The Holy Meeting Place

Namaste, my brother in Christ, and welcome (or welcome back) to my latest adhyayana posting. Today, we’re discussing the Rigveda’s 26th Sukta, which is blessedly shorter than the previous two. What’s it about? Miracle-working, more or less.

Let’s dig right in with Rv 1.26:1, which reads:

Abiding in spiritual perception sends forth the meditative offering clothing the sap (the divine life-energy) of the Bridegroom from the Borderland vessel, the offering arena for almsgiving.

vasiṣvā (Abiding in spiritual perception) hi (sends forth) miye-dhya (the meditative offering) vastrāṇy (clothing) ūrjām (the sap or life-energy) pate (of the Bridegroom from) semaṃ (the Borderland) no (vessel) adhvaraṃ (the offering arena) yaja (for almsgiving)

Notes:

As discussed hitherto, the Borderland is the mode of perception in-between Earthly inverted perception and Heavenly right-minded “knowing”. So, it’s the place deep in our minds where our perception stands upright. The Borderland is, therefore, the Celestial Sphere, the Middle Firmament, Shemayin, the Resting Place, and the Land of the Living, among other scriptural metaphors.

Or, as Course-Jesus explains:

There is a borderland of thought that stands between this world and Heaven. It is not a place, and when you reach it is apart from time. Here is the meeting place where thoughts are brought together; where conflicting values meet and all illusions are laid down beside the truth, where they are judged to be untrue. This borderland is just beyond the gate of Heaven. Here is every thought made pure and wholly simple. Here is sin denied, and everything that is received instead. (ACIM, T-26.III.2:1-6)

The Borderland vessel is the Circle of Water and/or the Moon Circle, the almsgiving arena for the Living Water of Grace (the U-kara aspect of AUM). Hindus call this grace-yielding cow Kamdhenu and Surabi; the ancient Egyptians called her Hathor; and the Bible calls her Moket, the Queen of Heaven.

As we learn from Leviticus 18:21, our offerings of loving thoughts (the seed scattered by the Holy Spirit) in our circle “meetings” are formed into the sweet cakes the Mother Cow needs to produce her milk. Those “sweet offering cakes” are then “baked” in the spiritual ovens heated by burning the branches of unloving thought pruned through the truth-restoring miracles requested from and granted by Christ.

Jesus explains all of this in John 15, but his meaning was lost, as usual, through fear-inverted interpretation:

I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, so that it will be even more fruitful. You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you. Remain in me, as I also remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me.

I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. If you do not remain in me, you are like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned. If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. This is to my Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.

This translation probably needs tweaking, but you should get the idea.

As Course-Jesus and the Vedic rishis both explain, it is in this “Borderland” that we stand upright (as Souls) in Spiritual Perception, True Perception, or Miraculous Perception.

From all of this we can glean that the meditative offering “clothing the sap of the Bridegroom” is God’s saving grace–the dazzling white “cloth” forming the robes of righteousness.

In the Bible, grace is similarly described as a divine covering for the Soul, replacing the “filthy rags” of human effort or shame with the “garment of salvation” and/or the “robe of righteousness”. This symbolic clothing signifies being covered by Christ’s purity and grace, restoring our lost innocence and glory, and enabling believers to stand upright before God. These are, btw, the metaphoric garments we put on through “baptism in Christ,” as described below in Galatians 3:27:

For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

We are baptized into Christ not in earthly rivers or baptismal founts, as the Ego’s religions encourage, but in the Circle of Waters in the Borderland.

The Sukta’s second line reads:

Deep inside the vessel, the call of the Supreme Yah assembles the grains of the cherished prayerful thoughts in the fiery eye of the Divine Mother.

ni (deep inside) no (the vessel) hotā (the call) vareṇyaḥ (of the Supreme Yah) sadā (assembles) yav-iṣṭha (the grains of the cherished) manma-bhiḥ (prayerful thoughts) agne (in the fiery eye) divit-matā (of the Divine Mother)

Notes:

This echoes what I just explained about the sweet cakes we make for the Mother Cow from the “seeds” we scatter in our circle meetings. These seeds produce the sacred grass carpeting the green pastures of the Resting Place. And this is the true meaning of “you reap what you sow.” In Galatians 6:8, for example, we read:

For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.

