The Masters of Wisdom - Sublime Beings - 88 : Saraswathi - 3

🌹 The Masters of Wisdom - Sublime Beings - 88 🌹

🌴 Saraswathi - 3 🌴

✍️ Master E. Krishnamacharya

📖. Prasad Bharadwaj 

🌻 Symbols of Saraswathi 🌻

Saraswathi, the Goddess of Wisdom, is represented in resplendent white, the colour of purity. The energy of Saraswathi is purifying. Meditating on the principle of Saraswathi purifies the mind. 

In the body we can visualise the seat of Saraswathi on the tip of the tongue, where the word emerges. From the tip of the tongue to the throat there are many cosmic intelligences enabling speech, which is only possible for the human being. 

For the intonation of holy sounds it is important to keep the mouth and particularly the tongue pure and not to maintain impure speech.

Saraswathi is represented with a Vina in her hands, a seven-stringed instrument. The Scriptures say that the goddess continues to play eternally and thus keeps the creational process in harmony. 

People who listen to the enchanting sound of this music would like to hear it eternally. The seven strings and the seven notes of the scale are associated with the seven centres and the seven planes of creation. 

It is an age-old practice to utter the sacred word OM seven times, linking up to the seven centres. 

The Word which dwells in the Sahasrara, has its Light aspect in the Ajna centre and brings forth the Anahata sound in the heart centre can thus express itself through the throat. A soft, flowing music also has a healing effect on the vital energies.

Saraswathi does not sit on a lotus but on a resplendent white swan. ‘Swan’ in Sanskrit means ‘hamsa’. It stands for the principle of pulsation, the centripetal and centrifugal movement of respiration and of life. 

Saraswathi on the swan shows that consciousness presides over the activity of creation. The swans keep on coming out of her as the movements of the life force and the thoughts. 

Hamsa also means ‘Aham Saha’, ‘I am THAT’. Each one of us is an emanation from out of THAT, the absolute God. The mantram ‘Hamsa Siva Soham’ helps us to keep this in our awareness.

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Sources: Master K.P. Kumar: Saraswathi – The Word / notes from seminars. Master E. Krishnamacharya: Spiritual Astrology.

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