The beauty, the glory of the Vedas lies not in the fact that they contain all the secrets of the material universe; their glory lies in Vedanta. And the Vedas are de facto immortal because what Vedanta is talking of is stuff that is applicable to all times, all people, all ages. The stuff that I have spoken to you of over the last two hours is nothing but Vedanta. So, Vedanta is very much relevant even today, and it will continue to be relevant five hundred years from today, a thousand years from today.
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Questioner: Many of the leading Hindu media outlets of today claim that a lot of what science has proven in recent times has been there in the Vedas, in our scriptures and the ancient texts, since thousands of years. For example, they claim that the distance between the Earth and the Sun was written in the Hanuman Chalisa. There are many claims like these and they have been disproven again and again, but they are still in circulation because of confirmation bias. The problem I see with this is that all this nonsense undermines the real contributions made by people Aryabhata, Pāṇini, Pathani Samanta, and all of these legends who have made groundbreaking contributions to arts, music, science, philosophy, etc. So, how can we teach all this to the average Hindu?
Acharya Prashant: Education, nothing else. You want to be proud of your past, right?
Questioner: Yes.
