For the Aryan civilization, the essence of human life is the soul, which they associate with breath. The word they used to designate the soul was Atman. The Sanskrit Atman has cognates in the English word atmosphere and in the German word Atem, which means to breath. The ancients frequently associate breath with the soul. That connection derives from the simple observation that one a person dies
The American Institute of Vedic Studies is an educational center providing a broad range of training programs, resources and publications. The Institute teaches various aspects of Vedic Science, particularly Ayurveda (Vedic medicine), Vedic astrology (Jyotish) and Yoga (emphasizing Yoga Therapy). It also provides in depth teachings on Veda, Vedanta and Tantra. Identifying the Vedas with the broade
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This epoch-making and monumental work on Vedic Mathematics unfolds a new method of approach. It relates to the truth of numbers and magnitudes equally to all sciences and arts. The book brings to light how great and true knowledge is born of intuition, quite different from modern Western method. The ancient Indian method and its secret techniques are examined and shown to be
The following is an interesting topic or rather controversy raised following the research done by Prof.P. N. Oak which provided evidences that Taj was a Hindu temple.V shall here post the contents of an e-mail explaining the same..."The Moghul Emperor Shah Jahan in the memory of his wife Mumtaz Mahal built the Taj Mahal. It was built in 22 years (1631 to 1653) by 20,000 artisans brought to India from all over the world! . Many people believe Ustad Isa of Iran designed it." This is what your guide probably told you if you ever visited the Taj Mahal" but what about the following....No one has ever challenged it except Prof. P. N. Oak, who believes the whole world has been duped. In his book Taj Mahal: The True Story, Oak says the Taj Mahal is not Queen Mumtaz's tomb but an ancient Hindu temp
Vedic culture dates back to pre-historic times.The Vedas are ancient Hindu texts and are believed to be the fountain of all knowledge on Earth. Vedas are an oral tradition, preserved from generation-to-generation through rote learning by Brahmin families. These were special families, highly revered by Society, who were dedicated to learning the Vedas and preserving them for posterity.The Vedas are Sanskrit verses, sung rather than said, and have very strict intonation and pronunciation, which maintain their purity.Different verses from the four Vedas are incorporated in various ritualistic prayers of the Hindus.Until recently, only Brahmin males were allowed to study and say the Vedas. Women and persons from all other Castes were prohibited from enunciating Vedic verses, in the belief tha
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vedic astrology is not justastrology but it is a sciencebased on accurate astronomicalcalculations and on newage therapies discoveredby the vedic indians.
lets see in what all ways the vedic maths or better say fast maths can be used to beat your own mental skills and in some cases, even calculator ;)Example 1 : Finding Square of a number ending with 5To find the square of 75Do the followingMultiply 5 by 5 and put (5X5)=25 as your right part of answer.=> xxxxxxx25now,Multiply 7 with the next higher digit=> 7 X (7+1)=7X8gives 56 as the left part of the answerso, Answer is 5625Example 2 : Calculate 43 X 47 (The above 'rule' works when you multiply 2 numbers with units digits add upto 10 and tenth place same)3X7=21xxxxxxx214X(4+1)=20The answer is 2021 Same theory worked here too.same as above; Find 52 X 58 ? Answer = 3016 How long this take ?Example 3: Multiply 52 X 11answer is 572Write down the number being multiplied5xxxxxxxxx2and put the
WHAT IS VEDIC MATHEMATICS?It is an ancient technique, which simplifies multiplication, divisibility,squaring, cubing, square and cube roots. Even recurring decimals and auxiliary fractions can be handled by Vedic mathematics. Vedic Mathematics forms part of Jyotish Shastra which is one of the six parts of Vedangas. The Jyotish Shastra or Astronomy is made up of three parts called Skandas. A Skanda means the big branch of a tree shooting out of the trunk.AND THE BEST PART IS - you dont even need a calculator for this purpose. What is the basis of Vedic Mathematics?The basis of Vedic mathematics, are the 16 sutras, which attribute a set of qualities to anumber or a group of numbers. The ancient Hindu scientists (Rishis) of Bharat in 16 Sutras(Phrases) and 120 words laid down simple steps for solving all mathematical problems ineasy to follow 2 or 3 steps.Vedic Mental or one or two line methods can be used effectively for solving divisions, reciprocals, factorisation, HCF, squares and squ
we are restarting the series we stoped in middile. we posted a lesson about vedic maths for our readers as well but that wasn't carried on properly as well. so now we are starting again from the very begining and this time we will be going from the root of the technique known as"VEDIC MATHS or VADIC MATHS or VAIDIC MATHS"WHATEVER YOU CALL IT BUT ITS A BRILLIANT TECHNIQUE THAT CAN MAKE YOU DOUBT YOUR OWN MENTAL CAPABILITIES.WE SUGGEST ALL READERS TO GO ONE BY ONE AND READ EACH POST VERY SERIOUSLY CAUSE EVERY THING IS RELATED TO EACH OTHER.
