The Masters of Wisdom - Sublime Beings - 34 : Lord Rudra - 1

🌹 The Masters of Wisdom - Sublime Beings - 34 🌹

🌴 Lord Rudra - 1 🌴

✍️ Master E. Krishnamacharya

📚. Prasad Bharadwaj

🌻. Vibration in the Ether 🌻

In the scheme of Vedic wisdom and the related Puranas, Rudra is the Lord of Will and of Fire, who opens the way for creation at various levels. 

He is also the Lord that clears the impediments to creation and helps the beings on the path of return. Thus, for entry into and exit from the world, Rudra is the chief helper, guide, teacher, and yogi.

As the Lord of vibration, Rudra is the first and foremost of the Vedic Devas. Devas are of many groups, mainly three: Adityas (the Lords of radiation), Rudras (the Lords of vibration), and Vasus (the Lords of materialisation). 

There are mainly 11 Rudras, whose work galvanizes matter into activity and thus brings about the different states of matter. Everything in the universe is a pattern in space made up of the matrix of space which manifests as Rudras.

Rudra means the Lord of Ethers or “those who roar” (Rodasi, Antariksha). The Rudras are visible, vibrating lights for those who have in-sight (Anta-Riksham), the seers. 

These seers describe the Devas of Antariksha (the invisible space) as vibrations in the ether, which are like a roar from out of silence. 

The Rudras roar through the ethers transmitting electro-magnetic waves; through this work they manifest the visible and invisible worlds from out of the Light beyond darkness. The transmission of the vibrations is through sound and light.

The roar of the Rudras is sound; it goes from inaudibility to audibility, from the sound of silence to the voice of speech. It is the inaudible sound of OM which transforms in the throat to audible sound and to speech.

Rudras are needed for externalisation. They externalise the Light beyond darkness, that means, they make it manifest. Their sound unsettles the Light, just as we become unsettled and wince when there is a sudden noise. 

The invisible Light is called Aditi, the Mother of the World. The different qualities of light emerge from her as Adityas or Devas of radiation. 

By disturbing and unsettling the original Light, the Rudras cause vibrations by which the atoms and forms are created on all the seven planes.

Rudra is the First Logos, who in one of his 11 aspects is called Shiva or Cosmic Will. He represents the Will aspect of the soul and helps us to strengthen our will with his fire, which is Good Will. 

The energy of Rudra is very important to strengthen the will so that we can do something good. The importance of the Rudras cannot be over-emphasised.

Sources: K.P. Kumar: Mantras / Rudra / notes from seminars. E. Krishnamacharya: Vishnu Sahasranama. 

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