Vaja : ‘Plenitude’, youngest of the three Ribhūs.
... self-diffusing, and Vaja, the Plenitude. Their names indicate their special nature and function, but they are really a trinity, and therefore, although usually termed the Ribhus, they are also called the Vibhus and the Vajas. Ribhu, the eldest is the first in man who begins to shape by his thoughts and works the forms of immortality; Vibhwa gives pervasiveness to this working; Vaja, the youngest, supplies... and strength for the labour, he becomes a Rishi by power of self-expression, he becomes a hero and a smiter hard to pierce in the battles, he holds in himself increase of bliss and entire energy whom Vaja and Vibhwa, the Ribhus foster.... For you are seers and thinkers clear-discerning; as such with this thought of our soul we declare to you our knowledge. Do you in your knowledge moving about our thoughts ...
... which is inconsistent with this fundamental significance. Moreover the tendency of the old commentators to make all possible words, vaja, ritam etc mean sacrifice or food, must be rejected,—although a justification in etymology might always be made out for the effort. Vaja means substance in being, substance, plenty, strength, solidity, steadfastness. Here it obviously means “full of substance”, just... report, & thence fame. If we take it in that sense, we shall have to translate “Arrange for us, O universal life, a luminous and solid, wide & great fame unimpaired.” I dismiss at once the idea that go & vaja can here signify cattle and food or wealth. “A herded & fooded or wealthy fame” to express “a fame for wealth of cattle & food” is a forceful turn of expression we might expect to find in Aeschylus... srut to mean inspired knowledge in the act of reception, sravas the thing acquired by the reception, inspired knowledge. Gomad immediately assumes its usual meaning “illuminated, full of illumination”. Vaja I take throughout the Veda as a technical Vedic expression for that substantiality of being-consciousness which is the basis of all special manifestation of being & power, all utayah & vibhutayah—it ...
... worship, but hymns full of psychological & philosophical religion expressed in relation to fixed practices & symbolic ceremonies, if we find that the common & persistent words of Veda, words such as vaja, vani, tuvi, ritam, radhas, rati, raya, rayi, uti, vahni etc,—an almost endless list,—are used so persistently because they expressed shades of meaning & fine psychological distinctions of great practical... apply to vajebhir vajinivati when it is spoken of a subjective Power? It is a suggestion I shall make and work out hereafter by application to all the hundreds of passages in which the word occurs that vaja in the Veda means a substantial, firm & copious condition of being, well-grounded & sufficient plenty in anything material, mental or spiritual, any substance, wealth, chattels, qualities, psychological... but which must be allowed to remain conjectural till I am able to take up publicly the detailed examination of the language & substance of the Rigveda. But we have sumati again and the ever recurring vaja, the dhartara charshaninam, holders of actions, & rayah which certainly meant felicity in the Veda. It is clear from the third verse that Varuna and Indra are called to share in the felicity of the ...
... application,—in discovering the visishtagati which the word conveyed to the mind of the sage. But Vajin & Page 284 Arvan are very illuminative. Vaja & Vajin are common Vedic words; they recur perpetually in the Rigveda. The sense of Vaja is essentially substantiality of being attended with plenty, from which it came to signify full force, copiousness, strength, and by an easy transition substance ...
... complete; the struggle continued in health, utthapana & kamananda, but they did not prevail, except in effecting an obscure, moderate & preparatory success & in strengthening the force of their sukshma vaja or subtle material substance, of which, however, shansa, the actual bringing out into material being has not yet been realised. Chitraratha and Madira still increase. Programme—Trikaldrishti to widen... objective alone resists, and there the resistance is artificially entertained, in some cases without any real basis, in others by taking exaggerated advantage of old grooves in the Sat of matter or the vaja of forward acting mind. The movement of the siddhi in the immediate future must be in the totality of the seven chatusthayas. Not that all its members are equally developed, or that a separate stress ...
... akasha. Hitherto, however, this is an isolated incident. The Shakti is now bringing forward the ishita, ishita-vashita & effective vyapti and it is immediately found that in actual inherent power, vaja, all these are as strong as the other parts of tapas, but owing to the akasha being less habituated to their impact not so Page 374 readily or accurately effective as the vashita, aishw ...
... among others, sometimes, in varying degrees, as the effective force. So much has been gained[,] no more. The organisation of the vijnana is now possible, because there is not only the abundance, the vaja, not only the satyam & brihat—although both of these are capable of improvement,—but also the basis of faith & samata. Not yet faith in the kriti or the sharira to the extent needed, but faith in the ...
... the double godhead, and the Aswins, and let them speed, let them charge for the getting, for the thought, for the victory. (5) Let Ribhu whet our getting into a sharp weapon for fruitful battle and Vaja victor in the press and the fighting help us to thrive. This let Mitra and Varuna and the Mother Infinite magnify in me and the Great River and Earth and Heaven. SUKTA 123 (1) The wide chariot ...
... birth; night was the grandeur that was born behind him & its birth was from the other waters. These are the grandeurs that came into being on either side of the horse. He became Haya & bore the gods, Vaja & bore the Gandharvas, Arvan & bore the Titans, Aswa & bore mankind. The sea was his brother & the sea was his birthplace. Chapter One: Section II नैवेह किंचनाग्र आसीन्मृत्युनैवेदमावृतमासीत् । ...
... Ribhus are brothers, —the eldest is Ribhu or Ribhukshan, Page 51 the skillful Knower or Shaper in knowledge; the second one is Vibhu, the Pervading or the self-diffusing; and the third is Vaja, the Plenitude. In a hymn of Rigveda, 50 Ribhus, the ancient human beings, are addressed as those who had successfully accomplished those works and formations by which they worked out Immortality. ...
... soul. The yajna of the Veda is the yoga of the soul or of any of its faculties, mental, spiritual, vital or bodily, its preparing and bringing into action for growth towards peace, perfection, plenty (vajas), joy, strength, immortal godhead. The Yajamana, for whom Agni is the agent of the yajnic action, the hota, perfects himself in these things, sadhati; he gets his habitation, firmly establishes himself ...
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