SRI SUKTAM

THE NATURE AND CHARACTERISTICS OF

THE WORLD MOTHER

SRI K. PARVATHI KUMAR

DHANISHTA

DHANISHTA

Dr. Sri K. Parvathi Kumar

SRI SUKTAM
The Nature And Characteristics Of The World Mother
1st Edition 2010 Original Edition
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ABOUT

THE

COMPOSER

Dr. Sri K. Parvathi Kumar has been teaching various

concepts of wisdom and initiating many groups into the
Path of Yoga of Synthesis in India, Europe, Latin America
and North America. His teachings are many and varied.
They are oriented for practice and are not mere
information.
Dr. Sri K. Parvathi Kumar has been honoured by the
Andhra University with the title Doctor of Letters Honoris
Causa, D. Lit. for all his achievements as a teacher around
the world. He works actively in the economic, social and
cultural fields with spirituality as the basis. He says that the
spiritual practices are of value only if such practices
contribute to the economic, cultural, and social welfare of
humanity.
Dr. Sri K. Parvathi Kumar is a responsible
householder, a professional consultant, a teacher of
wisdom, healer of a certain order, and is a composer of
books. He denies to himself the title of being an author,
since according to him,
Wisdom belongs to none and all belong to Wisdom.
The Publisher

The Bangalore Brotherhood of the World Teacher

Trust, is pleased to bring out the book - Sri Suktam, The
Nature and Characteristics of the World Mother on the
occasion of Inauguration of The Wisdom Temple building
at Sadguru Tapovana, Bangalore.
This book is based on the teachings given out by
Master K.Parvathi Kumar during the Master CVV May Call
Day Celebrations at Wengen, Switzerland in the year 2002.
We acknowledge the efforts of Doris Zwirner in
making the transcript.
- PUBLISHER

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INTRODUCTION
Hearty fraternal greetings to the brothers and
sisters who are gathered here this evening. I welcome you
all to the 93rd May Call Celebrations and the 15th May Call
Celebrations in Europe and Argentina. We have good days
ahead from the spiritual standpoint with Gemini full moon
into which we are entering followed by the Master May Call
Festival. Depending upon the orientation we carry with us,
we can experience the Presence of the Master. It is a matter
of orientation of the personality towards the Soul, which
decides the experiencing of the Presence. We are no doubt
guided by the Master to be here, and the more we are
focused and oriented, better the Master energy can be
experienced. The personality always looks for side issues
and thereby conditions the Soul energy. It should be the
attitude of an aspirant that he is not distracted by the
personality. The aspiration to experience the Presence of
the Master should be as complete as possible.
The month of Gemini in the year 2002 has a lot of
global importance and each one of us has to contribute in
his own way for establishment of peace and harmony and
neutralization of the emerging conflicts. In this month of
Gemini as you all know there is such a planetary conference
opposed by Pluto and Anti-Node. It can dismantle many
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values and 'isms', which we are holding to with great grip. It

is a period where the power and the money related to
power will be put to a lot of challenge. It is only a beginning,
and it continues for a period of seven years hereafter. More
and more the power will be questioned. More and more the
instinct to gather money and the related resources will also
be questioned.
It is a kind of threshold that the humanity has to
pass through and hence two functions become very
important for the aspirants and disciples. The first is to
serve with love which includes sharing and distribution of
the resources to the benefit of those who do not have. This
would enable opening the vaults of Dharma. The second
important aspect is to pray. To pray with intent will do good.
Individual life events are not so very important. When
humanity as a whole is passing through a period of crisis,
how important I am is of less importance. How much I have
included myself into the Plan is important. It requires
humility and humbleness, not self-aggrandisement and
self-assertions. The Will of personality is so strong that it
has to face the crisis of the time. What little we have
studied and listened to should be brought into our daily
actions. We gather in spite of so many difficulties, and all
these spiritually important days which we call the festivals
are only to strengthen our Soul energy and not to unfold too
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much of the personality. The measure of knowledge for

each aspirant is how much he is able to overcome his own
personality instincts. It requires introspection, selfanalysis, and a kind of retreat into silence. There has to be a
constant urge to realign oneself with the Soul. For that
reason we have been conducting group lives over 14 years.
Each one has to look into himself, how much it has helped
him, and how much he has been helpful to the work of
Goodwill. One should never be satisfied with what is
already done, because what is done is little compared to
what is to be done. So, let the Will be gathered to walk
towards the Presence of the Soul. The other name for that is
'the Presence of the Master'.
The Master can be experienced in the innermost
chambers of one's own being, provided one is beyond one's
own pride and prejudice. We have to take the war into our
own being than to fight a war outside. Wars are worked out
outside by humanity from times immemorial. Spiritual
aspirants are those who take the war inside themselves and
come out triumphantly vis--vis their own jealousy, hatred,
malice, prejudice, possessiveness, self-aggrandisement,
illusions and such energies which are associated with them.
It is easy to fall to such energies because they are
abundantly present in the world of thoughts created by
humanity. An aspirant is one who does not get disturbed by
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it, who does not get contaminated by it and who does not
and get side-tracked. So, we need to daily recapitulate the
strength of the Divine and focus towards it.
Even Masters could be put to illusions by the Mother
nature. So, what can be said about aspirants! The illusions
of the aspirants are many and the comprehensions are very
little. The attitude to judge is very high. That is the reason
why for this seminar I have selected a topic, The nature
and characteristics of the World Mother as propounded by
the Skta of Rig Veda called Sr Sktam. It was discoursed in
1984 in Geneva in a small group of people for about 9 days. I
shall re-do it with elaborate details within this Group life
which will enable us to gain the light and to wash off our
impurities, and thereby stand firmly in light and not be
swept away by illusions.
This theme was selected considering the strong
energies of Gemini that are prevailing. The two brothers
are at war: the person and the personality. It is the common
story of every aspirant and disciple. Unless the two find a
meeting ground, the solutions do not come about. The
solutions that are to be worked out by humanity in the years
to come will decide the course that this humanity takes for
the next century. The illusions of the duality which is an
aspect of Gemini and the related differences and discords
can be overcome once we experience the nature and the
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characteristics of the light of the world, which is called the

World Mother.
The theme is one of the most sublime and sacred
aspects of Wisdom. It relates to the primordial light, the
basis of 'All that is'. That very light is seen by the Vedic Seers
as the Mother, because it is lighted. There is something,
which causes the light. That something is called the
beyond, which is not definable. It is neither HE nor SHE. It
is the basis of the two. It is THAT which is eternal and it is
THAT which is called eternity. From THAT there is the
emergence and that emergence is seen as light. THAT which
is beyond is called Sat. It is the existence eternal, beyond
all qualifications, beyond all descriptions and beyond
anything we can think of. THAT is the background and out of
THAT there is the emergence. It is called the dynamic state
of the existence. It is seemingly static and seemingly
dynamic. When it is dynamic, we see it as light. The other
name for it is Consciousness and in Sanskrit it is called
Chaitanya.
The first state which is beyond is our essential
state, and the emergence of Consciousness is what happens
as we wake up in the morning. That means, we have
become Conscious. Our Consciousness emerged from
something, which we do not know. We do not know because
we are THAT. We can only comprehend, but we cannot know,
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because there is no knower in sleep. The knower emerges

from himself. Until the knower emerges, there is no process
of knowing. So, how do we know, when the knower has not
yet emerged? And how can the knower emerge from
nothingness? From nothingness, nothing can emerge. That
is why the Vedic Seers never accepted that space is a
vacuum. The space is not a vacuum. It is static and can be
dynamic. Periodically it becomes dynamic. That is how
there is the law of periodicity. Alternatingly, it is static and
dynamic. As it becomes dynamic, it pulsates. That is how
the law of pulsation comes. When it becomes dynamic, it
becomes light, it becomes Consciousness and it cannot
keep quiet. It has to do something and that is how the
manifestations happen. Those manifestations are
explained as the law of Involution. Then there is the
receding of these manifestations, which is related to the
law of evolution.
Likewise, these fundamental cosmic laws have
emerged. If you are a good student of Secret Doctrine,
you understand them very well. Otherwise, they do not
exist to you! What exists to us is our daily bread and our
opinions, our strong differences with others, our
agreements and disagreements. From time to time, if we
elevate ourselves to ideate upon these laws, it would lift us
up from the mundane things. This is a great freedom,
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freedom from the petty thoughts, petty-minded actions

and petty-minded speeches. When we are petty, the
wisdom is vacuum for us. It does not exist. When we are in
wisdom, petty things do not exist to us. So, we have to see,
if petty things exist to us or not. If petty things exist to us,
there is a big vacuum of wisdom in spite of so much of time,
money and energies spent about wisdom.
To Madam Blavatsky petty things did not exist. She
was more with these laws, the laws of the Cosmos. She was
the one who told modern humanity that the space pulsates,
just like we pulsate. She also informed the humanity about
the laws of correspondences. The law of pulsation is
working with us, the law of alternation is working with us
and that we alternatingly get awakened and get into sleep.
The law of periodicity is working with us. That we are
guided to the dining table periodically also relates to the
law of periodicity! Periodically we meet, periodically we
study and periodically we quarrel! So, there are happenings
according to these laws. There is the law of involution and
the law of evolution working with us. What we are trying to
work out in a group life is the law of evolution, and we try to
know the Wisdom through the law of correspondences.
What is in the atom is also in the universe. What is it? It is
THAT. THAT has no definition. Madam Blavatsky says, If the
scientists say that space is a vacuum, it only speaks of the
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vacuum they carry in their brain. Space is not a vacuum, but

there is a lot of vacuum in the brains of the scientists and
slowly they will understand that space is the absolute
intelligence and all emanates from it. What is apparently
something is really apparent and what is seemingly nothing
(the space) is everything. We have to engage our brains
with these statements, of which there are millions and
millions in the Veda. They make us think. They are mindblasting concepts or mind-blowing concepts. It is about
time that we blow our petty minds and live with the
grandeur of the cosmos.
One of those grand dimensions put out by the Veda
is Sr Sktam. Su Uktam means good utterance. This is
contrary to the other utterances we carry. To be able to
utter well is the most important aspect of Discipleship,
because it relates to the throat center. Throat center can
put you to Akasa, to the etheric existence. We want etheric
bodies, but we do not want to change the quality of our
speeches. To attune true seekers to the best of utterances,
so that the throat center is purified, made magnetic,
radiant and also electric, sound formulae are conceived
and given out to be uttered regularly.
We all know the Sanskrit name for the throat center
is Visuddhi. Suddhi means purity, pure. Visuddhi means
specially pure. Visishta Suddhi is Visuddhi. Visishta means
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very special. If your throat is very specially pure, it is fit to

utter the Word. The Word is God. How can we utter the
Word, unless we have prepared Visuddhi, our throat centre.
That is the reason why every theology speaks of the great
responsibility relating to speech.
This is the 15th Gemini full moon that I celebrate
with you in the West. During every Gemini full moon, I spoke
about the throat, the sound and the related responsibility
because what sound can do, other implements cannot do
for transmutation of the body cells. Sound can be the single
weapon through which man can destroy himself through
manipulative speeches, impure speeches, untruthful
speeches, wasteful speeches, judgemental speeches and
critical speeches etc. Many times these have been told, but
the habits die hard!
For this Gemini full moon we shall once again think
of a good Sktam. If we regularly utter forth Mantrams like
Gayatri or Sktams like Purusha Sktam and Sr Sktam for
about one hour everyday, the throat and the tongue are put
to adequate purity. The moment something in you tends to
be pure, it rejects impure things. The ignorant way is to try
hard to get rid of impure things. That is not the way. The
Vedic Seers, the Rishis, gave the clue. Their technique has
always been a positive but not a negative one. They never
said, Get rid of impure things. They always said, Try to
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acquire greater purity. Then the impurities automatically

dissolve. Do not fight to get rid of darkness. Put on the
light and the darkness will disappear. Do not try to get rid of
your bad habits and vices. The more you resolve in that
direction, the more you will face failures. Instead of it,
acquire a couple of good habits.
A good habit also has its chain actions. One good
habit brings in another good habit, and the second one
brings the third one. Slowly if you are a good aspirant, the
habits around you keep changing one after the other, and in
retrospect you find yourself that you are a substantially
changed person. Only then you can call yourself an
aspirant. I have known people who have changed like that
even in our group, from indiscrete eating to chaste eating,
from smoking to non-smoking, from late rising to early
rising. Likewise we see people taking to a better way of
living.
It becomes possible, if we continue to work with
Sound. In Rig Veda itself there are 11600 Sktams, and
there are other Vedas. Rig Veda relates to utterance, Sama
Veda relates to pulsation, Yajur Veda relates to the plan of
action and Atharva Veda is a product of the activity of the
three. I spoke about the Vedas many times that all the four
exist in us and we are the original copy of the Veda. That is
what the Secret Doctrine in the very first sentence says,
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There is only the original. No copy is available. Can you

see a copy of yourself elsewhere in this creation? Even your
twin brother or twin sister cannot be a copy of you. He or
she is in one way or the other different from you. You are
the original and that original is a compendium of the four
Vedas. It pulsates like Sama Veda. It utters forth like Rig
Veda. It has its own plan of action like Yajur Veda and it has
its world built around it; good, bad or ugly as its own life.
Our utterances at the thought plane, at the vocal plane and
at the plane of action build the world that we live in. Each
one of us has his own world and that is the product of our
thinking patterns, planning patterns and speaking patterns.
So, we are the Veda.
PREPARING THE THROAT CENTER:
To be able to utterforth properly, to express
ourselves out, it is better that we tune up to the utterance
that is already happening in creation, so that the same
patterns also happen through us. That is what Jesus meant,
when he said, Father, thy will be done, not mine! This
kind of surrender is frequently spoken of in TeacherDisciple relationship. Surrender here means surrender to
the Divine Will. But how do we surrender to the Divine Will,
attune to it and conduct unless we have known what it is?
How do we know the Plan? The plan can be known from
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higher circles if our instrument is well tuned. This tuning up

of the instrument is what is called 'preparing the throat
center'. If the throat center is purified and made fit, then
the musician can play through the instrument. Even if the
musician wants to play upon an instrument which is not
good enough, it cannot express the plan of the song, that
the musician intends.
You may want that the Hierarchy or the Master
whom you follow communicate the Plan to you, so that you
conduct it. The Master also wants to let you know the Plan,
but you cannot receive due to inadequate preparation of
the throat. It is preoccupied with other utterances. That is
why one of the six keys of the Veda strongly suggests to
purify the throat with minimum one-hour of utterances of
the sacred sounds. The best thing to utter is about the
Cosmic Person or the Cosmic Nature. Sr Sktam relates to
Cosmic Nature. Purusha Sktam relates to Cosmic Person.
When we speak of Cosmic Nature, it is right from the point
of its emergence from the unknown, and hence, Purusha
Sktam and Sr Sktam are considered as the king and the
queen of the Sktams of Rig Veda.
It was the wish of Master E.K. that all the groups
that follow the Hierarchy should learn and utter forth these
two Sktams, because they do immense good. He himself
has explained Purusha Sktam in Geneva for two years to a
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small group of members who knew English. There was no

need for translation, and in the year to follow he was to
speak about Sr Sktam, and for some reason he departed.
In that year I have given the commentary on Sr Sktam in
Geneva to that small group of members.
Now again after 18 years we come back to that
grand aspect of wisdom just to be in the realm of light for
the week to come. Light objective is there and the light
subjective is also there. As long as the universe is, the light
is! It can be seen inside and it can be seen outside. During
the day it can be seen as sunlight. During the night it can be
seen as moonlight. During the night, when there is no Moon
and no Sun, you can see the light as the fire. If there is rain
on a new moon night, the fire can be seen in you. The fire in
you can never be put off. That is why the approach to the
fire from within is considered as the best way. The
luminosity of fire is the light. This light is explained in 15
hymns in Sr Sktam.
Purusha Sktam is explained in 27 hymns in tune
with the 27 constellations. Sr Sktam is explained in 15
hymns in tune with the 15 aspects of the Moon, from 1st
phase of Moon to full moon, because it relates to light. It is
according to the law of correspondences that the scriptures
are given out. No scripture survives time, unless it is in tune
with the universal laws! Bhagavadgita, has 18 chapters. I
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have explained many times to you the importance of

number 18. Bhagavata has 12 cantos. It relates to the 12 sun
signs, to the grand concept of dodecahedron. Ramayana
is explained in 7 cantos representing the 7 Chakras of the
body. Scriptures are conceived in tune with the laws of the
nature, and you can see that detail even in the smallest
presentation of a scripture.
The Purusha Sktam, is given in 27 hymns and the
Sr Sktam, is given in 15 hymns plus one as a blessing. The
'plus one' aspect is because within 14 moon phases you find
alternatingly a full moon and a new moon. Essentially 14
phases of creation are there, and these 14 phases of
creation emerge from seeming nothingness, which is
called, from new moon into apparent fullness. One is
seeming nilness. These words were very beautifully
conceived by the Masters. Seeming nilness is not nil.
Apparent fullness is full, but it is as it appears. It is the work
of the light.
There are so many things happening in a movie on
the silver-screen. The silver-screen is untouched. The
silver-screen is not affected. If there is a lion on the screen,
you can put a finger near the mouth of the image of the lion,
and nothing will happen to your finger. That is how on the
silver-screen something imaginary is created through
imagery.
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It requires lives of contemplation upon these grand

concepts. This work of light is considered as a grand play. It
makes you feel that the whole thing is real, but it is not
really so real. But if it is not so really real, why should it be?
Just for the joy of it! For the fun of it! Take it as a game. A
game is a game! After the game is over, you need not
continue with the roles of the game. A goalkeeper in
football is only a goalkeeper on the playground. He does not
try to be a goalkeeper outside the playground. An actor in a
movie or in a drama is playing a role. We are all players of
varieties of roles. But if we take the role as real, we are
stuck. We forget that we are playing roles. If you are given
the role of Hanuman (the monkey God) in a movie, you are
given a tail, and you are given a monkey face. Once you are
out of the role, you cannot go out in the street with the tail
and the monkey face. Only the I AM is real.
All the relations develop just for the joy of it and
not for the pain of it. Why should we develop relations that
are painful? The original idea was to be joyful. Who compels
a man and a woman to be together? It is the inherent joy in
the beings that brings the two beings together. To be joyful
and blissful is the quality of the soul. It strives for joy and
ends in sorrow. There are three levels of happiness. In
Sanskrit we have three words for it. In English they are
happiness, Joy and Bliss. What you call happiness relates to
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the senses and the body. In a cool weather, heat is

comforting and we are happy. If we have a group life in the
mountains and it does not rain, we are happy. In a very cold
weather a cup of coffee makes us happy, and in a very hot
weather a coconut water or a Coca Cola make us happy. This
kind of happiness relates to the senses and the body. They
are very temporary. Then we have the next grade as joy. Joy
relates to mind and Buddhi, contrary to senses and body.
When you are in joy, you do not care for sensuous joys. If
you are engaged with a good thought, you do not mind
missing a meal. That is how people who live in the realms of
Buddhi or wisdom do not care for water or food. This is very
natural to them. They are engaged with something more
interesting. Suppose, a child is seriously ill in the hospital,
and the situation is one of life and death. The doctors are
operating and it is lunchtime. The father may go but the
mother will not go for lunch. What is the difference? The
mother is with a more important thing. Her child's wellbeing is her joy.
At the buddhic or mental plane, you discard such
kind of happiness, when you are with joy. All wisdom
concepts put us to that kind of harmony relating to the joy
of wisdom. Why do you gather so many times to listen to the
same man over 14 years? What is it that makes you come all
the way? What is it that makes me come all the way? What is
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the bridge between us? Is it food or is it clothing? What

exactly is it? The bridge between us is wisdom. The teacher
and the student are bridged by the wisdom. For the sake of
the joy of sharing and living in wisdom, we spend time and
money and we try to overcome many difficulties to reach
this place. You do not gain anything in terms of material
benefit. On the contrary, you lose! But why do you do that?
It is the joy that Wisdom gives. This is why wise men do not
care for so many worldly pursuits. They are joyful inside.
Others are not joyful inside. They keep on running for things
outside. The joyful one is a stable one. He has no more
necessity to run for things. Things will run for him. That is
how the things undergo a change.
Bliss relates to the Soul. This bliss is due to the
Presence, where wisdom is not, where material splendour
is not, and yet the Soul is rejoicing in the Presence. At that
state you do not need even wisdom books, wisdom
teachings and wisdom contemplations. These are the three
levels, at which you experience the wisdom, at which you
experience the life.
There is the gross physical experience, which is
arising out of the activity of the senses, and there is the
experiencing of the light of wisdom and then ultimately,
there is the experiencing of the very truth. Experiencing of
truth is called Ananda, and experiencing of wisdom is called
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Sukha and experiencing some pleasures through senses is

called Boga.
The wisdom exercises should lead us away from
mundane things. It is not running away from them, but they
become of secondary importance. Wisdom exercises should
enable us to grow nearer to the Soul quality. Until one
experiences the Soul, wisdom is the abode. But once you
experience the Soul, there are no speeches. You are there.
You are there in the Presence and the Presence is emanating
through you. That is how you reach that step of the silent
one and you Will to conduct greater acts than the speaking
ones. As you walk deeper and deeper into light,
proportionately the speeches reduce and even get extinct.
We all know that Sanat Kumara speaks a seed word
for a year and great beings like Lord Maitreya and Master
Morya, they speak very few sentences. Then the Masters
who are working with us, they may speak a paragraph for an
entire year. But, and we speak volumes! The lesser the
measure of light is, more vocabulary comes out.
We now walk into the light, which can shift our
awareness from mundane things to wisdom, and from the
light of wisdom to the very light itself. For that reason the
15 hymns will be deliberated upon. I would like to present
to you how subtly and simply the most profound aspects of
light are presented. It is not easy to know the profundity
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and the subtlety of the presentation, unless you have the

related keys. The key for the Sktams is an etymological
key. It is called Nirukta. The metrical key is called Chandas.

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FIRST HYMN
WUhruh WUh xuhUeixeq |
clS WUhqr sq eiuS q AuW ||
HIRANYAVARNM HARINM SUVARNA RAJATASRAJM
CHANDRAM HIRANMAYM LAKSHMM JATAVEDO MAMAVAHA

Hiranyavarnam

: Her, who is of Golden Hue

Harineem

: Her, who is of yellowish hue

Suvarna Rajatasrajaam : Who has the Golden and Silvery

necklaces
Chandram

: Who is of lunar nature

Hiranmayeem

: Who is of the splendor of Gold

Lakshmim

: who is the emblem of creation

Jatavedaha

: Oh, God of fire from whom the

Veda is born

Mama

: for me

Avaha

: you make her possess

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MEANING:
Oh! Lord of Fire! From you, the Wisdom of the
Vedas is born. You make the Goddess of Creation possess
me, the Goddess who is an expression of the Golden Yellow
hue and who is Herself an embodiment of the splendor of
Gold. She, who is adorned with jewels of Gold and Silver
and who is of the Lunar nature may possess me as her own
child.
COMMENTARY:
In the first two hymns of the Sktam a prayer is
made to the Cosmic Fire. I gave you a prayer relating to fire
in three steps, when I taught you Ishavasya Upanishad. Now
there is a prayer seeking the Cosmic Fire to bestow on us
that light, which is the golden hue, which is also the silver
hue, which is ever changing and yet stable, which is ever
permeating, and which is also reflecting and reflective.
First, the hymn speaks of Jataveda. Jataveda
means the One from whom the Veda is born and it also
means, the One who is born out of the Veda. Who is Father
and who is Son is a riddle. From out of the existence, whom
we call the Father, the Veda comes. From out of the Veda,
the Father comes again as the Son. That is why the Son is
considered as the repetition of the Father. The Son is no
other than the father represented. God is presented
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through the Son of God, because HE cannot present himself

for your perception.

HE

presents himself through a Son of

God.
The Cosmic Fire is said to be born out of the Veda
and the Veda itself is said to be born out of HIM. That is why
HE is called in the Veda as Agni. Agni means the foremost
One. He is the one without whom nothing exists. If you take
the number 1000000, how many zeros are in it? It has 6
zeros. Suppose, from the 1000000, you remove the 1, what
is the value? There is only one number, which is important.
If that number 1 is removed, the rest is nothing! So, we are
asking Agni, the Most High, to bestow his light, the light of
creation, upon us. We pray
Jataveda O Agni
Mamavaha bestow on us
Avaha You may please ensure that the light embraces me
like a vampire, i.e., even if I want to come out of it, I
cannot. The word Avaha is such a strong Invocation. You are
asking the fire to bestow in such a manner that it would
never leave you. What are you asking for bestowing? It is
Hiranyavarnm! In each letter of the very word there is
profound wisdom. The normal understanding is gold. It is
like asking the Fire God to give us gold. The hymn also says:
Please give us some cows and please give us some horses.
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Few great scholars not knowing the etymological key of the

Veda went on commenting that these ancient Indians were
all agrarians. They were asking for cows, bulls, horses and
they were materially inclined, because they were asking for
gold and silver. Just like we pray for bread, they were
praying for gold until Blavatsky came and blasted their
ignorance. From the hierarchical standpoint such scholars
have done great wrong to the Veda through ignorant
interpretations.
Hiranya - Gold
Hiranya means gold in its superficial layer. It also
means the golden hue, which is the very basis of all material
manifestation. Behind your material body of flesh and
blood, of bones and marrow there is the golden body, which
is called the subtle body, the etheric body. The goal of every
known Indian was to seek and work for the golden body to
be out of the menace of birth and death, to have continuity
of consciousness and to be in eternal joy of working with
the grand plan. This is called today in the wisdom books as
'The Third Initiation'.
You may have also gone through the book
Autobiography of a Yogi, where Master Yukteshwar
explains to Yogananda the world of golden hue which is
immediately preceding the material manifestation. This
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colour of golden hue very much relates to the energy of Leo.

The light of Leo is of golden hue. That is the reason why the
Hierarchy says that the future festival of humanity is Leo
Full Moon. Even some of the mountains, which we know as
sacred, are resplendent with golden hue-forms hidden
within the rocks. In fact, all formations hide the golden hue
aspect. Some are more resplendent and hence, they are
called sacred. We are therefore recommended to meditate
upon the golden disc of the solar globe. This is what we do in
the third prayer of Ishavasya Upanishad.
Three times I discoursed about Ishavasya, and I
recommend strongly to regularly conduct the prayer
relating to Agni. In the first step there is the request to Agni
to destroy all our past Karma. Then in the second step we
are asking for withdrawal of excessive activity into
objectivity, which would enable us to experience the
golden disc of the solar globe either in the heart centre or in
the brow centre. In the third step we are seeking the fire to
discover the disc of golden hue to experience the ultimate
truth. Here again the prayer is given.
Aal lr xmj Ur Axql ul Su urll ul |
rrkrxqWUhql pr i lq E ukq ||
AGNE NAYA SUPADHRYE ASMN VISWNI DEVA
VAYUNNI VIDWN
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YUYODHYA ASMAD JUHURNM ENO BHISTN TE NAMA

UKTIM VIDHEMA
Oh, Lord Agni, the foremost one, the knower of
the intricate Paths of creation! Lead us by the simple
righteous Path to felicity. Destroy our past Karma;
eliminate from us the attraction to dubious and ignorant
paths. We offer our worship to you in obedience.
mwMw rq xr memir urW Uzql xqW
ie r m Msrhiq i mzrq |
rxux mw xWqxq ||
PUSHAN EKARSHYE YAMASURYA PRAJAPATYA
VYUHARASMIN SAMUHA.
TEJO YETTE RUPAM KALYANATAMAM.
TATTE PASYAMIYOW SAVASOW PURUSHAHA. SOHAMASMI.
"Oh! Solar God, you are the son of Prajapathi. You
are lone ranger of the sky. You are all nourishing and all
regulating. Solar Seer, the fosterer, the regulator, the
weaver of the systemic existence, the life-giver. Please
withdraw your brilliant rays to enable us to experience the
beauty of your splendorous form and to realise that I am no
other than You.
WUhqrl mh xirxrmWi qZq |
iiu mwmuh xirkqr Sr ||
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HIRANMAYENA PATRENA SATYASYA APIHITAM MUKHAM.

TATVAM PUSHAN APAVRUNO SATYA DHARMAYA DRUSHTAYE
"O Sun God! The golden disc of the solar globe is
veiling the truth. The Truth is hidden by your enchanting,
brilliant golden disc. Please be kind to discover the disc to
enable me to see the Truth, if you deem that I am fit to see
by my righteous behaviour.
The prayer is made to the fire to bestow on us the
perception and the experience of Hiranyavarnm, the
colour of the burning gold. Burning gold is more resplendent
than solidified gold. Then the prayer speaks of
Suvarna Rajatasrajm.
Suvarna the good colour, the best of the colours.
Rajata the white.
White is no colour. It is the combination of all the
seven colours and the source of all colours. It is like the
diamond light manifestation as the pure light which is
preceding the golden light. This diamond hue is the causal
body relating to you and is called the Karana Sarira in
Sanskrit. Master Djwhal Khul says, The causal body is of
diamond hue, and the subtle body or etheric body is of
golden hue.
In the first hymn of Sr Sktam we are seeking from
the fire, the manifestation of the subtle body and the
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causal body. The causal body is of diamond light which

every Master of wisdom carries. It is called the glorious
white robe. Master Jesus always refers to the glorious white
robe. The causal body, the body of diamond light, is also
called the Solomon's Temple. There are so many names for
the same thing. Then there is the golden body and
thereafter the physical body, which we all see.
These are the three bodies, which every Master of
wisdom carries. Depending upon the need of the hour he
can function through anyone of these three bodies. In the
writings of Master Djwhal Khul you find that he has three
bodies and that he can function with facility through all
these three bodies. That means he can function at three
different levels. It is not only Master Djwhal Khul, but any
Master of that order has these three bodies as their
facilities. So, since we already have one body, we are
seeking the two other bodies from the Lord of Fire, Agni.
That is the whole course of a Son of man becoming a Son of
God. In two words, these two are hidden. One is
Hiranyavarn, the golden one, the other is Rajatasraj.
Sraj - the garland.
There is a garland of flowers with each one of us.
These are the garlands of lotuses, which exist, in your
causal body, from Sahasrra to Mladhra. From Sahasrra
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to Mldhra there are many lotuses. Only seven are

popularly known, but there are many detailed ones. They
are all intertwined, linked together by that light which we
call Sr.
Sr - The Mother of Splendour or Lakshmi.
Sr also means the Mother of Will, the Mother of
Love and the Mother of Light. The Mother of Will is called
Durga in Indian terminology. The Mother of Love and
Splendor is called Lakshmi and the Mother of Light or
Wisdom is called Saraswati. All the three together is the
World Mother. The Cosmic Light is will, love and light at the
same time. It is the One Light detailing into three lights,
detailing into three Logos. When we think of the Mother of
the World, we are thinking of the source of the trinity which
is the trinity of subsequent manifestations. The first
manifestation is the light. It is the medium of the Cosmic
Will or Cosmic Fire. This light has its three aspects: the will,
the knowledge or love and the light or wisdom. When we say
Sr Sktam, we are speaking of that Cosmic Intelligence,
which is, will, love and wisdom at the same time.
Sr also means poison. That is the beauty of
Sanskrit. It is not only the three Logos, but the agency that
can neutralise all that is manifest is also called Sr. These
four together are called Sr. The Vedic wisdom is complete
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in the sense that it does not discard even the darkness, the
evil or ignorance. That is the beauty of the synthesis of
wisdom. The wisdom that demarcates between left and
right, light and darkness, knowledge and ignorance is not
complete wisdom. If you have light, you also have the
shade. You cannot but have shade! They are the twin
brothers. Both are manifest from the same source. The
ability to synthesize the seeming opposites is the true
wisdom, the complete wisdom.
Sr in also Sanskrit means Lakshmi, Sarasvati,
Parvati or the three trinities and also the so-called evil all
put together. Evil means ignorance. So, we do not have to
further seek it. We are seeking things, which we do not
have. We have ignorance in abundance. We do not have to
seek it from the Lord of Fire! What we seek are the three
lights: the absolute light, the diamond hue and the golden
hue.
In fact the very creation came out from that light
which is also called Aditi in the Veda or the white light,
which is the basis for all subsequent manifestations of
colours. This is another aspect of the Mother. The bodies
relate to the Mother. Even the gross physical body of flesh
and blood relates to the Mother. The containers at all seven
planes relate to the Mother. With her light, the seven planes
are weaved by the Devas. For restructuring of bodies, the
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Mother energies are very important and not so much the

Father energies. Father stays put at every plane of
existence. He is the content of every plane, but the activity
and the formations in each plane belong to the Mother. So,
the world belongs to the Mother and She conducts it with
the support of the Father. The support of the Father is that
of Presence. He just lends Presence and that is enough for
the Mother. The Mother emerging from the Father develops
the detail of the creation, forms the conscious activity of
the creation and causes the graded existences.
The real worker is the Mother, like at home! She has
to take care of the husband and also of the children. The
husband stays put. At home the ruler is the Mother. In
creation the ruler is the Mother. In fact, what you call God
in creation is the Mother. In her, the Father is contained and
hence, she is dual. That is why God is said to be malefemale. Without the Father or the Absolute Existence there
is no emergence.
If you do not exist, you do not wake up. You know
that you are in existence only when you are awakened.
When you are awakened, what is the dynamic state of that
which is static before? It is a change of state. In
Consciousness, Existence IS. There is no Consciousness
without Existence. That is why Existence and Consciousness
are together, when it is Consciousness. Just like electricity.
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It becomes light. If there is no electricity, there will be no

lighting. But there can be electricity without lighting. Thus
Existence always IS! Periodically it emerges as light. When it
emerges as light, only then there can be Consciousness and
there can be the process of knowing.
During the morning hours only when we wake up,
each one of us knows I AM. When we do not wake up, we are
verily I AM, but there is no knower to know that I AM. That is
why in Consciousness there is the togetherness of existence
and awareness. This awareness is called light. The
primordial light is the basis for all subsequent triangular
manifestations. The trinity comes thereafter.
When the light emerges, there are co-borns of the
light. They are concurrently or simultaneously born along
with the light. Time is one of the co-borns. The clock is set.
There is a period up to which the Consciousness is. Then it
withdraws into the source. Thus time is co-born of
Consciousness. It is the same with us. When we are
awakened, we look to the watch. Before that there was no
time for us, because we were in existence and we became
conscious.
Then the Will is another co-born aspect of the
light, and the third one is the life. Life is a very mysterious
aspect. When we think that there is no life, we medicinally
declare someone as dead. It is true to the physical body, but
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the life principle also exists at the etheric plane. Even if the
etheric plane is not, life exists at the causal plane. I have
told you about the concept of space pulsation. That is the
space life. When the awakening happens, life also emerges
at the same point. So, the life, force (called will) and time
are co-borns to the Consciousness. When we are conscious,
we are conscious of time also. We carry the necessary force
to move the system and the life, which was dormant, works
out the activity. All these details are given in the book
Sankhya at the early stages of teachings. But these are
the sublime concepts, which you have to recollect again
and again.
Life is also an aspect arising out of the emergence
of the Mother. The Vedic Seers have conducted many
practices and experiments and they have come to an
understanding that until the emergence happens, even life
is dormant, static. Everything is just potential, but not
manifest.
Harinm the ever dynamic and moving one.
As you wake up, can you be as static as in sleep? The
only way to be in poise is through accomplishment of
highest states of contemplation. Otherwise you cannot
contain the activity of Consciousness. Throughout the day,
you we are pushed into so many activities. When the
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Consciousness is awakened, there is such continuous

activity. It cannot be static. That is a quality of
Consciousness. People who bubble with lots of
Consciousness, they have to do one thing or the other and
they are engaged throughout the day by the force of
Consciousness. This eternal movement of consciousness is a
characteristic of the Mother, with the Father as the basis.
When we speak of God in creation, it is this consciousness
we are speaking of. We have little to do with the Absolute
God in creation! He is already there. He is there in the stone
also. It is our ability to gain comprehension and friendliness
of Consciousness that works in us and keeps us either in
poise or in excessive dynamism or in excessive inertia.
When there is excessive inertia or dynamism, we cause our
own problems. When we are in poise, we are in tune with
the Will of the Mother. Hence poise stands as an important
quality. The triple quality of the nature Sattva, Rajas and
Tamas puts you to a triangular activity and the activity is
just continuous. That is Harinm.
The sound HA is the sound relating to the Mother. In
the Mantra Soham, the sound

