Theos-Talk Archives (January 2005 Message tt00429)

UNITY in DIVERSITY SYMBOLIZED



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[NOTE: -- Krishna is the Wise Teacher or Atma-Buddhi within everyone.
Arjuna is the Mind/soul, the pupil. -- Chapter 10, BHAGAVAD GITA ]







A DIVINE FORM THAT INCLUDES ALL FORMS





"The eternal God" is the Perceiver [the Higher Self] within the divine form;
the "face . . . turned in all directions" is the "divine form," which like a
spherical mirror reflects all things. 



All differentiations of substance occur within the divine form, and each
differentiation necessitates its own peculiar modes of expression and
appearances, corresponding to "mouths," "eyes," and "wonderful forms."





DEITY GEOMETRIZES



It has been said of old that "the Deity geometrizes." All forms evolve from
within outwards. 



>From the "point" whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere, a
radiation equal in all directions begins, and establishes a circumference; a
sphere within which the activity of the "point" is particularly confined. 



The "point" spreading out horizontally becomes a diameter dividing the
sphere into positive and negative hemispheres, forming a basis for action
and reaction. 





CIRCULAR MOTION



A further extension of the point vertically to the circumference divides the
sphere into four parts, represented on a plane surface as a cross within the
circle. Remembering that these extensions of the "point," or center, are
lines of force proceeding from the center and tending to return to it, we
can conceive of the beginning of a revolution of the sphere whereby the ends
of the vertical and horizontal lines extend towards each other, forming at
first the ansated cross, and finally the square within the circle, in
reality, a cube or six-sided figure within the sphere. 



The cube, if looked at from either side presents the appearance of four
angles, which, if we can conceive of them as being luminous points
equidistant from the bright center, would be seen as a four-pointed star,
the symbol and sign of the animal kingdom. 



If we can imagine Arjuna as seeing within the "divine form" all living lines
of force and the forms produced by them, the four, the five, the six-pointed
star, and the many-sided figures, all in motion and of wonderful brilliancy
of light and of many colors, presenting the activities of all beings of
every grade in the universe, we may obtain some conception of the
descriptive parts of this chapter.





TIME and CYCLES



Krishna speaks: "I am Time matured, come hither for the destruction of all
these creatures." 



"Time matured" means the completion of cycles; everything that begins in
time, ends in time; every action has its own cycle or period of return, or
re-action; it is action and actions that produce cycles, and these latter
range from those of momentary duration to those of a "great age," as they
are produced by separate entities, classes of beings, or the collectivity of
actions by all beings of every grade concerned in any particular stream of
evolution. [Karma]





IMPERMANENCE OF FORMS - MAYA - 

CHANGE - PROGRESS



The general reference here is to the impermanence of all forms or
combinations of them. 

Change is necessitated by progress, for without change there would be
stagnation; hence the constant disintegration and re-integration of elements
in ever changing relation and form, all brought about by the requirements of
the Perceiver- the Real Man within-, who is the sole survivor through all
changes.



Arjuna says: "Thou art the one indivisible Being, and non-being, that which
is supreme." 

This statement can only be understood by each one applying it to himself. 



We know that we are not our bodies, for they constantly change, while we
remain the same identity through all the changes. We are not our "minds,"
for we change them whenever we find occasion to do so; if we were our minds
we could not change them, and further, it is apparent that "change" cannot
see "change ;" only that which is permanent can see change. 



That permanency is the Real, the immortal Man, or, as the "Voice of the
Silence" states it, "the Man that was, that is, and will be, for whom the
hour shall never strike." 



Each is the Self, the Perceiver; non-being, yet the cause and sustainer of
being; as the Gita states it in this chapter, "thou art the Knower and that
which is to be known ;" "thou art the final supreme receptacle of this
universe"-the garnerer of all experience when this universe is dissolved. At
the end of the Great Cycle [Kalpa], which includes all minor cycles, all
beings return to the primordial state, plus the experience gained. The next
great stream of evolution will proceed on the basis of the acquired
knowledge of all beings concerned.

from: GITA NOTES Ch 10 ( Pp. 172 -6)



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A useful presentation of some of the fundamentals of THEOSOPHY ,





Best wishes,



Dallas















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