I already addressed this in a post about the primal bijas of Rig-Veda, all pointed out by Brahmarshi Daivarata. You however are probably more versed in chanting the riks than he was.
To bad for you since you can read but are unable to understand what you read. Here it is again for you to forget again. I'm sure you know better, anyway. Gupta! Gupta! The Rigveda speaks of the primal cosmic word called akshara, meaning what is imperishable. The mantra o.m does not appear with any significance in the Rigveda, though it is well known in the Yajurveda but other mantric sounds do occur. Most common in the Rigveda is the mantra ii.m, which is a common interjection in many hymns. The Yajurveda speaks with reverence of this word, "Reverence to the sound ii.m" (Taittriya Samhita VII.1.19.1). The great modern yogi, Kavyakantha Ganapati Muni, the chief disciple of Ramana Maharshi, explains in detail the importance of ii.m as the great mantra from the Rigveda, its form of the Prananva, eqivanlent of om, as representing the Cosmic Word (Ganapati Muni Collected Works, Vol. VI, Vishvamimansa V.4.18). Ganapati Muni's disciple Brahmarshi Daivarata does so as well. (Brahmarshi Daivarata, Vak Sudha, Chaper 6). It was from Daivarata that Maharishi Mahesh Yogi received much of his Vedic knowledge. He brought Daivarata to the West as well a spending time with him in India. Through the power of the mantra ii.m, the secret of all Vedic mantras can be revealed. Brahmarshi Daivarata revealed the great mantra ii.m o.m shri.h, which is to be followed by the Gayatri Mantra (Vak Sudha, opening page). >From "Mantra Yoga and Primal Sound, Secrets of Seed (Bija) Mantras" by David Frawley. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "richardatrwilliamsdotus" <richard@...> wrote: > > > > emptybill: > > Go look up "sphota" and "shabda brahman". Shabda is > > more than the perishable sounds of human speech... > > > According to the Indian mythology 'mantra' is the > 'primary sound of the universe', called 'Shabd' in > Sanskrit. In the Rig Veda Shabd is personified as > 'Vac', the first primal sound percieved as human > speech. > > According to the Indian tantric theory the devas and > bodhisatvas do not take kindly to being addressed by > their real names, which are seldom known by ordinary > people. > > So, some yogi fakirs of old thought they knew the > Gods well enough that they could even call the gods > by nicknames! > > Calling upon the gods with their real names is very > offensive to the Gods, according to some fakirs, and > confusing to the people who cannot understand nonsense > gibberish. > > Apparently, some uninformed dillatante types once > overheard some of these so-called 'secret' names being > chanted in Buddhist hybrid-Sanskrit at a drum-bangin' > yoga camp-meet, amd mistook these for the real first > names of the Gods. > > This, in itself is a strange tale, as it implies a > hierarchy of those who pretend to know the secret > names, those who 'wanna know the names', and those > who do not know any nick-names, except ones they > read in a paperback book. > > If bija mantras were to be used to address the Gods > in secret or public ritual praise, Sage Patanjali > would have said so in the 195 aphorisms, would he > not? Or, if any bija mantras were known to be used > back then, the historical Buddha would have > mentioned them, right? > > Now for the historical facts: > > The bija mantras were first invented by the so-called > 'Eighty-four Mahasiddhas' specificaly as meaningless > sounds to be focusing on for yoga meditation practice, > according to Naropa and sGampopa. > > Read more: > > 'The Jewel Ornament of Liberation' > sGam.po.pa (Author), Herbert V. Guenther (Translator) > Shambhala, 2001 > > 'Masters of Mahamudra' > Songs and Histories of the Eighty-Four Buddhist Siddhas > By Keith Dowman > State University of New York, 1986 >
