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From the Vedas

"Vedas are not books and neither they can be contained in the mind....as the mind is limitless...like the gyan in creation."-Yogi Ashwini

“Idan na mam”, its not mine
“Nishkam karma” – Bhagwad Gita
"Ideals must become higher and grander. Desires must become more and more selfless and sublime." Atharva Veda
“Happiness will not come from happiness; but only from pain. We know the value of standing in shade only after roaming in the hot day sun.” Atharva Veda
“Ego is the biggest enemy of humans.” Rig Veda
“The sage knows Brahman, the support of all, the pure effulgent being in whom is contained the universe. They who worship the sage, and do so without thought of self, cross the boundary of birth and death” Mundaka Upanishad 3:2:1
“He who, brooding upon sense objects, comes to yearn for them, is born here and there, again and again, driven by his desire. But he who has realized the Self, and thus satisfied all hunger, attains to liberation even in this life” Mundaka Upanishad 3:2:2
“….we are freed from our worldly attachments just like a fruit falls from a tree after ripening. Once we are successful in doing this we are liberated from this vicious cycles of life and death.” Yajur Veda
“One shall have to undergo suffering to reach truth. That is why it is said that truth is eternally victorious.” Rig Veda
The living entity in the material world carries his different conceptions of life from one body to another as the air carries aromas. Thus he takes one kind of body and again quits it to take another. Bhagwad gita 15.8
“Illumination is the purpose of life; of the recurring sequence of birth and death.” Atharva Veda



Science in vedas -

  • “This earth is devoid of hands and legs, yet it moves ahead. All the objects over the earth also move with it. It moves around the sun. Rig Veda 10.22.14
  • “The sun has tied Earth and other planets through attraction and moves them around itself as if a trainer moves newly trained horses around itself holding their reins.” Rig Veda 10.149.1
  • “O God, You have created this Sun. You possess infinite power. You are upholding the sun and other spheres and render them steadfast by your power of attraction. Rig Veda 1.6.5, Rig Veda 8.12.30
  • “The sun moves in its own orbit in space taking along with itself the mortal bodies like earth through force of attraction.” Yajur Veda 33.43
  • “The sun moves in its own orbit but holding earth and other heavenly bodies in a manner that they do not collide with each other through force of attraction.” Rig Veda 1.35.9
  • “Sun moves in its orbit which itself is moving. Earth and other bodies move around sun due to force of attraction, because sun is heavier than them. Rig Veda 1.164.13
  • “The sun has held the earth and other planets” Atharva Veda 4.11.1
  • “The moving moon always receives a ray of light from sun” Rig Veda 1.84.15
  • “Moon decided to marry. Day and Night attended its wedding. And sun gifted his daughter “Sun ray” to Moon.” Rig Veda 10.85.9
  • “O Sun! When you are blocked by the one whom you gifted your own light (moon), then earth gets scared by sudden darkness.” Rig Veda 5.40.5
  • "In all the oceans the water remains at all times the same in quantity and never increases or diminishes; but like the water in a cauldron, which in consequence of its combination with heat, expands, so the waters of the ocean swell with the increase of the Moon. The waters, although really neither more nor less, dilate or contract as the Moon increases or wanes in the light and dark fortnights" Vishnu Purana
  • "Shape of Earth is like an Oblate Spheroid. (Rig Veda 3.4.5)
  • "Earth is flattened at the poles" (Markandeya Purana 54.12)
  • "There are suns in all directions, the night sky being full of them." (Rig Veda)

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