In the Course, Jesus explains the meaning of the metaphor as follows:

There are many examples of how the ego’s interpretations are misleading, but a few will suffice to show how the Holy Spirit can reinterpret them in His Own light.

“As ye sow, so shall ye reap” He interprets to mean what you consider worth cultivating you will cultivate in yourself. Your judgment of what is worthy makes it worthy for you.

(ACIM, T-5.VI.5:1–6:2)

The “seeds” we scatter are our thoughts and intentions. To scatter helpful and loving thoughts reaps a harvest of good spiritual “fruit”; to scatter harmful and unloving thoughts, on the other hand, yields for us a harmful and unloving harvest. Ergo, we reap what we sow. The seeds of our good thoughts make the sweet offering cakes we bake in God’s oven — the fiery eye of the Mother Cow, the Circle of Fire at the center of the Inner Altar, where God and Christ dwell together within us.

Rv 1.26:3 reads:

The sound vibrations of God send forth miracles for the sons assembled to share the almsgiving offerings of the three separated companions in friendship.

vacaḥ (the sound vibrations) ā (of God or Heaven) hi (send forth) ṣmā (miracles) sūnave (for the sons) pit-āpir (assembled to share) yaja-ty = vaja-ti (the almsgiving offerings of the three) āpaye (separated) sakhā (companions) sakhye (in friendship).

Notes:

The three separated companions are the three aspects of Divine Love Christians call the Holy Trinity, Hindus call the Trimuti, Theosophists call the Three Rays of Divine Aspect, and Kabbalists call the three Hands of God. For all intents and purposes, those three Rays of Agape sound A-U-M. When we gather together in Holy Relationship (spiritual friendship, fellowship, or brotherhood) to share our prayerful alms of love, mercy, and forgiveness to everyone, these vibrations produce miracles.

Or, as Course-Jesus says:

A miracle is a universal blessing from God through me to all my brothers. It is the privilege of the forgiven to forgive. (ACIM, T-1.I.27:1-2)

The fourth Rik reads:

The Supreme Yah is God’s vessel speaking for Kamadeva (divine love) to destroy the enemies of AUM.

vareṇyaḥ (the Supreme Yah) ā (is God’s) no (vessel) barh-ī (speaking for Kamadeva) riśādas-o (to destroy the enemies of Om).

Notes:

To find the truth, we have to question everything we’ve learned in the world. And that includes the religious teachings the Ego Mind would have us accept blindly or “on faith” (to insure its survival). Distorted religious beliefs are, in fact, Satan’s greatest triumph in the world. He wants us to believe in sin and guilt, to judge others, and to fear God’s wrath. Why? Because believing these lies keeps us under his thumb.

That said, kama does not mean “desire.” It means “the love of God.” Kamadeva is not, therefore, the Hindu god of carnal love nor is he the Indian Cupid, as long believed; Rather, he’s the personification of Agape, who shoots flowery arrows with his bow using a bee-line for a string. That humming beeline represents the AUM, which shoots miracles into our mind — the flowery arrows in Kamadeva’s quiver.

The Supreme Yah is the Red Ray, whose partner is Vah. Together they form YHVH, the name of God in Israel. So Yah, we learn herein, is the vessel speaking for God’s Love. He’s also the vessel producing the Trinity powers of AUM. Vah is the hook and/or the Bridge between Heaven and Earth. So Vah is the Christ Ray producing the four Attribute Rays or Cherubim, the four “living beings” or “angels” supporting the Yah Ray on the Throne of God.

In Hinduism, the Yah Ray is personified as King Indra, the guardian of the eastern gate, whilst the Vah Ray is Lord Varuna, the guardian of the western gate.

Rv 1:26:5 reads:

Varuna’s trusted companion and bosom friend is the one fulfilling the purpose of the guardians manifesting Soma, the light of the moon.

varuṇo (Varuna’s or the waters of oneness) mitro (trusted companion) aryamā (bosom friend) sīd-antu (is the one fulfilling the purpose of the guardians) manu-ṣo (manifesting Soma) ya-thā (the light of the moon)||

Notes:

As I just explained, Varuna is the Vah Ray, the Lord of the Waters of Oneness and the Keeper of the Cosmic Order. His trusted companion, we are told herein,” is the one fulfilling the purpose of the guardians manifesting Soma, the light of the Moon.

