Swami Ram Swarup
If we desire that apart from human-beings, other living beings like horse, donkey, monkey, sparrows, ants, elephants etc. can do asan, prannayaam, name jaap of God etc. then definitely our desire will go in vain. So, it is clear that it is only human-beings who can worship God and while destroying all sorrows etc. can attain salvation.in this regard, the thought of Channakya is mentioned below-
“Aahaarnidra BhayeMaithunani Samaani
Chaitaani Nrinnaam Pashunaam,
Gyanum Naraannaamadhiko Vishesho Gyanein
Heenaha Pashubhihi Samaanaahaa.”
Meaning- To take food, sleep, to experience fear, to get children by parents; the said four qualities are similar in human-beings and other living beings i.e. animals, birds, insects etc. Channakya states and accordingly we will have to discuss that then what is the quality which differentiates human-beings from animals etc. Definitely it is knowledge of Vedas and to hold the same by human-beings in daily routine i.e. to discharge moral duties which can never be discharged by animals, birds, insects etc. like performing daily agnihotra/Yajyen, name jaap of God, practice of Ashtang Yog, listening of Vedas from a learned Acharya, serving parents and elders, to work hard to make the nation strong etc.
So, it shall be a serious matter for us that if we donot follow vedic path and do not attain the knowledge then even if we have the face and body of human-beings yet shastras declare us as animals. And all Vedas state that we will have to face the problems and bear the sorrows in present life as well as after death.
To destroy sorrows and attain salvation, Almighty God has showered mercy on us by providing knowledge of four Vedas to the human-beings and not to the animals etc.
Both i.e. Almighty God Who creates, nurses and destroys the universe as well as the knowledge of four Vedas, are eternal, impartial and everlasting for human-beings. So, as air, water, sun, moon, earth and what to talk, all the unlimited matters of the universe were applicable, at the time of beginning of the creation for all human-beings, similarly these are applicable in the present and will remain applicable forever; irrespective of the present sects.
That is why, Vedas are impartial and are equally applicable for all human-beings as were applicable in the previous yugas when the present sects did not exist but after Mahabharat war, due to one or the other reason, this knowledge has been oversighted. As a result, people donot know about the impartiality of the Vedas. But we see the present sects which originated within two-three thousand years ago are not impartial. For example- one sect allows to take non-veg, other sects prohibit. The ways of worship and thoughts are different in different sects. Every sect has right to follow its path but I mean to say that impartiality only exists in Vedas. So, while adopting the path of sects we all must also listen to Vedas, as were listened in previous yugas by all human-beings.
Kapil Muni in his Sankhya Shastra Sutra 5/51 states that because the knowledge of Vedas is originated directly from the natural power of the Almighty God that is why the Vedas are eternal and are considered as self-proof.
It means, if anybody wants to prove the truth of any matter and thoughts etc. we will have to give the proof of Ved mantras in support but ved mantras do not need any proof for their existence and authenticity.
Yagyavalkya Rishi in his Shatpath Brahmin Granth preaches to his wife Maitrayee that “From the Almighty God, Who is omnipresent and even greater than space; emanate Rigved, Yajurved, Samved and Atharvaved.” Oh! Maitrayee, just as breath is exhaled out of the human-body and again inhaled within the body similarly after the final destruction, in the beginning of the creation, Almighty God spreads the light throughout the universe in the shape of knowledge of four Vedas which during the time of final destruction exist in Almighty God. Now, it is a matter of great astonishment that knowledge of Vedas which is impartial and without which nobody can destroy his sorrows, illusion and cannot attain salvation; has been neglected by the human-beings due to the falsehood being spread by the so-called saints. We will have to follow the preach of Atharvaved mantra 11/3/1 that though Vedas give the knowledge of all the worldly matters, science etc. right from blade of grass to Almighty God but still main subject of the four Vedas is Brahma i.e. Almighty God. Similarly, main motto of the human life is to realise God by following the vedic path under guidance of the learned Acharya. Since the time period of about five thousand three hundred years elapsed within which almost all the people have forgotten to make contact with learned acharya of Vedas to gain vedic knowledge, as a result whole world is under tensions and is facing innumerable problems, sorrows and may also face the most crucial experiences of ruin/destruction of human-beings and other matters during the expected third world war.
In the end, I would like to state that like a bird, which sits on a ship in the middle of deep sea, wanders here and there and at last comes back again and sits on the ship similarly after wandering for the last five thousand five hundred years in several kinds of man-made worship etc. we will have to Revert back to Vedas.
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