• Auspicious invocation.

• By hearing the word veda,a pure feelings of sattva and spiritual spirit arises
in our mind.Because Vedas are considered to be the most ancient literature
of India and on hearing the name Tantra, many different thoughts arise in
people's minds, so today we will discuss both.and ours(bharat-varsha) is the
most ancient civilization.Even today, the archaeologists, have found many
remains near Haryana, Pakistan etc. The gods who are mentioned in those
remains of our civilization, we still worship those gods.Those remains are at
least three to four thousand to 5000 years old.So it has never happened in
history that any civilization has remained the same for such a long period of
time. There is only one civilization which is called Indus Valley Civilization.
Indian civilization is the only civilization in which the order of worship of gods
and goddesses has not changed much.Because that is the only thread that
has kept us the same for thousands of years and it is written in archaeology
that for thousands of years, even where archaeology does not reach, even
there our language and our literature are considered as Vedas.

• So what are Vedas, today we will learn about this topic. See, there is a word
in India which cannot be translated in English. This word is called Dharma. So
if I ask what is Dharma, some of you will give different answers. If we want to
translate it in English, then what will we translate as Religion, Duties, Nature,
So for all these we have different words in Sanskrit. duty is called kartavya,
nature is called swabhaav, and religion is called Upasana or sampradaya. You
can understand this. There are many such words in our storehouse of
words.Especially, even today, there are so many words in Sanskrit language
that English cannot even have them. A very good thing was said in the
Mahabharata--> yadihAsti tadanyatra yannEhAsti na tat kvacit || (Adi Parva:
56:33) Whatever is here can be found elsewhere in the world but what is not
here will not be found anywhere else in the world. If you understand then
whatever things are found here in history, you will find them elsewhere but
what did not happen here in history, you will not find them anywhere else.So
whatever are the things worth learning, whatever are the dimensions,
whatever aspects of our civilization, you will not find them anywhere else in
the completeness you get here, so we are proud of this fact and it is our good
fortune that we were born in the land of India and there are many who are
born in India but they do not get the good fortune of living in India because
they go out of India to earn money, but happiness actually lies in being born in
India and living your life in India. People from outside call it a third world
country Because there is no money.We don't measure our prosperity only in
terms of money, we also measure our prosperity by how many family
members are with us and how much variety of food and drink we have.When
bhagwan made Arjun stand in the middle of the battlefield in the Gita, he
said ,Those for whom we are fighting, for whom we want this kingdom,
enjoyment and wealth, are standing on the opposite side as our enemies and
even if I win after killing these people, what will I do by enjoying that blood-
stained kingdom, I don't want anything from it. So in reality prosperity does
not mean that you have a lot of money in loneliness, it is not called prosperity.
Prosperity is a word which is a group of many facts, a group of many things,
in that you should have a good family and family is not just your close family,
not immediate family, the bigger the family is, the more prosperous you are
considered to be. and along with that there should always be socializing in
the family and along with that the food items should always be good? then
even if you are born below the poverty line, your life should be happy.That is
why when the International Happiness Index is released, Bangladesh comes
on top in some year and India is not allowed to come on top. If Bangladesh
has come up then why did India not come up? The thing is that in reality India
is as prosperous as Bangladesh because Bangladesh is also ours. So many
gaudiya Vaishnavs were born in Bangladesh, Bangladesh does not belong to
anyone else, it is for Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. So in this land, the only
means to achieve the whole dharma, artha, kama and moksha has been
named Veda.Shri means wealth Shri means property Shri means Lakshmi
Devi and Shri means Shubh, With the wish of well-being What is the
auspicious word written above called Shri.

