VEDANTANTA
BY
S. MAHESHKUMAR
BY
S. MAHESHKUMAR
THE word for Veda in Tamil, viz., “MARAI”, literally means, “to veil”, “to cover”, and the thing that is concealed is what is known as “Truth”. What is the necessity of hiding the Truth? If a thing is hidden, then only the play called “Hide and Seek” becomes meaningful. So, ‘Vedanta’ translates into the final discovery about the Nature of Truth i.e. ‘the epilogue of Veda’. Now, as to what is meant by ‘Vedantanta’, I shall give the explanation as the transformation into Truth, the cataclysm that might merge and mix us with Truth & the play of us with Truth there reaches to the curb, its goal thus being achieved successfully with the conquest of Truth i.e. ‘the epilogue of Vedanta’.
Vedas are never old and are ever new. They exist with or without somebody to recite them, to pursue them and to be benefited by them. We in our microcosmic as well as macrocosmic state are struggling after the Truth guarded by the Vedas. Every uttered sound as well as twinkled light finds its essence and origination in the Vedas. All light is but sounds only just because the latter is the primary form of the former.
The Vedas that are not conceived are so because they cannot be put into finiteness. That is, what we so far formulated would never and ever be equal to that of the entire composition of the Vedas. In order to interpret the content of the Veda we must have to immerse ourselves deeply into it. In the course of the interpretation the Veda itself would absorb us. That is the programme, which we have set forth for ourselves. The Veda is akin to us and it is everything to the aspirant pursuer of Truth. It maintains the regular courses of our life. All we must do is to pronounce in unison with the Vedic Pulsation. It is impossible to beat against the Vedic Music. If anyone does so, it is just because the Veda itself wants him or her to do so. It is the product of all our collective strivings. Whatever that is concrete, immortal and supreme, it is the Veda.
How many the languages and how many the concepts that we engrave with the help of them, they all lead to the Veda finally. Our reason is not final but the Veda is comprehensible to as many Super-reasons that we invent, in course of our merger with the Truth. To surpass the contradictions that we encounter we shift our older reasons to enhanced newer reasons. Logic is sensible only when it encounters limitedness but there is the corresponding Super-Logic to account for the mind-oriented advancements. To go away from Truth is to really appreciate the Veda. In doing so, we become tired of the pulchritudinous world and its tedious affairs and turn inward and at the climax we end in the Truth enshrined within us. This is the ultimate goal of the Veda, Vedanta and Vedantanta.
We attain Truth by approximating it. And all our approximations are found in the Veda. Note that they are not appended to the Veda. We live our lives as a kind of repetition. Does that imply the saturation of the Veda? Saturation is one concept found in the Veda. In order to let saturation to flourish, the Veda accounts for it in terms of phenomena such as repetition etc. All that the Veda cares for is not to adjudge any of its contents as a thing of past or post existence. Its concepts thus live forever in eternity. That is what one could, out of his experiences with the Veda, finally boast of and ascertain for, in somewhat definite terms!
Liberation is the most personal experience that ought to be felt by an individual. The idea of Moksha i.e. Liberation is to be understood clearly and felt sublimely. It is the thought that would engulf and transform an individual into Truth after long periods of hardships. Unless otherwise one would personally feel the Truth for himself and be satiated, he would not have the guts to proclaim to himself that he is satisfied. The drive for Moksha should not be ever satisfied with a prey that is at least a few amount lesser than what Truth actually is! Till then we have to impose upon ourselves lot of vicious and curious entanglement.
When Veda lifts its veil, Truth is seen but to one who has closed his two eyes, the one seeing the world with the help of the outer light (the Physical Eyes) and the other with the bewitching eye of the faulty Ego (the Mind’s Eye) which is interested in consuming even Truth in smaller proportions only. When a person achieves in the task of closing the just said eyes, the Veda then gives the Sacred Darshan of its Truth to this Athmic Aspirant and absorbs him. We have to yield ourselves without any commitments to untruth and submit the essential crux of us to the Truth guarded by the Veda i.e. the Vedic Truth and transform ourselves totally and rigidly into it. There ends the end of the Egotistic mortal life and begins the Everlasting Divine Life of the VEDANTANTA.
