Word: Difference between revisions

<blockquote>These are the very words of Veda. ''Prajapatir vai idam ast'': In the beginning was Brahman. ''Tasya vag dvitya ast''; with whom was Vak or the Word (She is spoken of as second to Him because She is first potentially in, and then as [[Shakti]] issues from Him); ''Vag vai paramam Brahma''; and the word is Brahman. Vak is thus a Shakti or Power of the Brahman.... This Shakti which was in Him is at the creation with Him, and evolves into the form of the Universe whilst still remaining what It is—the Supreme Shakti” who is “one with Brahman.”<ref>Arthur Avalon, ''The Garland of Letters'' (Pondicherry, India: Ganesh & Co., n.d.), pp. 4–5.</ref></blockquote>

Panikkar also notes that “Vac was before all creation, preexisting before any being came to be.... Vac is the life-giving principle within all beings.... She has a feminine characteristic of complementarity, a mediatorial role, and a certain feminine docility and obedience. She needs always to be uttered, by men, by Gods, or by the Creator himself.... [The Vedic Word] is ultimately as important as Brahman and, in a way that has to be properly understood, it is Brahman itself.”<ref>Raimundo Panikkar, ''The Vedic Experience. Mantramañjari: An Anthology of the Vedas for Modern Man and Contemporary Celebration'' (Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1977), pp. 106, 96, 107, 89).</ref>