Chandodarshanam

SR No.: 023462
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Daivarata Rshi, Ganpatimuni
Publisher: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan
Publication Year: 1968
Total Pages: 524
Language: Sanskrit, Hindi
Classification: Book_Devnagari
File Size: 39 MB

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I need not say much here about the author, as his Guru Vasistha Ganapati Muni has given some important facts about him in his preface to 'Anvaya-Bhashya'. He is now 77 and mostly stays in Rshi-kula Yogasram, Gokarn, Karnataka. He is childlike in his nature and even now full of vigour and enthusiasm. His creativity does not seem to have suffered on account of age as his studies and research in Vedic lore are still on. Two of his other works Vak-Sudha and Vedartha-Kalpalata' are being printed, but alas, without any commentary and any English or other translation. His original work Yoga-Sudha' based entirely on Vedic Mantras still awaits translation. His mastery over the four Vedas and his masterly and eloquent interpretation of Vedic Mantras and literature is hardly to be found elsewhere. He can speak most fluently and compose poetry in Sanskrit. He can as well give talks in Kannada, Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Gujerathi and Nepali. Unfortunately his ignorance of English is proving a great handicap to him.
But in trying to say something about the many-sided genius of Daivarātji, I should not forget to point out the unique features of Chhando-darśana, his magnum opus. Vasishtha Ganapati Muni, sets at rest the doubts of sceptics as to whether there can be Mantra-darśana in modern times, by enunciating the proposition that if Brahma-Darśana is a possibility and is being striven after by numerous Sadhakas, the revelation of Sabda-Brahma, that is of the Vedic Mantras, which lead to Brahma-darśana, must be a possibility. What is necessary is the creation of the conditions of consciousness in which Mantra-darśana takes place.
Unfortunately for us a great depression seems to have overtaken us. On account of that we feel that whatever great, noble, unique, original in literature, philosophy, religion, yoga and other activities can be done has been done already in the past and that nothing new can be done. This inferiority complex has seized us inspite of the fact that a Ramakrishna, a Vivekananda, an Aurobindo, a Gandhi has contributed something new, substantial, and original not only to Indian thought and culture but to world-thought and culture. I think the revelation of Chhando-darśana' proves beyond doubt that inspiration which worked in the souls of the great Rshis of the past is very much alive even now in this land of ours.
Vasishtha Ganapati Muni has given us all the relevant details of the circumstances under which the Mantras were revealed to young Daivarăta⚫ There is nothing mysterious or even mystic or secret about it. By utter devotion to the Guru, Daivarăta had completely surrendered himself and had full faith that that was the way to achieve perfection. He threw himself with the utmost confidence into intensive Sadhana and followed meditative processes whereby he was able to be in a yogic trance for hours. If in one