Theos-Talk Archives (January 2003 Message tt00047)

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MAHA VISHNU IN NOT WITHIN ANY MATERIAL UNIVERSE. HE IS IN THE MAHATATTVA PORTION OF THE SPIRITUAL SKY, AND THE INFINITE NUMBER OF FINITE MATERIAL UNIVERSES (LIKE OUR OWN) ARE MANIFEST LIKE BUBBLES OUT OF THE 'PORES' OF HIS BODY. THESE ARE EMPTY UNTIL HE GLANCES ON THEM. HIS GLANCE IS CALLED SHAMBHU, AND THROUGH THIS LOVING GLANCE, HE MANIFESTS ALL OF THE FINITE JIVA-SOULS WITHIN EACH FINITE UNIVERSE. MAHA VISHNU THEN ENTERS INTO EACH UNIVERSE AS GARBODAKSAYI VISHNU, THE SELF-SACRIFICED COSMIC PURUSHA AND THE PARAMATMA 'HOLY SPIRIT', LORD OF ALL HEARTS. HE ALSO MANIFESTS HIMSELF AS THE GUNA AVATARAS BRAHMA, VISHNU AND SHIVA, AND AS INFINITE DIRECT LILA INCARNATIONS AND 'EMPOWERED' SHAKTYAVESHA INCARNATIONS. 

VISHNU IS ALSO CALLED HARI, PURUSHA, VASUDEVA, NARAYANA AND MORE THAN 1000 OTHER NAMES IN SANSKRIT. THE MANY BY-NAMES OF THE BIBLICAL DEITY ELI-YAHU-ADON, THE EGYPTIAN SUPREME GODHEAD HERU-ASU(OSIRIS)-ATUM, THE GREEK HELI-OS-AUTOS (ONTOS. ATOMOS), AND JUPITER, ZEUS, AMMON POLIEUS ARE NAMES OF PURUSHA. 

THE DOCTRINE OF BRAHMA ON THE COSMIC LOTUS FROM THE BODY OF GARBODAKSAYI VISHNU IS RELATED TO THE HELIOPOLITAN TRADITION OF THE COSMIC AXIS MUNDI AT DELPHI (GARBHA = DELPHA), AND THE DOCTRINE OF HELIOS-PHANES, OR THEOPHANY IN EGYPT, WHERE THE 4 ARMED AND 4 FACED FORM OF HERU APPEARED AT THE DAWN OF THE COSMIC CREATION ON A LOTUS FROM THE BODY OF NILUS OR MZRYM / NAHARAIM / NARAYANA. 

VISHNU WITH 'BUBBLE' UNIVERSES IS MAHA VISHNU OUTSIDE OF ALL MATERIAL UNIVERSES, AND VISHNU WITH THE LOTUS-NAVEL AND BRAHMA IS WITHIN EACH 'IMPREGNATED' FINITE COSMIC GLOBE / 'EGG'. 

THE THEOSOPHICAL SYSTEM DOES NOT SEEM TO CONCERN ITSELF WITH THE TRANSCENDENT REALM AND GODHEAD, OR THE EXISTANCE OF OTHER UNIVERSES OUTSIDE OF OUR OWN. IT SEEMS TO TAKE THE DAYS AND NIGHTS OF BRAHMA AS AN ULTIMATE AND ENDLESS CYCLE. THIS IS BASICALLY THE JAIN. THERAVADIN BUDDHIST, AND ADVAITI VIEW, THAT ENDLESS CYCLING IN THIS UNIVERSE IS ALL THAT THERE IS. THE BRAHMAN LIGHT (NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH BRAHMA) PERVADES BOTH THIS AND THE SPIRITUAL SKY. MERGING INTO THE BRAHMAN EFFUGENCE OF THE GODHEAD IS NOT DESIRED BY ANYONE EXCEPT THE BRAHMAVADIS WHO ARE DEVOTEES, AND THE MAYAVADIS WHO ARE ATHEISTS. THE BRAHMAVADIS EXPERIENCE A 'MERGING' RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD WHILE IN CONCIOUSNESS CONTACT WITH HIS BRAHMAN EFFULGENCE, BUT THE MAYAVADIS HAVE ONLY A COMPLETELY IMPERSONAL EXPERIENCE. 


BA G


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