Meditation 19
(April 8, Sept. 4, Oct. 11, March 9)
The Saviour is coming. He comes through degrees.
He is the star of the virgin,
who is in charge of Nandi.
Nandi is the Kailash of Moon.
There she is the star of the virgin.
She is the mother, she is the grace.
He is on the bull, she is on the lion.
Moon is on his head, she is on the crown of fish.
Moon is on his head.
He is the lord of She.
Commentary:
This is one of the most sublime meditations. This demands visualisation of the Lord in a meditation posture. The Lord wears a crown of stars presided by the fish (the Mother). He is decorated with a crescent Moon on his forehead. He is the Lord of She (who is on his head). The bull is his vehicle and the lion is her vehicle. Ananda (bliss) is the quality of this entire symbol. Not frequently, students come across the smiling posture of Lord Shiva, who carries a crescent Moon on his forehead, the Mother Ganga on his head, the bull (his vehicle) on one side, and the lion (her vehicle) on the other side. The Lord carries a subtle smile that represents the blissful state. Meditating upon this symbol unfolds the consciousness of the student in slow degrees until the birth of saviour in him. Every son of man, through evolution and through discipleship, becomes a Son of God and every Son of God plays a role of saviour for his fellow beings. The happening of a saviour is through degrees of progress and is not a sudden happening as one generally thinks. It is like unfolding of a flower, ripening of a fruit, growth of the foetus in the womb, happening of a dawn or dusk, etc.
The emergence of this saviour is through virginity, meaning, purity. Inner and outer purity is the basis for the evolution of man, from the son of man to the Son of God. Every Son of God is therefore considered Son of Virgin, meaning, son of purity. As much as there is purity in oneself, so much is the joy that one carries. One should know that joy comes more from purity than from things, persons, places and events. Nandi is the ultimate of joy called bliss, which belongs to the soul. The Scriptures speak of three states of happiness. The first state is called happiness, which comes from agreeable objectivity. The second state of happiness is called joy, which comes from agreeable subjectivity. It relates to the mind while the first one relates to the senses and the body. The third state of happiness is called bliss. It relates to the state of the soul which is beyond the subjectivity and objectivity. Such bliss of the soul is called Nandi. Nandi means the one who is an embodiment of Ananda; the one who lives as soul consciousness; the one who is blissful and necessarily carries cheerfulness with him. One's countenance always carries a subtle smile. Thus, a saviour who comes from the Virgin is blissful, joyful, cheerful. He is an emergence of the Lord himself through the Mother, as a gift of bliss to the mundane beings. To make it a little more clearly, the son of man turns into the Son of God through slow degrees of initiations, experiences the God with the grace of the Mother (purity) and comes back as a blissful gift to Humanity. This is one part of the meditation.
The second part of the meditation relates to the contemplation upon the Mother and upon the Lord with their symbolic vehicles. Let us first consider the Mother. The Mother is virgin. She is the purity of nature. She is covered by the impurity of ignorance. She is the hidden light. Only the virginity of a person reveals the light of her purity. She is on the crown of the fish. It means, She presides over the opposing currents of the two fish, which move in two different directions. The fish represents the Sun sign Pisces, which is indicative of the beginning and ending of all. The Mother presiding over the fish moving in opposite directions causes movement through time the energy of the Lord as Spirit and matter. She is the first impulse from the Lord that causes creation, its growth and its dissolution. She presides over the sound. The sounds are SA and HA. It is therefore said that Simha (lion) is her vehicle. SA stands for Spirit and HA stands for the Mother at all planes. Simha (the lion) is the interplay of Spirit and matter. That interplay works as the pulsating principle in the creation. It is the same pulsating principle that exists as the centre of all beings. The pulsating principle is worshiped with the sound SOHAM. The song SOHAM is considered as the swan song. The swan is called Hamsa. Hamsa, Soham, Simha represent the different chemistries of the sounds SA and НА over which the Mother presides. She is the Goddess Meenakshi, the energy of Pisces. In the opposite sign, the Mother is Virgin. The quality of the Mother is grace. This grace is showered through her two eyes, which are like the two fish. It is the Lord who transmits Himself through Her looks of grace. The looks reach the virgin ones, the pure ones. The pure ones are transformed into the Sons of God by the touch of the Lord transmitted through the gracious looks of the Mother of Pisces, Meenakshi. It is interesting to note that the fish hatches its eggs through looks and transforms them to fishlings (the saviours; the Sons of God).
Let us also consider briefly the Lord. He is the one with the subtle smile. His vehicle is the bull. The bull is symbolic of the sacred sound OM. The sound is not the sound as we know it, but it is the soundless sound called Naada (Naada is the soundless sound, the sacred sound. Sabda is the sound.) Naada is the soundless sound OM, which permeates the whole creation and supports the creation. The Lord is the Lord of OM. He is also the Lord of the Mother. He is the one who expresses through a Son of God. He is the one who transmits Himself as bliss through the Son of God. The bliss is his crescent Moon. The student is strongly recommended to read the symbolism relating to this meditation again and again and find the order for contemplation.