Originally Posted by
Jaskaran Singh
From a vaiShNava perspective that makes sense, but not all Hindu-s consider the bhagavad gItA or the bhAgavatam as authoritative, so not everyone would agree (I do consider them authoritative; I'm just pointing out that some people might view your statement as a bit sectarian).
Agreed, but what is behind this apparent sectarian perspective, [which is really not so sectarian]? Ans: The non-sectarian statements that followed the sectarian one :
Originally Posted by
ameyAtmA
Sāma is the Ved that brings ecstatic Love of the Supreme, adding aesthetics & sāma gāyan shāstra to the Ṛg ṛchīs.
EDIT: This Supreme Divine ecstatic love and happiness is depicted as the transcendental Soma Ras, ENDEDIT
which has to be filtered from its Infinite Universal form ...
This means, Ṛg provides the content of the ṛchī -- beautiful praise of the Supreme via various names . Then Sāma takes this and adds aesthetics, shāstrīya sangeet (classical music), chhanda (rhythm, taal), thereby adding ecstacy, providing ecstatic Love of God and happiness arising from it, to the devotee/ṛshi/purohit/yajmān . This is symbolized as Soma Ras .
Therefore they are husband-wife , they work together, and one cannot do without the other, to create this harmony and music.
Originally Posted by
Indiaspirituality Amrut
Husband-wife relation between veda-s is a Vaishnava view. Hari OM
Are you sure? Here is where it comes from:
Originally Posted by
Jaskaran Singh
According to the ekAgni kANDam of the yajurveda, the sAmaveda and R^igveda are like husband and wife.
Please see my post before this one - for the non-sectarian view.
Last edited by Sudas Paijavana; 10 January 2014 at 07:57 AM.
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