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  • Wisdom for practice
  • Wisdom is applied knowledge
  • Wisdom spreads itself

Wisdom for practice

Wisdom is for practice, not for continuous speaking. If we keep on speaking about the Masters, the Rays, and the Hierarchies, we are only missing our duties for the present.

Wisdom is applied knowledge

Knowledge, when applied becomes wisdom. We gain a lot of knowledge, but it has to be applied in daily life, then it transforms itself into wisdom. Through wisdom we will experience the existence.

Wisdom spreads itself

We need not be anxious to spread the wisdom without working it with ourselves. It is a wrong understanding if one thinks that he can spread wisdom. Wisdom knows how to spread itself. It only needs channels.

Lord Narayana

The Path of the Waters

Narayana

The Vedic seers visualized innumerable creations happening concurrently in space. The space is seen as pervaded by wave-like energies from out of which bubbles come forth. These bubbles have a duration of existence and tend to be a future universe. Within its duration innumerable smaller bubbles happen, the various beings. Their content is the same as the content of the big bubble. The bubbles have a tendency for the cyclical movement of birth, growth, apparent existence and retreat. In the Eastern Scriptures this is called Narayana.

The sound of this name gives the meaning of the movement of formation and dissolution. ‘AYANA’ means ‘the path of the waters’ and means this movement of the energy currents of involution and evolution. The individual beings which are formed during a creation are called Naras. ‘NARA’ means indestructible. The beings are indestructible since they are made up of the same essence as Narayana. ‘NA’ is the sound of dissolution, of negation and absorption. It stands for evolution, the upward movement and return to the origin. ‘RA’ relates to the downward movement of involution, whereby the spirit descends into matter. ‘RA’ is also the seed sound of cosmic fire which creates, builds and destroys.

Alternatingly, the cyclical energy of Narayana unfolds and dissolves into itself. The waters of space remain for all times even when the forms emerge and disappear. Thus, the essence of the beings also remains during the times of the dissolution of creation to come forth again with a new creation. We can see this alternating activity in every activity and in every plane: a day has these alternating currents as day and night, a month as the ascending and descending moon phases, a year as the northern and southern course of the Sun. The human life also has growth up to a certain phase and thereafter receding. Both heartbeat and respiration pulsate alternatingly, like ebb and flow. The pause between the two movements stands for the indestructible, potential energy where Narayana can be experienced. It is therefore recommended to observe the inhalation and exhalation in meditation. Thus, we can understand that the Narayana consciousness in us breathes in and out. The moment we are aware of Him, we are connected to Him. Awareness is the process of linking up with this centre. When we are able to remain in that centre, through that point, we are connected with everyone as ‘I Am in everyone’.

The 8-Petalled Lotus

The Narayana centre in us is in the higher heart centre. This 8-petalled lotus is higher in the sense that it is subtler. It is also located a little higher, between the 12-petalled heart centre and the throat centre. The two heart centres differ much from each other; unfortunately, this is not noticed by many students of the spiritual path. As a result, a main key to the mantras is lost. Sankaracharya and Ramanujacharya explained these things thoroughly.

The lord presiding over the 12-petalled heart centre is Vasudeva. He sacrificed himself into the 12 sun signs to dwell within creation. Vasudeva is the indwelling lord who lives in all living beings and directs the mind and the senses. His sound is the 12-syllabled mantra OM NAMO BHAGAVATE VASUDEVAYA. The heart centre is related to Cancer, which is ruled by the Moon, whereas the higher heart centre belongs to the opposite sign Capricorn. The connection between Sun and Moon created by the moon rays at full moon time forms the path between Vasudeva and Narayana.

Narayana is the energy called THAT, the Lord of the Wheel of Creation. He is understood as the highest God presiding over the humans and the universe. He is seen as the Cosmic Person or the universal soul and Nara as the individual soul. The Narayana centre relates to the 8th plane which is beyond the seven planes of creation. What Master CVV calls ‘THE MASTER’ relates to this plane. He also called it the Hitu Centre, and he stays in this centre and moulds us when we invoke him. The related state is associated with the state of Samadhi, the 8th step of Yoga. From the 8-petalled centre, Narayana penetrates as the background consciousness, as the One beyond the 7 planes, who is called Krishna in the Scriptures. Lord Krishna is an embodiment of Lord Narayana, the energy of Synthesis.

