GAQ BP 101 - 26th February 2012 (Sunday)

• Ven Udita did not come and hence Ven Dr P Gnanarama took over the class
• Rig Veda -> Hymns sung at time of sacrifices for Gods to grant
• Victory in War
• Heroic Sons
• Long Life
• Wealth in the form of Cattle
• They believe that the earliest human to have died on earth was YAMA an he discovered the highest heaven and live there forever
• The vedic aryans made sacrifices so that they can be born in Yama heaven and live there with Yama forever
• Yama controls hell
• They believe that anger is also a god called "Manyo"
• (Kat)Henothism
• Agni is known to be an intermediate God that carries information and stuffs to other gods
• Apas is Water Deity
• In (monism / monotheism) ????, there is one supreme god that is dominant over all gods
• Sarvedevah -> invite all gods to the sacrifice
• Sukta, Tad Ekam, Ekam Sat
• Rig Veda, Yajur Veda, Sama Veda, Atharva Veda
• Atharva Veda (at first it was not accepted as an authentic veda, but this was later accepted)
• Black Magic
• White Magic 
• Mantras for Sickness healing and for women and men
• Brahmanas -> texts composed after vedas as commentaries to the vedic texts
• Aranyakas -> Semi-philosophical Texts; some ppl at that time wandered into the forest to speculate about Atman and the meaning fo life
• Upanishads -> Philosophical Texts which were composed before the rise of Buddhism
• Ishvara, Brahma & Visnu