Nritta avasaane Nata Raja Rajo Nanaada Dhakkaam Nava Pancha vaaram Uddhartu kaamah Sanakadi Siddhaan Etad vimarse Siva Sootra Jaalam The stanza means, " At the end of the dance, the king of dancers, Siva beat on his drum 14 times, (9+5) wanting to further enlighten great ascetics starting eith Sanaka. We shall discuss some of these important aphorisms, known as Maheswara Sootra ".
This Maheswara Sootra occupies a seminal place in the history of Hindu religion. They form the basis of Bharata's dance form, Panini's Grammar of Sanskrit literature, and Patanjali's Yoga.
There is a story that the Creator became tired of creating himself. So he created four children Sanaka, Sanandana, Sanatkumara and Santsujatha and requested them to continue the job of procreation. However, they refused to do so, thinking that the lowly sexual mode of reproduction was not for them, which their father wasdoing. So they chose to remain eternally young at the age of four, when sex has not yet knocked at their door. To help them understand life and its purposes better, the king of dancers, (dance= life) Siva, who is erotic in the nine worlds below and an ascetic in the five worlds above, played on his drum 9+5=14 times, representing the paths to be found in all the fouteen worlds. As we shall see presently, these drum beats are none other than the seed mantras (sounds) of Sanskrit alphabets.
The drum beats are:
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1. A I Un. 2. Ar Al Uk. 3. E Ong. 4. Ai Ouch. 5. Ha Ya Vaa Rat. 6. Lan.
7. Nga Ma Jna Nna Nam. 8. Jha Bhany. 9. Gha Dha Dhash.
10. Ja Ba Ga Da Dash. 11. Kha Pha Chcha Ththa Ththa Ca Ta Tav.
12. Ka Pay. 13. Sha Shsha Sar. 14. Hal.
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1. A I Un
A the first letter stands for negation. Awareness exists in two states, awareness that is not even aware of itself that is the first state, "A", like a zero; and awareness that is aware of itself, like a zero that is the sum of opposites for ex. (1.5)+(1.5)= 0. A small deviation, a small movement that is the second state. Awareness has these two properties of oneness and manyness.
I is the second letter. It is the desire of the awareness to know itself by splitting into subject and object.
U to preserve the desire is called "u". That is Sthiti (preservation). Sristi, the creation has not occured in "A". Only when "A" desires to manifest itself it becomes an orgasmically elongated "Aa". This desire is represented by "I". When "I" is fully expressed it becomes"Ii" (long) . The desire to preserve that altered state of awareness is "U" and "Uu".
2. Aru Aluk
When awareness is observing a part of itself, the observed part appears to it as if it does not have an awareness. So awareness is creating a nonawareness relative to it in this process. This is represented by "Aru" and "Alu". These vowel sounds are considered to be of neutral gender, denoting objects which are not experienced the same way as the subject experiences itself.
3. E Ong 4. Ai Ouch
Then creation proceeds further through the letters, E, ong; Ai, Auch. A + i is E. A + u is O. E + a is Ai. E + u is Au. Am is the seed held within the subject;Ah is the seed expressed outside itself as an object. So creation, preservation and disolution of the object are being mapped by the vowel sounds of the Sanskrit alphabet. This completes the formation of the vowel sounds.
5. Ha Ya Va Rat
The desire to procreate comes down from the sky to earth as the consonants.Ha,Ya,Va, Ra. Ha means space. Ham is the center of the Visshudhi, the throat chakra. Ya means life, prana. Yam is the center of the Anahata, the heart chakra. Va means waters, the source of life. Vam is the center of the Manipura, the navel chakra. Ra means heat. Ram is at the swadhisthana chakra, the sex center.
In the yogic parlance of today, water is described to be at the genitals and fire at the navel. This order is reversed in Siva sootras, for a good reason. Lust is the heat in the loins which melts the seed which goes into the mother's tummy and grows there in the waters of life. So, in these sootras, water is supposed to be at the navel center. This is also the view of Sankara as propounded in his Soundarya Lahari, a hymn to the Mother Goddess.
6. Lan
The next sound is Lan. It is shown separately from the ha, ya, va, ra, because it is the last and densest objectification of the five states of aggregation of matter, (called elements here).
Next the attributes of these elements are discussed.
7. Nga Ma Jna Nna Nam
Nga means any vibration. Space has only one attribute: sound. Ma means touch. Air has two attributes: sound, touch. Jna means form. Fire has three attributes: sound, touch, form. Nna means taste. Liquid has four attributes: sound, touch, form, taste. Na means smell. Solid has all five attributes: sound, touch, form, taste, smell. The five states of aggregation Space, Air, Fire, Water, and Solid have each one more attribute than their predecessor. Since an entity is known by its attributes, we can say these attributes are making theseelements. So we observe that matter is in formation (=information) of the sensations; or are derived from them.
The Sutras 8,9,10,11,12, 13, 14 are elaborations on the same lines. We shall ignore them, as we have covered the basic structures needed for our discussions on Sri Chakra.
Each letter of the Sanskrit alphabet has a very precise meaning. Each letter has cosmic, individual and microcosmic meanings. If you look at the vedic language, you will see that the sentences rarely, if at all, repeat themselves. It is an irreducible representation. You cannot condense it any further than it already is. Vedas are highly coded forms of information, like, for example, the RNA and DNA codes of genes. They code the information of life so tightly that you cannot reduce them any further. The vedic language is condensed into these alphabets which are irreducible representations of the original meanings connected with the sounds from the drumbeats of Siva.
