तेजस्वि नावधीमस्तुLet Our Learning Illuminate Us

This is the collection of five lectures given by Pandit Motilal Shastri at Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi, in 1956.  Shastriji was invited by the first President of independent India, Dr Rajendra Prasad, to present his profound views on the Vedas and other sacred texts.

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This is an introduction to the epoch-making Vedic literature and fundamental viewpoints of Pandit Motilal Shastri.

Pandit Motilal Shastri translated many works on Veda vijnana of his guru, Pandit Madhusudan OJha.  He went beyond mere transliteration of the works and embellished it with his own understanding of the complex subject in Hindi.

This is the collection of talks on Veda which Pandit Motilal Shastri gave on the All India Radio in 1953. In these talks, Shastriji has explained how the scientific meaning of the Veda was lost over the years and the Veda became merely a collection of volumes. He has argued how fundamental elements like fire, air, and sun were the true essence of the Veda and not the volume of mantras.