Aghamarshan in Rig Ved
By Vinay Jha
Vaidik mindset was quite different from the secular mindset of modern people.
Decades of training in a Vaidik Gurukul was indispensable for learning the
proper use of Vaidik verses, and Tapasyaa was an essential part of this education.
Without Tapasyaa, human mind cannot attain the level at which perception of
supernatural Reality is possible. Sandhyaa Vandan is also Tap, because Jap with
fixed Aasan and Praanaayaam are essential parts of Sandhyaa Vandan. One initial
verse of Sandhyaa Vandan (taken from penultimate Sookt of Rig Ved, The Aghamarshan)
says that Rit and Satya are born of Tap. A secular mind will find this entire
Aghamarshan Sookt to be ridiculously impossible :
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How can a modern mindset explain the meaning of these three Mantra of Aghamarshan Sookt :
(1) Why that Rishi was called Aghamarshan? Was that Rishi a human being? What
is the meaning of Aghamarshan? And what is its connection to three Mantra?
(2) Why it was included in Sandhyaa Vandan?
(3) Who performed the Tap?
(4) What was the Fuel?
(5) How Rit and Sat were born?
(6) Does it mean Rit and Sat were absent before they were born? If absent, how
An-Rit and A-Sat allowed Rit and Sat to be born at all?
(7) Why night was created first, not the day?
(8) And the sea before the land?
(9) How Samvatsar was produced out of Sea?
(10) And the most surprising question is : Sun and Moon were born after
the mention of Night and then of Day. Night and Day were created before
Sun came into being. How?
(11) And in the end Divam, Prithvi and Antariksh were created. Sea came first,
and Earth came later. Night and day were made without Sun, and Sun came
before Divam was created. Sea was not a part of Earth, but the opposite
seems to be true. How?
(12) And the last but not the least question : why these three Mantra were placed
at the penultimate Sookt of Rig Ved?
For me, every Vaidik Mantra is infinite, and Arth Siddhi of any Vaidik Mantra is a passport to Brahm Lok.
These twelve questions will do the Marshan (destruction) of all Agha (sin or Paap)
in all pseudo-experts.
This is the Dwaadash Nidaan they desperately need, Drig addicts need 13th Vidyaa.
In Rig Ved, there are 3 Mantra as Aghamarshan Mantra which remove all
kinds of sins.
This is the English transliteration of Aghamarshan Sookt on Internet :
1.
Om Ritam cha Satyam cha (1), Abhidaat Tapaso Dhyaajaajaayat (2),
Tato Raatrya Jaayat (3), Tatah Samudro Arnavah (4)
The universal order (Rit) and the Satyam (truth)(1)
were born of blazing (Abhiddhat) Tapas (2)
then the night was born (3),
then the ocean (was born ) (4)
2. Om Samudraa Daranaa Vaadadhi Samvatsaro Ajaayat (1)
Ahoraatraani Vida Dhad (2),
Vishwasya mishato vashi (3)
From the ocean was born the time divisions (1)
ordaining the days and nights (2),
the ruler of every moment (3)
3. Om Soorya Chandramaasu (1)
Dhaataa Yathaa Poorvam Kalpayaat (2)
Divam cha Prithveem cha Antariks matho Swah (3)
As before, the creator (Dhaatri) made (2)
the Sun and the Moon (2)
(He also made ) the Heaven, the Earth, the mid-world and the Swar (world of light) (2)
There was a time when persons knowing the Shaastra were allowed
to speak about the Arth (meaning), but now-a-days anyone can engage in a Shaastraarth
- Shaastraartha meant "Arth of the Shaastra", it means proving one's own
superiority.
In Aghamarshan Sookt, the word "Poorv" has a special
meaning. Atharv Ved, 8.10.4 is a Sootra "Tau Dwavi Moordhaa Adhok Taam
Maayaa Mevaadhok" - only human beings pass two types of Pragyaa (Gyaan) -
Praapanchik Jeevan Prgyaa and Aatmik Pragyaa. Adhok Taam means - one has
to understand the Maayaa that has been explained in the other Mantra,
Maayaavaad, A-Dwait Siddhaant etc, then only he can nullify the effects of
the Maayaa. This Maayaa makes one everything to be forgotten, and sustain
him living in the present to continue towards future. Nobody knows about "Poorv".
Even Ved also describe the knowledge of only present Kalp. Kalpaantar
Gyaan (knowledge of several Kalp) is Aspast. So Tantra keeps a separate
place for the "Aspast Kalpaantar Gyaan" as commonly witnessed in "Sarvatobhadra
Yantra". So Kalpaantar Gyaan is considered in Ved as Parishisht in Ved.
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