Category:Four Vedas
Compiling notes:
- The Four Vedas are emanations from the breathing of the Supreme Being
- "Srila Vyāsadeva divided the original Veda into four"
Subcategories
This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total.
Pages in category "Four Vedas"
The following 53 pages are in this category, out of 53 total.
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- Because in all the hymns of the four Vedas, Sama, Yajur, Rg and Atharva, the pranava or omkara is very prominent, it is understood to be Krsna. BG 1972 purports
- By different scriptures, Vedic literatures - the four Vedas, the Upanisads the Vedanta-sutra, and any other literature - Ramayana, Mahabharata . . . there are so many allied scriptures. The whole aim is, target is, Krsna
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- For advanced education there are various kinds of books of knowledge, such as the four Vedas, their six supplements, the Vedanta-sutra, books of logic, books of religiosity and the Puranas
- Four Vedas - Sama, Yajur, Rg, Atharva - then the Upanisad, then the Vedanta-sutra, then Srimad-Bhagavatam. Srimad-Bhagavatam and Vedanta-sutra is the same thing
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- He (Vyasadeva) divided the original Veda, for convenience, into four divisions - Sama, Yajur, Rg and Atharva. He is the author of eighteen Puranas as well as the theosophical thesis Brahma-sutra and its natural commentary, Srimad-Bhagavatam
- He (Vyasadeva) divided the Vedas into four: Rg, Sama, Atharva and Yajur. Then he gave the charge of these Vedas to his different disciples
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- If we are at all to gather knowledge, we must gather it from these (the four Vedas, with their supplementary Puranas, the Mahabharata, the Ramayana and their corollaries, which are known as smrtis) sources without hesitation
- In all Vedic literature, beginning from the four Vedas, Vedanta-sutra and the Upanisads and Puranas, the glories of the Supreme Lord are celebrated. BG 1972 purports
- In Satya-yuga there was only one Veda, not four. Later, before the beginning of Kali-yuga, this one Veda, the Atharva Veda (or, some say, the Yajur Veda), was divided into four - Sama, Yajur, Rg and Atharva - for the facility of human society
- In that yoga-pitha, the personifications of religion, knowledge, opulence and renunciation are all seated at the lotus feet of the Lord. The four Vedas, namely Rk, Sama, Yajur and Atharva, are present there personally to advise the Lord
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- Once upon a time, when Brahma was thinking of how to create the worlds as in the past millennium, the four Vedas, which contain all varieties of knowledge, became manifested from his four mouths
- Originally the Veda is one. But Srila Vyasadeva divided the original Veda into four, namely Sama, Yajur, Rg, Atharva, and then again they were explained in different branches like the Puranas and the Mahabharata
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- SB is written by Vyasadeva after writing four Vedas and the eighteen Puranas, the 108 Upanisads, then Vedanta-sutra and Mahabharata, in which Bhagavad-gita is set up. So after compiling all these Vedic literatures Vyasadeva was not satisfied
- Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu exalted Haridasa Thakura, stating, "You are constantly studying the four Vedas, and you are far better than any brahmana or sannyasi"
- Srimad-Bhagavatam is the last contribution of Vyasadeva. Vyasadeva is the original compiler of all Vedic literature. So he wrote so many books - all the Vedas, four Vedas, 108 Upanisads, eighteen Puranas, Mahabharata
- Srutayah means authentic literature, which is acceptable. They are also various type. Just like Vedas. There are four Vedas: Sama Veda, Yajur Veda, Atharva Veda, Rg Veda. Then the Upanisads are there, then the Vedanta-sutra
- Sruti-pramanam means if it is mentioned in the Vedas, Upanisad, then it is pramanam. So Vedas, there are four Vedas and 108 Upanisads, and then eighteen Puranas, then this Mahabharata. So all these are Vedic literatures
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- The essence of Vedic knowledge is Vedanta. There are four Vedas and many branches, eighteen Puranas and then 108 Upanisad. All combined together, the essence is taken as the Srimad-Bhagavatam
