Vedas
-Nobody knows what is it, it is praised by Sages of later dates hence people still praise it
-I have not read any piece of paper (except the Secret of Vedas by Sri Aurobindo) which relates Vedas to Pshychology (which I think is still inadaquate (daring to challenge legend in my own foolishness)).
1.Some recites it like parrots
2. Some criticize it like Vedic sages were just fancy poets with lots of imagination
3. Some give it credit to later Vedantic development as part of Methods of Knowledge, which means Vedas are cave men and Vedanta were modern men
4. Some laugh about it since they worship Sun Moon lightening air etc. etc.
Let me go one by one
1. reciting with full faith and accuracy have some benefits but it will limit to the level of brain only and that too for soothing purposes and other, which will produces mechanical results (results are bound to happen)
2. too poor may be who translated and criticizes it must lack knowledge of Vedangas, they were expert in musical notes, calculation of paths of stars and planets within it, grammer etc. All these elements are still counted as highest form of human expression in this very modern time. So these poets did not imagine anything like novelist (who relate and transform life experiences into something that may happen), they knew what they were doing fully supported by the fact they count days and degrees of planets and location among stars to perform their rituals. Also, location of place where to perform rituals etc.
3. Vedantic with no doubt win over our own Mandan Mishra of Mithila, but it seems they could not give up Vedic Karmas to zero after all. They knew it is and most part. Also all hymns of Vedanta belong to Vedas. So they are no spearate parts, they are popularized for paths of Knowledge over paths of Karma. When they can write hymns they must have know too, it is funny to even to read these greatly rich scholars (must be self declared or among fools).
4. I laugh about them, haha
etc.
Sages may forgive me, I am noone to give justice to great Sages.
I just don’t have the energy to write against the popular teaching (perhaps I have read the wrong books) that Hindu jurisprudence is contained within the Smriti, mainly the Manusmriti, and the property systems of the two schools — Mitakshara and Dayabhaga (I forget which region each school belongs to). But these are laws, not jurisprudence. I admit I do not know the subject of jurisprudence deeply — such a tragedy — but it seems to me these were laws made for the time and place according to the wisdom of the sages of that era. The Smriti writers themselves clearly said that the source of their understanding is the Veda. So, anyone who wants to understand exactly what truth Hindus hold must study the Vedas. Those who cannot may go through the Upanishads (major texts distilled by sages to teach the essence of the Jñāna part of the Veda). Those who still find that difficult may turn to the Mahabharata (which is in itself a “great battle” to understand), or they may study Mīmāṁsā, Nyāya-śā...
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