Chanting or even listening to these hymns will yield great material and spiritual benefits and bestow peace and serenity of mind. Vedic literature forms the foundation of the glorious spiritual culture of Bharath. These Vedic hymns range from prayers to the Divine for wordly riches and spiritual enlightenment, to ecstatic declarations of oneness with the Divine. These hymns, which were created by the Divine along with the Universe, are believed to exist eternally; they are highly potent and pregnant with deep spiritual insights.