SA

relates to the Cosmic

Person, and the sound HA relates to the Cosmic Nature. That

is why Purusha Skta starts with Sahasra Sirsha Purushaha,
and Sr Sktam starts with Hiranyavarnm. Here the
importance is to be conscious to the light of the world. HA is
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the first expression of the throat. When you come home

after a long travel, you drop yourself like a potato in a sofa
giving an expression of HA. It comes from down below the
throat, and it cannot be expressed, unless the two vocal
chords make a contact. The Seers have found HA as the
sound relating to the Mother and RA as the sound relating to
her force. That is how we have the sounds of Hara, Hari,
Hrm. Hrm is considered to be the basic seed sound of the
Mother. Hrm speaks of the manifestation of the fire and the
related golden hue. Harinm is the word that denotes
permeation of the force of the Mother along with her light.
The

quality

of

permeation

relates

to

Consciousness. It permeates. As much as it is allowed to be

pure, so much it permeates. That is why those who are in
deep states of Consciousness permeate the globe. The
Grand Masters of wisdom permeate even beyond the globe.
You see the field of activity of an ant; from ant to a Grand
Master the difference is in the dimension of the field of
activity. That difference in dimension is the difference in
the measure of consciousness that a form contains. Since
consciousness is all permeating, we seek that quality from
the Mother. We wish to be permeating with love, with
magnetism, with radiation, with an electrifying effect. So,
the worshipper is praising or praying to each quality of the
Mother.
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Harinm means the movement that causes the total

permeation of the universe. The greater one is in tune with
the discipline of the Mother; he wins the favour of the
creation. Hiranmaym speaks of the rays of colour that Sshe
manifests through the varieties of formations. With the
help of each colour she creates the subsequent planes of
existence. The seven planes of existence are chiefly
governed by the seven colours coming from the seven rays
and the seven rays come from the ONE Light which is
essentially the white light. The seven planets also have
seven different colours. The seven centers in the body have
different colours. These are the seven rays of the Mother.
The worshipper of the Mother gains the
characteristics of the seven colours and the seven ray
qualities and she is the basis for all colour manifestations.
Depending upon the density of matter the very white colour
appears as different colour. Denser the matter is, the duller
is the colour. Subtler the matter is, the brighter is the
colour. That which we call blue is nothing but deep white,
where the matter is at its subtlest level. That is why Gods in
creation are depicted in the Vedic scriptures as the blue
ones, because in them the matter is of subtlest matter. That
is why they describe Krishna or Rama in blue colour. Blue is
nothing but deepest white. When white is deep, it appears
as blue. Then there is the gradation of manifestation from
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blue to aquamarine, from aquamarine to golden yellow,

from golden yellow to orange, from orange to rose, and
from rose to violet, and thereafter to brown, and then to
dark brown. All these manifestations are due to the
subtlety or density of matter. Through the variety of the
colour the gradation of matter is also prepared and from
that there are Seven Seers who work for the Mother at all
the seven planes and they conduct a triangular work and
thus become 21. That is how it is spoken of as 3 x 7. The
Creators exist in all the seven planes. Such is the work
relating to the word Hiranmaym.Since many of these terms
will be repeated in the subsequent stanzas. If we make an
understanding now, it will be easier later.
Chandram Moon principle, reflecting principle.
Chandra is known by all the ordinary people as the
Moon. But Chandra in the Veda relates to the moon
principle. Moon receives light from the Sun and distributes
to us. The Mother receives from the Father and distributes
to us. So, the Moon is reflective. It receives to distribute,
and in the process it remains glowing. The glow of the Moon
is at its full, when it fully transmits the sun-rays. That is
how we see a pleasant full moon and the moonlight. It is so
pleasant that we get pleased, when we see the silver light
of the Moon, especially when the silver is reflected on the
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surface of water. Chandram speaks of transparency. If a

man is transparent, he is full of glow. If he has something to
hide, he cannot glow. This is an occult truth. We should
make an endeavor to be as transparent as possible in every
aspect of our life. Transparency enables transmission of
light. If we have secret thoughts, thoughts which cannot be
put into words, it is said that we are not transparent. Each
human being produces so many thoughts, which cannot be
expressed due to the social decency. He tries to hold them
inside. That is a state where Moon is not functioning. It is a
troubled Moon. As Moon is a replica of our mind, we have a
troubled mind. A troubled mind is that mind which suffers
from inability to be transparent. Men in power, men with
tons of money, men with lust and then the men with all
other negatives like jealousy, hatred, etc., cease to be
transparent and that is their trouble.
Chandram speaks of the quality of the Mother to be
transparent. She is so transparent that she transmits the
energy that she receives as all this creation. It is the ONE
who formed all this through the mediumship of the Mother
or the light. If the Mother is not transparent, the Father
cannot move. He has no legs to move. The vehicle of the
Father is the Mother. The God Absolute absolutely cannot
move, unless there is the Mother! The Mother emerges, and
the Father permeates. So, Chandram is the reflective
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principle that works at every plane of existence. That Moon

is dead is a wrong understanding. When minds are sick, such
statements come. If your mind is dead, you are considered
as lunatic. If the Moon is dead, the planet is a crazy thing. It
cannot be. The Moon that we refer to in the scriptures is the
moon principle, and all those who transmit the light are
Moons. Not only the Moon is Moon but the Sun is also a Moon.
Sun receives from the Central Sun and distributes to the
Solar system. He is a giver as far as the Solar system is
concerned, but is a receiver in relation to the Central Sun.
The Central Sun is a giver to the solar systems, but is a
receiver to the Cosmic Sun. The Cosmic Sun, too, receives
from the Light Absolute, because all these Suns are the
formations of the Absolute Light.
The moon principle exists at all planes. At the Supra
Cosmic plane in the scriptures it is called Soma. At the
Cosmic plane it is called Indra, at the Solar plane it is called
Neptune and at the planetary plane it functions through
Moon. At all places the scriptures make a blind using the
word Chandram. Even to the Mother who is the very source
of the reflecting principle, the same word is used. So, by
the context, an intelligent student understands to which
plane of reflective principle the author is speaking of.
When you are receiving wisdom, you are the Moon to spread
this wisdom to those who wish to know from you. When I
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receive to give you or to transmit to you, I am functioning

simultaneously as receiver and giver. The function is malefemale principle at every step and that is an important
characteristic of a splendorous creation.
If you wish your life to be as splendorous as the
Mother, the quality which we have to acquire, is receiving
to give and not to hold. We think we are intelligent, if we
receive and possess. Those who possess that which is
received suffer from the possession. Those who distribute
what is received are always as glowing as the luminaries of
the sky. If you receive money, you ensure that it is deposited
with you to be used for others. If you are bestowed power,
you must understand that it will be used for the benefit of
others. If you receive some mystical powers, like healing,
you need to use them to heal people. If you receive occult
wisdom, you have to distribute to those who seek from you.
Anything comes to you only to be given. If you receive a
body, you have to give a body. So it is! Anything you receive,
you should think of giving it to others. That is the best way
to gain the Presence of the Mother.
All planetary bodies also have the moon principle.
They receive to give. In all heavenly existences there is
receiving and giving. Through this process you remain in
poise. Any dis-equilibrium to this process of receiving and
giving will cause problem. Do you know why people suffer
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so much from constipation? In them they have the

characteristic of receiving, but not giving. It gets
constipated. All problems of ill health can be traced to our
behaviour. So, the Mother is worshipped as the ONE who
receives only to give. Her agenda is to give. That is what
every grand Master of wisdom demonstrates. He receives
only to give. This is a quality of the Mother, Chandram.
Lakshmm the symbol.
She is present as symbol. The Lord is present as the
Mother, and the Mother is present as the symbol. We are all
her symbols. This flower is her symbol! The flowerpot is her
symbol! The earth in the flowerpot is her symbol! Anything
in creation is a symbol giving the message relating to its
energy. The creation cannot happen without the symbol.
The creation is nothing but a compendium of symbols and
according to the potency of the symbol, the form of the
symbol, the colour of the symbol and the vibration of the
symbol; you can experience the Presence of the Mother.
Through the flower she gives her Presence as beauty and as
fragrance. When you see the flower, you are attracted by
the beauty and by the fragrance.
Every form is a symbol of her presentation. So, the
forms are the Mother, the content of the forms is the Father.
The activity of that form is again the Mother. She is
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symbolically presenting herself and the Father around you.

If you wish to see, SHE is there, HE is there. That is why SHE
says in Sarasvati Sktam, You see Me, but you do not see
Me. You listen to Me, but you do not listen to Me. When we
see the form, we identify the form with something else.
This is Joseph, this is Dierk but basically it is the Mother!
The beauty of the Mother is, She presents not only herself,
but also the Father. You cannot reach the Father otherwise.
If you have to experience, it is only through the Mother,
through the symbol. You need some medium to experience
the Father. So, SHE presents herself, SHE presents her
splendour and verily, SHE presents the Father. Those who
can see, to them it is a great splendour. That is why SHE is
called Lakshm. If you can experience the Presence of the
Mother in every form, just through a practice of
recollection, you see the splendorous ways by which SHE is
acting through so many forms and the Seers found short of
words to express her splendour. Lakshm demands that we
see the Mother-Father aspect through every symbol that is
presented.
We are seeking Lord Agni that these six qualities of
the Mother be bestowed on us. Such is the profundity of the
prayer. Likewise through 15 stanzas a variety of aspects of
the Cosmic Mother or the World Mother are presented.

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SECOND HYMN
i q AuW eiuS sqqlmaqlq |
rxr WUhr ulSr aq mwlWq ||
TAM MA AVAHA JATAVEDO LAKSHMI MANAPAGAMINM
YASYAM HIRANYAM VINDEYAM GAMASVAM PURUSHANAHAM

Jatavedaha

: O fire, the birth place of Veda

Anapagaminim : Her, who does not desert

tam

: her

Lakshmim

: Goddess of Wealth

Me

: to me

Avaha

: bestow

Yasyam

: by whom

Hiranyam

: the splendour of Gold

Gaam

: the cow

Aswam

: the horse

Purusham

: the persons

Aham

:I

Vindeyam

: can obtain

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MEANING:
Oh! Lord of Fire! From you, the Wisdom of the
Vedas is born. You bestow upon me the Goddess of
Splendour, who will not desert me. By virtue of Her
presence, I inherit Gold, cattle, horses and attendants.
COMMENTARY:
We will now try to make an understanding of the
second hymn of Sr Sktam. Please remember the purpose
of this hymn is to invoke light into us at all levels. The point
of entry of light into us is basically the Ajna Chakra, where
the pineal gland exists. When the pineal is stimulated,
there can be permeation of light through the nervous
system and you become an enlightened being.
Enlightenment is a process of illumination of the pineal.
The pineal is the main electrical point relating to your
house. You receive electricity from outside into the house
through a main switch and from there the whole house is
electrified through the wiring system that you have. If the
main switch does not receive electricity, it cannot
distribute the light into the house. The various electrical
equipments we have at home do not function. Likewise for
the human being according to the science of Yoga the pineal
gland is the main switch that needs to be linked up to the
surrounding light. Hence in the East meditation at the brow
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center is strongly recommended. It fulfils all purposes. In

the Ajna all the other centers are included. The energy of
Mldhra, Swdhishtna, Manipraka , Anhata, Vishuddi
are all very much embedded in Ajna. It is like when the
main switch works, everything in the house is illuminated.
The kitchen, the bathroom, the bedroom are all
illuminated at once. That is why working individually with
these etheric centers was not seen as great wisdom by the
Indian Seers. If people meditate at the heart or at the
throat the knowers of India smile and say, Good luck,
because the Indians do not believe in discarding anything.
Anything you do, they say, Good, go ahead, but if you ask
with sincerity and devotion, they will tell what one should
do. They are not in anxiety and they do not have missionary
zeal, or militant attitude to spread wisdom.
Bhagavadgita speaks of meditation and
contemplation at the brow center, where you are
proximate to light. All spiritual practices ultimately should
lead to opening of the third eye, by which you are
enlightened, in the sense, that the light enters into every
nook and corner of your system. For the nervous system of
the body, there are two different names separately stated
in Sanskrit. They are the blood flowing stream and the light
flowing stream. The system through which the light flows is
called Nadi, and the system through which the blood flows
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is called Nara. The whole electrical system is immediately

enlightened, once the light is received in the main switch of
your house. When you are invoking the Light of the World,
the Mother of the World, you need to do it through the Ajna.
Then it supplies adequate light to all the six centers of the
body and through the centers via the Nadis the light flows
into every part of the body. The process is invocation of
light, which can be the golden light or the diamond light. It
is important to note that point where you need to do is
Ajna.
In the second hymn Tam Ma Avaha Jatavedo is a
repetition of the first stanza.
Jatavedo - From whom the Veda is born and the One who is
again born out of the Veda as Agni or Cosmic Fire. A request
is being made to him.
Tam - you
Ma Avah - ensure bestowing
Lakshmi - the symbol
The Mother is the representation of the Absolute.
The Absolute is symbolically present as the light. That is
why there is the worship of the light, which is the light of
the fire. Anything luminous is attractive. Lakshmi is the
symbol relating to the presence of the ONE. The Mother is an
expression of the Father, a luminous expression of the
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Absolute One. There is no other way to perceive HIM. He can

only be perceived as light and as sound. There is need for a
vehicle for the Absolute to present himself and that vehicle
is of the Mother. At every level, a vehicle is prepared for the
descent and also for the ascent. It is therefore all within the
gamut of the Mother. Please remember, anything that you
see within a form is a representation of the Consciousness.
That is Lakshmi. Keep seeing Lakshmi in all forms that you
meet. Essentially it is Consciousness. The difference is in
the degree of vibration, of colour and of radiation, and the
consequent formation.
We all have read in the books and have been told
many times that the whole creation is the work of light and
sound and both aspects emerge from the Mother. Whenever
you see any form, you see it only as a symbolic presentation
of something relating to the Consciousness. Then you are
more and more associated with the Consciousness of forms,
but not with the form as such. Some forms like a white lotus
or a white horse or a white dog or a white dove are more
attractive than others. We feel instantly so much attracted
to such formations. The Consciousness is present more
abundantly in such forms. The Consciousness is obvious. So
it is with some people, to whom you feel deeply attracted.
What is it that attracts you? You do not know. This is what is
the presentation of the Mother through the symbol of the
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form. By observing such presentation of the symbol, you

grow proximate to the Consciousness through every form.
The Mother herself is a symbol of the Absolute. The
science of symbols arises from the Mother. That is why the
Mother is the presiding deity for all the science of Tantra,
because She is the symbol and the Mother is the presiding
deity of all Yantra, the symbols and the Mother is the
presiding deity of all Mantra. That is how Mantra, Yantra
and Tantra are all symbols. The root is in the Mother and
they are all symbols. Sound is a symbol, Light is a
symbol,Vibration is a symbol, Colour is a symbol, Man is a
symbol, Woman is a symbol, Animals and plants are symbols
and so on. All that is in formation is therefore seen as
Lakshmi. Do not take that Lakshmi is only that form that is
presented at the side of the altar. I will come to that form,
because it is also mentioned in the hymn.
Anapagaminm: She is like quicksilver
Anapagaminm is a very interesting aspect of the Mother. It
means, She is like quicksilver. She is there and She is not
there! People who work with money, know it. People who
work with money are always in tension and anxiety. For
years they work very hard and they do not know, when they
lose it again to regain through a lot of labour for years. They
can lose the whole thing over night. No one knows the way
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riches come and the way riches go. How and why they come
to some people is also not known. There are seemingly
stupid people, but they have a lot of money and there are
very intelligent people who knowing all the science of
economics, but they do not get a Rupee. Is it not funny?
That is why from the human standpoint the splendour or the
riches of the creation seem to be very fickle when you are
surrounded with it When you are not, it is not very easy to
define. There were emperors who became beggars and
there were beggars who became emperors.
How money and power flow in and how they flow
out nobody knows! There is a saying in Telugu: The riches
or the splendour in life come in a very mysterious way, as
mysterious as the accumulation of water in a coconut
fruit. The coconut is the only fruit that carries so much
water in it. In a coconut, it is a nourishing water. Other
fruits you have to squeeze to take the juice. How the water
gets into the coconut is an ingenious work of nature. Until
man broke the first coconut, he could least comprehend
that there could be water inside. The Seers compare the
arrival of the riches and the splendour of life with the
arrival of water into the coconut. The way the riches
disappear are compared to the elephant eating a stone
fruit. There is a stone fruit grown in tropics, stone fruit,
which the elephant eats. The human beings also can eat it.
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It is available as a vegetable to prepare chutney and curry.

It is also available as a fruit. The humans have to break the
shell to take the eatable part of the fruit. But the elephant
has no method of breaking the stone fruit. It takes it as
such. Then the next day it is let out as it is. It is another
mystery of nature. It lets the fruit out as it is, but with a
difference. The inner fruit is eaten away, and the outer
shell comes out. The elephant has the knack of squeezing
away the juice. It is a kind of pulp, very sweet and sour and
very tasty. Through a special technology the elephant
creates enough pressure to suck away the pulp from within,
and the shell of the fruit is let out. You have to be in India to
know all that! That is how riches come and go.
For appearance of riches and splendour in life the
seers compare it with water in the coconut, and for
disappearance of riches and splendour in life, they compare
it with the stone fruit eaten by the elephant. The games of
money and power are dangerous. Dangerous in the sense,
that overnight your situations can change. Likewise, there
can be sudden changes caused by nature. No one can
predict it. No one can see it except the Seers who can gaze
up to a point. Others cannot gaze the ways of nature. When
we predict geological changes, they do not happen. When
we are not with that thought, they may happen. The Seers
keep asking the Mother from time to time, Mother, how
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will it be? When will it be? We know when it happens! Each

person can gaze up to a point, but no one can gaze it
completely. Thus the Mother is unpredictable. The activity
of Consciousness, which prepares this creation, is
unpredictable. Its movements are unpredictable. They are
all beyond our comprehension. Things can go upside down.
Nothing is impossible.
A Seer asked the Mother, If everything is so very
uncertain, how can we remain stable and yogic in our
consciousness? The Mother said, Just accept one
sentence, then you will be stable. Anything can happen to
anyone, at any time and at any place. If you reconcile
yourself with that sentence, then you are in total certainty,
because you accept the total uncertainty. You have no more
uncertainty, because you have established yourself in the
truth of uncertainty of the creation and hence you remain
erect, even if the worlds turn upside down. The Seer asked
Her, Are there any beings who are never upset regardless
what happens? Do we have some examples? Do we have
some role models? The Mother said, Yes, there are. Those
are the dwellers of the White Island, because they
accepted the truth of this occult statement.
If we give an appointment and somebody comes 10
minutes earlier, we are upset. If somebody comes 10
minutes later, we are upset. On little pretext we are upset,
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because we are civilized. Our civilisation has grown

concurrently with our irritation, and we are so fragile to
nature. For anything and everything we are upset. So, we
are generally upside down. But there are Seers who can
never be upset because they see it as the play of the
Mother. That is why in Hindi we have the word 'Chalta hai'
anything and everything is okay. Good times move away and
bad times also move away. It is all Mother's work. I do not
have to break my head, I sail along seeing the dexterous
play of the Mother and this is because I cannot predict what
She does, is the right approach.
The more and more you try to be stable vis--vis the
outer, proportionately you grow unstable inside. The way to
be stable inside is when the Mother holds on to you firmly.
We are requesting Lord Agni to bestow on us the light of the
Mother, knowing fully well that She is unpredictable. But
there is a way to see that She is with you forever. That is the
secret, which this term Anapagaminm gives. The most
unpredictable one will remain very stable and reliable with
you.
The Seers wanted to know from the Mother: What
is the way, by which we are assured of your presence? The
Mother said, The only single way is to be virtuous. There is
no other way. I am with those who are virtuous and I am with
those who are righteous. I am with those who follow
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Dharma and I am away from those who have vices. I am

away from those who try to be manipulative. I am away
from those who believe more in intelligence than in virtue.
If you want that I remain with you, remain virtuous in your
life. Then I am not only with you but my glow shall also be
with you and my splendour shall be with you. As long as you
are virtuous, the glow, the splendour and the joy are yours.
When you cease to be virtuous, you may not know, but I
have already left you, and you will no more have the inner
joy. You may have many things around you, but you do not
have joy. What for are the best things of the world, when
there is no joy with you? You may have the best house in the
best of the surroundings and with best of comforts at home.
It means nothing to you, when you have no joy. When you
are joyful, all those things around you become the source
for you to enjoy. That joy is denied to you the moment you
abandon the virtue, the moment you prefer a vice to a
virtue.
Anapagaminm, the unpredictable aspect of nature
is an important aspect for us to hold in our mind and to keep
acquiring virtues life after life. Anything you acquire you
lose, but not the virtue.
Once Yudhisthira gave a teaching to his grandchild
Parikshit about the impermanence of life and the
temporary values that we carry and that nothing
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accompanies the Soul when it departs from the body. Then

there was a thunder and the Akasa spoke to Yudhisthira:
You are not right. In spite of your being one of the wisest
men, you are not right. Do not say nothing accompanies
you, when you depart as a Soul. The virtue accompanies you
and the vice also accompanies you. They are
accompaniments. They continue to be with you. Do not
teach the student that they can do everything and anything
here and get away as a Soul. If the Soul wishes to be joyful
and experience the ultimate bliss, the Soul should
necessarily acquire virtues. Otherwise it will suffer. To say
that the Soul carries nothing with it is a doctrine of
ignorance. Do not say that. Likewise, the Mother also says,
If you wish to carry the splendour, the magnetic impact of
my being, and the related radiation and shining forth, the
way for you is to practice virtues at all times.
Normally people abandon the virtues, when they
are inconvenient. An aspirant is put to test of his virtues
right from the Second Initiation until the completion of the
Fourth Initiation. At every point there is the test of the
virtue and hence to make the fickle minded and
unpredictable nature to be reliable for you, to be friendly
with you, the wise ones found that virtue is the way.
Intelligence is not the way. That is why Master E.K. gave the
statement in the invocation Let virtue be the strength of
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my intelligence. Many times the virtuous ones win over

those who are more capable but not so very virtuous.
Arjuna was not as capable as some fighters on the other
side. There were warriors like Bhishma, his grandfather,
Drona, his teacher and Karna, his counterpart on the other
side all the three were more valorous, more capable and
by measure of capability they were far superior to Arjuna.
But Arjuna was superior to them in one thing that was in
virtue and that virtue enabled Krishna to move with him.
Krishna and the Mother is the same. So, the Mother was
with him. Because he was virtuous and consequently more
capable, warriors could not defeat him in the war.
Victory is for those who are virtuous, and virtues
require a continuous practice over lives. Virtually, nature
should become virtuous! When you are virtuous, you gain a
lot of mystical powers. Do not take pleasure in your
mystical powers but be more focused about the virtues! The
mystical powers come to you by practice of virtues, which
make you pure. When you abandon virtues, your mystical
powers disappear! All powers of man disappear into thin air,
when virtue is given secondary preference.
The Mother says: I am with you as long as you are
virtuous, and I am not with you, if you abandon virtue in
preference to something else. The other name for virtue
in Sanskrit is Dharma. You cannot abandon Dharma, and
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then all that you have gained through Dharma is lost. There
are some spiritual practitioners who have gained a little
ability to see, ability to listen, ability to read others they
cannot misuse it. All this has come to them by virtue of the
purity that they have gained through certain practices.
That purity and virginity shall have to be improved upon.
So, the focus is more towards gaining these virtues than
gaining other things.
There are many stories of initiates who preferred
to die than to abandon a virtue. Those are the ones who
became immortal. Today men do not mind abandoning
virtues for the sake of living!
In Athens Socrates was teaching the doctrine of
self-rule that each man should rule himself. It is beastly
that another man rules so many. Even today we do that. I
want to guide people. I want to direct people. I want to
control people. I want to possess people. That is the beastly
power in each one of us. If someone does not agree with
me, I cannot agree to his disagreement. A cultured one
agrees with disagreements. 'You disagree with me, okay, I
disagree with you.' Peace today exists, if many people
agree with one person! One nation tells us what to do! If we
all agree, there is peace on the globe! The peace is to the
one who dictates, not to the others! To make me happy, you
are unhappy. These kind of things do exist on the planet till
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date. Even theologies suffer from this energy. You have to

accept my theology. Otherwise I kill you. This is theology. It
is existing on the planet. Socrates saw that it was all
beastly. Every being should be allowed to live by himself.
Give him the code of conduct in relation to nature. I live and
I let others live. I rule myself and I let others rule
themselves should be the motto.
The same thing was said 5000 years ago by the
father of Krishna. He was a king and he found that it was
beastly to rule the co-human beings. He said, They are as
much human as I am. Why should I rule them? I shall be with
them as one among them and help them to find the way, to
find agreement with nature and to find alignment with God.
Let me go to them, become one among them and at a
friendly level, meeting levels. Let me share what I know.
Imagine 5000 years ago one wise man demonstrated it. That
is how Brindavan has come. The same concept was taken
again as Pythagorean societies and as the Kibbuz of the
Jews and the same concept is coming back in the name of
Krishna consciousness societies. But everywhere the
problem of the instinct to control and the will to rule exists.
Since Krishna's father, Vasudeva was king himself,
he had no trouble and he was admired by people. He
created small communities and taught them how to live in
harmony with nature and in alignment with God. It was all
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beautiful. But in the case of Socrates, he was not a king.

Vasudeva was a king turned out to be a teacher. Socrates
was a teacher and there was a king of his time and he did
not agree with Socrates.
He invited Socrates and said, Do not promote
these theories. We have to call you a revolutionary.
Socrates: You may do, what you like, but this is what I
consciously feel and I promote.
King: Do not promote it in Athens. You have to go away from
Athens. You can do it in other kingdoms, not in my kingdom.
Socrates: I am born in Athens, I am a citizen of Athens, I
won't be accepted as much as I am accepted here and as a
citizen, do not I have the minimum right to live here?
King: You can live here, if you do not teach the doctrine or
you can live and teach the doctrine elsewhere. The choice
is yours.
Socrates: It is no choice at all. I have to be in Athens.
King: If you have to be in Athens, be in Athens but shut your
mouth.
Socrates: I cannot shut my mouth. I am untruthful to
myself, if I do not speak what I consciously feel as truth.
King: Then the only alternative for you is to die.
Socrates: I prefer to die than to be untruthful to my people.
Let me die with satisfaction that I am truthful to myself.

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Quite a tough guy, isn't it! That is virtue. Only

virtuous people can stand like that and even for the sake of
life they do not compromise. It is okay, if you lose life, you
get life again, but if you lose a virtue, for lives you may not
regain it. The whole idea of giving this episode is to speak of
the value of virtue to the virtuous ones.
Today all virtues are confused because we are
confused. We are confused and we see the virtues in a
confused way. For the confused ones the virtues change
very frequently. So, the Mother says, No doubt, to you I am
the fickled one. To you I look like quicksilver. To you I look
like quicksand, but not to the virtuous ones. The virtuous
ones are always safe, they are always saved.
There are many stories about it, how the virtuous
ones were saved by a knower. Every time in calamity what
saves you is your virtue. Nothing else; not your power, not
your money and not even your friends. The only one way
you are saved in nature is through virtue that you practice.
If one virtue is practiced in a steadfast manner, it will hold
you over any kind of crisis and any kind of calamity. That is
the promise of the Mother. Select a virtue, which is easy for
you, and make a decision to practise it for life. Do not
compromise it in any given situation. You can see how much
light, love and will reach you through that steadfast
practice of one virtue. There are many stories about it in
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the scriptures. Let us get into the next terms of the hymn.
There are three terms, which narrate the characteristics of
the Mother:
Yasyam Hiranyam Vindeyam - whose rays bestow on me
Gam - groups of cows, also movement
Asvam - horses
Purushan - persons
Aham - on me
Yasyam Hiranyam Vindeyam Gamasvam Purushanaham
means Whose rays bestow on me the cows, the horses and
people. That is the superficial meaning, which made the
Orientalists decide that the Indians were always after
cows, horses and many children.
Unless we know the etymological key used in the
Veda, we do not understand what is the cow. Cow stands for
the Word. The Word, which is with God, is called the cow.
Cow gives milk. As much as we milk the Word, so many
things it gives. All speeches are nothing but milking of the
Word! This milking is seen as milking the cow. The Word in
the Veda is called the cow, which we keep on milking to
create the whole universe. The Devas keep on milking the
Word and prepare the creation. So, the ultimate cow is the
Word. The normal cow we see, we milk it for the milk. But
this cow is something very special. For anything and
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everything we can milk it. For power we can milk it. For
love we can milk it. For light we can milk it. For any kind of
blessing we can milk it. That kind of cow I want! is the
prayer.
The Indians are too intelligent! They are asking for
a cow, which they can milk. It is like the mysterious lamp of
Alibaba. You rub it three times and then the monster
manifests and you ask him whatever you want. Here the
worshipper is asking for the Word as such: Mother, I know
you are the presiding deity for the Word. Please, bestow it
on me. That is enough. Then you are yourself a creator as
long as you practice virtues. The basis is virtue. If you are
virtuous, the Word is so compassionate, benevolent, and
loving that it can bestow on you the Word. Then you can do
wonders with it. That is how stupids could be transformed
into great poets. If the Mother bestows the Word, it is all
different!
Some of you may have heard of the great poet
initiate called Kali Dasa. He is equal to Veda Vyasa. He was
born stupid. He was so stupid that when his mother asked
him to fetch some fire wood for cooking, he went with the
axe to the nearby forest, climbed up a tree, decided to cut
the branch on which he was sitting, and along with the
branch he fell down. His mother waited for him and then
went in search of him. She found her son unconscious,
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recovered him, brought him and the firewood home and

gave him food. When he was moving in the village, people
were laughing at him narrating the deeds that he did the
day before. He got deeply hurt. Why do I have such a
stupid mind that everyone laughs at me? What wrong have I
done? Why should I suffer these insults day in and day out? Is
there no other way? It was a very deep introspection and
reflection. He straightaway went to the temple of the
Mother, sat before the Mother and started asking her, Why
have you made me like this? Don't you have compassion on
me? He went on worshipping the Mother and forgot time.
The Mother appeared and said, The whole world is stupid
to call you a stupid. They will see you from tomorrow.
Then he came back and started giving out
scriptures and poetry. He was speaking in such musical tone
with such high grammar, that not only the society, but also
the entire kingdom got stunned. The Mother whom he
worshipped was Kali. That is why he is called the devotee of
Kali: Kali Dasa. As Kali Dasa he revived the entire scriptural
wisdom and was considered even greater than Veda Vyasa.
Such is the power of the Word that the Mother can bestow.
That is why the Mother is worshipped as Saraswati, the
goddess of wisdom to ensure that we are bestowed with the
Word and not only with some few intelligent words. Kali
Dasa's speech was mercurial. He could defeat every scholar
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of his time including the scholars coming from Greece.

There was so much exchange of scholars between India,
Greece and then Farther East. Those who know literature
and the Oriental literature they cannot but give respect to
Kali Dasa. Such is the work that the Mother can do with you,
if you ardently pray.
The Vedic Seers saw that the Mother can bestow the
Word. That is why they seek the Word from no other than
the Mother herself. So, 'seeking the cows' means seeking
the Word and the one who has the Word has everything. The
whole nature cooperates with the one who knows the Word
and he can milk for the benefit of the beings anything from
nature. This cow called the Word is known as Kama Dhenu,
the cow that gives any benediction and blessing. There are
Seers who possess such cows. Vasistha had one such cow.
Vasistha is one of the seven stars of the Great Bear today.
He is the one, who is the Father to our solar system. His
personification exists on the planet and he carries the
Word.
Once the king Vishwa Mitra went to the Ashram of
Vasistha with all his army. They were all very tired, when
they reached the Ashram. Vasistha called forth the cow and
told the cow, The king and his group are tired, give the
best of hospitality to them. From out of its brow centre the
cow manifested kingly hospitality, beautiful resting places,
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excellent bathing pools, all perfumery, toiletry, very rich

food according to the needs of each and everyone, good
beds to sleep and beautiful damsels with fans to give the
comfort of the breeze.
Vishwa Mitra saw the cow. He became greedy. He
told Vasistha, You are a simple Brahmin living in the
forest. Why do you need a cow like this? Give the cow to me.
I can use it for many things. Vasistha said, Take it, if you
can. The king thought that it was a normal cow and
ordered the soldiers to bring the cow. The soldiers could not
move it. Even a group of soldiers could not move it and then
the king himself tried to move it. He had certain celestial
powers with him, which he tried to use on the cow, but
nothing happened. Then his love for the cow turned out to
be hatred. As he shot arrows at the cow, he received
counter-arrows from the cow and he was hopelessly
defeated. He wondered at the cow and asked the Master,
What is the secret of this cow? Then Vasistha said, It is a
cow that you have to cultivate in you. I have cultivated it
and it has manifested into this cow. It cannot oblige you. It
only can oblige me. Then Vishwa Mitra told Vasistha, Why
do not you tell the cow to come with me? Vasistha said, I
cannot, because you do not know how to use it. Then the
king wanted to fight with Vasistha. But Vasistha being an
embodiment of wisdom, he did not fight. When others wish
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to fight with you and you do not respond the fight, the fight
goes back to them. That was how Vasistha defeated Vishwa
Mitra.
Vishwa Mitra said, I know that my kingly power is
nothing before you. Give me the practice by which I can
gain this kind of cow and gain that kind of energy you have. I
cannot sleep unless I become like you. I must be equal to
you. All my anger against you now turns out to be
veneration. I wish to follow you and reach the same state of
awareness and be appreciated by you. You should be
appreciative of me. Then Vasistha gave him the part of
meditation.
The king entrusted the kingdom to his children and
went into the forest. Being a first ray man, he conducted a
very fiery meditation. As years passed by, he became a
great Seer and he is the one who gave the Mantra of
Gayatri, which we all chant now. He also gained the Word.
The Devas appreciated him and the Creator himself
appreciated him but he was not satisfied. He said, Unless
Vasistha appreciates me and says that I am as much as he is,
I won't stop with my penance. So, ultimately, Vasistha also
appreciated him and he too, gained this cow the Word.
Depending upon the context, cow is also used as a symbol of
Dharma. Cow is also used as the symbol of the earth. As you
keep on milking the Earth, it gives you so many things. It
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gives you nourishing food; it gives you so many things

including gold and precious stones. People receive
whatever they want from the Earth and hence, cow is also
called Kama Dhenu. Every Seer is called Kama Dhenu,
because he carries the Word with him, he carries the seed
with him and he is capable of bestowing as many things as
there are needed for the surrounding people. Seeking the
cow has a very mysterious way of seeking the ultimate
enlightenment.
Asva - the horses
The horse again is a symbol in the Veda for life
force. Whenever they speak of the ray of the Sun, they call
it the horse. That is why the scriptures say: The Sun has a
chariot of seven horses and spreads as seven rays. The
sunray bestows awareness and also life. It is called Asva.
Asva has a very profound meaning. Asva means 'not Sva'. Sva
means past or future. What is it that which is not past, that
which is not future? It is the present! That is the beauty of
speaking through negatives. Asva is the awareness, which is
focussed for the present. It is the most alerted one. Any
being fulfilled with life is most alert. The horse is thus very
alert. That is why it does not have to lay down to sleep. Only
horses have stables. They can stand and rest. There is no
other known being that can stand and rest. Horses do not lie
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down like buffaloes and cows or elephants and lions. There

is no sitting posture for horses. They are full of life. That is
why the life principle is compared to a visible form and that
is the horse. If some fly lands on its back, it can just move
that part of the body, which is needed to get rid of the fly.
That is the beauty of the horse.
The Seers observed nature and they found that in
the horse the life force is fulfilled. So, they took the horse
as a symbol for life force and the sunray as the transmitter
of life force. The seven rays are a beauty to observe. Their
movement is one of permeation but not displacement. If I
am in Switzerland, I am displaced from India. If I am in
India, I am displaced from Switzerland. When we move, we
are not at both places at the same time. I have not
permeated from India to Switzerland. All our American
friends have not permeated through the Atlantic. When
they are here, they are not there. When they are there,
they are not here. But see the sunray! It emanates from the
Sun and reaches Earth and it is not by displacement that it is
here. It is there as much with the Sun and as it is on the
Earth and also throughout the path. That is called Sva.
It is permeation, and permeation does not allow
past or future. Such permeation is sought by the worshipper
here. He is seeking permeation of Consciousness. To
permeate in Consciousness, the unitary Consciousness shall
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have to integrate with the Universal Consciousness. Then

the Universal Consciousness is one of permeation. That is
what is meant by Hiranyam. Through rays She is permeated.
She is everywhere. We are all somehow circumscribed in
small circles, as little as mustard seeds. From the
standpoint of the Universal Consciousness our Earth globe is
seen as a mustard seed and we are a mustard seed on the
globe. What are we compared to our globe? If we compare
our unit Consciousness and the Earth unit Consciousness,
we are a mustard seed to the Earth, maybe even smaller,
because even to us a mustard seed is very small. To Earth
maybe it is so small, that have really to search with
magnifying glasses and this Earth is described in the
scripture Bhagavata as a mustard seed in the grand form of
Consciousness.
We are seeking an unimaginable dimension of
Consciousness to come out of the small little holes in which
we live as our world. Such insignificant little holes like skin
pores is our world. First recognise this and see the bigness
of the consciousness. The consciousness is so
compassionate to live in such smallest, tiniest things called
human beings. But you have the facility to link up to THAT.
When you link up to THAT and to say it is joyful, it says very
little about it! To say it is blissful, it is also very little. You
cannot say what it is, when you join THAT. The seeker is
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seeking such dimension of God. As ages passed by,

according to the reduction in our level of comprehension,
we have also reduced our concept of God. We really have
such a poor concept of God. That is why we have to go to the
original scriptures. They break all the pettiness and poor
outlook that we have. That is how we come out of our
limitation and be liberated. Thus, the cows are sought, the
horses are sought and then people are sought.
Purushan: is the plural of Purusha, persons.
Please ensure that the One Person in the form of many
persons are attracted to me.
The Purusha Sktam says Sahasra Sirsha Purushaha
the One Cosmic Person exists as multitudes of persons.
The various heads of various persons are verily the head of
One Person. Through all the persons let The Person
approach me. It is a very delicate way of presentation. Even
if you serve food, there is a delicate way to dress it and
make it beautiful to serve. Also bread and butter can be
served in a beautiful manner whereas a buffet is just
thrown there for you to eat.
The more cultured you are, you serve wisdom in a
very delicate and delicious way. It is not a bohemian way of
doing it. There is a very civilized way of presenting wisdom.
So, the worshipper is seeking The Person through the
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persons. He says, Let the Cosmic Person be favourable to

me through the persons who are around me. If the persons
around me hold enmity towards me, it is not so joyful. So
the prayer is, Let the Cosmic Person be favourable to me
through the persons who are around me. Two birds at one
shot! The Mother is asked that not only the Lord but also the
beings of the world should be favourable to the seeker. He is
seemingly gullible but he is exceedingly subtle in his prayer.
Tam Ma Avaha Jatavedo O Lord of Fire Agni. You bestow
on me the Mother who is verily the symbol of the creation,
the One whom we cannot predict, the One who spreads
through her rays of light and the One who bestows the
Word, the permeation of consciousness and favourability of
the Cosmic Person. This is the esoteric meaning of the
second hymn.

