardly earlier than the 7th century BC. Not all Vedic hymns have a religious content; some belong to secular poetry, even the realm of jokes.
Samaveda
The collection of hymns of the Samaveda is an anthology of the hymns of the Rig Veda. In it are selected those verses that need to be sung with the sacrifice of Soma. Here, as in the hymns of the Yajurveda, it is in vain to look for connections between parts of the hymns. Each verse must be regarded as a separate play, receiving its true meaning only in connection with the course of the rite to which it belongs. The religious hymns and their passages are arranged in the Samaveda in the order of worship; the meter was of rather great importance in this distribution. The passages were collected in the form that survived in Indian worship, and only those that were needed for worship. Therefore, the question arose: whether in these fragments of hymns or in the whole hymns of the Rig Veda, the most ancient form for the Indian Vedas has been preserved. Of the 1,549 verses of the Samaveda, only 78 were not found in the Rigveda. It turned out that religious verses in the Samaveda almost always have a form older than in the Rigveda.
Yajurveda
The Yajurveda differs from the Samaveda in that it contains hymns for all the rites of Indian sacrifice, and constitutes the general service of these rites, while the Samaveda is limited to the sacrifice of Soma. The Yajurveda consists of half of the verses found in the Rig Veda, the other half of it is made up of sacrificial formulas, fragments of hymns that are not found in other Vedas, and invocations to the gods, which have not a poetic, but a prose form.
Varuna, one of the main gods of the Vedas. 17th century Indian miniature
Atharva Veda
The Atharva Veda is the latest of the Indian Vedas. This Veda is composed not of incoherent fragments, but of whole hymns, and they are arranged in it according to the subjects of content. In this respect, it is similar to the Samhita of the Rigveda, and it can be called an addition to the Rigveda, which contains songs from the time when " mantra”(invocation to the gods) was no longer among the ancient Indians an expression of direct religious feeling, but became the formula of a magic spell. Therefore, the main content of the Atharvaveda is made up of songs that protect against the harmful effects of divine forces, from diseases and harmful animals, curses to enemies, appeals to herbs that heal diseases and help in various everyday affairs, conspiracies that protect on the way, give happiness in the game, and so on. In those hymns of the Atharva Veda which are in common with the Rigveda, the text has been greatly altered by rearrangements and alterations. The language of those places which belong to the Atharvaveda proper approaches the fluidity of Indian speech of later times; but the grammatical forms are still the same as in the ancient songs. Albrecht Weber says that the Atharvaveda is composed not so much of priestly as of Indian folk traditions; that in her language there is much dilapidated and vulgar, and that some hostility to the other three Vedas is noticeable in her.
The poetic merit of the religious hymns of the Indian Vedas varies greatly. Many of them are terribly boring and empty: these are monotonous requests that the gods patronize their worshipers, give them food, herds, offspring and longevity; for patronage, the Vedic gods are promised praise and sacrifice. But among this mediocrity, there are gems in the Vedas: very strong and peculiar manifestations of Indian religious feeling are often found, emanating from the depths of the soul, striving for truth and God, expressed in artless, but beautiful language, with the childlike strength of faith.
The poetry of the Indian Vedas does not know any hierarchy between the gods. The deity to which the hymn invokes is the highest god, and all other gods are forgotten for the time being.
Recorded presumably in the second millennium BC. The Vedas contain spiritual knowledge that covers all aspects of life and regulates social, legal, everyday, religious life. They describe the rules that must be followed at the birth of a new person, marriage, death, etc.
When the Aryans mastered the Hindustan peninsula, they did not have a written language, respectively, and annals that would record the events of both external and internal life in chronological order. Spiritual history, dating back to time immemorial, has come down to us in poetry collections, which were originally transmitted through oral tradition over the centuries.
The Indian Vedas, written in a special kind of language that does not coincide with Sanskrit and is closest to Avestan, contain hymns, descriptions of the details of various rituals, spells and conspiracies that should be used to protect against various kinds of diseases and misfortunes. In accordance with the orthodox interpretation, the composition of hymns was perceived as a sacred act. Their creators were not just priests, but seers. Receiving knowledge from the gods, they comprehended them with intuition or "inner vision".
According to the Vedas, they were collected and classified into four collections (samhitas) by the sage Vyasa. He is the author of the epic Mahabharata, as well as the Vedanta Sutra. The question as to whether he was the only person who divided a single collection into four parts, or if several scientists did this, is still the subject of discussion. One way or another, but the word "vyasa" means "separation."
