“He Didn’t Write Verses for Gods. He Wrote Them to Remember Himself.”
“He Didn’t Write Verses for Gods. He Wrote Them to Remember Himself.” Rishi Bharadvaja never treated the Veda as a message sent upward. He treated it as a mirror turned inward. Where many assumed hymns were composed to please distant gods, Rishi Bharadvaja used verse as remembrance —a way to return to what he already was before the noise of the world began to speak through him. For him, poetry was not performance. It was recollection . Rishi Bharadvaja understood a dangerous truth: the greatest loss a human being suffers is not failure, grief, or death—it is forgetting oneself . Forgetting one’s rhythm. Forgetting one’s place in the vast order of things. Forgetting the quiet authority of the inner witness. His verses were not offerings thrown into the sky; they were breadcrumbs laid back to the soul. He did not write to summon divinity. He wrote to stay aligned with it . In the Rigvedic vision embodied by Rishi Bharadvaja, gods are not personalities craving praise. They ...
