Essay on vadik education

Vedas have their own characteristic features. Through them we are able to know about the culture, civilization, life and philosophy. People in ancient India. Vedas symbolise the chief objective of human life which has been deliverance from this world of births and deaths. This objective always been unchangeable the Indian philosophy was never accepted life as purposeless. Yajna (Sacred offering or religious sacrifice to Fire) occupied a very important place in human life during the Vedic period. In each and every sacred work some Yajna was performed. It will be wrong to regard Yajna as a tradition of ancient Indians. In fact, they were purposeful as experimental laboratories of great thinkers, teachers, philosophers, Rishis and Munis of the period. Through these Yajnas the learned saints used to realise the truth of human life. The great saints like Vashistha, Vishwamitra, Kanva, Narad, Atri and Gautam etc. realised the truth through their penances of which Yajnas were essential parts. The Rigveda, the chief of all the Vedas is the essence of their basic teachings and realizations.