On Sep 30, 2009, at 6:34 PM, Premanand wrote:
'Knowledge is Structured in Consciousness is apparently a
translation of the Sanskrit "GYaanam chetanaayaam nihitam" - does
anyone know where this line can be found?
Where did you get that as the source for "Knowledge is structured in
consciousness"? According to MIU documents, the origin of that phrase
is from a piece of Rig Veda 1.164.39:
He who knows not the eternal
syllable of the Veda,
the highest point upon which
all the Gods repose,
what business has he with the Veda?
Only its knowers sit
here in peace and concord."
The actual phrase it is from "ṛco akṣare parame vyoman".
Supposedly this is about the quantum gods of quantum physics.
I strongly suspect these are slogans stolen from the intellectual
property of Devarat and Son (hereditary Rig Veda pundits that MMY
"borrowed" a lot of ideas from). MMY retranslated it based on other
people he was meeting at that time. Perhaps you've seen the video
tapes of them? At the time these buzz-phrases came about MMY was
meeting with numerous academics from different disciplines. My guess
would be he got the idea for this translation from hanging around
academics in the developmental psychology of that era. The idea that
knowledge is based on the style of consciousness you developed is NOT
from the Rig Veda, it's really from developmental psychology and was
projected onto this famous verse.
And then it became the motto of MIU.
