NITAAI Veda

[NikolaiI]

While searching for the text of a song, I found this wonderful site. It's a comprehensive source for Vedic literatures, including the Bhagavad Gita and Srimad Bhagavatam. It also includes many essays by Vaishnava acaryas. I was totally amazed when I came across this, and I hope it will be interesting to you as well.

http://nitaaiveda.com

[blazeofglory]

While searching for the text of a song, I found this wonderful site. It's a comprehensive source for Vedic literatures, including the Bhagavad Gita and Srimad Bhagavatam. It also includes many essays by Vaishnava acaryas. I was totally amazed when I came across this, and I hope it will be interesting to you as well.

http://nitaaiveda.com

I got the site and found it really interesting.

[NikolaiI]

Thank you for the comment! And I'm glad you found it interesting. I found the site a bit difficult to navigate at first but I'm getting used to it. You may find that you can't find something twice at first! For instance I found the category for the Upanishads, but then I couldn't it without some searching.

You may be interested to read the introduction to the Upanishads, Blaze. There were commentaries on the Upanishads before Sri Sankaracarya, but they are lost, so his are the first ones we have. Sri Sankaracarya taught mayavadi philosophy, that God is formless; but later acaryas such as Sri Ramanuja and Sri Madhva taught that God is gunaparipurna, full of all auspicious qualities. Sri Isopanishad for instance is very clear and impossible to misinterpret. Bhagavad Gita or Gitopanishad is also clear about this fact; God is not a formless void, but the Supreme Person, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. As Krsna says in the Gita, He is the source of all that exists.

All have their own idea of God, and this is natural; for God is also and originally He is the Absolute Truth and all see the truth through their own lens. The Vedas contain knowledge; yet as Krsna says in the Gita, to know Him is the purpose of the Vedas, since He is the source of them. To know Krsna is the highest knowledge or understanding; and as he says, yoga is the perfection of life and the path to him; devotional yoga, in which one always meditates upon Him.

Christianity is also a valid path to God because Jesus was perfect; and as He said, the most important commandment is to love God with all your heart, mind and strength. You will see a parallel here to the Vedic path, which denotes Love of God as the highest state. God cannot be approached or understood by speculation, only by devotional service can any merit be attained.

[NikolaiI]

Consider what the nature of God is. God is the truth and the source of reality-- before inquiring as to what His qualities are, we are ascribing the word or name God to be the source of reality, also as identical to the Truth. Now do you consider that the source of reality is void?