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According to Vedic belief, Veda is the root of all the knowledge in the world. The Vedas, the foundation of Vedic religion and culture, are the repository of teachings and a storehouse of knowledge. Vedas have solutions to all the problems of human life. Vedas are like a cool poultice for the people suffering from worldly heat, like a lighthouse for the people lying in the darkness of ignorance and like a guide for the lost people. Vedas provide a ray of hope for those drowning in the ocean of despair and a message of enthusiasm, joy and happiness for those suffering from grief. The Vedas, storehouses of priceless gems, provide knowledge of duty to the misguided and the means of attaining God to the travelers on the spiritual path. Vedas provide true knowledge regarding Vedic science, national religion, social system, family life, Varnashrama religion, truth, love, non-violence, renunciation etc. It includes matters of knowledge related to subjects like nature, religion, prayer, morality etc. That is why Vedic texts including philosophy, memory, history, Puranas are everywhere filled with stories singing the glory of Vedas. Manu Maharaj, the author of the world's first Smriti book, says in Manusmriti - Sarvjnanamayo Hi Sah. - Manusmriti 2/7

That is, Vedas are the storehouse of all knowledge.

At one place in Manusmriti, Manu says – Vedas are like eyes, the eternal guide for ancestors, gods and humans. Knowledge about the four varnas, three worlds, four ashrams, past, future and present is known only from the Vedas. This eternal i.e. eternal Vedas sustains and nourishes all living beings, hence I consider it as the ultimate means for human beings to cross the ocean of existence. In Manusmriti 2/166 he has said - If one has to do penance then a Brahmin should always practice the Vedas. Studying the Vedas is the ultimate penance for a Brahmin. According to Manusmriti 2/168, the Dwija i.e. Brahmin, Kshatriya and Vaishya who does not read the Vedas and works hard in any other scripture or work, he along with his family soon attains Shudrata status during his lifetime. According to Manusmriti 6/37, one who wishes to attain salvation by not studying Vedas and doing Yagya, attains hell i.e. special sorrow. According to Manusmriti 3/2, after studying all four Vedas, three Vedas, two Vedas or one Veda sequentially, one should enter Grihasthashram by remaining an unbroken celibate.

Maharishi Manu has called not the one who does not believe in God as an atheist but the one who criticizes Vedas as an atheist.

Atheists condemn the Vedas.- Manusmriti 2/11

That means, only the one who criticizes the Vedas is called an atheist.

In the philosophical scriptures, the Vedas have been clearly described as divine knowledge, and the Vedas are considered self-evident. In Vaisheshika Darshan10/1/3, Vedas have been called self-evident because they were revealed by God -

Tadvachanadamnayasya pramanyam.

That is, Vedas are self-evident because they were revealed by God.

While singing the glory of Veda, it has been said in Vaisheshika Darshan 6/1/1 that the sentence structure of Veda is intelligently-

Buddhipurva Vayakriti Veda.

Thus, it is clear that there are no things contrary to the order of creation in the Vedas, hence it is divine knowledge. Sankhya writer Maharishi Kapil has also considered the Vedas as self-evident in Sankhya Darshan 5/46 and said that the Vedas are not masculine-written, because their author is not a man. Due to limited knowledge and limited power, the living being is incapable of creating the Vedas, the storehouse of all knowledge. Since the Vedas were not created by humans, their non-masculine nature is proved. According to Sankhya Darshan 5/49, Vedas are self-evident because they are expressed by Apaurusheya Shakti, Jagdishwar's own power. According to Vedanta philosophy1/1/3, knowledge of Vedas is God-given. Vedanta Philosophy 1/1/3 While commenting on the sutra, Shankaracharya has said that the four Vedas, namely Rigveda, are full of many knowledge. Like the Sun, they are the ones who illuminate all the truths. The one who created them is the omniscient Brahma with omniscient qualities, because it is not possible for any being other than Brahma to create these Vedas with all the qualities. Mimamsa writer Jaimini has said that the characteristics of religion are related to the Vedas -

Chodanalakshonortho dharma.

– Mimamsa Darshan 1/1/3

That is, whatever is permitted by the Vedas is called Dharma and whatever is contrary to the Vedas is called Adharma.

Similarly, it is said in Mimamsa 1/3/18-

 

That is, the word is eternal, without destruction, because the hearing of the word through the act of pronunciation is only for knowledge of its meaning. If the word were eternal then its meaning could not be known.