{"id":639,"date":"2019-09-15T17:41:13","date_gmt":"2019-09-15T17:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/?p=639"},"modified":"2019-09-19T13:48:00","modified_gmt":"2019-09-19T13:48:00","slug":"four-levels-of-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/?p=639","title":{"rendered":"Four levels of speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The earliest mention of the four speech\u00a0levels I found in the <em>Rig Veda<\/em> (1.164.45):<\/p>\n<p>\u091a\u0952\u0924\u094d\u0935\u093e\u0930\u093f\u0952 \u0935\u093e\u0915\u094d\u092a\u0930\u093f\u0951\u092e\u093f\u0924\u093e \u092a\u0952\u0926\u093e\u0928\u093f\u0952 \u0924\u093e\u0928\u093f\u0951 \u0935\u093f\u0926\u0941\u0930\u094d\u092c\u094d\u0930\u093e\u0939\u094d\u092e\u0952\u0923\u093e \u092f\u0947 \u092e\u0951\u0928\u0940\u0952\u0937\u093f\u0923\u0903\u0951\u0965<br \/>\n\u0917\u0941\u0939\u093e\u0952 \u0924\u094d\u0930\u0940\u0923\u093f\u0952 \u0928\u093f\u0939\u093f\u0951\u0924\u093e\u0952 \u0928\u0947\u0919\u094d\u0917\u094d\u0951\u092f\u0928\u094d\u0924\u093f \u0924\u0941\u0952\u0930\u0940\u092f\u0902\u0951 \u0935\u093e\u0952\u091a\u094b \u092e\u0951\u0928\u0941\u0952\u0937\u094d\u092f\u093e \u0935\u0926\u0928\u094d\u0924\u093f\u0965 \u096a\u096b\u0965<\/p>\n<p><em>catv\u0101ri v\u0101k parimit\u0101 pad\u0101ni t\u0101ni vidu\u1e25 br\u0101hma\u1e47\u0101 ye man\u012b\u1e63i\u1e47a\u1e25\u0964<\/em><br \/>\n<em> guh\u0101 tr\u012b\u1e47i nihit\u0101 ne\u1e45gayanti tur\u012bya\u1e43 v\u0101co manu\u1e63y\u0101 vadanti\u00a0\u0965 45 \u0965<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Speech is divided into four categories; they are known by the wise br\u0101hma\u1e47\u0101s.<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Three of them are hidden, and the fourth category is spoken by ordinary people.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Y\u0101ska<\/em>, in his <em>Nirukta<\/em>, gives other interpretations of this\u00a0<em>\u015bloka &#8211;<\/em>\u00a0he does not link them to the four forms of <em>v\u0101k(c)<\/em>, which are popular in <em>Vedanta<\/em>, <em>Tantrism and<\/em>\u00a0<em>N\u0101tha yoga<\/em>, but of course, not everything has to do with his <em>Nirukta<\/em>. Basically, in terms of meaning, I think that there is the form of speech, which can be heard by everyone and the other three are at the level of <em>manas<\/em> (<em>madhyam\u0101<\/em>), <em>buddhi<\/em> (the awakened &#8220;seeing&#8221; consciousness of\u00a0<em>pa\u015byant\u012b<\/em>). The level of <em>par\u0101<\/em> is <em>Brahman<\/em> himself. <em>Par\u0101<\/em> is not a manifested creative vibration or logos, but it is a creation in the form of a seed in its potential,\u00a0<span class=\"s1\">the <\/span>latent <span class=\"s1\">one<\/span>. We could call it the primordial <em>Parabrahman<\/em>, who is not manifested and from whom we are not initially separated. Further, it manifests itself in the form of its free will (<em>svatantriya<\/em>), in the likeness of a flash of light (<em>spho\u1e6da<\/em>) and the spontaneous expansion <span class=\"s1\">of <\/span>the sound (<em>an\u0101hata<\/em>), that is a natural expression of the will (<em>icch\u0101<\/em>) of the Absolute, who is\u00a0<em>\u015aabda-brahman<\/em>. This level is called\u00a0<em>pa\u015byant\u012b<\/em> (seer). It should be clarified here, that unlike <em>par\u0101,<\/em> we, as the ones who are seeing, are not separable from the object of our vision, i.e. there is nothing separate from us, but in the case of\u00a0<em>pa\u015byant\u012b,\u00a0<\/em>a separation of the object from the subject (us, as Absolute) already appears. Although, even when there is a separation, our expression is still conditionally separated from us. After that, the logos itself reveals its purpose in the form of the archetypal image of our consciousness, which still exists at the stage between the physical and the subtle levels. Therefore, it is called <em>madhyam\u0101<\/em>\u00a0(the middle). Then, we \u201cexpress our thought\u201d &#8211; this is <em>vaikhar\u012b<\/em>\u00a0(physical level). To make it easier to understand, we can correlate\u00a0<em>vaikhar\u012b\u00a0<\/em>with <em>kriy\u0101<\/em>,\u00a0<em>madhyam\u0101<\/em> with\u00a0<em>j\u00f1\u0101na\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>pa\u015byant\u012b<\/em> with\u00a0<em>icch\u0101<\/em>, and <em>par\u0101<\/em> is the unity of Atman and <em>Param\u0101tm\u0101<\/em> (<em>Brahman<\/em>),\u00a0<em>\u015aiva<\/em> and\u00a0<em>\u015aakti<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The earliest mention of the four speech\u00a0levels I found in the Rig Veda (1.164.45): \u091a\u0952\u0924\u094d\u0935\u093e\u0930\u093f\u0952 \u0935\u093e\u0915\u094d\u092a\u0930\u093f\u0951\u092e\u093f\u0924\u093e \u092a\u0952\u0926\u093e\u0928\u093f\u0952 \u0924\u093e\u0928\u093f\u0951 \u0935\u093f\u0926\u0941\u0930\u094d\u092c\u094d\u0930\u093e\u0939\u094d\u092e\u0952\u0923\u093e \u092f\u0947 \u092e\u0951\u0928\u0940\u0952\u0937\u093f\u0923\u0903\u0951\u0965 \u0917\u0941\u0939\u093e\u0952 \u0924\u094d\u0930\u0940\u0923\u093f\u0952 \u0928\u093f\u0939\u093f\u0951\u0924\u093e\u0952 \u0928\u0947\u0919\u094d\u0917\u094d\u0951\u092f\u0928\u094d\u0924\u093f \u0924\u0941\u0952\u0930\u0940\u092f\u0902\u0951 \u0935\u093e\u0952\u091a\u094b \u092e\u0951\u0928\u0941\u0952\u0937\u094d\u092f\u093e \u0935\u0926\u0928\u094d\u0924\u093f\u0965 \u096a\u096b\u0965 catv\u0101ri v\u0101k parimit\u0101 pad\u0101ni t\u0101ni vidu\u1e25 br\u0101hma\u1e47\u0101 ye man\u012b\u1e63i\u1e47a\u1e25\u0964 guh\u0101 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/?p=639\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112,114],"tags":[118,120,119,116,117,115],"class_list":["post-639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speech","category-vac","tag-madhyama","tag-para","tag-pasyanti","tag-vac","tag-vaikhari","tag-vak"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=639"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":644,"href":"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions\/644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}