Akashic records

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Dear Spiritual brethren,

As far as I know this term was first used by the

Theosophical Society. The idea was to explain how persons can

receive knowledge from unseen or unembodied sources. The Vedic rsis

also got their knowledge from somewhere. So the idea was that there

are these akashic records, a large reservoir of knowledge like an

intercosmic hard disc to which you get access by austerities,

blessings, siddhis etc. Knowledge about facts, history, processes

and other things is thought to be recorded somewhere in such a way

that certain qualified persons can gain access to it independently

of the limitations of time and space. I do not know about any

Sanskrit word that has 'akasa' in it and would convey this idea.

However, in SB 11.21.38 it is stated, akasad ghosavan prano manasa

sparsa-rupina, "...Thus the Lord, from the ethereal sky of His

heart, creates the great and limitless Vedic sound by the agency of

His mind, which conceives of variegated sounds such as the sparsas.

The Vedic sound branches out in thousands of directions, adorned

with the different letters expanded from the syllable om:..." So I

would say here you have the essence of the whole idea. This is also

explained in some Upanisads. The akashic records are actually the

Vedic sound. Members of the Theosophical Society and others who

thought they tapped the akashic records often just had some contact

with some local ghost or whatever type of frivolous 'channel', but

not with the original Vedic sound which the rsis had access to.

 

Yours yogically,

Dattu