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Which came first Veda or Vedanta?

Ridli Strap Replies to Rishi Vasanth
Yesterday at 11:08 pm
Pranams Rishiji,
Yes, very close to the point.
The question can be asked, "Which came first Veda or Vedanta?" Majority of experts will say Veda came first and Vedanta came at the end because 'antah' means end. Some even say, once you know Vedanta, Vedas can be ignored and forgotten.
What the majority do not know is that the Vedic scientists, when they attained the end did not abandon the beginning. They realized that the end can only be achieved by starting at the beginning; hence they revisited the Vedas which incidentally were shruti or 'heard' information and could not be ignored. There had to be an element of truth in it. What was that?
Tomorrow's homework 

Ridli sir, 

veda is knowledge
vedanta is the end of knowing process ie reaching a state of ''all knowing''

once this state is attained, one lives vedanta,
in this state , the single comprehensive folder containing all Vedas, ie all knowledge is owned by such an individual.

Such a rishi, with that ability gained, when he sees the world around, tries to understand thelife, in that light and accesses that ‘’total knowledge folder’’ and opens the most relevant files suiting to his purpose, and comes out with the chunks of vedic richas, ie vedic truths, that is how Vedas are created

So Vedanta is the first step
Veda is the result

Where as Vedanta is total knowledge, veda is parts of / patial details of that total knowledge,

Since he knows total, so for him, nothing else need to be known , he finds no use for parts
so for him all vedas become superfluous