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yathornanabhir hrdayad

 urnam udvamate mukhat

akasad ghosavan prano

 manasa sparsa-rupina

 

chando-mayo ’mrta-mayah

 sahasra-padavim prabhuh

omkarad vyañjita-sparsa-

 svarosmantastha-bhusitam

 

vicitra-bhasa-vitatam

 chandobhis catur-uttaraih

ananta-param brhatim

 srjaty aksipate svayam

 

Translation: 

 

Just as a spider brings forth from its heart its web and emits it through its mouth, the Supreme Personality of Godhead manifests Himself as the reverberating primeval vital air, comprising all sacred Vedic meters and full of transcendental pleasure. Thus the Lord, from the ethereal sky of His heart, creates the great and limitless Vedic sound by the agency of His mind, which conceives of variegated sounds such as the sparsas. The Vedic sound branches out in thousands of directions, adorned with the different letters expanded from the syllable om: the consonants, vowels, sibilants and semivowels. The Veda is then elaborated by many verbal varieties, expressed in different meters, each having four more syllables than the previous one. Ultimately the Lord again withdraws His manifestation of Vedic sound within Himself.

 

Purport: 

 

Srila Sridhara Svami has given an elaborate technical explanation of these three verses, the understanding of which requires extensive linguistic knowledge of the Sanskrit language. The essential point is that transcendental knowledge is expressed through Vedic sound vibration, which is itself a manifestation of the Absolute Truth, the Personality of Godhead. Vedic sound emanates from the Supreme Lord and is vibrated to glorify and understand Him. The conclusion of all Vedic sound vibration is found in Bhagavad-gita, wherein the Lord states, vedais ca sarvair aham eva vedyah: all Vedic knowledge is simply meant to teach us to know and love God. One who always thinks of Lord Krsna, who becomes the Lord’s devotee and who bows down to and worships the Lord with faith and devotion, chanting His holy name, has certainly achieved a perfect understanding of all that is indicated by the word veda (“knowledge”).