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integral knowledge and realisation of Brahman in the universe
and prepare the knowledge and realisation of the transcendent
Brahman. They are, to paraphrase Shankara’s description, mines
of all knowledge, knowledge on all the planes of consciousness,
and do fix the conditions and relations of the divine, the human
and the animal element in the being.
I do not claim that mine is the first attempt to give an
adhyatmic interpretation of the Veda. It is an attempt — the
first or the hundredth matters little — to give the esoteric and
psychological sense of the Veda based throughout on the most
modern method of critical research. Its interpretation of Vedic
vocables is based on a re-examination of a large part of the field
of comparative Philology and a reconstruction on a new basis
which I have some hope will bring us nearer to a true science
of Language. This I propose to develop in another work, the
“Origins of Aryan Speech”. I hope also to lead up to a recovery
of the sense of the ancient spiritual conceptions of which old
symbol and myth give us the indications and which I believe to
have been at one time a common culture covering a great part
of the globe with India, perhaps, as a centre. In its relation to
this methodical attempt lies the only originality of the “Secret
of the Veda”.
The Hindu, 27 August 1914