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ABOUT THE BOOK
Is revelation of Veda Mantras possible even today?' Yes, why not, asks Kavyakantha Ganapati Muni. If Brahma Darshana can be had even today, though, with great creative effort and through the path laid down by the Shastras, the possibilities of Sabda Brahma Darshana, that is, Veda Mantra Darshana has to be admitted without further arguments. It is in this context that the revelation of Chhando-Darshana to Rishi Daivarata is proof positive of new Veda Mantras being revealed by the same processes as in the past.
When Daivarata was performing severe austerities along with his Guru, in the vicinity of Shri Renukamba in the year 1917, he went into a state of 'Samadhi' (communion) and some words began to emerge from his lips. After observing this for two days his Guru Kavyakantha Ganapati Muni realised that it was Rigvedic metrical expression and took down what emerged from his lips for several days until it stopped. He later arranged the mantras into eight Anuvakas and named the whole text ChhandoDarshana.' He wrote a profound, fullfledged commentary on it.
Apart from being good and high poetry, the thought content of Chhando-Darshana' is not merely eulogistic and penetrating, but philosophical and inspiring. The unitive thought of the Mantras, the logical sequence and the arrangement of hymns and sections are artistic. The vigour and force of the language is contagious. When the Rishi speaks of the cosmic gods and goddesses, of Indra, of Sarasvati, of Brahmanpati, one is carried away by the grand conceptions reflected in the words.
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