Who were Vedic Gods?
One or Many? There is a famous story in the Kandogya Upinsad of Sama Veda, VII Kanda in which a son who returned after studying all Vedas and he tried to impressed his father by orating what he had learned. The story tried to explain that the father felt that his son was sensing proud with the show of orating Vedas again and again. To make his son realized that knowledge doesn’t have the essence of proving show; he asked his son to leave eating food and drinking water for next two days and then come to him to narrate the Vedas he has learned. The son obeyed his father and remained fasting for two days and then came back to him. Then the father asked him to speak all four Vedas. The son only able to remember two Vedas which he learnt with great efforts and only narrated them, the father then again the son to continue the fasting for next two more days and return to him. The son again obeyed and remained on total fasting and returned to his father who asked him to recites all