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In the Name of Shiva, the Most Glorious, the Most Obvious, the |
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SHRI SHIVA RAHASYA THE SEVENTH LIGHT (Chapter
Seven) 7 Wherein the Secret Knowledge of the Thirty-Six
Life-Principles is praised as a
Means of Lord
Shiva said: 1.
O foremost among the pure-hearted! I shall now make known to you the
Secret Teaching of the Thirty-Six Realities whereby a living being can cross
the stormy Waters of Worldly Existence and go to the Island of Eternal Peace.
2. In the Beginning, there was just Radiant
Intelligence: Boundless, Undying and Free.
Being full to the brim with Freedom, Wisdom and Might, It was Alive, a
Living Being, the Great Life Itself.
This Great Being, Wishing to use His Freedom and Power, shaped the
Universe within the infinite expanse of His Own Radiant Intelligence, even as
a man fashions a thought or feeling in his heart.
3. For this reason, the Wise Ones have called
Him Shiva which means, That in Whom everything rests (Shi) and by Whose Power
everything moves (Va). I Am that
Shiva, the Original Ever-Living One; the Unseen and Uncreated Who Ever Is
before everything that is seen and created is born or dies.
4. From the Stillness of My Heart a Wish was
first heard and then brought to Light.
The Wish was made firm in the form of Thought. The Thought was made audible as a
Word. And the Word was made visible as
the World.
5. Thus, from Wish, to
Thought, to Word, the World came into being at My Divine Command. Everything is born of That Supreme
Sound. Even the Divine Form you are
now beholding with your eyes is a Manifestation of That.
6. I Am That Supreme Reality. I am Boundless Freedom and Might and My
Powers are Five: Omnipotence, Omniscience, Infinite
Fullness-and-Satisfaction, Omnipresence and Eternity. These are My Five Powers Divine. When obscured by My Mighty Magic they
become limited and the being who holds them is known as Soul. Thus the Soul is born as the sixth in the
midst of the five. He is the
power-holder and their master even as I am the Holder of the Five Powers
Divine.
7. O Sages! first I created a Glorious World
of Light, radiant as tens of millions of Suns. Therein abide the Radiant Ones and all
beings that are fair and bright. Then,
I enveloped Myself in Mighty Magic and created the World of man.
8. Of My Own Free Will I Envelop Myself in My
Wondrous Power, even as the Sun conceals himself behind the Clouds created by
his own heat. Verily, like unto the
Sun that stands concealed behind the Clouds, even thus I conceal Myself from
the World.
9. As in the day the light in the Sky, the
Sun, is ever one but at nightfall the dark Firmament is bedecked with myriads
of Stars, even so, behind the Veil of Magic I am One: ever shining in the
boundless Sky of Universal Consciousness.
But enshrouded in the Veil of Maya, I am myriads of Souls shining each
like unto a Star in the dark night sky that envelops the Earth.
10. Verily, Night and Day, the Stars and the
Sun, all are My eternal signs. I gave
them to man that he might know the Truth at all times. The World being a manifestation of My
Truth, it teaches and reveals the Truth to all who have an open heart. Unto those who follow the Path of Yoga, the
World is a treasure house of precious gems, each scintillating sparks of
Truth.
11. But to the others it is like a sealed chest
that no one can open and whose secrets no one understands. The Sealed Chest is Maya. The Key is My Word of Truth. The Treasure in the Chest is the Supreme
Light.
12. Divested of My Light, the World is
enshrouded in darkness and goes to sleep.
I, the Ever Awake, having put the Souls to sleep, enchant them all
with the Great World Dream. This is My
Great Work of Magic. No Sleeping Soul
ever rises from the Sleep of Maya save at My Divine Command. Verily, there is no Greater Work of Magic
in the Three Worlds than that brought to pass by Maya.
13. O noble ones! in the Great Abode of Truth,
Truth is Ever One. But in the abode of
double-sided reality, It is twofold: the Truth perceived by the unawakened
and That perceived by the Perfect Ones.
Of these two the latter shall be regarded as True by the Wise, and not
the first-named which is a mere shadow of the True Light.
14. Earth is the World of man, where everything
is limited, divided and dark. It is
not a real World being only like a dream, a World of shadows cast by a Higher
Light.
15. I, the Great Light, am the
World-Father. Maya, My Mighty Magic is
the World-Mother. From our Union
innumerable living Souls, all identical with their Creator, are born. Yet, deluded by My Power of Illusion, they
do not recognise Me as their Maker.
The Awakened Ones, the Buddhas, they alone know that Maya is the
Mother and I Alone am the Father of the multitude of creatures born in this
World.