• The meaning of the word Veda is--> vidanti dharmam anena. There was a
great grammarian in our Maharashtra, his name was Bhattoji Dixit. 99% of the
people who learn grammar today learn grammar by his grace. Bhattoji Dixit's
grandson was Bhanuji Dixit. He wrote a commentary on Amar Kosh and he
gave the meaning of all the words from the grammar point of view. And the
meaning of the Vedas given by him is this because first we interpret them
from the grammar point of view. Because from the grammatical point of view,
we mean how that word is formed (Looking at the atomic level). So all the
words are made from verbal roots.So the word Veda is made from Vid verbal
root is in the sense of acquiring some knowledge. Dharma is known through
this, that is why it is called Veda. The word Shruti is a synonym of Veda. What
is the word Shruti? Shri Bhanu Ji Dixit says while explaining the meaning of
Shruti.--> śrūyate dharmonya. Religion is heard through this, hence its name
is Shruti. The third name of Shruti is Āmnāyah--> āmnanti upadisyati dharma
adharmau. Meaning they preach Dharma and Adharma, That is why they are
called Āmnāyah. Now in all these three explanations one word has become
common: Dharma. Now the thing is that what is Dharma? Dharma should be
something that has certain characteristics that should be common to
everyone. Because it is only human beings who can develop a sense of
Dharma, it is not possible for a sense of dharma to develop in other spice of
life. I am talking about those below humans, there is a feeling of dharma in
those spice of life which are above humans as well, but humans are the first
step, the first ladder, from where the feeling of dharma arises in the heart and
mind of any Jīva. Now Amarakosha tells us what dharma is--> dharmastu
tadvidhih. Now listen to the explanation of what is Dharma. Dharma is that
which is the instructions of Vedas. That is called Dharma. Now They became
dependent on each other. Dharma is such a thing, if it is roughly translated,
that it is such a thing which brings welfare to us in all respects. That dharma
is achieved by following a path, it is achieved by following the path of Vedas.
It cannot be made by our mind. It is said in the Vedas that Satyam Vadā
Speak truth, Dharmam Carah Walk on the path of Dharma. Speak the truth
because now the Vedas have said it. So speaking the truth has become
dharma. There are some sects(panth) in which it is taught to lie. So what is
Dharma in reality, what is the path to welfare, this is given in the Vedas. When
the story of Ajamil comes up in the sixth canto and at the time of Ajamil's
death, the Yama-dūtas are carrying him away. But when the Yama-dūtas were
taking him away, Ajamil took the name of his son, nārāyana. So by the mercy
of bhagwan, it so happened that Vishnu-dūtas came there and Vishnu-dūtas
said that you cannot take him away, then the Yama-dūtas said that he has
done a lot of sins, then Vishnu-dūtas asked what is Dharma and what is
Adharma, then Vishnu-dūtas thought that they will trap them in this and when
they lose in this, then they will say that look, you do not know even this much,
we will take him away. But the Yama-dūtas were also taught by Yamraj jī, they
were not immature people, they were people taught by Yamraj jī, so the
Yama-dūtas said something that is given in sixth canto--> veda-pra ihito
dharmo, hy adharmas tad-viparyaya | (ŚB 6.1.40). Dharma is that which is
told in the Vedas and certainly whatever is the opposite of vedas, that is
adharma. In this way the Yama-dūtas said that we know what is Dharma and
Adharma, we know how to take decisions because our interpretation of
Dharma and Adharma has not come from the Government of India, our
interpretation of Dharma and Adharma has come from the Vedas. Today the
interpretation of Dharma and Adharma has become completely different.
What interpretation of Dharma have the people made today? Work is worship.
The work you are doing is your duty and doing the same is Puja. Then the
leader who is embezzling crores of Rupees is doing Dharma and Puja. And
the road builder who is stealing and making poor quality roads, that's his
Dharma and Puja. And the butcher who is cutting the meat, what is that and
his cutting the meat is Dharma. Then there will be many interpretations of
Dharma. It cannot be that whatever is mentioned in the Vedas is the dharma.
If the Vedas say that a creature has to be killed for a particular purpose, then
the violence against the creature mentioned in the Vedas is not actually
violence because it will benefit both the person committing the violence and
that creature. Swarga Kaamo Yajeta, What should a person who desires
heaven do? He should perform a yajña and earlier in that yajña animal
sacrifice was done.

Did Maharaja Yudhishthira perform the Ashwamedha yajña or not? It is true

that Ashwamedha Yajña cannot be performed without sacrificing the horse.
But when the horse is sacrificed there, it is not sacrificed because it is
adharma. It is not sacrificed so that it satisfies our senses. It is sacrificed so
that it can be sacrificed in the yajña and the demi-gods are pleased with that
sacrifice. It is important to know what the demi-gods get because it is
necessary to tell the path of the Vedas, What is it and what do the demi-gods
get. Everyone knows that a priest(purohita) sits on your behalf in a
yajña.Priest(purohita) means one who comes forward and works for our
welfare. Even the demi-gods appoint their own priests. Who is present in the
yagya is mentioned in the first verse of the Rigveda. Agni is the priest of the
demi-gods. What does your priest do here? Swaha, and who is there to
receive it? Agni, then Agnidev converts all the offerings given by you into
Soma. Soma is the food of the demi-gods. The demi-gods consume it and
enjoy it. And when the demi-gods take something from you, Dadāti
pratig h āti (NoI verse 4) this is the rule of the whole world, you have to give
something with one hand and take something with the other, then the demi-
gods give prosperity and prosperity does not mean only money, I had told you
the meaning of prosperity in the beginning.Yes, having wealth, good food
items, the whole family, cows, bulls, all the animals in the house, the
combination of all this is called prosperity. The six seasons of the year
coming at the right time is called prosperity. Otherwise he is shivering in the
house, it is snowing outside for six months, he is shivering in the house and
saying that there is a lot of money in my bank, you have money in your bank
but you do not have prosperity. When I was young, we did not have much
money in the village, so we used to go to the village during summer
vacations. We had a big house in the village. There was a floor above the mud
house. When there was summer vacation, crates of mangoes were kept on
the upper floor so that the raw mangoes could ripen. Crates of mangoes used
to be kept on the upper floor. Today, I get to see crates of mangoes only in
shops because I don't have to go to the village. Even today if I go to the
village I will get it but today I have come to the city and today I have money
but I don't have one thing today, I don't have prosperity, today I have a doubt
that if I drink milk, is it right or am I doing wrong, I have a doubt about
whether I am doing Dharma or Adharma. This is our prosperity today. The
explanation of our prosperity has completely reversed today. If demonic bliss
is prosperity, demons also have a standard. They also have a tendency to give
charity etc. So what should I say now? Now those who are Antyaja, they are
called Antyaja in the scriptures. It means those who are outside the
Varnashram, this is the bliss of those people anyway.

