The Great Mother is Sri Veda-Janani — Mother of the Vedas

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338) Sri Veda-Janani

— Mother of the Vedas.

 

Sri Lalita Sahasranama

 

 

The Vedas are the breath of this great Being. - Mundaka Upanishad., I. 1. 5

 

Because there arose from the Kundalini, which is triangular in form,

the vowels and consonants; Hence She is the Mother of the Vedas. -

Devi Purana

 

R. A. Sastry, Lalita-Sahasranama,

The Adyar Library and Research Centre, Madras, 1988.

 

 

" Precious or durable materials — gold, silver, bronze, marble, onyx,

or granite-have been used by most ancient peoples in an attempt to

immortalize their achievements. Not so, however, with the ancient

Aryans. They turned to what may seem the most volatile and

insubstantial material of all — the spoken word — and out of this

bubble of air, fashioned a monument which, more than thirty, perhaps

forty, centuries later, stands untouched by time or the elements. For

the Pyramids have been eroded by the desert wind, the marble broken

by earthquakes, and the gold stolen by robbers, while the Veda

remains, recited daily by an unbroken chain of generations, traveling

like a great wave through the living substance of the mind. "

 

Prof. Jean Lee Mee

 

 

" There is a mighty law of life, a great principle of human evolution,

a body of spiritual knowledge and experience of which India has

always been destined to be guardian, exemplar and missionary. This is

the Sanatana Dharma, the Eternal Religion. Hinduism is the one

religion which impresses on mankind the closeness of God to us and

embraces in its compass all the possible means by which man can

approach God. "

 

Sri Aurobindo

 

 

" Whenever I have read any part of the Vedas, I have felt that some

unearthly and unknown light illuminated me. In the great teaching of

the Vedas, there is no touch of the sectarianism. It is of ages,

climes, and nationalities and is the royal road for the attainment of

the Great Knowledge. When I am at it, I feel that I am under the

spangled heavens of a summer night. "

 

Henry David Thoreau

 

 

" Spiritual life is the true genius of India. Those who make the

greatest appeal to the Indian mind are not the military conquerors,

not the rich merchants or the great diplomats, but the holy sages,

the rishis who embody spirituality at its finest and purest. India's

pride is that almost in every generations and in every part of the

country, from the time of her recorded history, she has produced

those holy men who embody for her all that the country holds most

dear and sacred. "

 

S. Radhakrishnan

 

 

" India's spirituality is undoubtedly the most versatile in the world.

Nowhere on earth has the impulse toward transcendence found more

consistent and creative expression than on the Indian peninsula. "

 

Georg Feuerstein

 

 

" If I were to look over the whole world to find out the country most

richly endowed with all the wealth, power and beauty that nature can

bestow — in some parts a very paradise on earth — I should point to

India. If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully

developed the choicest gifts, has most deeply pondered on the

greatest problems of life, and has found solution of some of them

which well deserve the attention even of those who have studied Plato

and Kant-I should point to India. And if I were to ask myself from

what literature we here in Europe, we who have been nurtured almost

exclusively on the thought of Greeks and Romans, and of one Semitic

race, the Jewish, may draw that corrective which is most wanted in

order to make our inner life more perfect, more comprehensive, more

universal, in fact more truly human, a life not for this life only,

but a transfigured and eternal life-again I should point to India. "

 

Max Muller

 

 

" The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful

structure; more perfect than Greek, more copious than Latin, and more

exquisitely refined than either. "

 

Sir William Jones

 

 

" What extracts from the Vedas I have read fall on me like the light

of a higher and purer luminary which describes a loftier course

through a purer stratum-free from particulars, simple, universal. "

 

Henry David Thoreau

 

 

" The Rig-Veda, the first of the Vedas, is probably the earliest book

that humanity possesses. In it we find the first outpourings of the

human mind, the glow of poetry, the rapture at nature's loveliness

and mystery. "

 

Jawaharlal Nehru

 

 

" Among all the great religions of the world there is none more

catholic, more assimilative, than the mass of beliefs which go to

make up what is popularly known as Hinduism. "

 

W. Crooke

 

 

" In religion and culture, India is the only millionaire! There is

only one India! The land of dreams and romance. The one land all men

desire to see, and having seen once, by even a glimpse, would not

give that glimpse for the shows of all the rest of the globe

combined. "

 

Mark Twain