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Sage
Vyasa (Veda Vyasa)
Many thousands of years ago, there was a great
sage whose name was Parashara. He was known as Parashara Maharishi, a man of
immense knowledge and a realized being. In his time, a situation had come about
in society where kings were drunk with power and they no longer respected the
dharma of the priestly class. And in many ways, the Brahmins had also fallen on
corrupt and bad times, and had lost the reverence and respect they once
commanded. Because of this conflict, there was a lot of discord in society.
Parashara took up the movement to bring some
coordination between Brahmatej, the dharma of the priestly class, and
Kshatratej, the dharma of the ruling class. He travelled across the country
establishing hundreds of ashrams and trying to make contact with the kings of
the time so that he could bring some kind of organization between the different
sections of society. Because he had taken up this immense task, he was hugely
respected and looked up to. At the same time, he naturally made enemies of
those who opposed his movement.
Parashara took up the movement to bring some
coordination between Brahmatej and Kshatratej.
Once, Parashara’s ashram was attacked and he was
injured to a point where his leg was very badly hurt. He managed to escape
somehow, and with great effort got into a boat and made his way to a small
island where some fisherfolk lived. Seeing his condition, the fisherfolk took
him in. He was placed under the care of Matsyagandhi, the daughter of the
tribe’s chief. Matsyagandhi means “she who smells like a fish.”
Matsyagandhi, who was just a young woman at the
time, tended to Parashara’s health. She was naturally drawn to him because he
was such a towering personality of immense knowledge and wisdom. Parashara
stayed with the fisherfolk for over a year while he recovered from his serious
injury. Even after recovering from his wound, he was never able to walk
straight again.
The Birth of Vyasa
A certain relationship developed between Parashara
and Matsyagandhi, and a child was born to her. But by then, Parashara was well
enough and he left the village to continue his work. The child who was born was
named Krishna Dvaipayana. Krishna was a common name even then. The word
“Krishna” literally means “the puller” or “the one who attracts.” “Dvaipayana”
means “the island born.” He was named thus because he was born on an island in
the river Yamuna. This child would grow up to become the great sage Vyasa – the
author of the Mahabharat.
As Krishna Dvaipayana grew up, right from the time
he could speak and understand, he would ask his mother, “Who is my father?” His
mother told him fantastic stories about Parashara and about what a great man he
was. In her simple way, she tried to ensure that the child was influenced by
the father’s wisdom and knowledge, and not just by the fisherman community that
lived there.
The child grew up with a tremendous awe towards
the father he had never seen. All the time, Dvaipayana asked his mother, “Why
is father not with us?” The mother would tell the child of the great things his
father was doing and that he had to travel because he was sought after
everywhere in the country to spread his knowledge and wisdom. Then the boy
would ask, “If he cannot be with us, why can’t we go with him?” The mother
would reply, “He cannot take us with him because he is in many different types
of situations and he is constantly traveling.”
Having heard so many stories of what a wonderful
man his father was, Krishna Dvaipayana grew up with a great urge to travel with
his father. His only goal was to go with his father.
Having heard so many stories of what a wonderful
man his father was, Krishna Dvaipayana grew up with a great urge to travel with
his father. His only goal was to go with his father. He went about telling the
children in the fisherman village, “My father knows the stars, he knows the
sun, he knows the moon. There is nothing that he does not know.” He was not too
far off the mark because Parashara was that kind of man.
Then, when Dvaipayana was six years of age,
Parashara once again visited the village. This was the boy’s dream come true!
The six-year-old boy would not sleep a wink that night. He just wanted to sit
with his father and know everything that his father knows because his father
knew everything, and he wants to know every bit of it too. He asked his father
many, many questions and like a sponge, Dvaipayana soaked in everything that
his father spoke. His ability to learn and perceive was so tremendous that
anything that was uttered once, never had to be repeated to him again at any
time in his life. If anything was told to him once, that was it! Parashara was
amazed at the boy’s capability.
When the time came for Parashara to leave,
Dvaipayana said, “I want to go with you.”
Parashara said, “You are only six. You are an
incredible boy, but you are only six. You cannot travel with me.”
Dvaipayana asked him, “Okay, what is it that I can
do after two years that I cannot do right now? Tell me.”
When Parashara looked at the boy, he could not
answer the question because intellectually, the boy was capable of doing what a
man of thirty would not be able to do.
Then Parashara said, “You cannot travel with me as
my son. I cannot take my son and go around the world. Only my disciples can go
with me. My son cannot.”
Dvaipayana replied, “Let me become your disciple.”
Once again Parashara said, “You are still a child.
You are only six. Spend some more time with your mother.”
But Dvaipayana was insistent, “Nothing doing, I
want to go. You initiate me right now as your disciple. I am coming with you.”
So Parashara had no choice. He initiated the
six-year-old boy into brahmacharya, made him his disciple, and with a shaven
head and a begging bowl, this little boy followed his father who had now become
his Guru.
