SatyaVeda: All about the Veda

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Then, this gItA s’Astram, which is the proper compilation of  the essence of the entire vedArtha (meaning of the Vedas),

which is difficult to understand,

for the purpose of getting at its meaning,

as a word by word meaning, sentence meaning and nyAya (purport?) has been attempted by many people,

resulting in multiple extremely contradictory interpretations,

I set forth, vivEkatah (using good discrimination),

for the purpose of determining the meaning,

I give a brief explanation.

• Two very interesting ideas emerge from this statement.
• One is that the Gita gives the right essence of the meaning of all the Vedas.
• The second is that before Sankara, many people had attempted the word by word translation of the Gita and had failed to impress him. This is the situation even today. No one takes anyone else’s interpretation of the Gita as the “right” one and every human mind that dwells on it comes up with at least one new interpretation and sometimes several.

This is one of the reasons why I advocate studying the Gita before getting into Vedic studies, though the norm is Vedas first and Vedanta, Vedartha later!

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