(RV 1.171.2)
eşhaĥ vaĥ stomo maruto namasvān hŗdā taşhţo manasā dhāyi devāĥ,
Lo, the hymn of your affirmation, O Maruts, it is fraught with my
obeisance, it was framed by the heart, it was established by the
mind, O ye Gods.
Mantra is the Word that expresses a truth, Stoma the Word that
confirms and establishes it. This Word of affirmation must be
voiced with an utter surrender of the whole being, an attitude
that is symbolically expressed by the outer act of obeisance.
This World is not constructed by the intellect or composed by any
poetic faculty. It is a Word that slowly gathers and forms in the
heart, the chamber of the soul, without mention and then emerges
into the mind when it is silently cogitated upon and allowed to
take rounded shape in the language of the mind.
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