The Upnishads, which are the most
important sections of the Vedas, themselves mention their eternity,
as being a Divine power of God.
There are three kinds of
evidences: documentary, circumstantial and eyewitness. In the
scriptural terms they are called shabd (documentary),
anuman (inferential or circumstantial) and pratyakch
(eyewitness). We have all the three kinds of evidences to
authenticate the Divinity of all the scriptures along with their
descriptions.
(a) We have a system. The
scriptures themselves tell their origin in their writings. The
Upnishads, which are the first revelations, tell that the Vedas,
they Upnishads and all of the Rishis and Sages were produced by God
Maha Vishnu Himself and are protected by Him. Not only at one place
but at many places it has been documented in the Upnishads. The
Brihadaranyakopnishad (2/4/10) says that all the four Vedas,
Upnishads, Puranas, History and other affiliates and subsidiaries of
the Vedas along with their grammar were produced by God Himself.
Again, in the Chandogyopnisahd (7/1/2) it is said that the History
(called Itihas, which are: the Ramayan and the Mahabharat) and the
Puranas are like the fifth Ved. Also, regarding the period of their
reproduction by Ved Vyas and the time of the war, the Mahabharat
gives the precise astronomical data of when the war had happened.
(b) Considering the depth,
extensiveness, preciseness and the perfection of such scriptural
knowledges that are beyond human intellect, it can easily be
inferred that it is super-material knowledge, thus it can only be
Divine. The depth of the philosophy of God and God realization with
its detailed descriptions, the extensiveness of the historical
descriptions in the Puranas and in the Mahabharat, the preciseness
of the calculations of the periods and the cycles of ‘time’ (for
example: the beginning of the existing human civilization is
120.5331 million years; the age of the earth planet and also the
existing form of the sun is 1971.9616 million years in 1998; the
very beginning of this planetary system is 155.521972 trillion
years), and the perfection of the Sanskrit grammar since it was
introduced on the earth planet through the early Sages of India, are
all such unequalled examples which naturally certify the Divine
greatness of our scriptures.
(c) As regards eyewitness, every
God realized bhakt Saint all the time witnesses the Divine
glory of his beloved God, and remaining in His association,
conceives the theme of all the scriptures. That’s how when he writes
anything it is perfectly in coordination with the tenets of all the
scriptures. There are an enormous number of such examples. As far as
the existence of the celestial abodes and its gods are concerned we
don’t need a true Saint to certify it, even an evolved yogi
who has perfected his samadhi could visualize the celestial
gods during the meditative part of his samadhi.
From the very recent to the very
ancient times we have such biographies of the rasik Saints
whose Divine association with Krishn is generously described. There
were a great number of Saints in Braj in the last 500 years who
wrote about their visualization of the playfulness of Krishn in the
form of songs called pad. They are in the thousands and all
printed in book form. A rasik Saint, Surdas, is said to have
sung more than a hundred thousand leela songs about the
playfulness of the supreme God Krishn. It means that he sang at
least 15 to 25 songs every day. Out of them more than two thousand
songs are still available. It was the beauty of his description that
he sang them simultaneously as he visualized them. These Saints also
wrote the philosophical aspects of the form and the virtues of God
and the true path of God realization. In this way they witnessed the
Divinity and the authenticated the Divineness of our scriptures.
We have thus abundance of
evidences of all kinds that authenticate the eternal Divineness and
the greatness of our scriptures, the Vedas, the Upnishads, the
Puranas, the Mahabharat and the Ramayan etc., which delineate the
Divine history of Sages, Saints, Divine personalities and the
descensions of the supreme God. They also describe the simple and
the easy path of God realization through devotion (bhakti)
and dedication while detailing the philosophical aspects of the
Divine dimensions and the forms of God.
Divine writings cannot be analyzed in a material
way.
It’s common universal rule that a
layman cannot argue with the opinion of an expert although both are
in the material field. Then how could a worldly being, possessed
with the vehemence of his own passions and desires, try to argue
with the writings of Sages and Saints whose entire life was a Divine
benevolence for the souls of the world? But it is seen that in the
last few centuries most of the European writers, for some of their
own personal reasons, willfully tried to derogate our religion and
culture to the limits of their egotism, and a number of our Hindu
writers followed the same trend.
You must know that the outcome of
a material mind is always imperfect no matter how much of a genius a
person is. But the Divine writings of our Divine personalities are
always perfect and complete. As far as the historic part of our
scriptures is concerned it is just the actual happening which is
described in it. But the descriptions of our Puranas, Upnishads and
the other scriptures are not only the happenings of the material
plane, they also include the happenings of the Divine and the
celestial dimensions. This is the reason that sometimes they don’t
fit within the conceptual framework of a material mind. So, one has
to expand the mental vision of his understanding to comprehend the
truth of those happenings. You should know that all of our
religious writings are Divine facts.
