RIG
VED
The
Rig Ved derives its name from the word rig which means mantra.
This beautiful collection of unimaginable cosmic wisdom has 10,589
verses. There are further divided into ten mandalas or books.
Each mandala is further divided into anuvakas and suktas. Anuvakas
mean lessons and suktas mean hymns. On the whole there are 85
lessons and 1080 hymns. Quite an exhaustive work, isn't it, for
a genius or a group of team or geniuses who chose to be anonymous.
The verses in the ved are rendered to the Gods.
The
importance given to the Sun in the veds is significant. Those
days when most of the world believed that the Sun was a huge orange
ball, the sages of India seemed to have learnt somehow that it
was the Sun that the source of life. They also seem to know that
light was energy. More interesting, the veds understood the connection
between the Sun and the rains, and the rest of the weather pattern