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CDV 18-1

The Vedic mantras were all through music

Prabhupada: Music. Na vidya sangita uttamam. The Vedic mantras were all through music. Sama Veda. Sama Veda is full of music.

yam brahma-varunendra-rudra-marutaḥ stunvanti divyaiḥ stavair
vedaiḥ sahgopada-kramopanisadair gayanti yam sama-gaḥ
[SB 12.13.1]

[Sūta Gosvami said: Unto that personality whom Brahma, Varuna, Indra, Rudra and the Maruts praise by chanting transcendental hymns and reciting the Vedas with all their corollaries, pada-kramas and Upanisads, to whom the chanters of the Sama Veda always sing, whom the perfected yogis see within their minds after fixing themselves in trance and becoming fully absorbed in thoughts of Him, and whose limit can never be found by any demigod or demon-unto that Supreme Personality of Godhead I offer my humble obeisances.]

Samagaḥ. Samagaḥ means the followers of Sama Veda. Gayanti. They are always in music. Through musical vibration they are approaching the Supreme. Samagaḥ. Gayanti. Gayanti means singing. So Vedic mantras are sung. This whole Bhagavad-gita, Srimad-Bhagavatam, can be sung very nicely. And it is Vedic mantra, chanting. Simply by hearing the vibration, people will be benefited, even they do not understand. This mantra you chant?

Prabhupada: [singing slowly:]

na te viduḥ svartha-gatim hi visnum
durasaya ye bahir-artha-maninaḥ
andha yathandhair upaniyamanas
te 'pisa-tantryam uru-damni baddhaḥ
[SB 7.5.31]

[Persons who are strongly entrapped by the consciousness of enjoying material life, and who have therefore accepted as their leader or guru a similar blind man attached to external sense objects, cannot understand that the goal of life is to return home, back to Godhead, and engage in the service of Lord Visnu. As blind men guided by another blind man miss the right path and fall into a ditch, materially attached men led by another materially attached man are bound by the ropes of fruitive labor, which are made of very strong cords, and they continue again and again in materialistic life, suffering the threefold miseries.]

matir na krsne parataḥ svato va
mitho 'bhipadyeta grha-vratanam

matir na krsne parataḥ svato va
mitho 'bhipadyeta grha-vratanam
adanta-gobhir visatam tamisram
punaḥ punas carvita-carvananam
[SB 7.5.30]

[Prahlada Maharaja replied: Because of their uncontrolled senses, persons too addicted to materialistic life make progress toward hellish conditions and repeatedly chew that which has already been chewed. Their inclinations toward Krsna are never aroused, either by the instructions of others, by their own efforts, or by a combination of both.]

adanta-gobhir visatam tamisram
punaḥ punas carvita-carvananam

na te viduḥ svartha-gatim hi visnum
durasaya ye bahir-artha-maninaḥ
andha yathandhair upaniyamanas
te 'pisa-tantryam uru-damni baddhaḥ
[SB 7.5.31]

[Persons who are strongly entrapped by the consciousness of enjoying material life, and who have therefore accepted as their leader or guru a similar blind man attached to external sense objects, cannot understand that the goal of life is to return home, back to Godhead, and engage in the service of Lord Visnu. As blind men guided by another blind man miss the right path and fall into a ditch, materially attached men led by another materially attached man are bound by the ropes of fruitive labor, which are made of very strong cords, and they continue again and again in materialistic life, suffering the threefold miseries.]

naisam matis tavad urukramahghrim
sprsaty anarthapagamo yad-arthaḥ

naisam matis tavad urukramahghrim
sprsaty anarthapagamo yad-arthaḥ
mahiyasam pada-rajo 'bhisekam

mahiyasam pada-rajo 'bhisekam
niskincananam na vrnita yavat

niskincananam na vrnita yavat
[SB 7.5.32]

[Unless they smear upon their bodies the dust of the lotus feet of a Vaisnava completely freed from material contamination, persons very much inclined toward materialistic life cannot be attached to the lotus feet of the Lord, who is glorified for His uncommon activities. Only by becoming Krsna conscious and taking shelter at the lotus feet of the Lord in this way can one be freed from material contamination.]

na te viduḥ svartha-gatim hi visnum
durasaya ye bahir-artha-maninaḥ
andha yathandhair upaniyamanas
te 'pisa-tantryam uru-damni baddhaḥ

na te viduḥ svartha-gatim hi visnum...
[SB 7.5.31]

[Persons who are strongly entrapped by the consciousness of enjoying material life, and who have therefore accepted as their leader or guru a similar blind man attached to external sense objects, cannot understand that the goal of life is to return home, back to Godhead, and engage in the service of Lord Visnu. As blind men guided by another blind man miss the right path and fall into a ditch, materially attached men led by another materially attached man are bound by the ropes of fruitive labor, which are made of very strong cords, and they continue again and again in materialistic life, suffering the threefold miseries.]

[break] Veda mantra. Sa jnata na vrtti. Vedanta-sūtra-sabdat. Simply by transcendental vibration of sound, everything can be achieved.