EXTRACTS FROM THE TEACHINGS

VISHNU PURANA

CHAPTER 3

The Prayer of the Kumaras

The Siddhas who could not contain their fullness of joy burst out into prayers unintentionally and gave the first awakening to the many Yogis who made their first appearance. The Kumaras Sanaka, Sanandana etc. tried to lift up their necks to have an idea of the head of the Great Boar with the Goddess of Earth, but had to bow down their heads at the sight of his eyes that are fearful and graceful at the same time. They praised the Lord thus:

"Your success is the success of all the Lords and the Lord of the Lords. We see you armed with the club, the conch and the wheel and the sword. Your form includes the merging, the expansion and the emerging causes of all the universes. You are the background of all that is known as background and nothing is known as something beyond. The four Vedas stand as your legs. The two tusks are the pillars of the grand sacrifice. As you open your mouth we see the set of teeth as the various formulae of different Yagnas. As you protrude your tongue we understand what is the primordial fire. As you are the very personality of the cosmic sacrifice we see the tuft of rough hair on your back as the bundle of the sacred grass Dharba. The wink of your eyes cause day and night, and your head is the abode of all the wisdom with the imaginable branches of Vidyas. The differences in the lengths of your tufts of hair are those of the Vedic hymns arranged in order. The movement of your nose is the beautiful flicker of the flame of various colours with the various types of oblations mixed in Ghee (clarified butter). The curvature of your nose is the little ladle to carry the Ghee to the flame. Your roar is the synthesis of all the Sama sounds. The different joints of your body manifest the different forms of rituals in the grand sacrifice. One ear of your flutters as the fulfilment sacrifice and the other as the sacrifice for desires. You the spirit Eternal, favour us with your beautiful attitude".

"Oh Lord, your form is the whole universe. You are the first letter of the alphabet which we call the variety of the whole creation. The syllables, words, sentences and the meaning are four quarters of your great form. They manifest as your own feet of the incarnation of the Great Boar. The division of words in the Veda and the order of their utterance, manifest as the various strides of your form. With these strides, my Lord, you occupy the whole universe and walk up and down the creation. You are the understanding of the beings of the universe. You are the Lord of everything which has nothing beyond. Beyond and within of our comprehension there is nothing other than Yourself.

We pray for your favour. The whole globe into which this earth is being moulded is poised upon the tip of your tusk and is so conceived by you. We see the whole earth placed upon your tusk as the unfolding bud of a lotus well-fixed upon the lotus-leaf floating on the surface of the great waters That which is filling the space between our earth and our heaven is but the bulk of your body. Hence we see thy splendour unparalleled. The light of your presence fills the whole expanse of that which is created.

We pray you, contribute to the welfare of the whole universe through our attitude. You are the one meaning, significance and supreme object of the whole universe. The whole creation, when realised is no other thing. You and your splendour form yourself and the creation. That which is seen in form belongs to the body of your wisdom. Those who cannot co-ordinate themselves with the light or your synthesis look to your form of the universe with illusive perceptions and believe that it is something other than yourself. All this, including the form of all this, is the wisdom that is yourself. Those who cannot co-ordinate, find the meaning and the significance of all this in a different way and float helplessly amidst the waves of localised interests. Those who know you as their knowledge are owned by the purified consciousness. They look to the whole universe as the spirit of the wisdom, which is your own form.

Oh Lord of all, Oh spirit and soul of all, you shower your grace for the existence and welfare of all. You are beyond measure and shape. Invoke the presence of the globe of earth which is concealed hitherto in the nothingness. Be inspired by the impulse to exist and re-establish this earth globe. Your proposal to create is the greatest favour for the whole creation. We bow down to you and let there be peace, poise and tranquillity unto us."

SRI SUKTAM

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

Dr. Sri K. Parvathi Kumar

Wengen Group Living, Switzerland, May 2002

Seventh Hymn

UPAITU MÂM DEVA SAKHAHA

KÎRTIS CHA MANINÂ SAHA

PRADÛR BHÛTOSMI RASHTRESMIN

KÎRTIM RUDDHIM DADÂTUMEH

Pradûr Bhûtosmi Rashtresmin – “I am born in this state, and hence let me do those acts here, acts of divine will, and speeches of divine nature, and let me get the related fame.”

