Vedas and Adi Sankara - Part 3 By Sri.Sri.Muralidhara Swamiji.

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Dear Members,

 

The glory of the Vedas lies in that it speaks of

innumerable mysterious spiritual matters. The Vedas

have been given by the Maharishis who possessed subtle

divine vision (‘Divya Drishti’). The glory of our

religion is the Presence of the Vedas. Even those who

refused to accept the Vedas conducted research into

this. Balagangadhara Tilak conducted a research into

this. He conducted his research based on the period of

the Rig Veda. Max Mueller conducted such a

research.Sri Aurobindo conducted a research into the

Vedas. The founder of Arya Samaj conducted one such

research.

 

Even these great people accepted the Vedas to a

certain extent. Even the Buddhists who do not accept

the Vedas conducted a research into it. But none is

able to fix the Vedas to a particular period or age.

Even when this was tried based on the transformation

of the language of the Vedas it has not met with any

success. Taking Sanskrit on the one hand and all the

other languages (termed as ‘prakrithamãna’) on the

other hand we find that Sanskrit can be spoken only

grammatically while all other languages are not so. In

the case of other languages the spoken language is

different from the literary one. They are not spoken

grammatically. Sanskrit can be spoken only

grammatically and not otherwise. If we take up an old

Tamizh weekly we find that the term used for ‘index’

has been totally different some 25/30 years back. The

words used in stories, articles have all undergone

total transformation. It is so with other languages,

too. Thus the languages have lost their original form.

 

So when certain research scholars tried to ‘study’

into the transformation of the language of the Vedas

and thus fix its age the of the Vedas condemned it.

The reason that they cite is that, let us say, that a

small metal pot (‘chombu’) is used for various

purposes viz. drinking water, watering plants, washing

our body, etc. Being put to several and frequent use

it loses its colour and shape in due course of

time.Whereas, let us say that we have a small silver

pot which is sparsely used. Suppose it is used as a

‘Kalasa’ in a Puja or for offering ‘Purna kumba’ to a

visiting Mahan and the rest of the time it is kept

locked up in the cupboard. Now can the same level of

depreciation be applied to this silver vessel as

applied to the other metal pot? No, certainly not.

Similarly, it is argued by the supporters of the Vedas

that one should not apply to the Vedas/the Vedic

language the same scale that is applied to others. The

Vedas cannot be chanted anywhere and at anytime as one

fancies; cannot be chanted after eating, should be

chanted only with the set discipline (‘niyama’), the

Vedas have ‘Jada’, Gana’ and many strict rules and

regulations. So, these scholars say that one cannot

apply the same value of depreciation to the Vedas as

one would to worldly (‘Prakritik’) matters.

 

‘Sanskrit’ means that which needs no cleansing. Now a

word is born from within us. There is some matter that

I wish to convey but say, “It is within me but am

unable to put forth the same in words.” We wonder,

‘What is it that the mind says?’ We then try to bring

forth the same in words. Now, this thought is first

born in some language. Is it not? It is first born

within us in some language and then comes out as

speech. The scientists opine that language is

something created and learnt by us. But the Mahatmas

opine differently. They say that the language was even

when Man was born. We tend to disagree on the opinion

that the first Man (‘adivãsi’) first produced sounds

such as ‘ah’! ‘woo’!’ and then gradually a language

was born. We boldly say that Man had a proper language

to express himself. From the Vedanti everyone agrees

that it was ‘Sound’ that was born first and from the

Sound was born ‘Form’. First was born the ‘Pranava’

sound and from this were born Name (‘Nãma’) and Form

(‘Roopa’). Ever since creation (‘srishti’) Man was

speaking a language. It is not that he spoke

unintelligibly and gradually a language was moulded.

And this language is Sanskrit.

 

!!! Will Continue !!!

 

Regards

 

Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare

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