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Panikkar also notes that “Vac was before all creation, preexisting before any being came to be.... Vac is the life-giving principle within all beings.... She has a feminine characteristic of complementarity, a mediatorial role, and a certain feminine docility and obedience. She needs always to be uttered, by men, by Gods, or by the Creator himself.... [The Vedic Word] is ultimately as important as Brahman and, in a way that has to be properly understood, it is Brahman itself.”<ref>Raimundo Panikkar, ''The Vedic Experience. Mantramañjari: An Anthology of the Vedas for Modern Man and Contemporary Celebration'' (Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1977), pp. 106, 96, 107, 89).</ref>

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