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Ancient Times refer to time of Sages but not to time ofSages
like Priests
4) Do you mean that there were no lapses in the ancient
tradition so
that all old is gold?
Certainly all old was gold as long as the sages existed. But,
after
sometime, the priests looking like sages appeared, who did not
knowthe sacred Vedas due to absence of the knowledge of
Sanskritlanguage. These priests simply recited the Vedas performing
the ritualsin mechanical way.This period of these foolish priests
is now referredas the time of the ancient sages. In such case, we
have to say that all theold is not gold. I should tell about a few
of such lapses.
Gayatri is the name of a meter, which involves the sweet
process
of singing to attract the mind. When the mind is attracted, the
song is
sung again and again. Such repetition due to absorption of mind
is calledas manana and therefore, it becomes mantra. Hence, such
sweet song is
Gayatri mantra. Both the words Gayatri and mantra indicate
protection
(traayate) since it is oriented to God. Upanayanam is the
occasion of
bringing any child of any caste near to God through the
initiation of
singing the divine songs. Hence, such process is universal and
is not
confined to any caste or sex. Since Gayatri is the name of a
meter, a
specific verse in such meter is named as Gayatri mantra, which
is
confined to a particular caste and this foolish interpretation
brought the
conflicts in the society. These priests are so foolish that they
represented
a female deity as Gayatri and the same Gayatri mantra was denied
to all
the females! The correct interpretation of the ancient sages is
that
Gayatri is the sweet divine song about God in any language to be
sungagain and again due to absorption of mind by any human being
forreceiving the divine protection.
Another foolish interpretation of these priests is about the
meaning
of Yajna. Yajna is the donation of food to any hungry person to
save the
life. You must give food to a hungry person even if he or she is
anatheist. First, you must save the human life from the hunger
death so that
after saving life, you can convert him or her into theist by
preaching the
spiritual knowledge. The hunger in the stomach of the human
being is
the actual deity of fire (Aham vaishwaanaro Gita) and Homa
means
putting food in such fire. Yajna is the process of giving better
food
cooked with ghee to the divine preacher, who burns the ignorance
like
fire. Yajna means the process of worship of sadguru through
feeding by
such special food. He is called as Agni because He should be fed
first.
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The word Agni comes from Agri, which means the first. These
foolish
priests have taken the word Agni for the physical fire burning
with
sticks. The word Ghrutam actually means the food cooked with
ghee,
but, this word was taken for pure ghee. The food associated with
ghee
can be called as ghee as per Lakshanaa Vrutti and this is
understood by
the Sanskrit scholars. These ignorant priests started pouring
the pure
ghee in the physical fire causing lot of environmental pollution
andstarted calling such foolish action as Yajna.
Therefore, the middle age of such priests should not
bemisunderstood as the old age of ancient saints. All these lapses
belongto the middle age of ignorant priests and not to the old age
of saints.
These priests waste lot of time in reciting the Vedas without
seeing the
books. They should spend this long duration of time to learn
Sanskrit
and understand the Vedas. The priest should preach the knowledge
of
the Vedas. In the olden times, the Vedas were preserved
through
recitation since the technology of books was not present. They
preserved
the Vedas by recitation and also studied the meaning. Now,
recitation of
the Vedas is unnecessary since the Vedas are already preserved
in the
form of printed books.
Written by
His Holiness Shri Datta Swami
website address: http://www.universal-spirituality.org
e-mail address: [email protected]
Jai Guru Datta
