RE: June topic: mAyA in the Vedas: RV. X..177/Peter

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--- Peter M <nous07.theos wrote:

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>

> I am sure the weakness is mine when I say that I do

> not always follow what

> is the underlying issue you are attempting to bring

> to the surface in your

> many references and inclusions of material, verses

> and translations in each

> mail.

 

Good Morning Peter,

No, the weakness is mine. I do try to focus, honestly,

but I am not an academic by nature. I am drawn to 'the

revealed Word' where I find multi-coloured fireworks

exploding everywhere and the 'Wow' factor takes over.

This is a strength and a weakness.

In the posts I try to restrain this sufficiently for

people to get a taste of what is in the text, relevant

to the context of that posting, in the hope that at

some future date readers will be able to develop their

own study.

That is the personal stuff.

 

On the larger stage, we are dealing with texts that

the vast majority ignore as being too difficult or too

primitive; equal excuses to live in ignorance. As I

quoted at the opening of the second post of the

introduction:

‘The Veda is the lark’s morning trill of humanity

awakening to the consciousness of its greatness.’

(RgVedic Aesthetics P.S.Shastri Bharatiya Vidya

Prakashan Delhi 1988. p.9 when he is quoting

Brunahofer.)

Also we are dealing with texts written in archaic

Sanskrit. I look at the Sanskrit and I look at the

English translation. The latter may have something of

the original meaning but there is a dimension missing.

In an image:

The unseen light is manifested through the prism into

a spectrum of colour, a rainbow if we like. Now

imagine that I want to paint a rainbow but in my box I

only have red and blue. I can get something of the

rainbow but without the yellow the rest is impossible.

That is what it is like trying to make sense in

English of the Sanskrit, we do not have enough colours

even though our language emanates out of the same pure

light.

The next problem is that we are so locked into the

intellectual path in our Westernised cultures that the

intuitive part of our humanity is neglected. It is

only through the right,lawful working of the

heart/mind that we can discriminate the real from the

unreal and rest in the One Reality. That is what RV

X. 177 is telling us. Mayabheda: the magical power of

difference. Without seeing two the One cannot be

known, that is what the intellect lawfully does, in

the space of the heart unity is known and Humpty

Dumpty is put back together again. All of this is

coeval therefore it can only be directly experienced.

We may use the intellect to observe 'Neti Neti' for

ever and ever and ever as long as the mirror is in

front of us, finally it can only Be the Self realising

Itself in Itself.

 

Thank you for contributing.

 

I think that from now on you will find the posts more

contained as the introduction postings were trying to

squeeze a gallon in a pint pot. However I will be more

dependent upon allowing the texts to speak for

themselves. I could just keep referring you all to

www.flaez.ch but I am sure that not many will do so in

our days of information overload. Therefore I will put

in some texts but leave those who catch a spark to go

to the fire.

 

Ken Knight

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

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