Veda is Knowledge, specifically as the Whisperings of God. Vedantha is the end in the sense of culmination or fruition of the Knowledge (Vedas), namely liberation from attachment.

Veda means Word, the “words” that are careening around inside the personality rather constantly. These words, efflorescences of the Word in the sense of Divine Whisperings, are the constant of life, the Ground of Being, to use Tillich’s phrase.

Veda is Sanskrit correlate of the Greek philosophical term Logos, which word means Word and was used by Christian Adepts to indicate the function of Jesus in the flux of history.

“In the beginning was the Logos, and the Logos was with God and the Logos was God ….” (opening canticle of the Fourth Gospel)

The Christian correlate of Vedantha is Piety, the living out of life as service free of attachment, thus, Liberation. The word salvation in Christian context has a narrower meaning, though an important one, namely, being saved from unpleasantness or disaster. Salvation in Christian context is a correlate of Swami giving vibbhuthi, japamala, etc. — things which avert disaster for a devotee.

Veda is Word is Logos, is the central awareness I was wanting to express.

Logos is the root of our word logic, of course, and is employed extensively in English: any word ending in ology is ending in Logos in the sense of Veda as knowledge.

So whenever we use a word having ology in it, we are saying Veda.”

AMDG