I have seen many questions being asked in Quora about the knowledge in Rigveda. After collecting all the relevant information, I summarized it into a few points for easy understanding.
"Rigveda (ऋग्वेद Ṛgveda) refers to a Samhita (collection of hymns) consisting of 1,028 hymns and 10,600 verses, and is one of the four canonical holy texts of Hinduism known as the Vedas (वेद Ved)."
"Rigveda is considered as one of the oldest sacred texts of humanity."
When we talk about Indian scriptures, we talk about Vedas. The Vedas are a collection of ancient Sanskrit texts and scriptures and the oldest scripture of the world. They were written by ancient sages in the Indo-Aryan language. Written in verse, the Vedas are organized into Mantras, Brahmanas, Aranyakas and Upanishads. The four Vedas are: Rigveda, Yajurveda, Samaveda and Atharvaveda.
Facts
Rigveda is the oldest scripture of the world, containing over 10,000 stanzas. Although Rigveda is one of the oldest scripture, there are only limited number of people who understand it properly. We all want to know about our past, but hardly any text or book exist which encompasses so many facts of Rigveda. We present to you the Rigveda by spiritual dhyana which provides you with an easy summary of Rigveda. The video presents interesting details that are interesting and informative. This service helps you to learn about Rigveda in an interesting way. This will stand as a portal to connect you with the original content of Rigveda.
Rigveda is one of the oldest scriptures containing several mythological stories. The original script of Rigveda is called Gatha and contains couplets or couplets. Later, these couplets were combined into several mythological stories by its followers.
You will be surprised to know that Rigveda is not entirely based on stories. It contains scientific facts related to astronomy, physics, chemistry, mathematics etc.
Here are some facts related to science found in Rigveda:
- It is said that everything in this universe has 7 layers. There are 7 layers in the earth, water, air, fire, sky and even ether (space) also has seven layers.
- The universe has 360 different types of herbs.
- Religious books like Vedas are full of scientific facts which nobody would have known at that time. The book says that Lord Shri Krishna created this universe by dancing on the sky to make music. This shows the depth of Vedas.
Essence and main theme
Rigveda is the earliest and the most revered spiritual book of Hindus. It describes in detail the philosophy and knowledge about the universe, human mind and body and also gives details about the subtle and gross bodies of man, and their functions and relations. It teaches us how to correctly use them and absorb the divine energy through meditation, yagna, mantra etc.
It is purely knowledge based and is written in beautiful poetry. It is considered as one of the oldest spiritual texts in the world.
Its language is Sanskrit, which was also used by many ancient civilizations such as Greece, Egypt and Germany.
In Rigveda, the knowledge of the Vedas was summarized from time to time.
In the 9 th Mandala of Rigveda, there is a samhita known as Purusha Sukta which summarizes the knowledge in the 8 mandalas of Rigveda.
The main points are :
- First came Satya or Brahman (God)
- Then came the 'maya' (unreal universe)
- Then came prana (life)
- Then came mind, manas (soul) and senses (Indriyas or controls of senses).
The universe is made of five elements : Earth, water, fire, air and ether/space (akash)
Some other Hindu philosophies like Vaishnavism consider that before created universe, there was an eternal bindu called Hiranyagarbha.
And it is this eternal bindu which became all the universe through Cosmic vibration of sound 'OM'.
Rigveda is oldest of all Vedas. It is compilation of 1028 hymns, divided into 10 Mandalas (Books). It was revealed to Sage Srigupta , who was chosen by God himself to be its first narrator or Adi Granth.
The Vedas are the oldest sacred texts of Hinduism, but many readers find them difficult to understand. There is no English translation of the Rigveda (3,000 hymns) which is used by Hindus, Jains and some Buddhists for religious purposes; it is only available in Sanskrit.
Conclusion
As I was searching for the conclusion of the Rigveda as it is called "Atharvangirasa" or "the Knowledge in Atharvaveda" and let me tell you, it's not easy to summarize and extract the basic knowledge from a holy scripture like this, mainly because this knowledge was supposed to be passed on and explained by a Guru (teacher) and only after the student had been able to absorb all of this knowledge, he was permitted to go further.
In my search for concluding knowledge from Rigveda I found some interesting information that I am going to share with you. In my opinion it forms a kind of a bible parallel for this age, where we have so many people going around worshiping others and being confused about what is going on
For me, this gave me a lot of clarity
We have come to the end of our summary of Rigveda. Let us take a brief review of what we have covered in the previous pages.
The Rig Veda is a collection of hymns that pour into a vessel that is known as the "vessel of immortality". The Rigveda, however, is more than just a vessel, it is a continuation of the ancient tradition known as Vedas.
Every day we wake up and get dressed, comb our hair and walk out the door. In all of this get up, we have forgotten one thing, something that was once a part of us, but has been forgotten over time. That thing was the presence of the Divine in every being and in every thing that we encountered. Essentially, it was a time when all beings were conscious of God within themselves and their surroundings. It was a time when all beings had direct experience with God or Brahman (the impersonal absolute).
The conclusions of the knowledge in Rigveda:
- There is one creator and not many.
- There is one material and not many.
- Time and space and all existence and elements are born from this creator by his own will and power.
- All this creation has both form and matter, but the form is hidden within the matter.
- There is no cell except the physical cell or the physical body (this does not mean that there is no non physical entity such as mental, vital, psychic, consciousness).
- The creator of all is the creator of everything, but he is also different from everything, he is everything and he is not everything.
- The creator has a spiritual body and a spiritual mind, a spiritual will and a spiritual intellect. This means that he can feel, know, think and plan in a manner that we cannot feel, know think or plan with our physical body mind will or intellect.
