It will be very good for each course participant to know these 24 syllables in their 3 groups by heart. Rishi group: Ak Ni Mi Le Pu Ro Hi Tam. Devata group: Ya Gya Sya De Vam Ri Tvi Jam. Chhandas group: Ho Ta Ram Ra Tna Dha Tam Am. Click here to see a graphic of these syllables.
Four Levels of Self-Elaboration. Now we will zoom in and look at the details of the 1st Pada. In the flow of Vedic Sounds, each sound 'collapses' into the silent gap, and from the gap a new sound emerges. It is within this silence that the transformation from one sound to the next takes place.
For example, in the first Pada of Rk Veda, each syllable collapses into silence and is transformed into the next syllable: from A to k, from Ak to ni, from ni to mi, from mi to le and so on.
As you can see on the left, in these transformation emerge the following Padas. For example, from A to k, emerges Pada 4. From Ak to ni, emerges Pada 5, etc. Padas 4 to 27 of the first Sukta (Richas 2 to 9) emerge from the gaps between the first 24 syllable of the first Richa. This is the first level of self-elaboration of Rk Veda.