--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "do.rflex" <do.rf...@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > John, this was actually a very sweet quote. I can > > only assume that the translator's choice of language > > is extremely poetic, and that he did not feel the > > need for an exact translation, merely one that > > captured what he saw in the verse. > > Why do you assume that the author's words aren't an exact > translation?
Just a hunch, based on the fact that they don't sound anything like any translations of the Rig Veda I've ever heard before. They sound more like, say, Robert Bly's "tranalations" of Rumi, done poetically and eloquently, but without knowing a word of the original language. > > But what fascinates me is what was *made* of the > > quote here. Even reading only in Message View, it > > appears that the only thing a few folks saw in the > > verse worth discussing was one word -- "corn." > > Indeed. > > Considering that the whole Transcendental Meditation > teaching according to MMY, is based on the authenticity > of the Vedas, it IS interesting (but not very surprising) > to me that not one person other than you has said one > word about the topic itself. > > Rather, the comments are confined to quibbling about > whether or not there was corn in ancient India. > > <Chuckle> Yuppers. Don't look for a great deal of more interesting insight from me. I found it a really unique way of describing the heart chakra, but these days describing the chakras is not so much my interest as utilizing them in various forms of meditation. > > It reminds me more than anything else of a classic > > Monty Python bit, in which the only word that the > > participants felt worth discussing was "hats." > > > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2QJvc_SxFQ > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "do.rflex" <do.rflex@> wrote: > > > > > > ...Like a lotus turned downwards is the heart, > > > a span below the neck and a span above the navel. > > > > > > Know that heart to be the abode of God. > > > Surrounded by nerves, it hangs down like a lotus bud. > > > > > > At its end is a subtle nerve, > > > in which is established the Being, who is everything. > > > > > > A great fire is at its center, which has > > > flames all around, spreading in all directions. > > > > > > It is the first partaker, the ageless knower, > > > who digests and circulates food. > > > > > > Above and below are its spreading flames. > > > It keeps its body hot from head to feet. > > > > > > At its core lies a flame, tapering finely upwards, > > > like the awn of corn, yellow, bright and subtle, > > > flashing like a lightening in the heart of a dark cloud. > > > > > > At the center of this flame is installed the Supreme Being. > > > He is Brahman. He is Siva. He is Indra. > > > > > > > > > He is the indestructible Supreme Being, the lord Himself. > > > > > > > > > - excerpts from the Taittariya Aranyaka III.13 > > > > > > from Hymns of the Rig Veda - Compiled by Jayaram V > > > http://www.hinduwebsite.com/vedicsection/rigvedichymns.asp > > >
