`From this Supreme Self are all these, indeed breathed forth,'

[Guest guest]

Thank you Ken-ji!

 

You will be embarking on 'Maya in the vedas'pretty soon and i will be

on en-route to vacationing in Disneyland in Florida to enjoy the

pecious company of my two gems , my grand-sons!

 

I will have limited access to the web ( a self-imposed rule) and i

will try to spend every waking moment with the two delightful

darlings.But, i will definitely read all the posts here specially

on 'Maya' for whose grand presence we are all waiting for with baited

breath.

 

Yes, Shri Aurobindo was a poet, philosopher , saint all rolled into

one. He wrote the Immortal classic 'savitri' and anyone who has

read 'savitri' knows how much that classic work has been influenced

by the Vedas.

 

Shri Aurobindo says in his book 'Secret of the Veda' ...

 

To enter into the very heart of the mystic doctrine, we must

ourselves have trod the ancient paths and renewed the lost

discipline, the forgotten experience. Who will have the strength to

recover the light of the Forefathers or soar above the two enclosing

firmaments of mind and body into their luminous empyrean of the

infinite Truth?

 

"Who will free the radiant herds of the Sun, imprisoned in the

darkling cave of the Lords of the sense-life? When will the Maruts

again drive abroad and when the Hound of Heaven once again speed down

to us from beyond the rivers of Paradise and break the seals of the

heavenly wwater and the caverns be rent and the immortalizing wine be

pressed out in the body of man by the electric thunder-stones?

 

"Till this happens the secret of the Veda, even when it has been

unveiled, remains a secret."

 

Are the vedas a secret , or a mystery or a divine Sound to be heard

by the inner 'ear' and grasped by the intuitive mind ? Nevertheless,

we are fortunate to be exposed to this great text in this firum and

the finer nuances explained in such detail -we thank you for this

with the bottom of our heart!

 

You had written to me anbout some experiences with 'sufism' before .

You might have heard of the lives of Rumi and Shams - they found in

each other the indescribable THIRD SCRIPT, which cannot be understood

with mind but is known only as another person is known, as a presence

is felt.

 

Shams once said

 

the writing comes in three scripts,

one that he and only he can read,

one that he and others can read.

And one that neither he nor anyone else can read.

I am that third script.

 

 

With best wishes as you venture out to 'unveil' the face of M-A-Y-A

in the rig vedas!

 

Love and regards

[Guest guest]

--- adi_shakthi16 <adi_shakthi16 wrote:

>I will be

> on en-route to vacationing in Disneyland in Florida

> to enjoy the

> pecious company of my two gems , my grand-sons!

 

Oh Adi-ji,

You have mentioned 'That place' which is banned from

conversation in this house.

However you are forgiven for once more extracting the

essence of recent posts with the Aurobindo quote.

> "To enter into the very heart of the mystic

> doctrine, we must

> ourselves have trod the ancient paths and renewed

> the lost

> discipline, the forgotten experience........'

 

Direct experience, anubhava , through the

brilliance of Indra's lightning bolt, will release the

herd enclosed within the cave. The strength to direct

the herd to the station of the Sun's rays will come

from reasoning, yukti, on the revealed Word, sruti.

Study, sravana, reflection and meditation, manana and

nididhyasana, is the triad we accept as our

commitment.

 

With these in place in a heart cleansed by living in

accordance with Rta, we will be prepared to enter the

ritual ground and hear the mantras.

 

Enjoy the family and I look forward with gratitude to

your return to push us along with appropriate texts.

..

> You might have heard of the lives of Rumi and Shams

>

 

A story. So overjoyed were they when they first met,

Shams (Sun in Arabic) and Rumi stayed locked in his

room for many weeks, Rumi's wife was daily leaving

their food outside the door. After many days curiosity

overcame her and she peered through a crack in the

door. She saw a mystery, for, entering the room as

though the wall was not there, came some men wearing

strange clothes who gave Shams and Rumi some flowers.

The next day Rumi gave her these same flowers which

she could not recognise as coming from Persia, Iraq or

Turkey. So she took them to the market where an

astonished stallholder wanted to know how she came by

such fresh flowers that can only be found in India.

 

May the flowers of the Vedas breathe their sweet

perfume for you,

yAjnadaivate pushpaphale devatAdhyAtme vA.

 

Happy travelling

 

Ken Knight

 

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‘From this Supreme Self are all these, indeed, breathed forth.’

 

 

 

 

 

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