An Introduction to the Commentary on the Vedas Rigvedadi Bhashya Bhumika

by Dayananda Saraswati, Ghasi Ram

Swami Dayananda's supreme effort in the life was to give back to the World the VEDAS, the Ancient treasure-house of Divine knowledge.

There had been commentators and interpreters who had grossly misinterpreted the Vedas. So Dayananda's task was two-fold, not only to interpret the Vedas in a proper and genuine manner but to remove their unholy ideas and misinterpretations.

Dayananda's Rigvedadi-Bhashya-Bhumika is a unique work in the field of Vedic scholarship. Almost all Vedic works and other scriptural and Philosophical treatises in Sanskrit have been quoted in this work. It contains more than one thousand citations from all spheres of Sanskrit literature, including three hundred verses from the Vedas.

This is a faithful translation and the translator has made all the efforts to explain Maharishi Dayananda's point of view.

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About the author

Swami Dayananda Saraswati (दयानन्‍द सरस्‍वती) (born August 15, 1930, died September 23, 2015) was a monk of the Hindu monastic order, a renowned traditional teacher of Advaita Vedanta and a scholar in Sanskrit in the tradition of Sankara. He has been teaching Vedanta in India for more than five decades and around the world since 1976. His deep scholarship and assimilation of Vedanta combined with a subtle appreciation of contemporary problems make him that rare teacher who can reach both traditional and modern students. A teacher of teachers, Swami Dayananda taught six resident in-depth Vedanta courses, each spanning 30 to 36 months. Four of them were conducted in India and two in the United States. Each course graduated about 60 qualified teachers, who are now teaching throughout India and abroad. Under his guidance, various centers for teaching of Vedanta have been founded around the world; among these, there are three primary centers in India at Rishikesh, Coimbatore, Nagpur and one in the U.S. at Saylorsburg, Pennsylvania. There are more than one hundred centers in India and abroad that carry on the same tradition of Vedantic teaching. In addition to teaching, Swami Dayananda has initiated and supported various humanitarian efforts for the last forty-five years. The most far-reaching of these is the establishment of All India Movement for Seva in 2000. Awarded consultative status with ECOSOC (Economic and Social Council) by the United Nations in 2005, this organization is devoted to serving people in the remote areas of India, mainly in the field of Education and Health Care. Swami Dayananda Saraswati has also promoted several international events and participated as a speaker in several global forums, among which are: the United Nations gathering of NGO's, the UNESCO Seoul Global Convention, the United Nations 50th Anniversary Celebration, the Millennium World Peace Summit, the International Congress for the Preservation of Religious Diversity, the Conference on the Preservation of Sacred Sites, the World Council for Preservation of Religious Diversity, the Youth Peace Summit, the Global Peace Initiative of Women Religious and Spiritual Leaders, a Hindu-Christian dialogue with the World Council of Churches, and the Hindu-Jewish Leadership Summit.

Reviews

[Vijay Kumar · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of the most authentic books giving introduction to Vedas by the real modern religious revolutionary, Maharshi Dayananda Saraswti, founder of Arya Samaj. A must read for all Vedic seekers

[Vijay Kumar · Rating 5 out of 5]

The very best & authentic book to understand VEDAS, by the modern scholar, Maharshi Dayananda Saraswati.