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Krishna Yajur Veda

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|| yo brahmANam vidadhAti poorvam yovai vedAnsca prahiNoti tasmai ||<br />

"He, who created Brahma in the past, and who gifted him with the <strong>Veda</strong>s ..."<br />

This clearly implies that the ParamAtma gifted the <strong>Veda</strong>s to Chaturmukha Brahma which existed without fixable<br />

origin.<br />

Again Sri <strong>Krishna</strong> says in 15.15 of the Bhagawad Geeta:<br />

vedaisca sarvaih aham eva vedyo |<br />

vedAntakrt vedavit eva ca aham ||<br />

which roughly translates to:<br />

"All the <strong>Veda</strong>s speak about me and I am the ONLY (eva) one who knows all the <strong>Veda</strong>s."<br />

This is to be understood in terms of the cyclic creation and dissolution of cosmos. At the beginning of every cycle,<br />

the supreme Lord transfers the knowledge of all previous cycles to the new Brahmav who then transfers it through<br />

seers and sages in progressive steps for the benefit of the new creation.<br />

Apaurusheyatva is a central concept in the <strong>Veda</strong>nta and Mimamsa schools of Hindu philosophy. These schools<br />

accept the <strong>Veda</strong>s as svatah pramana ("self-evident means of knowledge"). These schools accept that the <strong>Veda</strong>s<br />

were "heard" by the Rishis. Heard from whom? The answer has to be “from the supreme Spirit itself”. This will make<br />

every knowledge as revelation from God which evidently is true in a sense. The science of today is revealed<br />

knowledge from God to the seeker Scientist. In this sense every seeker of truth is a Rishi and God do not reveal<br />

the full truth at once. This will give no additional status as a knowledge or <strong>Veda</strong> except that these are the primal<br />

elementary knowledge given to man. In that case these revelations are abrogated by later revelations.<br />

The strange argument of the Mimamsa school is that since the <strong>Veda</strong>s are composed of words (shabda) and the<br />

words are composed of phonemes, the phonemes being eternal, the <strong>Veda</strong>s are also eternal, which of course does<br />

not make any real sense. It only means that all knowledge is already inherent in nature to be learned. It does not<br />

mean that it is known. To make it clear let us take the case of every scientific law. These laws are inherent on the<br />

physical world though we do not know all of it. In time we discover them and then it becomes “knowledge”. All<br />

human knowledge is the acumulated result of experience of generations from the beginning of time.<br />

To put it in perspective. Consider Newton’s law of gravitation. The law was in effect since the beginning of the<br />

material word. But it was made known by science through the vision and experience of Newton a person within<br />

history at a particular time which was then codified and handed down through generations through teacher student<br />

series.<br />

The fact that we have no author to <strong>Veda</strong>s is stated by Hindu exponents as Hinduism has no founder. It is heard by<br />

Rishis. This is sometimes interpreted as revelation from God himself identifying the Rishis with Prophets. However<br />

the basic contention is that the <strong>Veda</strong>s were handed down from generation to generation without any particular<br />

author for the sections. Yet the sections are assigned to familes of rishies who at least wrote them down or started<br />

the verbal statements.<br />

The eternity of <strong>Veda</strong>s can be simply the statement that the universe goes through cycles of creation and dissolution<br />

and the knowledge of all the previous cycles are eventually rediscovered or heart by mankind in due course in its<br />

due time.<br />

As is evident from the discussion above, it appears that there is an inundation which seems to be intentionally<br />

distorted to mean what it really is. Anyone who reads the <strong>Veda</strong>s can clearly see that it is an expression of humans<br />

in the context of some higher power whom he is trying grapple. It does not provide at any point in the older texts to<br />

point to divine origin or even divine teaching. Unless it is twisted around they don’t even point to a knowledge that

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