1. THE VEDIC LITERATURES

2. How can we understand the Supreme Person who is creator of infinite gigantic universes?

3. tene brahma hriday adi kavaye

4. The Vedic knowledge was revealed by the Supreme Person, within the heart of the first created being, Brahma.

5. This Vedic wisdom came down in disciplic succession through aural reception.

6. Srimad Bhagavatam predicts about people in Kali-yuga
mandäù — lazy;
sumanda-matayaù — misguided;
manda-bhägyäù — unlucky;
hi upadrutäù — and above all disturbed.

7. Vyäsadeva, a literary incarnation of God, recorded all the Vedas in writing 5,000 years back for the benefit of people in Kali Yuga.

8. The Vedas are also called as SHRUTIS or knowledge received through aural reception.

9. The means of Vedic knowledge is to accept an authority & learn the truth by inquiring submissively.

10. The Vedas offer insight into -
Who am I ?
Where have I come from ?
Where do I go after death ?

11. The Vedas offer insight into -
What is the purpose of my existence ?
Who is God ?
How am I related to God ?

12. VEDIC KNOWLEDGE SRUTI SMRTI Rajasic UPAVEDAS VEDAS VEDANGAS Itihasas
Dhanurveda
Ayurveda, etc.
VEDAS
Rg, Yajur,
Sama, Atharva
VEDANGAS
Itihasas
Puranas
Six Darshanas
Tantras
Spoken by Lord
Siva to Parvati
Ritual Sutras
Connected to
Kalpa-vedanga
Pancaratras
Srauta Sutras
explains
public yajnas
Grhya Sutras
home yajnas
Dharma Sutras
Law books
Vedanta
(Vyasa)
(Metaphysics)
theology of
Upanisads
Mimamsa
(Jaimini)
(Hermeneutics)
interpreting
scriptural texts
Nyaya
(Gautama)
(Epistemology, logic)
philosophy of
knowledge
including logic
Vaisesika
(Kanada)
existence
Yoga
(Patanjali)
(Sadhana)
Sankhya
(Atheist Kapila)
Dharma Sastras
including Manu-
samhita and others
18 Major
18 Minor
Samhitas
mantras
Brahmanas
ritual explanation
of mantras
Aranyakas
esoteric explanation
Jnana-kanda
philosophy of Brahman
Kalpa
ritual details
Siksa
pronunciation
Vyakarana
grammar
Nirukta
etymology
Chandas
meters
Jyotisa
astronomy-time
calculation
Vaisnava
worship
Tamasic
Sattvic
Revealed absolute Truth
Every word unchanged eternally
Composed by sages
Wording may change from age to age
sisters
sisters
sisters

13. Three Divisions of the Vedas
Karma-kanda: Material elevation (pravritti).
Jnana-kanda: Decreasing material involvement through knowledge (nivritti).
Upasana-kanda: Decreasing material involvement through worship of the Supreme.

14. Five Types of Liberation
Sayujya-mukti – to become one with the Lord
Salokya-mukti – to live on the same planet as the Lord
Svarupya-mukti – to obtain the same bodily features as the Lord
Sarsti-mukti – to have the same opulences as the Lord
Samipya-mukti – to have constant association with the Lord

15. vadanti tat tattva-vidas tattvaà yaj jïänam advayam brahmeti paramätmeti bhagavän iti çabdyate
(Srimad Bhagavatam )

16. Learned transcendentalists who know the Absolute Truth call this
Learned transcendentalists who know the Absolute Truth call this nondual substance Brahman, Paramätmä or Bhagavän.

17. Bhagavad Gita

18. sarvasya cähaà hådi sanniviñöo mattaù småtir jïänam apohanaà ca vedaiç ca sarvair aham eva vedyo vedänta-kåd veda-vid eva cäham
(Bhagavad Gita 15.15)

19. I am seated in everyone's heart, and
I am seated in everyone's heart, and from Me come remembrance, knowledge and forgetfulness. By all the Vedas, I am to be known. Indeed, I am the compiler of Vedänta, and I am the knower of the Vedas.