00:00this 19 year old just did something that has not been done perfectly in over 200 years let
00:11me explain Devavarat Mahesh Rekhi's achievement in the simplest possible way
00:15in the ancient Vedas the oldest books humanity still has a mantra is a precise sequence of
00:26Sanskrit sounds like a sacred formula some mantras are short 5 to 10 words many are medium 20 to 40
00:33words some are long they are not normal sentences every single syllable pitch length and nasal sound
00:40has to be exactly right or the mantra is considered broken think of them as extremely fragile glass
00:46sculptures made of sound the particular Veda we are talking about is the Shukla Yajurveda one of
00:52the four main Vedas it contains roughly 2,000 of these mantras the entire book is about the length
00:58of a thick novel if you wrote it down normal recitation is already super hard even reciting
01:04these 2,000 mantras perfectly in the simple straightforward order called Samhita Patha
01:09with every pitch and rhythm correct takes most Vedic students 8 to 12 years of daily practice
01:15to master most priests today can only do small portions perfectly but ancient sages created 11
01:22different ways to recite the same text each one more complex than the last like extreme memory plus
01:28tongue twister plus musical gymnastics combined what Devavarat actually did so at age 19 this young
01:38man sat in a Veda school in Varanasi for 50 days straight and recited the entire Shukla Yajurveda all
01:452000 mantras in the dandakrama mode perfectly without looking at any book without a single
01:50mistake in pronunciation pitch or sequence that means he produced over 25 lakh word combinations
01:58flawlessly day after day in the most complex pattern humans ever invented for preserving knowledge
02:04senior Vedic scholars sat and listened every single day to check for even the tiniest error they found
02:11none this has not been done apparently in the Shukla Yajurveda tradition for over 200 years many thought
02:18it might never be done again Prime Minister Modi himself posted about it calling it something the
02:22coming generations will remember in short Devavarat just proved that the ancient Indian oral tradition
02:28is still alive and that a teenager today can still reach a level of mental purity memory and discipline
02:33that seems almost superhuman to the rest of us I'm Manish Adhikari thank you for watching the culture project on more
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