The Indian Vedas, containing the essence, are literature that has stood the test of time and has a high religious authority for all mankind. It must be said that a diverse literature arose on their foundation. These are the "Brahmins", "Upanishads", "Aranyakas". The purpose of the commentaries was to make the understanding of the sacred texts accessible to future generations. Thus, the "Brahmins" offer a comprehensive interpretation (theological, etymological, grammatical), explain how all the Vedas are interconnected.
The Indian knowledge contained in these collections is the basis not only for local beliefs, in fact, all major religions on the planet, to one degree or another, were influenced by them in the process of their creation. It is clear that today these roots are forgotten. But among modern religions, there is one that retains the flame of Vedic wisdom - Hinduism.
Over the centuries, serious steps have been taken to preserve the greatest heritage, even though its meaning and meaning are poorly understood today. The messages in these scriptures are very profound and remain beyond the comprehension of ordinary people. Of course, any person can spend a lot of time studying the Indian Vedas (reading them, trying to understand the hidden meaning), but in general this enterprise will have little success. The main reason, as a rule, is that our benchmark is modernity. But still, many are trying to comprehend the truth of the scriptures, which are the gateway to the depths of eternity.
Everyone has heard about the Vedas, because a keen interest has recently flared up in them. Introducing you to different types of yoga and philosophical movements, spiritual and bodily practices, it would be incorrect to ignore the main source of wisdom. And it turns out that the Vedas are more than Indian heritage. Perhaps they will be for you a source of universal knowledge and even the cradle of human life.
What are the Vedas and Universal Knowledge
Everyone has heard the word "Veda" and probably associated it with something ancient, wise, of value to all mankind. To understand why people need the Vedas, and what they are, you need to get to know this concept better.
It is customary to call the Vedas a collection of ancient scriptures. They were made in Sanskrit. But there is also a broader meaning of this word - it is the knowledge and wisdom of mankind, given by God.
Veda translated from Sanskrit (वेद, véda) sounds like “knowledge” and in its meaning is, as explained in many sources, “true, complete, perfect knowledge”. After all, the Vedas store information about the Natural Law, that is, they reveal the essence of the universe, and they can also tell about the past and the future. They teach the relationship between the Creation and the Creator, talk about the connection between God and people.
It is believed that they originated from the Almighty himself, who is the source of any knowledge. The verses explaining the Divine plan have been handed down from generation to generation, from teacher to student, and thus were kept by mankind in oral form. Neither the change of epochs nor the modification of man himself as an earthly and spiritual being made the Vedas lose their significance.
Religion or science?
« Philosophy without religion is just idle speculation, and religion without philosophy is sentimentalism or fanaticism.", is one of the Vedic aphorisms. And if you ask yourself what the Vedic worldview is, you discover for yourself religion, philosophy, and science. The Vedic religious concept is unique, fundamentally different from other widespread ideas about God and man in the world.
After all, it does not set national frameworks and does not claim unconditional exclusivity. The Vedas postulate the principle of spiritual equality, that is, every person, regardless of the professed religion, goes the same way - to the Absolute. And all religions and philosophical concepts - like a mosaic add up a single Whole.
But besides such a concept of the Vedas as a religion or a system of myths, there is another, quite reasonable understanding of them. The Vedas are science. This is a system of knowledge that explains many areas of life and human activity. They give knowledge about God, the true nature of man, the essence of the world and about the relationship of man with other people, God, the world.
You will definitely be surprised to learn how many areas of knowledge and secrets of life the Vedas can tell. Vastushastra teaches urban planning, Sthapatya Veda - architecture, astronomy and astrology are revealed in Jyotisha Shastra, and philosophy - in the Upanishads and Vedanta Sutra. Separate writings are also devoted to grammar, mathematics, chemistry and medicine. Politics and jurisprudence, civil laws, martial arts, etymology, logic, sociology, and history are also revealed. We can even read about the structure of the atom, the emergence of the universe, about the cosmos, the stars and planets of the solar system.
Even such hidden knowledge as the embryonic development of the fetus, cloning and some methods of artificial insemination were known to the creators of the Vedas. The technologies for creating aircraft and even controlling nuclear energy and the use of laser beams are described. At the same time, modern scientific research proves that the information presented in the Vedas is true and was phenomenally ahead of its time. We can only wait until our contemporaries discover the 64 dimensions of time and space described in the Vedas, space-time tunnels and parallel worlds.