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THIRD HYMN
Amu Ujqkr WxilS moklq |
r Suqmr q Suewiq ||
ASVAPURVM RATHAMADHYM HASTINADA PRABODHINM
SRYAM DEVIM UPAHVAYE SRRMA DEVI JUSHATAM

Aswapurvam

: She, who is preceded by horses

Rathamadhyam : having the chariots in the middle and she

who is sitting in the midst of the chariot
Hastinada

: by the roars of the elephants

Prabodhinim

: being awakened

Devim

: the one with Divine light

Sriyam

: the Goddess who always supplements the

Lord

Upahwaye

: I approach and address

Devihi

: The Goddess of Divine Light

Srihi

: She who supplements the Lord

Mey

: Me

Jushatam

: favour

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MEANING:
I approach and address Her, who is preceded by
horses, seated in the midst of the chariot (our body) and
who is being awakened by the roars of the elephants. May
the Goddess of the Lord's supplementation favour me.
COMMENTARY:
Asvapurvm the forerunner of life.
I have explained to you how the birth of life
happens in cosmos and how such life exists at causal, subtle
and physical plane. Life is the result of the emergence of
the Mother from the Absolute. That is how the birth of life
happens and continues in all planes of existence up to the
gross physical and even in the infernal and hence there is no
such thing as death. Death is to a plane, but not to the Soul
which permeates in all planes of existence. The
characteristics of life, the principle of life and its ability to
conduct the health through the vital plane is the common
knowledge of those who worship the Mother. Hence,
healing is facilitated when it is associated with worship of
the universal consciousness because the Mother is the
forerunner of life.
Life and its ways, its manifestation, its invocation,
and its direction is possible for the ones who are deeply
working with the Universal Consciousness. To learn healing
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as a subject, as a branch of wisdom will give you limited

knowledge, but the whole tree of creation, the whole tree
of life, springs from the Consciousness due to its eternal
association with existence.
In so far as you grow proximate to the
Consciousness in you and around you through the worship
and related practices, the life force obliges to function
through you, to help you, to help you to help others and to
make a right understanding of the life principle, both subtle
and gross.
Learning each of the aspects of creation, like light,
love, life, intelligence, colour, sound, symbols it is a
laborious way of learning. If you associate with the very
source of all this, which exists in you as your Consciousness,
then all these branches of wisdom unfold from within you.
This is the approach of synthesis, where no branch of
wisdom is strange or foreign to you, when you grow
proximate to the Consciousness, the light of Consciousness,
the Mother, the Universal Consciousness. In this hymn the
worshipper speaks of the vital plane.
In the earlier hymns he spoke of the causal plane in
us and in creation, which is of diamond hue and he spoke of
the subtle plane in us and in the universe, which is of golden
hue. Now he is speaking of the vital plane, the field of life
which functions at every level. Mother is the forerunner of
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the life principle and hence She is worshipped through this

hymn as the life force itself building the vital body.
Rathamadhym The second term relates to the middle
position the Mother takes in every form, the golden middle
place which also a Yogi is expected to attain. Preceding the
Consciousness there is the existence and succeeding the
Consciousness there are the manifestations, visible and
invisible. There are physical plane manifestations visible
for those on the physical plane. Likewise in all the seven
planes there are manifestations. The manifestation at
every plane succeeds the Consciousness and existence
precedes it. If you stand in relation to Consciousness, you
are equi-distant to the spirit and the matter relating to
every plane. You are equi-distant to the existence and the
formation relating to every plane. This is called the equipoised state, where you are positioned in equal distance
between the spirit and the matter relating to a plane of
existence. In so far as you are with Consciousness, as I
explained to you, you are very proximate to existence. You
can experience the existence on one side and you can also
experience the very know-how relating to a plane of
manifestation. That is why it is said that the Mother takes
the middle position relating to every form. In the human
being also She is said to take the middle position, namely
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the heart. The Mother is worshipped at the heart as the

middle position between the layers of body and existence.
Love, compassion, caring for others, working for the
welfare of others these are all the qualities that emanate
from the heart, while the knowledge emanates from the
head.
Though the Mother is the basis for all
manifestations, She prefers to take the middle position
everywhere. That is the beauty of the Consciousness and
the one who takes to such middle position is considered to
be a Yogi. He is neither too proximate to the Father or too
proximate to the Mother. Father and Mother are equally
respected. The matter and the spirit are equally respected.
You see, a lady of the house, she stands between the
husband and the children. Who are proximate and who are
distant? One is not in preference to the other, because the
children are her manifestations and the husband is her
higher counterpart, through whose co-operation she
receives the children. It is a situation, where there is no
such thing as preference.
Similar equi-poised nature exists with Yogis. They
have no preferences. They do not prefer one to the other.
They are equi-poised. Others may create their own
distances and proximities, but his relation to each one of
them is always the same. That is why a mother does not feel
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distant to the children who are behaving ignorantly. The

ignorant children, the knowledgeable children all are her
children. She does not discard the ignorant children and
hug the knowledgeable ones in preference to the ignorant
ones. We cannot understand this love, because our love is
based on agreeability and disagreeability. The love of the
mother which is pure love has equal caring nature to every
child. Suppose, a mother has two children, one is very
obedient, goes to school regularly, studies well and is very
responsible. The other child is rebellious, not obedient,
does not study well. To whom the mother gives attention?
She is concerned about the well-being of the second one.
She will not discard, as we discard. We try to select, and we
try to reject. We do so many funny things, but those who
know what love is, they continue to supply the same energy
to all.
I tell you a story. One of the Kumaras was
functioning for the Plan at the time of the advent of Lord
Krishna. He was connected to Sanat Kumara, Maitreya,
Veda Vyasa, Maru, Devapi and to all those, whom we know
through the books. So, he knew the Plan of the advent of
the Lord to establish the law and he tried to contribute his
own might to the Plan. The name of this Kumara is Sanat
Sujata, the lower counterpart of Sanat Kumara, the fourth
one. The third Kumara is Sanat Kumara, the second one is
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Sanandana, the first one is Sanaka. These are the four

Kumaras. Sanaka is the Kumara who rules the Cosmic plane.
Sanandana is the Kumara who rules the solar plane. Sanat
Kumara is the Kumara who rules the physical plane.
Sanat Sujata worked for the Plan 5000 years ago to
make way for the advent of Krishna. During his movements
in Himalayas once he met the Mother with the lion. The
Mother blessed him and gave him a few compliments for the
good work he was doing. Sanat Sujata felt very comfortable
in the Presence of the Mother and asked her a question,
When will the atrocities of the Blind King end? He is such a
stupid causing so many problems in the kingdom and
everything was going in a wrong way. The Mother smiled and
said to Sanat Sujata, You are all great knowers and yet you
are very small kids. No doubt you are knowers, but you are
kids. You do not understand. Why do you say that he is a
stupid? Why are you not compassionate to him that he is
blind? Don't you have compassion for ignorant people? He is
ignorant to a degree which is unique. It is only a difference
in the degree of ignorance, but remember, he is also as
much my child as you are. The Mother continued, Even
stupids are my children, and it is my duty to see that they
also gain knowledge. Now that you said this to me, I propose
that you shall be his teacher. So, Sanat Sujata eventually
became the teacher to the Blind King and he gave out a
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doctrine of wisdom which is as good as Bhagavadgita. That

is how the Mother takes to a stand and uses the
knowledgeable ones for the benefit of the ignorant. What
for is knowledge? To share it with others! In so far as it is not
shared and is only meant for self-aggrandisement, such
knowledge will eventually turn out to be a curse.
Hastinada The third term means the sound that emanates
from the trunk of an elephant.
It is a poor depiction of a profound symbolism.
There is the trunk of the elephant in each one of us. If the
form relating to your head, ears and spinal column is
visualised as light, it looks like the head and the trunk of the
elephant. That head and trunk is what is taken as Ganesha
and there is a sound that emanates in that trunk up to the
head. From the tip of the trunk up to the head of the
elephant there is a humming sound that happens. That
sound is called Nada.
Nada is a self-born sound ever since the emanation
of the Mother from the Absolute and that sound is what is
called OM. It is called the sound of silence. It is also called
the voice of silence. It is further called the hiss of the
serpent and it is also called the voice of the elephant. That
is Hastinada which moves upwards.

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Prabodhinm The Mother initiates you into that sound.

The initiation of sound which leads you to Cosmic
existence through all the seven planes in you is the work of
the Mother. This is what is known as Kundalini Yoga. The
sound is contemplated in the base center and the
practitioner is asked to listen to the sound. The one in
whom the sound is initiated is the one who can also transmit
that sound to his students. Then the sound emerges, arises
and moves upwards, and at each level, at the lower
Mladhra, higher Mladhra, sacral center, solar plexus
etc., at all these etheric centers the sound moves up center
by center clearing the blockages in the students body.
Progressively the sound moves upwards and reaches the
Ajna. Then there is the illumination of the being. That is
how Kundalini Yoga happens.
The Kundalini power in each one of us is the power
of the Mother. She can initiate it. She can alert it. She can
awaken it and ensure that it moves up and this movement is
through the cerebro-spinal column, from the tip of the
column up to the head of the staff. That is what Moses holds
in his hand symbolically. That is the rod of power bestowed
on him by God. It is a crawling serpent and also a vertically
raising power. That rod of Initiation is in us but dormant and
the Mother can cause its upward movement. If you close
your eyes, visualise your head as a globe of light and your
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ears as etheric ears, further visualise that this globe is

standing on a staff, the spinal column and visualise this
spinal column as a column of light and also visualise a feeble
sound emerging from the base of your spinal column and its
upward movement like a serpent.
Those who do not have favourable node/anti-node
position are not recommended to do this. They would have
the fear and the feeling of a serpent inside and they can no
more sleep. But others can. The movement will slowly
ensure adjustments in the body. That is what exactly Master
C.V.V. promised to do for us: I shall preside over you the
moment you invoke and I shall call forth the force from your
base and conduct the necessary rectification at the
physical, emotional, vital, mental, buddhic, etc. and
ensure that you reach Me and meet Me. That is the work of
a teacher who is a representative of the Mother to conduct
the work of evolution of the beings. But essentially it is her
work. She is the Initiator and those who are initiated due to
her grace function for her as the initiates to initiate others.
She is seen as the master initiator.
Hastinada Prabodhinm speaks of the voice of the
cerebro-spinal system which is depicted as an elephant.
This sound can be better experienced, when Moon is in the
constellation Hasta or when Sun is in the constellation
Hasta. That is how the elephant-headed God came to be as
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a symbol of worship to rise one's levels of comprehension.

The uprising trunk is indicative of the upward movement of
the sound. The whiteness of the elephant relates to the
light that it brings forth.
Sryam The Mother is also called Sryam, the bestower of
welfare.
We desire many things, and very often, if our
desires are fulfilled, they cause more problems than the
related joy. The children desire many things from the
mother. If the mother is intelligent and not emotional, she
will give what is good for the child and divert the child from
those desires which are not good for it. The child always
asks for chocolate, but the mother will not give. Because
the mother cares for the health of the child. Likewise, we,
the children, have many fantasies and many desires, and
we do not know, whether they are good for us or not. But a
shop-keeper can give you any number of chocolates, if you
give money. He feels happy, each time you go to buy
chocolate. Sometimes he even offers chocolate free to
encourage you to buy more chocolate. But that is not the
case with the Mother. If you worship the Mother and desire
things from her, She does not grant those of your desires
which cause problems to you, which cause crisis to you,
which cause conflict to you. That is why the worshippers of
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the light are always told, If you wish to worship the light
with a desire, you may do so, but leave it in the hands of the
light because it knows better, what is to be given and what
is not to be given because the light is concerned of your
ultimate welfare.
The Mother ensures that you only get the right
things and not the wrong things and She protects you from
areas and places of danger and isolates you so well that
even in the worst situations they do not touch you. That
kind of protection, direction, illumination is offered
through the worship. That is why, even if we meditate, the
prayer is also important until we are accomplished through
our meditation. Many people think prayer is inferior to
meditation. It is another fancy. You can pray and you can
even pray to see that your meditation is fulfilled. Then it
becomes easier to accomplish.
The whole creation is the network of the Mother,
the light, the Consciousness. So, we seek her blessings
before we proceed with our actions. Be it mundane or
divine, it ensures that we land in the right situations, in the
right occult path and that we do not fall into wrong paths
and suffer because we are very skilful to choose that which
is undesirable and we are cautious to choose that which is
desirable. We have very funny psychology. We jump at
things which are dangerous for us and we are suspicious
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about things which are beneficial. We also want to decide

who should be our teacher. If the student can select the
teacher, the student is already well off. But a student is a
student, he cannot guage the teacher. The student is just a
kid for the teacher, though he is friendly with him. How can
a student appoint his teacher? He says, O, my Master is
Morya. How does he know that his Master is Morya? Very
funny! We meet people who read books and appoint their
teachers. The best way is to worship the Mother to give you
the right teacher. You do not lose time. Otherwise you have
to learn through many experiments. People carry out a lot
of experiments out of foolishness.
The best way is to pray to gain the right teacher, to
gain the right understanding, to gain the right way of
economics, above all to gain the right spouse which can be a
challenge of our life. We think we are intelligent, we keep
searching outside with our little brains and many times we
fall into a pit. Instead why can't we worship and inform the
light or Consciousness to ensure that we get someone whom
we deserve? Why experimentations? We can experiment but
the only thing is that in the process we lose time. What is
the good of it? Please, therefore do not fancy in meditation
abandoning prayers. It does not help. If you see the books
on meditation, you find statements: All prayers culminate
in meditation. But many do not reach that state of
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meditation. There are certain qualities required in each

one of us to deserve the state to meditate. The ancient
most doctrine on meditation apart from thousands of books
that we have today comes from the 6th Chapter of
Bhagavadgita, where the teacher says: You need 16
qualities, before you think of embarking upon meditation.
For the moment you may have an ambitious desire to
meditate. But is meditation happening? It happens with
those who have accomplished the 16 qualities. The children
in the elementary school are thinking of master's degree. It
is a noble aspiration. Like that, you have to achieve the
steps to arrive at meditation and prayer helps you to reach
that state. It not only helps you to reach that state but to
accomplish because the ultimate accomplishment of
meditation is experiencing of Universal Consciousness. The
Mother can lead you in the right way and protect you not to
fall into the wrong ways. That kind of protective guidance is
what is called Sryam.
Devi The Mother is called Devi, the aggregate of all lights
of the universe.
We have Devas which are embodiments and units of
that light, big and small. There are Devas of cosmic order,
solar order, planetary order, lunar order. They are called
Devas, because they are lighted beings. Teachers are called
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Guru Devas, meaning the lighted Devas that keep teaching

others to get enlightened. All these Devas emerge from the
Devi because She is the original light, the cosmic light, the
light of the world, the light of the universe, the primordial
light, called Aditi in Veda. Any light is part of that Light. It is
not independent of it because the Mother is the Light from
which various lights emerge. That is why all prayers you
make to any lighted being reach her. Even these lighted
beings pray her. Remember, the Mother is worshipped in the
female form as female energy because She is herself the
first emanation or first transformation of the eternal
existence. That is how the Mother worship has come up as a
tradition.
The aggregate of the lights of all universes is also
Devi. There is not only one universe, there are many
universes She presides over. Each universe has its trinity
and its subsequent manifestations. Today we try to
understand through science that there are other solar
systems. The Vedic Seers have seen that there are other
universes also. The scientists will find still many things
which will be mind-blowing. It is all unlimited. You cannot
define it. Until we cease to define, we cannot be totally
knowledgeable. Our basic problem is, we define and we
judge. How can we define the infinite? How can we judge
not knowing what it is? How can the finite beings judge the
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infinite things? We do it out of our own ignorance. There is a

story in the Devi Purana, where the three Logos, the will,
the love and the light gathered. Then they questioned:
Which of the three is the best? They could not decide. If
you say, I am greater than you, the others will vote
against you and by majority your proposal is defeated. So,
the three Logos could not come to a decision as to who is the
greatest because all the three emerge from the same
source, from the same light. Can you decide among the
three rays, the first, second and third, which is greater? It is
childish to ask that question. All the three, when they are
together, they are great. When they are not together, they
are not great. Individually none of the three is great. The
three musketeers are great together, not individually.
The three Logos could not decide between them
and they said, Let us go to the Mother and accept
whatever She says. They took to their flights: one to a
flying bull, the other to a flying bird, and the third to a
flying swan. On their way they saw another third Logos of
light. Then the other two said to the third Logos, Hey,
there is one more like you, so you are not great. The third
Logos was down. But as they had decided to go up to the
Mother, they proceeded, and on their way they found
another second Logos of knowledge or love, Vishnu. Then
the other second Logos was depressed. They went further
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and they found another first Logos. What a surprise! They

never knew. They thought they were the only ones, and
they were the only chief lieutenants to the Mother for the
unique universe. But their universe is not unique and there
is another universe and that universe seems to be better
than this. As they proceeded further, they saw one more,
and one more, and one more. They felt so small. No, let us
not go to the Mother, let us go back and do our jobs.
From an electrical bulb to groups of galaxies it is
Devi. That is why her dimensions are unknown. We are so
small and that which we worship is so grand that we get
fulfilled and we live in ecstasy of that attunement of
consciousness. So, we worship such a Mother Upahvaye.
Srrma Devi Jushatam: May such Mother favour us, grace
us and awaken us into high awareness.
That is the prayer relating to the third hymn.

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FOURTH HYMN
M xxqi WUhrmMUqS eusli imi imrliq |
m xji muh iqWmr rq ||
KMSOSMITAM HIRANYA PRKRM RDRM JVALANTM
TRUPTAM TARPAYANTM
PADMESTHITM PADMAVARNM TMIHOPAHVAYE SRYAM

Saha

: He (God, the Veda Purusha)

Kam

: of which lady

Asmitam

: As the Awareness of 'I AM

Hiranyaprakaram

: who has the golden layers around

Ardraam

: wet (moisture)

Jwalanteem

: shining

Truptam

: accomplished

Tarpayanteem

: causing satisfaction

Padmesthitaam

: seated in the Lotus

Padmavarnaam

: Lotus coloured

Tam

: Her

Sriyam

: The lady of Splendour

Iha

: here

Upahvaye

: I invite near to

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MEANING:
I invite the Goddess of Splendour who manifests in
layers of Gold, liquid or molten Gold, who shines forth as
accomplishment and the accomplished one, who is seated
in a lotus being herself lotus coloured and whom the Lord
visualised as the awareness of 'I AM' in all.
COMMENTARY:
Tmihopahvaye Sryam is the prayer.
Upahvaye - We invoke, we pray, we worship Sryam, the
Mother of welfare. It is the kind of Mother described in the
preceding terms!
Kmsosmitam - K + Saha + Asmitm
K - by what means
Saha - that One
Asmitm - knows his awareness
The One beyond does not even have the feeling of I
AM. It is such a beautiful ONE, total Samadhi. He does not
feel his existence. We, too, in the 8th state of existence,
which is Samadhi, do not feel that we are existing, because
we are absorbed into existence. How does the nameless,
the formless, the unspeakable One, the Most High, the
Absolute God who is beyond all this drama, feel I AM? He
cannot feel I AM, unless He himself becomes conscious. We
feel I AM' and 'I exist', when we are conscious and when we
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have awakened from sleep. Before that also we are

existing, but we do not have the awareness that we are
existing. Same is the case with the ONE. He cannot feel his
existence. He can feel his existence only, when He becomes
light. He cannot have that kind of awareness, unless the
light emerges, unless the Consciousness emerges. What a
way of praising the World Mother! Even that Absolute God
cannot feel his existence without You, Mother!
That is how for all practical purposes in creation
the Mother is God. God in creation is female. God beyond
creation is male. That is one way of saying. The other way is
God beyond creation is potentially male-female. God in
creation is male enveloped by female. The female is the
envelope of the male. The first circumscription around the
existence is light. The first emanation is light. The first
frontier is light. It is not a small frontier. Though an
unlimited frontier, it is still a frontier, because HE is
unlimited. According to HIM, it is his light and his field of
activity. According to us, it is our light and our field of
activity. According to the mosquito, it is its light and its
field of activity. Greater the being, greater is the field of
activity. So, the unlimited being has an unlimited field of
activity, an unlimited field of light and the Mother builds a
beautiful temple around HIM with HIM' as the deity. That is
the Cosmic Temple.
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Hiranya Prkram - the Temple with golden outermost

frontiers.
The Temples we build are only a miniature replica
of the original thought of Temple building. She builds a
diamond Temple and a golden Temple and the Temple is
resplendent with all colours as between diamond and
golden. The outermost frontier that She builds around the
ONE is of golden walls. Beyond that you see the brown
material. The Temple is the subtle world built and with that
subtle world as basis the mundane world is precipitated.
This is precipitation. There is building and thereafter it is
precipitation.
If you see the Book of John to which Madame
Blavatsky refers to in Secret Doctrine, she gives in English
a beautiful expression of the whole phenomena, which is
originally recorded in Senzar. It says: The second springs
from the first and develops the third. The first is the ONE
beyond. The light that emerges and its field is a spring up
from HIM is the Second. Just like the Consciousness springs
up, we know that we are awakened. From static state to
dynamic state, it is a spring up. It is not a development.
Please remember that the whole thing is built laboriously. It
is a natural spring up, and thereafter with the help of the
variegated colours there are precipitations. The
precipitations take time. But the spring up is instant.
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Precipitations are like your hair and nails. They are outside
the Temple. That is why they are removable. From time to
time if you tonsure, you do not feel that a part of your body
is removed! The Human Temple develops hair on the skin
and nails around the fingers. If they are removed, you do
not feel that a part of you is cut.
Likewise there are precipitations beyond the
Temple frontier. That is why the whole urge of the Souls is to
get back into the Temple. The Souls have the urge to go into
the Temple, to enter into the first outermost boundary. If
you get inside, you are already in the kingdom of light,
though not absolute light, but golden light. Then slowly as
you progress, you find the other lights and meet the
diamond light. But to be inside the Temple is what is cared
for, because inside the Temple it is completely Divine.
Outside the temple there are activities of ignorance. To be
inside the temple is the most cherished goal of every Soul,
and that Temple is what is called the Golden Temple.
That is Hiranya Prkra, the Temple with golden
outermost frontiers. If you go inside and go through the
seven frontiers, you meet more and more resplendent light,
and in the Sanctum Sanctorum you are absorbed into the
light. You do not exist any more. This is how She builds a
seven-boundary Temple, and the outermost boundary is the
boundary of golden hue, and all that is the house for the
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divine to be. See, how much She does for Him. Emerging out
of Him, She prepares the most splendorous, luminous
Temple, and without HER, HE cannot even feel his
existence. Even ' THAT' cannot feel 'I AM' without Her.
What we have to appreciate is how much the
conceiver of these hymns would have contemplated to give
such original ideas! It is such a beauty for us, even to make
an understanding of them. How much you would have
experienced and how much you would have struggled to
find words to express it! You cannot find words to express
many things. That is why you have to seek the cows! The one
who conceived the hymn must have sought the cow very
well. Expressions cannot happen with all. People may
perceive, but they cannot express and there are many
people who express, but they do not perceive anything. It is
either very good articulation, but no substance or very good
substance, but no articulation. So, the best situation is
excellent perceptions and excellent articulations.
Saha Ka Asmikm Asmitaha
Saha - that One
K - by what means
experiences his own existence.
That is why the worshipper by such expression
pleases the Mother so very well. O, Mother, without You,
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even the Father does not know that HE IS. That is why the
intelligent seekers always seek the Father through the
Mother and Jesus Christ was one of them in recent times. He
was a Mother worshipper. He did not give out what practices
he did. He gave out what he knew. He worshipped the
Mother through his mother. He could find the contact to the
World Mother through his mother. If you neglect your
mother, the Mother is not pleased with you. This is a secret.
If your mother is not favourable to you, it means, the nature
is not favourable to you. You will have a lot of difficulties. In
the case of Jesus the assistance and cooperation of the
mother was so complete. You may try and understand more
about this from the book on Good Friday.
Ramakrishna Paramahamsa was one such Mother
worshipper. Master E.K. through his mother he could
worship Gayatri and have the experience and the
benediction of Gayatri. It is the easier way. Sr Vidya is
going through the Mother to the Father. Then the whole
creation is her network. She takes you by the hand up to the
Father and says: This is a fit son, you may use him. If the
Mother recommends, the Father accepts. If the Mother
does not, the Father cannot. There is such perfect
understanding between them.
There are also people who reach the Father
straight, but on the way they have a lot of bruises, injuries,
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and turbulences. Somehow they reach, but by the time they

reach, the whole body is bruised. This is Brahma Vidya.
Buddha's enlightenment versus Maitreya's enlightenment.
Maitreya's enlightenment is through the Mother. Buddha's
enlightenment is direct to the Father. It is a very painful
path. Sr Vidya is a beautiful path, every bit of the travel
you enjoy. Not only you rejoice reaching the goal, but you
rejoice every bit of the travel. It makes a lot of difference.
That is how the Mother worship came to be as the Path of
Grace.
The Mother has instant grace for the children. The
Father has to consider. The child would rather prefer to go
to the mother and seek what she wants than to go to the
father. The father is like the philosopher. He cannot
understand the petty problems of the children. The mother
understands. She understands the hunger, she understands
the little desires and she is more obliging. That is why this
path is chosen by those who are soft natured and grow
strong bit by bit. The others are the warriors.
Vivekananda was a warrior. He was contemplating
upon the nameless, formless, unspeakable God and his
Master experienced that God through the Mother very
easily. Whatever the Disciple accomplishes with great
labour, the teacher accomplishes effortlessly. So, the
student always said to his Master, You are a Master, the way
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you can do, I cannot do. Then the Master said, It is not
me, it is the Mother. You also follow the Path of the Mother.
It becomes easy, but your head is strong. You do not want to.
So, do it the hard way. The bull has to hit the wall and break
its head, until it becomes soft. The encounters between
Ramakrishna and Vivekananda are something really
interesting and suggest many subtle things. In recent times
they form a good example. This is Kmsosmitam.
Even HE feels his existence, when you emerge and
you build a splendorous abode for HIM whose outermost
boundary is of golden hue, which is spoken of as Hiranya
Prkrm. Prkr is the boundary. SHE is the golden
Temple or a Temple with outermost golden boundary. HE is
the Deity inside, and SHE does all this, drawing power from
HIM. Without HIM, SHE is not! Without SHE, HE is. But HE
cannot feel HE is. Such is the understanding relating to this
term. So, you cannot say, Who is greater than whom?
rdrm: Cordiality aspect or the Love aspect of the Mother.
The Mother is called rdrm. It is another profound
term. It speaks of many things relating to the Mother.
Essentially it is the cordiality aspect of the creation by
which the systems are knit together or bound together. The
interrelation of the beings on the planet and the
interrelation of the planets as between them and their
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relation with the Sun and then the sun system with the Solar
family relating with other solar systems and groups of solar
systems with the basis in the Cosmos all is held together by
the cordiality principle of the Mother. It is called love. It is
by love all is held together. That love is the prime quality of
the Mother.
Every quality that is narrated so far is a special by
itself and this is another special quality, which represents
the love of the Mother. It is the love of the Mother that
keeps the systems, Planetary, Solar and Cosmic, together.
She is the synthesising principle. Whosoever carries it,
carries the Mother with him; meaning, the Mother favours
him. Those who are blessed by the Mother have this quality
of Synthesis. They can synthesise even the seeming
opposites, because they can see the opposites as
complementary. They can dissolve conflicts, because their
approach is one of love.
This love you can also see with the mother in a
family. She is the one who keeps the family together. She
ensures that the children are together and she ensures that
the family as a unit is held together. It is the love of the
mother that keeps the family together. She is therefore
called the backbone of the family. That quality of the
Mother is the cementing force in creation that binds things
together.
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rdrm also means viscose material or viscosity.

You find that viscosity in blood. It keeps many things
together and it is through this viscosity and cordiality the
Mother keeps the system intact. rdrm also means the
blood stream, which is the vehicle for life. The Mother
transmits life and holds all together through the viscosity of
life and love is the basis for the entire existence of the
universe. Hence love succeeds all and synthesises all. The
blood stream and love are intertwined, because the blood
stream carries the love or the cordiality. It is a magnetic
impact that holds various things together. The blood is seen
as the manifestation of rdrm in us. Love is the subtle
aspect of rdrm. Emotional love is an inferior aspect of
rdrm. Love inferior is emotion. It is another way of
holding together. Emotional love is possessive. Pure love is
not possessive and yet holds together. The Mother lets the
children free out of love and an emotional mother holds the
children totally to her and does not allow them to grow to
their fullest extent. The love of the Mother is the love that
enables complete expression.
rdrm stands not only for viscosity, but also for
the magnetic impact. There are persons who are magnetic.
They do not attract people, but people get attracted to
them. There is the inferior magnetism, which is called
hypnotism. It is animal magnetism. Through hypnotisation
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people hold others as their captives. The love that is spoken

here is love with free will. It is a love that comforts. It is a
love that allows enough space for people. Emotional love
surrounds you so much and you feel that someone is
squeezing you by the neck. There are mothers who lose
their children by their emotional love. When you possess,
they wish to run away. There are spouses who hold their
partners with emotion. Emotional love causes
imprisonment. No one would like to be imprisoned.
Essentially the Souls are freedom lovers. All our effort is to
be free and we are trying to learn the know-how to be free.
You would not like to be possessed by others and you should
not possess others. Possessive people do not know how
discomforting it is, when they possess. The Mother teaches
the right cordiality and the right magnetism.
Paracelsus is one initiate who draws very clear
distinction between animal magnetism and Divine
magnetism. The Masters of wisdom hold Divine magnetism.
It flows from them. They allow as much freedom as every
Soul seeks. They are not possessive, they do not control and
yet they are willing to help, only when help is sought.
Otherwise they respect others' freedom and free will and do
not interfere to help, unless sought. It is superior love.
Many times they say, We cannot help you, though we wish
to help, because at the right moment you do not seek the
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help and we cannot interfere into your system, unless you

seek. When there is a crisis or a calamity, we are more
drowned in our emotion and seek not the help. So, the
Masters of wisdom cannot reach you. People say, Can't you
respond, even if we do not ask you? According to them it is
aggression. Unasked help is aggression. They wait. They are
bound by the law of love and that love knows what free will
is and therefore they wait. They wish well. We cannot
understand this dimension of the Masters. The beauty of
the human being is, while in crisis he is drowned by his crisis
and does not pray, and hence the link does not happen. It is
a thing you have to think about quite a lot.
This love of higher dimension holds the whole
system, the whole universal system. It cements, it binds, it
keeps things together, and yet every being is free in its own
way. That is rdrm. At the physical level you can see it as
blood, which carries magnetism and through blood all
magic is done - white magic and black magic because blood
has that magnetic impact. At the subtle level you can see it
as love and at the level of colour you can see it as the red
colour that emerges before the dawn. That is also called
rdrm. It is that colour which is responsible for the
viscosity. Those who meditate upon this colour receive the
true characteristics of love and those characteristics can be
easily gained at the psychical plane through meditation
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upon that colour which is coral. It is also called rdr. The

corals themselves carry the energy relating to rdr. In the
East people hold many chains of corals around their neck.
The corals, when they touch the body, they give the
warmth, the warmth of life and they stimulate the life
principle in you and they also give you the warmth of love
which is not bodily craving, but the kind of belonging. The
heart quality gets stimulated with the touch of coral,
because in the coral this quality is very much present. They
should be worn in such a fashion that the chain touches the
heart region. They should not be worn over the robes to
show the people that I have a coral chain.
Most of these precious chains like diamonds,
pearls, sapphires, corals; they are not to be shown out.
They are originally meant to give the related impact on
your body. But when we are showy, we do not get the
impact. They should touch the skin and only then the
impact comes. And those who work with this coral-colour,
around them the splendour of the Mother exists as a pure
aura. It is such a pure aura that dispels impurities. The coral
red is very protective. It is as protective as the first ray.
In India they worship the Mother with saffron
powder, which is of that colour. Those of you who have
come to India participate in the thousand names' worship of
the Mother. You might have seen the ladies and the gents
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working with coral-red colour, and the Mother is decorated

with coral-red flowers. Don't think that the theme is bloody.
What the Seers see is the inherent Divine quality of blood.
Likewise, so many dimensions of the Mother are presented
through the term rdrm. Essentially it is the sublime and
Divine quality of the heart lotus which would help us to
experience the beauty of the creation, the beauty of the
Mother's love and how it weaves the whole thing together,
how the whole thing is conceived in mutuality and
interdependence. Everything is not so independent of
itself: the mineral, the plant, the animal, the human and
the Devas. All are so very well intertwined through
mutuality and interdependence and through the thread of
cordiality. We can go on expanding on the theme. But it is
enough, if we know, what is that love quality, what is its
colour, how it manifests through life and how it holds
everything together. Later you can soak the thoughts and
find your own expansions.
Jvalantm - the flames
The Mother is the enflaming One. The flame is a
manifestation of her power, which can cause
transformations, which can cause purifications and which
can burn away impurities. The Mother puts everything to
flame, so that what is pure remains and what is impure is
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burnt away. The process is not painful, because She does it

