1. Vedic
Literatures

2. Based on the teachings of
His Divine Grace
A.C. Bhaktivedanta
Swami Prabhupada
Founder Acharya –
International Society for
Krishna Consciousness

3. We inhabit a
HUGE UNIVERSE

4. We are
here
This huge
temple complex
is represented
as a dot on
Bangalore map.
Bangalore
Population: over 6 million. One of the fastest growing cities

5. However,
Bangalore
itself is a dot
in map of
Karnataka

6. and
Karnataka is
one of the
many states
in India

7. India with population
of One Billion is...

8. ... one of the many countries
on the planet Earth.

9. Earth weighing 6x1021 Kg.,
is one of the many planets
in our solar system.

10. Sun, around which all the planets
are orbiting is 14,00,000 times
bigger than Earth.

11. Astrophysicists
point out
There are 2000
billion stars
like sun each
having its own
family of
planets

12. According to science...
...all these billions of
galaxies and trillions
of stars comprise our
UNIVERSE

13. How do we understand
GOD who is ...
• Creator & maintainer of
many such universes.
• Beyond this gigantic
manifestation.

14. All methods of
acquiring knowledge
can be broadly classified
into two categories

15. Inductive
(Ascending)
Trying to find the
truth by one’s own
endeavor or
speculation

16. Deductive
(Descending)
To learn the truth
by accepting an
authority &
inquiring from him

17. How can an ant living in one
corner of this classroom know
about...

18. What are the latest
developments in Iraq?

19. The wars in the other side of
the globe?

20. Who is
President of
United
States of
America ?

21. Arafat &
ethnic
conflicts in
Palestine
and
Lebanon

22. Logically speaking ant can
never know through its
own efforts through
ASCENDING PROCESS
of acquiring knowledge

23. Ground Reality...
Its tooooo...
small & has
limited sense
perception

24. Then how can we go about
understanding GOD who is
creator of infinite gigantic
UNIVERSES?

25. We have no choice...
...but to accept the
descending method of
acquiring knowledge

26. Accept an authority & learn the
truth by inquiring submissively.

27. Lord Krishna in
Bhagavad-Gita mentions
the process of acquiring
knowledge.

28. tad viddhi praëipätena
paripraçnena sevayä

29. Just try to learn the truth by
approaching a Spiritual Master
and inquire submissively

30. Who is that
authority?

31. THE VEDIC
LITERATURES

32. But aren’t the Vedas
written by man !!!

33. NO
The Vedas are
apaurusah
– they are not man-made

34. tene bramha
hriday adi
kavaye

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

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

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

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

39. Today, we depend on modern
gadgets to even remember details
of our near & dear ones

40. Therefore...

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

42. What the world
renowned personalities
say about the Vedic
literatures ?

43. “When I read the Bhagavad-Gita,
the only question left is how God
created the universe. Everything
else seems to be superfluous.”
Albert Einstein
Physicist

44. “The balance of mind
which few highly-
civilized individuals,
such as Arjuna, the
hero of Bhagavad-
gita, can maintain in
T. S. Eliot action, is difficult for
American-English
Poet
most of us even as
observers.”

45. “The deeper you dive
into it, richer the
meaning you get...with
every age, the important
words will carry new
and expanding
Mahatma
meanings. But its
Gandhi
India’s Father of central teachings will
Nation not vary.”

46. “Let the Gita be to you
a mine of diamonds as
it has been to me. Let it
be your constant guide
and friend on life’s
Mahatma way. Let it light your
Gandhi path and dignify your
India’s Father of
Nation
labour.”

47. “It gives utterance
to the aspirations of
the pilgrims of all
sects who seek to
tread the inner way
to the city of God.”
Dr. S. Radhakrishnan
former President of India

48. “In the morning I bathe my intellect
in the stupendous and cosmogonal
philosophy of the Bhagavad Gita,
in comparison with which our
modern world and its literature
seem puny and trivial.”
Henry David Thoreau

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

50. • What is the purpose of my
existence ?
• Who is God ?
• How am I related to God ?

51. Since, these questions deal
with very fundamental
aspects of our existence, we
can immensely benefit by
daily studying these vedic
literatures & sharpening our
Spiritual Intelligence ‘SQ’.