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Describe the idea of buddha and mahavira on the aurhority of veda

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Describe the ideas of Buddha and Mahavira on the authority of Vedas.

Before going into the ideas of Buddha and Mahavra on the authority of vedas. Let us look what does vedas contain:

1. We find that vedas describes existence of various gods, god of war, fire, air, the creator, destroyer, etc. And vedas has the supreme authority.

2. Vedas also mentions different rites and rituals to be performed by the people for different occasions. Some rites and rituals are elaborate and very expensive and it is meant to be done by th ekings.

3. According to the vedas we also find that people are stratified according to their birth known as Varna system. Where brahmanas are at the top and shudras at the bottom. And there are also someone who are known as untouchables who were cast out of the varna systems.

Now we find that Jainism and Buddhism has with them some radical elements that challenges the norms existing in the Brahmanic order.

1. They challenge first the supreme authority of the vedas and existence of god as irrelevant for the salvation of a human.

2. They were also against the elaborate rituals system that vedas justified. they did not believe in the rites and rituals but rather believed in human karma and actions.

3. They also regarded the social world as the creation of humans rather than of divine origin. Individual effort was expected to transform social relations. The Buddha emphasised individual agency and righteous action as the means to escape from the cycle of rebirth and attain self-realisation and nibbana, literally the extinguishing of the ego and desire – and thus end the cycle of suffering for those who renounced the world.

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