Back to Vedas- A call to youngsters

India has a cultural heritage which is one of the most ancient, wide spread and varied with different strata of lineaments. The cultural heritage of India has its own geographic, linguistic, ethnic, religious and historic back ground. All these factors of the sacred Indian culture can be dated back even beyond 4000 years, into the pre historic Indus valley civilization. The ultimate form of spiritual foundation of Indian philosophy and culture has been laid out by the great Vedic civilization. Scholars have called this civilization as Vedic culture because of its supremacy in divine thoughts than tangible and earthly realities. Over the time, during the Islamic and British occupation, the practice of that great philosophy got ceased. Both these “visitors turned rulers” compelled the followers of these superior thought to convert into their religion. Even the democracy could not take sufficient measures to retract the lost majesty back to the Indian culture. Rather, the current system encourages the people to lead a life according to even inferior western culture.

As youngsters, we need to restore the vanished magnificent culture back to the society as a whole. We are committed to both people and Vedas, and our mission is “to bring people back to Vedas”. We dream of a day when all ‘Bharathasantati’ come together to form the ‘Bharathavarsha’ again with its entire ancient might irrespective of religion and language, where women are given respect and people are an asset of the society. The Vedic age depicts a life style of kinsfolk and we must reinstate that great environment of interrelation and interaction.

Whether it is Sruthi or Smriti, the Indian literature as a whole has been misread by the ‘so called Scholars’. The only quote people know and remember on Manusmrithi is “Na Stri Swatantryamarhadi”. The meaning of this quote has been misinterpreted as women do not deserve or given freedom but the people who are trying to promote these words as Manu’s view conveniently forgets his other quotes which say “When women are honoured, the gods are pleased but where they are not honoured, no sacred rite yields any reward”. We youngsters must aspire to restitute the right intention behind each and every srutis and smritis in their true sense.

The restoration of the ultimate truth

Vedas are the output of spiritual experiences of Rishis, who were in search of the ultimate truth. It is not an invention of truth, because it is not new, It is considered as a discovery, since it was believed to be there in the nature. Unlike in any other philosophies or religions, Vedas do not owe their authority in a single person since it is not written by a particular person, unless Vedas themselves constitute the authority as they are eternal and the real truth from God who created the nature. When all other religious books have a date of their origin, the Vedas are dateless and without a beginning. None knows about it, but western historians believe and are trying to establish its composition date as somewhere between 2500BC and 500 BC. We must go in a way to facilitate people to understand the authority Vedas put in their life since it is the revealed truth from God. The origin of the term “Veda” is from “Vid” which means “to know”. Thus Veda is knowledge and the mission of the new generation Indian youngsters must be to spread Knowledge among those who lost it in the course of long occupation of foreign philosophy.