In Gita Lord Krishna lashes out against the Karmakhanda. It is not Buddha and Mahavira were first attacked the Vedas but Lord Krishna himself spoke against them before Buddha and Mahavira.
In Gita, 18.46 Lord Krishna says to Arjuna: - the Vedas are associated with three qualities of Sattva, Rajas and Tamas. One must transcend these qualities. Full of desire, the practitioners of Vedic rituals long for paradise and keep thinking of pleasure and material prosperity. They are born again and again and their minds are never fixed on Samadhi, these men cling to Vedic rituals.
In another passage Lord Krishna declares: - Not by Vedas am I to be not realized, nor by sacrifices, nor by much study…..”
The Sruti itself says: "This Atma is NOT to be attained by a study of the Vedas. (Katha Upanishad I, 2, 23.)
The scriptures are for ignorant masses, who wholly accept the material world as it presents itself. Wisdom is for those who have begun to realize that things are not what they seem.
Each sect concocts a God to suit its own purposes. Such concocted Gods have no value in pursuit of truth. Man himself suggests that there must be a God. It is an auto-suggestion.
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