🌹 The Masters of Wisdom - Sublime Beings - 29 🌹
🌴 Lord Vishnu - 3 🌴
✍️ Master E. Krishnamacharya
📚. Prasad Bharadwaj
🌻. The Language of Symbols of the Puranas 🌻
When we try to read directly the Eastern Scriptures it is difficult for us to recognise the symbols contained in them.
The Vishnu Purana, for example, explains the concept of the second ray of Love-Wisdom, but it seems to be just full of fairy tales and stories.
The more we study the symbols which are dispersed in the books of Bailey and Blavatsky and learn to apply them, the more we become capable to understand the Scriptures.
Thus the Puranas describe a great coiled serpent on the surface of the Milky Ocean with Lord Vishnu in blue colour resting on it. In his heart there is Lakshmi, the divine Mother, sitting on a big lotus. On the tip of his finger he carries a rotating wheel.
From out of the navel of the four-armed Lord, the four-faced creator is born. This is one of the oldest symbols that man received and used to transmit the spiritual wisdom:
On the background of the great Ocean of Eternity there is the emergence of the waves of creation eternally.
The coiled serpent Ananta (endlessness) floats on it and unwinds its coils as the continuous chain action of change, or becoming. The serpent can also be regarded as the power of Kundalini.
Vishnu is always connected with Sri or Lakshmi, the Mother of creation; like the word with its meaning, like the creator and his creation.
They are the eternal bride and bridegroom of creation, never separated from each other.
When Vishnu comes down to the human plane as an Avatar, she assumes a human form, like Sita with Rama or Rukmini with Krishna.
The rotating wheel of Light at the tip of the index finger of Vishnu symbolises the Law which manifests in creation.
It is also called Sudarshana, the good vision, since the circle is the figure of perfection among all the geometrical patterns. The circle has its beginning and ending not in itself but in the centre.
Whenever there is the emergence of the centre in form of the “I AM” consciousness, there is automatically the formation of circumference as the horizon around the centre.
Astrologically the circle with the point represents the sun; he is the Lord of the individuality and the spirit in the three levels of the awakening consciousness.
The human awakening represents the highest point of illumination of the inner deity and is therefore represented by the noon position of the Sun which is called the tenth house by astrologers.
The four points of the cross - Ascendant (AC) and Descendant (DC), Medium Coeli (MC) and Imum Coeli (IC) - can be regarded as the four arms of Vishnu. The centre of the circle from where the four points emerge is called the navel of the Lord.
From the navel of the four-armed Lord the four-faced creator is born. The creator is represented by the square within the circle, formed by joining the four points of the cross.
The four equal arcs of the circle are called the four main petals of the ever-expanding lotus, out of which the creator emerges with his four faces.
This figure forms the basis for the Puranic symbolism.
Vishnu, the preserver of creation, is said to take the form of different Avatars, or descents into the world to restore the balance in creation when it is menaced by demonic forces.
“Whenever the Law is significantly disturbed and the existence of the world is threatened, I come down to re-establish the Law”, says Lord Krishna.
This is an expression of Love towards creation; Love is the unifying force, and this Love keeps the creation together.
When Narada, the divine seer, once went to Vishnu, the latter said to him, “Don’t come each time to me to do me a pleasure.
I am more in the hearts of the simple people. Serve them; take care of what they need, lift them up. This is the act of Love by which you meet me, and this in the heart of each being.”
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Sources: Master K.P. Kumar: notes from seminars. Master E. Krishnamacharya: Puranas and their Contribution.
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