Sama veda text
I think Sama Veda is a similar, but much more complex and creative, artistic and appealing way of remembering the thousands of mantras in the Vedas. Here, S, C, T are Sine, Cosine and Tangent while H, B and P are, respectively, the hypotenuse, base and perpendicular of a right-angle triangle and the sentence would denote their relationship. We were taught in school to remember the Sine, Cosine and Tangent relationship through a simple funny English sentence some people have curly black turned purplish brown. Imagine if our physics formulae were set to suitable music we would possibly have made science more appealing, attracting more students into the science stream and the formulae would be communicated to a wider audience. The Sama Veda is an artistic way of communicating science. The silver lining in the dark cloud is that some top scientists are now investigating the science of Vedas. Yet there is little interest being generated in the Vedas among most people. It has been shown in a premiere scientific institute in Pune that the yajna-bhasma being of the size of nano-particles had deeply positive effects on human health and the environment.
The yajnas, apart from their religious functions, were unfortunately termed as mere 'rituals' even by Indian scholars and so their secular significance has been undermined. One needs to find out why the world's oldest composite literature on religion, sciences, humanities and spirituality attracts little public attention today. In spite of the fact that a large number of rich Indians possess more wealth than the world's richest, we demonstrate such ignorance about the Vedas in general and the Sama Veda in particular. We have, it could be said, mindlessly pursued a line of development causing unwelcome changes to the very fabric of our culture not very different from iconoclastic behaviour. While the modern Indian has made progress in various fields, the priceless intangible heritage of works like the Sama Veda have gone unnoticed - a great loss indeed. Out of the 13 branches of Sama Veda termed as 'shakhas', now we have only four, of which scholars say the Kauthumiya is a modified Ranayaniya shakha, leaving us only with three. This situation might have arisen from the discouragement of idol worship this would ultimately see the demise of a culture with its unique art, craft, economics, beliefs, people and their practices which were actually cultural givens of that era. With the Sama Veda being reduced to a point of near extinction, we are at the brink of losing not only its unique music, but also the complete world view it presents. It naturally incorporates music, mantra, chhanda, linguistics, and above all, a reflection of the world view of rishis who communicated in the Arsha language, precursor to the more regimented Girvan (later called Sanskrit). Sama Veda is perhaps the earliest human literature on music.