This Maheswara Sootra occupies a seminal place in the history of Hindu religion. They form the basis of Bharata's dance form, Panini's Grammar of Sanskrit literature, and Patanjali's Yoga.
There is a story that the Creator became tired of creating himself. So he created four children Sanaka, Sanandana, Sanatkumara and Santsujatha and requested them to continue the job of procreation. However, they refused to do so, thinking that the lowly sexual mode of reproduction was not for them, which their father wasdoing. So they chose to remain eternally young at the age of four, when sex has not yet knocked at their door. To help them understand life and its purposes better, the king of dancers, (dance= life) Siva, who is erotic in the nine worlds below and an ascetic in the five worlds above, played on his drum 9+5=14 times, representing the paths to be found in all the fouteen worlds. As we shall see presently, these drum beats are none other than the seed mantras (sounds) of Sanskrit alphabets.
The drum beats are:
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1. A I Un. 2. Ar Al Uk. 3. E Ong. 4. Ai Ouch. 5. Ha Ya Vaa Rat. 6. Lan.
7. Nga Ma Jna Nna Nam. 8. Jha Bhany. 9. Gha Dha Dhash.
10. Ja Ba Ga Da Dash. 11. Kha Pha Chcha Ththa Ththa Ca Ta Tav.
12. Ka Pay. 13. Sha Shsha Sar. 14. Hal.
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1. A I Un
A the first letter stands for negation. Awareness exists in two states, awareness that is not even aware of itself that is the first state, "A", like a zero; and awareness that is aware of itself, like a zero that is the sum of opposites for ex. (1.5)+(1.5)= 0. A small deviation, a small movement that is the second state. Awareness has these two properties of oneness and manyness.
I is the second letter. It is the desire of the awareness to know itself by splitting into subject and object.
U to preserve the desire is called "u". That is Sthiti (preservation). Sristi, the creation has not occured in "A". Only when "A" desires to manifest itself it becomes an orgasmically elongated "Aa". This desire is represented by "I". When "I" is fully expressed it becomes"Ii" (long) . The desire to preserve that altered state of awareness is "U" and "Uu".
2. Aru Aluk
When awareness is observing a part of itself, the observed part appears to it as if it does not have an awareness. So awareness is creating a nonawareness relative to it in this process. This is represented by "Aru" and "Alu". These vowel sounds are considered to be of neutral gender, denoting objects which are not experienced the same way as the subject experiences itself.
3. E Ong 4. Ai Ouch
Then creation proceeds further through the letters, E, ong; Ai, Auch. A + i is E. A + u is O. E + a is Ai. E + u is Au. Am is the seed held within the subject;Ah is the seed expressed outside itself as an object. So creation, preservation and disolution of the object are being mapped by the vowel sounds of the Sanskrit alphabet. This completes the formation of the vowel sounds.
5. Ha Ya Va Rat
The desire to procreate comes down from the sky to earth as the consonants.Ha,Ya,Va, Ra. Ha means space. Ham is the center of the Visshudhi, the throat chakra. Ya means life, prana. Yam is the center of the Anahata, the heart chakra. Va means waters, the source of life. Vam is the center of the Manipura, the navel chakra. Ra means heat. Ram is at the swadhisthana chakra, the sex center.
In the yogic parlance of today, water is described to be at the genitals and fire at the navel. This order is reversed in Siva sootras, for a good reason. Lust is the heat in the loins which melts the seed which goes into the mother's tummy and grows there in the waters of life. So, in these sootras, water is supposed to be at the navel center. This is also the view of Sankara as propounded in his Soundarya Lahari, a hymn to the Mother Goddess.
6. Lan
The next sound is Lan. It is shown separately from the ha, ya, va, ra, because it is the last and densest objectification of the five states of aggregation of matter, (called elements here).
Next the attributes of these elements are discussed.
7. Nga Ma Jna Nna Nam
Nga means any vibration. Space has only one attribute: sound. Ma means touch. Air has two attributes: sound, touch. Jna means form. Fire has three attributes: sound, touch, form. Nna means taste. Liquid has four attributes: sound, touch, form, taste. Na means smell. Solid has all five attributes: sound, touch, form, taste, smell. The five states of aggregation Space, Air, Fire, Water, and Solid have each one more attribute than their predecessor. Since an entity is known by its attributes, we can say these attributes are making theseelements. So we observe that matter is in formation (=information) of the sensations; or are derived from them.
The Sutras 8,9,10,11,12, 13, 14 are elaborations on the same lines. We shall ignore them, as we have covered the basic structures needed for our discussions on Sri Chakra.
Each letter of the Sanskrit alphabet has a very precise meaning. Each letter has cosmic, individual and microcosmic meanings. If you look at the vedic language, you will see that the sentences rarely, if at all, repeat themselves. It is an irreducible representation. You cannot condense it any further than it already is. Vedas are highly coded forms of information, like, for example, the RNA and DNA codes of genes. They code the information of life so tightly that you cannot reduce them any further. The vedic language is condensed into these alphabets which are irreducible representations of the original meanings connected with the sounds from the drumbeats of Siva.
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