''The first sound of the Rk Veda is "A",

maharishi.....

''The first sound of the Rk Veda is "A", the fullness of flow from an open throat representing the holistic unified value of total knowledge in seed form, expressing the Self (Atma). In the first syllable "Ak", the fullness of "A" comes to a complete stop of flow "k", representing the collapse of infinity to a point.

Silence retains the memory of its point values so this collapse expresses the latent dynamism within silence.

Madhuchhandas, the first seer of Rk Veda, had appreciated that within "A" is the total flow of Veda from its beginning to its end in "I",

that the dynamism of "I" was hidden within "A" by the covering quality of Chhandas, and that the collapse of "A" to "k" occurs in eight somersaults which elaborate Totality in terms of a sequence of eight values of increasing "density" known as 8-fold Prakriti: Ego, Intellect, Mind, Space, Air, Fire, Water and Earth.

Maharishi's cognition extended this vision by revealing the detail of how Rk Veda unfolds as a self-elaborating commentary.