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been the subject of the Sruti-revelation or the Vedas. The revelations (Ref. Introduction to Seven Paths of wisdom) are characterized by the absoluteness of the vision of Reality, its self-evident nature as eternal for all time. Such a vision is of the real nature or the ‘yathartha’, as it is in itself of all things. This revelational perception is obviously aparokhanubhuti or divyapratyaksha, non-sensory, non-mental, non-buddhic too and non-material. It is the vision of the purest spirit which is inward to the seer and outward too-all pervasive.
Veda- Revelation
We may pause to consider here what our Revered. Master has to say on the subject of Veda and revelation. In His article entitled Vibration, Sound and symbol (SS p 338-46) He states, ‘Veda is really that condition which was before the time of creation of the universe. Therefore it is quite true to say that the Vedas came into existence at the time of the creation of the universe. They have been shaped in the form of books. It is as if the conditions have been given a dress’; ‘ the Vedic rishis taking the dim sound created by the churning currents (as existing at the time of creation) as the basis remained in search of That whose sound this was. Therefore in the Rig veda whatever I have heard being read from some of its beginning portions this very sound or shabda is utilized’.
‘Having come out of the Ocean of Reality we were Reality alone from top to toe. Now because our primary condition was like that our vision could straight away see that without any obstruction and it had the knowledge of That, the form of which can be considered Vedas—If you deeply ponder over the alphabet of Sanskrit you shall find the rise and fall in it in the form of natural vibration. And in that language the rishis have written by feeling every vibration: and they started to call it Sanskrit (Divine). Revelation has come to them in no particular language. Divine revelations come even now but mostly, and correctly to those who have regained their original condition and have got their connection to the Original Source. And it always comes in the language which one knows. It strikes the mind and he becomes aware (feels) through the words he has learnt.’ Elsewhere He says (Sruti p 311), ‘ Realization comes only when we become ‘blind’ and sruti follows only when we turn ‘deaf’, the words ‘deaf’ and ‘blind’ not being used in the physical sense’.
That is, we shall be ‘blind’ to all else other than the Master, the Goal of life even as it has been told about the great archer and marksman Arjuna that he did not see anything other than the left eye of the bird he was asked to take aim at. Being ‘deaf’ is to achieve in a natural manner total control over the clamour of the senses, the desires and the vrittis of the mind, that is in other words, maintaining control over and purity in the physical, vital and mental planes and arrive at the state of supreme silence in which only His voice can