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Translation of Ved

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Maharishi Channel, 17.3.2004

from Global Satellite TV Press Conference

by His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in Meru, Vlodrop, Holland

 

MAHARISHI: Every Sanskrit word is lively on all levels: surface level, deeper

level and transcendental level. Any word - Vedic expression is the expression of

totality. And this totality is available in one word: `A`.

 

So Vedic is the language where `A` is inevitably pronounced while pronouncing

any word. You take any vowel, you take any consonant, anything, `A` is there.

And `A` is the total field of knowledge. So whatever you say, totality flows.

This is Vedic word.

 

Speciality of Vedic word, Vedic sound is, it is a flow of totality, it is a flow

of infinity. Veda can not be translated. It can be experienced - our own

consciousness can completely identify with the transcendental field. And it is

that level which is permeating on all levels of expression - subtle and gross

and very gross and the huge, enormous galactic universe.

 

Vedic sounds is the expression of holistic value of knowledge. Vedic sound means

it has a flow of totality... Every Vedic sound has some of `A` in it...

 

So the sound of the Veda, whatever differentiated values on the surface, but it

always reverberates in some value of totality, total knowledge, some Atma.

Whatever we say, it is a flow of Atma...

 

So the recitation of the Vedic words means we are stirring up in our own

awareness some feature, some quality of totality. This is Vedic language. This

is Vedic culture...

 

Vedic text can not be translated because in translations you can translate only

isolated values. Translation is in space-time boundaries, the surface of it. The

next level - another surface level. Next level - another surface level.

 

In the translation you can not do it. That is why Veda is not known through

reading the books. This is a difference. Veda is known by being totality. And

this is fully awake Atma, fully awake consciousness. Regular practice of

Transcendental Meditation makes that level more and more acquainted to our

awareness.

 

And then some day totality of it becomes lively in our awareness. Then our

awareness, our consciousness is the consciousness of totality. Then Aham Brahm -

I am totality.

 

`I am totality` is not an intellectual concept - it is a reality. There is a

great meaning in the words but because it is that most delicate level of

physiology which requires so much purity. Purity of eating, purity of breathing,

purity of everything...

 

 

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