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ciples of reading these Books. His mind was too much obsessed with current materialistic notions to enable him to get at the underlying spiritual significance. " The Sacred Text," writes Mr. K. N. Iyre in bis highly valuable work, The Permanent History of Bharatavarsha', “the sacred Text never tells tales of past history, but contains valuable instructions in the best interest of humanity. The proper scientific method or procedure for religious development is described in the garbof histories and geographies, law and politics."
The Vedas require the aid of the Vedangas to be understood, and the most important Vedanga is Niruktum (the method of interpretation) without a knowledge of which no one is allowed to explain the Vedic Text.
In the preface to his highly interesting Mahabharata or Karma Yoga, Mr. K. N. Iyre again urges :“For the purpose of enlightening the ordinary people in the
manner above described, the ancient anthors have explained valuable scientific truths in the guise of stories for conveying religious instructions. Suitable technical terms were coined and defined which in themselves would suggest their intended meanings by the very roots of their formation, known as Niruktam, one of the six Angas of the Vedas. --The technical terms so coined were also carefully defined in the texts to prevent possibilities of error from the very beginning."
We may or may vot agree with M«. Iyre as to the justification for this method of instruction, but there
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