- The four divisions of the original sources of knowledge (the Vedas) were made separately. But the historical facts and authentic stories mentioned in the Puranas are called the fifth Veda
- The four original Vedas are considered sruti. But simply by hearing them, one cannot understand fully. Therefore, the smrtis have explained further. Purayati iti purana: by hearing the Puranas and other smrtis, one makes his understanding complete
- The four Vedas - namely the Rg-veda, Yajur-veda, Sama-veda and Atharva-veda - are all emanations from the breathing of the great Personality of Godhead. BG 1972 purports
- The four Vedas - Sama, Yajur, Rk, Atharva - they are concentrated in the Vedanta-sutra, and the Vedanta-sutra is explained in the Srimad-Bhagavatam
- The four Vedas, with their supplementary Puranas, the Mahabharata, the Ramayana and their corollaries, which are known as smrtis, are all authorized sources of knowledge
- The fourth offense (sruti-sastra-nindanam) is to blaspheme Vedic literatures such as the four Vedas and the Puranas
- The Lord will not accept a brahmana who has studied the four Vedas if he is not a devotee but He will accept someone from a very low family if he is a pure devotee
- The Puranas and Mahabharata were made from related historical facts which explained the teaching of the four Vedas. There is no point in doubting the authority of the Puranas and Mahabharata as parts and parcels of the Vedas
- The Upanisads are parts of the four Vedas, and the Vedanta-sutras represent the cream of the Vedas. To summarize all these Vedic literatures, the Bhagavad-gita is accepted as the essence of all Upanisads
- The Vedic literature is divided into two parts: the srutis and the smrtis. The srutis are the four Vedas - Rg, Sama, Atharva and Yajur - and the Upanisads, and the smrtis are the Puranas and the Itihasas like the Mahabharata
- There are different scriptures, scripture means Vedic, the Vedas. There are four Vedas and many other also, corollaries. So by studying at home these books, that is also not possible to understand
- There are eighteen Puranas and four Vedas and 108 Upanisads, and Vedanta, then Mahabharata, then Srimad-Bhagavatam. Each of them contains thousands and thousands and millions of verses. So we cannot imagine that a man can write in that way
- There are four Vedas and 108 Upanisads, then Vedanta-sutra, then so, so many books. All of them are Vedas. And what is the purpose? Vedais ca sarvair aham eva vedyah - BG 15.15
- There are four Vedas-Sama, Rg, Yajur and Atharva, and there are 108 Upanisads, including the Isopanisad, Katha Upanisad and Taittiriya Upanisad, as well as the Vedanta-sutra, Srimad-Bhagavatam and Bhagavad-gita
- There are the four original Vedas - Sama, Yajur, Rg, Atharva - then the Upanisad, then the essence of Vedic knowledge, Vedanta-sutra, then Ramayana, Mahabharata
- They (religious activities in terms of the social statuses and orders of life) are all clearly mentioned in the Vedic literatures and were manifested by Brahma when the four Vedas were generated from his four mouths
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- Veda refers to all kinds of Vedic literature, namely the four Vedas (Rk, Yajus, Sama and Atharva) and the eighteen Puranas and Upanisads, and Vedanta-sutra. BG 1972 purports
- Vedic literature means four Vedas: Sama, Atharva, Yajur and Rk. And from the Vedas, there are Upanisads. There are 108 Upanisads. And there are Puranas. Puranas means those who will not understand the Vedic aphorism
- Vyasadeva collected whatever Vedic conclusions were in the four Vedas and 108 Upanisads and placed them in the aphorisms of the Vedanta-sutra
- Vyasadeva compiled all the Vedic literatures - the four Vedas, the Vedanta-sutra or Brahma-sutras, the puranas and the Mahabharata
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- We have got all information in the Vedic literature, beginning from Bhagavad-gita and then described further in the Srimad-Bhagavatam, four Vedas
- We understand that with the breathing of the Supreme Personality of Godhead there issued forth the four Vedas, namely the Rg Veda, the Yajur Veda, the Sama Veda and the Atharva Veda, and also the histories like the Mahabharata and all the Puranas
- When a living entity is enchanted by the external energy, he cannot revive his original Krsna consciousness independently. Due to such circumstances, Krsna has kindly given him the Vedic literatures, such as the four Vedas and eighteen Puranas