Revealed Truths Without Beginning or End

[Ms Tercy Lonan]

Revealed Truths Without Beginning or End
The Vedas are the eternal truths revealed by God to the great ancient Rishis of India. The
word Rishi means a seer from dris, to see. He is the Mantra-Drashta, a seer of Mantra or thought.
The thought was not his own. The Rishis saw the truths or heard them. Therefore, the Vedas are
what are heard (Sruti). The Rishi did not write. He did not create it out of his mind. He was the seer

of thought which existed already. He was only the spiritual discoverer of the thought. He is not the
inventor of the Veda.
The Vedas represent the spiritual experiences of the Rishis of yore. The Rishi is only a
medium or an agent to transmit to people the intuitional experiences which he received. The truths
of the Vedas are revelations. All the other religions of the world claim their authority as being
delivered by special messengers of God to certain persons, but the Vedas do not owe their authority
to any one. They are themselves the authority as they are eternal, as they are the Knowledge of the
Lord.
Lord Brahma, the Creator, imparted the divine knowledge to the Rishis or seers. The Rishis
disseminated the knowledge. The Vedic Rishis were great realised persons who had direct intuitive
perception of Brahman or the Truth. They were inspired writers. They built a simple, grand and
perfect system of religion and philosophy from which the founders and teachers of all other
religions have drawn their inspiration.
The Vedas are the oldest books in the library of man. The truths contained in all religions are
derived from the Vedas and are ultimately traceable to the Vedas. The Vedas are the fountain-head
of religion. The Vedas are the ultimate source to which all religious knowledge can be traced.
Religion is of divine origin. It was revealed by God to man in the earliest times. It is embodied in the
Vedas.
The Vedas are eternal. They are without beginning and end. An ignorant man may say how
a book can be without
beginning or end. By the Vedas, no books are meant. Vedas came out of the breath of the
Lord. They are the words of God. The Vedas are not the utterances of persons. They are not the
composition of any human mind. They were never written, never created. They are eternal and
impersonal. The date of the Vedas has never been fixed. It can never be fixed. Vedas are eternal
spiritual truths. Vedas are an embodiment of divine knowledge. The books may be destroyed, but
the knowledge cannot be destroyed. Knowledge is eternal. In that sense, the Vedas are eternal.