The Vedas are simply words that have the mystical power to produce effects if the sound intonation is right. If one sound is wrong it will not do. Each one must be perfect.
[Thus] what in other religions is called prayer disappeared and the Vedas became the gods. So you see the tremendous importance that was attached to the words of the Vedas.
These are the eternal words out of which the whole universe has been produced.
There cannot be any thought without the word. Thus whatever there is in this world is the manifestation of thought, and thought can only manifest itself through words.
This mass of words by which the unmanifested thought becomes manifest, that is what is meant by the Vedas.
- Swami Vivekananda, Talk in San Francisco
[Thus] what in other religions is called prayer disappeared and the Vedas became the gods. So you see the tremendous importance that was attached to the words of the Vedas.
These are the eternal words out of which the whole universe has been produced.
There cannot be any thought without the word. Thus whatever there is in this world is the manifestation of thought, and thought can only manifest itself through words.
This mass of words by which the unmanifested thought becomes manifest, that is what is meant by the Vedas.
- Swami Vivekananda, Talk in San Francisco
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