The Masters of Wisdom - Sublime Beings - 82 : Lakshmi - 1

🌹 The Masters of Wisdom - Sublime Beings - 82 🌹

🌴 Lakshmi - 1 🌴

✍️ Master E. Krishnamacharya

📖. Prasad Bharadwaj

🌻. Symbol of the Divine 🌻

In creation, spirit and matter are inseparably linked. In the higher planes more spirit appears and less matter; in the lower planes, spirit is more hidden in matter. 

Both are born at the same time from the Absolute God of whom naught can be said. He has no name. It is not right to call him He or She; we have to say IT or THAT. The Vedas speak of TAT.

God in creation is presented as male-female, as Father and Mother. In India, this unity is known as Vishnu and Lakshmi. In its male aspect it is also called Mahadeva and in its female form Sri. 

Mahadeva is the origin of the trinity of Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva. Sri is the threefold Mother, Devi, which expresses as Parvati (force and power), Lakshmi (love and splendour) and Sarasvati (wisdom).

Lakshmi means symbol. The Mother is a symbolic representation of the Presence of the One. 

Any form is only a representation of the divine idea. The symbol is essentially the Mother. The Lord is present as the Mother, and she shows as the symbol. 

The form is the Mother; the content of the form is the Father. The eastern Scriptures say that the Father can be only reached through the Mother. The expression Lakshmi hints at this. 

Lakshmi is the Nature in its splendour and its beauty, the divine side of the form. There are many beautiful forms; nowhere, however, is beauty caught in a form but it expresses through the forms.

We are enclosed by envelopes of flesh and blood, and a magnetic, radiant light expresses through us - Lakshmi. The beauty of the inner is vibrant. 

Contemplating upon the beauty creates magnetism in our aura and restores the original order. In the East, the form of God is therefore worshipped with incredible beauty. 

The expression of beauty, however, should not be excessively expensive: real beauty is simple and pure.

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Sources: Master K.P. Kumar: Mantrams / Sri Suktam / notes from seminars. Master E. Krishnamacharya: Vishnu Purana.

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