tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-554925721627754731.post8762447381962590426..comments2023-05-07T03:45:46.595-07:00Comments on ശാന്തിവിചാരം: National Text MovementUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-554925721627754731.post-19104085172601915132016-11-05T22:23:00.409-07:002016-11-05T22:23:00.409-07:00Seen late. only now. Thank you sir. VEda-s have a ...Seen late. only now. Thank you sir. VEda-s have a special GRADE. VEda is visible only to a few, less visible to more and invisible to most of the Indians. Bhagavatam is not special, it is born general. For ALL. Thank you. vasudevan namboodirihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04340110737388098741noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-554925721627754731.post-5231794115907822232016-09-02T11:16:17.144-07:002016-09-02T11:16:17.144-07:00namaskaaram,
A question: Aren't the VEda-s t...namaskaaram,<br /><br />A question: Aren't the VEda-s the National Text of India except for the Buddhists and the Jains although some people have proven that almost everything in Buddhism can be derived from the Upanishad-s?<br /><br />I believe that the VEdic lore should be handled by the traditional learners and keepers of it, but all the other material -- (I hesitate to call it texts because most of Indian history shows us that Indian texts were actually oral -- committed to memory by dedicated people and transmitted orally) such as the ItihAsa-s, KAvya-s, SAstRa-s, etc.) can be derived from the VEda-s and in fact all the respected teachers have linked their special branches to the <br />VEda-s from Vaalmeeki and KALidaasa to the aesthetic philosophers such as Ananda-VaRdhana, the VyAkaraNa philosophers such as BhaRtr^hari, the musical theorists such as SARn*gadEva, etc -- is derived from the VEda-s.<br /><br />So, I, in all humility, submit that the national text of India is the VEdic corpus with the caveat that it is not really a text in the sense of the western "scripture" but in the sense of SRuti, which the brilliant, oral-word-centered people in India -- the VEda specialist -- have preserved to a great extent although it is in the danger of becoming extinct. May the Divine forbid that. DKM KarthaDKMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08829335517370895155noreply@blogger.com