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‘I
have delved through the dumb earth’s dreadful heart’
Hinduism was founded on the realisation of convergence onto and into
a Point. Praises to Agni in the Rig Veda, for example, reflect this
obsession, if you will, with the upholding, supporting power that
Agni is known to be. Skambha is the fullest expression of that
‘support’, being the Cosmic Pillar upholding ‘all that moves and
breathes’. These are extremely profound praises, and the most
pregnant of all in the hymns to Skambha is, ‘…Though manifest, it is
yet hidden, secret’. In this passage we note the element that sets
Hinduism apart from Buddhism, for example, and all the later paths
and schools of yoga and philosophy that have significantly moved
away from the early moorings. Here the Rishi declares that Skambha
is manifest, even as it is a secret and hidden ‘support’. The
Rishi never needed to deny the reality of our material creation.
There was no need to flee the world in order to attain the solar
realm. All that the Aryan Warrior had to do was to continue the
process, which the months of the year would open, door after door,
until the border was reached at the 9th
stage/month of the journey. At that point a supreme effort was to
transpire where the Warrior must endeavour not to succumb to the
contracting, inward pressure, to seek escape from the material womb
of the Mother through either death or an obliteration of the
evolving consciousness and a severance with the nexus of our world,
the soul. The Hostiles seek to impose the old responses of a mortal
creation under the rule of Death, to abort the journey before the 9
becomes the 10 – indeed, the most dangerous part of the process,
just as Sri Aurobindo has noted.
Sri Aurobindo notes this same peril when, in the 9th
Book of his epic, the
Goddess is warned that she must not follow Death into his realm,
from where the human creature cannot return. She does so nonetheless
and thus Death is finally conquered in the next stage/Book, the 10th.
Other laws operate for the Warrior who has made the
perilous crossing successfully. He cannot be assailed because his
poise places him in a different dimension. Though here,
because of the new alignment he is protected by laws that operate
spherically and no longer linearly. There is simultaneity when the
Core has been forged.
This is the essence of the Mother’s inner chamber; and
when that perfectly aligned central Core exists it becomes the
channel to effect changes throughout the world.
‘Heaven’s fire is lit in the
breast of the earth’
In dealing with the Veda the foremost problem is that we translate
or interpret the verses that are already several thousand years distanced
from the Vedic Age, very far removed from that consciousness. Not
only is there no evidence of the realisation of Skambha in any of
the texts of the intervening period, we also need to bear in mind
that nothing of the Vedic Consciousness exists today. It may be the
foundation of Hinduism, but that base is embedded in the soil
of the Ages. Indeed, many Astrological Ages have passed since the
Rishis walked the land.
For instance, the word swar may well have a very
different meaning today and perhaps quite unrelated to swar
of old. All translators interpret the word to mean heaven. In
our minds this places the attainment of that coveted ‘solar world’
in some otherworldly dimension disconnected from our material domain
because we have been influenced by several thousand years of
nurturing just such a split. In these Chronicles we have moved
closer to the real sense of swar. It has to do with the
laws operating for the individual who has managed successfully
to make the crossing for the 9 to become the 10.
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