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V—WORDS on the WAY The letter ‘v’ in Sanskrit is generally pronounced much softer than in English, being much closer to the sound of ‘b’, or ‘vw’ but in transliteration the letter ‘v’ is generally preferred by scholars, as otherwise many words seem ungainly in English if written with a ‘b’ or sometimes with ‘w’; although the more usual tattva and sattva are often seen written as tattwa and sattwa and Goddess Sarasvat⁄ as Saraswat⁄, but never as Sarasbati. Våc (vark) Var:Vaac, Vak Synon: Brahman, Shabd Sense: ‘The Word, the Imperishable, the Firstborn of All;’ the offspring of the Absolute—the revealed sound, which is the life giving principle and breath of life within all beings. Våc is also considered as a Goddess, as in Vedic terms the word is grammatically feminine. She existed before creation and was that which initiated the creative process. This function later became known as Shakti [primordial energy]. In the Brahmånas, the texts that explain the Vedic hymns, she is extolled as a queen with a kingly partner in Prajåpati, the Creator. Quote: a) “This, [before Creation] was the only Lord of the Universe. His Word was with him. This Word was his second. He contemplated. He said, “I will deliver this Word so that She will produce and bring into being all this world.” 1 b) “It would be inadequate to describe våc exclusively as the principle of intelligibility of the universe, because she is equally the principle of pure affirmation emerging out of nothingness. Våc 655
is really the total living Word, that is to say, the Word in her entirety, including her material aspects, her cosmic reverberation, her visible form, her sound, her meaning, her message. Våc is more than merely meaning or sound devoid of sense; she is more than just an image or simply a vehicle of certain spiritual truths. She does not contain revelation; she is revelation. She was at the beginning. She is the whole of the çru ruti [the revealed Word, mantra and scripture]. The çruti isvåc.” 2 c) ‘The Word is not only speech, though constitutively connected with it; it is also intelligibility, the principle of reason, the power of the intellect, the rational structure of reality… it is also action, spirit, the unique Word permeating everything.’ 3 See also VAK Refs: 1 Tå~∂ya Mahå Bråhma~a, XX,14,2. 2 The Vedic Experience - Mantramanjari: An Anthology of the Vedas for Modern Man—Dr. Raimundo Panikkar (All India Books, Pondicherry. 1997/1989) 3 Ibid. Vachaspati—see B®haspati Vada (vadda) Sense: ‘Doctrine.’ Vågdev gdev⁄ (vahg-dev-vee vee) Var: Vaagdevee, Vagdevi Synon: Vak, Sarasvati Sense: ‘The Goddess of Speech, sound or voice—Sarasvat Sarasvat⁄.’ ‘Mother’ Sarasvati, the mythological consort of the creator god Brahma, symbolises sound or voice and her three-stringed instrument, the vina, produces the vibration of Oø—the Primordial Sound. 656
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