Tuesday, April 17, 2007

"poroma vyomana"

Lemme tell something abt the phrase "poroma vyomana", a phrase from an erudite of veda's time. The phrase was written in ancient indian script sanskrit. People know that the vedas were written in sanskrit. But actually it started with some un-correlated drawings and scripts. Later it was re-written in sanskrit. Later they called it vedas. Most of the things and scriptures in vedas are related to chimeric thots, they were more into illumination kinda feeling. They were not realistic. Noone used to say "this is mine" and "that is yours". So called saints of that era never used to script anything with realistic notion.
When things started to conincide with spiritism and reality, savants started deriving meaning from all the scripts of vedas (specially from rig veda). But problem for gurus like Sri dayanand and Mr. Aiyar were non articulated philological scripts in the vedas. One can depict anything from the illuminated phrases of vedas. Thus it was difficult to define any meaning of any phrase of vedas. It was the short time before the age of Upnisheds and Sanhitas, when morals of vedas were getting splitted into two ways. This saga of difference of two concepts narrated by the brahmanas and the Upanisheds itself can give thousands of examples of multi meaning phrases. It depends who makes "Sandhi Biched" (splitting words to derive meaning) in what way. Slowly in the later period "sandhis" were defined but during the period I am talking about was ill-treated period for scriptures.
So if you consider the phrase "poroma vyomana". Generally todays date we say the meaning is "highest heaven". This is a famous sanskrit word even used by most of the mantras by the brahmins. But in the period of scripting vedas, few writers justified "poroma vyomana" can also be articulated as lowest hollow. As "uma" (in the word vyomana) means "who was prevented from doing of own will". They said "poroma vyomana" can also be meant as lowest hollow.
So what I wanted to convey here in this message is, vedas are such complex thing anyone can make out any meaning from a single possible phrase. For some it may be a constructive meaning or for some it can be something hell. Understanding at least a single veda among the available four vedas is inconceivable. Even european scholars had put their hand into solving the meanings but they were able to do it upto some extent which is nowhere near the huge ocean of scripts in "vedas the writ". Simple example would be one word "Aum" having thousands of linguistic meanings.

1 comment:

Jala said...

Nice writing but very short.Could have explained a little longer.
Pls change the background color to white.