vak
वाच् vācSpeech, the spoken word, voice. In the Rigveda she is a goddess, Vak, who speaks in the first person in the Devi Sukta (RV 10.125).
Where this term appears
- What is a Mantra? Worship
It is the Devi Sukta, Rigveda 10.125, sometimes just called the Vak hymn.
- What is Shaktipat? Lineages
The Kularnava Tantra (14.39) lists seven kinds of liberating initiation: by rite ( kriya ), by letter ( varna ), by kala , by touch ( sparsha ), by speech ( vak ), by sight ( drik ), and by mind ( manasa ).
- What is Shaktism? Lineages
She is Vak, the personified power of speech, and in the Devi Sukta ( Rigveda 10.125) she says that she moves with the gods, that she upholds them, that she is the queen who gathers up treasures.
- Who is Saraswati? Deities
The hymn known as the Vak Sukta , the hymn of Speech, is sung in the first person by the goddess Vak , Speech herself, and it is one of the most astonishing things in all the Vedas, a deity declaring her own so…
- Who is the Goddess? Deities
It is spoken by the goddess, in the first person, about herself. The speaker is Vak, the personified power of speech.
- The Seers Who Heard Treatise
The hymn is RV 10.125 , called the Vak Sukta or Devi Sukta, the hymn of Speech, or of the Goddess.
- Is Sanskrit the mother of all languages? Journal
When the tradition calls Sanskrit daivi vak , the speech of the gods, it is not proposing a family tree.
- Bagalamukhi: The Stiller of Tongues Treatise
In the other, a demon wins the power that whatever he says comes true, vak-siddhi , and abuses it monstrously, until the goddess seizes his tongue and paralyses the gift.