The Three (Trayi) that is, to say, the Veda, is extolled as Prathamaja in the Veda; Upasthaya Prathamajam: this statement reveals the belief that Vidya (higher learning) could be attained by the Upasthaa (revered study) of Prathamaja or the Primal-born. Unless one studies with humility the sacred Veda-vak (word of the Veda), one cannot master knowledge of Brahman (Brahmavidya ). This requires, not the verbal recitation of the Veda, but the constant ‘service’, the conscious worship, of the Veda with full awareness of what the word means and commands. This has been made plain in that statement. Prathamaja occurs in the Rg Veda. Understand that Prathamaja and another similar expression. Purvaja indicates the impossibility of discovering when the Veda was first revealed. It is beginningless. It is for this reason that sage Valmiki has praised this Word (Vak) as the First imperceptible mysterious Word (Agra Vak). The first concretisation of the Cosmic Will was the Cosmos or the Cosmic Womb (the Hiranyagarbha); that too is Prathamaja. Knowledge of the impersonal and its projection as personal (Brahma Vidya ) is also Prathamaja, the Primal Awareness, according to the Veda. Both Brahman and Hiranyagarbha are sometimes referred to as Prathamaja. (LKV, p. 17)