The Veda (Contd.)

   The Veda has been the most misunderstood subject since very early times due to the strictures imposed in its teaching (from father as guru to son as disciple within the family) and the mode of teaching (only from teachers instructions with phonetic perfection without any writing), strictly enforced since times immemorial. This inherent strength of character of Vedic tradition, its symbolism, the coded words and symbols, secretive nature, as well as, the inherent power and strength of sounds of syllables and words as Rks, mantra, make the study highly specialized, beyond the reach of ordinary people. Most of the commentators have failed to explain the Veda Suktas such as the asya vamiya sukta, the pavamana sukta, nasadiya sukta, or the purusha sukta and devi sukta. Sayana, the pradhana amatya (Prime Minister) of Vijayanagar King who edited the Veda Texts with a team of experts says that he did not understand the meaning of four hundred words. Some of the sukta explaining the Adityas Soma, or Rudra or the birth of Agastya, Vashishtha, or Kashyap are all full of mystery. Soma is the riddle in the Veda. Now, who will explain all these to us?

  We will not go into these questions since a separate book- "Decoding the Veda"- Rk Veda Samhita, has already been published and a copy can be had by e-mail attachment via <divinegracefoundation@gmail.com>. However, certain essential things are clarified here in the following. 

   There was absolute Silence, mahattanta shanta, called brahman in the beginning-less beginning. This absolute silence (shantata) can be explained anytime, even now, too. Everything, called the universe, manifests from this absolute silence! There are four initial stages of this dynamic silence that starts with the total silent state (nishchala), to subtle vibrant mode to sound and syllables ending with audible sounds and words full of creative power! The eight-lettered (ashtakshari) mantra that explains this is: OM | shantodita vijnyana pranaya sarvadarshine chaitanyaya namaH |

 Here the word 'shantodita' is that which manifests from para brahman; the second and third words- vijnyana pranaya stand for 'sat' (potency) and 'cit' (consciousness/fire or energy that sustain jivas); The term 'sarvadarshine' is the all-revealing 'light' that reveals the truth, the true nature of existence (sada and asada of nasadiya sukta of Rk Veda); and, finally, the term 'chaitanya' stands for pure consciousness (shuddha sattva sattva-prajnya)