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Guna and Dosha
The Sabda Brahman or the Veda is very difficult to understand. It is the product of Prana, the faculty of speech and mental faculty. It is conditioned by the Pranas, the mind and the organs. It is most subtle, unlimited, very deep and unfathomable like the ocean.
Speech or sound has a subtle and gross form.Para, Pasyanti and Madhyama are subtle.They remain deep and unfathomable like the ocean. Only Vaikhari becomes manifested in the Vedas originating in Pranava and appearing through the letters of the alphabet and the metres. Para is manifested in the Prana, Pasyanti in mind, Madhyama in the Indriyas. That stage which is about to issue through the vocal organs as articulate speech is known as Vaikhari. Vaikhari finds manifestation in articulate expression.
It is charged with My presence and strengthened by Me, who am perfect, unchanged and unlimited in powers and it is perceived as sounds or OM in all beings by the inner Yogic vision of Yogis like the slender fibres in a lotus stalk.
Just as a spider projects its web from its heart through its mouth, so also the Lord Hiranyagarbha whose form is the Vedas projects out of OM or Pranava through His mind, the Vedas, which proceed in a thousand ways graced with consonants, vowels, aspirates, semi-vowels evolved out of Pranava and which becomes expressed into wonderful forms of speech or language with four dominant metres. Hiranyagarbha withdraws everything into Himself at the end of a cycle, just as the spider also withdraws its web into itself.
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