Course XXVII - Teaching 2: Vedas

Thousands of years ago, a great row of Aryans crossed over the Himalayas and, going toward the North of present India, established there their abode.
They were under the guide of the Manu Vaivasvata, a Solar Initiate of First Rank, and ten wise men called Rishis; their names are respectively: Marishi, Atri, Pulastya, Pulaka, Angryas, Kardama, Daksha, Vashishia, Bhrigu and Narada.
They settled there, in the land of Uttura Kuru, a country closed by a circle of high mountains, which could be the present Kashmir.
These Hindu Aryans, of white skin, convex foot, already owners of the fifth sense, first sub-race of the great Aryan race, handed down to their descendants the history of their gorgeous religion written on millenary Vedas.
Vedas –this word means “pure science”– are a series of hymns and chants that those ancient peoples used to offer to their gods; in the beginning, these hymns were not written down, but orally conveyed from generation to generation.
These Vedas are divided into four groups, 1st) Rig-, 2nd) Sutra-, 3rd) Brahman- and 4th) Atharva-Veda. From these holy books one may infer they already knew an infinite and immense principle, where from every created thing came into being: that is, Aditi, Infinity.
Behind this universal concept is formed the idea of a personal and strong Creator-God, who contains the whole power of good; this is Indra, the second Hindu god, who fights continuously evil and the spirit of shadows: Vritra.
Vedas call Indra “the unique God that gives love to mortals, helps them and lavishly pours his goods on them.
The Aryan Race, before its division into tribes that founded different sub-races, had a unique language, the Zenzar; and in they early roots and words, all of them have a unique root and a unique reference that remembers an area where they stayed formerly, with snows and long winters.
The early language of Aryans is Sanskrit, which later, as time goes by, becomes priestly and religious tongues, like any early language.
To Hindus, Sanskrit is Vak, eternal vibration that they transform into divinity.
In their view, verses of Vedas, in their modulation according to ancient intonations, have an especially powerful vibration called Mantra.
Agni, fire; Phritivi, mother of earth; Mitra, the sun; Varuna, clouds; and Arimau, family Lar; in one word, any manifestation of nature, any custom, virtue, good and evil, are materialized and conveyed as divinities to posterity.
They teach those ancient and nomadic peoples of shepherds gradually settled, from Pañchala, which means “five river land”, today Penjab, to a civilization of great dimensions.
Manu’s laws, the oldest Hindu code, describe bases, order and religion of this people.
Also, in Hindu religion, one can find, after an infinite God (“Aditi”), after a God-Creator (“Indra”), after a tenet about of fight between good and evil (“Indra” and “Vitra), and after the worship of natural and atmospheric forces, the tenet about Trinity, a tenet that you may find en every Aryan religion. This concept is far later than Vedas and represents One God but with three aspects: Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva, who are image of the cosmic mind, primary energy and undifferentiated substance respectively.
In the study of different religions, you will see step by step this divine and natural tenets, under one name or another, ever renewed, ever the same.
Aryan religion is One, natural and divine, but different races gave them diverse names.