Half a step before the first one

Vedic scholars — after intense research and analysis — arrived at the Truth about the universe and life some 5,000 years ago. They knew that the questions that they had found answers to will haunt scholars of all times and hence, this timeless knowledge will always remain relevant.
To see to it that this valuable knowledge is not lost in time, they put it down in words — as best as this impossible-to-express information could be.
But as it would seem subtle and dry to the common man, they made it easier to grasp and interesting to go through with the help of stories.
In this tradition, prolific writer Ved Vyas, after arranging the four Vedas in their present form, authored the Mahabharata — full of characters and plots — as the fifth one.
But unfortunately, Puranic tales — which the seers had envisioned as an...