There Are Quacks in the Field of Vedas and Mantras Also
यो ह वा अविदितार्षेयच्छन्दोदेवताब्राह्मणेन मन्त्रेण याजयति वाऽध्यापयति वास्थाणुमृच्छति
अविदित्वा ऋषिं छन्दो दैवतं योगमेव च
योऽध्यापयेज्जपेद्वापि पापीयान् जायते तु सः
What all should a doctor know? Basically, how the body works and how a cure or a medicine works.
If he knows how the body works, then only he will be able to identify why the body is malfunctioning.
He should know what the ingredients in a medicine are and how they will affect the body. Only then will he be able to prescribe the right medicine.
We all know the heart pumps blood, and digestion takes place in the stomach.
We all know that paracetamol is given for fever.
Does that make us doctors?
With this much knowledge, can we start practising medicine?
The law would call such people quacks and treat them like criminals.
We all know mantras work.
They work because they are energy.
Just like you can put energies like electricity and heat to use, you can also put mantras to use.
It is called mantra prayoga, meaning putting mantra to use.
Mantras are meant for that only.
Mantras can be put to use to acquire knowledge also.
That’s why mere chanting of a mantra is enough to produce an effect.
You need not even understand the meaning.
The meaning of the mantra is different from the mantra itself.
Chanting a mantra can produce an effect.
Chanting its meaning will not produce any effect.
If you refer to books like Rigvidhanam, you will see that mantras are prescribed for various purposes: acquisition of wealth, power, removal of diseases, removal of sin.
If you look at the meaning of those mantras, you will not find any correlation.
Every tablet looks more or less the same — but do they work in the same way? No.
Only the doctor knows which tablet contains what molecule.
So it’s not white tablet for fever and pink tablet for stomachache.
The molecule inside is what matters.
The same principle applies in the case of Vedas also.
This is why Arsheya Brahmanam says —
If you learn Veda from a person who doesn’t know the Rishi, Chhandas, and Devata of each mantra,
or if you get a yajna done by such a person — basically, an unqualified person —
then you are finished.
It’s not that you don’t get any benefit.
Not only that — you incur sin.
Trouble will start.
Problems will start.
You will fall.
It’s like getting your house electrified by an unqualified person.
He’ll leave live points open, uninsulated.
He won’t connect the bodies of appliances to earthing.
He might connect phase and neutral the wrong way.
You know the outcome.
Don’t do this in the case of Vedas.
This caution is because it is already happening.
Like yoga courses of one or two weeks — you become an instructor yourself.
Your students will end up with torn ligaments and slipped disks. That’s a different matter.
In the case of Vedas, the impact is much deeper.
It can affect you for so many births down the line, so many generations down the line.
It can affect your son, daughter, father, mother, siblings.
You never know.
Veda is not about bhakti.
Veda is about power.
We see this trend now.
Retired people — with due respect for their enthusiasm — learn suktas in evening classes or weekend classes, start teaching themselves in a few months.
A person has lost his job.
The easiest job he can get into is that of a purohita.
See what you are doing.
You are destroying the person you are teaching.
You are destroying the person for whom you are performing rituals.
Let’s not take things so casually.
If you believe that mantras have got power, then understand that they are not shlokas or stotras.
They are not like shlokas or stotras.
Let’s handle them seriously.
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