The Vedas themselves as knowledge in Vedic philosophy were not created at a certain point in history, but existed forever and are comparable with other eternal concepts - soul, energy, time, life.
Indian Vedas, Slavic Vedas. Let's figure it out
The Vedas include Vedic sources, legends and legends. Today, people know about two branches of Vedic wisdom - the Indian and Slavic Vedas. Although they are seemingly incomparable in real time, they have the same roots. These are almost no Aryan Vedic sources that have survived to this day.
The Aryan and Slavic Vedas, due to the tradition of oral transmission of knowledge, have remained knowledge transmitted from teacher to student, from generation to generation. This method of sharing knowledge has an explanation. It is believed that just in those days a person could remember everything throughout his life and even communicate telepathically. Therefore, there was no need to record anything.
It also played a role that in India the Vedas were the basis of statehood, and, moreover, their culture was not given to alien influence. Therefore, the Vedas have been preserved. And the Slavic lands were conquered many times and succumbed to the domination of different religions, which led to a partial loss of Vedic knowledge.
But no matter what branch of humanity they try to tie the Vedas to, this unique universal knowledge is of divine origin. Therefore, it is impossible to make it a national treasure, the heritage of only one people. And even in the Vedas themselves it is said that their source is non-material, and they do not belong to a particular country.
Four parts of the Indian Vedas - different texts, one idea
The Vedas were forgotten at a certain period in the development of mankind. But, even being written down 5 millennia ago by the Indian sage Vyasadeva, they still maintain the hot interest of millions of people around the globe today.
Under the Indian Vedic sources, it is customary to understand Shruti - the original revelation, namely the four Vedas. They have additions - Brahmins - telling about rituals and rituals, as well as Aranyakas and Upanishads, carrying secret and esoteric knowledge. Do not forget about the Vedic stories and texts (Smriti), including the Mahabharata, Bhagavad Gita, Ramayana, Pancharatra, Puranas.
But still, the basis of the Vedas is the four samhitas: "Rigveda", "Yajurveda", "Samaveda" and "Atharvaveda". The first three are the Vedic canon of traya, or the triple sacred science that taught the repetition of mantras (Rigveda), the performance of sacrifices (Yajurveda), the ritual chanting of mantras (Samaveda) and the Atharva Veda - the Veda of spells. The oldest of these was the Rigveda.
The Rig Veda is the oldest of the texts
The Samhita (actual text) of the Rig Veda is considered the oldest Indian text that has survived to this day. According to two different versions, it consists of 10522 or 10462 shlokas, that is, verses written in different poetic meters - gayatri, anushtubh and others. These verses-mantras are combined into groups, or hymns - 1028 sukts. And hymns are composed of separate books - 10 mandalas. Such a hierarchy of verses in the book is convenient, there are really a lot of Vedas. But at the same time, the size of the books is different - one contains more verses, and the other less.
The verses of the Rigveda are written in Vedic Sanskrit and have an interesting name - "rik" with a symbolic meaning. Rik is the “word of enlightenment”, “clearly heard”, which once again emphasizes the importance and sacredness of the ancient Vedas.
The mantras of the Rigveda were revealed to four hundred rishis, only 25 of them were women. Some of these Rishis were married, while others were celibate. Rishis and recorded Divine wisdom in the texts of the Rig Veda.
The main Veda - Rigveda - is dedicated to the Lord and his various incarnations, which are praised in the texts of hymns-mantras. The most frequently mentioned forms of the Divine are Agni, Indra, Varuna, Savitar. The Creator Lord or Brahma is central to the hymns, but Vishnu and Shiva, two more of the deities of the Trinity, are only mentioned in the Vedas as minor deities.
Scientists believe that the text of the Rigveda was created by poets from different groups of rishis - priests - for five whole centuries. If we take into account the philological and linguistic method of studying the features of the texts of the Rigveda, then there is an opinion that they were written down in the period from the 18th to the 12th century BC. e. in the Punjab Plain. There are other, later, or earlier versions.
In any case, the Rig Veda is one of the most ancient legacies of human civilization, bearing great meaning for the development of all mankind.