with love. She is the enflaming One. Jvala means the flame
of fire. Djwala Khula does the same work. His work is one of
fire. If you invoke him, he comes with his fire and puts a
piece of burning charcoal through the gutter of the throat
and says, Enjoy it! That is his work, but he does it so very
dexterously and people accept him. He is named so by the
Masters. They saw in him the fiery element that can
transform this humanity. So, they named him Djwala Khula
meaning a bunch of flames. You take so many flowers,
bunch them and put them in a flower vase to make them
more beautiful. Like that, he has all the conceivable
varieties of flames with him and his very form is one of fire.
He is a fiery element and the basic work of fire is
transformation. So is Jwala Narasimham, which is the
original name of Master M.N. He spreads through fire, and
he manifests through fire and he is himself fire.
If Master C.V.V. is the spiritual air, Master M.N. is
the spiritual fire. Likewise, Master Djwala Khula is fire, a
flame of fire, a group of flames of fire. The Mother is the
enflaming One: Jvalantm. Without her grace all these Sons
of God cannot do a thing. They are all graced by her and
they have chosen the Path of Grace. That Path of Grace
enables them to work with love and compassion and not
with power. Power is embedded in their love. Everything is
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done with love, but the power is within it. The heart of
power is love, and the heart of love is power. Please think
about it!
If you do nice things, but you have an acid tongue,
no one likes you. If you have a nice tongue, a sweet tongue,
and you do not do anything, still people will be around you.
It is because people respond to love, not to power. If you
dictate, no one is willing to take it, but if you envelop it
with love and give it, they are willing to take it, though
later they feel the heat of it. Bitter medicines are not
accepted, because they do not go down the gutter of the
throat. But sweet homoeopathic medicine even a child asks
for it. If you keep the chest of homoeo medicine accessible
to children, they will eat away all 1 M's, 10 M's, 200's, 30's!
The way to make people eat the fire is to envelop it
with sweetness! That is why teachers have sweet envelops,
but the content is fire. That is the reason why Master Morya
does not indulge in teaching. Only at very advanced states,
the Disciples can reach up to him. Homoeopathic doctors
are preferred to allopathic doctors because allopathic
tablets are not sweet. Even Ayurvedic medicine is not
sweet. To make patients take it, they say, Mix it with honey
and take it. But if you have a magnetic envelop, be sure,
that inside there is terrible power. If you have a powerful
envelop, be sure, that inside there is love. Fruits, which are
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soft outside, are strong inside. Fruits, which are hard

outside, are soft inside. Some are hard, but their inside is
sweet. That is how in nature, things are hidden.
Djwala Khula has the technique of being externally
sweet and internally fiery. So is the Mother who is the
source of all this manifestation of the Teachers. She can be
externally loveable and internally powerful or internally
loveable and externally powerful. Don't we see the mother
punishing the children? Inside it is the love that prompts her
to discipline the children and rectify them. But generally
she is loveable, obliging and comforting. rdrm speaks of
the love aspect of the Mother and Jvalantm is the
enflaming One. If you wish to reach pure consciousness,
many impurities have to be burnt away before, and She
does it with love. That is why, She is also seen as the
Jvalantm aspect. If things are irrepairable, She can burn
up the whole thing. Outside the Earth is very green, very
beautiful, but inside there is much fire. If it opens up, fire
emerges. Once this Earth opened up and put out the fire to
burn up some undesirable civilisations. So, you need to see
the counter-dimensions, the seemingly opposite
dimensions.
Truptm: the contented One
To be contented is another divine, sublime quality.
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Be contented with what you have! You may try for better
things, but be contented with what you already have. The
contented one is the king of his life. The contented one
would never reduce himself to be a beggar. He would not go
and ask people. He is contented, and yet tries for
improvement. He is always joyful, because he is not so
much worried about things, which he does not have. He is
happy with what he has. We look to people who are better
off than we are and we suffer that we are not like them. Life
is miserable, when we live in comparisons. There is always
someone who is more handsome than you, healthier than
you, more brainy than you, more effective than you, more
wealthy than you, more peaceful than you, or more
knowledgeable than you.
See what you have and be contented! That gives
you the inner joy. That joy emits energies, which bring luck.
The weeping one never gets anything. Good things do not
approach him. It is disgusting to see someone always
weeping. To the smiling one you would like to go, you would
like to speak, you would like to enjoy with him, and your
tensions are released in his presence. The smiling one does
not necessarily need to be the one who has every aspect
best in him, but he can still smile. The hungry looking, the
serious looking, the weeping faces will dispel away even the
little luck that they deserve. Best thing is to be happy with
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what you have, be joyful and keep making efforts for better
things, and do not weep for what you do not have. Even if
you have a house, someone will have a better house. If you
have a car, someone will have a better car. Some have
children, you don't have children. There is no limit to all
this. Just be happy with what you are and try to be better.
That is the quality, which gives the natural inherent joy of
the Soul. Poor thing, the Soul, which is really the rich thing,
is made poor by the personality and it suffers, because the
personality dictates. Today man is never content in this
civilised world. Our forefathers were much better off,
though they did not have so many things as we have. They
lived a much better life, a qualitatively rich life. What are
we really gaining? We think we are advanced, I do not think
we are!
When Master E.K. completed 50 years of life, there
was a good meeting arranged. Some people said: It is a pity
that you are already 50. Why should you pity someone,
who is 50, 60 or 70 years old? When his turn came at the end,
he said, There are two ways of looking at life. There was a
glass of water. He drank half of it, kept it on the table and
said, In this audience there is a category who sees that the
glass is 50 % empty. I do not belong to this category. I belong
to that category which sees that the glass is 50 % full. Why
dont you see how much you have fulfilled than to see how
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much you are empty? That comes from contentment, and

the contented man is joyful, and his joy brings more and
more luck to him. The times and the winds, they are
favourable to him. The Mother aspect is drawn near to you,
if you have a smile on the face. It is a trick or a technique.
Before you learn wisdom, it is better you learn how to smile
and how to develop a smiling face.
My initial teachings in Europe were towards the
importance of cheer, because I met many German and
Spanish people who did not smile. The joke is that the
Germans never even used to understand a joke. They used
to take the joke also very seriously, thought about it, and
thus killed all my spirit. If you make a joke and people do
not smile, you get killed. Why I am saying this is, if you are
really contented, you do not have to be so serious. Keep a
smile! That is why in India all the Gods and Devas have a
smiling face, not a serious, angry looking face. It is
dangerous to meditate upon such figures.
The Mother is an embodiment of contentment. She
is ever contented. She is eternally contented. What is the
secret of her contentment? She contains the truth. What is
it the Mother contains? The One about Whom naught can be
said! The beauty is that the Seers, the philosophers, said,
Naught can be said about THAT! and saying so they wrote
volumes. So, when nothing can be said about Him, why do
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you write so many volumes about Him? Is it not an inversion?

Speak of someone, about whom something can be said. It is
the anxiety of the philosophers, the seers, to let you know,
how they understood that 'naught can be said'. That was
their problem. They put it to us and people study it. The
tough heads need it, because it blows up the mind, and then
they are satisfied. But that naught can be said about THAT
is fully contained by the Mother.
The Mother is the container, and the content is
THAT. She has the best of things. You, too, have it! That is
the truth. The only thing is that you do not know that you
have it and you do not know that you are THAT. If you know
that you are THAT, then there is nothing in the whole
universe that you look for. Everything is in you, because
THAT is with you. What else do you need? This is called
manliness. This is called Mastery. Then thereafter you say,
Ah, now I know, thank you. Now I can also play, as the
Mother plays. There is nothing that you need from any
side. You do not seek anything from any direction, because
all is in you. Everything is within. The treasure of the
treasures is with you. You have become pure Consciousness,
and your essence is THAT and hence you are contented from
eternity to eternity.
The Kumaras, the Seven Seers, the 14 Manus, and
all others who are mentioned in the 10th Chapter of
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Bhagavadgita are as much fulfilled as the Mother. They are

as much a manifestation of THAT as the Mother. They are the
children of the Mother whom She likes most and utilizes
them to teach others of this knowledge. That is how the
Hierarchy is formed with beings who are enlightened even
before this creation happened. Even by the previous
creation they were fulfilled. The Kumaras come from such
an awareness and hence they form the primary triangle of
teachers. Narada is one among those teachers. These are
the ones who knew the truth even before this creation and
came back from the ONE to be of help to the beings who
would surely forget the truth. They are the most contented
ones. Our planetary Hierarchy is linked to them and
receives the related wisdom and distributes it to the
beings.
Tarpayantm - The bestower of Contentment
Ultimate contentment comes through selfrealisation, through regaining of truth and the Mother can
grant it. That is why She is called Tarpayantm. Not only She
is contented, She is filled with the essence. She can bestow
the truth on others. Her grace can unfold the truth in you
which is existing in you and which can be experienced.
Please remember, without the Mother there is no knowing.
Even HE knows the existence only when HE becomes light
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and without Mother there is no experience. Truth can be

experienced by the Consciousness and the Mother can
bestow it as her Grace. The word Tarpayantm means 'the
bestower of contentment'. From small things to the truth,
the Mother can bestow. You ask for your daily bread, She
gives. From daily bread to the truth, She can bestow. There
is nothing that She cannot give including the truth.
Padme Sthitm - She resides in the lotus.
We see many pictures of the Mother sitting in a
lotus. Almost all deities in India are seen sitting on lotuses.
Lotus is a big symbolism again in Veda. It is an unfolding
principle in creation. The creation is unfolded by her. We
also unfold things in life. As our life unfolds, many things
come up: some sweet, some bitter, some sour, some sharp.
Her unfoldment is beautiful. Sitting over lotus means
presiding over the unfoldment of creation. The Mother
unfolds seven planes, and each plane is a lotus. Originally
we have seven lotuses which have become Chakras.
Chakras are the centers in circular motion, going up and
down, like the great Wheel of Vienna. However great the
wheel is, it brings you back to the original position. The
Chakras cause only the routine movement, but the lotuses,
which can be born out of these Chakras, will unfold and
liberate you. Chakra is a limitation while lotus is liberation.
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Man is bound by the seven Chakras and is liberated by the

seven lotuses. Lotus is an aspect of unfoldment of
consciousness at every plane and the Mother presides over
every lotus. Hence, She has the seat as lotus and She holds
lotuses. The symbol of Mother on the lotus thus gives the
message, The principle of lotus is with Me, come to Me to
receive it. If you come to Me, I give you the unfolding
aspect.
Please remember, even the planets eventually
become lotuses. Every globe is a potential lotus. When it
unfolds, its evolution is complete. Then it sheds light and
becomes a star in the firmament. Creation before
unfoldment is an egg. After unfoldment it is a lotus.
Originally it was a cosmic egg, the golden egg and it has
unfolded because of the work of the Mother. She is the one
who presides over unfoldment and She bestows
unfoldment. She is said to live in a lake full of lotuses. The
poetic mind of the Seers tries to put as many lotuses around
the Mother, so that people like us will also get accustomed
to see lotuses and grow aware of what they represent.
The lotuses are of many colours representing the
many planes of existence. So, She is Padme Sthitm. She
resides in lotuses, not in Chakras. Chakras are what we
create through our ignorance. Originally She gave lotuses,
but they have all folded back and started moving circularly.
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The unfolding concept is lost, when ignorance prevails. The

Mother bestows the necessary knowledge, so that they
transform once again into lotuses and take to better
positions in the body. So, think of the centers as lotuses
more than of Chakras. Every Chakra has its corresponding
lotus and Tantra gives us the knowledge of how to unfold
each lotus. The more and more you grow aware of the
universal Consciousness and attune yourself to it, all the
lotuses open. Just like by the visit of the sunray all the
lotuses of the lake unfold. (Please refer to the author's
book on The White Lotus for more details on the Symbol of
Lotus).
Wisdom is never complete by itself in any concept.
The time, the place and the group limit it. So, it is enough to
know that She resides in a lotus, She holds lotuses, her
hands are of lotus colour, her being is of lotus colour and the
hands look so soft as lotus petals. Then She wears a garland
of lotuses around her. Like this, there is no end to describe
the variety of ornamental usage of lotuses around the
Mother.
Padma Varnn the lotus coloured One
Padma also has a deeper meaning. Pad means the
word, the container of the word and the Mother brings out
the word as variety of sounds. Varna means sound and Varna
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means colour, Varna also means the symbol of sound called

the letter. So, She is the one who is splendorous with the
letters, the colours and the sounds of the word. The word
details into many sounds as vowels and consonants and
these sounds manifest the related colours and make their
own formation as letters. These letters are inexhaustible
and are therefore called Aksharas, which means that at any
time they cannot get exhausted or destroyed.
We use the same alphabets, but create millions of
volumes of books! Each language has certain alphabets,
some have more and some have less. 49 + 3 is the maximum
number of alphabets in Sanskrit. There are other languages
with 26 to 28 alphabets. Be it 26 or 52, just with these
letters on the globe you have millions of books. These
alphabets keep repeating with different combinations.
They make different words and again different
combinations of words. So much written knowledge comes
out, and they are not exhausted. They are still available
like virgins to be used afresh, to make further expressions.
They continue to be useful and yet they remain unspent.
Even if we have used these alphabets over millions of years
either in speech or by writing, they continue to remain to
be used again and again. That is the beauty of the
indestructibility of the letters. That is why in Sanskrit they
are called Aksharas. Please remember that these letters
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are like the Souls. The Souls also do not get destroyed. They
join the Universal Soul and get into a slumber for a while
and come back again, when there is the emergence of light.
They come through the light again. The countless number
of Souls springs up from the Universal Soul that is the
Mother. Then they keep experiencing the creation created
by the Mother or the Consciousness and they continue to be.
And they once again join the Universal Consciousness to be
merged into the One Existence at the time of the major
dissolution. In creation or out of creation, the Souls exist.
Sometimes they are expressed and sometimes they remain
as potential. Likewise the word and its details i.e., the
word with its letters, sounds, colours. There is no such thing
that they get exhausted.
The beauty of the nature is such that nothing is
exhausted. That is why nature is said to be resourceful. In
nature everything gets replenished. It is only the ignorance
of man that makes him believe that things get exhausted
after some time. Nothing gets exhausted. It continues to
be. All gets replenished. That which grows above the earth
and that which is within the earth are both replenished. As
much as it is used, so much it is re-formed. To think that we
exhaust oil and other things is not a complete
comprehension of nature. If you have a few potatoes at
home, you feel that they will get exhausted. But when the
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potatoes get exhausted; are not potatoes entering once

again into the house? They keep coming. So it is with
nature. There is no such thing as exhaustion. Only the
human mind carries the concept of exhaustion,
expenditure and total annihilation. This is because we limit
our knowledge to that which is physically seen as available.
But the truth is: from subtle to gross there is continuous
formation and from gross to subtle there is continuous
retreat. Even this Earth does not disappear before another
Earth manifests. That is how the globe chains continue to
keep the existences. We only circumscribe around the
visible manifestation and do not open ourselves to the
subtle which keeps on taking to the visible or gross physical
form. That is why everything with the Mother is never
ending.
During the period of creation there is the formation
from subtle to gross and during the time of dissolution they
are more in the subtle than in the gross. If you take the
seeds of a tree, even if you do not see the tree, it does not
matter. You can always manifest the tree through the
seeds. The creation is either in the seed form or in the
manifested form. So are the beings. Sometimes we are in
the subtle form and sometimes we take to a gross form. If
the gross form ceases to be, you cannot say that it does not
exist. It exists, though not up to the gross physical. Matter
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is, water is, fire is, air is, Akasa is, mind principle is, Soul is,
Universal Soul is, and Pure Existence is. They are at all
times in existence. Only sometimes they are unfolded,
some other time they are refolded according to certain
periodicities.
This knowledge is called 'the knowledge of letters',
Aksharas. Nothing is exhausted and nothing is spent away.
Everything that is spent away comes back to you. That is the
cyclical functioning, just like the waters ascend during the
season of summer and descend during the season of rain.
It is a cyclical movement into the subtle, and again
into the gross. All is conducted by the Consciousness, and
hence, the Mother presides over these letters. With these
letters, which are the potentials, She again brings out
everything in terms of sound, colour and symbol.
Occult students are those who gradually accustom
themselves to the subtle and not limit themselves to the
gross. The dense physical continuously changes. The subtle
also continues to change, but all changes are within the
Consciousness. There is change of state, but there is no
such thing as exhaustion. So, whenever you see a letter in
an alphabet, you should know this unspendability of
anything in creation. The letter can be used and re-used,
and re-used, and eternally it is available. Those who know
the secret, they are never in anxiety about tomorrow. When
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the Mahabharata War was conducted, there was such huge

destruction on the planet and the Son of Light, Yudhistira,
was to preside almost over a graveyard. All cities were
destroyed, all money was spent. How to rebuild the cities?
Where was the money? Where was the Gold? Where were
the precious stones, which were studded into the beautiful
huge buildings? How could he create again the splendour
that was lost in the war? Krishna said, Nothing can be said
to be lost, not even the Souls when departed from the
body. He took Arjuna to the Himalayas and showed a place
and said, You dig here. You will get as much as you need to
rebuild the entire globe. The visible wealth of the Earth is a
pittance before the invisible wealth of the Earth and as you
keep using it, it gets replenished. If you dig out gold mines
and use gold, that mine may get exhausted. But somewhere
else again there will be formation of gold mines. So, all
minerals continue to get formed through the elements.
That is the real alchemy - continuous formations,
appearance and disappearance. That is what the Mother
presides over.

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FIFTH HYMN
clS mpx rzx eusli r sM SueqSUq |
i mlq zUhqW mmkrsqq lzri iu uh ||
CHANDRM PRABHASM YASAS JVALANTM SRYAM LOKE
DEVAJUSHTM UDRM
TM PADMINM M SARANAMAHAM PRAPADYE ALAKSHMR
ME NASYATAM TVM VRUNE
Chandraam

: Her, who is shining like moonlight

Prabhaasam

: shining forth

Sriyam

: Goddess of possession

Loke

: in the world

Yasasa

: by her fame (Presence)

Jwalanteem

: who is shining

Deva Jushtam

: who acquired the liking of the Gods

Udaaraam

: Whose Rays travel upwards

Tam

: Her

Ihm

: who is called this

Padmineem

: who is of Lotus nature

Aham

:I

Saranam

: refuge

Prapadye

: I fall at Her feet

Twam vrune

: by your taking me up

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Me Alakshmih

: my imperfection

Nasyatam

: may be destroyed

MEANING:
I take refuge in Her who is of the Lotus nature, who
shines with upward beams of Moon light which exist around
Her, as her splendour. If you take hold of me, oh Goddess of
Splendour, may the imperfection in me go away from me.
COMMENTARY:
This is quite an elaborate hymn. The prayer part of
the stanza is at the end of the hymn. It is the request part
which is Alakshmr Me Nasyatam Tvm Vrune.
Alakshmr non-splendour
Lakshmr splendour
The worshipper is seeking: You may please destroy
the non-splendour relating to me, because I am invoking
You. Since I am invoking You to embrace me and be in and
around me. Please ensure that I carry no more impurities,
no more undesirables, ignorance and habits that make me
suffer from. What is destruction when nothing can be
destroyed. How can I now say that something will be
destroyed? It should be transformed! In the night in this
room it was dark. During the day where is the darkness in
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this room? What happened to darkness? Did it go

somewhere to hide itself? It is that very darkness that has
transformed itself into light. As long as there is light, so long
no darkness can come. As soon as light disappears, darkness
takes place. This is the daily experience of this room.
When you are invoking the light of the universe,
what is the impact? You get enlightened and hence there is
no darkness. You will not carry instincts of darkness any
more. These are the habits of darkness which are very well
described in relation to the quality of inertia in
Bhagavadgita, such as laziness, forgetfulness, irregular
daily routine, not repulsive to impure things. That means,
even if the body smells, you are not inclined to take bath. If
the body smells, if the mouth smells, if the clothing smells,
it is okay. Even if you take bath, you don't take it with
pleasure. You don't clean things with pleasure. Everything
around you is impure, ugly and has a bad smell, whereas you
are fond of strongly smelling food. If you are really pure,
you don't accept food that smells.
The more and more purity gets into you, the more
and more you become crystal clear. You tend to have very
light things around you: food habits, eating habits, bathing
habits, dressing habits, hair dressing habits they all ensure
emission of light from top to bottom. Every part is shining,
radiating and gives good smell. What is it that gives bad
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smell? It is bodies that carry a lot of impurities. A Yogi's body

smells good. They don't even use soaps, they don't use
cosmetics or perfumes. Even in the 20th century you have
the example of Yogananda. After he left the body, the socalled dead body was spreading sandalwood fragrance for a
few days. But the so-called living bodies smell horrible.
What is the difference? The difference is in the light that
one holds. A relative of mine who was considered to be a
great Yogi and when he passed away, I went after 24 hours
to see him. The body was retained because many who came
from long distances wanted to see him. When we went in,
the house was smelling sandalwood. The room, where he
was kept, was smelling sandalwood. That is Lakshmi, that is
Sryam, that is splendour.
We have to invoke the Mother on one side and take
to the cleanest habits on the other side. Both are
important. Otherwise, the light invoked does not stay.
Some bodies give horrible smell. It means that those people
have to take frequent baths, long hours of bath and they
have to totally change their food habits. People are
disinclined to brush their teeth even in the morning. They
are disinclined to take bath. As a disciple you have to clean
your mouth, clean your tongue and take bath as the
immediate duty, as you wake up. Don't meet people with an
impure body. Don't talk to people with an impure body.
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Don't eat anything, unless you have cleaned. This is the way
to ensure that impurities do not settle in us. All these
impurities settle so deeply in us and we have very queer and
strange philosophies developed about not being cleaned.
Ah, it is okay, if we are mentally positive, even if our body
smells. This statement shows that we are indifferent. We
grow indifferent to good things, we grow indifferent to
good people, we grow indifferent to scriptures, we grow
indifferent to nature. Such people have no solution, except
to go through greatest crises.
Indifference and negligence, forgetfulness, too
many mistakes in doing things, eating stale food, living in
dark places these are all symbols of Alakshmi, nonsplendour. To be clean does not demand riches. It demands
an attitude. When you don't have that attitude, be sure
your life can never be splendorous. If you are a worshipper
of the Mother or Gayatri, the Light of the World, you need
to ensure that you invoke the light after you have purified
your vehicle. If you cook food in a contaminated or dirty
vessel, you are no more eating food, you are eating poison.
Likewise, if you don't clean your body, mental,
emotional and physical and invoke light, it does not help.
Here this aspect is introduced, it will again be mentioned in
the coming hymns. So we pray: I would like that anything
contrary to life and light in me is eliminated and I resolve to
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do it, but please help me to do it! Ensure that I get the

inclination to take bath regularly, keep the body clean at all
times, regularly change clothing, ensure that there is good
smell around me! That is why the use of incense has come
to be. The moment you burn sandalwood incense, the
impurities of the room get away, and pure energies visit. So,
we have to ensure that in us and around us there is purity.
That should be an effort from our side. Then the help
comes.
See a candle. From time to time you have to
remove the carbon that the thread of the candle
accumulates through the process of combustion. Otherwise
it will put off the flame. Likewise, the mirror. You have to
clean it from time to time to see better. In creation
carbonisation happens, because the whole creation is a
process of combustion. So, continuously there is the
emergence of carbon which you have to eliminate.
If you cook food, necessarily the vessel gets black
under its bottom and it needs to be cleaned. The whole
creation is the work of fire. It is a process of combustion,
and the by-product of the creation is carbon. That carbon is
anti-life, anti-light. It has to be eliminated. That is what is
called ignorance. That is what is called darkness, and that is
called in the West as sin. Sin is nothing but lack of
knowledge as to how to do things. All wrongful acts are seen
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as sin and the sinners are condemned which again is a

further act of ignorance. They sin, because they do not
know. Tell them how to do and show them what happens,
when they don't learn how to do and gradually bring them
back into the knowledge of doing things.That is the Eastern
doctrine which says: There are no good people and bad
people.
All are Souls. Some know and some do not know.
Those who do not know shall have to be informed. If they
don't listen, they go through the consequences and learn.
But no one shall be condemned. Condemnation is another
dimension of ignorance. It is a question of degree of
difference in levels of knowledge. That is why this request
is made by the worshipper: I shall ensure that I adopt to
the processes of purity, and You, please, ensure that You fill
me with light! It is the work of the Mother to fill you with
light, and it is your job to keep things clean.
Even during daytime, if you don't open your
windows and curtains, the same darkness continues to stay.
It means, there is something that you have to do, and there
is something that comes from outside to you. If you are just
making ten steps to the window to open it, then the sunray
comes from such a distance to visit you. So, there is some
little effort needed from your side. Do it well and leave the
rest! Our problem is, we don't know where to stop with our
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effort. There is a point up to which we can do, and

thereafter we have to learn to wait. Learn to do and equally
learn to wait! Don't wait without doing! Anything has to be
done in the right proportion. There are people who say,
Everything will be done by Him, we don't have to worry.
This is a lazy philosophy which is comfortable for lazy
people. They say, Man cannot do anything, everything is
fate. You can give this kind of philosophy to the world, if
somebody feeds you. But if you get no food and have to fast
for three days, your philosophy will die.
The other philosophy is: Keep doing and never stop
to get the light. It is enough just to open the window in the
morning and to wait. The light comes. To have a cooked
dish, you prepare all ingredients and put the cooking vessel
on the stove and wait! It has to cook itself and there is a
time duration. You plant a seed and keep giving water. Then
wait, the fruit will come. But there is another category of
people. They can't wait. If you wish to have rice grains or
wheat grains, you have to wait a few months. If you wish to
have a coconut fruit, you have to wait longer. Some people
cannot accept to wait. They are the over-active people.
They are impatient to wait. There are also people who don't
learn to do. They are the under-active people. Their
philosophy is that they don't have to work. What the
doctrine says is: In the whole game there is something that
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you have to do and there is something that comes up to you.

You write your examination and just wait for the result. You
apply for a job and wait for the response. What else can you
do? Except learning to wait and to be relaxed while waiting!
There is a point up to which you can do and thereafter you
have to wait. You can eat, but you have to wait for
digestion, isn't it? Constipation tells you: Wait! Don't eat
until my job is done! That is Ayurveda. Then the question is:
What are we to do? The answer is, Keep drinking water!
Never feed the body, unless it has expelled. In simplest
things this doctrine is available.
In this hymn, apart from the invocation, what we
have to do is to pray. Prayers do help. There is no doubt
about it, but there is some little effort that we have to do,
and we should also know where to stop. I just wanted to
elaborate on this theme for a while. It is useful that we
know it from time to time, even if we have known before.
Then the worship part where you have the characteristics
of the Mother is Chandrm.
Chandrm the moon principle or the lunar principle.
It receives to reflect at various planes. This
Chandra has 14 phases corresponding to the 14 Manus, and
they are pairs of seven. In a month of four weeks we have
seven days in a week: seven descend and seven ascend,
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seven are of light, seven are of less light. That is the weekly
system. It is from the lunar calendar the seven day week is
counted. If you exclude new moon and full moon, you have
14 phases. New moon is like Pralaya or dissolution, or the
so-called non-existence (potential existence). This is what
is called naught-level. The state before the emergence of
light is new moon and then there are 14 phases of Moon
representing the 14 Manvantaras culminating in full moon.
Full moon is positive zero and new moon is negative zero. As
between the two there is the duration of creation. From
light to darkness, from darkness to light it keeps on
happening.
If you see the moon phases, there is an ascending
arc of light and a descending arc of light. After seven phases
you have a junction, called the 8th phase, where you see
exactly half moon. Again there are seven phases, where you
see the full moon. Then there are seven descending phases,
and again there is the half moon. After the second set of
descending seven moon phases, there is the new moon.If
you take the whole thing as a circle, it is vertically divided
between the full moon and new moon, and horizontally
divided by the 8th moon phase. These are the four quadrants
of a month. In these four quadrants the second and third are
of greater light, and the first and the fourth are of lesser
light. You take the ascending moon phases from phase 1 to
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phase 7, there is a gradual waxing of the Moon. Then we

have half moon. This ascending first phase of the first
quarter of ascending moon phases in their reversed order
appears in the fourth quadrant. Then there is second half of
the ascending moon phases, that is from 9th moon phase to
14th moon phase, there is more than half light and reaches
up to the full moon. In the second half of the ascending
moon phases, after the 8th ascending moon phase up to 14th
moon phase, there is the Moon waxing more than 50 % up to
almost fullness. At the 14th ascending moon phase the Moon
is semi-full and at full moon it is full and at the first
descending moon phase the Moon is as semi-full as at the
14th ascending moon phase. The size of Moon you see on the
14th ascending moon phase is equal to the size of Moon
which you see on the 1st descending moon phase. The 2nd
descending moon phase has similar measure of light like the
13th ascending moon phase. The 3rd descending moon phase
is equal in its measure of light vis--vis the 12th ascending
moon phase.
So, 1 to 14 is on one side and 14 to 1 on the other
side. At the 8th phase in both cases it is half and half, but
with a difference. The ascending 8th phase is half moon, the
descending 8th phase is also half moon, but there is a
difference. The ascending 8th moon phase shows 50 % light
and 50 % darkness, and that 50 % darkness in the ascending
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8th moon phase is full of light in the descending moon phase.

As the light increases from below upwards, half of the circle
is filled, the upper half is still darkness. In the descending
moon phases the upper half is light and the lower half is
darkness. So, these 14 moon phases between new moon to
full moon correspond to the 14 descending moon phases in
the reverse order. In all they are 14 only and in these 14
below 8 have one measure of light, above 8 have another
measure of light.
Full Moon

New Moon

14

13

12

11

10

10

11

12

13

14

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When it is more than 50 %, they are lighted

Manvantaras. When it is below 8, they are not so well
lighted Manvantaras. Where are we? We are about to reach
the junction. We are in the 7th moon phase. That is our
position. Our Manu is the 7th Manu. Vaivasvata Manu is the
7th Manu in the ascending arc. Then comes the junction of
the 8th moon phase and thereafter you have 7 Manus who
are full of light. The 2nd set of Manus carry the title of
Sarvani. Sarvani means with light. They are Manus with
light. The first seven Manus Svayambhuva, Svarochisha,
Auttama, Tamasa, Raivata, Chakshusha, Vaivasvata, they
represent the 7 ascending moon phases from new moon.
So, we have a bright future from the next
Manvantara. In this Manvantara the very characteristic is
weaving. We are all influenced by the mental weaving and
also weaving vis--vis the wisdom. Mostly people are
engaged either in mental weaving or buddhic weaving.
They are weaving either coarse cloth or very fine cloth. But
the problem is they don't have time to wear what they
weave. That means: experience is little, ideation is too
much. That is our speciality - Mental and buddhic weaving
and little experience of the 5th plane of Ananda, because
Vaivasvata Manu means the weaving Manu. We keep on
weaving with the hope that we will wear the weaved ones.
The phenomena of any Manvantara or plane of existence is
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in its very name. That is the beauty of the divine language,

the language of the Devas. The name indicates the very
phenomena it represents.
Chandrm The Mother presides over all this
activity. Manus are lunar agents and hence they all belong
to the lunar principle. Please go through Secret Doctrine
to find the secrets of Manvantaras. You have to look for the
precious gems of wisdom in Secret Doctrine amidst the
husk of criticism. Madame Blavatsky heaped a lot of husk, a
mountain full of husk and in that husk there are also gem
stones hidden. For a superficial reader it looks like that the
lady was completely engaged in destroying every theology.
She attacks theologies, she attacks science, and the book is
full of strong criticism of many things. That is the veil.
Behind the veil there are so many gems relating to
Manvantaras, relating to globe chains, relating to the
entire cosmogenesis and anthropogenesis.
Unless the reader is discriminative and separates
the husk of criticism, he can't find the gems of knowledge
which she gave, which were given for the first time in this
cycle and will hold good for some future centuries to be
recognised later as a great scripture veiled by criticism.
Many things she said in the 19th century in relation to
science are becoming true and many things she said about
theologies are also becoming true. She says: The student
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of 'Secret Doctrine' should also concurrently be the student

of the etymological key relating to Sanskrit. She dedicated
a lot of pages for Manvantaras. What I have spoken to you
now is coming from her book only. The Manvantaras are an
elaborate subject, but when you speak about Chandra, the
lunar energy, you should necessarily speak of the Manus,
the 14 children of the lunar energy who with the solar
energy as the basis create the lunar worlds. All material
formations, subtle or gross, are carried out by the Manus
with solar energy as the basis.
Prabhasm the morning light
The morning light during the dawn hours in the sky
is a magic to observe. There is a school of occultism which
makes sure that they observe the dawn and the dusk in the
East and the West to attune to the magic of colours that
happen during those hours. They are important, because all
colours that happen at that time relate to the seven planes
of our existence and have an alchemical impact on the
seven tissues of our body. The worship of the dawn and the
dusk which is easier in the tropics than in other places is one
good way of attuning to the light of the Mother in its detail.
Yasasa Yasas Reputation.
Goodwill and the related pleasant power would be
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bestowed on those who worship the light. That light

continues to be around and to assist as long as ignorant
deeds are not done. If an ignorant deed is done, it
disappears. That is why a man who gains the reputation of
being a person of goodwill should be extra careful to ensure
that he remains in righteousness. The aura that surrounds
him is a kind of anointment.
When Jesus was walking up to the riverbank of
Jordan, people saw a grand aura around him and they felt:
O, that is an anointed one! Only when such aura is around
you, you can do good deeds. For that you should ensure the
related purity at all levels, at mental, vital, physical level.
Jesus was ensuring that this white aura around him
accomplished the Plan. This aura is called the fame. It is a
flame of fame, or a fame relating to the flame of the
Mother. Such people cannot afford to do other things, if
they have to continue with the work of the divine.
Yasas is called the glow of a man arising out of the
good deeds he does and also the good grace he receives
arising out of the good deeds he does. The grace of the
divine descends, when a man does acts of good will for long
years.Now having received grace, you can't conduct
disgraceful acts. The moment it happens the grace
disappears and it is the grace only that conducts great
deeds, which Jesus knew very thoroughly and hence he
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frequently spoke about the glorious white robe that he

carries with him. It relates to the lighted bodies also, be it
the golden body or the diamond body, namely, etheric body
or causal body. Those bodies do not glow, if man falls for
temptations.
There are tests of temptation every Initiate goes
through. Money can be one temptation, fame can be
another temptation, sex can be still another temptation.
For a stable glow of light around the initiate, he has added
responsibility when he speaks and moves. So, more the
measure of light, more is the responsibility. See the
statement of Master Djwhal Khul: I am your elder brother.
I walked a little more into light than you and thus incurred
greater responsibilities. Chelas can be irresponsible, but
not an accepted Disciple. Ordinary people can thieve, a
policeman cannot thieve. Suppose, an ordinary fellow
thieves and a policeman thieves, and both are presented in
the Court of Law. Who is given more punishment? The thief
may be put in jail for a while or there can be a pecuniary
punishment, but the policeman is not spared. He is stripped
off his medals, he loses his job, he is more thrown out than
the other!
While men have walked into light, they have many
rigid rules. They are under greater observation, both by the
higher circles and also by the darker circles. If they are
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aware of it, they don't get into these temptations. That

which surrounds such initiates is called Yasas. It is the
Mother energy which will accomplish the Plan.That is why it
is said that Jesus belonged to the Path of Grace and he was a
complete worshipper of the Mother through his own mother
Maria. Yasas comes to those who carry out acts of goodwill,
take to the discipline of Yoga, Yama and Niyama etc. Then
the light forms around them and the light uses them to
conduct great deeds. They should be more oriented to the
light than to the great deeds!
Jvalantm - the enflaming One.
This was explained before. It helps beings to come
out of darkness into light. I spoke of Jvala, the flame.
Please remember, if your mind is bothering you with too
many undesirable or emotional thoughts, just make a fire
and keep looking at the flame. This is one practice
suggested. You don't have to do the whole ritual, just light
the fire, sit before it quietly and pray the fire in your own
mental language: Please, burn up the thoughts which are
causing me problems. Thoughts are fire, thoughts emerge
from fire, thoughts are products of fire submit them to the
fire with the request to burn up all impure thoughts and to
bestow light at thoughts. The fire ritual is meant for it to
burn up the instincts which are dangerous for us, which
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emerge as our desires, as our emotions and as our thoughts.

