Quotations on the Vedas
Welfare of the World
“Today, a great deal of wickedness, troubles and turmoil are prevalent in the world due to the decline of the influence of the Vedas. Water, air and food are all tainted by pollution. We are forced to lead a polluted life.
When the air we breathe is itself polluted, how can we lead a pollution-free life? The environment and the elements should be pure to ensure purity of heart. The cause of this pollution lies nowhere else except in our own actions. Whatever words we utter spread to the entire atmosphere. We can purify the atmosphere of the world by chanting the Vedas and singing the glory of God. The rishis in ancient times used to move in the forest and chant the powerful Vedic mantras to purify the atmosphere of the whole world.”
Sri Sathya Sai Baba – 18/10/1993
“The bliss conferred by the practice of Vedic teachings cannot be experienced in worldly activities. Hence some people took up the task of chanting and preaching Vedas and thereby uplifting the world.
In the sacred Vedas, Divinity is the undercurrent. Peace and security are very essential in our daily lives. These originate from man’s heart. One can never correctly define what peace is and what security is. Vedas abound in such sacred secrets.”
Sri Sathya Sai Baba – Vedic Chants
“Veda is the name for a mass of Divine Knowledge. Veda teaches the Truth that cannot be revised or reversed by the passage of time through the three stages – past, present and future. The Veda ensures welfare and happiness for the three worlds. It confers peace and security on human society.”
Sri Sathya Sai Baba – Leela Kaivalya Vahini
“Chha or chhādana has as its root meaning another important aspect of the Vedas – shielding, fostering or promoting the welfare, the ultimate liberation of humans engaged in the unceasing round of worldly affairs.”
Sathya Sai Vahini, Chap. 23
“The Vedas are the very form of God. There are many mantras to propitiate the pañcha bhūtas (five elements). The five elements are our very life-breath. They sustain our life. The world itself is a manifestation of the five elements. But people forget to express their gratitude to the five elements. What a sin it is! We fill our minds with unnecessary information and consequently fail to give due respect to the five elements.”
Sri Sathya Sai Baba – 19/10/2004
“Earth, atmosphere, water are polluted. All major elements in our life are polluted on the physical, energetic and mental levels. Vedic rituals work on all levels: physical, energetic, mental and even beyond. Disorder appears only on the three inferior levels. The means to purify them is to connect them to the subtle levels. This connection is possible through Vedic chants and mantras. These Vedic rituals and chanting enable the Light of Truth to penetrate human consciousness and the perfect order to be established even on the physical level.”
Sri Tathāta
“The Vedas belong to those who value them, who are moved by thirst for spiritual uplift, who desire to practice them and who have faith that they will benefit by that practice. No one else has the right to talk patronizingly of the Vedas or disparage them. For, all such talk will be hollow and insincere.”
Sri Sathya Sai Baba
Sathyam Shivam Sundaram (2) – N. Kasturi