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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.’” | ||
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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> | 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> | ||