• So Srila Jīva Goswami explains what is the broad vision of the Vedas. Earlier
the whole world followed the path of Vedas. It is not right to name the other
panth(way) that have come up. Other panths(ways) have come up in the
world which have created so much peace in the world that there is checking
three times when you go to the airport. In the 60s and 70s there was no
checking at the airport. Now these other panths(ways) that have come up
have created so much peace in the world that there is checking at least once
or twice at the airport. So these other panths(ways) that have come up have a
history of about 1500-2000 years. And if we look at what was there before
1500-2000 years, we will find the signs of Vedic civilization everywhere. So
there is a community in India which we call Parsis. These Parsis have come
here from Iran and their scripture is called the Zend-Avesta. So its language
is almost like Sanskrit, you can go to Google and see because it has the
words Asura, Deva, Yajña. All these words are found in their scriptures and
when they came here, they brought Agni with them and they prayed to the
kings of India that they should give us shelter and give shelter to our Agni. So
the thing is that the Vedas were widespread in the entire world. If you go back
two to three thousand years, you would find that the Vedas or a religion
similar to the Vedas was prevalent in the entire world. Then later on new
panths(ways) came which have covered the religion of Vedas, that is they
have covered it for some time. Vedas are eternal, they have no beginning, no
end. And every panth(way) has a beginning and an end. So these
panths(ways) started at a time and will end at a time. But it is our duty to
preserve the Vedas forever. Bhagwan has given a special responsibility to
Indians. The existence of Vedas should remain intact if not in any other land
then at least in India. Although it is true that today Vedas have reduced a lot
in our country too, but at least in India the Vedas have been preserved very
well and our own Acharyas say that earlier the Vedic religion was prevalent
on the entire earth and if you look into history, you will find this to be true. In
the Vedas, all types of worship, worship in Sattva Guna, worship in Rajoguna,
worship in Tamoguna is present. In the Vedas, you will find the mantras for
black magic, tantra, mantras, tricks, killing, exorcism etc. because the Vedas
are Kalpataru. The meaning of Kalpataru is that all the types of people born in
the world with different types of mentality should get a method of worship, so
all such types of worship methods are present in the Vedas. In Atharvaveda,
you will find the mantras for black magic, witchcraft, killing someone, killing
an enemy, etc. and then you will also find the Satvik, which is completely
Sattva. You will find Purusha Sukta in Yajurveda. You will find Ishopanishad in
Yajurveda. The last chapter of Yajurveda is Ishopanishad. It is beyond all
three Gunas.-->pūr amada pūr amida
pūr ātpūr amudacyate

pūr asyapūr amādāya

pūr amevāvaśi yate|

īśāvāsyam idaḿ sarva

yat kiñca jagatyā jagat

tena tyaktena bhuñjīthā

mā g dha kasya svid dhanam |

Do not steal from anyone else. You should accept only that much which
bhagwan has made for you. Where will you find the method of worship of all
these gunas? You will find it in the Vedas. The method of worship in the three
modes of material nature is available for all people. And a few thousand
years ago, this was present on the entire earth. This is the fact that Srila Jīva
Goswami explains in Tattva Sandarbha anuccheda 10.-->anādi-siddha-sarva-
purusa-paramparāsu sarva-laukikālaukika-jñana-nidānatvād aprākrta-vacana-
Iaksano veda eva |

Srila Jīva Goswami says that there is only one scripture in the whole world
which is Veda. Some characteristics are found in it. First of all, Anadi Siddha,
Anadi Siddha means, Since which period has this been going on? This has
been going on since beginningless time. This is the first characteristic of the
Vedas. Because that which has a beginning has an end, what is the pramana,
bhagwan says in Gita-->nāsato vidyate bhāvo

nābhāvo vidyate sata | (Bg. 2.16)

That which is false, false means which does not exist forever, its bhāva
means that it cannot be eternal and that which is eternal cannot be
absent(you can't have its abhāva), what is the soul, it is beginningless and
endless, bhagwan has said this about the soul, what is the soul, it is
beginningless and endless, so the soul is eternal but what is the body, it has a
beginning, so that which has a beginning, it also has an end, that which has a
beginning is the product of this material world and six changes take place in
any product of the material world, first it is born, it stays for some time, it
grows a little, it gets deformed, then it dwindles and then it vanishes, here six
deformations take place in it, so the same thing is about panths(ways), what
will happen to that which has a beginning, it will also have an end. Either an
external change will come in it or after the external change comes in it will
come to an end, that is why it is said in some other panths(ways) that it is
called Judgement Day. So the annihilation will come, what does annihilation
mean, one day everything will end but here nothing is going to end because
this is Sanātana Dharma, there is no annihilation going to come here. Sanatan
is that which has no beginning and no end. It is eternally proven. So, our
scriptures are proven since beginningless time. This one word tells us that
these scriptures were not written in such a way that three people got together
and said, "You, I and you, will fool the people of the future." It was not written
in such a way that three people got together one night and decided that,
"Look, there is nothing to do anyway." So let's do one thing, we should write
scriptures today to fool the people who will come after 101 thousand years,
no these scriptures are not written with that feeling because the atheist
people say that brother, there were some people, they had nothing to do, so
they thought what to do by sitting idle, so let's write Vedas, it does not happen
like this my brother Vedas were not written like this, Vedas are anādi-siddha.
What is the first word Srila jīva Goswami uses, Anādi-Siddha, so the first
characteristic of Sanatan Dharma should be that it should be siddha from
beginningless time. And It decreases somethings. Then again bhagwan
comes-->yadā yadā hi dharmasya

glānir bhavati bhārata

abhyutthānam adharmasya

tadātmāna s jāmyaham | (Bg. 4.7)

and whenever dharma is lost, in Which scripture dharma is given, Veda.

