String Theory Confirmed in the Vedic Literature

Vedic Perspective

SB 3.12.47    Creation of the Kumaras and Others    Text 47

                                TEXT

                    sparsas tasyabhavaj jivah
                    svaro deha udahrta
                    usmanam indriyany ahur
                     antah-stha balam atmanah
                     svarah sapta viharena
                     bhavanti sma prajapateh

                             SYNONYMS

   sparsah--the set of letters from ka to ma; tasya--his; abhavat--became; jivah--the soul; svarah--vowels; dehah--his body; udahrtah--are expressed; usmanam--the letters sa, sa, sa and ha; indriyani--the senses; ahuh--are called; antah-sthah--the set of letters so known (ya, ra, la and va); balam--energy; atmanah--of his self; svarah--music; sapta--seven; viharena--by the sensual activities; bhavanti sma--became manifested; prajapateh--of the lord of the living entities.

                           TRANSLATION

   Brahma's soul was manifested as the touch alphabets, his body as the vowels, his senses as the sibilant alphabets, his strength as the intermediate alphabets and his sensual activities as the seven notes of music.

                             PURPORT

   In Sanskrit there are thirteen vowels and thirty-five consonants. The vowels are a, a, i, i, u, u, r, r, l, e, ai, o, au, and the consonants are ka, kha, ga, gha, etc. Amongst the consonants, the first twenty-five letters are called the sparsas. There are also four antah-sthas. Of the usmas there are three s's, called talavya, murdhanya and dantya. The musical notes are sa, r, ga, ma, dha, and ni. All these sound vibrations are originally called sabda-brahma, or spiritual sound. It is said, therefore, that Brahma was created in the Maha-kalpa as the incarnation of spiritual sound. The Vedas are spiritual sound, and therefore there is no need of material interpretation for the sound vibration of the Vedic literature, The Vedas should be vibrated as they are, although they are symbolically represented with letters which are known to us materially. In the ultimate issue there is nothing material because everything has its origin in the spiritual world. The material manifestation is therefore called illusion in the proper sense of the term. For those who are realized souls there is nothing but spirit.

Comments

[Rai Sachindra Prasad]

This is an excellent explanation. There is no separate compartment of matter and spirit in true sense. It appears to be so. Matter is also vibrating and sprit too, but at different wavelengths. Both try to come to a state of no-vibration losing all their vibrations in ONE that remains free from it. The Ultimate is Nirvikalpa and Nirvikar.