Rig Veda - 1 (3/5)

The chanting of the rig veda

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• vedas
• sama
• rik
• yajur
• om
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• paramatma
• god
• agni
• vayu
• surya
• brahmins
• chanting
• vedic

[vedas88]

Let me prescribe a method to gain the utmost benifits and energy from the chanting.

Just concnetrate on a picture or a point and meditate on the sound of the vedas.

If you are busy and do not have time to meditate just listen to the chanting while performing your work.

[vedas88]

I have not inserted many pictures because the sound is more important and concentrate on the chanting rather than the video

[r8rdarklord]

Meaning of vedas is not easy. You can't use literal meaning to translate these verses. In order to learn find a guru who will first teach you how to chant, and if you still have interest will teach you the meanings. It takes a long time to learn to chant this way.

[Petrolianzoolbar]

Awesome, I was looking for some of this chanting.

It's really interesting, this is the kind of verse form used before the written word to transmit long texts to the next generations. Due to the rhythm and other rules, and the fact that translations don't work well, texts encoded in this way actually survive better than written word.

Almost all cultures used this method, the wikipedia page for the ancient Finnish folk story collection called "The Kalevala" has a cool recording of chanting aswell

[nielslyhne]

Beautiful and touching. Thank you for this relic of hindu religion, I like it better than many pop songs over there. By the way, I'm impressed about how beautifuly sanskrit language sounds...

[r8rdarklord]

@topbluffa1 I am assuming that you know that the meaning changes based on swara marks. You may have heard about one of the most famous examples "Indrah shatru vardhaswa". Sometimes you have to know how to pronounce a word right (with swara) to glean it's meaning. However, guess when you know how to do that - you have learnt how to chant unless offcourse one has mastered vedic sanskrit grammar that one knows what it means just by looking at the swara marks.

[topbluffa1]

@r8rdarklord

you dont need to chant in order to understand the meaning chanting was done to make it more easily memorized and the rhyming etc adds effect but this could be regained by making the English translation poetic also.

people should know the meaning behind the vedas are far more important than just listening to people chanting without a clue what they are talking about or what it means any English speaking person plz go watch versions with english translations.

[topbluffa1]

@bluewateron

contrary to some of the other comments the power is in the meaning of the words not the sound created.

[topbluffa1]

@r8rdarklord

not true they can use the literal translation but the poetic element will be lost but that is mainly there to make it easily remembered as it was remembered via memory and also to make it sound good and resonate well but the meaning behind the words is still far more important and it would be possible to arrange the knowledge contained in each verse into Poetic rhyming sentences.

[brightwhitelight1]

Which Hindu God is it for?

[gauravgtin]

super.... It enriches me....

[topbluffa1]

translation please.

[ENAIRAMA1]

I am new to the vedas. I started to investigate one year ago, and I feel so humble. This is one of the most powerful secrets ever!!! This is amazing knowledge. It will take me eons to understand this rich jewel of light; the more I find out, the less know; really!!!