Rigvedadi Bhashya Bhumika

Rși Dayānanda called upon his countrymen “to go back to the Vedas” for eradicating all evils and ills of thier society. It was his long meditated and well-founded conception that the cause of degradation and slavery of Indian nation was the ignorance of true Vedic teaching and the spread of the Paurāņika culture and thoughts instead. Unless his countrymen again resorted and adhered to and followed the Vedic path, no progress was possible in social, political, economic, spiritual and religious spheres. Salvation lay only in adoption, acceptance and faithfully following the dynamic and radical ways of life as propounded in the Vedas.
But according to him the real and true significance and correct concept of the Vedas could not continue to remain in vogue after the great Mahābhārata war. True Vedic scholars and real interpreters of the Vedas, e.g., Yāska. etc., left the world, by and by, giving place to the confused and self-centred new type of priestly class who reserved the right of the Vedas to themselves only. Countless and conflicting religious cults, professing Vedic origin (without rightly studying the Vedas), appeared in our society. They began to kill and sacrifice cow, horse and even human beings in the Yajñas, e.g., Gomedha, Aśvamedha, Naramedha, and others. They forgot that “Yajña” is called -A+dhvara”, i.e., a sacred action where all types of Himsā is forbidden. Drinking of wine, meat-eating (including beef) and licit sexual intercourse, without sparing even sisters and mothers, the so called “Bhairavi Cakra”, were regarded as the ways of attainment of salvation by Vāma-Margins. Vedic stanzas were rongly interpreted by them and others in support of their ill-conceived and selfish conceptions. Mahīdhara, Uvvața and Sayana wrote commentaries on the Vedas under the influence