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| AN AMERICAN DISCOVERS THE VEDAS |
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My encounters
with the Vedas through these books were not mere intellectual experiences. They
represented a contact with the Divine Word, Vak or the Divine Speech, the Goddess
Sarasvati. I felt the presence of the Vedic Dawn, like the Dawn of humanity, the beginning
of creation, and the building of a new world for the Divine. This began my study of the
Vedas, which was rooted in poetry with a background of Vedanta.
Yet I was not completely satisfied in simply following Sri Aurobindo's interpretation. I
wanted to know what the Vedic rishis themselves saw and felt. A few years later when I was
twenty-seven, having gone through most of what was available in English on the Vedas, I
decided to look at the Vedas and Upanishads in the original Sanskrit. As there were no
teachers available to me, as I was then living in a remote town in Northern California, I
started with the Sanskrit texts and a Sanskrit grammar book and began trying to figure out
the language myself, starting with the oldest Rig Veda itself. It was a rather unusual and
haphazard way to learn Sanskrit, starting with the most difficult and oldest part of the
language, but somehow it worked. |
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