That is how the prayer is to the Lord of desire. See, how ingeniously prayers are conceived. If someone is an obstruction of your path, pray him to give way, don’t try to fight with him. The attitude to fight should die. Instead the attitude to make a cordial appeal should win, because everyone has a heart. So, make a cordial appeal, don’t fight! That is the divine way of progressing. In the mundane world we have enough fights. Why don’t you extend these fights into the inner kingdom? You know the higher ruler for Aries is Mercury, and Mercury rules you in Aries provided you stop fighting. That is why the teachers tell us: “Don’t put the fight outside! There is enough to fight inside. Take the fight into you! You have a full-time job.”

There are so many things that you have to fight with inside, because Aries is believing in fighting. So, take the fight inside! Then slowly the light will manifest, after the fight ceases. Then Mercury becomes the Lord. That means that you are more engaged with light than with fight either insider or outside. When the light enhances, Uranus becomes the Lord of Aries. For Masters of wisdom Uranus is the ruler in Aries. For disciples Mercury is the ruler. For the rest Mars is the ruler. When you are getting into the divine side of things, at every point you meet a dweller at the threshold. Pray! Pray with heart! Ask them to give way! They give way. That is the cordial way to progress.

For the first ray man pride is the threshold. For the second ray man fear is the threshold. For the third ray man manipulation is the threshold. For the fourth ray man thousands of conflicts are there. A very small conflict is enough to put you off. For the fifth ray man concrete mind is the threshold. For the sixth ray man emotion is the threshold. For the seventh ray man lack of order is the threshold. They don’t want to fall into a rhythm, and the solution is only to fall into rhythm.

Mostly the things we are averse to are our thresholds. That is why all bitter things are given for practice in occultism. Bitter because they are not bitter by nature, but they have become bitter to us. Getting up early in the morning is bitter to us, because there is a lot of inertia in us. Pure food we get bored. Why? Because there is the ignorance which dispels any form of light coming in. People don’t want to listen. Some pretend to have listened, but they don’t. Why? Because the level of ignorance is very high. The ignorance in us is so strong, and it is very sure of us. It laughs at us: “Do you want to go to a group life? Go and let me see! Do you want to see C.V.V.? I will ensure that you don’t meditate regularly.” This is how from inside there is the dark man who is stronger than the white man. He has to be thrown out. It is not so easy, but when you take a cordial approach to him and make him friendly, then he becomes compassionate: “Okay, this child knows my power and seeks my blessings.”

You know, when you seek the blessing of someone, he will be pleased. If there is a stronger enemy on the other side, before you fight, you go and seek his blessing. That man will not fight with you with full strength. That is what Krishna did with the Sons of Light. The Sons of Light have prepared themselves very well to fight, and they were all charged to fight. On the other side there was the war general  who was invincible in the mortal and in the immortal planes. His name was Bhishma who gave us “Sahasranama”. He was a great initiate. Krishna said, “Before you fight with him, you go and take his blessing.” So, they all went to him and said, “Grandfather, please bless us for victory.” He said, “Yes, I bless you.” Enough! If he says ‘I bless you’, it means, I shall allow you to defeat me, not that you can defeat me, but I allow you to defeat me. Go ahead.”

That is intelligence. There is a way to please the opponents. If the opponent is stronger, you have to make him weak through your cordial approach. This kind of technique is generally used in the Path of Worship. People fear Saturn. But in India they conceived worships for Saturn. Only one principle: Every being has a heart. Heart is the pulsating principle. It carries love, compassion. Appeal to it! That is what comes out as a great statement from Master Khut Humi: Every man has a heart. Remind him of it through your continuous acts of goodwill. That is the secondary approach. Fighting creates more discord. That should not be given any kind of importance.

Why I say all this is: You don’t hear prayers to Cupid. Even if you pray to Cupid, you pray to fulfil your personal desires. Here the prayer to Cupid is: “Don’t put me into desires, but put me into divine acts and make me a tool in the hands of the divine, so that I carry out such acts of goodwill in the state where I am and that there is a benefit at large to the community.”

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

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