The artistic presentation of the 8-petalled centre of Narayana is a lotus, but the etheric forms are of a circular form and uniting. The 8-petalled lotus should be visualised in milk-white colour; Narayana, of indigo colour, is sitting in it. We can also imagine it as a central point in the heart lotus. This electric blue point represents the central spiritual Sun or the Cosmic Sun. The electric blue spreads the blue colour all around us. That is how we should meditate daily upon the sun centre as we wake up.

The Mantra

The mantra OM NAMO NARAYANAYA is associated with the colour deep blue. It helps to rearrange the energies and enables to achieve the intended changes, because the number 8 stands for change. The mantra should be chanted in multiples of 8; it helps to overcome the 7 planes of existence, which are associated with the other 7 centres. The syllables of the mantras can be invoked in the centres, from Sahasrara to Muladhara and vice versa, beginning with the OM encircling all the body from head to feet, and then the individual syllables in the various centres.

OM NAMO NARAYANAYA is very good for accompanying the dying and to prepare the soul for the transition, together with the blue colour. It is good to give the sound into the left ear, to transmit the colour through the Ajna centre to the heart and to visualise blue in the room. Uttering the sound mentally is also supportive.

There is a Narayana mantra in the form of the Gayatri meter called Narayana Gayatri or Vishnu Gayatri and which comprises these dimensions:

Narayanaya Vidmahe

Vasudevaya Dhimahi

Tanno Vishnuh Prachodayat

“We meditate (dhimahi) upon Vasudeva (the Indwelling Lord of the Universe) to realise (vidmahe) Narayana (God Absolute) and to be alerted of Vishnu (God as Form).”

Particularly favourable for working with the Narayana mantras are the 11th moon phases, where Sun and Moon form a trine, Thursdays and the month of Sagittarius, since Jupiter is ruling over the highest state of awareness. These times are full of healing energy. It is best to sing the mantras two hours before dawn. The 11th ascending moon phase of Sagittarius is called the Day of Narayana, the Day of Synthesis.

Layers of Existence

In the artistic depiction of the origin of creation Narayana is slumbering on the milky ocean on a bed formed by the great Serpent of Time. This serpent holds 1000 hoods over him, meaning that the One (1) permeates the three planes (000).

A lotus, the future creation, emerges out of the navel of Narayana, and in the Lotus sits Brahma, the four-headed creator, as an expression of Narayana. This has a profound symbolism and refers to the four planes of existence, as pure existence, existence as awareness, as ideation, and as action. These four planes are represented as the fourfold cross in the symbol of Narayana, the symbol of perfection and fulfilment, where the cross is surrounded by a square and a circle. The “Secret Doctrine” also describes these planes as the four stages of the A-globe, B-globe, C-globe, and D-globe, whereby we are on the 4th globe, the dense physical manifestation.

The lotus rising from out of the background of Narayana can also be used for a visualisation: the disciple sees himself in a lotus, surrounding by the groups of beings. He visualises a gentle movement to the right and to the left and feels the movement in himself. This would result in a movement of his Kundalini-awareness; he muses with it and experiences great relief, joy and poise.

The Vedic seers visualised the phenomenon of creation in layers, and the broadest of such divisions is the threefold existence of matter, force and consciousness. These planes of existence are symbolically called as ‘Vishnu’, ‘Vasudeva’ and ‘Narayana’. Vishnu is all that exists as matter and what appears in shape, colour, number etc. He permeates the objects of the senses and of the mind. With every form he is the presence of the Lord. Vasudeva is the Lord that lives in all. He exists as the centre or as the indweller of a unit of consciousness, from atom to man. The Indians know the names but mostly not the keys.

Narayana is the source of the forms as well as the power which fulfils the forms, the one background of all units of consciousness. In Narayana we find the ultimate liberation of our individual consciousness. He is also the one principle which exists as all three together. As the permeating God he is Vishnu, as the indwelling God he is Vasudeva and as the One beyond the creation he is Narayana. These are the three steps of realisation leading to Narayana. As Jesus stated, “We live, we move and we have our being in Him.”

Sources: K.P. Kumar: OM Namo Narayanaya / notes from seminars. E. Krishnamacharya: Spiritual Astrology. The World Teacher Trust - Dhanishta, Visakhapatnam, India