The Vedas are apourusheyam (not man-made). They are the universal truth. Like how the word and its meaning are inseparable and the meaning tries to explain the nature and characteristics of the word, the Vedas as the phonetic form of the Supreme. At the same time, the meaning of the word cannot explain or describe the entire nature and attributes of the word completely. For example, if we say an elephant, the meaning of the elephant is known to everyone. However, the word elephant cannot describe the animal elephant in its entirety. In other words, the comprehensible word cannot explain the nature of the incomprehensible attributes of the object. Similarly, the Vedas are the comprehensible form of the incomprehensible Supreme