In the Hindu lore, the guardians of Soma are identified as Krsanu, the celestial archer, and the Gandharvas, the celestial horse-headed singers. These may or may not be the guardians the rishis mean herein. After reading many things describing Manu, the progenitor of humankind, I decided the word means something along the lines of “thought-manifestations.” Because humankind is, indeed, a thought-manifestation that doesn’t exist in Divine Reality.

I rather suspect the guardians the rishis mean are the four living beings. In Hinduism they are the four non-cardinal Aṣṭa-Dikpāla, the eight direction guardians who are, in fact, the guardians of the four quadrants or circles and their gates.

That said, Sidantu proved tough to define. If we break the word as sidan-tu, for example, it means “the established laws of Kama.” The Cosmic Law of Love, in other words.

And, if that is the meaning intended, the Rik would read: Varuna’s trusted companion and bosom friend, the Law of Love manifests Soma, the light of the moon.

The word can also be divided as sidant-u, which translates as “the laws of Shiva.” And in Hinduism, Shiva’s Seven Laws are these:

1. The Law of Truth: Embrace higher truth, justice, and authenticity, as truth will prevail in the end.
2. Knowledge is God: Shiva, as the ultimate teacher (Dakshinamurthy), teaches that wisdom and self-knowledge are divine.
3. Everything is an Illusion (Maya): Happiness shouldn’t depend on material things, which are temporary. This encourages detachment from possessions and ego.
4. The Law of Transformation: Change is constant; pain is seen as a way to grow, not just a punishment, facilitating personal evolution.
5. Be Formless: Like water, one should be flexible and adaptable, navigating life’s challenges calmly.
6. The Law of Detachment: Letting go of negative emotions, pride, pain, and attachments allows for true freedom and forward movement.
7. Enlightenment is Awakening: The goal is self-realization and understanding the nature of reality.

If this is what the rishis mean, these laws help Varuna, the Cosmic Order-protecting and restoring waters of AUM, to uphold the Second Covenant. And these “karmic laws,” are indeed the thought-manifestations of Soma, the “moonlight” or “lesser light” shining in the dream-realm.

Let’s move on and see if the next verse can shed any light on the rishis intended meaning of sidantu. Rv 1.26:6 reads:

The ancient call to overcome (death), the mouth-vessel commanding the wind, belongs to the fellowship circles for attaining the U-kara, the sacred stream of True Knowing.

pūrvya (the ancient) hotar (call to overcome) asya (the mouth) no (vessel) mandas-va (commanding the wind) sakhya-sya (belongs to the fellowship) ca (circle) imā (for attaining) u (Shiva or the U-kara) ṣu (the sacred) śrudhī (stream of true-knowing)

Notes:

Let’s start with Hotar, a word presumed to describe “the chief priest presiding over the yajna ritual.” Traditionally, the Hotar mediates between the gods and the participants, by reading certain hymns and invocations allegedly prescribed in the Vedas. This probably isn’t an accurate definition of the word, given that embodied “priests” play no role in our purely metal almsgiving yajnas. That the rishis identify the hotar herein as both “ancient” and a “mouth-vessel(s)” further demonstrates that the Hotar they mean can’t be a human priest.

So, what is the ancient Hotar? Hard to say, since the false definition has grown such deep and pervasive roots, few if any alternatives remain. Hotr, Hota, Hotar, and Hotara are all said to mean either “priests” or “sacrifice.” And neither can be right, unless the rishis are calling the four Living Beings “the ancient priests” of the yajnas. And, according to the Vedas, there are indeed four priests playing roles in the yajna rituals.

If this is so, these four priests definitely aren’t human beings. Traditionally, these priests are identified as follows:

–The Hotr, who recites hymns from the Rigveda.
–The Advaryu, who performs the physical actions of the yajna using the Yajurveda.
–The UdGatr, who chants hymns from the Samaveda.
–The Brahman, who oversees the entire ritual and provides remedies based on the Atharvaveda.

Can you spot the fly in the ointment? I hope so, because it’s pretty glaring. If the yajnas are the purely mental almsgiving rituals we perform in the inner-chamber circles presided over by the quadrant guardians, then the priests taking part can’t be reading or chanting anything from the Vedas.

Let’s reject the egoic idea that these four “whatevers” are priests. And start from scratch.

