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**Peptobismol** · 04-04-2006, 10:01 AM

If you are so much interested in classifying something, then I think the best way is to learn it in the proper way

Ah! My grandfather is probably stirring in his grave.., but jokes apart, why do you answer selectively? Maybe there is a passage in the Rig veda that says so, but a look at the website I have mentioned clearly brings out the fact that vedas just served the purpose of the day: outline the code for religious sacrifices and prayers for.. ahem.. obtaining a wife and protection of cattle ('Indra opened the hole of Vrtra; the topmost cattle he grasped by the back and pulled out; a thousand cattle followed it, it became hump backed. He who desires cattle should offer this humpbacked (one) to Indra', Yajur Veda, Kanda 2, Prapathaka 1 on Special Animal Sacrifices).

Giving you the benefit of doubt, it is possible that "May all the worlds be happy" is tucked into a corner and is part of probably a small collection of hymns that pray for universal well being. But that doesn't make the vedas so special, do they? I can quote other poets too who have prayed for universal prosperity.

The vedas were probably useful in the vedic days when people were heavily dependant on agriculture and diary products for their living and were constantly attacked by wild beasts and poisonous reptiles ('I release (thee) from the fury of the black serpent, the taimâta, the brown serpent, the poison that is not fluid, the all-conquering, as the bowstring (is loosened) from the bow, as chariots (from horses)', Atharva Veda, VI, 13 , 6), but do they serve any practical purpose today? That's my question.

Pray tell me, what the numbers in the reference to Atharva veda in the following quote mean:

"May the Omnipresent and Omnipotent God endow us with faith and Pure Reason at the same time." Atharva Veda 19:64

If it's a few prayers like "May all the worlds be happy", among the many impractical ones, that bestow upon the vedas such respect, I would choose 'Thirukkural' any day.

04-04-2006, 10:01 AM	#16
Peptobismol Join Date Oct 2005 Age 59 Posts 4,386 Senior Member	If you are so much interested in classifying something, then I think the best way is to learn it in the proper way Ah! My grandfather is probably stirring in his grave.., but jokes apart, why do you answer selectively? Maybe there is a passage in the Rig veda that says so, but a look at the website I have mentioned clearly brings out the fact that vedas just served the purpose of the day: outline the code for religious sacrifices and prayers for.. ahem.. obtaining a wife and protection of cattle ('Indra opened the hole of Vrtra; the topmost cattle he grasped by the back and pulled out; a thousand cattle followed it, it became hump backed. He who desires cattle should offer this humpbacked (one) to Indra', Yajur Veda, Kanda 2, Prapathaka 1 on Special Animal Sacrifices). Giving you the benefit of doubt, it is possible that "May all the worlds be happy" is tucked into a corner and is part of probably a small collection of hymns that pray for universal well being. But that doesn't make the vedas so special, do they? I can quote other poets too who have prayed for universal prosperity. The vedas were probably useful in the vedic days when people were heavily dependant on agriculture and diary products for their living and were constantly attacked by wild beasts and poisonous reptiles ('I release (thee) from the fury of the black serpent, the taimâta, the brown serpent, the poison that is not fluid, the all-conquering, as the bowstring (is loosened) from the bow, as chariots (from horses)', Atharva Veda, VI, 13 , 6), but do they serve any practical purpose today? That's my question. Pray tell me, what the numbers in the reference to Atharva veda in the following quote mean: "May the Omnipresent and Omnipotent God endow us with faith and Pure Reason at the same time." Atharva Veda 19:64 If it's a few prayers like "May all the worlds be happy", among the many impractical ones, that bestow upon the vedas such respect, I would choose 'Thirukkural' any day.
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