Hey everybody, Pastor Steven Anderson here from Faithful Word Baptist Church in Tempe, Arizona.
I've got here a copy of the Rig Veda. This is the oldest and most important of the Hindu scriptures.
In fact, Hinduism is properly called Vedic Dharma. And the whole basis, the foundation, the bedrock
of Hinduism is the Vedas. And the Rig Veda is the oldest and most important of the Vedas.
Well, what is the Rig Veda? Well, it's a book of hymns. It's a book of songs sung to praise
their false gods and so forth. Now, when you go to a Hindu temple, this stuff is sung in Sanskrit.
So the people who are showing up at these temples, they don't even understand many times what's being
chanted or what's being sung because it's in a foreign language. But I've got here an English
translation of the Vedas. And if you actually look at what these songs are about, it's very bizarre
and very wicked. For example, there's a whole section in the Vedas on the drug Soma. Okay,
now Soma is a drug of ancient India, a hallucinogenic drug, sort of like the Indians
have peyote, the American Indians that is. Those in India had this drug called Soma that, you know,
it's like going on an LSD trip or something to take this Soma. There's a whole section of hymns
praising, taking this drug, praising the drug itself, and so on and so forth. First of all,
I'm going to show you this one right here. The Soma drinker praises himself. Under the influence
of the drug Soma, a sage or god praises himself. Now, a sage is a wise man who is studying Hinduism
and studying the Vedas. Well, first of all, the Bible says, let another man praise thee
and not thine own mouth, strangers and not thine own lips. So it's pretty weird for these sages to
chant and sing Vedas praising themselves. But notice it says the Soma drinker praises himself.
So this is a guy that's all high on some drug praising himself. Let me just read for you the
whole Veda here. It says this, yes, this is my thought. I will win a cow and a horse. Have I not
drunk Soma? Like impetuous winds, the drinks have lifted me up. Have I not drunk Soma? The drinks
have lifted me up like swift horses bolting with a chariot. Have I not drunk Soma? The prayer has
come to me as a loving cow comes to her beloved son. Have I not drunk Soma? I turn the prayer
around in my heart as a wheelwright turns a chariot seat. Have I not drunk Soma? The five tribes
are no more to me than a moat in the eye. Have I not drunk Soma? The two world halves cannot be
set against a single wing of mine. Have I not drunk Soma? In my vastness I surpass the sky and
this vast earth. Have I not drunk Soma? Yes, I'll place the earth here or perhaps there. Have I not
drunk Soma? I will thrash the earth soundly. Here or perhaps there. Have I not drunk Soma? One of my
wings is in the sky. I've trailed the other below. Have I not drunk Soma? I'm huge, huge, flying to
the cloud. Have I not drunk Soma? I'm going a well-stocked house carrying the ablation to the gods.
Have I not drunk Soma? When you look at some of the weird teachings of Hinduism, you kind of come
to understand that the people who came up with this religion were literally high. They're
literally drunk. They're literally on drugs. And so on drugs they sing this strange song,
I'm huge, I'm flying, all this weird stuff. And people who are going to the Hindu temple, they
don't even know the stupidity of what's being sung. It just sounds cool because it's being chanted
in a foreign language. It's got a good tune to it. So it sounds really religious. It sounds
really nice. It sounds really cool. What they don't realize is that if they listen to the lyrics,
it's basically just an acid trip of some drugged out sadhu talking about growing so huge that he's
going to beat up the whole world or something like that because he's all hyped up on this drug. I
mean, can you imagine if the book of Psalms in the Holy Bible had a whole section praising drug use
and talking about using drugs and how cool it is and just giving the drugged out ramblings
of a junkie? I mean, can you imagine if that's what the book of Psalms was? And then people will
turn around and say, well, how do you know the Bible's right? I mean, how do you know your
religion's right? You know, what about all the other scriptures? What about all the other
religions? Look, 1.1 billion people are following a religion based on the ramblings of a bunch of
drugged out hippies in the Rig Veda. I mean, this thing's crazy. This is madness. And so don't even
try to compare the Holy Bible, God's word. You know, we sing songs in church. We sing hymns
in English that we can actually understand. And we sing hymns praising the Lord Jesus Christ,
not praising drugs and those who use drugs, and certainly not praising ourselves.