The value of reading Vedic Literature in Sanskrit - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
http://www.tm.org The value of reading
Vedic Literature in Sanskrit -
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
1. Dr. Hagelin: There's one more question on the subject of Maharishi's Vedic educational approach from a student at
Maharishi University of Management,
David Pohlman. He asks: Maharishi, what is the special value of reading
Vedic literature in Sanskrit for students in your Consciousness-Based system of education?
English translations, however imperfect, being comprehensible, engage the intellect and heart and seem to offer educational and inspirational value. So I guess the question is:
What is the value of reading Vedic literature in Sanskrit?
2. Every Sanskrit word is lively on all levels-surface level, deeper level, deepest level, and transcendental level. Every Vedic word is the expression of totality. This totality is available in one word "
A".
3. Vedic is the language where "A" is inevitably pronounced while pronouncing any word. Specialty of Vedic word, is, it's a flow of totality, it's a flow of
infinity.
4.
Veda cannot be translated. There can be experience-our own consciousness can completely identify with the transcendental field. The Vedic sound is the expression of holistic value of knowledge.
5. "A" is there whenever we say any vowel or consonant: Every Vedic sound has some of "
A" in it.
6. Speaking Sanskrit, and the recitation of the Vedic words means we are stirring up, in our own awareness, some feature, some quality, of totality.
7.
Vedic texts cannot be translated, because in translation, you can translate only isolated values. That is why Veda is not known through reading the books. Veda is known by being totality.
8. 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:
Purity also comes in construction of the house, and in the auspicious times to go out, or inauspicious time to meet the friends and quarrel with them and all that. All these are fulfilled in that life which is only for that. That is the Vedic way of life.
9. The translation does not do justice to that eternal voice of totality which is the reality of the
Transcendental Consciousness.
10. Richo akshare parame vyoman: The Veda is the reality of the unmanifest field. And in the unmanifest field, all the memories are there. And when the memories wake up, they are heard; their activity is heard. So it becomes shruti.
11.
It's a very beautiful field of blessing to mankind. We want to culture these
Vedic people, and then they will be able to enliven real
Vedic chanting.
12. What happens with the Vedic chanting?
Harmony comes to be established in the field of disharmony. If there is a drought, then the Vedic pandits recite and rains will come.
Experience of the
Atma, which is predominant in the Vedic way of life will sustain harmony in the whole world consciousness.
13. The transcendental reality is that which is present everywhere: omniscient, and omnipotent, everything is influenced by that, just like the sap in a tree. 14.
We can train the people to that supreme awakening where totality is a living reality. Purity, purity, purity, purity.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi is widely regarded as one of the foremost scientists in the field of consciousness.