After a complete destruction of the world, god recreates the universe and simultaneously gives the knowledge of four Vedas in the heart of four rishis because in the absence of Vedic knowledge, human beings would remain ignorant and would be unable to utilise the purpose of their worldly existence.
The first mantra of Rigved is: Agnimeedey Purohitam. It refers to the virtue that a person must desire to worship god and before beginning any new thing, should first remember god to destroy all the sorrows, problems, diseases etc.
Vedas are the invaluable treasure of education of each and every worldly subject that is, right from straw to Brahma. Therefore, medical science is also a part and parcel of Vedic knowledge.
An Atharvaved mantra preaches that god is the creator, who nurses and is “Su Bhishaktamaha” that is, the most supreme doctor. Hence, god is empowered to destroy all diseases, which cannot be controlled by any doctor in the world.
This is why several doctors, duly inspired by almighty god, clearly inform the relatives of highly critical patients that, “We, the doctors, have done our best, now everything lies in the hands of god.” But it’s our bad luck that we are ignorant of the Vedas and hence, never praise, pray or worship god according to Vedas.
If we stop remembering god, the supreme power stops protecting us from diseases and leaves us to bear the sorrows according to our previous lives’ bad deeds.
Vedas preach that the base of the human life is Brahmacharya. So another Atharvaved mantra preaches that when a person maintains firm brahmacharya, then a precious gem of strength is generated in his body, which kills all the microbes that cause diseases.
Further, it also preaches that Brahmacharya generates the best medicine within the body to kill all types of disease-causing germs. But there is a doubt that in the absence of holding Vedic knowledge whether or not Brahmacharya can be maintained.
In previous yugas, the knowledge of Vedas was in vogue. As a result, everyone used to maintain Brahmacharya, perform daily Yajyen/agnihotra, which purified the air, water, food, etc. Therefore, the question of suffering from any disease did not arise.
In current life, living beings, including humans, spread pollution in the atmosphere. If we go by a Yajurved mantra, we will find that if we perform daily agnihotra/Yajyen, then all infectious diseases could be destroyed. It purifies the air and thus erodes all kinds of pollution. Where would then the diseases exist?
But to our bad luck, unlike previous yugas, we are not aware of the vedic knowledge and as a result are unable to liberate ourselves from serious diseases spreading in the world currently.
Let us pay our attention to a Yajurved mantra, which preaches that if a person makes contact with a learned Acharya or guru, then s/he, by teaching him Vedic knowledge, can help him purify his speech, respiratory system, senses, vision, the source of hearing, naval, organs of excretion and ultimately, his character and conduct.
These are the results that one will find in oneself if one follows vedic mantras:
- There will never be any kind of diseases spreading around.
- Yajyen purifies the universe if it is performed by everybody. It emerges in the form of smoke, which reaches up to the sun’s rays and then, spreads around, reaching humans and other living beings. Thus it purifies the air and atmosphere.
(The author is Swami Ram Swarup, Yogacharya, the chief editor of the Ved Ishvareeya Vani magazine.)