The Masters of Wisdom - Sublime Beings - 83 : Lakshmi - 2

🌹 The Masters of Wisdom - Sublime Beings - 83 🌹

🌴 Lakshmi - 2 🌴

✍️ Master E. Krishnamacharya

📖. Prasad Bharadwaj

🌻 Beauty and Splendour 🌻

Lakshmi stands for purity on all planes. On the subtle planes the light radiates stronger and the colours shine brighter. 

When we want to invoke the Light and to connect with the Divine, we should have cleaned ourselves physically, emotionally and mentally. 

Our surroundings and the things we use should also be pure and beautiful. Through beauty, truth gets expressed.

Lakshmi is the cosmic Venus energy of splendour and glory which is reflected in the sign of Taurus. A mantram related to Lakshmi and Venus is OM SRÎM AMALAYAI NAMAH. AMALA means purity. 

The mantram wards off the spiritually difficult aspects of Venus in the chart; it guides and lifts the seeker up through beauty. The sound SRI RAM also helps for a speedy transformation. 

RAM stands for the cosmic fire which burns up all impurities; SRI stands for the splendour of the Divine Nature. The sound invokes wealth, not in terms of property and bank balance but as fulfilment.

 “I” (pronounced like “see”) is the sound of the Divine Mother. We therefore say Lakshmi, Sarasvati, Parvati. All mantric sounds ending with “im” have to do with the Light of the Mother. 

In the fire ritual there are the sounds AIM, KLÎM, SRÎM, HRÎM, in this order. AIM is the light of the divine Word; KLÎM is the light of joy; the fire of the Ajna centre is called SRÎM; the fire of golden light is HRÎM.

The light of the sunrays and the splendour of gold are described as the glory of Lakshmi. In India, the symbols of her worship are abundantly decorated with gold ornaments and with golden colour turmeric powder. 

A meditation on this colour called Suvarna in Sanskrit creates good habits and generates a conducive environment. 

Golden yellow maintains the psyche in balance, dispels negative thoughts and moods and uplifts our consciousness to the Buddhic plane.

The golden colour of Lakshmi relates to the colour of the pure etheric body. Her diamond crown stands for the “glorious white robe” of the refined causal body. Lakshmi is represented with four arms: 

The two upper arms hold two unfolding brilliant white lotuses; they symbolise the unfoldment into the subjective and objective light. The lower right hand shows the posture or mudra of blessing and protection while the left hand is in the mudra of showering benediction. 

Modern painters depict Lakshmi with a right hand directed downwards and money coming out of it. Below there is a pot in which the coins are collected. 

In our visualisation, we should not follow such pictures. The right side stands for the subtle, the left side for the dense physical. 

Where the right side is emphasised, the accent is on the esoteric side; the left side stresses the material. In all rituals only the right hand is used because it belongs to the subjective side of existence. 

The left hand can support the right hand, just like matter can support the subjective side.

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

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