Mantras of Rig Veda

Yaska and Brhad Devata on the mantra

Now the outer meaning of the riks can be understood from Sāyaņa’s commentary. But the secret sense, as stated earlier, is dependent on the meaning of the symbols. Yāska, the author of...

Eternality of the Veda and the role of rishis

When such riks clearly bring out the nature of mantrās as being created, how, it may be asked, can the Veda be said it be eternal, uncreated? The rik quoted above refers to the...

Mantras themselves reveal the secret

But the real greatness of the mantra lies, as we learn from the mantrās themselves, in the mode of coming to expression. There is a rik of Dīrghatamas declaring that the abode...

Unusual Nature of Rig Vedic Poetry

The riks are the mantra-perceptions of the rişhis cast in metrical mould. The object or meaning on which the rişhis meditated, the purpose for which they led the bodily life, the goal they fixed and established...

Sri Aurobindo on Mantra

“The mantra cannot only create new subjective states in ourselves, alter our psychical being, reveal knowledge and faculties we did not possess before, can not only produce similar results in...

Power and Source of Mantra

According to Sri Aurobindo, mantra is the poetic expression of the deepest spiritual reality. The inspired Word secretly comes from the home of Truth (sadanam ¨tasya, RV (1.164.47)) above the mind....