Key of Knowledge

SR No.: 006702
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Champat Rai Jain
Publisher: ZZZ Unknown
Publication Year: 1919
Total Pages: 1204
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 25 MB

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The Hindu conception of Sarasvati is also that of ultimate knowledge. In a passage in the Sarasvatirahasyopanishat, quoted by Mr. K. Narayana Iyer, she is thus invoked :
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"May the goddess Sarasvati whose form is the very essence of Vedanta, protect me. She is the Sakti [-energy] of Brahman that is dealt with in the Vedas and Vedangas as the only one. dirccts the three Lokas internally by her involutionary work. She is the guiding principle in Rudra, Aditya, etc., and she is enjoyed by those who turn their eyes inwards in their involutionary process of work. She is the expanding knowledge divided into eight parts. She is Nirvikalpa and the form of Bramhan, meditating on whom Yogis deliver themselves from bondage. May the pure and white Sarasvati residing in the face of Bramha take rest in my heart."
THE HOLY TRINITY.
"The goddess Sarasvati," adds Mr. K. Narayana Iyer "is here described as the ultimate knowledge and form of Bramhan and particularly explained as enjoyed by those who turn their eyes inwards back to the Bramhan."
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It is also possible to regard Sarasvati as a personification of 'Ideas' in the Platonic sense of the word. such, she would be the "daily delight" of the creator like the Satarupa of the Upanishads, and also his second, or as one brought up with him being a personalization of Ideas' or rhythms, which, as types of different vibrations of Life (personified as God) are co-eval with it. The vina would thus represent the entire cosmic or archetypal 'orchestra' on which Life plays its tuneful melodies.
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Sarasvati must, however, be distinguished from Ganesha, who is also the God of Wisdom. He is a child, The Permanent History of Bharatavarsha, Vol. I. p. 415.