सहस्राक्षरा वाक्: The Thousand-Syllabled Speech (Vision in Long Darkness, Pin Holed) An Old and Rare Book

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The Mya Vamiya Hymn of the Big Veda (1.164.1.52) illustrates the depth of the mental vision of Rahi Dirghatamas, obviously a pseudonym given to a thinker who gripples with Long Darkness, of Mystery of Creation. Dirghatanas is the of all men of philosophy and science who have cast their eyes of con prehension on the visible world. Their vision is focused on the invisible source the First Cause which was a Mystery of yore and a Mystery now. The Great Question (Spa) still holds to its eternal sign of interrogation. A hundred thousand Formulations have come from the Mind of Man and many will follow in sub sequent ages. Dirghatamas stands at the apex of them all asking: "Where is the Teacher, knowing the solution ? Where is the pupil, coming to the Teacher for revelation of the Mystery ? Who has seen the First Cause, from which emanated the primeval creation? How have the Matar (litharmat) come from the Pripur (nasth)? The mind reels in ignorance. If there be one who claims to know, let him declare it here and now. The Son who can expound this secret I will accept as Father. What poet has given the origin of the Godlike mind? The Cauldron is boiling, so I say, whether we know the mystery of its Heat of not." It is a sampling of the knocking of Dirghatamas at the massive Mystery. It shows the vivacity of his mind, rushing in a hundred thought-forms. He takes quick snaps of the Cosmos itself, pointing to many symbols that carry the tale of its secret. The Seer seems to take the confident view that the imprisoned divine splendour, although a veritable Mystery, is present in every manifest form and is open to understanding.

Dirghatamas was a thinker of the Vedic age, naturally his ebullitions are cast in the thought-moulds of his time. But easily shorn of theit veneer, as attempted in this commentary, they are eloquent with a world-language of which the meaning belongs to mankind.

This language is that of Nature itself in the form of the created objects, each of which conceals the Great Mystery at the core of its existence, which has to be recovered there (bhuteshu bhuteshu vichitya dhtrah, KU. 2.5). We now study it as the language of symbols; the ancients looked upon it as Nidina Vidyd, e.g. they think of the prapie power of Gayatri and see it visible in the Flaming Fire, and accept Agni as the symbol of Gayatri (jo raatragnir Gayatri sanidanena, SB. 1.8.2.15).