Ghrta is clarified butter. Since cow was in abundance in the Vedic age, there was also abundance of ghŗta. As such, it was a matter of great use in life. It was used in sacrifices as well as was an important ingredient of food. Consequently it has found a significant place in the Vedas.Ghŗta was used during the Vedic period as well as throughout the whole history of India as a delicious and extremely nourishing food content is evident from the heavenly damsel Urvaśī’s statement in the Ŗgveda that she took a lump of ghŗta only once a day and on the strength of it moved around fully contented even after four years of departure from Pururavas. (Ŗgveda X.95.16 )As the Vedic seer was in the quest of the essence of things, he did not permit the product of milk stop at the stage of butter. He saw to it that the butter could be made rather durable. With this end in view, he clarified it and thus could produce ghŗta, which is durable and can assume two forms, solid and liquid without
It is interesting to note that how the Upanişadic story of Satyakāma’s education by sage Haridrumata has a direct bearing on the highly symbolic mantra seen by Dīrghatamas .To remind ourselves of the main points of the story, Satyakāma, an initiate in Vedic education, was given the charge of four hundred cows by the teacher and was asked to take them to the pasture land, take due care of them and not return to the school until they became one thousand.Satyakāma does accordingly and when the cows reach the required number of one thousand, the bull from amongst the cows happens to initiate Satyakāma in the mystery of Brahman, the Ultimate Reality. Supposing Brahman as four-footed, he proposes to teach Satyakāma in one aspect of Brahman called prakāśavān and explains it as comprising the four directions, i.e., east, west, north and south as different aspects of that phase of Brahman. After teaching so much, the bull directs Satyakāma to proceed on his return journey where Agn
Another mantra worth observing in this regard is seen by seer Vacya Prajāpati. In this mantra Soma is said to be adorned by cows by means of their milk. This milk, again in the same hemistich, is replaced by matibhih, meaning mantras. This shows the equivalence of cow and milk both with the mantra. In the second hemistich, again the Soma juice is described as vipra, kavi and delightful as the heaven, svarcanah, on account of its wisdom (Rigveda, IX.84.). Thus while cows and their milk get rendered into mantra, the Soma juice turns eventually into kavi and kāvya, which obviously bespeaks of the symbolical usage of these objects in the text.In a mantra seen by seer Gaya Plāta the symbolic use of cow with reference to mantra is clearer. In this mantra the seer prays to Maruts, Indra, Varuņa and Mitra to fill with substance the mantra, which they gave to him like the cow being filled with milk (Rigveda, X.64.12). Here the milk is equivalent to the substance of the mantra while the cow
In one of the mantras of Viśvāmitra there is an account of one being who, immobile himself, carries on his back six loads while cows come close to him when he assumes the role of the most productive principle of creation and sustenance. His dynamics results in the birth of the three higher worlds. Out of these three also, two are hidden in mystery, the remaining one alone is tangible to us (Rigveda, III.56.2). The immobile being is obviously the Supreme Being who, in this instance, as well as in many other instances, is conceived as a mighty bull. It is out of Him that the creation has proceeded as His progeny. In view of the colossal massivity and variety of the created beings the procreator is conceived as most abundantly fertilising, varsistham.Being conceived as a bull, it was but necessary for Him to have cows as the medium of His act of procreation. In view of the diversity of the created beings, the medium of creation has been taken as many in the form of plurality of the cows
Cow is one of the most commonplace spectacles of the Vedic age. She has been mentioned in thousands in the Samhitās as well as the Upanişads. Anywhere in the Ŗgveda if we read any set of ten mantras, we are sure to find reference to cow, as go, dhenu or aghnya or her product in the form of her calf, bull, ghŗta, etc. This shows unusual preoccupation of Vedic seers with the spectacle of cow.Now the question is whether these references to cow are just description of the actual preoccupation of the seer with their kine, grazing them, confining them to their dwelling places, milking them, rearing their calves, preparing other products out of the milk, etc., or it has been utilised to suggest to something higher than the bare physical spectacle.Writers on Veda in the modern times beginning with the advent of the Western scholars in the field have taken for granted the first alternative emphasising it to almost total relegation of the second alternative to the background.This conclusion
