“I Am Vamadeva — But I Am Also You, Remembering”
“I Am Vamadeva — But I Am Also You, Remembering”
(The Return of the Forgotten Sage Within)
There are moments in human evolution when a Rishi doesn’t just live — he awakens within us. Rishi Vamadeva was not a historical poet seated by the Saraswati — he was, and is, a frequency of consciousness. When he uttered his hymns, he was not composing words but invoking memory — the memory of divinity buried within humanity.
So when we hear him say, “I am Vamadeva — but I am also you, remembering,” it is not metaphor. It is revelation. He is speaking through time, reminding every soul that the Rishi we revere outside is also the awareness whispering within.
Vamadeva is not just a name — it’s an archetype of remembrance. He represents that sacred moment when the human stops seeking the divine and starts recognizing it as Self.
The Forgotten Sage Within
Every soul carries a hidden lineage — not of blood, but of consciousness. Beneath layers of personality, conditioning, and history lies the Rishi-seed: the witness, the poet, the seer who remembers.
But modern life has made us professional forgetters. We’ve forgotten silence. We’ve forgotten awe. We’ve forgotten that our breath itself is a hymn.
Vamadeva’s voice calls us back to that lost inheritance. Not to worship him as a distant sage, but to awaken the sage within who once spoke through him.
This remembrance isn’t about remembering a past life — it’s about remembering what life is.
When you awaken the Vamadeva in you, you stop living like a seeker scrambling for wisdom — you start vibrating as wisdom itself.
The Paradox of Identity: I Am Him, Yet I Am Me
To say “I am Vamadeva” is not arrogance — it’s awakening. It is realizing that consciousness is not personal property. It has no boundaries. The same awareness that once sang the Rig Veda now reads these words through your eyes.
Just as the ocean remembers itself through each wave, consciousness remembers itself through every being.
When Vamadeva says, “I am you remembering,” he means that enlightenment is not about becoming something new — it’s about recognizing what’s always been moving through you.
The sage you read about is the one reading through you.
The True Meaning of Remembering
In Vedic language, to “remember” (Sanskrit: smarana) doesn’t mean to recall from the past — it means to re-member, to rejoin the dismembered parts of Self scattered through experience.
We’ve fragmented ourselves — worker, parent, thinker, believer — and then wondered why peace feels unreachable. Vamadeva’s call is the gathering of the fragments. The return of the forgotten wholeness.
When you remember, you don’t regain knowledge — you regain yourself.
The Divergent Perspective: Reincarnation as Resonance
Instead of seeing Vamadeva as a being from another age, see him as a resonance. Enlightened beings are not past figures; they are living frequencies of realization that reappear through anyone who vibrates at their truth.
You don’t reincarnate as them — you resonate with them.
So when you awaken to silence, when words rise unbidden from your heart, when stillness feels like song — you are Vamadeva remembering through form.
You are the forgotten sage returning.
Why This Matters Today
We live in a time of spiritual outsourcing — everyone seeking teachers, techniques, transmissions. Yet the greatest transmission is dormant within. The guru you await is your own unspoken remembrance waiting to surface.
Vamadeva’s voice cuts through millennia to tell you:
“I am not in the Vedas. I am in your voice when you speak truth. I am in your pause when you listen without thought. I am the one inside you remembering you are divine.”
When you awaken to this, devotion transforms into identity — not worship of the Rishi, but embodiment of his consciousness.
🌿 Practical Toolkit: Remembering the Inner Rishi
1. Dawn Invocation: The Recollection Breath Upon waking, before speaking a word, take three slow breaths. With each inhale, silently say, “I am ancient.” With each exhale, say, “I am remembering.” Let your day begin not as a routine, but as a continuation of cosmic memory.
2. The Listening Practice: Hearing the Hymn in Silence Sit for five minutes daily in stillness. Don’t chant — listen. Imagine ancient voices murmuring within your breath. Feel that you are both listener and the heard — the Rishi remembering himself.
3. Re-Membering in Action Throughout the day, when you feel disconnected or reactive, whisper inwardly:
“I am Vamadeva, remembering.” This short affirmation restores alignment — reminding you that wisdom is not something to seek but to recall.
4. The Rishi Journal Each night, write one sentence that feels like truth — not opinion, not advice. Just truth. Don’t edit it. Over time, you’ll notice that your words begin carrying the same timeless rhythm as the hymns of old. This is the sage speaking through you.
5. The Evening Return Before sleep, place your hand on your heart and whisper:
“The Rishi never left. I only forgot.” Let sleep become surrender into that ancient remembrance.
Closing Reflection
Rishi Vamadeva is not just a seer who lived — he is consciousness alive in every soul that remembers its origin. He is the voice behind your intuition, the stillness between your thoughts, the sacred déjà vu that whispers, “You’ve known this before.”
The return of the forgotten sage is not history repeating — it’s divinity reappearing.
You are not following his path. You are his path, awakening to itself. And when you remember that, the hymns of your life begin to sing again — through your breath, through your silence, through the eternal Rishi within.