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What book are you reading right now?

Currently I am reading “The Holy Vedas” translated to English by Bibek Debroy and Dipavali Debroy.

It’s an ancient Indian text, comprising of all topics one can fathom about, right from human flesh to information about the whole universe.

Vedas consists of 4 portions; first RIG VEDA (considered to be the oldest). Second YAJUR VEDA. Third SAMA VEDA and last one is ATHARVA VEDA. All the Vedas are written in complete Sanskrit and in a very complicated way. It has two meanings; one is the latent and another is the manifest. Latent is the deep hidden meaning as in reading between lines kind of. Manifest is the visible meaning.

One thing which is very interesting to be noted that Vedas were not invented, those were discovered. It is said that the knowledge in that was transmitted from one generation to another, through oral instructions know as Shruti in Sanskrit. The who learns Veda thoroughly, is said to practice some unique way to memorise the shlokas from Vedas. One is supposed to practice it everyday.

Vedas are considerably difficult to understand than Upanishads. One can actually try reading Upanishads before they start with Vedas. I read only some small derivation of Upanishads which just scratched its surface. The concepts in it are pretty fascinating too.

I have just started to read it and I have understood nothing in it yet. I’m still on manifest level. It will take a lot of time to reach to the latent meaning.