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believes that Vedic poetry is nothing but the voice of a tribal society
in the barbaric, not civilized, state of social evolution. But let us
think deeply. What is the context? Who are our enemies in that
context? Who or what are those that injure us? What are those
we hate or want to injure and destroy? The context is health. In
the context of health, they are the ailments, diseases, germs and
bacteria, viruses, negativities and side effects of medicines in our
system. So the correct and scientific interpretation in the context
of health would be: “May waters, tonics, pranic energies and
medicinal herbs be good friends of our health and immunity
system and let the waters, tonics, pranic energies and herbal
medicines act against those ailments, diseases and negativities
which injure us, which we hate to suffer and which we love to
destroy. Moreover let them have no side effects because side
effects too aggravate the negativities and injure us.” This is the
reasonable prayer and health programme of an advanced society.
And then, logically in the next mantra, follows the prayer for a
full hundred years and more of life and healthy living (Yajurveda,
36, 24). Veda thus is food for thought.
In human terms: If a legendary celebrity can admire
another human figure as “inscrutable, apocalyptic, a mysterious
poem written in flesh and blood”, how much more – infinitely
more– mysterious, inscrutable, apocalyptic would be the Cosmic
Poem (Devasya Kavyah) created in the language of the Ultimate
Vision?
Veda is a Cosmic Poem: the more we know, the more we
know the Veda, and the more we know the Veda, the more we
know.
Indeed, every reader should stand before the Veda, every
verse of It in fact, as Arjuna stood before the Cosmic Krishna,
waiting and watching intently, for the burst of a thousand suns,
for the Dawn on top of the Earth, for the Revelation.
May the light burst forth, I pray.
—Tulsi Ram
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