Vyasa’s brahmacharya
The first day of his brahmacharya, Dvaipayana went
out to beg for his food. This little six-year-old boy, with a shaven head and
clothes made of wood bark, went out to beg and said, “Bikshandehi” in his
childish piping voice. People looked at this cute boy and gave him enormous
amounts of food. They gave the best things that they could give because they
saw the strength in this little boy walking on the street alone and begging
food for himself and his Guru.
So much food came to him that he could not carry
it all. But as he was going back, he saw many children on the street who, by
the look on their faces, had not eaten well for many days. He gave away all the
food to them and came back to his Guru with an empty bowl.
Parashara looked at the boy with an empty bowl and
asked, “What happened? You did not beg? Or nobody gave you anything? Why have
you come with an empty bowl?” Dvaipayana said, “They gave me food but I saw
these little boys who had not eaten so I gave away all the food.” Parashara
looked at him and said, “Okay. That’s fine.” So Dvaipayana stayed hungry that
day.
As Vyasa grew under the tutelage of his father, he
displayed an incredible intellectual capability.
Though he was hungry, this six-year-old sat there
determined and continued to go through his learning process. This happened day
after day and the boy never ate. Vyasa developed this even later in his life
that at any time, he never ate unless everyone in the vicinity had eaten. He
always ensured that everyone ate, and only if there was something left, he ate.
Otherwise he just did not.
When Parashara saw the boy’s strength – this
six-year-old boy going for three or four days without food and continuing all
his duties and study – he saw tremendous possibility and he poured himself out
to him. What he would have taught someone in a hundred years, he poured out to
this boy in a very short time.
As Vyasa grew under the tutelage of his father, he
displayed an incredible intellectual capability. Slowly his learning became
such, Parashara noticed that if he taught Dvaipayana one thing, Dvaipayana
would come to know ten things that were connected with that. His ability to
grasp things from his father became so tremendous because he was so one-pointed
towards him. Dvaipayana at a very early age grew into a man of towering
intelligence and knowledge. By the time he was sixteen there was no equal to
him anywhere; he was that learned.
Veda Vyasa
It was Vyasa who, along with Mahatharvan, another
great sage, convinced the community to include the fourth Veda – the Atharvana
Veda – on the same level as the other three Vedas. The Atharvana Veda deals
with the occult sciences or the science of manipulating energies to make things
happen in the world. The Vedic traditions had rejected this and were not
willing to include Atharvana Veda as a part of the sacred four. There were only
three Vedas and the Atharvana Veda was rejected by the larger community because
people tended to misuse it. But there was nothing wrong with the science
itself. It is the way it is used that matters. Vyasa said the science need not
be banned simply because a few people misused it. With that understanding, he
made sure that the Atharvana Veda was given the same status as the other three
Vedas which were already established as sacred books.
How Vyasa compiled the Vedas
Krishna Dvaipayana not only authored the
Mahabharat but also compiled the Vedas. The Vedas were transmitted orally from
generation to generation. People understood the significance and impact of
sound, so they refused to write it down. Of all the things that we use, the
subtlest form of physicality is sound. The next level, including what happens
in your brain, is electromagnetic. They did not attach too much importance to
thoughts, emotions, and whatever else, but sound was considered significant
because it is the subtlest form of physicality, and it can be used to create an
immense impact.
The Vedas remained an oral tradition until the
time when the rich Gangetic plain was struck by a famine that lasted over 14
years. They say there was not a drop of rain in all those years. Crops dried
up, and the civilization of the day wilted away. People forgot to recite the
Vedas because they were busy gathering whatever food they could find. They
completely forgot their traditions. When once again the rains came, and Vyasa
saw the loss that had occurred to that civilization because they had lost the
Vedas, he thought it is best to write them down. They were classified into four
segments, called Rig Veda, Atharva Veda, Sama Veda, and Yajur Veda. This is the
traditional order, not the one people use today. Even today, these four Vedas
are considered to be among the greatest documents that humanity has ever
created.
Mahabharat as we know it today is only the part
that Vaishampayana remembered, not the way Ganapathi had written it down.
The next thing he wanted to do was to compile a
great, eternal story that could be relevant to people forever. He told it to
two people – one was Vaishampayana, his disciple, who listened in awe. But
disciples can distort things. The method of oral transmission through human
memory worked in the Satya Yuga when people were of a certain mental caliber.
As Kali Yuga approached, the caliber of the human mind and its memory capacity
decreased. Vyasa thought it best not to take any chances, so he hired a god –
Ganapathi – to write down the Vedas.
There was one person writing down, another person
only listening. But unfortunately, the written document was so attractive, it
was such a grand piece of literature that the gods came and stole it.
Mahabharat as we know it today is only the part that Vaishampayana remembered,
not the way Ganapathi had written it down. After the war was over,
Vaishampayana told the story to emperor Janamejaya of Hastinapur, who was the
second successor of Yudhishthira. What we know today is only a fragment of what
Vyasa had spoken.
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