There are students who practice spirituality who sit hours
together before a flame. They just sit before a flame during
the early dawn hours. At that time the flame is more
enchanting than after sunrise. The morning time, when we
do the fire ritual, it is so charming, attractive and
magnetic. If you do it during day time, it will not be so,
because there is the surrounding light. So, pick up the early
morning hours, light the fire and with a pure body sit before
it. Then keep on looking at the flames. When the flames
come down, put one more stick of fuel and add some more
ghee. It can be a practice.
You can do it more in the months of fiery signs,
Aries, Leo, Sagittarius, and in the weeks you can do it on
Sundays and Tuesdays, where there is much fire due to Sun
and Mars. Tuesday is a very propitiate day for that, because
Mars can trouble us, Mars can give us progress. Mars is the
force of Cosmic fire. But generally, whenever you feel
inclined, you may do it. You can talk to the fire: Master, I
speak too much and cause problems. Please, burn away the
excessive talk. Or, I cannot speak much, bestow on me a
fiery tongue to speak. Whatever deficiencies you have,
you can just put forth and seek blessings.
The flame of fire can also bestow Will on you. The
initiates work with the flame to get extra replenishment of
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the Will, especially when they are engaged in great tasks.

They light a fire, replenish their will and conduct
themselves in a very effective manner. There are so many
ways of using fire. Since we visit this term the second time,
something more is being spoken.
Sryam the bestower of welfare. We have spoken of this
term before.
Sryam Loke She bestows welfare in all the planes of
existence.
Deva Just Admired and adored even by the Devas of all
planes of existence - the Cosmic, the Solar, the planetary.
The manifestation of all Devas is from her. So, they
always admire her, adore her, worship her and at times of
calamity invoke her. She is so dear to the Devas and also to
men of wisdom. We are also trying to win her favour.
Udrm benevolent.
Who can be more benevolent than a mother?
Benevolence, generosity, compassion, love, to be
accommodative, tolerant, forbearing all this comes under
the word Udr. Udr also means Ud Ara, uplifting,
upward moving, ascending. The Mother can cause
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ascension. She can make you vertical and move upwards.

All her energies are ever moving upwards. So, when you
worship her, you join that current of moving upwards. What
do we mean by upward? Upward means from gross to
subtle. From subtle to gross is downward.
That is why in scriptures the Disciples are said to
have ultimately moved towards North. In the story of a
Disciple, when it is said that he is moving towards North, it
means he is moving towards the Spirit. If he is said to be
moving towards South, it means he is entering into the field
of love and compassion. If he is moving towards East, he is
moving towards the light of wisdom. If he is said to be
moving towards West, he is moving towards the worlds of
material formation. If he is said to be moving down below, it
means he is moving into the regions of darkness. The
energies relating to each direction were mentioned when
we spoke of Hercules. In Ramayana the movement of
Rama is frequently described. Depending upon the
direction he has taken, you already know the kind of things
that he will meet with. This is called the directional
knowledge coming from the science of direction.
There are ten directions. East, West, North, South,
above, below which are generally known. They make six
dimensions. When they are connected, you have a threedimensional cross which is the energy of the Cosmic
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Kumara. As between North and East, there is North-East,

then likewise South-East, South-West, North-West. When
these directions are also taken, they are ten in number. All
these directions have their related energies. East, North
and upward movement relate to moving into the subtle.
South is the center, the heart, compassion, love etc. West
and going below relate to moving towards material and
sinking into material. North-East relates to the meeting
point of spirit and light. South-East relates to the birthplace
of fire of the elements. North-West relates to the
birthplace of air and South-West relates to the
consolidation of the energies into a material manifestation.
That is how the science of wisdom tells us about these
directions.
Even in our body we have all these directions. The
North in us is the point on top of the head, where people
keep a kind of tuft. The center which is at the top of the
forehead is North-East. Ajna is the East, where you have the
point to meet light. When you are in pure existence, you are
in Sahasrara, Samadhi. When you are all knowing light, you
are at the East. The place from which you breathe in, is
North-West. Where your heart is, the pulsating principle,
that is South. The sacral center and the shoulder blades are
South-East, where you have the fire. The vital fire relating
to the body exists in the sacral as well as in the shoulder
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blades. The waters exist in the West which is your

Svdhishtna. The South-West exists in you as your lower
Mladhra. So, all the ten directions are with us, and the
direction below downwards is down under the Mladhra.
Likewise the planets also exist in us. For example,
Jupiter exists in the ears, inferior Jupiter exists in the
stomach to those who are more with food and less with
healing. The Sun exists in the eyes, the Moon exists as the
mind. Like that, the planets, the directions, the planes of
existence, the planetary Sun, the central Sun, the cosmic
Sun, all can be traced to the human body. That is how the
correspondence between man and cosmos is worked out.
There is a ritual by which you identify with the
cosmos and be with such identity for 24 hours. Meditate
upon all these intelligences, the 12 sun signs in you, the
seven planes in you, the seven planets in you, the Manus in
you, the vibrations in you. This is what is called Mahanyasa.
I speak all this just to inform how many thousands
of ways are there to gain the identity with the universal
consciousness. All this becomes possible, when we try to be
vertical, and Udr, the energy of the Mother would make
you vertical. Your interest vis--vis the subtle things grows
in great preference to the gross things. You don't any more
spread horizontally. You would rise more vertically.

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Padminm Padmin is said to be the best conceivable

female form.
That means matchless beauty. The form is so
beautiful, the hair is so full and spreads perfumery, the
forehead is brilliant in the shape of half moon with black
shining eyes which carry a smile. The eyebrow center is well
unfolded and the glow comes from the center. The ears are
beautifully carved out and the nose is compared to a
jasmine flower, delicate, not small, not big and the tip of
the nose emits light. The red-lipped mouth is like a freshly
cut fig and with a natural smile on it. The colour of the face
is light blue or rose or white. Everything is so beautiful. The
hands and the feet are like tender petals of lotus and then
the palm of the hands and the sole of the feet have the
colour of reddish-rose.
There are so many things to be described like this.
When she smiles the teeth emit light and the 16 teeth on
the upper jaw correspond to the 16 phases of the Moon and
all are said to be 16 roots of wisdom. All teeth are twiceborn. First we get the so-called milk-teeth and slowly the
milk-teeth go away. Then our second teeth come out, the
shapes of which are according to our character. The form of
the teeth also speaks of the nature of the person. There is
the science of phrenology, by which, if a man smiles, you
can know much about him. This is the beautiful part.
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All beautiful persons need not necessarily be noble.

Nobility in behaviour, motherliness in attitude, emitting a
kind of stature, magnetic in appearance this is how, the
category of women who are called Padmin are described in
the scriptures. In old Rajastan there were such ladies,
stunning beauties. That means, a man who sees such a lady
gets stunned. They were so chaste and so pure. You have to
listen to what Master Morya says about them.
You may have heard about the story of the queen
Padmini. Anyway, my idea is not to speak of the women
from Rajastan, but to speak of the visualisation that you
should have about the Mother when you worship! From head
to foot you should be able to visualise her as a form of
beauty. When you worship a form of beauty, the etheric
currents in you fall into a magnetic order. That is the impact
of beauty. When you see a beautiful thing, you are
attracted to it. The energies in you get rearranged. So,
contemplate upon such form of the Mother, all that nobility,
beauty, magnetic and radiating effect will have an impact
on you and you would gain such qualities.
Beauty balances the energies in you and puts you in
poise. Please refer to the book Venus to see what beauty
can do. It can pave way to the etheric plane. Such Mother I
take refuge in. I seek her protection. I surrender to her, so
that I get enlightened and eliminate the impurities.
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Padmini is the symbol of the Mother strongly

recommended for meditation and meditating upon such
form enables reception of light. It is a medium to receive
light. Such meditation makes it easier to experience the
Mother in the form to start with and later the Mother as
light can be experienced. Through form to formlessness is
what is recommended for the students.
If you see Lord Maitreya's face it is similar to what I
have described. The eyes are full of life, wide open, a
prominent forehead, a very handsome face. You cannot say
whether it is male or female. It is as much female as it is
male. Such forms have the special impact of beauty and
enable quicker realisation of the goals. Master E.K. had
such experiences with Gayatri and Gayatri became reality
to him and through the agency of form he could interact
with light. This is the latest example, but since times
immemorial, the worship through form is considered an
easier way, so that a dialogue is developed through the
agency of the form. The other way is to visualise light
without form and feel its influx or inflow into you.
M the Mantra for the Mother.
All Mantras relating to the Mother end up with the
sound of . Basically it is M. If it is associated with Sa and
Ra, it becomes Srm. There are basically three seed sounds
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relating to the Mother: Hrm for manifestation, Srm for

upliftment and Klm for experiencing of the bliss. So, M is
the basic sound of the Mother. A is the sound of the Father.
is the sound of the Mother. U is the sound of the Son of God.
The details relating to these sounds were given in the
healing seminar and also in the book On Healing.
If you see the word Guru, the U is repeated twice.
GA + U = GU, RA + U = RU. All these sounds have their potency,
characteristic and force. GA stands for expansion, GU
becomes JU like Jupiter. These are all distortions of the
original sound. So, U, the Son of God, gives expansion of GA,
and RU is RA + U. RA is the sound of fire. A Guru first
introduces fire and purifies and thereby gives expansion.
Any Sanskrit word has such inherent meaning in the
very name itself. When A + E are together, it becomes AE.
The alphabets start with A, not with AE. So, the English
alphabet starts with a sound which is not in tune with the
creational sounds. In Sanskrit, in Latin, in Greek, and in all
languages which have the understanding of the creational
process they have the first alphabet as A, then E, and then
U, and A + E is AE. A + U = O, A + AE = AI. That is how the
combinations of vowels bring out other secondary vowels.
Then come the consonants.
Here, when you think of worshipping the Mother
the sound is important. We say Lakshmi, Saraswati,
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Parvathi, Devi, Sr. So, is the sound of the Mother, and

hence the names end up with as the last sound. Now you
can see: C.V.V. What is its energy? He looks like a male
boxer, but he is totally female in energy. That is the beauty
of wisdom. What is apparent is not real. There are other
Masters who look so nice, so beautiful, but they are full of
fire inside. Master C.V.V. he looks so male, ready to give a
punch, but the energy is totally otherwise. His energy is
three times the Mother energy: C.V.V. Since we are
approaching May Call, the Master also gives the glimpses of
his Presence. He says, I am not tackling your spirit. I am
only here to repair your bodies. I shall restore life to you,
establish the vital body strong and thereby help building a
very healthy physical and etheric body and make strong
your etheric body, so that you survive and continue to be
conscious after the so-called death. He comes from the
Ashram of the Mother Durga, and initiates coming from the
Ashram of Durga work with Mother energy only.
Likewise you can experiment with every sound. You
can see, if it can be applied in other aspects and if we can
find some inner meaning of things. But it should not result
in crazy interpretations. Just like we say OM, we can also
work with M. It does a lot of good. This sound is of utmost
importance in the whole hymn. The meaning of the hymn is:
I take refuge under the Mother, seek her protection and
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even surrender to her, so that She embraces me.

Her characteristics of the hymn are: She is the lunar
principle. She is the phenomena of dawn and dusk. She is
the base for all eternal fame. She is present through the
flames of fire. She is the one who causes welfare to all the
planes of existence. She is admired and adored by the Devas
and her energy is uplifting upward moving energy. She is the
beauty of the creation and her name is M. Through the
sound of M I invoke her and I seek her protection. I
surrender myself to her. May She remove the impurities
relating to me and stay stable with me.

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SIXTH HYMN
ASiruh imxkei ulxmixiu uj osu |
ixr Tsl imx lSli qrliUr o Asq ||

DITYA VARNE TAPASO DHIJTO VANASPATIS TAVA

VRKUKSHOTHA BILVAHA
TASYA PHALNI TAPAS NUDANTU MYNTARYS CHA
BHY ALAKSHMIHI
Aditya Varne

: Oh, the Goddess of colours and sounds of

the Sun God

Adha

: And now

Tava Tapasaha : by virtue of the warmth of your devotion

Adi Jataha

: born out of

Vrukshaha

: the tree

Vanaspatihi

: a classification of plants

Bilwaha

: the Bilwa tree

Tasya

: its

Phalani

: fruits

Antarayaha

: inward ones

Cha

: also

Bahyaha

: outward ones

Maayaha

: self projections

Alakshmihi

: undesirable things

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Tapasa

: by the warmth of your affection

Nudanthu

: may be expelled

MEANING:
Oh, Goddess of the colours and sounds of the Sun
God, who is the child of Aditi! Bilwa is the one plant which
is born out the warmth of your devotion. May its fruit
dispel the undesirable self-projections, objective and
subjective, by virtue of the same warmth of your devotion.
COMMENTARY:
ditya Varne Goddess of colours and sounds of the Sun God
You all know about ditya. There are 12 dityas
whose energies visit us through the 12 sun signs, and all the
12 dityas are born to diti. That means, it is the light that
details into 12 lights and it is the light that also details into
the seven planes and supplies light and life to all the seven
planes. The source is Consciousness only. The planes of
existence happen from Absolute Light, which is called the
Mother of the World or the Light of the World and She
details into 12 dityas, transmitting 12 varieties of the
light. Each variety again has seven rays. That is how it is 84.
Number 84 is the number of Uranus, and hence Uranus is
considered to be a bigger Sun than the sun globe we see. He
represents at the same time the characteristics of all the 12
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sun signs. What Sun does in one year, he does it in 84 years.

One solar revolution is one year. Similar revolution by
Uranus is 84 years. The energies of Uranus areintroduced to
us and is supplied to us every year through the May Call.
The Mother is the source of all the 12 sun signs. Her
colour is pure brilliant resplendent white and that is what
has to manifest in us and make us light. The 12 centers of
the body, which are distributed over the 12 sun signs of the
body, have the potential points to unfold theses energies in
us. From Aries to Scorpio there are potential points to
unfold the related energies of the eight signs. Then the four
sun signs are deep within the column of light, from
Sagittarius to Pisces, which also have their potential points
in the body. There is a way to stimulate these potencies,
and that way or technique is called Tapas.
Tapas - single pointed focussed contemplation upon the
light.
That is the priority and nothing else. The Mother
did it once, when She was born as Parvati. In fact the
Mother in the form of Parvati exists even today in
Himalayas. She is the Guiding Star for the Hierarchy. She is
the Star of the Sea, the World Mother who moves along with
a lion. In Himalayas from time to time the grand Masters
have her Presence through the roar of the lion, which
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accompanies her. This Mother who has taken to the

incarnation as Parvati did penance to gain back her original
status. When She was doing the penance the influx of light
caused growth of a small sapling by her side, which also has
grown into a big tree and offered a kind of shade to the
Mother who was in penance. She was in penance for reunion
with the Absolute.
The impact of her penance or Tapas also was
received by the tree that grew and that tree is considered
very sacred. It is a silk giving tree. It has cotton, it has
fruits. If you break open the fruit, it has silk cotton in it.
These trees can be seen in Himalayas and they can also be
seen in some parts of Central America, such as Honduras.
They consider these trees as very sacred; they call them
Shiba trees, not Shiva trees. V and B are also substitutes.
For instance, Vali becomes Bali. So also the Vengalis, they
say Bengalis. The Spanish speaking people say B, they don't
say V. So, the Shiba tree is worshipped by the native Indians.
The worship of the Shiba tree is existing in the Himalayan
range from ancient most times.
The kind of Tapas the Mother did enabled the
surroundings also to gain that kind of energy. When it comes
to Tapas, the Tapas of Parvathi is given as an ideal. She was
born to the energy of Himalayas called Himavanta. The
being of the range of Himalaya is called the King of
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Himalayas. He was her father and she had a mother. Then

the daughter expressed her desire to do penance and reach
the Lord Absolute and go for a spiritual marriage with him,
and she would not get into any other earthly marriage. Her
mother said, Don't do that! Penance till you get the Lord
Absolute, is too difficult. Don't go for penance! U-Ma
means, You no! Please, don't. That is how the Mother
Parvati got the name Uma.
We come to this, because the tree is mentioned
here. People are recommended to sit by that tree and
meditate because that tree carries the energy, which
supports your proposal to meditate. The surroundings also
should be co-operative in your meditational work. The
weaker the will, the stronger should be the place. That is
why people look for sacred places for penance. A place
where someone has done penance and realised is a place,
which is already prepared. When you go and sit and do it
there, you are helped by the surrounding energy. There is
another kind of tree called Maredu. It is frequently used for
worshipping Shiva and the Mother. People eat the leaves
and fruits, take the water and keep doing penance.
Likewise, there are other sacred trees, like Ficus or
Banyan. People take to the shade of a sacred tree and do
Tapas. So, the worshipper is proposing: I shall live by the
leaves and the fruits of these trees and conduct the
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penance. You may please manifest more and more in me.

The fruits and the leaves of these trees may dispel the
darkness of illusion in me and make me pure inside and
outside.
That is the sixth stanza which speaks of the
characteristics of the Mother and the means by which you
can experience her Presence. It is not so easy for people
like us. But what is important for us for the moment is to
have the fiery aspiration. That should be our priority. If we
are invoking the sound C.V.V., the very purpose of working
with the sound is to gain etheric body, meaning: to
accomplish the third initiation. He promised that he shall
bestow the third initiation provided we follow the simple
regulations which he gave. He did so to supplement the
work of the Hierarchy, because the need to gain etheric
existence is becoming more and more a necessity, since we
are walking deeper into the Aquarian Age.
To gain such a body purity in all aspects in life is the
first step and invocation of light with the help of the sound
is the second step. That is all Master C.V.V. said. He only
spoke of three regulations. Being Aquarian he simplified the
whole thing into three regulations and said: You follow,
and it would slowly result in forming the etheric body and
experiencing the etheric existence, so that you are no more
conditioned by your body of flesh and blood and you do not
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suffer death.
We should know the priority that we have in life, if
we work with C.V.V. Likewise, every teacher gives a priority
through which he uplifts us and the priority that a teacher
gives should be done as Tapas with one-pointed focus. Just
go straight with it and the Master helps you to accomplish
it! So, the 6th hymn emphasises upon the need of Tapas
which is nothing but contemplation upon light with
focussed attention and with that as the top priority. More
and more the invocations become stronger and effective,
man tends to be averse to impure things. Impure things and
divinity do not go hand in hand. They are not compatible. If
we are really pure, the impure things cannot approach us.
Even if they approach, they get burnt.
That is the secret of deep contemplation upon light
which will dispel and eliminate the habits of impure nature
in you at mental, emotional and physical planes. This is the
first benefit of contemplation. The second benefit is that
the illusions are also dispelled. Maya, the veil of illusion is
burnt up. The student becomes pure inside and outside, and
he sees the reality more than the illusion.

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SEVENTH HYMN
Emi q SuxZ Mi qhl xW |
mSpixq Uxql Miq SSi q ||
UPAITU MM DEVA SAKHAHA KRTIS CHA MANIN SAHA
PRADR BHTOSMI RASHTRESMIN KRTIM VRUDDHIM
DADTUMEH
Devasakhaha

: the friend of Gods

Kirhih+cha

: and also fame

Manina Saha

: along with brillinant gems

Mam

: me

Upa+Yetu

: may he approach

Asmin Rashthre

: in this province

Pradurbhuthaha

: born

Asmi

: Am I

Me

: to me

Kirtim

: fame

Ruddhim

: prosperity

Dadathu

: may He bestow

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MEANING:
May the will, the friend of God, who is always with
fame and the essence of all merit approach me. May He
bestow prosperity upon me who is born in his province.
COMMENTARY:
It is a prayer to the Lord of desire. Normally prayers
to the Lord of desire are not considered desirable. The Lord
of desire is called Cupid or in Sanskrit he is called Kama. He
is the Son of the Mother and he has a place in creation. It is
he who tricks us all. A prayer towards him makes him
friendly to us. As he would not like to trick a friend, we are
also worshipping him through a hymn in the whole process
of our reaching the Mother. Unless we have the cooperation of the Lord of desire, he will show us many other
things of greater importance and of greater temptations
and we get distracted. That is why we are seeking to gain
friendliness with that energy which is also divine the
energy of desire is a Deva.
The Lord of desire has a great role to play in the
creation. The creation is kept, held and maintained
because of him. If he is not there, the Souls would have no
personality. There would be no game. They have to gain
personalities, they have to develop concrete minds, they
have to develop varieties of desires. They should go into
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objectivity through the senses. The Lord of desire is also

working for the Plan. Don't think he is a devil. His work is not
contrary to the Plan. He is the one who helps you to go into
objectivity. If he allows you, you can also walk into
subjectivity.
So, this hymn is dedicated to him, because he is the
most favoured son of the Mother. Her work is creation.
Emerging from the Absolute, She details herself and creates
worlds and transmutes beings into these worlds and makes
them engage in all these planes of existence. The beings are
kept busy for Manvantaras. Can you keep people busy for
Manvantaras? Even if you entrust someone a work for a
whole day, he will try to escape from it. But this Lord Mara
keeps all beings busy all the time. That is his skill and
dexterity.
Since we are trying to seek the Mother, the light,
the Consciousness, we need to seek the blessings of the
Lord of desire, so that he does not trouble us. People who
do real Tapas are troubled by Mara. luckily we don't! Mara
sends beautiful ladies, 90% of serious-minded students they
sink with that weapon. That is the last weapon he uses. He
has many other weapons. Another weapon is riches and
splendour. Still another weapon is fame, name, power all
that was offered to Jesus by Mara. It is just to see, if the
man is fit for the Plan Divine. So, the tests of Mara are
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intensified as much as you progress with your Tapas. It is

therefore wise to seek his blessings also.
A prayer to him is helpful. This Mara, the Cupid, is
called the 'friend of Devas', because the work of the Devas is
to create. Creation means developing layers of illusion, one
after the other. As many layers are there of illusion, so much
creation happens. If you stand in a lift and have on either
side a mirror, you see that you are multiplied in the
direction you look to. It is an illusion of one becoming many.
That is the whole creation. If we know that it is all illusion,
where is the play? He helps the Devas to create the
illusions, so that the creation is intact and does not recede
back into the source.
You may have studied how difficult it was for the
Devas to individualise the universal Consciousness. It was
such a great work to ensure that the Souls distant
themselves from the source. You send them out, they come
back quickly. Then how could creation happen? Hence they
had to take the help of Mara. He manifested so well that
today, if the beings are called back, they don't want to go
back. They don't want to go back, even if the time is up.
They want to hang on to illusion. That is the great work of
Mara who is the Lord of illusion. You can't reach the Mother,
much less the Father, unless you gain his favour.

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So, the hymn says:

Upaitu Mm O Lord of desire sit with me. Don't pull me
here and there. Be favourable to me. You are friendly even
to the Devas. Be also friendly to me.
Deva Sakha the friend of the Devas.
Cupid who is the friend of the Devas is sought to be
propitious, to be favourable, so that the man gets enough
fame. What is the fame? The fame the scriptures speak of is
of the order of the fame of Rama which never dies. The
fame of Krishna, the fame of Buddha, the fame of Christ
they are eternal. No one can ever reduce their fame. As
time passes by, the fame keeps on magnifying.
The other fame, the mundane or worldly fame,
which we see disappears along with you and many times
disappears even before you. If you are the Prime Minister of
the country, every day you are in the front page of the
newspaper. Many times your photograph is printed. All that
is not real. The moment you cease to be the Prime Minister
nothing about you is reported. What kind of fame is it?
When you have money, people are around you. When you
don't have money, people run away from you. It is not fame.
Fame is that which remains forever. All the initiates are
remembered more after their life than during their life. No
one ever bothered about them, when they are in the body
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of flesh and blood. They also did not bother for that kind of
fame. But they got such a fame which cannot be erased.
The secret is manifestation of the Divine Will! Only that
gives you the related undying fame. So, the prayer to Mara
is: Don't push me into all those petty things. I know, if you
wish, you can push me and I don't have the strength to stand
against your will. If you are friendly, I won't be pushed into
those things. I will be able to gradually tune up to the Divine
Will and conduct acts of goodwill which eventually result
into eternal fame. That is the kind of fame which is sought.
He says, Bestow upon me that kind of fame or reputation,
the undying reputation. Let me not be just in the memory of
people for a short while.
There are beings who cannot be forgotten until the
end of the Kalpa, that means, one universe. There are also
initiates who survive Kalpas and again are remembered.
Such should be the fame and the key to such fame is service,
sacrifice, acts of goodwill. Push me into those areas. Don't
push me into other areas. That is the prayer. And he says:
Along with fame, please give me some gems, some
diamonds, some precious stones.
Like cows and horses, the gems are also symbolic.
Gem is self-effulgent light. Diamond is light by itself. It is
not lighted. It is a piece of light. Naturally and inherently it
carries light. There are gems in sacred places. If you hold
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that gem, it spreads light to the entire surrounding. The

best of such gems is in Shambala. The next best is in
Sravasthi under the care of Lord Maitreya. These gems have
such a global impact and the great Masters stand as
guardians to them. Nicholas Roerich had the good luck to
see the gem which is in the cave of Lord Maitreya. In all
festive days Lord Maitreya comes to the ritual holding the
gem with great veneration in his two hands and keeps it
around his chest. The gems that the student is seeking are
the gems of thought and the gems of speech.
The teachings of the great ones and the acts of the
great ones don't die. Even after thousands of years we
recollect what they have said and what they have done. So,
the student prays, Please ensure that I am also bestowed
with those gems and with the help of those gems let me do
acts of goodwill in my state.
Pradr Bhtosmi Rashtresmin I am born in this state, and
hence let me do those acts here, acts of divine will, and
speeches of divine nature and let me get the related fame.
That is how the prayer is to the Lord of desire. See,
how ingeniously prayers are conceived. If someone is an
obstruction of your path, pray him to give way, don't try to
fight with him. The attitude to fight should die. Instead the
attitude to make a cordial appeal should win, because
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everyone has a heart. So, make a cordial appeal, don't

fight! That is the divine way of progressing. In the mundane
world we have enough fights. Why don't you extend these
fights into the inner kingdom? You know the higher ruler for
Aries is Mercury and Mercury rules you in Aries provided you
stop fighting. That is why the teachers tell us: Don't put
the fight outside! There is enough to fight inside. Take the
fight into you! You have a full-time job.
There are so many things that you have to fight with
inside, because Aries is believes in fighting. So, take the
fight inside! Then slowly the light will manifest, after the
fight ceases. Then Mercury becomes the Lord. That means
that you are more engaged with light than with fight either
inside or outside. When the light enhances, Uranus
becomes the Lord of Aries. For Masters of wisdom Uranus is
the ruler in Aries. For Disciples, Mercury is the ruler. For the
rest Mars is the ruler. When you are getting into the divine
side of things, at every point you meet a dweller at the
threshold. Pray! Pray with heart! Ask them to give way!
They give way. That is the cordial way to progress.
For the first ray man pride is the threshold. For the
second ray man fear is the threshold. For the third ray man
manipulation is the threshold. For the fourth ray man
thousands of conflicts are there. A very small conflict is
enough to put you off. For the fifth ray man concrete mind
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is the threshold. For the sixth ray man emotion is the

threshold. For the seventh ray man lack of order is the
threshold. They don't want to fall into a rhythm, and the
solution is only to fall into rhythm.
Mostly the things we are averse to, are our
thresholds. That is why all bitter things are given for
practice in occultism. Bitter because they are not bitter by
nature, but they have become bitter to us. Getting up early
in the morning is bitter to us, because there is a lot of
inertia in us. Pure food we get bored. This is because there
is the ignorance which dispels any form of light coming in.
People don't want to listen. Some pretend to have listened,
but they don't. Because the level of ignorance is very high.
The ignorance in us is so strong, and it is very sure of us. It
laughs at us: Do you want to go to a group life? Go and let
me see! Do you want to see C.V.V.? I will ensure that you
don't meditate regularly. This is how from inside there is
the dark man who is stronger than the white man. He has to
be thrown out. It is not so easy, but when you take a cordial
approach to him and make him friendly, then he becomes
compassionate: Okay, this child knows my power and seeks
my blessings. You know, when you seek the blessing of
someone, he will be pleased. If there is a stronger enemy on
the other side, before you fight, you go and seek his
blessing. That man will not fight with you with full strength.
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That is what Krishna did with the Sons of Light. The Sons of
Light have prepared themselves very well to fight and they
were all charged to fight. On the other side there was the
war general who was invincible in the mortal and in the
immortal planes. His name was Bhishma who gave us
Vishnu Sahasranama. He was a great initiate. Krishna
said, Before you fight with him, you go and take his
blessing. So, they all went to him and said, Grandfather,
please bless us for victory. He said, Yes, I bless you.
Enough! If he says 'I bless you', it means, I shall allow you to
defeat me, not that you can defeat me, but I allow you to
defeat me. Go ahead. That is intelligence.
There is a way to please the opponents. If the
opponent is stronger, you have to make him weak through
your cordial approach. This kind of technique is generally
used in the Path of Worship. People fear Saturn. But in India
they conceived worships for Saturn based on only one
principle that Every being has a heart. Heart is the pulsating
principle. It carries love, compassion. Appeal to it! That is
what comes out as a great statement from Master Koot
Hoomi: Every man has a heart. Remind him of it through
your continuous acts of goodwill. That is the secondary
approach. Fighting creates more discord. That should not
be given any kind of importance. You don't normally hear
prayers to Cupid. Even if you pray to Cupid, you pray to
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fulfil your personal desires. Here the prayer to Cupid is:

Don't put me into desires, but put me into divine acts and
make me a tool in the hands of the divine, so that I carry out
such acts of goodwill in the state where I am and that there
is a benefit at large to the community.

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EIGHTH HYMN
immxqs erqsq lzrqrWq |
Apiqxq c xu lhS q aWi ||
KSHUT PIPASMALM JYESHTHM ALAKSHMR NSAYMY
AHAM
ABHTIM ASAMRUDDHIM CHA SARVM NIRNUDA ME
GRUHAT
Kshut

: hunger

Pipasa

: thirst

Malam

: filth

Jeshtam

: inauspiciousness

Alakshmir

: non-splendorous

Aham

:I

Nasayami

: destroy

Abhutim

: non-prosperous state

Asamruddim

: insufficiency

Cha

: also

Sarvam

: all

Me Gruhat

: from my house

Nirnuda

: drive out

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MEANING:
I will destroy the Goddess of ill-luck whose signs
are hunger, thirst and filthiness. You banish insufficiency
and non-prosperous tendency away from my house.
COMMENTARY:
We shall have a brief description of the 8th hymn
which does not demand a very strenuous comprehension.
For a change it is simple and does not put us to cosmos and
to cosmic energies. It exclusively relates to what we are to
do and what happens.
Kshut the hunger
Pipas the thirst
The more there is impurity and ignorance in us the
more we seek food. The hunger for food is itself considered
to be an impurity. No doubt the system needs to be fed, as
much as it needs and as much it is desirable and agreeable.
There is a discipline of eating which is given in the children
book Mithila. Please see how far we are able to adopt
that rhythm of food. If we are not, we are nourishing
impurities in the body.
Mala impurity
When we spoke upon Venus, I told you the Mantra
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of the Mother as Amala. Amala means not impure. Here are

two Malas: One Mala arises out of the eating attitude. The
other Mala arises out of the drinking attitude. These are the
things which go inside as substances. Through seeing,
listening or smelling, you don't take such gross substances
into you. But through eating and drinking you take
something materially substantial into you. Their purity
depends upon the degree of purity you hold. It is a secret.
When a teacher sees how the student eats, he makes his
understanding of the degree of impurity he has. What is his
attitude to food? What is his rhythm relating to food? What
is the quality of food that he eats? They indicate the quality
of purity he holds. How to eat, when to eat, where to eat,
how much to eat, what to eat the purer he is, more the
system rejects anything impure.
Here the prayer is about eating and drinking habits,
hunger and thirst, not only for food and drink, but for
possessing. The hungry nations occupy other nations. They
are thirsty to rob the other nations. All colonisation is
nothing but the psychological hunger and thirst. Now in
retrospect people feel it was not right. That means, we are
better than before. Still there is a lot to do. Individually we
have this aggression to intelligently steal from others and
try to acquire, hoard and save and deny others to hoard and
save. These are all qualities of impurities and the
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consequent unhappiness of humanity. Man sees better

things with others and tries to grab it either by force or by
intelligence. That is an impurity.
As long as the impurity is there with us, it is
demonstrated in your eating and drinking habits. So, how
you eat, what you eat, and what you drink is indicative of
what kind of energy you are holding inside. It is not so very
important about what is being eaten or drunk. The inner
psyche can be gauged by the outer expressions of actions.
So, impurities are those which cause aggression, thieving,
irregular sex or anything else that causes danger to the
body, which is not agreeable to the body. If you take it, it
means there is something impure in you. It is the impurity in
you that demands these things. If you are pure, there is no
intense demand for such things and there is no demand for
things which you don't need.
Today there is excessive demand. In earlier times a
pair of shoes was enough. Today each man has so many
pairs. A clock tower for the village was enough. The church
bell of the village was enough to know time. Now we have a
watch for every wrist and we are not satisfied with it. If we
find a better watch, we have to buy it. Any change of
model, you have to have it. You fill the house with so many
things. One pair of glasses is not enough. One in the bureau,
one in the house, one at the bed-side and the moment,
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when you need it, none of them would be available. As long

as there is a Sun, why do you need another Sun? The saying
was: One pen for one life, and one wife for one life!
Anything more than that is impurity. One plate to eat is
enough. How many plates we use? A plate for soup, a plate
for vegetable, a plate for rice why so many plates? It is
nothing but the inner hunger for things. One sweater is
okay, but why so many sweaters? The wardrobes are overfilled. When you open the door, you have to ensure that
things don't fall on you!
The human psyche is becoming more and more
hungry and thirsty for things. That is dangerous. You will
never feel that you have enough. I know some of our group
members, they come to India and say that they don't have
money. But they go and buy all kinds of clothing and go to
some silver shops and buy silver and buy diamonds and
during consultation, when I ask them, how their economics
are, they say, Very bad. Yes, it is bad, because they
continue to spend wastefully. The wasteful spending is
indicative of the inner thirst and hunger and anxiety,
anxiety of tomorrow, anxiety, if we will have enough, when
we retire.
Many times I encounter in the West, What will you
have tomorrow afternoon to eat? Tomorrow afternoon is
too far for me. I can't decide so early. If I can decide for the
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immediate next meal, that itself is a big thing. To let me

know what I eat for the entire group life is fixing myself to a
cross. So, the anxiety of tomorrow, the day after tomorrow,
this is a by-product called anxiety arising out of hunger and
thirst. These are the impurities that bind us, not really the
material. I always tell our group members, Please don't
bring me gifts. You know, the socks you gave me for my 50th
birthday, till date I have not been able to use them, I gave
away many of them, but still, when I open my wardrobe I
find 90 or 95 pairs of socks.
Last time when I stepped into the house of our
brother Rudolf Mrosek, he saw new shoes with me and he
said, Ah, new shoes. I said, Yes. He said that he would
change the shoes once in seven years. That statement was a
slap on my face. If you wish to be simple, you hold on to one
pair of shoes till it is done. Then take to new shoes. That is
right. You put on new clothing, when the old clothing is
done or given away. To stock for life is a dangerous attitude.
The psychology behind hunger and thirst is what I
wish to let you know. You find a lot of surplus money with
you, if you don't irresponsibly keep on shopping and buying
things. Go by the need, but not by the thirst for things. The
craze of humanity for gold has caused so much destruction
during 16th, 17th, 18th and, 19th centuries. People travel far
distances by the sea from Europe to the East, to the West, if
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they have a faintest idea that there is gold over there. You
have to get a boat and then try to reach there first, kill
people there and look for the gold, excavate the gold and
try to see that you have amassed as much as possible. In the
process you have only amassed impurities!
It demanded two big wars. We don't see the cause
and effect. The whole thing was put to fire during the first
half of the 20th century to purify the Europeans for what
they have done earlier. No one escapes. Don't think the
aggressor escapes. The Akasa has enough records and in due
time everyone receives his share of pain having given that
pain earlier to others. That is why pain is a process of
purification.
Let pain bring due reward of light and love! But why
pain at all? If you don't cause aggression, if you cease this
kind of thirst and hunger for things, you don't have to go
through any pain.
In this hymn the student says Alakshm which
presides over the first, Lakshmi comes next. To start with
we have Alakshm impure energies around. Through
practice of Yoga we can overcome the impurities and then
comes Lakshmi. That is why the impurity is said to be the
elder sister and the purity is the younger sister, because to
us it appears later. So, the Alakshmi I shall ensure that I
burn it away.
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Nsaymy Aham. Aham me, I.

