The Vedas, meaning "knowledge" in Sanskrit, are ancient texts that form the foundation of Hinduism. Composed in Vedic Sanskrit between 1500 and 500 BCE, these texts are the oldest in Hinduism and were ...

The Vedas have puzzled readers for centuries—not because they are obscure, but because they refuse to speak in the language we expect. They do not present arguments in linear prose or explain ...

President Pranab Mukherjee noted that the traditional Indian philosophy of "Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam" beautifully captures the essence of their global outlook. Hyderabad: President Pranab Mukherjee today ...

The origin of Vedas cannot be traced. They have been in existence from time immemorial. In Tamil, the Vedas are called “seyyamozhi” — denoting that it is not authored by anyone. The Vedas tell us the ...

The word ‘Veda’ means knowledge. The real source of all knowledge is God. With their one-pointed minds, the rishis (seers) ‘saw’ or ‘heard’ truths that emanated from God as name and form. They in turn ...

Recently, a very senior gentleman argued that Europeans stole science from the Vedas. He kept quoting verses from Vedas to prove how everything from gravity to Newtonian physics can be traced to the ...

What is the need to know the Vedas, one may ask. The path shown by the Vedas (Veda Marga) tries to fill the lacuna between the perceptible and the unseen. Moreover, the Vedas are the essence of ...

Your brain does not contain a literal copy of the Vedas. There is no scientific evidence showing that Sanskrit verses or Vedic texts are physically encoded inside the human brain. But that is not what ...