🔆 HINDU SCRIPTURES ✅There are broadly 2 categories of Hindu sacred texts – Shruti and Smriti. ✅Shruti (the revealed) – Sruti is direct experience. Great Rishis heard the eternal truths of religion and left a record of them for the benefit of posterity. ✅It constitutes the Vedas (Rig, Yajur, Sama and Atharva) and accompanying texts. ✅ The Vedas are primary authority and foundational scriptures of the Hindus. ✅Smriti (the remembered) – Smriti is a recollection of that experience so it is secondary authority. ✅ If there is anything in a Smriti which contradicts the Sruti, the Smriti is to be rejected. ✅It includes Brahmanas (ritual texts), Aranyakas (forest or wilderness texts), and Upanishads (philosophical texts). ✅These include the great epics of Ramayana and Mahabharata, Dharmashastras, Puranas and all other post-Vedic scriptures.