I shall burn away by my effort the impurities. This
is my word to the Mother! I shall burn away the elder sister
of impurity by adopting to pure habits.
How do you adopt to pure habits? Just because you
decide to adopt to pure habits you cannot. Every time you
think ,From tomorrow I shall be good, you remain the
same. You are the same over decades. You are what you are,
and ultimately you develop a theory: Well, I am what I am,
you accept or you don't accept. Then the Mother says, I
prefer the second thing. Thank you, I don't accept! You
have to work it out. But you don't have enough Will to work
it out. That is where you find the key in the instructions of
Yoga. It says, Do service! Keep doing service! That is the
outlet for your Karma. Service is, doing for others.
For lives you have grabbed from others and
exploited others. Now you start serving them. Only through
service, you can neutralise Karma. There is no other way.
Prayers don't neutralise Karma. Prayers are to replenish our
Will and the Will should be directed to service. Service can
be at the physical plane, at the vital plane and at the
mental plane. Keep helping people in those lines and don't
fix fees for it again. Do it with love. That is what releases
the conditioning in you and enables to gain purity. When you
do this service, again there should be no motive in it. Only
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for the love of the beings you keep serving. That is how
service has become inevitable in all theological practices.
People want to get into cosmos, metaphysics and
all kind of esoteric doctrines. Please be sure, you don't
assimilate anything. You don't retain anything! If anyone
can deliberate upon Secret Doctrine with me, I
appreciate them. They may have studied, but they cannot
understand. Only the one who has also humbled himself
through service, to him the scriptures reveal. The
scriptures are soft to the soft people and strong to the
head-strong people. So, through service you release your
past Karma, thereby you stand on a clear platform to
practise purity. That is why Master Djwhal Khul devotes so
many pages for service.
Among Dharma there are some Parama Dharmas.
Parama Dharma means the most High. Among those Parama
Dharmas, Parahita is one. It means welfare to the other.
That stands far above all Dharmas. That is why every
teacher demonstrates enormous service activity. Service
neutralises past Karma, releases you from conditioning,
and enables you to gain purity through right practice. This is
where our effort is involved.
Kshut the hunger
Pipas the thirst
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Malm impurities
Such impurities, thirst and hunger are the elder
sister, Jyeshth and it is Alakshm.
Nsaymy Aham - I will ensure to neutralise them. What has
the Mother to do? To see that I don't have Abhti.
Abhti lack of divine experiences.
We all crave for so many divine experiences. We
would like to see our most cherished Master, speak to him,
get direct instructions from him, experience our visit to his
Ashram and meet the other friends of the Master. Each one,
whether they speak or not, they have such cherished
desires. They are called divine experiences. You please
grant that to me! The moment I gain purity you feed me
with divine experiences, fill me with divine romance, fill
me with divine ecstasies. People want divine romance,
divine ecstasies and divine experiences which the Mother
can grant, provided we do our job. So, what the student
says is: You see that I don't have Abhti. Don't put me to
lack of experiences.
Many times we wish each other sweet dreams. If
you inquire in the morning, they would have nightmares.
Sweet dreams are not in our command. They are the Grace.
Tonight I shall sleep and meet Master C.V.V. Can anyone say
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that? Tomorrow he calls us. It is a Master May Call. Maybe he

is around already. So, tonight I shall meet him! But it is not
in our hands. It is in his hands. He has to grace it. So, we look
for grace without doing what we have to do. They wish to
grace us provided we do what we are to do.
This hymn gives again emphasis upon the individual
effort and the Divine Grace. The individual effort should be
adequate to deserve Divine Grace. You cannot complain
that you don't have it, that they are not giving you any
experience. It means that you have not done enough.
Asamruddhi Lack of divine experiences is one meaning.
You know the beauty of divine experience is that it
puts you to such elevation, so that you get no more
attracted to trivials. You don't even care, if you have food or
not. You don't care, if it is cold or hot, because you are
elsewhere. That is how by shift of awareness people
overcome the mundane conditioning. That is why once you
experience it, you would like to be more with it. That is why
the request is: You please grace us with your presence and
the related experience.
The second meaning is: Ensure that I don't have
deficiencies in terms of splendour. Ensure that I am
contented. Contentment comes when impurities are gone.
So, please ensure that I am fulfilled, fulfilled by your
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Presence. The Mother is fulfilled, because She is in the

presence of THAT and if She gives her Presence, we are also
contented. To say 'Please ensure that I am contented' means
'Please give your Presence and the related experience of
truth and please ensure that everything in me and around
me is filled by your energy'.
First the student gives his promise to do what is to
be done and later he is waiting to receive. Up to the fourth
step of Yoga there is something that you have to do.
Thereafter the grace has to happen. In the steps of Yama,
Niyama, Asana, a part of Pranayama, there is something for
you to do. Thereafter Pranayama has to happen and the
rest of the steps have to happen. 3 steps have to be done.
The other 3 respond from the other side. That is how it is.
So, to do and to wait is the process. To wait without doing is
not recommended. Without doing adequately there is no
result. And doing beyond requirement is also waste of
energy.
This 8th hymn speaks of the syllabus for the student
and the syllabus for the Mother. The first part speaks of the
syllabus for the student. The second part relates to the
syllabus for the Mother. Normally the students of theism
don't make clear understanding. They think that the divine
grace should also dissolve their Karma. Bhagavadgita is
very clear about it: What you have done, you have to
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dispose. If you mess up, you clean up. Don't think I clean up
for you. If I start cleaning up for you, you keep on messing
up. You will never learn not to mess up. So, for your mess I
give you the technology to clean it up. You clean it up and
stand clean, then you can have my Presence. What man has
proposed, man has to dispose.
Prayers can help you to get this strength to dispose
of. But essentially the technology helps you to dispose it
off. Personal Karma and neutralisation is your job. You can
be helped by the Teachers and by the Divine. But you have
to do it. They don't do it for you. Grace and divine
experience is what they do. That is in their hands. You
cannot demand it. It has no rules and regulations. It is their
choice to grace. You do your job and keep yourself available
or fit for grace. None of the priests tells us the secret. They
promote a doctrine of fate which they say is like the
universal solvent. It can solve anything and everything.
There is no such thing. If you carefully go through scriptures
there are no false promises. They can give you the
technology and also give you support, but it is for you to
clean up your mess. Just because you clean up your mess,
you need not be graced. So, the prayer is for grace. The
prayer has two purposes: to receive the necessary strength
to rectify ourselves through service and later to receive
grace. That is how it has to be understood.
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NINTH HYMN
alkU SUkw lirm MUwhq |
DUa xupil iqWmr rq ||
GANDHA DVRM DUR DHARSHM NITYA PUSTHM
KARSHINM
SVARM SARVA BHUTNM TM IHO PAHVAYE SRYAM
Gandhadwaraam

: She, who has fragrance as Her

Gateway
Duradharsham

: who is not easily accessible

Nitya pustam

: who is always fulfilled

Karishinim

: accessible through the rays as

hands
Sarvabhuthanam

: to all the beings

Iswareem

: the Goddess of Mastery

Tam

: Her

Sriyam

: Goddess Sri

Iha

: herewith

Upahwaye

: I invite to make an approach

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MEANING:
I herewith invite to make an approach towards the
Goddess of Mastery over all the beings. She opens Her own
fragrance as the gateway to our approach. An approach to
Her is not easy. One should approach Her through the rays
of Her presence as his own hands of good deeds. Then she is
ever present, fulfilled.
COMMENTARY:
We have been speaking about the inner and outer
purity as the essential platform to experience the Divine.
How purity is defined is generally common in all theologies,
except that some have gone too far with it to make it
difficult and some have gone too little with it to make it
difficult to experience the divine.
What is said by Master Djwhal Khul in the book
Letters on Occult Meditation is good enough for the new
age. There is a chapter dedicated to purification of the
three vehicles. Please read it very carefully, make notes out
of it and try to ensure that you follow. To start with, it is the
basis upon which any divine comprehension is possible to
start with. People may read occult books, because they are
available in the shops. But each one of them understands
according to his own degree of purity. But only the one who
maintains a fair degree of purity can comprehend the
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message coming from the book or scripture. Even if books

are available and even if people read, not all get benefited
the same way. Hence, before you try to pick up a book to
comprehend, you ask a question to yourself: Have I done
enough in terms of purity? Many are confused with many
profound concepts given in books, because they straight
away try to read the book than to work with themselves
before reading the book.
The East always emphasized the need to be pure
inside and outside and did not give so much importance to
reading books. The Eastern understanding is: If you read
books with profound wisdom without putting yourself to
purity, you make a very confused understanding. It settles
down in your concrete mind and you are neither here nor
there and you cannot implement what you have studied in
your daily life.
Many people read for the glamour of reading. But
they do not consider how far that wisdom is useful in their
practical life, because wisdom is the stepping stone for
experiencing that which is divine in daily life. People carry
loads of wisdom and demonstrate impracticality in life.
When they speak, they seem to know much, but if we see
their life, it is in shambles. They speak about harmony and
the man has divorced with his wife and is discarded by the
friends and relatives. So, what he speaks and what appears
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in his life, we find them contrary of it. That means, it is only

some mental fund accumulated without taking care of the
fundamentals. That is the danger of approaching books
earlier than gaining the necessary purity. The approach has
to be from purity to wisdom and from wisdom to
experience. Otherwise lack of divine experience always
haunts you in spite of your knowing thousand things.
A man may know thousand things relating to
wisdom. He has no experience of them nor can he emit the
related vibration from him. If he introspects, if he asks
himself to what extent this wisdom has helped him in life,
he will not be able to answer. Wisdom should give us better
implements, techniques and tools to live with.
Many persons come to me asking for their
personality ray and soul ray. When I say something, they
make note and go happily. They don't even think: 'Why is it
so?' To encourage members, I always have to give the best
rays. The teacher has to encourage, never to discourage at
the personality level, but in a general class there is
discouragement! People go around the concept as going
around the bush, and they can't bring wisdom into life. In so
far as we find ourselves unable to bring the wisdom into our
life, we have to understand one hard and bitter truth: we
are not pure enough. This purity is more and more given a
'go by' today. Pure waters are disappearing, pure air is
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disappearing, pure food is disappearing! You cannot

therefore have pure thoughts of devotion and devotion is
hopelessly mixed with emotion. Crystal clear thinking is
like asking for the Moon.
We are progressing in terms of science and
technology, but in terms of human science we are going
down and in terms of human relations we are going down.
This is due to our inability to give appropriate importance
to purity. When there is so much of impurity around and if
someone tries to be pure, he is seen as an aristocrat and is
haunted away. If your child does not go with a boy friend or
a girl friend, today the parents think that there is
something wrong with the child. There is something wrong
with the parents. Something is wrong with the society. We
are slowly building a society, where purity is almost
impossible. Hence we have to know how difficult it is to
remain pure.
Now the drugs are also legalised. Everything gets
legalised slowly. According to the power that rules the
planet, to suit its pocket, it keeps on legalising things and
supply things abundantly. The logic is funny. You know, if the
drugs are not made available, the young ones are learning
to thieve and then they have to be put in jail. Why should
we make them thieve? Better make the drugs available!
What kind of government it is! A government that keeps
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open the night clubs, a government that encourages

drinking and lascivious activity, a government that allows
drugs what is it that they are governing actually? They are
trained to govern their money and their power giving a 'go
by' to the humanity whom they are supposed to govern for
their welfare.
It is becoming more and more difficult, because the
society around does not permit an effort to be pure. We
have Valentine's day as if for the rest of the year no one
needs to love each other. We have Father's day if the
father asks for the son, the son will answer, Wait for the
Father's day, I shall come to you. Mother's day, brother's
day! Instead can they make one day as drug's day and for the
rest of the year no drugs!
We have built such dark impure layer. People are
concerned about ozone layers, but what about the dark
layers that we have created around ourselves? It is so dark
that the divinity cannot get in. We have to clear some little
way to enable something to happen in terms of divine
intervention. This is our responsibility. But even in our
groups where people are around the teachings of the great
ones, we find these things. So, where is the key? Where is
the solution? People are emotionally disturbed. Till date I
know members who don't adopt to pure practices, though
they have been listening to teachings over years. I am not
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complaining, I am only analysing the general situation. If

we who are trying to work with the teachings are like this,
how can you expect the rest of the world to be better off? If
I say so, the Master says, People outside are better off than
the people in the group. He always shows the contrary.
Once when I had a question in me: What kind of brothers I
have around?, the answer came like a flash that there are
others in brothers and there are brothers in others.
Purity is the basis for any divine experience. There
is no compromise on this. Mental purity is the most
important. If we try to entertain thoughts of goodwill and
do not allow other thoughts, the scope for emotions does
not arise. The Masters always recommend the path from
above downwards and every day we have to see what kind
of thoughts are entertained by us through an introspection.
The whole world is a thought-world. It is pure or otherwise
according to the thoughts that we emit. You cannot emit
impure thoughts and expect pure life and divine
experience. Then see how the emotions are and see how
the habits of food and speech are. Recognise them! Be
unbiased in your judgement of yourself! You don't have to
tell others, but at least be truthful to yourself! Ask yourself:
How pure I am in my thinking processes? How pure I am in
my emotions? What is my attitude to the other genre? What
is my attitude to people around? Does it have malice,
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jealousy, prejudice or am I proud? Like that, keep asking

yourself! These are fundamentals, but from time to time it
looks as though the fundamentals are the major factors.
How pure is my food habit? How pure is my speech? What
kind of odour my body emits? That is what comes as the
basis for the 9th stanza and hence, this initial purification
work is given.
The hymn starts with
Gandha Dvrm The entry door to the Mother, the path to
the Mother, the access to the Mother is through fragrance.
Gandha means the fragrance which makes every
Soul and personality unfold. A fully fragrant flower unfolds
the psychical energy totally. There are beautiful flowers
with horrible smell. There are beautiful flowers without
smell. When we look at them, we feel a bit unfolded, but
when we go near, all our system closes. But if it gives good
fragrance, we are further unfolded.
Among all fragrance giving things on Earth, the
Seers found that pure sandalwood causes a very agreeable
unfoldment of the Soul. That is why the knowers always use
sandal in their daily routine. They apply sandal to the body
and they also use sandal in their worship and regularly
sandal is burnt to ensure that the atmosphere is also kept
pure. Please don't use sandal as a perfume. It is much more
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than that. When you smell, your emotional body unfolds.

You have to see what is the impact of a perfume on your
thoughts. People have invented through research perfumes
for men to attract women and perfumes for women to
attract men and anxiously the ladies and gents use them,
especially when they are at that age, when they have to
find someone! So, don't mix up those perfumes with sandal.
There is no other natural flowery fragrance is equal
to Sandal. The fragrance of sandal is nothing but
manifestation of the Mother at the gross physical plane.
This is how the Seers have visualised and experienced. They
started using it in all their works relating to the divine. In
every ritual you find it and even for meditation it is
recommended. There is no theistic practice in the East
without sandalwood incense. The scents have come to India
from the North-West like Iran, Iraq, Turkey. They were not
there originally. They used certain natural herbs in their
bathing pools to add fragrance. The scents were used by
people who lived for pleasure. Others who cared for purity
only used sandal.
The Mother speaks of sandal, that it paves the way
and opens the door. Gandha means sandal. The original
smell of this Earth when it was freshly born was of sandal.
Slowly, it got hidden and it is more available now in its
etheric layer. If a great being visits you, a being who has
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etheric body, even before he visits you, you feel this

fragrance of sandal. First the good smell comes and then
the person may appear or may not appear according to you.
If you are alert about smell, you can sometimes infer that a
great being is around to bless, or you may even be in a great
Ashram.
One clue is how the place smells. If it is so with
great beings, you can imagine what it is with the Mother.
Most of you know the lady Draupadi in Mahabharata, the
wife of the Sons of Light. She was a special. Up to a radius of
few kilometres one could smell her excellent fragrance.
That is why she was most sought after. She was born out of
fire. That was her purity. As much purity is established, so
much fragrance develops from within, because essentially
the matter is fragrant. It has to be, because it has come
from the Divine source. Matter is not sin. Through our
attitude we have made it so. To many people money is also
sin. Money is not sin. Our attitude makes it sinful to us. Until
date there are theologies who consider women as sin. That
means, they never understood what female energy is.
The Mother gives presence, where there is
fragrance. It is the natural fragrance and not the artificial
fragrance. Until we gain the natural fragrance, we as
students of occultism are recommended to use sandal.
Don't go for other fragrances. Use sandal to ensure that the
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protective energy of the Mother is around. The humble

Indians and not all Indians, apply sandalwood on their
forehead, or if they are shy, they carry a sandalwood piece
in their pocket, or they keep it in their hand bag. If sandal is
around, evil forces cannot approach. Frequently the ladies
are attacked by evil forces, infrequently males also. That is
why it is recommended that they carry sandalwood powder
or sandalwod sticks. In the subtle around you, a protective
layer is formed with the presence of sandal. This is all the
importance of sandal which I just briefly let you know.
The fragrance of sandal is the doorway for the
Mother to reach up to you, because the whole hymn is that
the Mother should reach you and be around you and give you
the related experience.
Prayer is also conceived in two ways. There are
people who pray to go to heaven or to the Divine. The wiser
ones do not propose to go. They feel that it is better to
invite them and not to go, because we do not know where to
go and whether we can meet all the challenges on the way.
That is why all Vedic invocations propose: Bring the divine
up to you or into you by worship. Gayatri also is the same.
We seek that light to embrace us and alert our wills. We do
not go to meet Gayatri. We ardently and cordially invite
Gayatri to embrace us Varenyam. In this hymn you also get
Vrune which is Varenyam and many times you get the
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Upahvaye which means to invite to stay with. So, the

Mother reaches you, if you are fragrant, if you retain purity
and if you emit pure vibrations. Until such time it is better
that you use sandal and even after that continue to use
sandal, because that is the doorway for the Mother to enter.
Purity is the doorway for the great being to come
up to you. The Master of your life can come up to you, if
your vibrations do not emit any odour other than fragrance.
You can't be as you like and expect the Master to visit you.
But if he wants in spite of you, he can visit you, but to make
him feel to come to you, there is something you have to do.
Should you not make him favourable to come to you? What
applies in our normal life, applies in a deeper manner in the
life divine.
Dur Dharshm Easily accessible yet difficult.
Easily accessible, if you are pure and very difficult,
if you are not pure. So, the first term speaks of the pathway
for the Mother to reach you. The second term tells you that
She is easily accessible and yet difficult.
Nitya ever, eternal
Pusthm fulfilling
Nitya Pusthm ever fulfilling
Karshinm hand
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The Mother has hands and their basic characteristic

is to fulfil people. The right hand gives protection and the
left hand gives boons and both hands are fulfilling hands.
Unless the artist is careless, he will ensure on the picture
that the right hand is protective and the left hand is giving.
We also have to give whatever we have and we also have to
protect. Those who protect are protected. Those who give
are given. Protection is at all levels and boons are also at all
levels. The Mother can give material fulfilment, divine
fulfilment or both or any other fulfilment in-between in all
the seven planes. So, her hands are fulfilling hands. Further
they are not only fulfilling hands, they are ever fulfilling
hands.
There is another characteristic relating to her
hands. When She opens her hands which are so tender and
beautiful, which are considered to be light rose in colour,
and as beautiful as the petals of a lotus, the palms transmit
rays of light.
It is so with all great beings that their palms emit
light, the rays of light. This quality they get from the
Mother, because all divine beings have their source in the
Mother and ultimately the Mother is light. When you
meditate upon the palms of the Mother, visualise them to be
tender, beautiful, fulfilling and also emitting light. That is
how Nitya Pusthm Karshinm is to be understood. That is
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all one term with a group of words. All the three put
together is one characteristic.
shvarm The Goddess of Mastery
When we see the divinity as male form, it is
shvara. When we worship the divinity as female it is
shvar. Kumara means male, Kumari means female. If it
ends with 'a', it is male, if it ends with 'i', it is female. All
divine names are like that. Krishna is male, Rukmini is
female. If some name is ending up with 'a' and if she
happens to be a female, it means that she has more male
energy than female energy in her. This is all the science of
sound, applicable only to those who work with Sanskrit
terms. Don't apply upon your name and suffer from it, like
Eva, Brigitta, Anna, Maria and so on!
shvar means the Master or the Madam, the Madam
of the universe. There is no one bigger than She in the
universe. She is Master to whom? To Sarva Bhtnm to all
that is created in the universe, to all creatures, from the
ant to the creator. To all of them, She is the Master. There is
one common Master. You can see him as male or as female,
but He is essentially male -female. The God in creation is
male -female. You have option to worship him as male or to
worship him as female or to worship him as male -female. In
India there is the male/female worship as Ardhanari. The
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left portion of the body is female, the right portion of the

body is male.
Likewise it exists in other theologies also. In the
Greek system it is Adonai. He is also male -female. Our
Jewish brothers may not agree that their God is male female. They don't see in the very name they have the male
-female aspect: Yehova is originally Yaha Vaha. Ya becomes
Ja. So, it becomes Jaha Vaha and then it becomes Jehova. It
is Yaha Vaha. Yam is the sound of the highest centre and
Vam is the sound relating to Varuna, the female cosmic
principle. Hence it is Yaha Vaha and slowly it has found its
own distortion to be Yehova.
All theologies which have known truth have
recognised God in creation as male-female. We are also
male-female. None of us is absolutely male or absolutely
female. The Soul is male, the personality is female. The
personality is male, the body is female. The Soul is female
and the spirit is male. To the inferior state of awareness the
superior state of awareness is male and again that which is
superior is inferior to something else. All Disciples are
females, the Master is the male. The Master is female to his
Master and that Master is female to his Master. To the higher
the lower is female. If wife is dominant and husband is
obedient, wife is male, husband is female. If you laugh, I
have a question. Why not? Why should it always be one way?
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The energy that dictates, that directs is the male energy.

The energy that receives is female energy.
When the mind tells the body, then mind is male.
When mind receives from Buddhi, mind is female and we
are alternatingly male-female. Sometimes we try to know
what to do from others. That means, when we receive
information, we are female. When we give information, it
is male. When I give this kind of discourse, I am male, but
when I receive this kind of information, I am female. The
moment I go out to the railway station, I receive guidance
from others as to where to go, how to go. So, I am female.
Each one of us has to receive and has to give. So, we are all
male-female. For some social convenience some are called
females, some are called males by the physical
appearance. But if you consider the activities all of us
without exception are male or female alternatingly. Only
the Most High is the male.
That is why the Seers when they wrote Bhagavata,
they said that Krishna is the only male and the rest of the
world is female and hence all dance around him. It is a
poetical expression of a great philosophy. Don't think that
Krishna was always engaged in dancing. According to our
little comprehension we make our own definitions. svarm,
the light; Aditi or the primordial light that which has
emerged from the darkness is the basis for all subsequent
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formations for the planet and the beings and for the
systems, like planetary, Solar or Cosmic. To all of them
including the devils and diabolics, She is the Mother.
Diabolics and devils also come from the same source. They
don't have another dark universe besides this. That is where
synthesis is ultimate wisdom. As long as you deny
something, you are partial. Everything has its role to play.
The demons also worshiped the Mother and got their boons.
Ultimately their success depends upon their motive. Even if
the Devas develop inferior motives, they also get defeated.
That is why the two channels, the channel of light and the
channel of darkness, they are equally dear to the Mother.
If you have two children, both of them are great
tennis players, and they meet in the court. When you ask
the mother, Who should win? she will say, I better don't
see the match, because she cannot accept anyone of them
getting defeated by the other. Will it not be so with any
mother or motherly father? Both children are equally dear,
and they are seeming opponents in a play. They cannot
support one against the other. In the game of creation the
motive decides the success or failure, the victory or defeat.
If your motive remains pure, you are not defeated.
There is the celestial king called Indra who had to
fight with a demon called Vritrasura. Vritra means
circumscription. It is a circumscribing principle in creation.
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Every being is circumscribed by the ring-pass-not.

According to his own thoughts, he creates a ring-pass-not
for himself. This circumscribing principle of the ring-passnot causes limitations. It is a grand principle in creation. It
is so powerful, because people are caught by their own
habits. Good people are caught by good habits, bad people
are caught by bad habits. If you are accustomed to a good
habit and in some place you don't find the scope to practice
it, you are not flexible enough to be happy. People kill
themselves by their good habits. Not only people with bad
habits kill themselves, but also people with good habits kill
themselves with their habits.
It is a good habit with me to eat Idlis daily in the
morning. If I am crystallised with that habit, I die, if Idlis
are not available. For example, you are habituated to pray
with a candle. If there is no candle, you don't pray. How to
pray without candle? How to pray without incense? How to
pray without a picture of the Master? Isn't it idiotic? If there
is a picture of some other Master, it is still worse. I look for
my picture of the Master. If it is not there, I am panicky. In
the meanwhile my friend brings a cross and keeps it there.
So, the picture is not there, but the cross is there why not?
To us it is a horrible sin. The so-called theological practices
make people to suffer greater and deeper slavery. Don't
think they are enjoying freedom. That is what Master Morya
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says: Monastic monotony! So, good habits and bad habits

can kill you, if you are conditioned by them. The habits
should slowly allow you to release yourself into the field of
liberation. This Vritra, the circumscribing principle in
creation can imprison the pure ones and also the impure
ones.
The pure ones are imprisoned by their own concept
of purity. The impure ones are imprisoned by their concept
of impurity. As long as you live in a concept, you are a
prisoner. This is for sure. A concept is a facility to work with
as a medium, but to live in concept is to imprison you. This
is a great subject by itself. It requires a seminar. This is
purely an Aquarian principle, where you respect concepts,
but you don't get stuck with them. That is the state of true
spirituality.
This demon Vritra, conditioned the celestial king.
The celestial king started feeling that he is the king. That
feeling conditioning him. That means, Vritra has won over
him. Indra wanted to fight with Vritra. He took the help of
the Divine and yet could not defeat him. He went to the
divine and took more clues to kill him and yet could not kill
him. Then he asked the enemy, What is the secret of your
life? Vritra said, The secret is, as long as you wish to kill
me, you cannot kill me. You are fighting to kill me. It is not a
good motive. I have no fight with you. I am doing my job.
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Even when you fight, I don't fight with you. I see you as an
ignorant child. Don't see me as your enemy. See me as the
divine. When you see me completely as divine, then I
concede to you. Until such time, you cannot win over me.
It is the doctrine of Aquarius.
That is how the Mother rules over the whole
creation with the help of the circumscribing principle
called Maya. Each one feels that his work is great. That
itself is an illusion. Everywhere you take out one step from
illusion, it will inevitably get into another illusion. So, we
walk in illusion, we live in illusion, we eat in illusion and we
sleep in illusion. To overcome this illusion surrender to the
Mother, because She is the Master in the game. That is why
She is the Master for all the creatures. I told you how the
Creators, the three Logos suffered illusion.
Such a Mother who is the Master, such a Mother
who has ever fulfilling, shining hands, such a Mother who is
easily accessible and yet difficult, the Mother to whom the
gateway of Presence is fragrance of sandal, to such a
Mother of splendour I pray, that She may bestow her
Presence on me, because such a Mother (shvarm Sarva
Bhtnm Tm) bestows Presence and causes Splendour
(Upahvaye/ Sryam).

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TENTH HYMN

qlx MqqMi uc xirqzqW |

mzl mqxr qr ri rz ||
MANASAH KMAM KTIM VCHAH SATYAM ASMAHI
PASNM RPAM ANNASYA MAYI SRH SRAYATM YASAHA
Manasa

: of the mind

Kamam

: desire

Akutim

: interest

Vachah

: of the word

Satyam

: truth

Pasunam

: of the cattle

Annasya

: of the food

Rupam

: shape

Asimahi

: we enjoy

Yasa

: fame

Srihi

: plenty

Mayi

: in me

Srayatam

: may they gather

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MEANING:
Oh Goddess of plenty! We shape our desires and
interests of our mind. We shape our food, our cattle and
their food. May the Goddess of splendour approach me in
the form of name and fame.
COMMENTARY:
In the 10th, 11th and 12th hymns, it is more narrative
than symbolic presentation. The 10th hymn speaks of
visualisation and realisation of light in certain substantial
aspects relating to our life. A fundamental practice which is
recommended by every teacher is to see every form as a
form of light. Then we get accustomed to seeing light in
whatever we see. When we see the icy peaks we are
attracted. When we see white lotus, white horse, white
dog, white dove, white rabbit or anything white, we are
immediately attracted, because inherently the Soul is of
brilliant white colour.
To enable us to reach into the realms of light in this
hymn there is a suggestion. In rule 10 of White Magic also
Master Djwhal Khul gives a very simple paragraph which
also speaks of seeing the light in every surrounding form,
because the form is a veil, colour is a veil and the light is the
real manifestation. The Soul light has the clothing of the
colour and the form, and occultism is to recollect that light
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in every form. The entire scripture Bhagavata is based upon

this fundamental principle of seeing light everywhere with
form as it appears as the substitute of the light. In creation
the truth is substituted and we have to institute the original
in the place of the substitute. This is the fundamental
practice for occultism.
Here in this hymn the worshipper says
Manasah of the mind
Kma desire
ktim the inquisitiveness
The mind has an inquisitive nature and an enquiring
nature. The objective mind reflects from the surrounding
what each person needs and that is the desire. Mostly the
mind's activity is to desire and to be inquisitive to know. The
mind proposes that each time there is birth of desire and
birth of inquisitiveness to know, they may be seen as
sprouting from the light. When we see the light in the desire
and see the light in the things that we wish to know, we do
not drift away from the purpose of life. It is a practice by
itself. That way the mind gets regulated, when we see the
light, and when we speak it. It is also part of our evening
invocation: May the light in me be the light before me, May
I learn to see it in all, May the sound I utter reveal the light
in me. Each time we speak it is an activity of light only. If
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we consciously utter forth, we shall be nearer to the Truth,

and if we are trying to utter anything other than truth, the
truth level in us will remind to us: You are not speaking
truth. The listener may not know that you are not speaking
the truth, but a conscious speaker knows that he is not
speaking the truth. If we are manipulating in our speech,
the manipulator knows that he is manipulating, because
truth does not die and it keeps reminding the speaker,
because the conscience is always there to tell the person
who is speaking, that he is not speaking the truth, that he is
not speaking that which is fair.
Just to cause an offence or to cause a defence
people don't mind speaking untruth and then the game
continues to defend and sometimes if the defence is not
adequate, then take to the offence. Offence is the best way
of defence. This is how we try to suppress truth. But the one
who is doing knows about it. When we manipulate our
speeches, we understand that we try to manipulate the
Mother and no one can manipulate the Mother.
Consequently the manipulator gets manipulated. The
whole world today believes in manipulation to gain certain
things for personal benefit, to protect oneself against the
other and to ensure that what he gained is not lost. There
are so many ways the tongue is utilised. Only the tongue can
twist. Nothing else in creation can twist.
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Here the seeker is seeking the presence of the

Mother and hence he takes to the resolution to be
responsible about utilisation of speech. The doctrine is very
clear and very fundamental: Speak truth pleasantly! If the
truth is unpleasant, try to find words to present it
pleasantly. Don't present it with an acid tongue. It hurts the
being. That is why the statement is: Speak the truth
pleasantly. Speak not unpleasantly, even if it is true. Speak
not pleasantly the untruth! Sometimes to please the other,
we speak that which is not true. We don't have to use extra
speech to the extent of being untruthful to please
someone. When we are working with people, we try to
praise them and much of the praise has no truth in it. This is
only to flatter the other person and get your things done.
That is how a pleasant social speech is developed by men
where truth is given a 'go by'.
To please a woman a man often says, Wow, you
look so young! Which lady would like to listen that she is
old? People use varieties of ways to please. To please is a
good quality, but to use the untruth to please is
manipulation. It may not cause a negative impact on the
other, but you get habituated to speak that which is not
true. That is dangerous. Not knowing we try to be
untruthful in our utterances in our endeavour to please
people. While we are recommended to be pleasant in our
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speech, we need not sacrifice truth in the process of being

pleasant and we need not be unpleasant to present the
truth. There can be many bitter truths, but you should have
the technique to coat it sweetly and present it. That is the
way it has to be done. Then you are not hurting the other
being and yet you are not sacrificing the truth. People
either are bitter or untruthfully pleasant. They are pleasant
but not truthful unpleasant but truthful. Both have not
gained the Mother.
There is a pleasant way of putting forth truth. This
is a discipline that one has to consciously work out and gain.
There is no necessity to speak untruth for the sake of being
pleasant. In every person there is something that can be
seen as positive and that can be truthfully expressed. Then
you are pleasing the person and not speaking the untruth.
This is how the observation of the Divinity in the other
becomes possible. Each one carries one skill or the other
which is positive and no one is totally positive without some
negatives or deficiencies. People have efficiencies and
people have deficiencies.
You have to speak the efficiency part that opens
the door with the other and be friendly. In friendliness
moderately the truth can be shared. That is what the
Masters keep telling us. See the positive in the other and
interact with that positive in the other. By that you have
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gained friendliness and you can also show your silence to

the other side which is not positive in him. This is easier said
than done. Normally we only speak of that which is
deficient in the other, because our orientation is towards
the negative things but not to the positive things.
Here practice of speech is seen as worship of the
Mother, because the Word is the Mother, the light. In the
second hymn we have known how the Word emerges.
Manipulation of the Word manipulates you. So, speak truth,
speak truth pleasantly, speak not truth unpleasantly, speak
not untruth pleasantly, and speak not untruth. These are
the statements through which a process of worship is
developed and by which the Word in you is not continuously
manipulated. This is a practice by which you can keep
yourself eligible for the approach of the Presence of light or
the divinity. The other is to keep observing the desires and
the kind of inquisitiveness that sprouts from within as the
Mother.
We are inquisitive about things which are not
necessary. If two friends of mine are speaking, I have
nothing to do with it. But the inquisitiveness is that we
listen to it which is not desirable from the spiritual
discipline. Not only we listen, we try to get into it. This is
called 'poking one's nose into others' affairs'. Somehow we
are not happy unless we also get into it and become part of
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it. It is a fundamental law in the spiritual field: If three

persons are there, two are talking to each other, the nature
does not intend the third person to get into it. When the
third person is also invited into the conversation, then he
should join. Otherwise he is not supposed to join and in
advanced states he is supposed not to listen. This is a
Discipline. If this is not followed, we have problems,
because what the nature intends to conduct shall have to
be always keenly observed. When you don't observe, you
will walk into problems.I give you a small story.
After the Mahabharata War, Krishna and Arjuna
were together for a while in Dwaraka, the city of Krishna.
Krishna's father came to him and said, I wish to propose to
do a ritual for a week. Will you be the guardian for the
ritual? Krishna agreed. Guardian means, you shall have to
be there and ensure that no element disturbs the ritual. It is
a commitment. You have to be alert throughout the seven
days. Five days passed by. A Brahmin came to Krishna and
sought his help. The Brahmin had a crisis in his life. Each
time his wife delivered a child, in the next moment the
child died. It happened seven times. He consulted many
people how to ensure that the child would not die, whose
help he should take, which angel he has to pray, which ritual
he has to do and what Mantra he has to recite. Then an
initiate told him, The best thing is to go to Krishna and
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seek his help. So, the Brahmin came to Krishna and said,
For the 8th time my wife delivers tomorrow and so long in
the next moment the child dies after it is delivered. I have
no other than you to save me in the situation. I request that
you come with me at once, be around us and ensure that the
child when it is born does not die.
That would have been the 6th day of the ritual of
Krishna's father and he already gave a commitment for
seven days. He told the Brahmin that he cannot come until
after two days and after two days he will come and save the
child. The Brahmin said, The delivery is tomorrow. If you
come after two days, there is nothing to do and I have
consulted many, and they said that you are the only one who
can save in such situations. Krishna said in the same tone
as before, I am committed to my father's ritual. I will come
after two days and save your child. The Brahmin was not
happy, because in his mind it was very clear by his
experience that the child would die when it is born the next
day. But Krishna said that he would come two days after.
So, the Brahmin went on requesting Krishna.
Krishna went on saying the same thing. Arjuna who was
listening to the conversation, he could not but get into it.
He said, Dear Krishna, shall I go with him and save the
child? By that time Arjuna had great fame. Having won the
Mahabharata War he was considered to be the best archer.
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There was no equal to him in the mortal and in the divine

