June topic: mAyA in the vedas: last post

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Namaste all,

Thank you all for your postings. Yesterday's free time

disappeared when the plumber came. He likes to talk

while he works. He has a mega-stammer. He is a friend.

That combination was enough defeat the intention to

answer each of you individually.

 

Why does Lord Krishna say 'Of the Vedas I am the

Samaveda'? Others may like to comment. My own view is

that although the Samaveda uses many of the Rks of the

RgVeda, it is in the chanting that the essence, or

essential meaning, can be heard. Must be more to it

than that though so I would welcome other members'

insights.

 

Thank you for picking up the mAyA-bheda or mAyA-abheda

problem. In the context of RV X.177 they would both

work.

This highlights the problem of context and intention

of both speaker and listener. Words can change their

contextual meaning from generation to generation and

we can see this in our own times as explained with the

word 'gay'. We need to consider the question as to

whether words have an essential meaning, which

transcends contextual change; the ropeness of the rope

and the delusion of the snake.

 

I had hoped to go on to the use of mAyA in the Atharva

Veda....not surprisingly the Sama and Yajur use mAyA

in the same way as the Rgveda....where the mysterious

and magical element becomes more emphasized in the

chaging social context. Then the word can be followed

through the Brahmanas to Upanishads and commentaries

where it finally becomes Shankara's anirvacaniya.

 

However, now is the time to pass the flame of sruti on

to the July topic. Thank you all again for all your

help and support, above all though, my gratitude goes

to Sri Anandamayee and Dr Kavairaj, without whom no

such study would have been possible by myself.

 

‘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.)

‘When I sing all the sleep comes off my eyes.’ (

Sinnah Kamara, a 10 years old, blind girl from Sierra

Leone writing ‘A Life in the Day’, a Sunday Times

newspaper feature, November 16th. 2003)

 

Enjoy the song

 

Ken Knight

 

 

 

 

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