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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0"><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>HUMAN language was born
out of the necessity of inter-communication among human beings living together.
The necessity naturally related to the physical life and its demands and
requirements. Man being a mental being sought intercommunication through his
mind. So mind yoked to the physical demands gave the first form and pattern to
human speech.</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Language
in the beginning must have been an echo or a graphic expression of man's
sense-bound mind. But as the mind developed, became more and more rational and
intellectual, language also tended to become more and more abstract and. intellectualised. Even so at its best, language could be the vehicle and
embodiment of man's mental and intellectual world.</p>

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man moves on, his mind opens on new horizons, his consciousness is not tethered
to sense-experiences nor even limited to the region of thought and ideation
built or grown in accordance with the mode and schema of sense-experiences.</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Man
began to possess, to acquire intuitions and inspirations, that is to say,
movements of consciousness that lie beyond the frame given by the sense-mind.
These new perceptions could naturally be expressed with difficulty through what
one may call the earth-nurtured or earth-bound language. The aerial luminous
character of the mystic consciousness is always said to be beyond speech,
beyond even mental formulation.</p>

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yet poets, mystic poets have always sought to express themselves, to express
something of their experience and illumination through the word, the human
tongue. It is extremely interesting to see how a material, constructed or
formed to satisfy the requirements of an ordinary physical life
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none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>is being turned into an
instrument for luminous and effective communication and expression of other
truths and realities in the hands of these seer-creators <i>(</i>kavi-kratuh)<i>.
</i>They take the materials from ordinary normal life, familiar objects and
happenings but use them as images and allegories putting into them a new sense
and a new light. Also they give a new, unfamiliar turn to their utterance, a
new syntax, sometimes uncommon construction and novel vocabulary to the language
itself so that it has even the appearance of something very irregular and
twisted and obscure. Indeed obscurity itself in the expression, in the form of
the language has often been taken as the very sign of the higher and hidden
experience and illumination.</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The
Vedic rishis speak of the different levels of speech-the human language is only
one form of speech, its lowest, in fact the crudest formulation. There are
other forms of speech that are subtler and subtler as one rises in the scale of
consciousness. The highest formulation of language, the supreme Word –vâk<i>
– is '</i><st1:place><i>OM</i></st1:place><i>' – nâda – <span
style='font-family:"Lucida Console";mso-bidi-font-family:"Lucida Console"'>s</span>abda-brahma.
</i>That is the supreme speech - vibration, the rhythmic articulation of the
Supreme Consciousness Sachchidananda; the expression there is nearest to
silence, almost merges into silence.</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Our
human language cannot expect to attain that supreme height of felicity of
expression but wherever something of the vibration has been communicated to it
by the magic hand of the creative poet, we have the 'mantra', the supreme, the
mantric poetry.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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