What is Veda?
The vibrating blueprint of creation and cosmic intelligence
You may have heard the word Veda before. Maybe in connection to meditation, yoga, or ancient texts. You would certainly have heard us use the word Veda if you’re a regular at our group meditations.
What is Veda?
Veda is not as something to study (though you can also do this) or believe in, but something to experience—something that lives at the very source of nature. Veda is the creative intelligence of life itself. The silent hum that gives rise to form and function, order and evolution. The same pulse that governs the stars, guides your growth, and all the rhythms of life. Every time we meditate, we are becoming more familiar with Veda as a direct experience. That subtle field of knowing, silence, and pure potentiality. The home of all the laws of nature.
We are not separate from it.
We are Veda.
Veda isn’t something abstract or mystical.
Veda is nature itself.
Not “nature” as in just trees and rivers, though it’s that too. But nature in the truest sense: the intelligent, living rhythm that governs everything. The pulse that knows how a flower blooms, how your breath rises and falls, how the planets spin in perfect timing, and how healing knows when to arrive. Veda is the impulse of creative intelligence at the foundation of all life. It gets expressed as the first vibration, primordial sound emerging out of the field of pure, unbounded consciousness. A sound that arises from silence, from the most subtle level of awareness. This is not sound that you hear with your ears, but vibration that is at the basis of all things.
When we meditate, we transcend thought. The mantra carries the mind to subtler and subtler states, until we arrive at the least excited state of consciousness, the field of Veda. This is not a personal silence but a universal experience. It’s not your mind becoming quiet, it’s your limited self dissolving into unbounded Being. A return to wholeness.
“Veda is the blueprint of creation. It is not man-made. It is the fabric and structure of natural law itself.” - Dr. Tony Nader
This vibratory field of Veda is alive. It’s the place where nature’s intelligence resides, the home of the laws of nature. Within it lies the structure, order, and wisdom behind all form and phenomena. In Sanskrit, Veda means “to know.” Not to believe, but to directly experience the knowingness inherent in life itself. Just as we don’t say ‘the nature’, we don’t say ‘the Veda’. It is not a text or a philosophy (although a form of it has been written down) it’s the living, breathing field of knowing that gives rise to everything, including you.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi would often speak of ‘Natural Law’. Not in a rigid or rule-bound way, but as the elegant unfolding of intelligence that allows the universe to move in a precise and beautiful sequence. Veda is Natural Law in motion. And it can be cognised. This is what the Rishis of ancient India did. Rishi (ṛṣi) means ‘seer’, one who can perceive the subtle movements of Veda. These great Rishis were able to perceive the patterns of life and translated them into verses we now know as ‘the Vedas’. But Veda itself is not limited to scripture. It is alive right now. It’s in you. When we connect with it, we begin to perceive life differently. Not as chaos, but as choreography. We begin to see the patterns, the timing, the deep evolutionary currents. We begin to feel that nature is always in motion and that we are being moved too, not randomly, but with purpose.
Where does Veda come from?
Like everything, Veda has a source. Veda emerges from the unmanifest field of consciousness. The Absolute. Being. Silence. Is-ness. It has many names but it itself is beyond name. In Sanskrit, we call this Ātma, the Self. From this pure silence, Veda begins to stir. Sound arises. Sound becomes form. Form becomes life. And here we are, singing the universe into existence, moment by moment.
“Veda is the Constitution of the Universe. It is the eternal, unchanging, all-knowing structure of intelligence that governs the universe from within itself.” - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
You are not separate from this, you are Veda. You are the intelligent unfolding of life itself. You are nature moving into form. Every time you sit to meditate, you dip back into the source of it all. You remind your body, your heart, and your nervous system that you are not seperate. You are part of something deeply known, deeply intelligent, deeply loving. From this place, we begin to live life with a deeper knowing of what we truly are, with more wonder and more harmony.
Knowledge of Veda eliminates fear, control, and suffering.
When we understand that Veda isn’t something outside but the very intelligence enlivening us and everything around us, it changes how we live. We begin to move through life with more ease and less urgency or need to control. What emerges is a deeper connection to the rhythms that are already guiding us.
Rather than feeling like we have to control or force things to happen, we can start to listen. To pay attention to the subtle cues. To feel into timing, into nature, into what’s unfolding within and around us. This changes things. Our decisions feel clearer, our relationships soften, our nervous system gets to exhale. Life doesn’t feel so separate anymore. We’re not trying to ‘do’ life… we’re in relationship with it.
When we meditate and expand into that silent field of creative intelligence each day, we’re aligning ourselves with natural order. That’s when things begin to feel more easeful. More in flow. More true. Because Veda is not just the intelligence behind the universe, it’s the intelligence behind you. Reconnecting with that is one of the most nourishing things we can do.
Kathleen x
Resources to explore.
Watch Maharishi Mahesh Yogi explore the fundamentals of Vedic science.
Download Maharishi Veda App and listen to the sounds of Veda throughout your day to restore balance and harmony in mind, body, behaviour, and environment.
Group meditation timetable.
Join us this week for a group meditation and wisdom session. Open to all Vedic meditators. Please book in via the timetable.
Monday 28 April - 5:30pm-7pm at Noosa Flow with Laura Poole
Tuesday 29 April - 6pm-7pm AEST online with Sarah O’Brien
Wednesday 30 April - 6pm-7:30pm group meditation and community dinner in Castlemaine with Kathleen O’Brien
Wednesday 30 April - Every Wednesday 7am FREE meditation, swim and chai at Noosa Main beach. Open to anyone to attend. Tell your friends! Follow us @noosa_meditation to stay in touch.
Upcoming courses + offerings.
Gift yourself a lifelong practice for health, happiness, and deeper connection. Join our community and be supported for life. We currently teach in-person courses in:
MELBOURNE - NOOSA - CASTLEMAINE
8-11 May - Vedic meditation course in Melbourne with Sarah
16-19 May - Vedic meditation course in Melbourne with Laura
17-20 May - Vedic meditation course in Castlemaine with Kathleen
29 May - 1 June - Vedic meditation course in Noosa with Laura
Free discovery call.
We get it! Booking in to a 4-session in-person course is a commitment. Looking to learn Vedic meditation but want to meet your teacher and know more before signing up? Join us LIVE for a free Q&A discovery call on Zoom.
Retreat with us.
Join Mahasoma in 2025 on retreat. Connect to yourself through deep practice, nourishing wisdom and community connection.
RADIATE Vedic Meditation Teachers Retreat
6-12 June in Uki, Northern Rivers with Pandit Baskaran
Bali Bliss, Bali 7-day Rounding Retreat
6-12 September 2025 with Kathleen O’Brien
Learn to meditate in retreat Bali
19-22 September 2025 with Kathleen O’Brien
Who is Mahasoma?
The Mahasoma team is a feminine-led collective of Vedic meditation teachers, who choose to come together to create something greater than what could be done as individuals. Through working together they support the ever growing community of Mahasoma meditators by offering Vedic meditation courses, online and in-person group meditation and Vedic wisdom sessions, advanced trainings, and retreats. They are accredited Mental Health First Aiders and have been trained in pre- and/or postnatal support for women and families.
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