16. He who abides under Maya's Spell is a bound
Soul. He who rises above Maya is its
master. Therefore, Maya is the fetter
to be conquered through Sadhana or Spiritual Discipline. He who knows the Great Secret of Maya,
knows how the World comes into being.
He knows how, though the Souls appear to be many, they are in reality
One.
17. He who knows the Secret of Maya, knows that
I create the World and man creates his own perception of the World. For this reason, although the World is one,
every Soul has his own perception thereof.
Through My Magic Might what is One appears as many and what is many
appears as One. There is nothing that
cannot be accomplished by Maya, the Power of the Supreme Sovereign. But he who by the power of his thought
creates a World that is equal to mine in clarity, radiance and greatness, he
is Equal to My Supreme Self. Verily,
he who is a Master of the World-dream, is a Master of the World. Therefore, listen you to this Great Secret
of Mine.
18. The Soul is born of Me. His powers are born of Maya, My Great
Power. From that also springs the
Material Energy, the Soul's Twin. And
of that, the Soul's World is born. The
Five Powers Divine; Soul, Material Energy, Intellect, Ego and Lower Mind;
Five Senses; Five Powers of Action; Five Perceptions; and Five Material
Qualities: these are the Six Groups-of-Five.
In each of these I am the Sixth, the Hidden One ever abiding in their
midst. I am the Unseen Witness Who
knows them each and all. Thus the Five
with Myself in their midst, are Six times Six.
19. The Thirty-Sixth is That Which contains
all, pervading and animating them from within. It consists of all Powers Divine. It Is That-Which-Alone-Is, the
Unsurpassable, the Only Existing Truth known to Yogis but unknown to all
others. Yogis are the People of Unity
who ever strive for Union with Truth.
Whatsoever does exist in Heaven, on Earth and betwixt, is a product of
the Thirty-Six. Verily and without
doubt, there is naught else besides.
He who teaches otherwise is a deceiver and most unwise. For he is only deluding himself.
20. O you who are ever Wise! in this World some
laugh and others cry. But the wise
Yogi is ever serene and content. For
he is endowed with Knowledge that others claim not to possess even though it
was revealed by Myself unto the World.
Those who feed upon My Light of Truth, are nourished by It and grow
Real. But the others, who reject My Truth,
become unreal and mere shadows of true men.
They resemble evil Spirits and ghosts that feed upon foul things.
21. The unawakened who deny My Revelation are
as if dead. For in their delusion they
know neither their true Self nor anything else that is of worth, but only the
imaginations of their own mind. For them, Death is like a serpent that
envelops man in his deadly coils and devours him while still alive.
22. But the Enlightened Yogi is never touched
by Death. As he who is awake to the
World is not overcome by sleep, so he who is awake to Truth is not harmed by
Death. Verily, Sleep and Death cannot
touch one who is Awake, even as darkness never touches the Sun.
23. O Sages! the body knows only itself. The mind knows the body. And the Soul knows body, mind and
himself. It is for this reason that
the Soul (Atma) has been called Self (Atma).
For he is the Self of all three and the true Self of man.
24. The Soul is the Twenty-Fifth Principle, the
Inner Witness who beholds the Mind, Body and outer World within his own Field
of Knowledge. For this reason, he has
been called, the Knower of the Field.
25. Beyond that, Ten more Life-Principles
remain to be known. In truth, they are
naught but the Glorious Powers of God: Omnipotence, Omniscience, Infinite
Fullness-and-Satisfaction, Omnipresence and Eternity which are the Offshoots
of His Boundless Freedom.
26. When obscured and greatly reduced by Maya,
they are imperfect human powers. When
free and unobstructed, they are indeed Infinite and Divine. They are the Yogic Powers of Buddhahood.
27. Above everything else I, the Thirty-Sixth
Life-Principle, like the Sun shining above the
28. O you who are Seers of Truth! though
Uniform, Undivided and Eternally One, of My Own Divine Will I become
Many. Dividing Myself into Two, Three,
Four, Five and Seven-times-Five, by My Own Power I Create the entire Creation
out of Myself.
29. Two-Formed, I am the
Creative Light of Consciousness and also Its Creation, the Sovereign and His
Kingdom, too. For, into these two I
divided Myself at the Beginning of Time.
30. Churning the Primordial Ocean Of
Consciousness with the Churning Rod of My Boundless Might, I manifested
Ethereal Spirit and Material Matter, Heaven and Earth, Soul and Body, Creator
and Creation, Shiva and Shakti, the Lord and His Infinite Power.
31. Three-Formed, I am the Powers of Will,
Knowledge and Action, the functions whereby I, the Universal Consciousness,
having created the World, operate therein at will. By these three, I rule over the World like
a Mighty Sovereign over his Kingdom.
