The Vedic Heritage

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Veda comes from the word to "know".  The Vedas, popularly regarded as a ‘Hindu’ text,  pre-date humanity and are considered the repository of all branches of knowledge, having been emanated Lord Vishnu Himself.  The Vedas are personified in the form of a Deity in the Puranas (SB 10.87) and can be contacted by anyone who attunes himself to them.   This is why Vedic seers and kings had access to all knowledge needed to progress without the necessity to rely on formal methods of knowledge acquisition.  The knowledge is accessible to all those who undergo the process of austerity which ensures the personal transformation required to receive it, and simultaneously screens those who want to misuse the knowledge.  

According to Wikipedia, the Rig Vedic deities come from an agricultural past.  The philosophy of syncretism dictates that Varuna, Mithra, Agni, Soma and all ritual deities associated to the Vedas came from man's first interaction and awareness of the forces of nature such as water, air, sun, fire, moonlight, etc.  This is in direct contrast to the views of those who have adopted Vedic tradition from within, who come from long-standing traditions like the parampara system, and are directly aware of the Vedic culture's advanced status and primordial nature.

There is not a single force in nature that is not directed by God consciousness. It is the mark of being directed, not by random haphazard bleeps in the fabric of the universe, but by conscious forces with a reason to exist and a purpose to fulfil.  And just like it is possible to promote balance by appealing to consciousness, the Vedic seers sought the personification of every force. Externally it appears we are trying to appease the caprices of nature through superstition, stone worship or anthropomorphic deities, but we cannot even begin to imagine what Vedic culture in its undiluted form can do.  Its glory stands untainted, nevertheless, and sages emerge in every generation to give society a strong dose of Vedic culture, free from watered-down approaches or ethno-centric bias.

Sanskrit & AI

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Coming to Sanskrit, many linguists are impressed by its level of sophistication, its metered use of phonetics and rhythms, etc.  The degree of sophistication of Sanskrit in Vedic scriptures like the Bhagavad Gita and the Srimad Bhagavatam is unparalleled. It reinforces the notion that India is not divided by the gods Indians worship, rather if we were to show the highly refined and sophisticated concept of the Divine it has taught us viz Bhagavan-Paramatma-Brahman, it would immediately dismiss common misgivings that India is a pantheistic tradition that has later assimilated different deities into a single religious philosophy.  In fact, Sanskrit is both ancient and scientific, and underpins India’s linguistic culture

Nowadays Sanskrit is being utilized as the language of AI and this has made Bharat the world’s 3^rd most powerful nation in AI (behind only USA and China) - inventing Sanskrit LLMs, GPTs, etc.  The use of Sanskrit as an AI language was first mooted by Rick Briggs, a researcher from NASA, who pioneered the field of Sanskrit as a computer language suitable for AI.  The grammar of Sanskrit is rule-based, formula-based and logical, which makes it highly appropriate to write algorithms.  Ever since, Sanskrit has been taught by universities worldwide, more notably in Germany, as a computer language.  I have written on this topic in my book, The Spiritual Science of the Vedas. Sanskrit is truly the language of the gods or and is rightly called Devanagari.

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 UN World Yoga Day

It is also misconstrued that bhakti is a recent effort by reformers to create a single personal god to assimilate the warring factions in India.  However, nothing could be further from the truth.  Bhakti-yoga has been described in the Bhagavad-Gita as the authoritative means to reach the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Sri Krishna, and hence all forms of yoga culminate in Bhakti-yoga.  Yoga, today is being promulgated by the United Nations and we have a UN World Yoga Day to celebrate Yoga, which is just like everything that has come from the Indian spiritual tradition: complete in itself, a way to reconnect to the source and pointing the way to Sri Krishna or God.

By KLP (December 22, 2025)

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