Samaveda (Sookta-Wise Translation)

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'Saama' means song. The Saamaveda contains shlokas which can be sung. These verses have been formed using the basic 7 notes of music: Sa, Re, Ga, Ma, Pa, Dha, Ni, which are the basis of Indian Classical music. They awaken the energy chakras in the human body and assist in freeing the soul.

'Saamveda' is the second Veda in the chronological order and it glup its Sookta to present before the dead order acadership its 'Sookta' (aphorism) - wise translation. The teng Saam', literally means of 'Sam' and hence the beginning of a chant or melody. What distinguishes the Saam-Veda log of a Rig-Veda is the music part of these Sooktas. The Sooktas are given in the metrical form and set to music. They are meare to be sung or chanted in a group consisting of the singeant panegyrists at the time of the fire sacrifice. In fact most of its Sooktas are Rigveda only and set to musical form. Only 75 hymns of the Saamveda are different from the first Veda i.e. Rigveda, but generally the Vedic scholars hold that there is no repetition in the Vedas. Their argument is that a hymn or mantra in different contexts reveals different meanings. Of course God doesn't need to repeat himself but what is logical to assume is that having completed the Sooktas for the Rigveda, the Vedic men must have realised the value and effect of music. Presumably, by that time they must have started deciphering a different aesthetic feeling of a consonant sound. Having found it more pleasing they might have thought to rephrase their original Sookta to make them more sonorous and hence more impressive. While resetting the Sooktas, they must have created seventy additional hymns to be added, so they started a separate collection and called it Saamveda.