| How I Became A Hindu - My Discovery of Vedic Dharma |
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| Books By David Frawley |
| SPIRITUAL PATHS AND DISCOVERY OF THE VEDAS | |
| Like a
treatise on high energy physics that requires a knowledge of elementary physics to
approach, the Vedas were designed for people who already had a sense of the Vedic language
and its implications. Without recreating that Vedic background merely to translate the
Vedas only invites misinterpretation. I decided to try to recreate that background. The result was that I discovered deeper meaning to teachings that appeared as little more than primitive rituals to others. Because of my background in poetic symbolism the Vedas made perfect sense to me. The Sun, day, dawn, fire, and ocean were archetypes of inner processes. So were such animal images as the bull, cow, horse or falcon. I didn’t view Vedic images according to the standard of Vedantic or Buddhist logic, looking for some subtle abstract dialectic, from which angle they would appear crude.I saw them as analogical keys to the workings of the universe. I began creating a system to unlock the greater meaning of the Vedic language. I developed a strategy. I decided that the best way to proceed was to trace the Vedic vision back from the Upanishads, which were still relatively transparent in meaning, to the Vedas – to use the Upanishads as a door back in time.
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