whenever Veda is harmed then I come again and I reveal these Vedas and
those who harm the veda, I teach them a good lesson. This period is as
follows, that no a single good Kshatriya exists on earth in today's date as The
period is going on even though it has never happened in history what is
happening today. So the earlier panditas thought that why this happened. So
Nagesh Bhatt is a very great scholar of grammar in Kashi he wrote a book
called Vratyata Prayashchita Nirnayah in it He wrote that Kaliyug is such a
time, that in Kaliyug there is no Kshatriya, in Kaliyug there are not many
Vaishya, in Kaliyug you will get two, you will get both extreme, in Kaliyug most
of the people are sudra and some brāhman. Most are Shūdras and only a very
small section of Brāhman is left. Second, sarva-purusa-paramparāsu, this
knowledge was present in all the traditions of humans earlier. History says
that the kings etc. outside India have run away out of fear of one person,
Bhagwan Parshuram because when Parshuram jī saw that the Vedas are
declining in India too, at least one land should be left where the Vedas are
followed properly, for India to survive, it is necessary that those who do not
believe in the Vedas etc. should be driven out of India. And I myself will stay
in India but I will not let these people stay in India, then which bhagwan is this
who takes this vow, bhagwan parshuram. And on the strength of his axe,
today all the other people in other places have also become kings, Maharajas
etc. They also have lineages, but they have run away in fear of parshuram jī.
So the Vedic religion gradually declined there but remained intact in India for
a long time. Basically this was the Dharma in all human castes, even in the
caste of gods up to Brahmaji, in humans and all castes above humans, and
wherever there is dharma there should be Vedas. Which scripture is the root
cause of all worldly and transcendental knowledge because Today whatever
knowledge you take, whether it is engineering, mathematics, anything else,
for all that, knowledge of two things is necessary; first knowledge of
language and second knowledge of numbers. And Veda is the scripture of
oldest language and the oldest number. It is told in the Vedas that how far is
the Sun, how many yojanas is the Sun, its number is told in the Vedas only, so
the Vedas are the oldest scriptures of how to count numbers, now numbers
have come and speaking has come, all the scriptures above that, you can
make new scriptures but the original source of all the mundane and
transcendental knowledge is the Vedas only. And everything else was created
on the basis of this. Once you learn to count, you can see which planet moves
at what time in the sky and you will make a complete knowledge. And this
knowledge was first created in India in the form of Surya Siddhant of
Bhaskaracharya. Bhagwan surya had already known the veda. But on the
basis of Vedas, bhagwan Surya told Bhaskaracharya how to do calculations
in the sky. And what is the name of that book today? Surya Siddhant. And
when science or anything else had not come to India, even then when will a
solar eclipse take place in India? When will a lunar eclipse take place? Today
is Dashami. Today is Ekadashi. Today is Dwadashi. At what time will the
moon rise? All this was determined from the Surya Siddhant Shastra. The
source of all these things is a scripture, the Vedas. There are three elements
in the body. There is phlegm, vata and pitta. Even today modern doctors do
not accept this. But all the diseases arise from these three elements. Kapha,
vata and pitta. That is why these are called doshas (tridoshas). All diseases
arise due to these doshas. So this subtle science originated in bharat-varsh,
From India it went to many other places. astrology was born in India, the
Lagna in which you were born, it will tell you your nature, just tell me what
your date of birth is, it will tell you your nature, from here the science went to
Egypt, Greece and then from there it came back to India. And that is why in
India a book was written in Sanskrit, its name is Yavan Jatakam, how do
Yavan people practice astrology these days, its book was written in Sanskrit,
some Pandit learned their entire knowledge and noted it down in Sanskrit
because some knowledge went from here and got lost here but remained
there and then came back here from there and Pandits noted it down again
and named that scripture as Yavan Jatakam and its Acharya's name is Yavan
Acharya. There are Acharyas among the Yavanas also because in a book
Varāhamihira ācārya, our great Acharya of astrology, has said that among the
Malechas who are called Yavanas(those who are outside of varnasrama
system), this Shastra of astrology is very well known, among them and those
who created this Shastra are also revered like sages, our ancient Acharyas
have written so. This is very good, our Acharyas say that this was very good
in foreign countries because they had preserved a branch of the Vedas very
well, which we could not preserve,And then it returned from there again and
now when it returned again, our Acharyas modified the good knowledge back
into Sanskrit. This is a brāhman.

• One thing has been said in Shrimad Bhagwatam-->vedo nārāya a sāk āt

svayambhūr iti śuśruma | (ŚB 6.1.40)

Vedas are Lord Nārāyana himself. Vedas are bhagwan himself. That is why
we call them bhagwan Veda. Our enemy is the one who criticizes bhagwan.
The one who criticizes Vedas and the one who criticizes Sanātana Dharma is
our enemy because Vedas are bhagwan for us. Well, why are Vedas
bhagwan? Vedas are bhagwan because they have come from bhagwan and
whatever comes from bhagwan is bhagwan for us. Pramāna for this is as
follows---> asya mahato bhūtasya niḥsvasitametadyad gvedoyajurvedaḥ
sāmavedo'tharvā girasaitihāsaḥ purā amvidyā upaniṣadaḥ ślokāḥ
sūtrānyanuvyākhyānāni vyākhyānāni; asyaivaitāni ni śvasitāni|
(B hadāra yaka Upani ad2.4.10)

