Friday, December 29, 2006

The Ninth Mandala 61.3

Abundantly requesting to know all light; Evolving Consciousness, rich in light; is possessing both 1,000, gold-like, refreshing, wet waters of the sky.

There are two different kinds of light in this verse; representing the feminine/masculine and the manifest/potential principle. Throughout time and space (ages and cultures) the distortion of the understanding of this balance is played out in many different ways. However the similarities reveal the underlying misperception. There is a tendency to embrace heaven or earth, not both. How can there be contentment during the night when there is only an acceptance of the light of the sun?
This principle is more easily accepted when observing nature. Do we mourn for the loss of the bud as the flower opens? Do we lament for the days of summer as the nights become longer? Do we cry at the injustice as the sun melts the delicate prisms of frost?
Light and dark are one.
With this understood a more clear translation of the underlying meaning of this verse would be:

Abundantly requesting to know the seven rays of manifest light; with the help of Evolving Consciousness, rich with both manifest and un-manifest, imperishable, refreshing, wet waters of the sky.

Another word that has an interesting lineage is hari. It is generally translated as gold. However, gold is merely a representation of imperishable matter.

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