JMVRI Issue No. 18 is a special Issue devoted to the theme of poetry and language. It encompasses two important lectures by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi on his deep understanding of poetry in relation to the Veda and the structure of pure knowledge within consciousness, entitled: Poetry and the Veda and Poetry and the Veda: The Flow of Life in the Currents of Wisdom, Part I.
This Issue also includes a chapter by American writer Dr Frederick (Fred) Worth (Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literature, Harvard University) from his forthcoming volume Manifold Poetry: The Origami of Consciousness in Word, Line, and Form, plus a selection of his poems titled Walking the Grid / Dancing the Spiral and Other Poems. The final inclusion in Issue No. 18 is a suite of poems by Peruvian poet Javier Ortiz Cabrejos published in Spanish and English entitled Selected Poems.
JMVRI Issue Number 18
JMVRI Paper 18.1
Poetry and the Veda
Author: Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
This paper can be downloaded via the following link:
https://www.academia.edu/68634776/Poetry_and_the_Veda
Citation: Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. (2022). Poetry and the Veda. Journal of Maharishi Vedic Research Institute, 18, 15-19.
Summary (excerpt):
Different forms in their underlying connectedness create a poem sung by the Creator, continuously being enjoyed by the Creator. Poetry, like any other art, is the springing of the waves of life wherever there is connectedness—a very beautiful word. Connectedness justifies these high and low waves of expression. We were talking of the Veda this morning. It happens to be that the truths of creation are expressed in what we call poetry. Poetry has as its characteristic this connectedness of different expressions, and this in itself gives us a clue to the knowledge of life. There is something underlying which connects all the different forms and phenomena.