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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>SYMBOLISM OF SCRIPTURES</b>
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The Dawn is the head of the horse of wisdom in one way? says, Bruhadharanyaka Upanishads. This passage of the Upanishad describes the whole space of zodiac as the body of a big horse. This is the life principle. It is eternally sacrificed into the creation.Â
The symbolism of horse is prominent in Vedas among various sacrificial symbols. This has the great significance in astrological signs. All regions and mythologies included horse as a major symbol. In every scripture it is understood as a symbol of power and swiftness. In Vedic literature horse is represented by vital force that is being produced by suns rays. These rays galvanize the chemistry of the living bodies into an organic state of metabolism.
The solar year is divided into 27 equal parts from the vernal equinox. It is one of the Nakshatra divisions. The head of the horse is located in the beginning of the year. This is because the mystic force and swiftness of the vital principle is flooded just after the time of the vernal equinox. The first divisions of the nakshatras indicate the head of the horse and the tail is located at the 20th division of the zodiac. The first division is called Aswins, and the 20th division is called Poorvashada. For a student of Vedic astrology, when the head and tail of horse combined in meditation, gives many clues to the history of heavens.
Bruhadaranyaka Upanishad describe the time of the duration of the whole day as a horse. In the Aswamedha sacrifice, space and time is the main import of horsiness. The brighter half of the day is solar and the darker is lunar. In the ritual, the brighter horse is represented by aÂ
Golden calf and the darker is silver. They denote the position of the sky, above and below the horizons relative to the observer, Pasyaka. That which is seen by the observer is called ?the reverse of pasyaka, which is kasyapa?. The Kasyapa is the husband of Adhiti and Dithi, the brighter and darker halves. In puranic literature they are called Vinatha and Kadruva.Â
Among the fixed stars in the heaven, there is one star which is called horse head, it is in the constellation called Aswin. The Upanishads speak of this astronomical phenomenon which binds the horse life force in the heavens to prepare Anna, metabolic activity for the whole year.Â
The horse sacrifice is one of the main rituals in the Vedic path. It is not the physical horse that has been sacrificed. It is more speculative than operative. In the ritual, the Agni and Soma are invoked. The symbolisms of horse is grand and very poetic literature in Vedas which extends to Puranas. It is supposed to be performed by Kings who wanted to extend their domain. In fact, any man can perform this sacrifice in speculative path and become King of his own sphere. In the ritual a horse is brought purified, decorated and consecrated to Gods. It is then left to wander for a particular time. When it is wandering a group of ritualists follow the horse and it is brought back again and sacrificed at the Altar. Then 13 persons bring and tie it. It is all symbolic.
To perform the act of ritual, the sacrifices brings the horse tied with the rope, in fact, they are lines of force in him made up of freedom. The horse is allowed to wander for 12 months which is 12 measures that create the zodiac. Hence the rope also must be of 12 measures. But 13 people tie it, and it must contain 13 measures. Every three years of the lunar computation there will be 13th month required to make an adjustment with the solar year, which is called Adhikamasa.
12 of them represent 12 lunar months of the year and 13th is called the guest. This guest is nothing but the Adhikamasa which comes once in three years. This is a counter part in the consciousness of the ritualist. This counter part brings the prana into the conscious levels of man.
Prajapathi, meaning, the cycle of time has created the horse sacrifice, says Vedas. The Upanishad says, the horse was created from Prajapathi through the higher limbs, the Prajapathi entered into all directions. The devas wanted to send it down and linked it with a sacrifice to fulfill their desires. The higher force which is five fold has entered into the year and descend down as five creative aspects and the body of the sacrifice is made up of five elements of the nature. The Horse sacrifice brings the higher five into lower five and connects them with a vital force. The higher force can be unfolded to the meditator if he meditates the whole year as five divisions starting with the month of Sagittarius.
When a ritualist meditates on the days that the sun is passing through Aswini, he gets the revelations of the astronomical wisdom. In the Puranic speculative symbolism, the horse headed form of the absolute deity presides over the branches of the wisdom of life, is called Hayagreeva.
A meditator on Hayagreeva will see the various divisions into which the horse of the heaven descends to the earth or the matter. The year, the month and the days are divided into many types of divisions which are not known to the modern astrologer or astronomer. Each division has a purpose. Their effects are indicated by the celestial phenomena on the physical, mental, spiritual, sexual and emotional levels of the biological phenomena.
