The Vedas carry the early creation stories, rituals, and songs, while the Upanishads came a few centuries later, giving us metaphysical commentaries that detail the nature of our existence.17 They explain the fleeting impermanence of all creation, and these seers (rishis), sitting at the peaks of the Himalayas, mapped our human consciousness with such sophistication that we’re still untangling them thousands of years later.
