EXTRACTS FROM THE TEACHINGS

VISHNU PURANA

CHAPTER 5

Creation of the Metres

After the above said creation was finished, He created the various metres (measures) and the various Yagnas.

From one face, Brahma created Gayatri and all the Riks. Also He created the three-fold Soma and the Great Song, Ratanthara. Among the Yagnas, He created Agnisthoma (The Gayatri metre is the frame of the 24 hours of the day divided into three equal parts of eight hours each.

The Riks are the Mantras of the Rig Veda which are numbered in their syllables according to the required frame or pattern.

Soma is the effort and the essence of one's own utterance. Its three-fold nature is the utterance of the word in three planes of consciousness and three tones. Ratanthara is the greatest of the hymns of Sama Veda. "The breath is Sama Veda" says the Upanishad. The point of exhalation to the maximum is called the song of Ratanthara. This is compared with noon, the highest point of illumination in the day).

From the second face, Brahma created the Mantras of Yajur Veda, Tristhup metre, the fifteen-fold shouting of the prayer, the greatest Sama and the prayer called Ukthya. This, He created from His southern face (Yajur Veda is the wisdom of realisation in work or execution of the rituals. Tristhup is the eleven syllabled metre. It signifies the five sense organs, the five gross organs and the mind which are useful for the work of Yajus).

From the westward face, Brahma creates Samas, the Jagathi metre, the seventeenth prayer of high tone utterance, Virupa and Adhiratra prayers (all these are technical terms denoting the various methods of singing the Sama Veda).

From the northern face, He created the Atharva Veda, the twenty-one syllabed metre, the Anusthup or the thirty-two syllabed metre, Virat or the forty syllabed metre and the ritual called Aptoryama (the creation in three planes with seven sub-planes each is the twenty-one syllabed metre. When each hour is divided into four equal parts of fifteen minutes each, then each of the three lines of the Gayatri metre will have eight times four, equal thirty-two equal divisions. This is called the Anusthup metre. When the whole space of the globe is understood as a circle in one cross section that is traced by the Sun's apparent path around the earth, then in substance there are 360 degrees around the centre of the earth. These are divided into four equal parts of 90 degrees each. Each section of 90 degrees is divided further into 9 equal parts of 10 degrees each. The duration of such a division is called a syllable of the Virat Chandas).

SRI SUKTAM

THE NATURE AND THE CHARACTERISTICS
OF THE WORLD MOTHER, Part XXXIV

Dr. Sri K. Parvathi Kumar

Wengen Group Living, Switzerland, May 2002

Ninth Hymn

So, Îsvarîm, the light, Aditi or the primordial light – that which has emerged from the darkness is the basis for all subsequent formations for the planet and the beings, and for the systems, like planetary, solar, cosmic. To all of them including the devils and diabolics, She is the Mother. Diabolics and devils also come from the same source. They don’t have another dark universe besides this. That is where synthesis is ultimate wisdom. As long as you deny something, you are partial. Everything has its role to play. The demons also worshiped the Mother and got their boons. Ultimately their success depends upon their motive. Even if the Devas develop inferior motives, they also get defeated. That is why the two channels, the channel of light and the channel of darkness, they are equally dear to the Ultimate.

If you have two children, both of them are great tennis players, and they meet in the court. When you ask the mother, “Who should win?” she will say, “I better don’t see the match”, because she cannot accept anyone of them getting defeated by the other. Will it not be so with any mother or motherly father? Both children are equally dear, and they are seeming opponents in a play. They cannot support one against the other. In the game of creation the motive decides the success or failure, the victory or defeat. If your motive remains pure, you are not defeated.

There is the celestial king called Indra who had to fight with a demon called Rudrasara. Rudra means circumscription. It is a circumscribing principle in creation. Every being is circumscribed by the ring-pass-not. According to his own thoughts, he creates a ring-pass-not. This circumscribing principle of the ring-pass-not causes limitations. It is a grand principle in creation. It is so powerful, because people are caught by their own habits. Good people are caught by good habits, bad people are caught by bad habits. If you are accustomed to a good habit and in some place you don’t find the scope to practise it, you are not flexible enough to be happy. People kill themselves by their good habits. Not only people with bad habits kill themselves, but also people with good habits kill themselves with their habits.

This text is not proofread by the author and might have some mistakes.

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