Agni and the First Hymn of Rik Veda
Agni and the First Hymn of Rik Veda (All Sanskrit words which are written in i talics fonts are available in the Sanskrit English Lexicon by Sir Monier Williams. These are the ‘ITRANS’ version of ‘DEVANAGARI UNICODE’----- http://www.sanskrit-lexicon.uni- koeln.de/monier/ ) (Written by following the teaching of the Seers Shri. BijoyKrishna Chattopadhyaya {1875-1945} and his principal disciple Shri. Tridibnath Bandyopadhyaya {1923-1994}. --debkumar.lahiri@gmail.com) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rik veda means vedana or the streams of consciousness from the Universal Consciousness called Rik. Ri means to move ; Rik means moving toward 'ka' . ' ka' is the first consonant. Consonants are also known as vya~njana (coloured, manifesting) varNa (alphabet). So, Rik veda means that aspect of Universal Consciousness from whom the perceptible, coloured, dimensional universe is manifesting. So, the Universal Consc