As is evident from the history of evolution, it has taken aeons to develop Life out of Matter on this earth itself. The process must have been gradual and extremely slow and yet each point in the upward movement getting materialised in a state of transformation from Matter into Life. So must be the case with the range from Mind to Supermind.Sri Aurobindo has delineated four distinct stages in the midst of the two. These he named as Higher Mind, Illumined Mind, Intuition and Overmind. Vedic gods and goddesses, in his view, are assignable to one or the other of these stages or even to the sub-section of any one of them. The Ŗgvedic story of seer Dadhyan learning Madhu-Vidyā from Indra and imparting the same to the Aśvins with the horse’s head is illustrative of the point involved here.This significant role of gods and goddesses has been kept couched in a thick garb of symbols not discernible to the ordinary mind. It is as thick as the Nature herself, only letting it to be discernibl
Sri Aurobindo has taken care of almost all the aspects of Vedic symbolism including seers, metres, gods and goddesses. He indeed has put forth a symbolic system which has the potentiality of explaining comprehensively and homogeneously everything in the Veda. This system was evolved in course of his intensive yogic sādhanā resulting on the one hand in the making of his own philosophical system known as integral Vedanta and on the other in the formulation of his view of the Veda particularly the symbolism involved in it. While the crux of his philosophical system is embodied in his magnum opus, The Life Divine, his theory of Vedic symbolism is formulated in his Secret of the Veda, both these works were serialised in the Arya concurrently during the years 1914-20. To understand his theory of the symbolism, it is essential to have some idea of his philosophical system which in itself seems to have been formulated as much by his understanding of the Veda from within its symbolic system a
Vedic symbols are to be interpreted not in isolation but in relationship to each other. This is one of the basic propositions of Sri Aurobindo in course of his discussion on Angirasa. Working of this formula is to be seen in the sequel in regard to the same Angirasa legend with a view to determine the particular sense or system of ideas it might have been intended to communicate, as per Sri Aurobindo’s explanation.Sri Aurobindo starts his deliberation on this legend with the cognisance of the fact that Angirasas occur in the Veda as seers, Fathers and gods all at the same time. In Ŗgveda V.11.6, for instance, Angirasas are said to have discovered Agni from within the forests and at the same time Agni itself has been addressed as Angiras, the son of force arising out of churning and becoming a force by itself (Rigveda, V.11.6.). It is significant to note that in the same mantra the Angirasas have been taken both as seers and god Agni.In another mantra they are described as the sons o
Sri Aurobindo provided us with the clue to the understanding of Vedic accounts in general as centring around the gods like Agni, Indra, Soma, Aśvins, Mitra, Varuņa and Bŗhaspati, and goddesses like Sarasvatī and Uşas as also objects like cow, horse, gold, water and light, and he proceeds further to explain certain legends germane to the Vedic thought involving the interaction of almost all the above mentioned forces and objects together and therefore potent enough to show the working of the meanings assigned to each one of these agencies and objects together synthetically. Most prominent among them, in Sri Aurobindo’s view, is Angiras. As such, he deals with it at length.The legend of Angiras involves the working of several gods and goddesses such as Indra, Brhaspati, Aśvins, Soma, Vāyu, Agni, Pūşan, Uşas and Sarasvatī. The basic problem ith legend is the confinement of cows by some adversaries in a certain cave. The names of those who have kept confined the cows are Vŗtr
