Re, Maya quotes.

[Guest guest]

Namaste all, ( Especially Professor V K)

 

Professor Krishnamurthy had questioned the Krishna

Yajur Veda 4.9 reference as it leads nowhere. I

apologised to him for using the quote without

following up myself, I had taken the details from a

site which originated from the Himalayan Academy.

They have been very kind and helped track the

reference. I include below our last mails for I even

more apologetic than ever. Not to have recognised the

Taittiriya verse in the first place was foolish enough

but to publish a Mascaro translation will have me

condemned to derision by my wife if she finds out my

error......I won't allow a Mascaro translation in the

house and will need to decontaminate my computer now.

Incidentally. A couple of days ago I came across a

book entitled 'Maya in Shankara' by O'Neill which has

excellent chapters on language but also includes P.D.

Shastri's references for 101 uses of Maya in the

Rgveda. I am in the process of collating these with

the Devanagari transliteration and an English

translation.

 

I hope that the following sorts out Professor's

question and I apologise for not checking up on this

myself in the first place,

 

Peace and happiness

Ken Knight

 

--- Arumugaswami <ar wrote:

> Namaste,

>

> This wasn't too hard, just searched Google for the

> words in the quote

> and:

>

> 'All the sacred books, all holy sacrifice and ritual

> and prayers, all

> the words of the Vedas, and the whole past and

> present and future, come

> from the Spirit. With maya, His power of wonder, He

> made all things,

> and by maya the human soul is bound. Know,

> therefore, that nature is

> maya, but that God is the ruler of maya, and that

> all beings in our

> universe are parts of His infinite splendor.'

> Krishna Yajur Veda, Svetasvatara Upanishads 4.9 The

> Upanishads, Juan

> Mascaro, 92

 

Namaste,

 

Thank you for this. I should have recognised this

verse and if I had known that it was a Mascaro

translation that would have helped.

As always, Mascaro puts on to this translation his own

Roman Catholic Christianity and when I meet people who

have his translations I recommend that they use them

as an introduction to the Upanishads, if they come

from a Christian background, but then throw the book

in the dustbin.

His changes are subtle but the emphasis a distortion.

A case of mala maybe rather than maya.

Here are a couple of other translations, each with

their own superimpositions but closer to the Sanskrit

maybe:

'The Vedas, the Vedic rites and rituals, all forms of

worship and religious practices, the past, present and

future..in short, everything spoken of by the

Vedas...are all derived from Brahman. Brahman, by its

own power of maya, creates this phenomenol world.

Again, by the same power, the individual self gets

entrapped in this world.'

Trans. Swami Lokeswarananda

IV-9: 'The Lord of Maya projects the Vedas,

sacrifices, spiritual practices, past and future,

religious observances, all that the Vedas declare, and

the whole world including ourselves. The other, again,

is bound by Maya in this.'

Swami Tyagisananda

 

Thank you for taking the trouble to answer my query.

 

Peace and happiness

 

Ken Knight

>

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

advaitin, ken knight <hilken_98@Y...> wrote:

> Namaste all, ( Especially Professor V K)

>

> Professor Krishnamurthy had questioned the Krishna

> Yajur Veda 4.9 reference as it leads nowhere.

 

Namaste,

 

Thank you, Kenji, for pursuing the resolution of this

reference! Devi Chand's translation of Yajurveda [publ. Munshiram

Manoharlal, 1980] has 40 chapters, with no division into 'Kandas',

while Keith's translation has 7 Kandas with 44 chapters. Thus it is

hard to correlate the references!

 

These are the original mantras from Shvetashvatara Upanishad, 4:9-10 :

 

chhandaa.nsi yaGYaaH kratavo vrataani

bhuutaM bhavya.n yachcha vedaa vadanti .

asmaan.h maayii sR^ijate vishvameta\-

ttasmi.nshchaanyo maayayaa sanniruddhaH .. 9..

 

maayaa.n tu prakR^iti.n vidyaanmaayina.n cha maheshvaram.h .

tasyavayavabhuutaistu vyaapta.n sarvamida.n jagat.h .. 10..

 

[Radhakrishna has a page long foot-note to these, and quotes

supporting verses from Soundaryalahari #1 and 41, and Devi Bhagavata

I:2:5].

 

 

Regards,

 

Sunder