In English
The was the subject of the discourse by today, but do not think that it has no relevancy to the seven-day vedic ritual of Sacrifice of Spiritual Wisdom for the Supreme Being of (); for the contains the essence of itself. In hymn after hymn, the speaks of the glory of God, known by various names as , , , etc. It is all worship filled with devotion to God, whom the itself declares as One, “though endowed with a variety of names”. The is the essence of , made available for easy assimilation by all. It is just a limb of the vedic literature, and as limb it is an inseparable part of the vedic tradition. The same blood flows in this limb too; it makes the beautiful and charming. Just as juveniles are shown pictures and made to learn names of the objects that they represent, the teaches the Imperishable through the perishable. You cannot attain the subtle without experiencing the gross, without the instrumentality of the gross. After rising to the heights of awareness () with a dull-witted instrument, you have to also make the instrument so suffused by Supreme Consciousness () that the difference does not persist! In meditation, the picture first felt has to be transformed into the picture of the purified imagination, and that again has to be rarified into the subtle abstract principle only. Then only can the Form being meditated on be transcended and the highest vision of universal beauty, wisdom, and strength obtained. The helps in this spiritual education, taking the student through all the lessons from the primary to post-graduate levels.