If hotar doesn’t mean “priest,” what might it mean?

According to learnsanskrit.cc, hotar can also mean “calling,” “invocation,” “call,” or “the function of a priest.” Filled with hope, I consulted the Course, wherein Jesus uses “ancient” as a verb many times. He describes the journey, the Song of Heaven, God’s Name, God’s Throne, the miracle, and even our ego-incited hatred and enmity as “ancient.” Only twice, however, does he use “ancient” to describe “a call.” Once he says, “the ancient clarion call of life” and once he says, “the ancient call to life.”

And, when divided, ho-tar can mean “the call to overcome” or “the call to cross over.” And what do we “overcome” or “cross over” but death? And what is the call to life but the call to overcome death?

So, the Hotar isn’t a priest, it’s the ancient clarion call to life, which is the M-kara, the sound coming out of the Golden Mouth. And that sound commands the wind in the fellowship circles for attaining the U-kara. The fellowship circles for attaining the U-kara are the Circle of Earth and the Circle of Wind. In the Circle of Earth, the M-kara works silently to bring us to the Circle of Wind, where we hear the sound and share it in the fellowship of our meditative meetings. The wind the rishis mean is the Cosmic Breath or Cosmic Wind the Old Testament calls Ruach and the Vedas call Vayu.

Or, as Course-Jesus says:

When your body and your ego and your dreams are gone, you will know that you will last forever. Perhaps you think this is accomplished through death, but nothing is accomplished through death, because death is nothing. Everything is accomplished through life, and life is of the mind and in the mind. The body neither lives nor dies, because it cannot contain you who are life. If we share the same mind, you can overcome death because I did. Death is an attempt to resolve conflict by not deciding at all. Like any other impossible solution the ego attempts, IT WILL NOT WORK. (ACIM, T-6.V-A.1:1-7)

This bring us to Advaryu, which means either “heaven’s gate, yoked” or “consuming the chosen.” And, as awkward as it may sound, “consuming the chosen” is a phrase found in Christian theology.

According to Google:

“Consuming the chosen” generally refers to metaphorical consumption (spiritual absorption) or the literal consumption of food by those chosen by God, rather than eating chosen people. Key contexts include eating the “Messiah” (Jesus) spiritually to abide in him, Daniel’s refusal of the king’s food to remain holy, and warnings against consuming foods that hinder spiritual clarity.

So, hotar is the call to life and advaryu is the act of absorbing our daily rations of epiousious bread or manna, essentially. So what might UdGatr mean? The answer is “away from the physical body.” So, the Udgatar isn’t a priest, it’s the third step in the yajna ritual, which is perceiving ourselves (and everyone else) as formless beings. And forgetting the body completely is, according to Course-Jesus, how we connect with the Holy Instant of Eternity.

The fourth alleged priest is Brahman, the Hindu designation for God. So, the final step in the yajna is “reaching God directly.” And this is indeed the ultimate goal of our spiritual practice, is it not?

The seventh Rik reads:

The voices singing communicate to the Soul’s intellect continually to expand what belongs to God, the Almighty almsgiving shining the joy to be drawn from the ritual offerings.

giraḥ (The voices singing) yac (communicate) cid (to the Soul’s) dhi (intellect) śaśvatā (continually) tanā (to expand) devaṃ-devaṃ (what belongs to God) yajāmahe (the Almighty almsgiving) tve (shining) id (the joy) dhūyate (to be drawn) haviḥ (from the ritual offerings) 

Notes:

Jesus uses similar language in the Course. In once place, for example, he says:

From loving minds there is no separation. And every thought in one brings gladness to the other because they are the same. Joy is unlimited, because each shining thought of love extends its being and creates more of itself. There is no difference anywhere in it, for every thought is like itself. (ACIM, T-22.VI.14:6-9)

Rv 1:25:8 reads:

The Beloved’s vessel, the abiding love pervades the dream to invoke the low rumbling sound of the Supreme Yah, the Beloved Yah, the true-self cowherd of God’s Breath.

priyo (the Beloved’s) no (vessel) astu (the abiding love) viś-patir (pervades the dream) hotā (to call) mandr (the low rumbling sound) vareṇyaḥ (of the Supreme Yah) pri-yāḥ (the Beloved Yah) svagnayo (the true-self cowherd) vayam  (of God’s Breath)

Notes:

Supposedly, Astu means “so be it” in Sanskrit — the same definition assigned to Amen in Hebrew. But Amen, a pseudo-Egyptian word, actually means “the hidden one” or “the hidden truth,” whilst As-tu in Sanskrit translates as “abiding kama” or “the abiding love of God.” And we find the phrase “abiding love of God” in both the Course and the Bible.

