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In plain words
To ordinary people, simple people, people who do not know what the Veda is, it must be made known through yajñas, yāgas and rites of this kind. Even the Gopīs, who knew no Jñāna of any kind, no Vijñāna of any kind, and no śāstras, in their own feeling held certain things to be the Vedas. They regarded milk as the essence of the Veda. They regarded all the cows as the Upaniṣads. They regarded their own jīva-principle as the calf. They believed that the four bhāvas that come from the cow, too, were the milk that is the essence of the Vedas. They believed that this milk was the essence of the four Vedas. They took the gathering of that milk to be song. They believed that this itself was the essence of the Veda. Even when they prayed to Kṛṣṇa, they kept such an inner meaning before them as they went on praying to Him. 'Kṛṣṇa, will You not let us hear Your flute just once?' they prayed.
Sing a song, Kṛṣṇa! so that honey flows from Your words; speak to us, Mukunda! till our hearts are full.... (Sing a song …) Drawing out the whole essence of the Veda, turning it into the form of nāda, pouring it back through the flute, turn it into song for us. (Sing a song …)
That itself is rasō vai saḥ. The rasa of the Veda must be turned into song and shaped into what is real, a divine rasa turned toward God, that merges into the rasa of the mind.
Of all songs, the Sāma chant is the chief. But today the riches in that chant are not to be seen by us at all. The feelings fit for this chant, the sūtras laid ready in this Sāmaveda, are not to be seen by us. Where once a thousand pannamulu, where a thousand branches! If today there are two branches, how many more branches have we kōlpōnāmō. So if we do not nourish these little by little, we shall throw away, any day now, even the few that remain. This very day humanness is turning into the demonic and into the beastly. The śāstras of Dharma, the śāstras of Prema, the śāstras of Jñāna have become scarce today.
From the time he is born until he dies, every human being goes on following the authority of the Veda alone. Knowingly or unknowingly, we take it as some custom or other and go on following it. This naming ceremony is laid down by the Veda-śāstra itself. The shaving of the head, too, is laid down by the Veda itself. Piercing the ears, the upanayana saṃskāra, marriage: all these are laid down by the Veda itself. There too, this Ṛgveda has its dharmēca, arthēca, kāmēca nāti.... Anāgāyēṭuṭi: this Veda teaches only for these, Dharma, artha and kāma. The Veda itself says that it has no authority to teach Mokṣa. Mokṣa is attained only by the grace of God. Only when we experience the feeling of Advaita do we attain Mokṣa. This Advaita Jñāna itself is the right Jñāna.