Sunday, October 27, 2013

Acharya Vaani – Wordings of the Master – (Acharya) Narendra Bhooshan - concept of Saraswti


Acharya Vaani – Wordings of the Master – (Acharya) Narendra Bhooshan


The origin of speech (Vaani) is from air (Vayu). It is again consumed by air. Speech created from the internal air (from body) is dissipated to atmospheric air. Speech shall not be produced unless created by the internal air. But in reality, both internal air and external air are the same. Imagine air as great God (Deva). This God creates Vaani (speech), who is extremely beautiful and enticing, from inside. Getting absorbed by air, by seeing its own beauty is the nature of speech (Vaani). We have to know the fact that, creators of Puranas made up the story that Brahma had lust for own daughter from this, thus distorted the beautiful concept of Saraswati.

-   Narendra Bhooshan, greatest Vedic scholar of recent times (This is a freelance translation attempt of original Malayalam article from Arshanadam October 2013 by Vijay Kumar Menon on 26th October 2013)
My humble interpretation – speech is created from the body by internal air. Once released to outside, it get dissolved in the atmospheric air. As air, both internal and external, is the same. Assume air (Vayu) as God, which consumes its offspring speech (Vani), due to its amazing beauty is a nice analogy which leads to the great concept of Saraswati. We have to understand and accept this reality as this was terribly misinterpreted by Puranic people as Brahma having desire for own daughter Saraswati. (This is one of the many examples of misinterpretation of Vedic concepts. There are so many others, which shall be discussed later – Vijay Kumar Menon).

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