After the Upanişads and Yāska, Sri Aurobindo is the most revealing light on the symbolism used in the Veda. There is a colossal difference not only of time from the Upanişads and Yāska to Sri Aurobindo. As regards the Upanişads, they came immediately after the Vedic Samhitās but for the intervention of the Brāhmaņas and the Āraņyakas and in certain cases without any such intervention at all. As such, they were most intimate to the spirit of the seers. The students who came to the Upanişadic sages for higher knowledge were well versed in the Vedas. Under these circumstances, the Upanişadic sage had only to hand over to them the key to this citadel of knowledge in the form of precise hints and suggestions and the whole thing became obvious to the student already fully charged with inquisitiveness.More or less, the same conditions prevailed during the age of Yāska. No doubt, a considerable course of time had passed and consequently the Vedic words, phrases and idioms were bec
Sri Aurobindo’s acquaintance with the Veda proved to be a remarkable incident in the history of Indian thought as well as in his own life. It is an incident of discovery of eternal life and inestimable amount of vitality from within the greatest literature of the world which virtually had begun to be treated as a dead mound containing completely fossilised ideas of bygone ages. It is an incident of re-enlivening what was supposed to be merely a historical record, into a perpetual psychology. To put the circumstances of this incident in Sri Aurobindo’s own words”:“My first contact with Vedic thought came indirectly while pursuing certain lines of self-development in the way of Indian Yoga which, without my knowing it, were spontaneously converging towards the ancient and now unfrequented paths followed by our forefathers. At this time there began to arise in my mind an arrangement of symbolic names attached to certain psychological experiences which had begun to regularise thems
Discussion on Yāska’s cognisance of Vedic symbolism ultimately converged on the relationship between adhibhuta, adhidaiva and adhyatma. We also saw how the idea of unity among these three levels of the reality was envisioned by Vedic seers themselves particularly Dirghatamas. This tradition was carried on by the Brāhmaņas so much so, as to have led Yāska to formulate so decisively his theory of Vedic interpretation concurrently on these three levels. Since the Upanişads occupy a place intermediate to the Brāhmaņas and Yāska historically, it would be worth looking into them and see if they provide us with any further clue in this regard.The problem with which we are going to look into the Upanişads is the relationship between ādhibhautika, ādhidaivika and ādhyātmika. From this viewpoint, the beginning of the second chapter of the Brhadāraņyaka Upanişad is interesting. It is in the form of a dialogue between Gārgya, a Brahmin scholar, and Ajātaśatru, the famous King.
Hello friends.How the preparation is is going. I am back with vedic maths lesson 2 as I promised in earlier post and I can say your wait for this post hasn’t got waste as this post will give a direct hint to what amazing power vedic maths has and why u need to master it. I said in my first post that vedic maths is contained in 16 sutras and 16 sub sutras. Today in this post I shall start with the sutras. I’m starting with the 2nd sutra of Vedic maths. The 1st will come a little later on. SUTRA 2 – NIKHILAM NAVATAS’CARMAM DASATAH (Simply meaning “all from 9 and the last from 10 “ ) This formula can be very very effectively applied to multiplication of numbers which are near to the bases like 10,100,100 ie to the power of 10’s.This formula is very simple and will make multiplication steps reduced to minimum and leave it all on very simple mental calculation. I bet after reading this post you will be able to do calculations like 997
Vedic math or the ‘fast math’ is a system of reasoning and mathematical working based on ancient India teachings called Veda. It is fast efficient easy to learn and use. It is being taught in some of the most prestigious institutions in the England and Europe. NASA applied its principals in the filed of artificial intelligence. What is vadic maths? It is an ancient technique which simplifies, multiplication, divisibility, complex numbers, squaring, cubing, and square and cube roots. Even recurring decimals and auxiliary fractions can be handled by vadic maths. Vedic math’s forms a part of the jyotish shastra which is one of the six parts of vedangas. The jyotish shastra or astronomy is made up of 3 parts called skandas, it mean big branch of tree shooting outwards.Vedic maths was made famous by a swami called bharathikrishna (1184-1960) Basis of vadic maths The basis of vadic maths is 16 sutras, which attribute a set of qualities to a number or a group of numbe