This greatest soul in this world, the greatest paramātma in this world is Lord
Vishnu, what all has come out of his breath? First rigveda, then Yajurveda,
Samveda, Atharva Veda, history, history also came out, all the stories in
history also came out and Puranas also came out, which Puranas, the 18
Puranas that are there, they also came out, 18 Puranas also came out, after
that all the Vidyas also came out, there are 64 Vidyas, Upanishads, Shlokas,
Sutras, Vedanta Sutras, their vyākhyāna, their anuvyākhyāna, all of them have
come out from bhagwan's breathing. Whatever comes out of bhagwan will
not go into any separate category. It comes in the category of bhagwan only.
So, bhagwan is called para brahma and Vedas are called śabda-brahma. If it
has originated from bhagwan, then there is no author of the Veda. So have
the Vedas become a non-human(apauruseya) entity? yes. The Vedas have
not been written by any man.The language in which the Vedas are written is
much higher than the spoken language. Nowadays, the trend of languages is
that some languages are degrading, so the language which is much more
advanced than our language must have been created by humans or that
language must have come from some higher source. It must have come from
a higher source. No matter how much you try, you will not be able to create a
language like the language of Vedas. There is a programming language in
computers. Turbo C++ version 4.0 used to come. Do you understand which
version is 4.0 in C++ and which version is in use in Sanskrit till date, 1.0? Do
you understand? There is no 2.0 in it? The reason for this is that whatever
bhagwan had given it, no change was made in it, so bhagwan Panini gave us
the bhagwan Veda. The next version will always come. Write one thing down.
Why will it come? Because that which has a beginning has an end and the
Veda which has no beginning can never have an end. How correctly bhagwan
explained this principle in the Gita. (Bg 2.16) We have reached Artificial
Intelligence and have talked much further, everything has been progressed, it
is within this material world, there is no touch of transcendental thing in it,
there is nothing outside these five senses in it. And that which is within the
five senses has a beginning and an end; it is not a transcendental(alaukika)
thing at all. Let me name a transcendental thing. Some of you must have
heard that there is a transcendental thing which can be experienced through
these senses. Bharat Muni derived that principle and its name is Rasa. This
principle was first born on which land? India and this principle came from
Vedas. Brahma Ji gave it to Bharat Muni and Bharat Muni gave this principle
to us that a transcendental thing can be born in these material senses. The
name of that transcendental thing is transcendental Rasa. When we see a
drama, the feelings of the actor who is performing the play take over our
heart and Sattvik vikāra arise in us like tears,etc. The joy that we experience,
that transcendental bliss is called Rasa. Such a subtle feeling can be found
only in the Vedas and not in any other scriptures. If three people come
together and fool the people of 10,000 years later, let's sit and write
something, it is not like that, that's why it is very worth knowing that what the
Vedas actually are.Recently, the Harappa Mohenjdar which was three
thousand years old was excavated and just two-three days ago, the news
came that someone has decoded the script written in it completely. It is an
Indian who has decoded it. And now we have come to know what is written
on that paper. It is written that may Lord Rudra will be pleased with us. May
Lord Rudra will give us wealth. You can understand that 70 to 80% of it is
written about bhagwan Shiva and Lord Rudra. And the same thing we are
writing nowadays. So, what kind of a religion is this? It is Sanatan Dharma. It
is the same today as it was yesterday and will remain the same tomorrow.
What is mentioned in the Vedas is Dharma and what is contrary to the Vedas
is adharma. By following the Vedas, there is peace in the whole world and by
doing the opposite of the Vedas, there is trouble in the whole world. It is the
Vedas that show us the path of dharma. Whatever is written in the Vedas
should be done as it is. So, this is the interpretation of Dharma. The thing is
that this Veda was initially one. This Veda has been divided into four sections
and the name of dividing it is called Vyāsa in Sanskrit. And the act of dividing
is called Vyāsa.And its division was also done by bhagwan himself because
to divide the Vedas either bhagwan is needed or some vibūti of bhagwan is
needed. Now in every Chaturyug there is a Vyasa, it is written in the Puranas.
Now in this Chaturyug the 28th Chaturyug its Vyasa is Krishna Dwaipayan
Vyasa and Krishna Dwaipayan Vyasa is Narayan himself.-->
Krishnadvaipayanam vyasam vidhi narayanam swayam | (Vishnu Purana
3/4/5)