They are the Trident-like Symbol of My Sovereign Power.
32. Four-Formed, I am the Four States of
Consciousness. The first of these,
Waking, is known to man. Dreaming,
Deep Sleep and the Fourth, Enlightenment, are known only to Yogis and Beings
Divine.
33. Five-Formed, I am the
aforementioned Four and the Universal Consciousness that contains them all.
34. Six-Formed, I am the Six Powers Divine:
Omnipotence, Omniscience, Infinite Fullness-and-Satisfaction, Omnipresence,
Eternity and Infinite Freedom, their Source.
35. Now, concerning the Seven Groups of Five or
Pentads, as the First of these I am the Four Universal Masters and their
Overlord. They are called: the
All-Pervading One (Vyapi Natha), the All-Encompassing One (Vyoma-Rupa Natha),
the Infinite One (Ananta Natha), the Sovereign One (Anatha Natha) and the
Self-Existing One (Anashrita Natha), their Supreme Ruler. They abide in the World of Perfect Vision,
known to the Wise.
36. As the Second Pentad, I am the Five
Universal Powers limited by Maya. As
the Third Pentad, I am the Soul, Material Energy, Intellect, Ego and Lower
Mind. As the Fourth Pentad, I am the
Five Faculties of Action. As the Fifth
Pentad, I am the Five Senses. As the
Sixth Pentad, I am the Five Perceptions.
As the Seventh and Last Pentad, I am the Five Material Qualities from
Space down to Earth.
37. Above and beyond these Thirty-Five,
transcending and at the same time containing all within Myself, I Eternally
Abide as the Thirty-Sixth Life-Principle, the Unsurpassable, Unfathomable,
Unutterable, Supreme Shiva (Parama Shiva) Himself.
38. I Alone Pervade
everywhere. I Alone Encompass
everything. Everything moves, breathes
and lives by My Power.
39. In the human being, I am the breath upon
which his life depends. Going in and
out, it covers a space of thirty-six finger-breadths.
40. Multiplied Tenfold according to the Ten
Powers, five human and five Divine, I am the Three Hundred and Sixty Rays of
Consciousness that constitute the Fullness of Reality.
41. In earthly time, I am the three hundred and
sixty days of the human year. In
Celestial Time I am three hundred and sixty human years that constitute a
Year of the Gods. The same, multiplied
twelve thousandfold, is a Great Age or Cosmic Cycle.
42. In Space also, I am the three hundred and
sixty degrees in the
43. I am the Self-Existing Light of all lights,
ever shining in all directions with three hundred and sixty Rays: One hundred
and eighty Rays belong to the Fire (of Consciousness). One hundred and twenty Rays belong to the
Sun (of Knowledge). And sixty Rays
belong to the Moon (of the Known Object).
Together they make three hundred and sixty Rays of light that reveal
the World. I Am all things that
shine. There is nothing else beside.
44. Thus, O immortal ones! there is none other
but I, the Supreme Lord. I Alone Exist
as Everything. I am the Human Soul,
the Path of Thirty-Six Steps leading to My Supreme Abode and the Self-Shining
Guiding Light Which is the Ultimate Goal of all.
45. There shall be no doubt about this. When through the power of Yoga the Soul who
is none other but I, penetrates the dark Veil of Maya, he shall behold Me
Face to Face and come to know himself as what he really is: the Embodiment of
Truth and Identical with My Supreme Self.
46. Verily, what is covered in many veils
cannot be seen at a glance. Let no man
expect to see My Truth at once. True
it is that ordinary men do not know Me, the Lord. But the Self-Realised Yogi who by My Grace
elevates himself to Divine Status shall become his Own God, that is, the
Supreme Ruler of his Inner Universe. 47.
Such one, by virtue of his Sovereign Freedom shall become God-like
and, in consequence, shall be well capable of knowing Me. For, only like can know like.
48. Even ordinary men can know God deep inside
themselves, in their heart of hearts.
For every one of them is a Spark of Heaven, a Ray of Divine Sunlight
and a Dewdrop of Universal Intelligence.
49. Yet this
50. He who knows the Thirty-Six knows the
secrets of all numbers and of everything that is. Nothing is unknown to him. By means of this Secret Knowledge the Bound
Soul shall awaken to his own Divinity.
He shall cast off his limitations imposed upon him by Myself for the
purpose of Limited Creation.
