![]() ![]() A great bit more of it, and other sacred Hindu texts, is available online. At just about any good bookstore or online retailer you’ll find about 10% of the Rig Veda in a single volume published by Penguin in 1981. By 1888 the entire Rig Veda was available in English in six volumes. Beginning in 1850, pieces of the Rig Veda started being translated into English. In its present form the Rig Veda consists of some 10,000 verses, divided into some 1,000 hymns that usually take up 10 volumes in Sanskrit. These are the admonitions of God, as set forth in His Holy Books, His Scriptures, His Tablets that tell out His counsellings to the sincere. Let us not consent that the splendours of the Sun of Truth should ever fade and disappear. Let us not, on this day of reunion, shut out the vernal downpour of blessings from on high. Let us not prevent the pure, sweet scents from the garden of the All-Glorious Beauty from blowing far and wide. ![]() Let us not be as barriers that wall out the rolling ocean of Almighty God. Be not satisfied with words, but seek to understand the spiritual meanings hidden in the heart of the words.īaha’is view the scriptures of the world’s great Faiths as eternal treasures suffused with wisdom and truth, and Abdu’l-Baha wrote: … investigate and study the Holy Scriptures word by word so that you may attain knowledge of the mysteries hidden therein. As Abdu’l-Baha, the son of Baha’u’llah, the prophet and founder of the Baha’i Faith once said to a Bible study class in New York City: Why is it important to know this? Well, from a Baha’i perspective, understanding the mysteries of the holy scriptures of all Faiths means uncovering their innermost spiritual meanings. There’s a nice discussion about the age of the Rig Veda. Let’s just say it’s one of the oldest complete works of literature, and certainly of scripture, of any kind. Several reasonable arguments date it to at least 3000 BCE, some time during the late Bronze Age, when human societies first kept written records. Today historians commonly believe the Rig Veda was written around 1500 BC, but its core may be much older. ![]() RELATED: Hinduism – The Beginnings of Modern Belief One prominent Western scholar, Max Muller (1823-1900), originally dated the Rig Veda around 1200 BC, but it’s clear from his subsequent writing that this was just a reasoned hypothesis. The origins of the Rig Veda (also written RigVeda), the earliest Hindu Veda, are lost to history-but most historians agree that they predate the Jewish scriptures by several centuries. Is the Tanach, the Jewish holy book that contains the Torah, which Christians call the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament, the world’s oldest full set of holy scriptures? No-the Rig Veda is much, much older. ![]()
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