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What are Vedas? – they are like a desire tree
“So you learn from the Vedic literature. Every information is there. And all the Vedic literature is summarized in this ลrฤซmad-Bhฤgavatam. Vedic literature, it is compared with desire tree. Now, desire tree means whatever you desire, you get from that tree. So these Vedas is considered as the desire tree, means any kind of knowledge you want, it is complete there perfectly, any kind, either spiritual or material, any department of knowledge. All kinds of knowledge, you can achieve from the Vedic language. There is Dhanur-veda, ฤyur-veda, Jyotir-veda and all kinds. Veda means knowledge. So for military art, if you want to consult Vedic literature, you will get complete information, perfect.
Similarly, Jyotir-veda. Jyoti means the luminaries in the sky, the stars. You can get. We are trying to go to the moon planet and wasting our time and energy, but if you consult Vedas, you get full information of the moon planet, sun planet or any other planet. There are millions and millions of trillions of planets. You can get all, Brahmaloka, up to the topmost planet. Jyotir-veda. That is called Jyotir-veda. And the Dhanur-veda. ฤyur-veda. ฤyuแธฅ means duration of life. And nobody wants to be diseased. So that means medical science. That is also fully there.”
[From the lecture on ลrฤซmad-Bhฤgavatam 2.1.5, Paris, June 13, 1974]
Vedic literature, it is compared with desire tree. Now, desire tree means whatever you desire, you get from that tree. So these Vedas is considered as the desire tree, means any kind of knowledge you want, it is complete there perfectly, any kind, either spiritual or material, any department of knowledge.
“It is the most perfect science, bhakti-yoga.”
AC Bhaktivedanta Svami, ลrฤซmad-Bhฤgavatam 7.9.49, Vแนndฤvana, April 4, 1976
“We are getting knowledge from Kแนแนฃแนa, the most perfect. We have to receive knowledge from the perfect not by ascending process, experiencing failure, experiencing failure, experiencing failure. Not like that. That will take long time. But if you actually want to be perfect, just approach the perfect, take knowledge from him, and you become perfect. That is the injunction. Tad-vijรฑฤnฤrthaแน sa gurum eva abhigacchet ลrotriyaแน brahma-niแนฃแนญham (MU 1.2.12).
tad-vijรฑฤnฤrthaแน sa gurum evฤbhigacchet
samit-pฤแนiแธฅ ลrotriyaแน brahma-niแนฃแนญham
โTo understand these things properly, one must humbly approach, with firewood in hand, a spiritual master who is learned in the Vedas and firmly devoted to the Absolute Truth.โ [Muแนแธaka Upaniแนฃad 1.2.12]
From the Srila Prabhupada’s Room Conversation with Professor Durckheim, German Spiritual Writer, June 19, 1974, Germany