Vani Hiranyagarbhabhyam Namah<br /><br />We bow to Vani and Hiranyagarbha, Saraswati and Brahma, who create the cosmic<br />existence<br /><br />Vani is sound, music, voice. She is the mother of sound. First, there was the<br />word...<br /><br />A popular bhajan starts as Vani, Saraswati, Vakdevi. Vak is speech. She is the<br />Goddess of Speech.<br /><br />Hiranyagarbha is one of the names of Lord Brahma. Hiranyagarbha is literally the<br />Golden Womb. According to one story of creation, after the last dissolution of<br />the Universe, there was darkness, nothingness. From this nothingness the<br />self-manifested being arose. He created the waters first and then placed a seed<br />in those waters. And the seed became a Golden Womb - Hiranyagarbha.<br /><br />The Hiranyagarbha Sukta from the Rig Veda declares, " Oh Golden Womb, You are the One Eternal Existence from which all beings are born on the earth have come<br />forth. You always bear the Earth and all that rises upon it.