In the Course, Jesus says:

Here is the role the Holy Spirit gives to you who wait upon the Son of God, and would behold him waken and be glad. He is a part of you and you of him, because he is his Father’s Son, and not for any purpose you may see in him. Nothing is asked of you but to accept the changeless and eternal that abide in him, for your Identity is there. The peace in you can but be found in him. And every thought of love you offer him but brings you nearer to your wakening to peace eternal and to endless joy.

This sacred Son of God is like yourself; the mirror of his Father’s Love for you, the soft reminder of his Father’s Love by which he was created and which still abides in him as it abides in you. Be very still and hear God’s Voice in him, and let It tell you what his function is. He was created that you might be whole, for only the complete can be a part of God’s completion, which created you.
(ACIM, T-29.V.3:1–4:3)

1 John 4:16, Jesus says:

And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.

In John 15, Jesus speaks at length about this “abiding love” in the context of the True Vine, the True Husband, and his two chief commandants to love God and each other.

From all this, we can glean that “to abide in love” means to love God devotedly by loving the spark of God in all living things. And that spark, as we now know, was put into us by the Great Red Ray of Yah. The Great Yah, the rishis tell us herein, also is “the true-self cowherd.”

Hindus call that cowherd figure Govinda and/or Gopala Krishna, perceiving this cow-protecting figure as a form of Lord Krishna (who is, in turn, a form of Lord Vishnu).

The allegorical legend of Gopala Krishna is told in the Bhagavata Purana and the Harivamsha, two supplementary texts to the Mahabharata, the great epic famously containing the Bhagavad Gita.

In the story, young Krishna, the foster son of Nanda (joy) and Yoshoda (glory), works as a divine cowherd in Vraja (the Holy Resting Place on the banks of the Yamuna River).

Govinda occupies his time mainly by playing his flute, enrapturing the gopis (the milkmaids of Vraja), frolicking. and pranking his friends. Portrayed as a disobedient child, Gopala Krishna steals butter from the houses of the gopis, untethers cows, and lies to his foster-mother. Despite his antics, the women of Gokulam (the cow pasture or community) find him too endearing to punish. Among the most popular stories of Gopala Krishna and the gopis is the rāsalīlā, in which Krishna multiplies in form and dances with each gopi who encircles him in the forest (the Borderland). Later traditions depict Krishna only with Radha, the chief Gopi. A syllabic marriage of Rad and ha, the name means “the split greater light.” So Radha represents Krishna’s loving partnership with the Great Rays of Yah and Vah, the chief miracle-milk extracting powers in the Resting Place (the green pastures beside the still waters).

The rest of the symbols should be pretty obvious by now. The Gopis making circles around Krishna in the forest, for example. Do I need to spell it out?

The Sukta’s eighth Rik reads:

The true-self cowherd impels the Chosen Ones with divine ears to steadily give in the circle of wholeness.

sva-g(a)nayo (The true-self Cowherd) hi (impels) vāryaṃ (the chosen ones) dev-āso (with divine ears) dadhirely (to steadily give) ca (in the circle) naḥ of wholeness).

Notes:

As Jesus explains in the Course, the Chosen Ones are the Souls living in the world at the present time who’ve answered the call to wake up ahead of the majority of earth-bound Souls. As the rishis suggest, the Chosen Ones hear the AUM. Most people don’t or can’t at this point in the dream’s replay. Few even know the sound is there, crying to be heard.

Course-Jesus says much on this subject, but few Course students and teachers yet understand what he means by the Voice for God and/or the Holy Spirit. And AUM isn’t even mentioned, let alone identified as “the keys to the kingdom” in the three Abrahamic religions (Christianity, Judaism, and Islam). This wisdom is, nevertheless, buried in the foundational scriptures of all three religions. Insofar as I’m aware, the importance of AUM or OM has only been retained in Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism, all of which originated in India.