Slavic Vedas - a myth or the basis of our history
Unfortunately, we do not have access to the written Slavic and Aryan Vedas today, because they have been lost for thousands of years. Most of them did not survive the baptism of Russia, when they were actively fought, or were lost in subsequent centuries. Therefore, the basis for the study of culture and ancient knowledge is the Slavic Vedic Sacred Traditions or the author's interpretation of the Slavic Vedic tradition. The Vedas, or knowledge, were passed down from generation to generation, either orally or spiritually. They say that once a person could communicate telepathically and remembered everything perfectly, so there was no need to write down. But later, some texts were still written down from the words of the keepers of this ancient knowledge.
The Vedas of pre-Christian Russia are divided into three large groups, depending on what they were performed on:
- santii- these are plates made of noble metal that does not lend itself to corrosion. Most often they were made of gold. To put texts on such a durable material, the signs on it were minted and filled with paint. They were very beautifully designed - they were fastened in the form of a book with three rings. Often they were also framed in an oak frame with a frame of red fabric;
- harati- large scrolls with the texts of the Vedas from high-quality parchment, they were lighter and more comfortable, but also less preserved;
- magi- made of wood: texts were written or carved on boards. They also lost their appearance over time.
In the sources from the ancient collection "Russian Vedas", namely in the "Book of Veles", it is stated that Russia was born, perished and revived again for twenty thousand years. These books tell about the ancient ancestral homelands and forefathers, about the lands where Russian tribes appeared and developed, about the origins of peoples.
In general, the Slavic-Aryan Vedic Sacred Traditions include the Book of Veles (9th century AD), the Book of Kolyada, the Boyanov Hymn, and the Pigeon Book.
Also, the entire folk epic can be attributed to the oral Vedic heritage: legends, myths, tales, fairy tales, proverbs.
The author's interpretations of the Slavic Vedic tradition are very common and, accordingly, diverse. One can recall the books of Veleslav Cherkasov "Velesov Circle", the authors of the Circle of Pagan Traditions, the Russian Orthodox Stake and many other authors who are members of communities and unions that are trying to restore Vedic culture in the territories of the former Kievan Rus. But it is worth taking into account that these are just thoughts of people, very far from the original sources.
In the context of Vedic literature, chronicles of the Christian period are studied, among them: The Tale of Bygone Years (1377), The Tale of Igor's Campaign, because they are a compilation of Vedic pre-Christian sources and the transition to a new era of Christianity.
But, unfortunately, this material is still not enough. To restore the Vedic culture of Russia completely, you need to study the books of other Vedic religions, especially the Indian Vedas, and draw many explanatory parallels.
Similarities between the Slavic and Indian Vedas as evidence of a single source
To find evidence that no one has stolen the rights to universal wisdom in the form of the Vedas, it is worth paying attention to the parallels and interweaving of the people of the Pre-Christian Risi and Ancient India, their mythology, languages, history and culture.
Firstly, the Russian language and Sanskit, which was spoken in ancient India, have great similarities among the entire family of Indo-European languages. Also, pre-Christian cults have much in common with Hinduism. This allows us to speak about the possibility of common origins of these absolutely different worldview systems today.
You can start comparing with the fact that both in the Slavic tradition and in the Indian tradition, the main books of knowledge are called the Vedas. And also many studies of texts and folklore, both Slavic and Indian, no matter how surprising it may be, lead the sources of peoples to the land of Hyperborea, or the Arctic! It is believed that once the climate there was mild and warm, favorable for human life and many warm-blooded animals. And if we assume this, then many nuances from the texts of the Vedas make sense. For example, snippets from the Rig Veda that say that “the constellation of the Seven Great Sages” - Ursa Major - is located directly above the heads of the characters. And today we know what it is beyond the Arctic Circle.
Also in Indian cosmology, there is Mount Mera, which supposedly permeates the earth and is its axis. That is, it would have to penetrate the poles of the Earth. And Russian philologists found a connection between this mountain and the Russian word for “peace”, which could mean that civilization originated in the north. Having given life to many other peoples, she disappeared under incomprehensible circumstances. But she left a huge spiritual heritage common to such different peoples as the Hindus and Slavs.
The book of Veles says that the divine progenitor of the Slavs - Yar (the parallel is the sun god Yarilo) brought their tribes out of the Far North during a period of sharp cooling to the modern Urals. Later they spread to the South, and after some time the Indian commander Yarun led the tribes to Eastern Europe. The same plot is found in the Indian "Mahabharata", only Yarun is called by the Indian name - Arjuna, which means "silver, light."
Thus, it can be assumed that the Slavic and Indian Vedas are so close, because all people came from one ancient people who lived in the once warm North and left unique wisdom in the form of the Vedas to mankind.
