Veda31- Are Vedas self contradictory?!

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Before I go further talking about the Upanishads, I thought it is essential to clear some questions. These questions may give an impression that the Vedas are self contradictory and can be seen as a bundle of incoherent things. Some of the contradictions that one recognizes immediately are

Veda30- Describing the indescribable!

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We were talking about the two questions that Gargi posed to the great scholar Yajnyavalkya. Gargi says that her two questions are like two fierce arrows that she has sent to shoot down Yajnyavalkya’s claim that he knows what God is.

Veda29- Do you know God?

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Ask this question to a staunch believer. Probably, he can’t give you a logical answer. But then faith and logic often don’t go together. Faith does not ask questions but merely accepts what is told. In the religious scenario asking questions is even forbidden. So, we just accept the existence of God even when we don’t know what that God is!

Veda28- One God or many Gods?

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During one of my early morning walks in a remote Indian village, I came across this elderly gentleman. He looked quite old with his wrinkled face betraying his age. He greeted me with a smiling face and introduced himself as a retired banker. He proudly declared himself as a person belonging to a faith that believed in a single God. Basically, he was a Muslim. I