The letters of Omkara

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The great Polymath Srimad Appayya Dikshita makes an interesting statement

about the constituent letters of the praNava Om in his work

'SivArkamaNidIpikA'. He says: "It is well known from works such as

PrapanchasAra of SrI Sankara that Om (aum) is the combination of the first

letter of the first veda, the middle letter of the middle veda and the last

letter of the last veda".

The first letter of Rgveda is 'a' of agnimILe'. The middle letter of

yajurveda is 'u' of the word 'samudro' which comes right in the middle of

this veda. The last letter of sAmaveda is 'm', since this veda ends with the

words 'samAnam varam'.

S.N.Sastri

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Namaste Sastri ji,

 

Are your referring to the Samhitas alone when you mean the Vedas?

Thanks alot for your contributions to our learning. Your website is a

treasure chest.

 

Pranamas,

Kathirasan

 

On 8/23/06, S.N. Sastri <sn.sastri > wrote:

> The great Polymath Srimad Appayya Dikshita makes an interesting statement

> about the constituent letters of the praNava Om in his work

> 'SivArkamaNidIpikA'. He says: "It is well known from works such as

> PrapanchasAra of SrI Sankara that Om (aum) is the combination of the first

> letter of the first veda, the middle letter of the middle veda and the last

> letter of the last veda".

> The first letter of Rgveda is 'a' of agnimILe'. The middle letter of

> yajurveda is 'u' of the word 'samudro' which comes right in the middle of

> this veda. The last letter of sAmaveda is 'm', since this veda ends with the

> words 'samAnam varam'.

> S.N.Sastri

>

>

>

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Namaste Kathirasanji,

It is clearly the samhita portion.Perhaps we can get more information from

PrapanchasAra to which Appayya dIkshita has referred.

Thanks very much for your remarks about my website. They are very

encouraging

regrdas, Sastri

 

 

On 8/24/06, K Kathirasan <brahmasatyam > wrote:

>

> Namaste Sastri ji,

>

> Are your referring to the Samhitas alone when you mean the Vedas?

> Thanks alot for your contributions to our learning. Your website is a

> treasure chest.

>

> Pranamas,

> Kathirasan

>

> On 8/23/06, S.N. Sastri <sn.sastri > wrote:

> > The great Polymath Srimad Appayya Dikshita makes an interesting

> statement

> > about the constituent letters of the praNava Om in his work

> > 'SivArkamaNidIpikA'. He says: "It is well known from works such as

> > PrapanchasAra of SrI Sankara that Om (aum) is the combination of the

> first

> > letter of the first veda, the middle letter of the middle veda and the

> last

> > letter of the last veda".

> > The first letter of Rgveda is 'a' of agnimILe'. The middle letter of

> > yajurveda is 'u' of the word 'samudro' which comes right in the middle

> of

> > this veda. The last letter of sAmaveda is 'm', since this veda ends with

> the

> > words 'samAnam varam'.

> > S.N.Sastri

> >

> >

> >

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advaitin, "S.N. Sastri" <sn.sastri wrote:

>

> The great Polymath Srimad Appayya Dikshita makes an interesting

statement

> about the constituent letters of the praNava Om in his work

> 'SivArkamaNidIpikA'. He says: "It is well known from works such as

> PrapanchasAra of SrI Sankara that Om (aum) is the combination of

the first

> letter of the first veda, the middle letter of the middle veda and

the last

> letter of the last veda".

> The first letter of Rgveda is 'a' of agnimILe'. The middle letter of

> yajurveda is 'u' of the word 'samudro' which comes right in the

middle of

> this veda. The last letter of sAmaveda is 'm', since this veda ends

with the

> words 'samAnam varam'.

> S.N.Sastri

 

 

Srigurubhyo NamaH

 

The PraNava – Om

 

Just was reminded by the following, upon seeing the above. This is

not in contradiction of the above; just another viewpoint:

 

In the Taittiriya Aranyaka (I 10) wherein occurs the vedic mantra:

na karmaNaa na prajayA….., the concluding portion is: yo vedAdau

svaraH proktaH, vedAnte cha pratiShThitaH…. While commenting on this

in his Bhashyam, Sri Sayaacharya writes:

 

The `vedAdi' = in the beginning (commencement) portion of the Vedas

like `agnimILe purohitam', `iShetvorjetvA', etc. the commencement is

made with the pranava Om.

 

The `vedAnta' = in the end portion of the Vedas namely the

mantra `Omityetad aksharamidam sarvam' = All this is the Letter Om' ,

the Om is present.

 

The idea is: the Rg veda samhita is the beginning of the Vedic

literature. The Atharvana veda Upanishat (Mandukya) is the end

portion of the Vedic literature. In the commencement and in the

concluding portions the syllable Om is chanted (present =

pratiShThitaH).

 

This Pranava, during the dhyana, becomes merged in the (contextual)

avyAkR^ita (unmanifest) that is the cause of the universe.

 

In the `a' the viraat is invoked. In the `u' the Hiranyagarha is

invoked and in the `ma' avyAkR^ita is invoked. And meditated and

telescopically merged in their succeeding constituents. That is

viraat is merged in Hiranyagarbha, and this in the moolaprakriti.

The Fourth constituent `maatraa' is the naada. He is to be known as

the Supreme MaheshvaraH.

 

The ultimate idea is: the Om is all-encompassing the literary Veda .

It is all-encompassing the meaning of the Veda. The meditation upon

this sacred Om gives rise to the realization of the ultimate purport

of the entire Veda: Parabarhman.

 

One can find the above method in the fifth mantra of the Mandukya

Upanishad.

 

 

One may study the Taittiriya Bhashyam of Acharya Shankara for the

portion (I -4) which commences: yashcchandasaam R^iShabho…'

 

Pranams to all sadhakas,

Subbu

Om Tat Sat

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advaitin, "subrahmanian_v" <subrahmanian_v

wrote:

While commenting on this

> in his Bhashyam, Sri Sayaacharya writes:

 

Please read the above name correctly as: Sri SaayaNaachArya.

The error is regretted.

subbu

Om Tat Sat