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आज रंगीबेरंगीच पान मिळाल वर्षासाठी!! ऍडमिन आणि टीमचे खूप खूप आभार.

सुरुवात करताना, आधी वंदू तुज मोरया.....

वक्रतुंड महाकाय सूर्यकोटी समप्रभ l
निर्विघ्नं कुरु मे देव सर्वकार्येषु सर्वदा ll

आणि आता माझी माय सरसोती.....

या कुंदेदुतुषारहारधवला या शुभ्रवस्त्रावृता l
या वीणावरदंडमंडितकरा या श्वेतपद्मासना ll
या ब्रह्माच्युतशंकरप्रभृतिभिर्देवे: सदा वंदिता l
सा मां पातु सरस्वती भगवती नि:शेष जाड्या पहा ll

... tat tvam asi (तत्वमसि ) ...
-Chandogya upanishad, VI.VIII ...

Chandogya Upanishad is also one of the oldest ones and perhaps the best known. It belongs to Saamveda, the veda with metre. It has many very interesting passages in which we learn
- of the knowledge that Kshatriyas had but Brahmins did not,
- of Satyakama's story about how its not your birth that decides if you are a Brahmin,
- of Aruni's statement about the origin of the universe from sat which in the same breath challenges another theory of origin,