—S. Maheshkumar.
{Written on 29th August 2002 at 4.11 PM Indian Standard Time.}
Vedas are never old and are ever new. They exist with or without somebody to recite them, to pursue them and to be benefited by them. We in our microcosmic as well as macrocosmic state are struggling after the Truth guarded by the Vedas. Every uttered sound as well as twinkled light finds its essence and origination in the Vedas. All light is but sounds only just because the latter is the primary form of the former.
The Vedas that are not conceived are so because they cannot be put into finiteness. That is, what we so far formulated would never and ever be equal to that of the entire composition of the Vedas. In order to interpret the content of the Veda we must have to immerse ourselves deeply into it. In the course of the interpretation the Veda itself would absorb us. That is the programme, which we have set forth for ourselves. The Veda is akin to us and it is everything to the aspirant pursuer of Truth. It maintains the regular courses of our life. All we must do is to pronounce in unison with the Vedic Pulsation. It is impossible to beat against the Vedic Music. If anyone does so, it is just because the Veda itself wants him or her to do so. It is the product of all our collective strivings. Whatever that is concrete, immortal and supreme, it is the Veda.
How many the languages and how many the concepts that we engrave with the help of them, they all lead to the Veda finally. Our reason is not final but the Veda is comprehensible to as many Super-reasons that we invent, in course of our merger with the Truth. To surpass the contradictions that we encounter we shift our older reasons to enhanced newer reasons. Logic is sensible only when it encounters limitedness but there is the corresponding Super-Logic to account for the mind-oriented advancements. To go away from Truth is to really appreciate the Veda. In doing so, we become tired of the pulchritudinous world and its tedious affairs and turn inward and at the climax we end in the Truth enshrined within us. This is the ultimate goal of the Veda, Vedanta and Vedantanta.
We attain Truth by approximating it. And all our approximations are found in the Veda. Note that they are not appended to the Veda. We live our lives as a kind of repetition. Does that imply the saturation of the Veda? Saturation is one concept found in the Veda. In order to let saturation to flourish, the Veda accounts for it in terms of phenomena such as repetition etc. All that the Veda cares for is not to adjudge any of its contents as a thing of past or post existence. Its concepts thus live forever in eternity. That is what one could, out of his experiences with the Veda, finally boast of and ascertain for, in somewhat definite terms!
Liberation is the most personal experience that ought to be felt by an individual. The idea of Moksha i.e. Liberation is to be understood clearly and felt sublimely. It is the thought that would engulf and transform an individual into Truth after long periods of hardships. Unless otherwise one would personally feel the Truth for himself and be satiated, he would not have the guts to proclaim to himself that he is satisfied. The drive for Moksha should not be ever satisfied with a prey that is at least a few amount lesser than what Truth actually is! Till then we have to impose upon ourselves lot of vicious and curious entanglement.
When Veda lifts its veil, Truth is seen but to one who has closed his two eyes, the one seeing the world with the help of the outer light (the Physical Eyes) and the other with the bewitching eye of the faulty Ego (the Mind’s Eye) which is interested in consuming even Truth in smaller proportions only. When a person achieves in the task of closing the just said eyes, the Veda then gives the Sacred Darshan of its Truth to this Athmic Aspirant and absorbs him. We have to yield ourselves without any commitments to untruth and submit the essential crux of us to the Truth guarded by the Veda i.e. the Vedic Truth and transform ourselves totally and rigidly into it. There ends the end of the Egotistic mortal life and begins the Everlasting Divine Life of the VEDANTANTA.
—S. Maheshkumar.
{Written on 29th August 2002 at 4.11 PM Indian Standard Time.}
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