HOW IS CREATION OF GOD DIFFERENT FROM CREATION OF MAN? Man acts in parts whereas God acts in completeness, for example, man while constructing a building constructs first the plinths, then walls, then lintel et cetra. But God while making our bodies does not make, say, hands first, [...]
GENERAL-TWO FOLLOW NATURE The sentence-‘Follow nature’ has been understood very wrongly. Followers of this thought instigate others to stop cooking, to live in natural habitats such as caves et cetra and to stay naked, as use of clothes is considered unnatural by such people. But, this is not [...]
VEDIC CULTURE -Pandit Ganga Prasad Upadhayay MEANING OF CULTURE Today, meaning of the word ‘culture’ is very unclear and it has been misused a lot. Different people take different meanings of this term. All the nations believe that they have their own cultures but these cultures have failed to [...]
ISHA-UPANISHAD First of all, let’s know as to what Upanishads are. Upanishads are teachings or explanations of the vedic hymns by the vedic scholars to their disciples. Considering popularity of these books, many books named Upanishads have been written in the modern times. As such, now number of books, [...]
WHAT DO UPANISHADS AND DARSHANS REFER TO? Upanishads refer to experiences whereas ‘Darshans’ refer to logic, that is, upanishads, while mentioning about existence of God do not try to prove this fact but on the other side, darshans prove every fact through reasoning. The thoughts, which reach the [...]
MEANING WITH EXPLANATION OF ‘HAVAN MANTRAS’ Like sandhya mantras, havan mantras too, have been compiled by Maharishi Swami Dayanand out of vedic literature. In the beginning of this rite, worship mantras are cited. Aachman mantras Maharishi swami Dayanand has directed to do aachman, that is, drinking approximately one tablespoonful [...]
NECESSITY OF DOING ‘HAVAN’ The term ‘worship’ is used in respect of God only. For gods, the term ‘adoration’ may be used. Worship of God comprises three things-stuti or praise, praarthnaa or prayer and upaasanaa or communion whereas adoration of gods refer to our respectful behaviour towards [...]
MEANING WITH EXPLANATION OF ‘WORSHIP MANTRAS’ Out of more than 20000 mantras of vedaas, Maharishi Dayanand has selected 8 mantras, called worship-mantras to be cited at every auspicious occasion. He has also, given meanings of these vedic mantras in Hindi. These mantras reflect smallness of man before capability of [...]
MEANING WITH EXPLANATION OF ‘SANDHYA MANTRAS’ Purpose of doing sandhya is not to please God. He is complete in all respects. Neither His happiness gets increased, if we do sandhya nor it gets diminished, if we do not do it. Purpose of doing sandhya is to purify the soul [...]
