Swami Ram Swarup Ji
There is a saying-
“That if you want to destroy a nation, destroy its culture, the nation will perish away at its own accord.”
India is a country of Rishi-Munis, Yogis, Tapasvis, Rajrishis etc. Its culture is “Knowledge of four Vedas” which emanates directly from God in the beginning of every creation. [Rigved mantra 10/109/1 refers].
The age of the present creation is about one arab, ninety six crores, eight lakhs, fifty three thousand and one hundred nineteen years. I mean to say that right from the beginning of this creation and continuously for said age of earth, the knowledge of Vedas was in vogue as no other man-made path was created. After the Mahabharat war, our said vedic culture started to decline due to one or the other reason.
You see when the sun sets, darkness is generated. Similarly, when vedic knowledge started diminishing the arrogants made their own path of worship and the sun of eternal vedic culture started to set down. So, the above saying became relevant.
Therefore the effect of decline of vedic culture began to be observed that at present mostly the humans are devoid of happiness, peace and international brotherhood. Violence is at its ugliest form and increase of incidents of dishonour of women, sexual offences against women etc. are being seen in T.V. and daily newspapers.
No matter whether rich or poor, mostly all are in search of peace.
In such critical environments, naturally people are trying their level best to overcome violence, ravages of hatred and several other critical national problems.
Now what to say that mostly the so called saints know the weak point of public and are trying to grab the opportunity of exploiting public and showing them new paths of worship against the vedas.
They declare themselves as Mahapurush i.e. perfect saints who have realised God and would shower their blessings on needy to destroy their sorrows and attain peace.
In this way, such so-called saints, who are against vedas and indulged in tantrikism, ghost worship etc., have robbed public of their hard earned money and have forced them to commit sins. The arrogants, who inspire the people to do ghost worship, tantrikism, present astrology etc. have also played a crucial role to spread the tradition of blind faith wherein several persons offer sacrifice of children.
The reason behind it is that innocent public has forgotten the eternal vedic path. Only this land has produced the Rajrishis like Manu, Sri Ram, Sri Krishna Maharaj, Aj, Harishchandra, Yayati, Yudhishthir etc., who were learned of Vedas and they held the knowledge of Vedas in daily life. They ruled over India and spread vedic knowledge door to door; as a result our country was titled as “Golden Bird” and “Spiritual Master Of World”. Here only, Rishis like Vishwamitra Ji, Vasishth Muni, Rishi Agastya, Shringi, Yagyavalkya, Pannini Muni, Patanjali Rishi, Kannad Rishi, Kapil Muni, Vyas Muni Ji etc. took birth and spread the vedic culture throughout the country; as a result they united the country and made the country strong. From the ancient religious books of Rishis, we came to know that India got progress, above titles and public used to avail long, happy life only due to the effect of vedic culture.
Now, when vedic culture has mostly been neglected not only by India but by the whole world and against the vedas, several so-called and self-proclaimed saints exist then desire to claim the title of our country as “Golden Bird” and “Spiritual Master of world” and to make people happy, will ever go in vain.
Naturally, the worried people would ask about the path, by following which, peace can be maintained, as everybody is desirous of peace and not worries, militancy etc. Although in territory of India, unlimited saints of different paths are guiding people since long but peace is too far to think.
To attain peace, God Himself states in Rigved mantras 1/46/12 and 1/71/3, 4, that nobody can attain peace until he follows vedic path and worships God according to the Vedas. So, without worship of God, peace cannot be attained. In the said mantras, God adds that without a learned Acharya of Vedas and Ashtang Yog Philosophy, nobody can know Vedas, in the absence of which real and eternal worship of God cannot be performed. So, 1.) Without worship peace cannot be attained.
2.) Without Vedas neither God nor His worship can be known.
3.) Without learned Acharya of Vedas, vedic knowledge cannot be attained. So, God directs us to make contact with learned Acharya of Vedas and Ashtang Yog first, to attain peace.
So, the idea of learned Yudhishthir was to tell Yaksh that true path to be adopted by us is the vedic path which was followed by the then learned Rishi-Munis who were real Mahapurush.
So the claim of the present Swayambhu saints as if they are Mahapurush, is against the Vedas. God in the above mantras also states that learned of Vedas and Ashtang Yog philosophy would only give the knowledge of Vedas by following which the humans attain peace.
Rigved mantra 1/151/8 also states that when the above quoted learned Acharya is contacted then his vedic teachings give the peace.
Rigved mantras 1/72/1,2,3 also advise that in the absence of gaining the vedic knowledge from learned Acharya neither God can be realized nor pleasure/happiness can be attained.