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The Taya Maha Brahmaa teaches, “This, [in the beginning], was only the Lord of the universe. His Word was with him. This Word was his second. He contemplated. He said, ‘I will deliver this Word so that she will produce and bring into being all this world’” (XX, 14, 2). | The Taya Maha Brahmaa teaches, “This, [in the beginning], was only the Lord of the universe. His Word was with him. This Word was his second. He contemplated. He said, ‘I will deliver this Word so that she will produce and bring into being all this world’” (XX, 14, 2). | ||
Scholar John Woodroffe (pen name, Arthur Avalon) quotes John 1:1 and says: “These are the very words of Veda. ''Prajapatir vai idam ast'': In the beginning was Brahman. ''Tasya vag dvitya ast''; with whom was Vak or the Word (She is spoken of as second to Him because She is first potentially in, and then as Shakti issues from Him); ''Vag vai paramam Brahma''; and the word is Brahman. Vak is thus a Shakti or Power of the Brahman.... This Shakti which was in Him is at the creation with Him, and evolves into the form of the Universe whilst still remaining what It is—the Supreme Shakti” who is “one with Brahman.”<ref>Arthur Avalon, ''The Garland of Letters'' (Pondicherry, India: Ganesh & Co., n.d.), pp. 4–5.</ref> | Scholar John Woodroffe (pen name, Arthur Avalon) quotes John 1:1 and says: “These are the very words of Veda. ''Prajapatir vai idam ast'': In the beginning was Brahman. ''Tasya vag dvitya ast''; with whom was Vak or the Word (She is spoken of as second to Him because She is first potentially in, and then as [[Shakti]] issues from Him); ''Vag vai paramam Brahma''; and the word is Brahman. Vak is thus a Shakti or Power of the Brahman.... This Shakti which was in Him is at the creation with Him, and evolves into the form of the Universe whilst still remaining what It is—the Supreme Shakti” who is “one with Brahman.”<ref>Arthur Avalon, ''The Garland of Letters'' (Pondicherry, India: Ganesh & Co., n.d.), pp. 4–5.</ref> | ||
Hindu texts refer to Vac as the wife or consort of the Creator “who contains within herself all worlds.” [[Sarasvati]], the consort of [[Brahma]] and goddess of language, speech, wisdom and art, is identified with Vac in the Mahabharata and later Hindu tradition. Quoting the Brahmaas, author Raimundo Panikkar writes that Vac “is truly ‘the womb of the universe.’ For ‘by that Word of his, by that self, he created all this, whatever there is.’” | Hindu texts refer to Vac as the wife or consort of the Creator “who contains within herself all worlds.” [[Sarasvati]], the consort of [[Brahma]] and goddess of language, speech, wisdom and art, is identified with Vac in the Mahabharata and later Hindu tradition. Quoting the Brahmaas, author Raimundo Panikkar writes that Vac “is truly ‘the womb of the universe.’ For ‘by that Word of his, by that self, he created all this, whatever there is.’” | ||