Introduction “Exiting wansatons of Vecic tx, however etymological Acura’ ate carhuhninegib oruncoméncing romeuimesadniseynineagble ope uamnor hms Neier the “Sacred Books of de Fas, cr or ‘eum sch sunlaons ofthe Upaninasasthove of LE. Hume, those Pails Ror. and Gavel cen repented, even aprosch he anand Synch works as Thoonas Taylors teson of the Bas of loss oF Hicthinders of Mainonider Cue fr Be Popicd Transiatorsof the Vedas donor seem to have poested any preious owe of metaphycs,BU Seger have gine tel fad ony gotions of onlogy fem Sanit urces Asremarked bung, Pye Types 268 wi eference tothe Thad fhe Upusinads nder extn eonitona any ve pererpion of he ‘Goel exrsordinar dpi of tee dens and their amare peyote ‘racy etl but emote poo TWinvery evden hat for an understanding of the Vedas, a knowledge of Suri hee pooondiicen Ines thenseives donot cely pon ther bnowhedge of Sans hee, ba na pon the absolute neces of St at te fet ofa gura That snot possible ln ese sense for European Seadene. er Eampe so powcnes radion founded in ft prneples “That mena which a he ore an eisteenh encaies ro into {eg an inetd Cutan oveng 2 ste to Maimonides, Aol; dhe Arar asco the ie fc wouldnt have found the Vedas dnl For example, hove who wndertood tha "Puerity and Glision are {Gjerde properties or that Gad ‘eanaotbe a Person without a Rati 10 ‘Gnhie Nature bewithovtaPeron' kart, [2684nd334 or hadrenditer Dantes 0 Virgia Mother, dauger of thy Son, Pari, xi, would ot have seein the muti generaon of Pura anid Vir: Duka nd Ads sir wbiuary or primiune made of thovghe thove fia with Cassan ‘oneepaonsof Godhead oi 'nakeand"asthough itwere noe would ot hive been dnconcerted by descpdons of Tatas ‘Deady (wy, an ‘Sting io we (net net), To thee who even today have sore ie of ‘hatiemeaatya reconellavon ofoppodies or havepardyundersiood the {elton tweet man'sconcousconciousnos td the uncacossoures othispocer the signcance of te Waters ea nexhavasble wel fe eh jen op he un he ra oe wa ie eich Stes ee ta taal oma 8 bt het a rn ot a eB a* Poptin of tea Powis ofertencemight be apparent When Biakempeaksots' Mariage ‘oftteaen nd Hel or Swinburne writes, Tidou bute, heres lnluced ‘more ofthe Veda han can be found in many learned dsieiionson vit ‘hllowoph’, What right have Sanskrune to confine ther labours tothe selutionoflingusic probeme fear that prelude thee mreuing with the ideology ofthe texts they undertake? Our scholarship woo ie hae? ‘What have aed here new approach othe Veda i nothing more ‘han an esay in the exponon of Vedic ideas by means ofa antadbn td scommentaryinwhichthe resourcesof other formnofthe universal eadion ste talen for granted, Max Malle, in 1891, held thatthe Veda would ‘continue wo otupy scholars Yor centules t come”. Mesihie there me ‘others beside profesional scholars, for whom the Vedas ae sigaeane Ta [nyease;no great exennionofourpresatinenure of ndersaning cae ‘xpeced rom phllogial research alone, howevervaluble auch ethos ‘ot evearch may have been in the past and what iv uve for Sumer. ‘Babylonian religion sno le ue forthe Veda, vt, that Toner progress Inch inerpretionofthedticutece of liuricseannot be made the cultismore profoundly icerpreted rom the prt view ofthe sory otreigion'® As rey the eansation: evry English word employed hasbeen ved seal ith espect wi vechnial sgnicance For example, nature here ahaa the coreaine of esence’ and denoted tat whereby the wot Iss it never a in modern colloquial age to denote the worl, ms anata Slay, exitence distinguishes from being, creation from ‘manation, local movement from the prep of motion, ihe ince fiom the inti and ferth All hat is abaattety necessary he ens of ‘he Vedi tris o be conveyed In ation, the ow Engh wore aed 'o complete the sense of te raat ar itcned and when sera English words are emplojedorencer oe Sasi term, the Engin words se generally connected by hyphens eg. Ady, ‘Supernal Sun’ Alga, “imperishable Word! Areas the commmentary-here have simply used the evurces cf Vedic sod Cian sriprures aide sd. An exended ae of Sumerian, Tai 0b, and Gnouicmurceswouldhave been atonce posible and luinetng, ‘butmould ive suetched the dscuson beyond etonabelimis* Aor he "Otte one hand the profeiona! aha wo hae cent he neces ‘uncorain ios on the ther he Boar Propepean of ndias Sought ‘imei rites norm Between the mo 8 feneymade for fe ‘eed ms of got “Langdon, 6. Fema, Oar 1946p, Jere lcm en Vet hist cinco Ss Tank Janene waned operand Bev, {E.Sun Parichat ain er daca ew oe We sogioed {ene ticlogr se pea Nea, RA, nde hem epi Eh ‘The Vader in Tobin ad But s ic and Chisianources ech tule he ote. Aad hatin lh WSinyorantconciouion to uneranding, fot Whan xprenes het ea tgif oer panty et ‘Hemline hepa setyous mach rine yee nothing oF SES omlng" nscer ny be tered o dened wth eget to SS’ ofthe Van tara ent erm ht fundamen oes te bynomen angle Mase of Fe Ars, Basen Drener 1992 ArasonK. Coonanasut ‘acai DR, Peep i of pi et Oe 198 laybe nud atte coolgy et nen Scan ten bern ep tuned ben aanina wy daar neve been ened 9 fon xropenn det oft YoBrhadaranyaka Upanisad, I, 2 ‘Satapatha Brahmana X, 6, 5) athe beginning (apr) no thing whatsoever was here. Thival (iam) sun veiled by Death (mpyu), by Pavaion (asenayé): for Privation is Death, That (4) tookon (abwrata) Intellect (mana), "Let me be Sele (atmanyam). He (sah), Sf manifested Light (arcan aera). ‘OF lim, ashe shone, were the Waters (apa) born (iéanta). Verily, whilst shone, there as Delight (Ram), ste (ie). Thisisthe Sheen Coat) of Shining (ara). Verily, there is delight for him who noweth thus the sheen of shining. ‘Oar text deals wth the origin of phe fom Darkness, Life fom Death, ‘Sema feo Poul, Se om the Unscfed, soguna trom ni Bratman. I an from Unconssousess, God front Godhead. “The fis Formal neunpion in Codhead i beng God, Eetar, L207. ‘The ohing binge if 2 Wil! Bbme, XC Quo eoncrsing Sa {ipa etetal wl aren he nodhig, wince the nothing ito something, ha thes might find fc and enol Signature Rr, TR "The Tao became One’, Tae Thing 2 1 nino of execs hm peeing i easy me: being in isl suena Encanant paar rope, has teting la common vi he nominee of the Abu or cacy forename ssgurecae stn opal bape ete ‘Manteno portend Neel e pata se ft "era Non ting eng ahd Ente, pen rel ieee "We snacnuns Nonna ad eg to be coreate npe,he neprle aur nd eoence of rian eager ens, note nent amen te ocean, nas steppin, onan Hau Cp. 103 wera ustence to inode al up, whether nominal a fora of fa an format Nowtesng i he perv Penpe, fae cave, of Beng Bing the ermine pnp, it chef Exitene The =| ‘ (ero) opens oni, Beg paamcmen (tena Se sor [niece pupngines sagem we Ca” ete, Maa Sieve) ‘ere