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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It is the very nature of self-evident truths that they depend for revelation upon the capacity of the person who seeks truth. Wherever there is such capacity truth reveals itself. (5)
Just as in the past the Rshis saw Truth through their Tapas, it is possible even today to see the truth through the same means. (6)
Just as people had Brahma Darsana, spiritual realization of the Reality in the past, so too it can be there today. (7)
By Tapas and inner sight, just as there can be realization of Truth, so too can there be vision of Veda Mantras by the same means. (8)
According to Śåstras, if the highest Brahma can be realised, why cannot there be realization of the Sabda-Brabma which but leads to Brahma. (9)
I tried hard through Tapas to attain Mantra Darśana; but I could not succeed in taking my soul to that level. (10)
Even then I believe that one can have Mantra Darsana through Tapas alone; I believe in steady effort in that direction and the Såstras also uphold this view. (11)
Daivarāta, the reputed and steady seeker after truth has shown that one could have Mantra Darshana. (12)
Thus he who through concentration of mind, speech, vital power, and action tries hard, compulsively becomes a seer of Mantras through Tapas. (13) At the end of the commentary, there are concluding verses as follows:
Vaiśvāmitra Daivaråta, verily like the Visvamitra of old, saw Rgveda Mantras revealed to him on account of his having attained the super-sight of a Rshi through Tapas. (1)
Those Mantras are very profound. They are pure and have the power to purify others. Våsishtha Muni has embellished them by his ‘Anvaya Bhashya' commentary. (2)
This is the finding of the Vedas in the matter of new Mantra Darsana which has been proved by Vasistha with authority from the Vedas and the Shastras.
In this matter of revelation of new Mantras and their vision and the possibility of new Rshis, the best authority would be the Vedas themselves.
Here below is a quotation from the Rgveda:
“Oh Indra, the Rshis of old as well as new ones to whom fresh