Rv 1.26:9 reads:

The true-self cowherd drives the great now-moment waters. the two gathering together the immortal and the mortal beings uniting in peace to advance the singing sustaining the universe.

sva-g(a)nayo (The true-self Cowherd) manāmahe (drives the Great ) athā (Now Moment) na (waters) ubhaye-ṣām (the two gathering together) amṛta (the immortal) martyānām (and the mortal beings) mithaḥ (uniting) santu (in peace) pra-śastayaḥ (to advance the singing) viśvebhir (sustaining the universe)

Notes:

The true-self Cowherd, as just explained, is Lord Krishna, the Christ figure of Hinduism and the charioteer of Arjuna, the Soul preparing to do battle with the Ego Mind. The great now-moment is the Holy Instant, while “the two” probably refers to the Great Rays, the Yah and the Vah powers of YHVH, God’s Holy Name in Israel (the Soul Mind, not the country). These two Rays also are the two streams of Vishnu — a Sanskrit name meaning “two streams,” (rather than “preserver”) as well as the two rays seen beaming from Christ’s chest in the Divine Mercy image commissioned by Sister Faustina.

The singing advancing the universe is what Course-Jesus terms “the Mighty Chorus to the Love of God.” Others call these ethereal singers the Cosmic Choir, the Cosmic Chorus, or the Heavenly host. As I understand it, all God’s Creations sing this “ancient melody” together with their Creator in Heaven. To end the dream, we all have to sing the song here as well. The “song” is AUM or Om.

Or, as Course-Jesus similarly explains:

Now is the time of salvation, for now is the release from time. Reach out to all your brothers, and touch them with the touch of Christ. In timeless union with them is your continuity, unbroken because it is wholly shared. God’s guiltless Son is only light. There is no darkness in him anywhere, for he is whole. Call all your brothers to witness to his wholeness, as I am calling you to join with me. Each voice has a part in the song of redemption, the hymn of gladness and thanksgiving for the light to the Creator of light. The holy light that shines forth from God’s Son is the witness that his light is of his Father. (ACIM, T-13.VI.8:1-8)

The tenth and final Rik reads:

Agni is the sacred-fire minister of the almsgiving rituals of Ida’s sound vibration, the circle-vessel discharging the energy forces of the Yah Om.

agne (Agni is) agnibhir (the sacred-fire) imaṃ (minister of) yajñam (the almsgiving rituals of) idaṃ(Ida’s) vacaḥ (sound vibrations) ca-no (the circle-vessel) dhāḥ (discharging) sahaso (the energy forces of) yah-o (the Yah Om)

I’m not sure what this means or that my definition for cano is accurate. But let’s see if we can work out the meaning through deconstruction. In Hindu lore, Idā primarily represents a goddess of speech, nourishment (ghee/milk), and acts as an instructress to Manu (manifesting thought) on performing offerings. In yoga, she’s the “lunar” nadi (spiritual energy-channel) whose partner is the “solar” nadi, Pingala. Together, Ida and Pingala weave their way up the Shushumna, the central channel or nadi housing Kundalini. As I understand it, Ida and Pingala work in tandem to coax Kundalini upward through the chakras, which she “purifies” or “opens.” The image below illustrates the general dynamic.

If Ida’s sound vibration is the “lunar Om” or “Moon Om” (which it is, by all accounts), then the Ida nadi carries the U-kara vibration (the Living Water), while the Pingala nadi carries the solar energy of the A-kara vibration (Amrita, the Blood of Christ). What the rishis seem to be saying is that Agni is the sacred-fire energy coming through the Christ presence standing at the center of the Circle of Water (aka, the Moon Circle). And that is how we share and strengthen the Yah energy of the Red Ray.

This would explain why King Indra surrenders his power to Krishna. Krishna, being “the cowherd” in the Resting Place, disperses Indra’s power (Agni, the sacred fire) through the Circle of Water, where he plays the U-kara on his flute.

This tells me that Agni might well be the Vedic name for the serpent-fire, Kundalini. For the record, kundalini doesn’t mean “coiled” as pretty much everyone suggests; the word is a compound of kund and alini, meaning “the swarm (of bees) from the pit.” Contrary to popular belief and Google’s explanation, “the swarm from the pit” does not refer to the demonic locusts released from the bottomless pit in Revelation 9.

