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The heart and, indeed, soul of the Vedas and the Vedic civilisation was meditation and the increased consciousness it develops. Said to have been a society that functioned in direct accord with Cosmic Law, the Vedic civilisation was centred around the cognitions (the state that comes before recognition) of a number of Enlightened sages, called Rishis. The Vedic texts, rituals and many other aspects of Vedic society were cognised by the Rishis during their meditations. Although the Rishis were central to the Vedic civilisation, their message was not one of centralised control but of individual freedom. Thus it is that much of the Vedas are concerned with descriptions of higher states of consciousness and exhortations to develop towards the state of blissful unity with the Cosmos that is described as Enlightenment.

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	The heart and, indeed, soul of the Vedas and the Vedic civilisation was meditation and the increased consciousness it develops. Said to have been a society that functioned in direct accord with Cosmic Law, the Vedic civilisation was centred around the cognitions (the state that comes before recognition) of a number of Enlightened sages, called Rishis. The Vedic texts, rituals and many other aspects of Vedic society were cognised by the Rishis during their meditations. Although the Rishis were central to the Vedic civilisation, their message was not one of centralised control but of individual freedom. Thus it is that much of the Vedas are concerned with descriptions of higher states of consciousness and exhortations to develop towards the state of blissful unity with the Cosmos that is described as Enlightenment.

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