With the grace of the Divine Mother I hope to be able to give some meanings to the channels which are called the mantras. Really Mantras cannot be assigned any meanings because they are channels of communication. What meaning can you give to channel no. 4 of TV or the frequency 101.7 Mhz? Whatever information comes through them is the meaning, if you like tto put it that way. What you can probably define is the nature of the information that comes through. For example, you know that if you switch on the MTV you are likely to get music and dance; on Discovery channel, you likely to develop environmental concerns, and things like that. We can make broad categorizations but not specifics.
There are 2 great mantras, one of which is called Om and the other is also Om. Om is the combination of AUM.
If you reverse the sequence a little and put the A at the end, it becomes "UMA". If you think of AUM as Siva, UMA is Shakti. These are the two Oms. Are they different? Yes and no. It is just the way you look at it. The symbolism of Godhead is carried not only into the sound symbols but also into the visual symbols.
In the visual symbols, the triangle with its apex down is called a yoni, the Shakti from which the child comes. You take the same triangle and turn itupwards it is Siva.
You can think of it another way. Suppose you scan the triangle with a horizontal line from bottom up. In a Siva triangle ( apex up) what you see is the width of the intersected line is gradually diminishing and becoming zero. In a Shakti triangle what is see is that it is starting at a point and growing into a line. So the growth of the awareness process is the shakti but both are the same, there is no real distinction between the two. Some are called Sivatriangles and some shakti triangles.
We have already seen the channels called Hrim and Srim.
Hrim is the germinating power of the universe which creates the world and the differentiations in the world. It limits the totality in some ways so that you can extract a ray or a seed out of it. Hrim you call maya. It also means lajja or shyness. When you stare at a stranger, they will cover their body. It is trying to cover, protect or limit. Limitation is called Hrim.
Srim is the opposite of it, condensing it, collapsing the ray into the point. And unlimited expansion is called Srim. Hrim is the power to create this cosmos. It contains three basic powers: aim, klim and souh.
Aim is the power that creates. So all that is related to creativity and procreation process, whether it is proving an intellectual theorem or whether it is is the spontaneous notes in a raga, or the lust that is the motive force behind the act of copulation, all these things are channelled through this frequency called Aim. Aim is called Saraswati. Sexual enjoyments, curiosity, the search for diversity, new ways of saying and doing and enjoying things are all blessings from Saraswati.
Klim is the act of preservation, nourishment, sustenence, wealth, prosperity, happiness, enjoyment. These are the aishwaryas, the wealth that is called Lakshmi. Klim is the nourishing aspect of the Mother which is in the heartcenter. Milk coming from the two breasts of a female nourishes and protects the baby from disease. So Lakshmi is worshipped in the breasts. The mother enjoys giving nourishment to her child when the child is sucking the breast.
Souh is the sound of the hissing snake. That snake is supposed to be the kundalini shakti, the power of your enjoyment which when transformed, eliminates your body awareness step by step and shoots you off into the cosmos. This is the kriya shakti. Its origin is in the muladhara chakra in males, and in the swaddhisthana chakra for females.
There are 2 great mantras, one of which is called Om and the other is also Om. Om is the combination of AUM.
If you reverse the sequence a little and put the A at the end, it becomes "UMA". If you think of AUM as Siva, UMA is Shakti. These are the two Oms. Are they different? Yes and no. It is just the way you look at it. The symbolism of Godhead is carried not only into the sound symbols but also into the visual symbols.
In the visual symbols, the triangle with its apex down is called a yoni, the Shakti from which the child comes. You take the same triangle and turn itupwards it is Siva.
You can think of it another way. Suppose you scan the triangle with a horizontal line from bottom up. In a Siva triangle ( apex up) what you see is the width of the intersected line is gradually diminishing and becoming zero. In a Shakti triangle what is see is that it is starting at a point and growing into a line. So the growth of the awareness process is the shakti but both are the same, there is no real distinction between the two. Some are called Sivatriangles and some shakti triangles.
We have already seen the channels called Hrim and Srim.
Hrim is the germinating power of the universe which creates the world and the differentiations in the world. It limits the totality in some ways so that you can extract a ray or a seed out of it. Hrim you call maya. It also means lajja or shyness. When you stare at a stranger, they will cover their body. It is trying to cover, protect or limit. Limitation is called Hrim.
Srim is the opposite of it, condensing it, collapsing the ray into the point. And unlimited expansion is called Srim. Hrim is the power to create this cosmos. It contains three basic powers: aim, klim and souh.
Aim is the power that creates. So all that is related to creativity and procreation process, whether it is proving an intellectual theorem or whether it is is the spontaneous notes in a raga, or the lust that is the motive force behind the act of copulation, all these things are channelled through this frequency called Aim. Aim is called Saraswati. Sexual enjoyments, curiosity, the search for diversity, new ways of saying and doing and enjoying things are all blessings from Saraswati.
Klim is the act of preservation, nourishment, sustenence, wealth, prosperity, happiness, enjoyment. These are the aishwaryas, the wealth that is called Lakshmi. Klim is the nourishing aspect of the Mother which is in the heartcenter. Milk coming from the two breasts of a female nourishes and protects the baby from disease. So Lakshmi is worshipped in the breasts. The mother enjoys giving nourishment to her child when the child is sucking the breast.
Souh is the sound of the hissing snake. That snake is supposed to be the kundalini shakti, the power of your enjoyment which when transformed, eliminates your body awareness step by step and shoots you off into the cosmos. This is the kriya shakti. Its origin is in the muladhara chakra in males, and in the swaddhisthana chakra for females.
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