Words on the Way - Muz Murray Mantra Yoga Master
Words on the Way - Muz Murray Mantra Yoga Master
Words on the Way - Muz Murray Mantra Yoga Master
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is really <strong>the</strong> total living Word, that is to say, <strong>the</strong> Word in her<br />
entirety, including her material aspects, her cosmic reverberati<strong>on</strong>,<br />
her visible form, her sound, her meaning, her message. Våc is<br />
more than merely meaning or sound devoid of sense; she is more<br />
than just an image or simply a vehicle of certain spiritual truths.<br />
She does not c<strong>on</strong>tain revelati<strong>on</strong>; she is revelati<strong>on</strong>. She was at <strong>the</strong><br />
beginning. She is <strong>the</strong> whole of <strong>the</strong> çru<br />
ruti<br />
[<strong>the</strong> revealed Word, mantra<br />
and scripture]. The çruti isvåc.” 2<br />
c) ‘The Word is not <strong>on</strong>ly speech, though c<strong>on</strong>stitutively c<strong>on</strong>nected<br />
with it; it is also intelligibility, <strong>the</strong> principle of reas<strong>on</strong>, <strong>the</strong> power of<br />
<strong>the</strong> intellect, <strong>the</strong> rati<strong>on</strong>al structure of reality… it is also acti<strong>on</strong>,<br />
spirit, <strong>the</strong> unique Word permeating everything.’ 3<br />
See also VAK<br />
Refs:<br />
1<br />
Tå~∂ya Mahå Bråhma~a, XX,14,2.<br />
2 The Vedic Experience - <strong>Mantra</strong>manjari: An Anthology of <strong>the</strong> Vedas for Modern Man—Dr.<br />
Raimundo Panikkar (All India Books, P<strong>on</strong>dicherry. 1997/1989)<br />
3 Ibid.<br />
Vachaspati—see B®haspati<br />
Vada (vadda)<br />
Sense: ‘Doctrine.’<br />
Vågdev<br />
gdev⁄ (vahg-dev-vee<br />
vee)<br />
Var: Vaagdevee, Vagdevi<br />
Syn<strong>on</strong>: Vak, Sarasvati<br />
Sense: ‘The Goddess of Speech, sound or voice—Sarasvat<br />
Sarasvat⁄.’<br />
‘Mo<strong>the</strong>r’ Sarasvati, <strong>the</strong> mythological c<strong>on</strong>sort of <strong>the</strong> creator god<br />
Brahma, symbolises sound or voice and her three-stringed<br />
instrument, <strong>the</strong> vina, produces <strong>the</strong> vibrati<strong>on</strong> of Oø—<strong>the</strong><br />
Primordial Sound.<br />
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