Month: March 2012

We will explain the symbolism of Nandi and Lord Shiva. 

Why did the Rishies insist on Nandi before the Deity. Nandi represents our animal aspect. Our animal aspect has to be overcome to attain Self Actualisation, or the vision of the mighty Lord ( Lord Shiva ).

After attaining Cosmic Consciousness, Sat Prem writes about Aurobindo. ” He felt the animal grimace under the Infinite Consciousness and the material gross still intact after that beautiful aureole”. He had overcome the animal in Him !

You will find this great Symbolism in all Lord Shiva temples.

This is a glorious opportunity to explain the great symbolism of Kalia Mardana.

In the West, the seven reprehensible actions have been defined by Dante as the Seven Deadly Sins. They are Lust, greed, anger, jealousy, sloth, covetousness and gluttony.

In India, they are known as the Ari Shad Vargas, the six enemies of Man, Kama, Krodha, Mada, Moha, Matsarya & Lobha. Raga or attachment can be added as the Seventh.

The giant Kalia reprents our Ego. And his seven hoods are the Seven Deadly Sins, Kama, Krodha etc.

Let Him dance on our Ego, destroying the Sins in us, so that we become eligible for Self Actualisation !

Ego, strength, arrogance,
Lust, anger, hatred
Overcoming all these
Eligible he becomes
For the Divine Crown !

Ahamkaram Balam Darpam
Kamam Krodham Parigraham
Vimuchya Nirmala Shantho
Brahma bhooyaya Kaplathe

– The Holy Geetha

Grace us O Almighty Lord!

Praseeda Devesha Jagannivasa !

Marx was a great philosopher and his Dialectical Materialism checked the advance of Evangelist Churchianity. International Communism became so formidable that its strength equalled the strength of United Churchianity !

One gentleman by the name of Upadhyaya, son in law of Dange, has written a book called ” Marxist Brahman”. This is about Divine Communism. He proved that Dialectical Materilism existed even before Marx in the Upanishads. Padartham Brahma means that Matter is the Brahman. Aurobindo Philosophy also begins with the staetement that Matter is the Brahman, Annam Brahma.

Dialectical Idealism reversed ( Hegelian Idealism ) is Marxism. Marx was a Jewish intellectual. Spinoza, Einstein, Oppenheimer, Marx, Trotsky etc were all Jews.

Aurobindo integrated both Dialectical Idealism and Dialectical Materialism and founded Dialectical Integralism, that Matter and Spirit are the obverse and the reverse of the same coin of Realit

All sastras have two types of meaning 

The Exoteric – Outer – Bahya Artha
The Esoteric – Inner – Antarika Artha

Bahya Abhyantara Bhedath Dvivida

While we can understand a mythological story and its Bahya Artha, the Antarika Artha or the inner symbolic meaning is explained only by the Guru. It can only be got via the Guru Shishya Bandha.

Here is the symbolism of the Lord on a chariot, giving instructions to the Prince of India.

The Lord symbolises the Self
Arjuna represents the Discriminative Intellect, Prajna
The Five Horses are the Five Senses, Pancha Indriyas
The reins are the Mind.

Pramana

Athmanam Sardhim Viddhi
Shareeram Ratham Eva Cha
Indriyanam Hayaneshu
Mana pragrahameva Cha

Know that the Self is the rider
The Body the Chariot
Senses five the five horses
And Mind the reins !

Vande Guru Paramparam

We thank the tradition of Masters, who gave us this symbolic meaning. Hail Bhagavan Aurobindo, Ramana Maharshi, Bhagavan Sai, Mahesh Yogi etc.

Dr Paul Brunton hailed Him as one of the greatest sages. ‘ I thank the hour when I first met thee, O Illustrious Sage of Arunachala” wrote he. On seeing Him, Dr Brunton records that ” I felt immense peace enter into the inner realms of my being”!

When Dr Brunton was sitting in an apartment in US, he heard the voice of this Great One. ” Are you just wasting time, when humanity is thirsting for crumbs of Wisdom?”. Impelled by that Call, Dr Brunton came to India and wrote 20 books on Yoga.

Says Raman

“In the Infinite Sky of Consciousness ( Chit Akasha ), the Sun of Self Realisation shines bright and brilliant. Disperse the cloud of Ego obstructing the moonlight of Consciouness and the bud of Truth begins to blossom.

The Absolute Brahman becomes the cosmic world and spreads this world. This world is its thought, an imagination.

The mind gets peace by meditating on the Unity of the Ultimate Reality. The Self fills the Universe, being  colorless, formless, nameless !

In his essay ” Giadarno Bruno “, Robert Ingersoll writes

Christian ignorance, bigotry and hatred have destroyed the vast treasures of our race. The Sun was blotted out from the intellectual horizon, every star extinguished. And there descended into our planet the period known as the Dark Ages.

This world class philosopher and poet, Bruno, was burnt alive by RC. ( by the triumphant Beast ).

He was humanity’s first martyr.

The murder of this great one can only be avenged, until from Rome
shall be removed every vestige of priest and Pope, after the ruins of St Peters, the fallen Cross and the crumpled Vatican, shall rise a monument to Bruno, the thinker, the philosopher, the martyr !

In his “Fable of Actaeon”, Bruno prayed for the destruction of his contingent being, so that the Deus Absconditus, the absconding Divinity, the Atman, the Brahman may be realised in himself.

In that Actaeon is a deer who falls in love with Goddess Diana. A jackal comes in between and Actaeon prays for his own destruction, so that he can get a glimpse of the Goddess !

Give me a death in its cruel fangs.

This is the symbolism of the story. Actaeon is the human intellect. Goddess Diana is Divine Wisdom. The jackal is the body- mind – intellect complex which prevent Self Actualisation.

LIbera nos, Domine – Liberate us O Lord ! ‘

He knew that the Ego, the body-intellect-mind complex was the big hindrance to Self Realisation !

Jayanthi the Sukruthino
Rasa Siddha Kaveeswara
Nasthi thesham Yasha Kaye
Jara Maranajam bhayam

They alone are the Victors
The Self Actualised Poets
As their fame body knoweth
No death, wear or tear !

Even now Bruno’s fame body, like all others Rishies and Kavis, knoweth no wear and tear !

During these times of Religious Crisis, we should opt for a World Government, World Religion, World Currency and World Market. Then only will World Peace emerge. 

The World Market has already happened and it is Globalisation. 

Similarly there is a move to bring a come currency to NAFTA, that is the Amero. Asio will be the currency of Asia, as the Europ is to Europe. Ultimately all curriences will be unified as one, as the Globo !

Since God is One and all religions are One, World Religion is the need of the hour. Some Evangelists oppose this move, as they believe not in Universality but in conversion !

These concepts are philosophic and the Rishies subscribed to this view.

Ayam nija paro vethi ganana laghu chethasam
Udara charithanam thu vasudha eve kudumbakam

The Great Ones are broadminded. The world is one Heavenly family and all are our brothers and sisters.