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"title": "Talk:The Vedas:What do the Vedas Teach Us",
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"comment": "Created page with \"<small>By Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswati Swami </small> The Vedas speak of a variety of matters. So how are we to accept the view that their most important teaching is the concept of Self-realisation expounded in the Upanisads constituting the Vedanta? They mention a number of sacrifices like agnihotra, somayaga, sattra and isti and other rituals in addition. Why should it not be maintained that it is these that form their chief purpose? What are the rites to be pe...\""
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"comment": "Created page with \"<small>By Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswati Swami </small> Sankara Bhagavatpada selected ten out of the numerous Upanisads to comment upon from the non-dualistic point of view. Ramanuja, Madhva and others who came after him wrote commentaries on the same based on their own philosophical points of view. These ten Upanisads are listed in the following stanza for the names to be easily remembered. '''''Isa-Kena-Katha-Prasna-Munda-Mandukya-Tittari Aitareyan ca Chandogyam...\""
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"title": "Talk:Veda and Vedanta:Are They Opposed to One Another",
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"timestamp": "2025-04-04T16:18:31Z",
"comment": "Created page with \"<small>By Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswati Swami </small> The rituals mentioned in the karmakanda of the Vedas are sought to be negated in the jnanakanda which is also part of the same scripture. While the karmakanda enjoins upon you the worship of various deities and lays down rules for the same, the jnanakanda constituted by the Upanisads ridicules the worshipper of deities as a dim-witted person no better than a beast. This seems strange, the latter part of the Ve...\""
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"title": "Talk:Chandas:Foot for the Vedas, Nose for the Mantras",
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"user": "Sachi Anjunkar",
"timestamp": "2025-04-01T16:09:58Z",
"comment": "Created page with \"<small>By Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswati Swami </small> Each mantra has a deity (the deity it invokes), its own metre and its own seer (the seer who revealed it to the world). Mentioning the name of the rsi and touching our head with our hand have their own significance, that of holding his feet with our head. We first pay obeisance to the sages because it is from them that we received the mantras. We then mention the chandas or metre of the hymn and touch our nose wi...\""
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"title": "Talk:Chandas:Uses of Chandas Sastra",
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"timestamp": "2025-04-01T16:08:56Z",
"comment": "Created page with \"<small>By Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswati Swami </small> Siksa sastra may be said to be a \"guard\" to ensure the right enunciation of a (Vedic) mantra. But it is Chandas that determines whether the form of the mantra is right. Of course the form of a mantra can never be wrong. The mantras, as mentioned so often, were not created by the sages and are not the product of their thinking. It was Bhagavan who caused them to be revealed to them. Man, beast, tree and other sent...\""
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"title": "Talk:Chandas:Some Metrical Forms",
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"timestamp": "2025-04-01T16:07:38Z",
"comment": "Created page with \"<small>By Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswati Swami </small> \"Indravajra\", \"Upendravajra\", \"Bhujangavijrmbhita\", \"Sragdhara\" are some of the metres in devotional and other poetical works. Some of them are intricate and only highly gifted people are capable of composing them. As mentioned earlier, the foot of a stanza with eight syllables Anustubh. With nine syllables it is \"Brhati\" and with ten \"Pankti\". \"Tristubh\" has eleven syllables and \"Jagati\" twelve. We have a 26-...\""
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"title": "Talk:Chandas:How Poetry was born",
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"user": "Sachi Anjunkar",
"timestamp": "2025-04-01T16:05:35Z",
"comment": "Created page with \"<small>By Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswati Swami </small> There is no tonal variation in poetry as there is in Vedic mantras. The unaccented poetic stanza corresponding to the accented Vedic mantra owes its origin to Valmiki, but its discovery was not the result of any conscious effort on his part. One day Valmiki happened to see a pair of kraunca birds sporting perched on the branch of a tree. Soon one of the birds fell to the arrow of a hunter. The sage felt pity a...\""
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"title": "Talk:Chandas:Feet and Syllables",
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"user": "Sachi Anjunkar",
"timestamp": "2025-04-01T16:02:53Z",
"comment": "Created page with \"<small>By Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswati Swami </small> A Vedic mantra or the stanza of an ordinary poem is divided into four parts. In most metres there are four feet and each foot is divided into the same number of syllables or mantras. When the feet are not equal we have what is called a metre that is \"visama\": \"vi+sama\" = \"visama\". \"Sama\" indicates a state of non-difference, of evenness. When we do something improper, departing from our impartial \"middle positio...\""
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"title": "Talk:Chandas:Pada or Foot",
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"user": "Sachi Anjunkar",
"timestamp": "2025-04-01T16:01:04Z",
"comment": "Created page with \"<small>By Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswati Swami </small> I said Chandas is the foot of the Vedapurusa. Poetry also has its foot. In tamil poetry there are \"iradikkural\" (stanzas with two feet), naladiar (stanzas with four feet), etc: \"adi\" here has the same meaning as \"pada\", that is foot. Naladiar does not mean four adiyars. Great devotees are called adiyars because they lie at the lotus feet of the Lord. (In Sanskrit too we have similar terms like \"Acaryapada\", Govin...\""
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"title": "Talk:Chandas:Foot of the Vedapurusa",
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"user": "Sachi Anjunkar",
"timestamp": "2025-04-01T15:59:39Z",
"comment": "Created page with \"<small>By Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswati Swami </small> We so often hear people [Tamils] speak of \"Chanda-t-Tamizh\". Men of devotion say that the praises of the lord must be sung in \"Chanda-tThamizh\". \"Chanda (m)\" is derived from \"Chandas\". \"Chandas\", as I have already said, means the Vedas. Bhagavan says in the Gita that the Vedas are leaves of the pipal tree called Creation-Chandamsi yasya parnani. Instead of \"Veda\", the Lord uses the word \"Chandas\". However, th...\""
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