?The symbol of the inverted tree in the Vedas, Upanishads and the fifteenth chapter of the Bhagavad Gita has another outstanding secret. The tree is called Aswaddha (Ficus religiosa). With the aid of this tree, the yogi of the ritualistic path who is born in this sign causes a transmutation of the man on the horse through reversing the wheel. Then the symbol of the sign is changed into the man with the head of a horse. This is called Lord Hayagreeva (the horse-headed deity). In the words of a book on the Tantric Rituals it is said ? ?sit under the tree Ficus religiosa. Eat the leaves of the tree. Meditate upon Lord Hayagreeva through his Mantra. Drink milk. You will be lord of all the keys between sound and the mind. You will be the master of all the sciences and arts of creation. You will be the master of all languages (human, animal, plant and mineral). You can cut off the branches (effects) and the roots (causes) of Karma with the axe of non-attachment?. ?Rearrange the Mantra of the great swan. You get the mantra of Hayagreeva.? The Mantra of swan is ?Ham?So?. Bring together ?H? and ?So? and you get ?HSOUM?. This is the mantra of Lord Hayagreeva who should be meditated in milk-white colour.Â
The name of the tree ?Aswatdha? means the seat of the horse. All through the Vedic symbolism, the horse is the symbol of fire. Red horse is the symbol of solar fire and white horse is the symbol of spiritual fire in man. The horse-sacrifice (Aswamedha) is the greatest of all the rituals that are consecrated to the year-god to enhance the splendour of one?s kingship. The Aswatdha tree of Lord Krishna is the Bodhi tree of Lord Buddha. Buddha has his final realization when he took shelter under this tree.
In Puranas, the Solar Logos followed his wife, Sougya (symbol) down the earth. She came down to earth as mare Sun god followed the horse. It means, the spiritual sun makes himself visible through his solar symbol and earth receives it as the fire of life. The spiritual sun descends into whatever form it is provided by the brilliance. He impregnates it with a spiritual path that serves as the highest principle above the soul in the living beings. The whole spiritual path of a man is to realise this divine spark. The horse of rituals is the omni potent generator of the spiritual sparks that are called by the souls of the various beings on this earth. This horse goes round and round the Solar Logos.
The Horse is a form of Agni, the cosmic fire. The creation dawns from the subjective to the objective to the power of horse. The horse is the fire that exists beyond mental, physical, planetary and solar levels. The modern man can understand this horse when he can understand the fire in his highest aspect not confusing himself with flame and fire. Flame is the physical body of the fire, the fire lives in 49 levels.
As we see the above symbols of the ancients, we begin to extract the significance and put it in application, we find many new horizons appear before our mind. The formula and symbols as well as the deductions of the ancients are empirical or hypothetical in nature. They are the expressions of the seer?s mind who are inspired by the self consciousness, mysteries of nature and their splendours. Horse is one such symbolism.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
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The Dawn is the head of the horse of wisdom in one way? says, Bruhadharanyaka Upanishads. This passage of the Upanishad describes the whole space of zodiac as the body of a big horse. This is the life principle. It is eternally sacrificed into the creation.Â
The symbolism of horse is prominent in Vedas among various sacrificial symbols. This has the great significance in astrological signs. All regions and mythologies included horse as a major symbol. In every scripture it is understood as a symbol of power and swiftness. In Vedic literature horse is represented by vital force that is being produced by suns rays. These rays galvanize the chemistry of the living bodies into an organic state of metabolism.
The solar year is divided into 27 equal parts from the vernal equinox. It is one of the Nakshatra divisions. The head of the horse is located in the beginning of the year. This is because the mystic force and swiftness of the vital principle is flooded just after the time of the vernal equinox. The first divisions of the nakshatras indicate the head of the horse and the tail is located at the 20th division of the zodiac. The first division is called Aswins, and the 20th division is called Poorvashada. For a student of Vedic astrology, when the head and tail of horse combined in meditation, gives many clues to the history of heavens.
Bruhadaranyaka Upanishad describe the time of the duration of the whole day as a horse. In the Aswamedha sacrifice, space and time is the main import of horsiness. The brighter half of the day is solar and the darker is lunar. In the ritual, the brighter horse is represented by aÂ
Golden calf and the darker is silver. They denote the position of the sky, above and below the horizons relative to the observer, Pasyaka. That which is seen by the observer is called ?the reverse of pasyaka, which is kasyapa?. The Kasyapa is the husband of Adhiti and Dithi, the brighter and darker halves. In puranic literature they are called Vinatha and Kadruva.Â
Among the fixed stars in the heaven, there is one star which is called horse head, it is in the constellation called Aswin. The Upanishads speak of this astronomical phenomenon which binds the horse life force in the heavens to prepare Anna, metabolic activity for the whole year.Â
The horse sacrifice is one of the main rituals in the Vedic path. It is not the physical horse that has been sacrificed. It is more speculative than operative. In the ritual, the Agni and Soma are invoked. The symbolisms of horse is grand and very poetic literature in Vedas which extends to Puranas. It is supposed to be performed by Kings who wanted to extend their domain. In fact, any man can perform this sacrifice in speculative path and become King of his own sphere. In the ritual a horse is brought purified, decorated and consecrated to Gods. It is then left to wander for a particular time. When it is wandering a group of ritualists follow the horse and it is brought back again and sacrificed at the Altar. Then 13 persons bring and tie it. It is all symbolic.
