Vach : in Rig-Veda; in Sri Aurobindo’s words: “the Goddess Speech eldest born of the world”; “the mother of the Vedas”; Vach is the expressive power of Adīti; in later scriptures she is called Saraswati.
... vī , vu , vū , vṛ , vṝ and possibly ve , vai , vo , vau ; round each primitive root its family of secondary roots, round the primitive va its family, vak , vakh , vag , vagh , vac , vach , vaj , vajh , vaṭ , vaṭh , vaḍ , vaḍh , vaṇ , vat , vath , vad , vadh , van , vap , vaph , vab , vabh , vam , & possibly vay , var , val & vav , vaś , vaṣ , vas , vah ;—the ...
... psychic world where it waits for a material birth. Here Brahma, the flaming, shapeless and many-shaped, holds them in his brilliant vibrating medium of active imagination and thought and by his daughter Vach, the Goddess Speech eldest-born of the world, puts them into shape and body as Hiranyagarbha, God imaginative and therefore creative. Last they take permanent shape and abide in some material body, ...
... of desire, who rode on the parrot and carried five flowery arrows and a bow-string of linked honey-bees; his wife, Ruthie, the golden-limbed spirit of delight; Saruswatie, the Hindu Muse, who is also Vach or Word, the primal goddess—she is the unexpressed idea of existence which by her expression takes visible form and being; for the word is prior to and more real, because more spiritual, than the thing ...
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