Anonymous: Here I am quoting what Professor Dr. Shrikant Bahulkar says about the Vedas.
“Animal sacrifice is mentioned. Human sacrifice did not exist. The name Purusha Medha is not to be taken in its literary sense. The sacrifice was symbolic.”
Swami Ram Swarup: No, any kind of scarification exist in Vedas.
Anonymous: “1) I do not read those translations. The followers of Arya Samaj have preconceived notions. They do not accept that there was animal sacrifice.
Swami Ram Swarup: Yes please, Arya samaj is saying hundred percent truth based on Vedas.
Anonymous: 2) There was polytheism. But some mantras indicate henotheism.”
Swami Ram Swarup: Both are incorrect please, because there is only one God who is omnipresent, Almighty and formless who creates universe etc. And Vedas deny other God.
Anonymous:
1) How is it that Professor Dr. Shrikant Bahulkar believes that Vedic texts mention animal sacrifices?
2) How come Professor Dr. Shrikant Bahulkar believes that the Vedic texts mention polytheism, and somewhere also henotheism?
Swami Ram Swarup: These are his own views which never tally with Vedas.
