On Sep 25, 2007, at 3:55 AM, george_deforest wrote:
>> Ron, is the reason you mentioned 'cognizing the vedas' because of >> the rumor spread by TB's (probably purushoids) that Mahesh >> 'cognized the Vedas'? > > Never heard that Maharishi "cognized the vedas". > Could you spezify please ? FWIW, Maharishi is credited with cognizing the "uncreated commentary" of vedic literature in 1980, in the official lists of his year by year achievements; see http://www.alltm.org/Maharishi/Maharishi_year3.html another brief explanation: "In the early eighties, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi cognized the nature and the details of this eternally fixed sequence of the words in Rik Veda. This cognition of the inherent structure of Rik Veda is termed as "Apaurusheya Bhasya," or uncreated commentary. It brings to light, that the specific sequence of the letters, syllables, words, Padas, Richas, Suktas and Mandalas of Rik Veda, form an eternal structure in which every next expression provides a commentary on the previous expression. Every following expression is a natural elaboration or commentary on the expressions that are preceding it. From this it follows that all the knowledge of the entire Veda is contained in the first word and indeed even in the first letter of the Veda "A." The term "Apaurusheya Bhasya" further implies that it is a commentary provided by the structure of the Veda itself. The whole essence of the Apaurusheya Bhasya can therefore be summarised in the phrase: "Follow the sequence." Maharishi's Apaurusheya Bhasya has made clear to the world for the first time in the history of mankind that the sequence of the Vedic expressions is of an absolute significance. Only as such, the Veda can be understood as the blueprint of Creation, or as Maharishi formulated it in 1992, the Constitution of the Universe, containing the structuring dynamics of all the Laws of Nature that govern all evolutionary processes in the ever expanding universe. source: http://www.selfrealisation.net/VedicAstrology/instrman.htm
Yes, a briefer mention of this is in all the the "Modern Science and Vedic Science" journals (Chandler's preface IIRC).