It has also been told who will be the next Vyāsa. The Vyāsa of the next
Chaturyug will be Ashwatthama because he is chiranjeevi(long lived one) and
he is also doing penance. He has learnt the entire Veda from Dronacharya
and Dronacharya's Guru was Parashuram. So in Parashuram's Veda tradition,
Ashwatthama is already there. He just made a mistake and that mistake also
happened due to bhagwan's arrangement. When that mistake is atoned for,
Ashwatthama will come back to his position. And who will become the Vyāsa
of the next Chaturyug? So in the next Chaturyug, Ashwatthama will be the
one to divide the Vedas and in this Chaturyug, Krishna Dwaipayan Vyāsa was
the one to divide the Vedas. And the complete list of all the 28 Chaturyugs
that have happened till now is given in VISHNU PURANA. Who all have been
the Vyāsa? So, right now, bhagwan Veda Vyāsa has divided one Veda into
four. Why did he divide it into four? Because when Kalyug had arrived, near
the end of Dwapar Yuga, Vyāsa Ji started seeing that the intelligence of
humans is not the same as it used to be in the earlier times. In the Treta
Yuga, Hanuman Ji was the one who knew nine grammars and here we know
that while learning one grammar, our hair turned white. Today's people do not
have that power. Today if someone learns Panini grammar, he is given the
title of Maha Pandit. Even in Kalyug, there are two persons who knew seven
to eight grammars. One was Bhaskaracharya who was blessed by the mercy
of bhagwan Surya. Bhaskaracharya ji knew seven to eight grammars. And
Srila Jiva Goswami, who knew seven grammars, studied these grammars
from beginning to end, then he wrote his own sutras, different from Panini
Sutras, in the book of grammar named hari-nāmāmrit-vyākaranam, so that we
can understand bhagwan Veda, so we are very proud of the fact that Srila
Jiva Goswami was born in our sampradaya. But people with the intellect of
Treta Yuga come in Kaliyuga only by the mercy of bhagwan. Slowly, these
scriptures will not be understood by the people, Vyāsa ji had come to know
this. You must have seen in your lifetime how many great scholars there were
in India 100 years ago and today you hear how many scholars there are in
India today. You must have seen the effect of Kalyug in your lifetime. You are
seeing it with your own eyes, there is no need to tell the scriptures, it is direct
evidence(pratyaksha pramāna). Vyāsa ji had noticed this and hence he
divided one Veda into four parts. Vedas are also made for a category of
people who are Dvija. So who is called Dvija? Brahmin, Kshatriya, Vaishya,
these three castes are called Dvija because they can have a second birth.
They have the sacred thread ceremony in men. So they are called Dvija.
Vedas were made for them because Vyāsa ji knew that some good conduct
prevails in these families. So this education can be available in families with
good conduct. But gradually as Kaliyug progressed, the Varnas (castes)
started becoming hybrid. that any person of any caste is marrying another
person of any caste. Now the Varnas have become mixed, so in Kalyug a big
problem has come, now these people cannot be saved by the path of Vedas
because in the fourth chapter of the first canto of Shrimad Bhagwatam it is
said--> strī-śūdra-dvijabandhūnā

trayī na śruti-gocarā |

karma-śreyasi mū hānā
śreya eva bhaved iha |

iti bhāratam ākhyāna

k payāmuninā k tam||(ŚB 1.4.25)

So, 99% of the world's people are included in this category, 50% are included
in the category of women, remaining 40% are included in the category of
Shudra and some others are born in Brahmin families but they are not
Brahmins at all by their karma. So, a Brahmin in name only is sitting in an IT
company, operating a computer and calling himself Dwivedi and Trivedi and
Chaturvedi. So, 99% of them are included in this category, women, Shudra,
Dvija bandhu, these are not worthy of listening to the Vedas. And when these
are not worthy of listening to the Vedas, then Vyas Ji, did you take
incarnation for 0.1% people? Then Vyas Ji did one thing. These people see
their Shreyas in Karma. These people are of the less intelligent, they should
also get some shreyas(supreme benefit), that is why we tell them a story. To
teach such people a little religion, Vyāsa Deva Ji wrote a book through
stories, Mahabharata. What is in Mahabharata here, you will find it elsewhere,
but what is not in Mahabharata here, you will not find it anywhere. This is a
proclamation at the end of Mahabharata. What is in Mahabharata, you will
find it elsewhere by stealing it. And you will not find any dharma thing outside
which is not in Mahabharata. All the dharma which are in Vedas, you will find
them all in Mahabharata. This will lead to welfare of the women, Shūdras and
Dvija bandhu. So now welfare has started happening. People have started
listening to stories. So many people have to worship bhagwan. People have
listened to Mahabharata and Ramayana. The feeling of dharma has settled in
the minds of people.

• Now the question is how to worship in reality. We do not have any right over
the Vedas. This is bhagwan. Here, whether it is Lord Shri Krishna, Sri Radha
Krishna, Sri Vishnu or Sri Lakshmi, you have to worship them. Now how
should we worship? Because there can be millions of ways to worship, there
should be a scripture to tell how to worship because it is not told in the Vedas
how to worship. It is told in the Vedas who is bhagwan, who are the deities, I
worship them, they give us happiness and prosperity. It is told in
Mahabharata that how to walk on the path of dharma, what are the stories,
what happens by walking on the path of dharma, what does not happen, one
should fast, all this should be done. But in reality, if we have to worship
bhagwan, then how will we do it, what material will we bring? Upāsanā Kānda,
Upāsanā Kānda is of Vedas, in that 99% people got rejected because Vedas
are not for women, Shudra, dvija bandhu, then bhagwan Shiva blessed this
world and brought such a scripture in the world in which everyone from
Brahmin to Chāndāla has the right, in that caste should not be asked and the
name of that scripture is Tantra. On hearing the name Tantra, some strange
feelings start arising in people's minds. That is why today we will know what
Tantra is and what is called Tantra according to our Indian scriptures. So, let
us listen to the explanation of Tantra from Bhanuji Dixit, grandson of Bhattoji
Dixit, who had explained the Vedas.--> tantrah = tan vistāre |

