Non cooperation of 'Speech' with Prajapati

Once a dispute arose between vak ( Speech ) and manah ( Mind ) as to who is superior between them. Mind said that I am superior as thoughts originate in me. Speech said I am the one who makes thoughts aware to the outer world. Without me nobody would know about them.

They both approached Prajapati to settle the dispute. Prajapati, after contemplation said that it is the Mind which is superior as Speech is only a follower of the Mind. Upon hearing this, Speech thought that injustice has been done to her and refused any further cooperation with Prajapati in yajnas.

Therafter, any offering made to Prajapati in yajna is done silently.

Brahma the ' creator '

In fact, to call Brahma 'creator' is a misnomer. He is not different from the creation. It is not that he has created something like how a sculpture is made out of clay. Brahma has transformed himself into creation.

He transforms himself into the creation,stays that way for sometime and goes back to the state of unmanifest equilibrium. A police officer wears his uniform and transforms himself  into the police officer from an ordinary citizen. On completion of duty, he removes the uniform and becomes an ordinary human again. The state of creation and the state of dissolution are just two states of Brahma. The manifest and the unmanifest like being awake and being asleep.

A perfect equilibrium of the three gunas - rajas, satva and tamas is the unmanifest state. The three gunas in a state of imbalance  is the state of creation.

The dissolution is the state when all the creation is withdrawn unto Brahma himself. He goes back into the unmanifest state. This is when Brahma sleeps.

Brahma's day consists of 4320000000 solar years. This is when the universe is manifest. At the end of it, he goes to sleep. This is called kalpanta pralaya or naimittika pralaya.Then for the next 4320000000 the universe is unmanifest. On his waking up, the universe is manifest again.

In this manner, Brahma lives for 100 years at the end of which there is a mahapralaya. During kalpanta pralaya,the upper four lokas ie:- Maharaloka, Janaloka, Tapaloka and Satyaloka are not dissolved. However during Mahapralaya which occurs at the end of 311,040,000,000,000 solar years even these four worlds become non existent.

At the end of Brahma's life, a new Brahma is ' born '.  We do not know how many Brahmas have lived so far.

It has been ( in 2013 - 14 A.D.) 1972949114 years  since the present Brahma woke up for the day.

There are different opinions about the age of the present Brahma. Some say he is past fifty while some say he is eight and a half years old.

It is the agitation of the gunas which results in creation. The gunas are personified as Brahma, Vishnu and Rudra. The gunas are mutually attached, dependent and never separate from each other. Since Brahma himself is the three gunas and he has them under his control and they themselves transform into creation, whatever Brahma desires happens or is created.

Plea bargain & Vedic remedies

In the justice system in countries such as USA and UK, there is something  called ‘Plea bargain’. The offender admits his guilt and in return gets a lenient sentence. Vedic remedies also work in a similar way. The points to be noted here are –

If you are in trouble, your own past karma alone is responsible. It may be from the present birth or past births.

The dharma sastras are all about proper conduct and consequences of one’s own action, good and bad.

Astrology helps in identifying the karma which is the cause for the present state.

Acceptance of the guilt and refraining from doing bad things in future is called prayaschitha.

There are agencies such as grahas who are delegated the responsibility of making you reap what you have sown, good or bad.

Vedic system  has elaborate procedures laid out in the form of yajnas to convey your 

earnestness to the divinities and seeking pardon / lenience.

The daivajna ( astrologer ) identifies this karmic link and the priests are your lawyers who properly put up your case before the judge ( the divinities ). He may accept or reject your plea.

If you are performing a remedy, do it only if you have faith and humility and not as “ let’s try this also.”

Jyotisha as a Vedanga

वेदास्तावद्यज्ञकर्मप्रवृत्ता यज्ञाः प्रोक्तास्ते तु कालाश्रयेण​ ।
शास्त्रादस्मात् कालबोधो यतस्याद्वेदाङत्वं ज्योतिषस्योक्तमस्मात् ॥


Vedas are meant for performance of yajnas. Proper performance of yajnas depends on selection of appropriate timing. The knowledge of this timing is obtained from Jyotisastra. Hence it has been accorded the status of a Vedanga.