To perform the act of ritual, the sacrifices brings the horse tied with the rope, in fact, they are lines of force in him made up of freedom. The horse is allowed to wander for 12 months which is 12 measures that create the zodiac. Hence the rope also must be of 12 measures. But 13 people tie it, and it must contain 13 measures. Every three years of the lunar computation there will be 13th month required to make an adjustment with the solar year, which is called Adhikamasa.
12 of them represent 12 lunar months of the year and 13th is called the guest. This guest is nothing but the Adhikamasa which comes once in three years. This is a counter part in the consciousness of the ritualist. This counter part brings the prana into the conscious levels of man.
Prajapathi, meaning, the cycle of time has created the horse sacrifice, says Vedas. The Upanishad says, the horse was created from Prajapathi through the higher limbs, the Prajapathi entered into all directions. The devas wanted to send it down and linked it with a sacrifice to fulfill their desires. The higher force which is five fold has entered into the year and descend down as five creative aspects and the body of the sacrifice is made up of five elements of the nature. The Horse sacrifice brings the higher five into lower five and connects them with a vital force. The higher force can be unfolded to the meditator if he meditates the whole year as five divisions starting with the month of Sagittarius.
When a ritualist meditates on the days that the sun is passing through Aswini, he gets the revelations of the astronomical wisdom. In the Puranic speculative symbolism, the horse headed form of the absolute deity presides over the branches of the wisdom of life, is called Hayagreeva.
A meditator on Hayagreeva will see the various divisions into which the horse of the heaven descends to the earth or the matter. The year, the month and the days are divided into many types of divisions which are not known to the modern astrologer or astronomer. Each division has a purpose. Their effects are indicated by the celestial phenomena on the physical, mental, spiritual, sexual and emotional levels of the biological phenomena.
?The symbol of the inverted tree in the Vedas, Upanishads and the fifteenth chapter of the Bhagavad Gita has another outstanding secret. The tree is called Aswaddha (Ficus religiosa). With the aid of this tree, the yogi of the ritualistic path who is born in this sign causes a transmutation of the man on the horse through reversing the wheel. Then the symbol of the sign is changed into the man with the head of a horse. This is called Lord Hayagreeva (the horse-headed deity). In the words of a book on the Tantric Rituals it is said ? ?sit under the tree Ficus religiosa. Eat the leaves of the tree. Meditate upon Lord Hayagreeva through his Mantra. Drink milk. You will be lord of all the keys between sound and the mind. You will be the master of all the sciences and arts of creation. You will be the master of all languages (human, animal, plant and mineral). You can cut off the branches (effects) and the roots (causes) of Karma with the axe of non-attachment?. ?Rearrange the Mantra of the great swan. You get the mantra of Hayagreeva.? The Mantra of swan is ?Ham?So?. Bring together ?H? and ?So? and you get ?HSOUM?. This is the mantra of Lord Hayagreeva who should be meditated in milk-white colour.Â
The name of the tree ?Aswatdha? means the seat of the horse. All through the Vedic symbolism, the horse is the symbol of fire. Red horse is the symbol of solar fire and white horse is the symbol of spiritual fire in man. The horse-sacrifice (Aswamedha) is the greatest of all the rituals that are consecrated to the year-god to enhance the splendour of one?s kingship. The Aswatdha tree of Lord Krishna is the Bodhi tree of Lord Buddha. Buddha has his final realization when he took shelter under this tree.
In Puranas, the Solar Logos followed his wife, Sougya (symbol) down the earth. She came down to earth as mare Sun god followed the horse. It means, the spiritual sun makes himself visible through his solar symbol and earth receives it as the fire of life. The spiritual sun descends into whatever form it is provided by the brilliance. He impregnates it with a spiritual path that serves as the highest principle above the soul in the living beings. The whole spiritual path of a man is to realise this divine spark. The horse of rituals is the omni potent generator of the spiritual sparks that are called by the souls of the various beings on this earth. This horse goes round and round the Solar Logos.
The Horse is a form of Agni, the cosmic fire. The creation dawns from the subjective to the objective to the power of horse. The horse is the fire that exists beyond mental, physical, planetary and solar levels. The modern man can understand this horse when he can understand the fire in his highest aspect not confusing himself with flame and fire. Flame is the physical body of the fire, the fire lives in 49 levels.
As we see the above symbols of the ancients, we begin to extract the significance and put it in application, we find many new horizons appear before our mind. The formula and symbols as well as the deductions of the ancients are empirical or hypothetical in nature. They are the expressions of the seer?s mind who are inspired by the self consciousness, mysteries of nature and their splendours. Horse is one such symbolism.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->