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A literal translation of the Vedas creates confusions and contradictions as the English language is insufficient to express the deep inner meaning embedded in Vedas. A good commentator, should be adept in languages, carefully choose words, and explain with derivatives to analyse the hidden nuances of meaning within their context but not always can it be understood by the reader.

A literal translation of the Vedas creates confusions and contradictions as the English language is insufficient to express the deep inner meaning embedded in Vedas. A good commentator, should be adept in languages, carefully choose words, and explain with derivatives to analyse the hidden nuances of meaning within their context but not always can it be understood by the reader.

For example, the literal meaning of the verse,<blockquote>सुमित्रिय न आप ओषधयः सन्तु || (Yaju. Veda. 36.23)"</blockquote><blockquote>sumitriya na aapa oshadhayah santu || (Yaju. Veda. 36.23)"</blockquote>Meaning : May the waters, vital forces of  life, and herbs be friendly to us and may they be enemies to those who hate us and whom we hate.

For example, the literal meaning of the verse,<blockquote>"

सुमित्रिय न आप ओषधयः सन्तु || (Yaju. Veda. 36.23)"</blockquote><blockquote>"

sumitriya na aapa oshadhayah santu || (Yaju. Veda. 36.23)"</blockquote>Meaning : May the waters, vital forces of  life, and herbs be friendly to us and may they be enemies to those who hate us and whom we hate.

The literal meaning is incomprehensible and meaningless. The contextual meaning of this mantra is:

The literal meaning is incomprehensible and meaningless. The contextual meaning of this mantra is:

"May waters, tonics, pranic energies and medicinal herbs be good friends of our health system and immunity and let the same waters, tonics, pranic energies herbal medicines act against those ailments, diseases and negativities which injure us, which we hate to suffer and which we love to destroy, moreover let them have no side effects because side effects too help the negativities and injure us".

"May waters, tonics, pranic energies and medicinal herbs be good friends of our health system and immunity and let the same waters, tonics, pranic energies herbal medicines act against those ailments, diseases and negativities which injure us, which we hate to suffer and which we love to destroy, moreover let them have no side effects because side effects too help the negativities and injure us".

It becomes a powerful prayer for the well-being of an advanced society, and very logically the next Mantra expounds a prayer for a full hundred years and more of life and health.<blockquote>तच्चक्षुर्देवहितम् पुरुस्तत् || (Yaju. Veda. 36.24)"</blockquote><blockquote>tacchakshurdevahitam purastat || (Yaju. Veda. 36.24)"</blockquote>Swami Dayananda wrote in the post-colonized context after independence whereupon he called upon his countrymen "to go back to the Vedas" for eradication of social evils as he opined that the cause of degradation and slavery of Indian nation was the ignorance of true Vedic teaching on which our culture was based and also thrived. It is true that we became independent in 1947, but then we got freedom and not independence. We continue to function as an Anglo-Saxon cultural satellite mainly as a market for its ideology through the English language and a nursery to train a new generation of sepoys and Coolies.

It becomes a powerful prayer for the well-being of an advanced society, and very logically the next Mantra expounds a prayer for a full hundred years and more of life and health.<blockquote>"

तच्चक्षुर्देवहितम् पुरुस्तत् || (Yaju. Veda. 36.24)"</blockquote><blockquote>"

tacchakshurdevahitam purastat || (Yaju. Veda. 36.24)"</blockquote>Swami Dayananda wrote in the post-colonized context after independence whereupon he called upon his countrymen "to go back to the Vedas" for eradication of social evils as he opined that the cause of degradation and slavery of Indian nation was the ignorance of true Vedic teaching on which our culture was based and also thrived. It is true that we became independent in 1947, but then we got freedom and not independence. We continue to function as an Anglo-Saxon cultural satellite mainly as a market for its ideology through the English language and a nursery to train a new generation of sepoys and Coolies.

== Modern Vedic Education ==

== Modern Vedic Education ==