worlds. Wherever he went there were felicitations for him.
He was full of pride. He suggested to Krishna, Shall I go
with him and save the child, so that you can continue to
save the ritual of your father here? Krishna smiled and
said, If you think, you can go.
The Brahmin was praising him all through the
journey as to how great Arjuna was and how glad he was
that Arjuna was there by the side of Krishna, when he went
to Krishna. They reached the place and then just before the
time of delivery Arjuna with his celestial powers and
weapons built a fort around the house of the Brahmin that
not even an element could enter into it. The detail of the
installation that Arjuna did pleased the Brahmin and he
further praised. Then a lady assistant came from inside the
house and informed that the labour pains have started. The
Brahmin looked to Arjuna. Arjuna was sure that nothing
would go wrong. The Brahmin was happy.
The child was delivered and then a lady came out of
the house and said that a male child was born. The Brahmin
was so happy. But four minutes later the same lady came
and said that the child has died. The Brahmin looked at
Arjuna and said, What have you done! You have not been
able to save the child. You have demonstrated a lot of pomp
with all your archery but the purpose is not accomplished. I
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think you have more fame than what you really deserve.
Why did you make such tall claims that you will come and
save? Why did you interfere into my request to Krishna at
all? I was asking Krishna and as though you were capable you
have poked your nose into it. You gave me lots of
assurances. Now the child died. Curse on your powers!
Curse on your fame! Curse on your name!
The Brahmin was emotionally outrageous. Arjuna
had no word to speak. Again the Brahmin went to the
initiate who gave the original consultation. The initiate said
the same thing, Go to Krishna and seek his help! The
Brahmin said, But the child already died. The initiate
repeated, Go to Krishna and seek his help, because the
men of wisdom they don't forget what they have advised.
Any number of times people come to them, with patience
they give the same advice until it is followed.
The Brahmin and Arjuna returned and throughout
the journey the Brahmin was criticising Arjuna. For Arjuna
the onward journey was one of praise and the return
journey was one of criticism and scandal. Arjuna was
totally down. He wondered how it happened like that. They
travelled back by a day. By the time seven days were over.
Krishna's father completed the ritual and Krishna was free.
When Arjuna and the Brahmin arrived in a chariot, Krishna
could see Arjuna's face. It was amusing to him to see his
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face. It was like a child who was denied a chocolate! No

glow in the face, the eyes were looking down and not up to
Krishna. Arjuna was mum.
The Brahmin opened his mouth and said, I have
come to seek your help. I told you that you are the only one
who can help me and you have sent this man and he has
spoilt the whole case. I have lost my child. Krishna said,
You are only a Brahmin by birth, but not a Brahmin by
wisdom. You are emotionally charged. You don't see the
truth and you don't see your own folly. You are totally
confused. Don't say that I have denied to help you. It is all
your understanding. I never denied to help you. I said that I
will come after two days and help you. Did I deny to help
you? So, you are false, when you say that I denied to help
you. Another false statement from you is that I have sent
Arjuna with you. I have not sent Arjuna with you. Arjuna
wanted to go with you and save your child. He asked me. I
did not say 'Yes'. I said, 'If you think, you can go.' It does not
mean that I have sent him. You don't have proper ears to
listen. You listen half and assume another half and decide
by yourself. You put your proposal in my mouth and say that
I have said like this, I have said like that, which I see very
commonly among people.
Krishna continued: First you answer me, if I have denied
you to help.
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Brahmin: I am sorry. You did not deny. The only thing is you
said that you will come later.
Krishna: So, if I come later, what happens? I said I will
come later and save. Did I not say that?
Brahmin: You said it.
Krishna: You said that you have come for my help. Why did
you take Arjuna's help, if you have come for my help? You
say that I am the only one who can save and you are told so
by an initiate. When you are told that I am the only one who
can help and you have also told me that, why did you not
rely upon your own statement? You did not rely upon your
own statement, you did not properly listen to what I said,
and you got diverted by Arjuna's proposal and you felt that
Arjuna could do the job and you took him with you and now
you come back and in the whole process Arjuna is made a
fool.
Arjuna: My dear Lord, don't I have the power with your
Presence to help the child?
Krishna: Yes, you have the power, but the only thing you
did was you have volunteered unasked. The nature decided
that I should save the child. That is how this Brahmin came
to me. You should not have got into the situation. Can I not
put off the entire Mahabharata War in one day? You fought
the war for 18 days with my celestial wheel. Could I not
have concluded the war in one day? Why did I not do so? Why
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did I remain your chariot driver and conducted the war for
18 days? The nature intended that you and your brothers
will fight the war. It is not a question of capability, it is a
question of the nature's intention. If the nature's intention
is that I should conduct the war, the incidents would have
taken place in a different way. You are not keen to know
which is your lot to do and which is other's lot to do.
Then you say about my Presence. My Presence is
with you, if you follow my suggestion. If you propose, you
have to dispose. The proposal was yours and what did I tell
you: 'You may do so, if you think so.' I did not tell you to go
and I shall be with you. Be careful in listening! You have not
done it and hence you suffer this ignominy. This Brahmin
does not deserve any kind of help from me, because he is a
confused one and he is not capable of receiving help, even
if it is there. But since you are my good friend and my
devotee, to ensure that your fame is not put to scandal, for
your sake I will come and save the child even now.
Then Krishna put the Brahmin and Arjuna in his
chariot and went into planes of existence. After a while the
Brahmin and Arjuna got frightened and Arjuna said, For
the first time in my life I am frightened. Krishna said, If
you are frightened, close your eyes. The Brahmin already
closed his eyes. After a while the chariot returned. In the
return journey Krishna said to both of them, You may open
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your eyes. When they opened their eyes, they saw the
child also in the chariot.
This story is very elaborately given in Bhagavata. It
is a story with a moral: not to poke your nose into others'
affairs unless you are invited. You would not only lose your
nose, but everything related to your reputation. Nature
cannot tolerate all the time. This principle is very well
demonstrated in the lives of great beings. You can see it in
the life of Rama, you can see it in the life of Krishna
abundantly.
I give you one more story from the life of Sr Rama.
Rama and his brother Lakshmana along with the great
initiate Vishwa Mitra, the Seer who gave Gayatri Mantra,
they went to a city called Mithila, where the king was
Janaka. Janaka had a daughter by name Sita who was born
not out of the womb of the mother, but through self-will.
Janaka knew that it is the Mother divine who took to
incarnation by herself and he thought that he should look
for the right match to his daughter. As Janaka had the bow
of Shiva in his house, he decided that whosoever could lift
up the bow, bend the bow and link the string, to such person
he would give his daughter in marriage.
Janaka was explaining everything to Vishwa Mitra,
and he explained that no one could so far lift the bow. They
were talking at length about the power of the bow and how
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so many kings and even celestials failed to lift up the bow.

Rama listened to everything, but did not respond. After a
while Vishwa Mitra said, Dear Rama, would you have a try
at it, if you can lift the bow? Then Rama said, If you say
so, yes. He did not come forward to say that he could do it
or try it. He was confident that he could, but he never said
anything until Vishwa Mitra asked, Would you please try?
Then he said, If you say so, I shall do so. He went up to the
bow, lifted it up with great ease and stringed the bow, and
the bow got broken. He only wanted to string it, but it got
broken. The whole royal court was surprised. The secret of
Shiva's bow is: It bows down to Shiva, to Vishnu, and to the
one who is a Master of OM.
In Ramas hands it gave way out of ecstasy and it
broke down. Then Janaka said, Now that he broke the bow,
my daughter is offered to him in marriage. There were so
many kings who were awaiting to marry that lady. When she
was offered to Rama, Rama said, Please ask my parents. I
was asked to lift the bow. I did it, but about the offering of
the girl, I need my father's permission who is the emperor of
the land. Such is the obedient way the great ones behave.
Also in Krishna's life at every step he did not go uninvited
anywhere he just did not move uninvited. 'Stay put' is his
policy. If you are invited, go. If not invited, don't go! Invited
means: the nature is inviting through the agency of the
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people. Such dimensions are inherent in this hymn. It makes

you listen well. When you make an introspection relating to
your desires and to your thoughts which the mind keeps on
proposing, hold them.
If they are to be, the proposal will come from the
other side. Many times that is the sure way of responding.
Suppose, in my prayer I get a thought that I should advise
Anna about a particular thing. It does not mean that I
impose myself on her. If that is what nature intends
eventually Anna also gets the idea: Why don't I consult
Kumar? So, when she comes to the consultation already the
solution is given by the nature to me. Suppose, in my
presence Julieta asks Dierk for some homoeo remedy. I have
nothing to do in it, even if I know homoeopathy. She is
asking him, and he is to give. That is how nature arranges. It
is not for me to poke in. Of course, Dierk respects even if I
answer her question which is made by her to him. If I do
that, it is considered as an over-action. If nature decides
that I have to suggest medicine, she would ask me or Dierk
would ask me, Julieta wants a medicine and her symptoms
are these. I am trying to give this medicine. Is that okay?
But if somebody asks someone and then you give
the answer, it is a fundamental lack of discipline. Why I am
saying this is: You have to observe the nature. Many times
we get a lot of spiritual inspirations from within, that you
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have to do this, that you have to do that, not about others,

about ourselves. Any book that came out from my
teachings, the thoughts come to me first, but I wait till it is
persistently asked. Each person has a lot of love for himself.
Whatever he does is very great to him. But will it be
acceptable to others? If it is so, the nature will propose
from the other. You don't have to jump into situations with
your own sprouts of thoughts. To go uninvited, to interfere
uninvited, to advise unasked these are all kindergarten
games, not good enough in the field of occultism. You study
the scriptures from this angle and see how people
responded to the call of the nature.
Even if we have divine dreams, do not base your
actions on it. If the dreams are a kind of pre-information
about things to happen, the related event comes to you like
that. You are alerted before, that is all. You cannot base on
a dream and do things. Someone will come and propose the
same thing. That is the beauty. Whatever you have
experienced in the dream, in meditation or in your
intuition, if it is intuitional, the related event comes to you
from outside. Then smile inside and respond. You don't have
to say that you know it already from your dream.
This precision comes to you, if you sincerely work
out the message of this hymn. We are too fast, too early to
express and many times we only do mistakes and we have to
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take back many things that we have said and retreat from
the progress made. So, be observing the desires you get
from inside and make note of the thoughts you get from
inside. If it is the Divine will or the Mother's will, the
proposal will come up to you. There are thousands of
examples that can be given. I just close it up with one more
example.
First time when I came to Europe there was a strong
desire in me to see the Eiffel Tower. I was there with Master.
By mere asking he would have definitely obliged. I did not
want to. If this desire is meaningful, it should happen. See,
the power is in waiting, not in just speaking and running
around. One day when Mister Marcel Nolting, Master E.K.
and me were traveling in a car, the desire was bothering
me. Already three weeks were over and if I do not speak it
out, I may not see it. Just put it out of your lips, it will
happen, because the Master is a very obliging Master. But
then the man inside said, No! Hold it! I am not able to
hold it, I am trying to hold it like that I was fighting
inside. Suddenly, Marcel Nolting spoke. He told Master E.K.,
Master, should we not show Kumar the Eiffel Tower? My
spirits went very high. But I had to wait what Master says.
Master is Master! He looked to me and said, What do you
say? I said, Ah, I am also thinking like that. Then Master
told Marcel Nolting, Yes, Kumar also thinks like that. If
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there is time, let us make a visit to the Eiffel Tower. It

happened. It is only to give a petty example. Not only that,
if you have a desire to eat something, you wait. Put it to the
Mother. The proposal will come from the surrounding
persons. If it is not to be, take it that it is not the will of the
Mother. This is a path by itself. If you are bold, take to that
path.
That was the path given to Yudhisthira by Lord
Krishna. Krishna said to Yudhisthira, The time to be is full
of crises and you shall be the central point of crises. If you
carefully follow what nature intends by waiting and
responding, you will come out unscathed. If not, you will
sink with it. Yudhisthira accepted that Path and worked it
out.
Likewise Jesus. He knew that the soldiers come,
that he gets crucified, but he did not precipitate it. He did
what is to be done. As it came, he accepted. It is a
dimension that you have to think well, where actions do not
get initiated from you. You hold the horse of your mind and
ensure that what is due to you is received and don't put your
mouth everywhere in the meanwhile. That is the message
of this hymn. What the hymn says is:
I shall look to the light of the Mother in my desires.
I shall look to the light of the Mother in my thoughts.
I shall look to the light of the Mother in my speech.
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I shall be kind to the animals seeing that they are also forms
of the Mother, and even when I see food, I see it as a form of
the Mother and do not see something to be immediately
gulped.
This is how I shall conduct a way of life that I see in all things
the Mother.
This is one way I shall ensure that the Mother reaches me
and blesses me.
That is how this hymn gives a Path to Truth, a Path to Light.

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ELEVENTH HYMN
MSql mepi qr xpu MSq |
r uxr q Ms qiU mqslq ||
KARDAMENA PRAJ BHT MAYI SAMBHAVA KARDAMA
SRYAM VSAYA ME KULE MTARAM PADMA MLINM
Kardamena

: by the prajapati Kardama

Prajabhutaha

: she became mother of children

Kardama

: Oh Sage Kardama

Mayi

: in me

Sambhava

: be born

Padmamalineem: Her, who has the garland of lotuses

Mataram

: Her, who is the mother

Sriyam

: Her, who is the Goddess of Splendour

Mekule

: among my clan

Vasaya

: make her live

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MEANING:
The Goddess of splendour, who is adorned with the
garland of Lotuses, is made the mother of children by the
Prajapati Kardama. Therefore, Oh, Kardama, you be born
in me. Make Her live among my clan.
COMMENTARY:
Akasa when manifest, it is air and air further
manifests as fire, through fire water manifests and through
water matter manifests. So, the source of all the five
elements is Akasa which is called the ether of the space. At
every stage of the seven planes there is a triangle of
Prajapatis (patriarchs). They are considered to be 21.
At that stage where the water takes to the form of
earth in the involutionary process there are certain
proportionate admixtures of matter with water, fire and
air. That is conducted by an intelligence and that matter
manifests up to the visible form. That means, the Prajapati
Kardama is the principle that transforms the invisible to the
visible aspect of creation. We know from the scriptures that
the creation and the beings relating to this Earth were
opaque and slowly they took to the coats of skin. The beings
took to the coats of skin and the opaque Eden Garden got
solidified as all that we see now. It is a state before such
dense physical formation, where people did not have the
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gross physical bodies. To enable this to happen there is a

Prajapati who works on it. His speciality is the Golden ray
utilisation, thereby the golden bodies get prepared from
the causal and enable further precipitation of matter.
Before such formation the South Pole is not formed. Only
the North Pole with the Northern hemisphere remains. The
beings also were of this state of Anuras. Anuras means:
beings without legs, capable of flying. That is what in Spain
we have seen as a sacral place as Nuria. If you take from
Nuria the 'a' at the end and prefix it, it becomes Anura.
Anura is a state of being in the involutionary process.
The being is formed up to 30 Scorpio and
thereafter Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius and Pisces, they
are in the reversed order. The first eight sun signs formed
from Aries to Scorpio and the rest of the four sun signs have
a double path. From Sagittarius there is a downward path
and an upward path. This I have explained, when we were
speaking about Venus. The paths are called Devayana and
Pitriyana. The Souls return through Sagittarius into higher
circles. Those who are not inclined to come to the dense
physical are considered as the children of the Divine Path.
The others are called the children of Karmic Path. The
children of the Divine Path are called the children of God.
That is the junction point upon which Kardama presides,
and the colour of Kardama is golden yellow. Sagittarius
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presided over by Jupiter is golden in colour. From

Mladhra there is a path of return. 0 Sagittarius is called
Mula, the corner, from which you can take a turn or get into
objectivity, into the dense matter. The whole Path of Yoga
now proposed over years is to return from Mladhra into
higher circles. Those who return from Mladhra into
higher circles do not allow energies to get into the thighs
and hence they are called the thighless ones. So, the
thighless ones are called Anuras.There is a story of Anura.
There was a mother by name Vinata. She was to
give birth to two great beings and the creation was at that
stage giving birth to egg-born beings. We all know about
mind-born, egg-born, sweat-born and the fire-born. Like
this, there are many categories. So, two great beings were
to be born, if the mother hatches the two eggs for 1000
years each. After 500 years the mother was too inquisitive.
She broke open one of the eggs and then she found a
brilliant being only formed up to the hip and the thighs were
about to be formed. The being said, You are impatient,
you could have waited till 1000 years. Do you know the
consequence of your breaking the egg prematurely? On
account of your own anxiety and speedy over-action you
will walk into slavery. This tendency of you will slowly make
you a slave of your own making. I am not the loser by this
half-formation. I have a duty to drive the chariot of the
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Sun. So, with his wings he flew to the Sun and took to the
charge of driving the chariot of the Solar God. It is him
whom we see in the morning before the sunrise as the
orange light. His name is Anura and since he shines with
orange light, he is called Aruna.
All the stories in Mahabharata indicate the root
races. In Mahabharata you have persons who are sweatborn, pot-born(Kumbha), fire-born and born through the
elements. If you make a keen study of the first chapter, it is
a total presentation of the Secret Doctrine in terms of
cosmogenesis, but you need to know the symbolism of the
scriptures which I have been speaking specially in this
seminar about the cows, the horses, about many others.
You should know the symbolism and study.
Then the mother asked the child, How would I
again be liberated from the future slavery? He said, Don't
break the other egg until it completes 1000 years. And
after 1000 years the great being Garuda was born to her.
That is the eagle which is again in the constellation of
Sagittarius. You call it Aquila constellation. He is the one
who leads the beings into the higher regions. The story of
Garuda was described in great detail in January 1995 during
the Indian group life. It has all the clues to reach the truth.
Why I narrate this story: It relates to Sagittarius. Sagittarius
relates to Kardama, where there is the golden light which
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can give birth to the purest of the matter followed by the

sun sign Capricorn. This Kardama eventually became also
the father of the first teacher of the planet, called Kapila.
These details relating to Kardama and Kapila are given in
the book Sankhya.
The doctrine of Sankhya is a synthesis of Yoga:
Vairagya detached attitude towards life, Jnana the pure
knowledge and Bhakti the devotion of the highest order.
These aspects were presented even before the creation
took to the gross form, as it is now. That is the foremost
teaching on the planet. Along with the formations of the
beings the teachings also flew and Kapila is said to be one of
the incarnations of the divine. Bhagavata describes 21
Avatars of which 10 are highlighted. There are 11 others,
and Kapila is one of the most important ones. He remains as
number Consciousness in us. When the globe and the beings
were getting solidified, he came and gave the teaching and
remained as a principle within the column of light in each
being. It is he who bestows on us the Yoga, the knowledge,
the superior aspect of devotion and the consequent
detachment and makes us grow in terms of awareness.
This teaching of Kapila to his mother is located in
that part of the globe which is today called California. It is
one of those most mysterious and also deeply spiritual
places on the planet. So, he came out at the advent of the
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globe in its full form from semi-circle to full circle. Kapila's

father Kardama was the one who caused complete
formation of the globe. That means, he is the one who
presides over that aspect of the work of the Mother. He is
the presiding angel relating to the golden hue.
The Mother has a very detailed organisation and
each one is entrusted with a work. These are called the
patriarchs or the Prajapatis. The Prajapati who is in charge
of transformation of golden light into solid matter, is called
Kardama. He also exists in us. The beauty of the human
form is: All the intelligences of the universe do exist in the
human body. So, he bestows the etheric vehicle with his
resplendent golden hue. That is why the prayer is to him.
The Mother is born out of Kardama. The Mother
Earth is born out of the golden hue and the golden hue is
presided over by Kardama.
Kardamena Praj Bht the one that is born out of
Kardama.
What is born out of Kardama is the golden body, the
golden light which is described in the very first hymn
Hiranya Varnm.
Mayi Sambhava Kardama please, be born to us.

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Sryam Mtaram Padma Mlinm the splendorous Mother

of garland of lotuses.
Padma is lotus, Mlin is the garland. The Mother is
called Mlin, because she holds all the systems as her
garland. All planets are knit together by her. Invisibly they
are interlinked. Likewise, all solar systems are interlinked.
They are all the lotuses relating to the garland of the
Mother.
Vsaya reside
Me Kule in our clan
There is a worship of the general overall universal
light and also the specific points where a particular aspect
of life can be stimulated. It is very practical. To pray in
general the light is one thing and then to focus upon an
aspect of light for immediate manifestation is another
thing. It is one electricity. But there is a switch for the light,
there is a plug for these operators, there is another switch
for the refrigerator and still another switch for the stove.
Which part of electricity you would like to be stimulated?
That is how the Vedic knowledge detailed itself into
the many aspects of One Light and then you can specifically
go to that aspect and receive that aspect of light. Any
interaction with these electrical operators is interaction
with electricity also. It is a kind of applied technology. I
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always say that it is the spiritual technology. While the

Mother is worshipped, her desire aspect is also worshipped.
When we spoke about the Cupid, likewise here the worship
is to that Prajapati who specially manifests the golden
light. The one who has given birth to the golden light may
himself be born in me, Mayi Sambhava, may be born to me
or be born to us, Kardama.
This is a way of recognising something by which it is
awakened in you. When we recognise something that
energy gets awakened in us. When we recognised Uranus,
concurrently Uranus started working with our system and
the beings of the system. That which you recognise is also
recognised interiorly.
That point in you which can manifest the golden
light exists in higher Mladhra. Sagittarius represents
higher Mladhra and is the sign of Initiation. It is the 9th
house. 9th house is the house of Initiation. That is how you
have to link up the various statements about a sun sign. So,
the immediate initiation is into golden light. That golden
light is being recognised to start with and is prayed for
concurrently with the Mother.
Padma Mlin stands for the garland of lotuses.
The Mother of the garland of lotuses who is also
splendorous, Sryam. Sryam also means the bestower of
welfare.
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Vsaya - may reside.

Me Kule - in my clan or in my group.
This is a groupal prayer. Here the worshipper is
requesting Kardama and the golden light to be born in the
group and give the related splendour. That means, for the
entire group this is a prayer to bestow the golden light and
the golden form which is the etheric form. Me Kule can
refer to my family, it can be my clan, it can be my group, the
group to which I belong, to that entire group let the light be
bestowed. That prayer is to the Prajapati Kardama, the
patriarch, to the golden light and we are seeking the Mother
through him. This is the importance of this prayer. So, may
the Mother reside in our group and the adjective of the
Mother is: She has a garland of lotus flowers and She is
splendorous and She bestows welfare.
This garland exists in us from Sahasrra to
Mladhra, it is a garland of lotuses with different numbers
of petals and different colours. The seven Chakras are
seven lotuses. They are Chakras in a conditioned man, a
karmic man. In a disciple they are lotuses. Lotus represents
unfolding nature. Chakra represents self-binding nature.
By our own behaviour either we condition ourselves more
and more or unfold ourselves more and more. That is why
here the related words of lotus, garland, splendour are
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used. This is a prayer to the immediate superior plane of

existence to what we are now in. When you have love of
light, love of Mother, love of God, you are never satisfied
with one prayer. You conceive thousands of varieties to
pray. That is why worship prayers are unlimited, and the
best of those survive time.
Prayers of smaller vibration have shorter time and
prayers which touch the truth live like truth and they do not
die. From time to time they inspire people and put them
into the path of light. So, only time-tested prayers are to be
used by intelligent students of occultism, because the
human brain is very creative. Many prayers come these
days. The prayers coming from Initiates are different than
the prayers coming from others. The teachings coming from
initiates are different from other teachings. They stand the
test of time. The time does not only test them. On the
contrary, the time preserves them and activities of lesser
truth they have their mortality. It is always better to
associate with truth and function or to associate with
someone who is an embodiment of truth. That is the sure
way to progress. The other ways are experimental. And we
are not prevented from experimentation.
Here this prayer is the prayer to a patriarch, and
through the patriarch to the Mother. See, all these great
beings like patriarchs, are all proximate to the Mother,
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because day and night they only work for her and they have
no personal agenda. They are totally submitted and work
for the Plan. So, you are pleading such a one also along with
the Mother. It also opens another dimension to us: to
respect those who are ahead of us on the path. Just because
we take to the habit of worshipping the Mother, it does not
mean that we disrespect those who are superior to us.
Superiors are those who have walked a little more
proximate or less distant to the Mother.
When you make an effort to reach the ultimate
light, you also have the cooperation of the Devas. It is very
common. Suppose you have gained friendliness of the
friend of the Prime Minister. Is not your access to the Prime
Minister made easy? If you have to work with the Spanish, is
it not easier to work through Jesus? It is a facility. Likewise
to work with Germans, to have a German friend who knows
English or who knows Telugu is a facility to make entry. This
is a 3rd ray quality of intelligent utilisation of the divine
intelligences to reach the ultimate divinity. You don't have
to disregard all the intelligences of all the planes, just
because you worship the God Absolute. The one who is in
love of God conceives thousand ways of worshipping and
those who are time-tested have greater impact on us. That
is how these most ancient prayers continue to live and
inspire.
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TWELFTH HYMN
Am xeli xlakl cYsi ux q aW |
l c Su qiU r uxr q Ms ||
PAH SRUJANTU SNIGDHNI CHIKLTA VASA ME GRUHE
NICHA DEVM MTARAM SRYAM VSAYA ME KULE
Chikleeta

: Sage Chikleeta

Apaha

: the waters of life

Snigdhani

: the glittering ones

Srujantu

: may they create

Me Gruhe

: in my house

Vasa

: to live

Maataram

: Her, who is the mother

Sriyam Devim

: Her, who is Goddess Sri

Me Kule

: in my clan

Ni Vasaya

: make her live

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MEANING:
Oh Sage Chikleeta! You see that waters of life
create beings on earth that are glittering and radiant with
life. To that effect you live in my house. You pray the
Goddess of Splendour that She continues to exist in my
clan.
COMMENTARY:
Vsaya Me Kule is common between both the hymns.
Vsaya please reside
Me Kule in our groups, or in our clan, or in our house, or in
our family.
It is according to how you identify your group. You
can take the whole human family or you can take you, your
wife and your child or you can only take it to yourself
depending upon your concept of inclusion.
Mtaram O Mother!
Devm the aggregate of all lights of the universe, the
original light
Sryam splendour, welfare, the light of Ajna
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SA is the sound relating to Ajna centre. The fire of

Ajna is called Srm. The fire of golden light is Hrm. The
light of the Word is Aim. The light of joy is Klm. You find all
these sounds in the fire ritual: Aim, Klm, Srm, Hrm.
Anything ending up with m is relating to the light, because
light is the Mother. Here the Mother is prayed to be in our
family or group. We are all one family. But it is all how you
define what your family is. When you generally feel that we
all belong to one family and interact in that manner, I have
many houses to live. If I think my family means my wife and
my two children, then I have only one house to live.
Commercially also it is more profitable to think larger! Even
if you are a student of economics, it is better economics
that you share with others, so also the others will share with
you and then it is splendorous.
You have to increase your own circumscription of 'I
AM' or ours. As much as you enlarge, so much it is
splendorous. So, here the hymn again seeks the habitation
of the Mother in our group, in our family, in our race and for
that the agency is another patriarch. It is called Chiklta.
Chiklta the sprinkling patriarch. He is the one who
sprinkles pure waters of life.
pah pure water. Pure waters are full of life.
Srujantu to manifest, to create
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pah + Srujantu creation of pure waters of life

Snigdhni specially pure crystal-clear waters of life
Where should he sprinkle? He should sprinkle in our
houses, the bodies. We are also seeking that patriarch to
live with us and favour us. Earlier we wanted Kardama to
stay with us. Now we are asking the sprinkler to stay with
us, so that he will sprinkle fresh waters of life. That means a
clean and pure vital body, a reinforced vital body.
Reinforcement of vital body is possible through activities of
purity, which are described, in the earlier hymns.
Having taken a vow to be pure, having conducted
oneself in purity, the worshipper is now asking for the
golden hue and also for full vitality, so that immortality is
eventual. Our death is due to the gradual recession of
vitality and due to destruction of the etheric body. While
the physical body of flesh and blood is with us, we have to
first strengthen our vital body through a discipline vis--vis
the outer life and develop the body of golden light.
The intelligence relating to the vital body is
Chiklta and the intelligence relating to the golden body is
Kardama. We are seeking them to be favourable to us and
thereby make it easy to gain the Presence of the Mother.
That is how the two hymns are conceived. The hymn
relating to Chiklta relates to the life-giving energy as
between etheric and physical. Please remember, life
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principle exists through all the seven planes. That was

explained in the beginning, when I was speaking to you
about Asva. Life exists on the physical plane, on the etheric
plane, causal plane and even on the planes beyond. As soon
as the light emerges, life emerges. Light and life are
concurrently born along with time and force.
Here the sprinkling of waters relates to the
development of the body of flesh and blood to full health
with the help of the vital body. That is the prayer here. It is
a kind of germinating principle, the germination of life in
us. Chiklta also has the ability to make the matter wet.
Unless the matter is made wet, life cannot spring. The
earth is made wet by rain. Consequently there is the growth
of vegetation and the growth of life. That is in relation to
the planet. The healthy growth of limbs and the healthy
reflex actions of the limbs and the full growth of the body
depend upon the degree of vitality. In a fertile land the tree
can grow up to its optimum.
That fertility is the life principle in relation to the
matter, which is conducted, by a principle called Chiklta.
He is the sprinkler that makes the matter wet; the matter
of the planet and the matter in us. Matter in us means the
matter in all the beings. That is what exists in us as the vital
body and what causes the related assimilation of food
taken. The original understanding of food is also different.
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Food originally meant the resultant energy out of our

eating. What we eat is not food! The result of what we eat is
food. If we assimilate well and build the related energy and
keep the body fit, that energy is called food. If that what we
eat does not give energy, we are eating something other
than food.
We have shifted our identity of food from the
original understanding of assimilation to its raw material.
That which we call food today is the raw material relating
to food. When it is put through the process of digestion and
assimilation, it generates energy. That energy is originally
conceived in the scriptures as food. We can only consider
that as food, which can be assimilated by our body and
which in turn, gives us energy. If that which we eat is not
assimilated, it becomes poison. So, all food is not food. We
call all that which we eat as food, but it is not food!
If you go to the precise original definition of these
words, we can understand what exactly our elders meant
by food. By food they meant that which we can assimilate
and which gives energy. If something is not assimilated,
that is not food for you. Potato may not be food for all. It
may be good for somebody. What is food for one is not food
for others. Lentils may be food for some, but not for all. You
cannot make a general rule. Each person has to find what
keeps his body energetic.
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If we have disease, the scriptures very clearly say

that the disease is the result of wrong understanding of
food. If you carefully analyse what you eat and then know
what is good or digestible for you, avoid other things. Even
when you know what is digestible, avoid large quantities.
We have to decide the quality of food, quantity of food, its
purity, and our attitude towards it. These are all the
regulations that would result in really eating food. Man eats
not only to energise himself but also to get sick! If there is a
deeper sickness, it is the sickness that demands food from
inside that which helps the sickness to grow.
Mostly the sickness, which is the anti-life in you,
keeps demanding its food and slowly it will put you off. That
is why those who drink cannot come out of the drink. Those
who smoke cannot come out of the smoking habit. Those
who eat unhealthy food cannot come out of it. To those who
like sweets the nature gives the message: Don't eat
sweets. Our attitude towards sweets shall have to be
changed. If someone has more pressure of blood, the
message is clear, Take less fatty food or fat-free food, and
don't use salt. Excessive use of salt and sour liquids can
pump up the blood pressure. The blood is not kept pure,
when fats accumulate in the blood.
If you see the book 'Esoteric Healing', Master
Djwhal Khul gives some hints to some diseases. He traces all
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rheumatic arthritis to the romance with food. There are

people who have great desire for food and they indulge in
excessive eating and feeling about food. Those are the ones
who get rheumatic arthritis. Likewise, in the Science of
Ayurveda and Yoga, they have given many hints about
health.
You know the centers or the Chakras. In-between
these centers or Chakras, there are the planes. All these
planes are planes of life and each plane of life is seen as an
ocean. The ocean between Muladhara and the Sacral is
called the salty ocean. There is much salt water
surrounding the Earth. In man, the planes are built one
within the other, and for the Earth the layers are built in the
contrary way. For us inside the material there is the water
and then you get fire, then you get air and then you get
Akasa. This is how the centers are.
For the Earth it is the other way. That is why we are
on the Earth. Its formation is just opposite to our formation.
For us, the innermost chamber is the White Island. For the
Earth the outermost boundary is the White Island. This you
can see both in Secret Doctrine and also in Bhagavata. That
is how we are linked to Earth. Earth's South Pole is our North
pole, and hence we are linked to Earth. Coming back to us,
the immediate layer inside is of salt waters. That is why if
you taste your sweat, it is a bit salty. It does not taste
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sweet. If the proportion of salt increases through salty

food, you get diseases. If you do not want to have excessive
emotional pressure, you have to keep your salt habit at its
minimum. A Yogi's tongue rejects, if there is a little too
much salt. By nature he eats less salt.
Between sacral and solar plexus there is an ocean
of sweet. If the sweet that you supply is not to be
assimilated, the pancreas says, No, thank you, I don't want
to cooperate with your sweet eating. Oblige the body!
Give the body what it wants. Don't give what you want! To a
petrol vehicle you have to give petrol. For another type of
vehicle, you have to give gasoline and for an aeroplane, it is
still different. You cannot say all this is the same fuel. We
had coal engines, steam engines, diesel engines, and today
we have electrical engines among railways. We cannot give
gasoline, steam or coal to the electrical engines. As the
bodies evolve, they decide what is the fuel for them. If your
habits are not in tune with what the body demands, your
alkaline balances go wrong. You cannot afford to lose your
salt balances and your alkaline balances.
Between solar plexus and heart there is an ocean of
alcohol. Alcohol in the sense, it secretes certain liquids
which give you sleep. There are foods which can give you
sleep. If you eat heavily also, you get it. That is how sacral
centre always demands everything in its excess. If it cannot
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be assimilated, the food brews over there. There is a

regular fermentation like a brewery, a distillery, and then it
secretes fluids, which will cause you laziness, dull brains,
inactive body and always feeling like sleeping. Such persons
always look for a comfortable bed, because they are
anxious about their sleep and they always plan very well for
their sleep.
Between heart center and the throat center there
is a milky ocean, where you have much light. That is why
milk as a product is strongly recommended in the Path of
Yoga for many reasons. One of the reasons is that it cleans
all the body tissues. It gives all the needed minerals and
vitamins to the body. Thanks to our civilization we have
even spoilt milk. We do not know how healthy is our milk.
Likewise, between the throat center and the Ajna
there is an ocean. It is related to yoghurt. Yoghurt means
light solidified, because milk is shaky. Beyond throat it is a
question of how solid is the light, how stable is the light.
Between Ajna and Sahasrra it is crystal pure water. It is
called the 'waters of the heaven', and in Sahasrra there is
the White Island.
All this is just information to think about which kind
of food effects in which center and how are we to gradually
evolve in our eating habits. I said all this because of
assimilation which relates to the vitality aspect in us, and
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that is presided over by a patriarch called Chiklta. He

sprinkles waters of life and keeps the system intact and
enables transmission of energies from higher centres. That
is why there is full life and there is full expression of the
light.
Chiklta is requested that he may be favourable
and reside with us, so that we experience the splendour of
life, the intended welfare. All beings are wished well
before they are sent on to the planet. So, the intended
welfare can be experienced.

