Monday, 7 March 2016

The Lotus Symbol

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The Lotus Symbol’
There are no ancient symbols without a deep and philosophical meaning attached to them, such as the Lotus.
It is held sacred from the great antiquity by the ‘Vedic Aryans’.
Also revered by the Egyptians and the Buddhists, Chinese, Japanese and adopted as a Christian emblem by the Greek and Latin Churches (Christians have now replaced it with the water Lily).
With the Aryans, the Lotus is the emblem of creative powers of nature, through the agency of fire and water (Spirit & Matter).
The Lotus or Padma symbolizes both the Cosmos and the Man.
1. The Lotus-seed contains within itself a perfect miniature of the future plant, which implies that the spiritual prototypes of all things exist in the immaterial world before those things which became materialized on earth.
2. The fact that the Lotus plant grows up through the water, having its roots in the mud and spreading its flower in the air above.
The Lotus thus typifies the life of Man and also that of the Cosmos. The roots of the Lotus sunk in the mud represents the material life, the stalk passing through the water typifies existence in the Astral world, and the flower floating on the water and opening itself to the sky signifies the Spiritual Being.
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Manipulation happens because of insecurity or over-ambitiousness, and both are not in a healthy state of mind.
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Q: Is there an anti-dote to worry?
Guruji : Singing, meditating and the knowledge of death. You are going to die anyway, why should you worry? Die with a smile!
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Wherever there are people, politics is bound to be there. Don’t shy away from it and don’t worry about it, you be rock solid. What appears to be politics will find its own way out. Have faith that only the best will happen to you and you will be able to do only the best! Keep these aphorisms with you like a treasure.
Om Namah Shivay

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