A: It is apparent that the religious books of all the other religions are of human creation. On the other hand, the eternal Vedas is not the creation of anyone, not even by the Supreme Being! The Vedas are self-creative. In the interest of the well being of all, the Lord is ever mindful of the Vedas. At the beginning of creation and recreation of several million years called 'kalpas', the Supreme Lord creates Brahma and inducts him into the study of the Vedas. Thereafter, Brahma creates the living entities (jivas), who, by a process of succession from teacher to disciple, teach the Vedas. The Vedas are therefore beginning less ('anaadi'), eternal ('nithyam') and not created by anyone ('apaurusheyam'). The four Vedas, namely, the Rik, Yajur, Saama and Atharvana are notationally ('swaras') recited throughout the country uniformly.
This is the unique feature of the Vedas and is not discernible of any other religious book. From time immemorial, the Vedas are taught and spread by a teacher to a student by word of mouth only. Until the last century, the Vedas have never been reduced to writing even on palm leaves and for this reason, the tamils of yore considered the Vedas not amenable to writing. They called the Vedas the 'Unwritten word'.
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