So the scripture which expands knowledge is called Tantra. Another name of

Tantra is Āgama. The great scholar Vachaspati Mishra while explaining
Āgama says--> āgacchanti buddhimārohanti yasmād abhyudayanih
shreyasopāyāh sa āgamah |
The scriptures from which the solutions for our welfare come to our mind are
called Aagam. And that which expands welfare is called Tantra. Tantra and
Aagam are the scriptures which Lord Shiva has mercyfully revealed in Kalyug.
It was a great blessing of bhagwan because the one which 99% of the people
did not have the right to was the Veda scripture and now the one which 100%
of the people have the right to is Tantra. So it is said that Tantra means some
shastra that creates confusion. So many times this is said about Tantra
because there are many types of Tantras. Some of them are in Satttvaguna,
some are in Rajoguna and some are in Tamoguna. So, the Tantras that are in
Tamoguna, there are some Tantras like Kankal Tantra etc. You must have
heard all these names. All these are also Tantras. Similarly, some are in
Rajoguna. Bhairav Tantra is the Tantra of Lord Shiva. It is considered in
Rajoguna and then some Tantras are in Sattvaguna and pure goodness.
Sattvata Tantra, Narada Pancharatra, etc. all these are tantras. Narada
Pancharatra and most of the tantras have been spoken by Lord Shiva.
Whatever mantras are given in these tantras spoken by Lord Shiva, the entire
human race has a right over all these mantras. There is a mantra in Kali-
Sa āra Upani
a ad.Kali-Sa āra Upani
a adis a Veda. There is a mantra in
it. Hare Ram Hare Ram Ram Ram Hare Hare. Don't say it completely. One who
doesn't have the right should not say it completely. It may be the right of any
one of you who is an initiated Brahmin. The same thing is in Sattvata Tantra
when Shiva says Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare Hare
Ram Hare Ram Ram Ram Hare Hare. So when Shiva said this mantra in
Sattvata Tantra, he said it in this order and in this order Shri Chaitanya
Mahaprabhu taught it to everyone. So our Mahamantra is not coming from
Kali-Sa āra Upani
a ad,it is coming from Tantra.Because if Mahaprabhu
gives mantras to everyone by taking them from Vedas, then the biggest
blame would be on Mahaprabhu that brother, 99% of the people who are
women, shudra, dvija-bandhus, you gave them mantras directly from
Upanishads, this is not possible because to get the mantra of Vedas, it is
necessary to have initiation in Vedas, initiation in Vedas can be of Dvija and
who are Dvija, apart from Brahmin, Kshatriya and Vaishya, initiation of anyone
else cannot be done. Chaitanya Mahaprabhu how did you do that because
Mahaprabhu taught the Mahamantra even to the Pathāns, how did you teach
the Mahamantra to the Antyaja(those who are born outside varnāsrama), this
cannot be possible, yes, but it is possible because the Mahamantra has not
come from Vedas, it has come from Tantra. And the entire human race has
the right to Tantra Vidya. Initiation into Tantra can be of the entire human
race, even of the Chāndāla. That is why Lord Shiva has revealed Tantra
Shastra. It is a scripture that complements the Vedas and supports them. It is
a scripture that where the shadow of Vedas does not reach, the shadow of
Tantras reaches there. In hari bhakti vilāsa verse 5.4, it is given--> k te
śrutyuktamārga syāt tretāyā sm tibhāvita |

dvāpare tu purā okta kalāv āgamasambhava ||

So in Satyayug there was Shruti Marg. In Tretayug there was the path of both
Shruti and Smriti. In Dwaparyug there was Shruti as well. Along with that
Puranas also came. In Dwaparyug Vyāsa Deva had come. So the path of
Puranas had come. And in Kalyug the path of Aagam had come. Aagam is the
name of Tantra. So in Kalyug the path of Tantras has started. Remember
whatever welfare is happening to us today is happening due to the Tantra
Marg. How many times do we have to show incense to God? Have you read in
Shrimad Bhagwatam how many times do we have to rotate it?no. Who told
you that there are odd numbers three times, did the Vedas tell you or did the
Tantra tell you, Narada Pancharatra told you this, Vedas and Puranas will tell
you what to do and Tantra will tell you how to do it. So this entire knowledge
is in Tantras. Vaishnav Tantra for Vaishnavas, Shaiva Tantra for Shaivites and
Shakti Tantra for worshippers of Shakti. hari bhakti vilāsa verse 5.5 says-->
aśuddhā śūdrākalpā hi brāhma ā kalisambhavā |

te āmāgamamārge aśuddhir na śrautavartmanā ||

Brahmins born in Kalyuga are impure and are like Shudras, it is written clearly.
Their purification will also happen through the Āgama path. Āgama means
the path of Tantra. Their purification will not happen through the Vedas, it will
happen through the Tantra path. Prabhupāda jī says this shloka in short as-->
kalau śūdra sambhavā |

