OF THE SAMANS I AM THE BRIHAT-SAMAN — The songs of the Sama-Veda are called the Samans. These hymns are all in different metres, and they are to be sung in different tunes. It is no easy task, and the students who can sing the Samans well had to spend years of practice at the feet of their Master. Of all the metres that are met with in the volume of the Sama-Veda, the most difficult and complicated is the metre called ‘Brihati’; and the Samans composed in; the Brihati-metre are called the ‘Brihat-sama.’
OF ALL METRES I AM GAYATRI — Talking of metres Bhagawan seems to have all of a sudden remembered that there are different varieties of metres and, of them, Gayatri is considered as the most divine and extremely powerful. Gayatri is a metre composed of three lines, each fulfilled in eight syllables. This metre is held in India in great esteem, and with an added sense of divinity, because the most famous hymn, glorifying the Sun (Savitru), chanted by all Brahmins, in their morning and evening ablutions, is composed in this metre.
Of all the metres none has been so uniformly glorified everywhere as “Gayatri,” and the mantra has had so far the privilege of being chanted by so many devotees, continuously for such a long number of years, in any other religion in the world.
OF THE MONTHS I AM THE MARGA-SHIRSHA — This corresponds to parts of the English calender months of December and January which are the months in India, each year, when people do not think of the fatiguing summer which is to arrive soon and they have stopped complaining about the wet monsoon.
OF THE SEASONS I AM THE FLOWER-BEARING SPRING — Spring, with its colourful message and fragrant songs, gives a thrill to all prospects wherever one may turn in India. Flower-valleys clothe the hills. Crops cover the field. Tanks and pools get strewn with lotus and lilies. The meadows roll out green carpets of grass. There is an air
of celebration and festivity in the hearts of all, and in order to crown the joyous spirit in the world, the moon seems to dress herself in more glory than usual.
NOT ONLY AM I TO BE RECOGNISED AMONG THE MAJESTIC AND THE DIVINE, AMONG THE BEAUTIFUL AND THE CHARMING, BUT ALSO AMONG THE LOWEST OF THE LOW: I AM WHAT I AM: FOR, LISTEN:
