Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra
Vedic Kaavya: Rig Veda 1.4.10
यो रा॒यो॒३॒॑ऽवनि॑र्म॒हान्त्सु॑पा॒रः सु॑न्व॒तः सखा॑ । तस्मा॒ इन्द्रा॑य गायत ॥
This is another gorgeous rik. And I am talking only about the poetry. Try to see if you can hear someone chant it
HH Wilson translates it thus:
Sing unto that Indra who is the protector of wealth, the mighty, the accomplisher of good deeds, the friend of the offerer of the libation.”
I am sorry. His translation doesn’t do justice to the original at all.
Indra is avnih mahaana अवनि: महान or a continent of bliss. Rayi is spiritual opulence not just wealth. He takes us across सुपार: as our friend सखा:
Indra comes across as an extremely powerful being who is our highest intelligence. All I can think of is how can I bring him down into my mind! Or reach up to him!
But the rhythm stretches you out into the infinite especially with the pause after रायो
Yo rhymes internally with raayo. The anuprasa of sa- sounds in the second pada spreads out the settled wideness
The आ sound in the last four words further opens up the invocation that was started with the deergha maatraas in the first three alphabets of the rik
Just as poetry this is fabulous. Why are we not teaching this in schools? I have seizures of joy just reading this. I hope you have them too
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Vedic Dhyana: अंगिकरण:
For more than three decades I struggled with dhyana. Breakthroughs happened but they were not steady
Until I immersed myself in the Veda expecting the same approach to dhyana as all modern interpretations. The Veda shattered the understanding that dhyana is passive. In fact, it is anything but passive when I am deeply immersed in taking care of patients and practices
So, where is the sweet spot? For me, it was the complete identification with the Divine I was worshipping, the Guru I was studying, the Agni I was pouring everything into. I realized that I am the Yajna I am performing or rather I am the Yajna being performed. The Agni I am offering everything into is within accepting everything already. The Divine I love is the Divine loving itself. The Guru is the Self within
How to make it happen? A deep intimacy with the Divine Beloved. And I am biased but I keep hearing in my brain when I try to explain RV 1.1.6 तदन्ग दाशुषे . The anga of Agni always receives bhadram from Agni and I am his anga. That is not how Sayana interpreted it but he would not mind my own assimilation of his reading
Suddenly Sri Krishna of the Bhagavad Gita 4.24 made sense ब्रह्मार्पणम् ब्रह्म हवि: This intensity within to do yoga was always the Agni leading the Yajna. And all equations crossed over. I think the Veda can give a new perspective and intensity to saadhaks and seekers, taking away the last vestiges and concepts of what is and what is not yoga. I may be utterly biased based on my experience but then again, maybe not. And everyone can advance their yoga by diving into the Veda headlong
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