Comments on: Ask Grace: What’s “Svaha,” anyway? http://www.svahaconcepts.com/blog/ask-grace/ask-grace-whats-svaha-anyway Clarity + Focus = Inspired Action Tue, 27 Jul 2010 21:50:00 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Grace http://www.svahaconcepts.com/blog/ask-grace/ask-grace-whats-svaha-anyway/comment-page-1#comment-39 Grace Fri, 20 Feb 2009 17:12:36 +0000 http://www.svahaconcepts.com/blog/?p=114#comment-39 <strong>Douglas</strong> - Hey, thank you. This is a great explanation of several meanings of Svaha that I've come across, but never seen described in such detail! Douglas – Hey, thank you. This is a great explanation of several meanings of Svaha that I’ve come across, but never seen described in such detail!

]]> By: Douglas Buchanan http://www.svahaconcepts.com/blog/ask-grace/ask-grace-whats-svaha-anyway/comment-page-1#comment-31 Douglas Buchanan Mon, 16 Feb 2009 21:46:42 +0000 http://www.svahaconcepts.com/blog/?p=114#comment-31 Dear Lady, I've just joined your Twitter clutch and looked at your blogsite. I have chanted 'svaha' thousands of times and was intrigued to see it as a site title. In Sanskrit it is a common ending phrase meaning "so be it", "may itendure", or "may good arise from this!" Rather like the meaning of Ameyn in Aramaic...it's a signature on the spiritual contract. Svaha is the Sanskrit word for homage or proclamation Usually svaha indicates s a kind of seal. If the mantra starts with Om,then Om aside from any textual meaning generates a formless field of power, to be shaped by the mantra clauses that follow, the svaha seals it and completes it. Like Ameyn it signifies that whatever the rules before Ameyn, now they are to be the ones in the new contract, often a prayer. The Shatapatha Brahmana (I.1), states that Svaha is the feminine form of Agni, or more correctly the opposite polarity in the Vedic ritual. This is why all Vedic fire rituals often contain the word svaha as the offering is being made. This is certainly true with the Agni hotra ceremony. Svaha personified is the wife of Agni, the fire ritual cannot be complete without this male/female polarity being present. She also represents the spoken offering as well as the ashes, the transformed matter at the end of the fire ceremony. Again she is shakti of Agni on the inner and the outer level of our being. I the Hindu pantheons the goddess is the Shakti, the creative energy of the god. Shakti dances the universes into being for the entertainment of the passive Shiva. The word svaha comes from two words: 1) ‘su’ which can mean to move or go, to press out, but literally means to enliven, energize, impel, or generate. 2) ‘aha’ meaning to say, speak. Together they enliven speech, generate through speech, or are using speech to impel. It can also mean to press out through speech. What is important is that the Tantric concept of male/female energies is present. Svaha. "Hail" (greeting or honoring). Great title for a blog that empowers women. Svaha! Douglas (met you on Twitter through Havi and Selma) Dear Lady,

I’ve just joined your Twitter clutch and looked at your blogsite.

I have chanted ’svaha’ thousands of times and was intrigued to see it as a site title.

In Sanskrit it is a common ending phrase meaning “so be it”, “may itendure”, or “may good arise from this!” Rather like the meaning of Ameyn in Aramaic…it’s a signature on the spiritual contract.

Svaha is the Sanskrit word for homage or proclamation

Usually svaha indicates s a kind of seal. If the mantra starts with Om,then Om aside from any textual meaning generates a formless field of power, to be shaped by the mantra clauses that follow, the svaha seals it and completes it.

Like Ameyn it signifies that whatever the rules before Ameyn, now they are to be the ones in the new contract, often a prayer.

The Shatapatha Brahmana (I.1), states that Svaha is the feminine form of Agni, or more correctly the opposite polarity in the Vedic ritual. This is why all Vedic fire rituals often contain the word svaha as the offering is being made. This is certainly true with the Agni hotra
ceremony. Svaha personified is the wife of Agni, the fire ritual cannot be complete without this male/female polarity being present. She also represents the spoken offering as well as the ashes, the transformed matter at the end of the fire ceremony. Again she is shakti of Agni on the inner and the outer level of our being.

I the Hindu pantheons the goddess is the Shakti, the creative energy of the god. Shakti dances the universes into being for the entertainment of the passive Shiva.

The word svaha comes from two words: 1) ‘su’ which can mean to move or go, to press out, but literally means to enliven, energize, impel, or generate. 2) ‘aha’ meaning to say, speak. Together they enliven speech, generate through speech, or are using speech to impel. It can also mean to press out through speech. What is important is that the Tantric concept of male/female energies is present.

Svaha. “Hail” (greeting or honoring).

Great title for a blog that empowers women.

Svaha!

Douglas (met you on Twitter through Havi and Selma)

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