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THIRTEENTH HYMN
AS mwMUh m ms mqslq |
ClS WUhqr sq eiuS q AuW ||
RDRM PUSHKARINM PUSHTIM PINGALM PADMA
MALINM
CHANDRM HIRAN MAYM LAKSHMM JTAVEDO
MAMVAHA
Jatavedah

: Oh Fire, the birth-place of Wisdom

Aardraam

: red and moist

Pushkarineem : one who causes fullness

Pingalaam

: of honey colour

Padmamalineem: bearing a wreath of lotuses

Chandraam

: the Goddess presiding the Moon

Hiranmayeem

: of Golden Colour

Lakshmeem

: the Goddess of Wealth

Mamavaha

: may She possess me

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MEANING:
Oh God of Fire, the birthplace of Wisdom, may the
Goddess of wealth possess me. She is the splendour of
fullness in glowing red, who radiates honey colour. This
Goddess of the Moon shines in golden beams and is found
decorated with a garland of lotuses. May the Goddess
possess me.
COMMENTARY:
Most of the terms are explained in the previous
hymns itself. Hence it should not become difficult to pass
through the two hymns.
rdrm This was very elaborately described in the
beginning. I make a brief recapitulation.
rdrm relates to the coral on the physical plane.
The corals which people wear as chains around their neck
are expected to bring splendour and luck. The colour of the
coral has the related warmth of the heart. It is
recommended that this coral chain is held inside touching
the skin, but not outside for show. It gives the necessary
warmth of heart and stimulates cordiality. The warmth of
any person, not the body heat, is what comforts the people
around. A person with warmth of heart is liked by all. People
would like to meet him again and again. They don't get
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satisfied any number of times they meet him. This is the

warmth in the higher degrees that enables one to stand fit
for Initiation. It is not only the head! Head and heart have to
be balanced. Many times the warmth of the heart should
extend and then the head should follow. It should be the
approach of every truth seeker, that the heart is larger and
gives comfort to the surroundings and the head follows the
heart. That is the Path of Hierarchy.
If we wish to follow the Path of Hierarchy, we have
to develop necessarily cordial qualities. Cordiality, if
ignored and if the head foreruns the heart, there will be
cardiac arrest. Please ensure, if you wish to invoke the
name of any great one, that the first step of the day starts
with cordiality and the last step of the day concludes with
cordiality. Each one has to see for himself how much cordial
he is, and not expect how much cordial others are. This is
the most important term relating to the qualities of the
Mother.
The blood also relates to the term rdrm. Then
the cordial quality and the cementing force that keeps our
body together. The life force is also called rdr and the
deep belonging that we feel towards the divinity is also
called rdra. It is the warmth of the divinity that gives the
real solace to the Soul. That warmth is distributed by the
Soul who receives. That is why the universal cementing
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element is called rdra. The body is kept together by the

life force. The planets are kept together by that force. The
Solar systems and clusters of Solar systems seen as stars in
the firmament all are seen to have been knit together by
the invisible force called love which is presided over by the
Mother. That is also called rdra.
There is also a constellation called rdra among
the 27 constellations. It is in the 3rd decanate of Taurus
where you find a constellation rdra with slightly reddish
colour. It is that constellation through which this quality is
supplied into the zodiac.
Pushkarinm a lake of lotuses.
A lake of lotuses is seen as beautiful. It is a symbol
for meditation to visualise a lake of crystal clear water
filled with lotuses, preferably white lotuses.
Contemplation upon the white lotus helps unfoldment of
consciousness. You can visualise in your forehead as many
lotuses as you can in crystal clear waters. The whole blue of
space is seen as the lake by the Seers, and all the clusters of
Solar systems seen as stars are likened to the lotuses.
That is how the Mother is worshipped as the blue
unlimited and from out of her there are the clusters of
systems unfolding. That is how She is worshipped as a
Pushkarinm.
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It also means,
Pushti Karini - She fulfils.
She is fulfilled, because She is the truth bearer. We
find a very noble character in Mahabharata called
Satyavati, the truth bearer. The noblest being in the
universe can only be the one who bears the truth and truth
is God. Truth is partially understood through religion.
Religion is too small to contain truth. It can only pave way to
truth. Truth can be found by each one by himself, within
himself. He can seek the helpers who found truth. It is a
choice given to him. It is not necessary that he should seek
from those who have known truth, but it is a facility.
The truth bearer is originally and essentially the
Mother and hence She is capable of bestowing that fullness
and fulfilling people at all levels and hence She is compared
to a lake of plenitude that bestows plentiful to the beings.
That is how Pushkarin is seen. Pushkarin is the blue sea of
the space and within that lake there are clusters of systems
like lotuses unfolded and the other meaning is: She is the
one who can bestow plenitude and bestow those lotuses to
all who seek.
The Chakras unfold into lotuses easily in the one
who follows the Path of Mother. As I said in the beginning:
Mother means the universal consciousness.

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Pushtim all-round development

If someone is round, we say, he is full. That is why
among all the symbols the sphere is seen as the most
perfect symbol. It has no angles. The cube is also a perfect
symbol and it has right angles, but still they are angles. In
the case of sphere there are no angles. All angles are
rounded up. If one becomes a grand Master and is bestowed
the 33rd degree of Masonary, he is said to be rounded up of
all angles. There is no angle in him. He is just a globe. It
does not hurt like an angle. It does not suffer inversion. You
can put it upside down, you can put it sideways, you can put
it in thousand ways and still it appears the same. That is
Pushti. That is fullness. That is the zero which can be
positive and negative alternatingly. It is not the way we
understand negative. Negative means: it can be potential,
it can be manifest.
When it is potential, it is seen as negative by the
observer. When it is manifest, it is seen as fullness. Only
fullness can have the ability to be nilness. Others cannot be
nil. If you can be nil, you can be full also. If you are 1, there
is 9 to counter it and make you zero. If you are 2, there is 8
to counter it. If you are 3, there is 7 to counter it. If you are
4, there is 6 to counter it. If you are 5, there is 5! It is
complementary and not countering. That is why in many
theologies the Son of God is given Number 5. The Kumaras
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are 5 in 3 planes which makes 15. 5 is Son of God in one

system. If you grow more than 5 and become number 6,
number 4 can counter you. If you become 7, number 3 can
counter you. If you become 8, number 2 can counter you.,
and if you become the biggest number 9, just 1 is enough.
Very often big personalities are neutralised by very simple
people.
Only 10 is the perfect figure. All other figures,
unless they learn to be complementary, have problems.
Only 5 does not have problems. That is why the Kumaras
have no problems in any plane of existence. They can freely
work in any plane of existence, because they can find their
level with the people they are dealing with. If you maintain
a fixed level, you are happy with those who meet you at
that level. A person who is of higher level or lower level
cannot become comfortable to you. There are people who
feel they are of higher level, and they are not comfortable
with people whom they think are of lower level. But the
people of lower level can be a challenge to the people of
higher level and vice versa. So, where do we meet level? At
number 5! And what is the 5th sign? Leo! What is its quality? It
is Love! It is Cordiality! That is the only level in creation.
Other levels are upside down and they have to set up again
to get upset! Only God is perfect whose number is 10 and
the Son of God whose number is 5. Others have problems of
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levels. For the intellectuals the emotionals are a problem.

But even in the emotional, the divinity has no objection to
reside in, but the intellectual has a problem. That is why
intellectuals are always encountered by emotionals and
emotionals have problems with intellectuals, because the
emotionals feel that they are disarmed before the
intellectuals. Each one has to learn from the other and find
a higher agreement. Superiors have conflicts with inferiors.
Inferiors have conflicts with superiors.
The Devas and the Asuras have always been
fighting, but with a Son of God neither the Asura fights nor
the Deva fights. They follow the golden middle path and
meet levels. It requires some Mercury to meet levels.
People who don't use their Mercury cannot meet levels.
Mercury can find the level. When we speak of Mercury level,
it measures up. If the heat is too high, it raises to meet. If it
is cold, it can come down and meet. In simplicity meet the
intellect with intellect! Meet the loveable as the loveable!
Meet a manipulator as manipulator! Meet a business man as
a business man! According to you I meet level. That is
fullness.
It is not possible for people who are fixed. People
are fixed in many ways. Their fixation with their dogmatic
concepts can never make them flexible and as much as man
is not flexible, so much he suffers. This you have to learn
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from the lives of the initiates. They meet levels and this
quality is with the Mother. That is why She is called
Pushtim. fullness.
How did the planets emerge? In round shapes! That
is also your original form, when you are formed in the womb
of the mother. Everything starts as a bubble. Space also
starts as a bubble. It does not emerge as a cube, and it
cannot emerge as a triangle, because we like triangles. If
someone is too fond of pyramids, still this pyramid cannot
come by itself. Be it pyramid, be it equilateral triangle, be
it square, be it cube, all polygons merge in the sphere. That
sphere is indicative of a totally rounded up situation. That
is why it is called cosmic egg, this egg, that egg. That is
Pushtim.
Pingalm the nerve that moves you upwards, Pingala
Nadi.
It is the Nadi or the channel of light that moves you
up. It relates to the law of evolution. Ida relates to
involution. The Mother is both Ida, Pingala and Sushumna.
The hymn only speaks of Pingala. That is the immediate
requirement of the truth seeker. Ida is done. That is why he
is here with all the impurities. Now he wants to rise. The
hymn is for those who wish to rise in their Consciousness.
Once he raises, then he can position in the center. That is
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why in all worships Pingala receives attention.

Manifestation is through Ida which is an involutionary
process. Materialisation is through Ida. Spiritualisation is
through Pingala. Then centralisation happens after we have
mastered Ida and Pingala and hence Pingala is spoken here.
In India they conceived Ganga as Ida and Yamuna as
Pingala. It is for that reason in the scriptures they say that
Krishna is found on the banks of Yamuna, but not Ganga.
Though Ganga is more famous and considered the holiest of
rivers by the Indians and they take regular dip into it. But
Krishna is found always on the banks of Yamuna, meaning:
the Pingala.
Pingala gives you spiritual experience, divine
proximity, Presence of your Master and the ultimate
Presence is the Presence of the Mother as light. The colour
of Pingala is honey colour. It is transparent golden yellow
colour which enables you to gain real spiritual experiences.
That means, even the golden hue which we have been
speaking of, at its transparency level it is called the colour
of Pingala. That means, vis--vis the etheric body you have
gained the most advanced states. Then you can dance with
Krishna the universal consciousness with you as the
individual consciousness. It is a poetic presentation in that
manner in the scriptures. Pingala relates to the Nadi
relating to the unfoldment of consciousness, the entry gate
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into spiritual experiences, and at its advanced states it

enables you to have divine romance. Since it is honey
coloured, honey also came to be as an important aspect in
spiritual life. People should use honey daily in their life and
it should be as natural as possible, because now we are
making everything artificial. The impact of honey on the
body is very well elaborated in Ayurveda. The fat in you is
easily burnt, if you take a lot of honey, because honey gives
heat and heat eats away the extra fat in the stomach. But
you should be able to bear with the heat. That is why for all
heavy weight situations Ayurveda suggests frequent
drinking of honey with water. It will burn up the fat which is
a kind of heavy manifestation.
Even otherwise to tone up the intestines and the
digestive system, you need to keep a big spoon full of honey
in the mouth and gradually taste with the tongue and the
palate. Don't be in a hurry to gulp it. The tongue gets
alerted, awakened and the tongue is the total
representative of the intestines and the digestive system.
How clean is your tongue tells an Ayurvedic doctor how
clean is your stomach. Unclean tongues are indicative of
unclean stomachs. Daily cleaning your tongue is as good as
cleaning the stomach. Don't think I am trying to impose
some Indian habits on you. Whether it is Indian or not, it is
healthy. Because the tongue is the ambassador of the
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stomach and the tongue should always taste agreeable to

the palate. People may not know, the tongue has a natural
taste by itself. When it is coated with too many things and
not cleaned, you lose the taste. A tongue that has lost taste
can no more relish the real taste of food. A clean tongue will
repel anything that is unclean in the food. There is a science
of tongue besides the various sciences that we learn in
spiritualism. The science of tongue is very important.
Only the nose and the tongue have a double
function. The eyes do one function, the ears do one
function and the skin does one function. But the nose and
the tongue do two functions. Nose takes in and gives out.
Nose does not say, I will only inhale. I will not exhale.
Likewise, the tongue, it takes in food and gives out speech.
To keep it clean both ways are important.The tongue is
toned up, when honey is taken daily as the first item. If you
can clean the tongue and do it, it is still better. That is a bit
about honey which also is called Pingala in Sanskrit. Honey
does a lot of good. It cleanses the body and thereby enables
the body to do practices that can cause unfoldment of
consciousness.
Pingalm - the Mother is honey coloured. She
causes evolution, She presides over all upwards
movements, all teachers, scriptures, wisdom, etc. They are
all her implements to uplift the beings to the kings of
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beauty. That upliftment happens only through Pingala.

Padma the lotus, the sound, the letters, the colours
Malin the garland
The Mother is holding a garland of all that,
meaning: the groups of sounds, the groups of colours and
the groups of symbols. They are all the garland around her.
If you wish to be a student of symbol, or colour, or sound,
the source is the universal consciousness who is worshipped
in a beautiful female form wearing a garland of lotuses.
That is how She is called Padma Malinm. The whole
creation is her garland, because the details of creation are
like lotuses. Visualise the blue upon which there is the
galaxy as a garland. Now they say there are more than one
galaxy. It will be unlimited as we keep on knowing. So, She
is the one who wears garlands after garlands of lotuses.
When you have such grand concepts to
comprehend, the mind enlarges and enlarges to
comprehend and in the process of comprehension it gets
absorbed into Buddhi. That is how there is the surrender of
mind to Buddhi. Such a mind is a lighted mind. That is what
is referred to as the light in the head. A mind that is
contemplating continuously upon the grandest concepts of
light, is continuously rubbing itself against light, and in the
process it becomes light. That is the purpose of worship.
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That is why there are so many cosmic aspects of light given

through varieties of terms.
Then the second line: Chandrm Chandra
It is the principle of receiving and reflecting. It
receives reflection and again reflects. In the process it
remains transparent and brilliant. If we receive and cannot
distribute, we are not transparent. People who receive
wisdom and are not able to distribute cannot be
transparent. Anything you receive, you should be able to
distribute. Then you become transparent. The secret of
your becoming light is your ability to transmit that which
has come up. You get divine knowledge, you distribute it
day and night. You receive material knowledge, don't hold
it, distribute it! You receive money, distribute it! You
receive material, distribute it! You know the science of
health, distribute it! Any branch of knowledge, be it
relating to the divine or the wordly, distribute it! You
receive information, distribute it!
That is what is today demanded as transparency
and communication. Even the United States are demanded
of it. Be transparent! Be communicative! Don't sit on the
peak of the mount. You are not safe. Get back to the valleys
along with us. If you are on the peak, the wind can blow you
out. Then the one at the peak says, If we are in the valley,
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the waters can sweep us away. So, what is the way? The
golden middle path! Not to be on the peak, not to be in the
pit of the valley, but to be at some sensible height, where
you are not hit by wind and not swept away by waters.
Transparency is what is described as Chandra. It is
frequently said as Moon and when we say the Moon, we only
know the Moon we see. The Moon we see is one satellite
that conducts the moon principle. Sun also conducts the
moon principle. It receives and gives. Central Sun also
receives to give. Cosmic Sun also receives to give. The
universal Mother also receives to give and hence the
original Chandra is the Mother. The original Moon is the
Mother. In times of Pralaya She is depicted as the crescent
moon on the head of Shiva. So, when the creation is not,
Shiva is said to be. Then the crescent moon shows that She
is potentially existing on his head and as She waxes, Shiva
gets into the background. He is the background of her.
That is how the Vedic mythology speaks. In the new
age terminology, we say, The God Absolute is potential
with manifestation and the primary manifestation is light.
When light manifests, he gets into the background and
taking the support of the background the light manifests all
this creation. Just like the movie screen when switched on,
you see the light. Then you don't feel the screen, and on the
screen, when there is imagery, you don't even see the silver
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screen. The imagery is creation, the silver screen is the

Mother, but the background is the Father, the screen unlit.
In your television you have the black screen. If the
screen is black, the television is considered more effective.
It reflects the light better and also reflects the colour
better. So, the black screen of the TV is the Absolute God. It
is potential for white screen, and upon the white screen
there is the imagery according to a program. So, Chandrm
is the first emergence which is called light.
Hiran Maym It was explained in two stanzas, the golden
hue, the golden rays, the golden body which is called
etheric body or subtle body.
The golden world, the Hiranya Loka, which is our
immediate next step and which would enable us to
overcome our ignorance of death.
Lakshmm It is essentially the universal symbol.
The Mother is the symbolic presentation of God.
There is no other way to see God. If you are to see God, you
have to see him as light only. Otherwise you cannot see,
though He is in-between us. The God Absolute is in-between
us and within us. We can't see. That is our problem. So, to
give his Presence, He has to manifest as light. There is no
other way for him. That is how He represents himself as
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golden light, as diamond light all this is symbol. Sound is

symbol, light is symbol, time is symbol, colour is symbol and
forms are symbols. The symbol is essentially the Mother,
and Mother itself is a symbol of the Father. That is why She is
called Lakshmi.
Lakshmi means symbol. Each one of us is a symbol,
of what we are. Our name is symbolic of that energy. When
it is bitter medicine, the very word is Uh. When I say icecream, the very name itself makes it joyful. So, ice-cream
is symbolic of something, bitter medicine is symbolic of
something. All names are symbols. All forms are symbols. All
colours are symbols. All sounds, numbers and planets are
also symbols. All planets and constellations are symbols. All
is symbol! Creation itself is a symbol. That is Lakshmi.
Jtavedo Mamvaha The One from out of whom the Vedas
are born, and again He is born out of Vedas as fire. That is
Jtaveda, the Foremost One, Agni.
We are requesting Agni, Jtaveda, Such a Mother,
whom I have been describing, please ensure that
Mamvaha, that She is received and She is established in
me. The prayer is, please bestow such a Mother on me.
So, we started the prayer to Agni, then we came to the
Mother and now we are coming back to Agni. It is called
'ritualistic order'. As you open, so you close.
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FOURTEENTH HYMN
AS r MUh r xuh Wqqslq |
xr WUhqr sq eiuS q AuW ||
RDRM YAH KARINM YASHTIM SUVARNM HEMA MALINM
SRYM HIRAN MAYM LAKSHMM JTAVEDO MAMVAHA
Aardraam

: red with the rays of rising sun

Karineem

: the female elephant, or the ray of light

Yashtim

: having its trunk as a beam

Suvarnaam

: of good coloured or gold coloured, also

having sonorous sounds

Hemamalineem : garlanded by golden glow

Suryaam

: the Goddess who is the splendour of the

Sun God
Hiranmayeem

: who, full of golden beams

Lakshmeem

: having the creation as Her symbol

Jataveda

: Oh Fire! Who gives birth to the Wisdom

Mama Avah

: let her possess me

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MEANING:
Oh, Brilliant Fire! You bring the light of Wisdom as
my dawn with its red ray before me, to bring the splendour
of the Goddess Lakshmi, with her lifted trunk of elephant
and the golden yellow glow around Her. May the Goddess of
Splendour possess me as the Dawn of my day.
COMMENTARY:
The 14th hymn is very similar to the 13th hymn. Many
words are common.
rdrm It is the 3rd time we get this term. We have earlier
studied this. It speaks about the coral, the cordiality, the
viscosity of blood, the love, the universal cementing force
and the constellation of coral which is in the 3rd decanate of
Taurus.
Karin groups of elephants
The Mother is surrounded by groups of elephants.
Elephant is again a symbol, and one of the profoundest
symbols of Vedic symbolism. Elephant stands for beings of
light, initiates, Masters of wisdom. Around the Mother
ignorance cannot prevail, only units of light, units of
awareness prevail. Elephant stands for sound and is a
symbol of Jupiter. Jupiter is a symbol of cosmic sounds and
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also stands for triangles, the sounds that network the

triangles of creation. The head of the elephant and the
triangle are almost similar, except that the elephant head is
more artistic. So, wisdom sounds, cosmic sounds, solar
sounds, the sounds that cause creation are around the
Mother in groups, and the sound of sounds is the sacred
word, and that sacred word is the means to reach her and
her presence. That came in the original hymn as Hastinada.
Karin means the groups of sounds, the groups of
wise men, cosmic, solar, planetary. There are initiates at
cosmic, solar and planetary planes. They are always around
her. She is a big empress with all cosmic sounds, cosmic
colours, cosmic symbols around her.
Yastim Yagna the sacrificial ritual.
She is the chief of rituals that conducts the
sacrifice of the Cosmic Man. She cooks the Cosmic Man and
the sacrifice is called 'Man Sacrifice'. Only when the Cosmic
Man is cooked, the creation appears. The beauty of the
Cosmic Man is: He is cooked, but He remains uncooked. He
cooperates to form all this, but He remains, wherever He is.
That is why existence is existence, be it planetary, solar or
cosmic. He cooperates, and all is in existence. The ant is in
existence, the creator is in existence, the plant is in
existence, the planet is in existence. From the smallest to
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the biggest conceivable in all existence is existence. That

is how She prepares the creation. That means, She cooks,
but the material remains intact. It is a mysterious cooking.
Yasti means the principle of sacrifice and She is the
backbone of that sacrifice. If you see a ritualistic Ashram
there is a central column. That central column is called
Yasti. There is also Yasti in us as our vertebral column.
Within that the man exists, and it is his energy that is
expressed by the Mother through the centres, or lotuses, or
Chakras. Those are the plexus, from head to Muladhara,
and from the plexus there are the nerves and Nadis, and
with those nerves and Nadis as basis, you have the rest of
the body built.
For your and my creation the central column is the
Brahmarandhra, within which there is the Sushumna which
is our existential energy. With that as basis the three Nadis
spring: Sushumna as Ida, Pingala and Sushumna. Then there
is the plexus and the related further manifestation as
innumerable nerves and Nadis. The whole is basically
cerebro-spinal, and around that there is the gathering of
mass, the flesh, the blood, and the bone. She is the column.
She is the backbone. She is the support of the whole
creation. She is the basis for all sacrifice. If She is not there,
no one can prepare the creation. The Devas conduct the
sacrifice with the help of the light. Deva means product of
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light and She is the light. She comes out and details into
Devas and then the Devas detail into architects, designers
and engineers. All these come in Purusha Sktam, but all of
them come from her. She is the central column, and hence
She is Yasti and She recommends the ritual of sacrifice to all
of us: I am invincible and I have become the Master of the
universe, because I am eternally in the Presence of the
Absolute One. If you also wish to have the eternal presence
of the Absolute One, you also conduct sacrifice as I do. Run
your life as a sacrifice. Keep helping people and service is
the entry into kindergarten relating to sacrifice.
People who don't serve they have no way. They have
to go round and round and round the outer boundary of the
Temple. People who serve can find the door. Otherwise the
door is there, but it cannot be seen. So, She stands for
sacrifice. She recommends sacrifice for all beings. The
Devas do sacrifice. The Masters of wisdom do sacrifice. The
planetary bodies sacrifice. The elements sacrifice. The
minerals sacrifice. The plant sacrifices. The animal
sacrifices and we also should learn to sacrifice. You see the
sacrifice of the animal. Its milk is used, its blood is used, its
flesh is used, its bone is used, its skin is used also as warm
clothings, chappels etc. We cannot boast to be of greater
sacrifice than the animal. Our skin and our bones are not so
useful as the animal skin to serve. That is why we need to
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serve more. The Mother recommends by her own example:

Sacrifice! So, all in creation stands for sacrifice. The all
sacrificing ritual is called 'the creation': Tasmt Yagnat
Sarvhutha.
Yagna of Sarvhuta means: all sacrifice, all burning
sacrifice.
The same word is there in Jewish scriptures. The all
sacrificing ritual in Judaism is called holocaust, but then it
is wrongly applied to serve something else that happened in
the last century.
The creation is a sacrifice and the Mother stands as
the symbol of it. This sacrifice is called Yagna in Sanskrit,
and the name of Mahabharata is Yaja. Yagna is Yaja. Yaja is
sacrifice. If you do Yaja, you get Jaya. Jaya means
fulfilment. That is how Veda Vyasa has conceived the 5th
Veda which more lucidly, simply and clearly explains the
essence of the Vedas. So, Jaya means fulfilment, the
ultimate victory.
The ultimate victory is finding truth, not winning
the war, and Yudhisthira gained the ultimate truth. How
could he gain the truth? By conducting his whole life as
sacrifice. So is the life of Jesus, Moses, and all grand
Masters of wisdom. This sacrifice is the greatest message
coming from the Mother, and She stands as your backbone,
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if you stand for sacrifice. Otherwise your backbone will only

give you diseases. We keey saying, my back is paining, my
back is not bending, my back is not elastic. It will not,
because you have other habits! For the sacrificial one the
Mother is the backbone. Otherwise the Mother is there, but
dormant with you. There are so many classes spoken on
sacrifice. We don't have to speak again.
The primary kindergarten of sacrifice is service.
When there is no service, there is no entry even into
kindergarten. When there is no kindergarten, there is no
occult study. Please note this. From time to time we have to
remind ourselves.
Suvarnm Here it speaks of the Sushumna, the one which
is capable of all colours.
We spoke about Pingala, the honey coloured one. It
is Suvarnm, the original light which is capable of
manifesting many rays and many colours.
Hema Malinm the golden lotus garland.
There it was white lotus garland. The whole theme
is golden and diamond. When we see the books of Master
Djwhal Khul, the whole theme is etheric body and causal
body. Golden body relates to third initiation and Diamond
body to the fifth initiation.
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Hiranya Suvarna Here it is the golden lotus.

In the dawn hours and the dusk hours it is golden,
and in the mid-noon hours it is diamond or silver. At the
peak of the creation it is full like diamond light. When it is
beginning it is golden, when it is again disappearing it is
golden. That is why you see golden colour during the sun
rise or moon rise time or sun set time or moon set time.
When it is setting or rising it is golden. You see golden and
other colours. At other times, when the Moon or Sun are
high in the sky, the light is white or bluish white, and in the
case of Sun it is brilliant white. That is Hema Malini, the
golden lotus garland.
Srym the Solar principle.
The light of the Sun which is capable of all colours.
The prayer is, O Agni, the One born out of the Veda, the
One from whom the Vedas are born again. Please ensure
that this light is bestowed on me, that the light turns
favourably on me and the light approaches me, that the
light embraces me, and alerts me into That Light, so that I
become That Light. It is so much working with the light.
Every hymn speaks of different qualities of the Mother and
makes the mind contemplate upon the grand concepts of
light which would enable the practitioner to purify himself
and walk into light. That is the purpose of the hymn.
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FIFTEENTH HYMN
i q AuW eiuS sqqlmaqlq |
rxr wUhr mpi au Sxrl ulSr mwlWq ||
TM MVAHA JTAVEDO LAKSHMM ANAPA GMINM
YASYM HIRANYAM PRABHTAM GVO DSYOSVN
VINDEYAM PURUSHAN AHAM
Jatavedaha

: Oh Agni, born of the Vedas and the

birthplace of the Vedas

Yasyam

: in whom

Hiranyam

: gold

Gavaha

: cows (the rays)

Dasyaha

: servants

Aswan

: horses

Purushan

: men

Aham

:I

Vindeyam

: may obtain

Tam

: Her

Anapagamineem: who has the nature of not deserting any

one
Lakshmeem

: The Goddess of wealth

Ma Avaha

: make her possess me

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MEANING:
Oh! Brilliant Fire! I pray to you to make the
Goddess of wealth possess me. By that I will be able to
obtain the cows, the servants, horses, attendant men and
the hold of everything. Her nature is not to desert anyone
when she favours.
COMMENTARY:
We shall make a brief understanding of the last
hymn as also the promise and blessing of the Veda in the 16th
hymn. It is arranged as 15 + 1, because the 15th one changes
alternatingly: 14 phases of Moon, once with full moon, once
with new moon. Thus the Moon is said to have 16 phases in
all. But actually either with full moon or with new moon it is
15. That is why the hymn is conceived in 15 + 1 and that +1 is
the blessing of the Veda. Except two terms of this hymn, the
rest of the words were already spoken of in the 2nd hymn.
Whatever he asked in the beginning, he is again repeating.
That means that his emphasis among so many things that he
desired from the Mother is vis--vis what is said in the
repeated verse.
Tm Such a Mother
Jtaveda O, You, Cosmic Fire,
Mvaha ensure that I am bestowed
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Lakshmm the symbol of the universe and her symbolic

presentation in the universe.
She is present and the God Absolute is present in
every detail of the creation through symbol. If only you see
everything as a symbol of the Father and Mother, you gain
the necessary knowledge. That is a daily practice. If this is
not done, the Mother is proximate, yet distant. If you see
like this, She approaches you as luck, as splendour, as
blessing, as protection, and illumines you because through
every symbol it is SHE and HE together that approach you.
When Master C.V.V. very mystically says: No, it is
not HE, it is SHE only, then people say, Why only She? he
used to say. Adam is in Madam. M covers Adam i.e.,
Mother or matter causes the veil. Then woman includes
man, because wo + man = woman. He was playing with
words like this. 'WO' is world organisation! She is the world
organisation of man. So, it is woman that organises man.
That is how Master C.V.V. used to say. These three
statements were very favourite words to him: Man is in
woman, Adam is in madam, and HE is in SHE. That is how he
used to play and please with small cryptic words and then
give out big wisdom. The symbolic presentation of creation
is nothing but presentation of Father and Mother. When we
see a person, we have to see that person as a symbol of
Father and Mother. This is the only gateway. So, let that
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faculty be bestowed on me! The prayer now is to the

Cosmic Fire to bestow that faculty to be able to see and
experience the Mother and through the Mother the Father
through every symbol that we see, as we wake up till we
sleep, and each one who is seeing is also a symbol of
THAT.THAT is Lakshmi.
Gmini the one who moves
Apa Gmini irregular movements
SHE is Anapa Gminm. SHE has not irregular
movements. That is the beauty of the double negative
used. To every person except the most knowledgeable one
there is some irregularity in the world. There is as much
irregularity as one is irregular. As much as you are irregular,
so much you see irregularity. The nature is not irregular, but
She makes veils, and until and unless you can go through the
veils, you feel that there are some irregularities.
It is the highest point of knowledge when the man
knows that all is in divine order. If others have problems,
you say, It is all in divine order. Don't worry. If you have a
problem, you cannot feel so! But if you meditate the term
Anapa Gminm, the Mother Nature cannot be irregular. So,
the life around me cannot be so irregular to hurt me. There
is something irregular with me. If I set it right, the world is
okay. If I set myself right, the world is okay. This is the
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ultimate finding of those who sought knowledge. Until we

have gained this knowledge, we have complaints about
people, we have complaints about the world and we have
complaints about 'isms'. The Mother knows better. The right
approach is, Let me see, if I fall into order, all will fall into
order for me. This is what every initiate knows as he
progresses.
You all know what Pythagoras said: Before you
leave the body, reduce one fool in this world, and that is no
other than you. So, if you overcome your foolishness, the
world is no problem. The world is as much a problem to us,
as we are foolish. So, same thing is there in Veda that the
Mother is not irregular. If I worship the Mother, I shall also
gain the faculty of not being irregular, and I shall also be in
tune with her splendour of creation and enjoy that
splendour.
Yasym Hiranyam from out of whose golden hue. The
seeking is about the golden body, the diamond body.
Prabhtam emerge
From out of her golden hue emerges
Gvo - the cows,
Asvan - the horses.
Dsyo assistance. It is one more term that is added.

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Gvo, Asvan the cows and horses and the related

symbolism we described in the 2nd verse.
The cow is the Word. I spoke to you about the divine
cow Kama Dhenu which can be milked to get all fulfilment.
So, the student is once again repeating them. The hymn
means - The Mother from out of whose golden hue, I get
knowledge of the Word, I get life force replenished and
thus, Dsyo, I get a lot of assistance from the surrounding
beings.
No man can do things to a great extent, unless
there is a team supporting him. Intelligent people carry the
team along. Others can only achieve little, because they do
not carry the team along. It is the team that brings greater
success. In order to be able to do team work, you need to
have people who help you around. So, I get the right faculty
to ensure that the people around me continue to help me.
Let it be a group work! Let it not be an individualised work!
Individual cannot go very far. Group work goes
farther. I need not tell you the detail of it. The strength is in
unity, and that unity is by being with all, not trying to be
special, and not trying to discard others. The one who is
capable of cordially linking up to others achieves greater
accomplishment than the one who feels himself special and
excludes himself by his or her own speciality feeling. As
much as I care you, so much you care me. As much as I donot
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care, so much you do not care. What you give, comes back
to you. So, keep giving friendliness, cordiality and people
respond to your call and they are willing to help you and the
tasks are better accomplished.
Dsyo assistance
Dsya those who follow with cordiality what you
do and contribute to the work. Contribution does not only
mean Euros. Psychological cooperation, intellectual,
mental, emotional, physical, all this cooperation is
required. If I demand cooperation, it will not come. First
you cooperate with others. You keep on cooperating with
people. Surely and definitely they start cooperating with
you. Our problem is, we look for cooperation, but we do not
cooperate. We always start at the wrong end.
The right end is that we start working in
cooperation. After some years it will come back. That is the
law. It is not that I cooperate for a moment now and look
forward for your cooperation for the next moment. We are
too quick in expectation, and we do too little before we
expect. That is why the assistance that he is seeking here
has many layers of understanding behind.
That is Dss. Dsa + Asva has become Dsyosv in
Sanskrit grammar.

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Purusha the persons

What is sought is: Gavo, the Word, Dasya, the
assistance, the helpers, Asvan, the life force and Purushan,
the favourability of the people, because it is one person as
many persons. If persons in large number are not agreeing
with you, it means that the Cosmic Person is not pleased
with you. The intelligence is to ensure that the
disagreeable ones also will slowly agree. That is wisdom. To
work with those who do not disagree is not a big thing. To
work with those who disagree with a cordial attitude is 'the'
thing. As you progress in life, if you keep making more and
more enemies, it means the technology you have is wrong.
If you make more and more friends, it is the right
technology.
So, he is seeking from the Mother the favourability
of the Cosmic Person through persons. That is what always
Master E.K. used to say: The group is the Master. Do not do
anything which cuts across the interest of the group. Once
a very important worker was working carelessly with the
group. Master E.K. told him once, told him a second time,
and then for the third time he said, If it happens again the
Master will throw you out, and for life you cannot be with
this group. Be careful about the group. Never speak ill of
the group. You have to work, as if the group is the Master. If
you condemn the group, criticise the group regularly, you
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will be out. Touch wood he was out! The whole group

threw him away. Then the Master said, I told you. It
happens. It can happen to anyone. No one is an exception,
because the group is the Collective Person, and the Master
is present as the group. That is how we have to recognise
the group.
If we have differences, we can always talk and sort
out. We cannot promote it. The idea is that the great ones
have always turned even the enemies as friends and in our
cases all initial acquaintances turn out to be associations
and the associations bring us together and we become
familiar, and when we are familiar, before we become
friends, the familiarity breeds contempt. That is the
danger, and it should never be allowed to happen. The
Mother helps to work it out. The favourability of persons,
the life forces (horses), the word, the wisdom (symbolically
presented as the cow), the helpers and then the golden hue
all this is born out of the Mother. Such a Mother who is
ever knowing and is never irregular, and such a Mother who
is symbolically presented around us may be bestowed on
me, and for that reason I worship You, O Cosmic Fire.
Since the worship is starting with Cosmic Fire and
concluding with Cosmic Fire, the 16th hymn gives a practice,
which can be carried out as an option. The prayer is enough,
but an option is also given. That is the 16th hymn.
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SIXTEENTH HYMN
r zc mri piu eWrSer qluWq |
r mgcSzc c Mq xii emi ||
YAH SUCHIH PRAYATO BHUTVA JUHUYAD ADYA MANVA HAM
SRYAH PANCHA DASARCHANCHA SR KAMAHSATATAM
JAPETH
The summary is:
Whosoever with purity of body and mind daily worships the
Mother with 5 and 10 hymns, that means 15 hymns, with
deep veneration and devotion, and while doing so, offers
ghee to the fire, shall be fulfilled. That is the promise of the
Veda. We are seeking the presence of the Mother through
fire as the medium.
That is the reason why the 16th hymn says,
Yaha

: whosoever

Suchihi

: with pure body and mind

Prayato

: a sincere effort

Bhutva

: makes

Anvaha

:daily

Juhuyad

:offers to the fire

Adya

:ghee

Sryaha

:the splendorous

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For this Master E.K. has given an explanation.

There are two ways of worshipping. Inside you visualise fire
and the light of the fire and keep chanting the 15 hymns.
Then it is called a subjective fire ritual. Or if your life
conditions permit, you may also do it outside. Do not leave
the hymn, because you cannot do a fire ritual! If we cannot
do fire ritual along with the hymn, it does not mean that we
cannot chant Sr Sktam. Do it daily. Master E.K. was doing
it daily. There was never a day, when he did not recite Sr
Sktam and Purusha Sktam. He used to say, Those whom I
follow in Himalayas do it daily and I am not greater than
them to abandon the two. If you wish, you may abandon,
but I cannot. So, he was daily chanting both Purusha
Sktam and Sr Sktam. If it is new moon to full moon, that
means the 15 days of ascending moon, he was doing Sr
Sktam first and Purusha Sktam next. When it is full moon
to new moon, he was doing Purusha Sktam first and Sr
Sktam next. In that process he gave Purusha Sktam
during his last two years of his visit to Europe. He had a plan
to do the commentary of Sr Sktam also. It was later done
by me in 1984 knowing his wish.
According to me now it is better done than before.
So, you may use it according to your inclination. May the
Mother bless you all on the Path to Light and make even the
path very splendorous, very enjoyable, full of joy and
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experience. Not only the goal is blissful, but the path also
should be joyful. That is how the great ones intended, and
we shall work it out with the cooperation of the light of the
Mother, so that we do not fall into her veils, the veils of
Maya.
Thank you for your excellent presence.

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