Vedas

The spirituality obtained during the olden times is by reading of vedas. Anyone who read the vedas become strong spiritually.

When Hanuman met Lord Ram for the first time, Lord Ram seeing the skill with which Hanuman communicated, said to his younger brother Lakshman "look at him Lakshmana, look at how he speaks, only the person who masters the vedas throughly and perfectly only can speak in such a way".

Such is effect of vedas on anyone. We dont have the vedas completely. We have only part of the vedas which are now published.

We all know there are four vedas

- Rig veda

- Yajur veda

- Sama veda

- Atharva veda

The rig yajur and sama vedas are considered as "the triple sacred science" of recieting hymns, performing sacrifices and chanting.

Rig veda deals with hymns, Yajur veda deals with performing sacrifices and sama veda deals with chanting.

The atharva veda deals with the knowledge. It is the latest of all the four vedas mostly composed magical texts and charms. It has 760 hymns of which 160 are in common with rig veda.

The Atharvaveda also contains Mantras used in marriage and death rituals, as well as those for kingship, female rivals and the Vratya (in Brahmana style prose).

Gavin Flood discusses the relatively late acceptance of the Atharva-Veda as follows:

"There were originally only three priests associated with the first three Saṃhitās, for the Brahman as overseer of the rites does not appear in the Ṛg Veda and is only incorporated later, thereby showing the acceptance of the Atharva Veda, which had been somewhat distinct from the other Saṃhitās and identified with the lower social strata, as being of equal standing with the other texts."

"The goal, which all Vedas declare, which all austerities aim at, and which humans desire when they live a life of continence, I will tell you briefly it is Om(Aum)"

There are six technical subjects related vedas called the limbs of vedas

they are

- Phonetics.

- Meter.

- Grammar.

- Etymology.

- Astronomy.

- Ritual.

The famous epic Mahabharata which is written by Lord Ganesh as when narrated by Ved Vyas is called as the Fifth veda because Ved Vyas was well versed in vedas and wanted others to learn it too so he kept many verses from all the vedas in Mahabharata