hello readersfirst of all we want to appologise for the delay in supply of these lessons. actually the delay was the result of time consuming process of resolving copyrights. but finally we have 100% exclusive rights for the lessons we have prepared for our readers.yes we are talking about the same 32 lessons that we promised to our readers regarding vedic maths. we have made these lessons with personal experience and expertise of many professors who are professional vedic/vadic maths lecturers.for your interest and knowledge we, now, will be uploading each and every know-how we have by now regarding vedic maths for you on this online gmat prepration site.we will start from tomorrow about how to go on with this trick and how to master this trick.we will guide you exactly how i, personally, worked on this art and i am 100% sure that by the end of these lectures you will be able to solve those mathematical calculations oraly which you couldnt even think of doing before.so here is the ver
FOR OUR READERS!from 1 of may we will start a new section on vedic/vadic maths (whatever you call) and this will take around 32 lectures or you can say 32 posts to cover all those chapters. we have developed those 32 chapters with a detailed discussion with our professor. (discussed in olders posts as well) and this will help a lot in the test. you will be able to answer a lot faster and correct in quant that you can't imagine.personaly! i am pretty sure that after going through those lessons and doing a littile practice, you will be able to master vedic maths.so i suggest all the readers to take those lessons very seriously and keep practicing side by side. otherwise at the end of the day you will be having everything to learn at once.so keep reading - keep learning - keep practicing ang then break the wall called gmat. :)---------------------------------------------------------------------------I SUGGEST ALL TO SUBSCRIBE TO THE BLOG IF YOU ARE NOT SUBSCRIBED ALREADY COZ THIS WILL EN
hey friends..one of our regular readers asked us a question about some trick which can help in subtracting a number from the base number.we are sorry for the delay in solving that query but that happened coz i was busy in my exams.here is a trick which i think could be helpful...step 1:- take the number you need to subtract from base number(it will surely be near that number. i mean if you have 22 your base will be 100 or if its 760 then it might be 1000)step 2:- subtract the units digit from 10, and remaining digits from 9 of the number you need to subtract from the base.and thats it... :)isnt it really simplelets see it with an exampleyou want to subtract 638 from 1000 so what will you do....6---3---8 (subtract from)!----!----!9---9---10 ------------3---6---2 is the answer------------you can subtract any number from base number with this trickand one more thing friendswe will provide the link for OG-11 today with in 2 hoursthe file is in uploading processlet us now if
SQUARING OF NUMBERS NEAR THE BASE.Observe simple examples: 97 Squared = 97 - 3 / 3x3 = 94 / 09 96 Squared = 96 - 4 / 4x4 = 92 / 16. When the number being squared is above the base, of 100 here, we add the Excess and Square the Excess: 104 Squared = 104 + 4 / 4x4 = 108 / 16 = 10, 816 104 x 105 = 104 + 5 / 4x5 = 109 / 20 = 10, 920 What if we enlarged our numbers to 998 Squared? It is close to 1,000 so we say Base 1,000 and know to have 3 zero's on the right hand side of the ( / ). 998 Squared = 998 - 2 / 2x2 = 996 / _ _ 4 = 996 / 004. = 996,004 Understanding this, you can be calculating digits in the millions: 9998 Squared = 9998 - 2 / 2x2 = 9996 / _ _ _ 4 (Since we are in Base 10,000 the 4 zeros determine the need for 4 digits after the ( / ). = 9996 / 0004 = 99,960,004.THE SQUARING OF NUMBERS ENDING IN 5 If we wanted to square the number 25, ie 25 x 25, we would conventionally take 3 lines of working out. Vedic Mathematics merely looks at the Question, a
Hi friendsWe will be continuing with our vedic maths lessons after this post . This is for convenience of those friends who have just started reading the blog and are new here and want to find the GMAT preparation material i previously released on this very blog.Following are the links to the material I published in earlier posts.Download GMAT materialMore GMAT resourcesQuant resourcesSome useful GMAT resources
