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The term 'value' covers the entire field of human life. All kinds of rightness, forgiveness, tolerance, co-existence, truth, love, non-violence etc. are well recognized human values adopting which the human being can rise himself into divinity and make his life truly meaningful. The Vedas have emphasised that man will be truly human only when he lives up to human values and practises the good life. Many who chant the Vedas these days have difficulty in understanding their purport. When they fully understand the meaning and chant the mantras, they will derive greater joy. Ancient Indian concept of human values has been stated in the Vedas, Upanisads, Puranas, Gita, Ramayana and Mahabharata etc, which have been considered as the vehicle of Indian culture.The Rigveda, which comes first among the four Vedas, is embedded with abundance of human values. It teaches to maintain a friendly social relationship. The Rigveda also advises to be broad hearted towards dealing with others and to be franked with non-hypocritical love to all. It can be said that the Rigveda provides ample scope study different aspects of human values revealed therein. the whole universe, right now, is facing lots of crisis and turmoil like religious and language conflicts, economic crisis, corruption in every sphere of life, deteriorated law and order situation, cultural decay etc. which appear to be endless. Here, the morals teachings provided in the Vedas and Upanisads, perhaps, is the only way to overcome these challenges, as the great teachings of the Veda and Upanisads, ancient Indian scriptures, only can modify the human mind creating the spirit of universal love in them.