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sridatta1 · Joined: 03 Aug 2005 Posts: 627 Location: india

Use of the word Brahman in Veda
52) Ajne vaatsalyaashishaa sannihitabhaavikriyaa proktam vaa.

(If you say that Svetaketu in Veda is ignorant, the present tense of the verb can be taken as the immediate future tense to suit to the blessing given by his loving father or we can take Brahman here as the soul as said in the above sutras).
When Veda says that you are Brahman, we can take as usual as said above. Brahman stands for soul and therefore the soul present even in ignorant person like Svetaketu is not exception to this concept. Alternatively, we can take other angle also, in which, the father is blessing his son (Svetaketu) due to excess of love, so that the ignorant soul is blessed to become God by becoming human incarnation in very short future. Here the verb is in present tense (you are that). To mean the immediate future in blessing, present tense of the verb can be used. For example, if I say that you are going, it means that you are going very shortly. This angle is also good since this reflects the blessing of the father in which the excess love is exhibited.