As we’ve discussed, the locusts aren’t a plague; they symbolize the ego-destroying vibration that is the Atonement. The bottomless pit, meanwhile is the wellspring in the Resting Place, which draws up the Living Water from the Cosmic Ocean underneath the illusion.

That the locusts and pit are demonic is, quite frankly, a purely egoic (fear-inverted) interpretation of Revelation 9. The wellspring is guarded by Nisrok, the eagle-headed cherubim seen by the prophets. Nisrok’s Army, as we’ve also discussed, are the miracle-working Souls in the Resting Place.

From all of this we can glean that Kundalini, the swarm from the pit, is the buzzing sound of the Trinity Rays, which dissolves the Ego Mind in stages. So, as I’ve long suspected, what yogis term “Kundalini” is what Course-Jesus terms “the Atonement.”

About this “inner force” he says:

Miracles represent freedom from fear. “Atoning” means “undoing.” The undoing of fear is an essential part of the Atonement value of miracles. (ACIM, T-1.I.26:1-3)

He also says:

The Atonement is the only defense that cannot be used destructively because it is not a device you made. The Atonement principle was in effect long before the Atonement began. The principle was love and the Atonement was an act of love. Acts were not necessary before the separation, because belief in space and time did not exist. It was only after the separation that the Atonement and the conditions necessary for its fulfillment were planned. Then a defense so splendid was needed that it could not be misused, although it could be refused. Refusal could not, however, turn it into a weapon of attack, which is the inherent characteristic of other defenses. The Atonement thus becomes the only defense that is not a two-edged sword. It can only heal. (ACIM, T-2.II.4:1-9)

Okay, wait, because I’m beginning to think Kundalini might be the Supreme M-kara, which the U-kara and the A-kara make by joining. In the teachings of True Yoga (including Kundalini Yoga), Ida and Pingala rise up to “meet” in the Ajna Chakra. And that meeting of the two ego-undoing powers results in a “Kundalini awakening.”

This new insight changes some of what I’ve explained hitherto, but only slightly. If Kundalini is the M-kara, which is formed through the “sacred marriage” of the A-kara and the U-kara, then the M-kara is the most powerful of the three. That Kundalini is sounded by the Golden Mouth tracks with this interpretation, since the Golden Mouth is the Golden Treasury and the Golden Egg on the sixth plane of consciousness, the level of the Ajna chakra.

I hope I haven’t confused you. But, like I’ve said all along, I’m learning as I teach through these online adhyayana discussions.

And one thing I’ve learned today is that Jesus was the first Soul in human form to awaken Kundalini, the M-kara vibration. And once he awakened the sleeping serpent-fire, he awakened her for everybody.

This was, I suspect, the event in Christ’s life the New Testament calls “the Transfiguration.”

According to Matthew 17:1-8, Mark 9:2-8, and Luke 9:28-36, Jesus led his closest three disciples up a high mountain. His face shone like the sun and his clothing became dazzling white. Moses (drawn from the waters) and Elias (Yahweh is salvation) appeared, speaking with Jesus about his upcoming “exodus” in Jerusalem (the Land of the Living on the sixth plane). A bright cloud overshadowed them, and a voice from heaven said, “This is my beloved Son. Hear him.”

I’ve read many explanations of the Transfiguration’s symbolism, but only now do I apprehend what Moses and Elias represented in the vision. The mountain Jesus went up was in the Celestial Sphere, rather than a mountain in worldly Judea (like Mt. Tabor). Moses was the M-kara drawn from the waters of grace; Elias was the Yah and Vah rays, joining to bring forth Moses; the Cloud was the Pillar of Cloud; the dazzling white clothing signified the robes of righteousness; the voice was the Word of God, the M-Kara of the Trinity, advising Christ’s disciples to listen. And in that moment, the M-kara (the Atonement and Kundalini) was born into the world through Jesus Christ.

Pretty awesome, right?

In the Course, Jesus says three very important things regarding his relationship to the Atonement. First, he says, he activated the power; second, he says he commands the power (he’s in charge); and third, he says he IS the power. He is, in other words, the symbolic embodiment of the M-kara, the three-in-one Trinity power of the Atonement: Kundalini, the serpent-fire.

If you’ve been paying attention, this should make sense.

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