By slightly summarizing this shloka, it has been said that in Kaliyug, everyone
is a Shudra. Also see what Shrimad Bhagwatam says about Satyayug, it is
written in Shrimad Bhagwat that--> yajanti tapasā deva |(ŚB 11.5.22) In the
11th canto, the dharma of the four yugas is being told. In Satyayug, one has
to do penance by chanting Omkar only. Omkar is found in Shruti, so one has
to take only the seed of Shruti and that will do the job. The entire Shruti is not
needed. One has to take only its seed and the way to meditate on Omkar. In
Satyayug, dhyāna yoga was the Dharma of yuga and one had to meditate on
the Omkar mantra. Actually, you people should not say it. One who is not a
Brahmin initiated should not say it. But what is happening nowadays, the
entire Gayatri mantra has been played on tape. Such an era has come. That is
why one should say Pranava. Then came the Treta Yug. In the Treta Yug, the
desires of the people started increasing in Satva Guna, Rajoguna and
Tamoguna. So, the bhagwan who came in the Treta Yug to establish the Yuga
Dharma, the name of that bhagwan was bhagwan Yajña. And see what was
the Dharma in the Treta Yuga.--> yajanti vidyayā trayyā | (ŚB 11.5.25) In Treta
Yug, bhagwan was worshipped through three Vidyas, Veda Vidya. Slowly, the
times started getting worse and then Dwapar Yug came. In Dwapar Yug-->
yajanti veda-tantrābhyā | (ŚB 11.5.28) bhagwan Shri Krishna says that in
Dwapar Yug, deity worship has come. Deity worship means worshipping
Archa Vigrah, but to worship Archa Vigrah, first what is its greatness, this has
to be known from Vedas and how to worship it has to be known from Tantra.
Now, the fourth Yuga has come, Kalyuga has come. See what bhagwan says
in 11th canto for Kalyug. See what bhagwan says in 11th chapter for Kalyug.--
> nānā-tantra-vidhānena | (ŚB 11.5.31) Now in Kaliyug, only one path is left
and we have to follow the path of Tantra. Shridhar Swami gives commentary
in this.--> nānā-tantra-vidhāneneti kalau tantra-margasya prādhānyan
darsayati | In Kaliyug, only one path is predominant, Tantra Marga is
predominant. Whoever says that Brahmin diksha, take second initiation, in
that second initiation, most of the mantras that are found are mantras of
Tantra. Most of the mantras in it are not from Vedas, most of them are
mantras of Tantras, Kama Gayatri is found in it, many Gayatris are found in it
and all the Gayatri found in it is not the Gayatri of Vedas, it is the Gayatri of
most of the Tantras, so the second initiation that we get also happens mainly
in Tantras because most of the people do not have authority over Vedas, and
this age is not that, the dharma of the age is not that and that scripture is also
not for that, in Kalyug, the path of Tantra is open and through this path
everyone from Brahmin to Chāndāla has authority, so these are the Tantras of
Vaishnavas, Vaishnav Tantra, and there are also Sheiv Tantras, Shākt Tantras
and the Vaishnava Tantras have been named Pāncharātra, sometimes it is
also called Bhāgwata Dharma and Sātvata Dharma. Well, before I leave I will
tell you a very unique thing about Tantra Marga. If anyone has Google in their
mobile, then you can search it. Even today there is a pillar right in the middle
of India, its name is Heliodorus Pillar. 133 B.C., yes, it means how many years
have passed? It has been 2100 years, right? At this time, a Yavana person
came from Greece and made a pillar for bhagwan Vāsudev. It is still present
in India. That person's name was Heliodorus. He made a Garuda pillar for
bhagwan Vasudev. After making the Garuda pillar, he wrote on it in Sanskrit. It
is written in Sanskrit--> "devadevasa vāsudevasa garudadhvaje ayam kārito
heliodorena" I have made this Garuda pillar for bhagwan Vasudev, the deva of
devas, because I am a person who believes in Bhāgwata Dharma. 2100 years
ago, as it is the first known. Yes, we do not know how many there would have
been before this. In history, the Westerner or Malech or Yavana who was
initiated into Bhāgwata Dharma was named Heliodorena. Today we know that
he made a Garuda pillar for bhagwan in Madhya Pradesh. That Garuda pillar
is still there. The Sanskrit on which he has written his name is still known. But
this This did not happen by the mercy of Ved Marga, This happened by the
grace of Tantra Marga because heliodorena also has authority in Tantra
Marga and nowadays many Dubeys and Choubeys(those who born in
Brahmin family) also do not have authority in Veda Marga. So this is Veda-
Marga and Tantra-Marga. If you want to see all the tantras in Gaudiya
Vaishnav sampradaya at one place, then it is told to us in Hari Bhakti Vilāsa.
that how to worship bhagwan, if you want to rotate incense sticks, then rotate
it in odd number, whatever you want to show bhagwan, how many times you
have to show it odd times. why not ask in it, do it as it is, now you ask Shiva ji,
tell me the logic, Shiva ji, then that logic is in the Vedas. the book of daily
rituals, whatever is written in it is from Tantra. yes, everything is from Tantra
in it. In Kaliyug, Tantra path is predominant. All the mantras you see, Gange
ca Yamune ca, Ayodhya Mathura Maya Kashi,etc. Those mantras which do
not have the vowel symbols are tantra mantras because the veda mantras
have vowel symbols. Most of you might not have seen those mantras in
which the vowel symbols are above and below. In this way, veda mantras are
sung by moving your hand up and down. There should not be even a slight
mistake in it, that is why I do not sing much because I am also a Brahmin of
Kalyug, that is why for me also there is tantra marga. Okay, so this is the veda
marga and tantra marga. So veda is our pride. But Tantra is our practicality
and reality. Vedas are our pride and we will always protect Vedas. We will only
protect its alphabets and that will be our success. Because today we are not
capable of understanding it. But the scriptures which are worth
understanding and which have been made for us are Pāncharātra or Tantra
scriptures. And in gaudiya Vaishnava sampradaya, it is given in full in Hari
Bhakti Vilāsa. Okay, today I will end my speech here. Thank you very much to
all of you for being present here today.

• yad atra skhalitam kiñcid

vidvāmsa pūrayantu tat

yad atra sau havam

kiñcit

tad guror eva me na hi |

Whatever went wrong here, you please correct it and whatever went right is
due to the mercy of our guru-janas because our guru-janas taught us what is
right and what is wrong.

Srila Prabhupada ji maharaj ji ki jay.