51. Liberating himself from the bondage of the
Mind by means of Yoga, he shall enter upon the Great Journey from finite to
Infinite, from speck of stardust to
52. By the Power of Yoga, man attains Identity
with Me. Having attained Identity with
Me, he becomes the Lord of Yoga, which is the Power that holds all things
together and by means whereof one can know and accomplish all things. Yoga is the
53. I, Supreme Shiva, the Soul of the Universe,
the Adorable Sun of Consciousness, Shine with dazzling Rays of Light in Seven
Forms radiating downlight from their Source according to their degree of
Self-Luminosity and Unity with the Supreme.
54. Firstly, I am the Highest, Lord Shiva
Himself, the Unique, All-Inclusive and All-Pervading Light of Lights. Secondly, those Souls who are endowed with
a high degree of Unity with Me and with other Souls. Thirdly, Souls who, although they possess a
strong sense of Unity, begin to experience some distinction.
55. Fourthly, Souls with a fading sense of
Unity. Fifthly, Souls in a state of
transition, who are beginning to leave Unity behind. Sixthly, ordinary Souls who can experience
distinction only. Seventhly and Last,
insentient objects which, though made of Intelligence, do not experience
themselves as such.
56. I, Lord Shiva, the First and Highest Form
of Consciousness, Eternally Experience Myself as One with all Thirty-Six
Life-Principles. The rest, the myriads
of beings populating the Universe, occupy each their particular Place in the
Universal Sky of Consciousness according to the Principles they experience by
a process of Identity.
57. Verily the higher the Principle or
Principles one identifies oneself or becomes one with, the higher the
position one shall occupy in the Universe.
For thus I have declared, The fearless one who Life's Stairway to
Eternity would scale, him Shiva's Light shall make Divine without fail.
58. Such One alone is Reality, the Great Yogi,
the Divine Self, the Sky-Encompassing Infinite One, the Ancient One Who can
only be known through the Highest Spiritual Knowledge. He Alone is the only Saviour (Taraka). He is the Cause of Universal
Dissolution. He is the Origin of
All. He is the All Itself.
59. Some say that I, the Divine Self, am One,
others that I am Many. Some say that I
am that Self, others that He is another.
But I, the Greatest God, declare that I am at once smaller than the
smallest atom, yet greater than the greatest.
Formless, yet endowed with Form.
Uniform, yet of innumerable forms.
I am All and Everything.
60. Verily, the Wise one
who realises that Supreme Master in his heart, who beholds that Eternal Being
Who manifests Himself as the Universe and is the Highest Goal of Sages, he
alone shall be fit to ascend to My Supreme Abode beyond the plane of ordinary
knowledge where he shall enjoy Bliss Undying and Divine. Commentary
to Chapter Seven
5. Everything is born of that Supreme Sound: See Chapter 1,
Commentary to introductory verse.
9. As in the day the light in the Sky, the Sun, is ever one, etc.: When
the Sky is clear as during the day, the World is illumined by one Light
only. But when the sunlight is
obstructed, as in the night, not even the myriads of Stars can dispel the
darkness. Why this great contrast
between Day and Night? As the World
was created by the Greatest Intelligence in the Universe, it can hardly be
supposed to be a random and meaningless collection of things. Indeed, Day and Night exist for a purpose,
which is to remind us of a Higher Truth.
This Truth is that Reality has two aspects. One in which It reigns Supreme, as the Only
Existing Truth, and another in which It apparently assumes a secondary
position, leaving the stage free for others to unfold their own life drama,
while Itself constantly observes the World Show from behind the ever-changing
scenes. The sage understands that
while both realities have their value, only that is really true in which One
Reality outshines all others. That
reality is the Condition of Divinity, Godhead, Enlightenment, Awakening or
Truth. Whatever it may seem,
everything else is just a dream, fashioned by the Supreme Reality
Itself. Not only this, but just as Day
follows Night, so also Reality returns to Its natural state of Supreme
Sovereignty every moment anew before returning to the Grand Show of the
Universal Drama. More permanently, It
returns to Its True Self at the "End of the World". This End of the World takes place on two
levels. On the personal level, when
the Enlightened or Awakened Soul sees through the plot of the World Drama and
stands face to face with the Sun of Reality Whom he recognises as his own
Higher Self. On the Universal level, the
End of the World Drama comes when, at the time of Universal Dissolution (Maha
Pralaya), the Divine Show Master dismisses the actors, the audience and
Himself and merges everything back into His Infinite, Unmanifest Self.
11. But to the others it is like a sealed chest: The question that
arises here is whether Enlightenment can be attained by means other than
Yoga. The answer, of course, is
no. As the word itself suggests,
Enlightenment is the condition of living in and by the Light of Universal
Consciousness (or Divine Intelligence).
Yoga is both the experience of that state (of Absolute Unity and
Identity with the Supreme) and the means that leads to it. Although Spiritually ignorant man cannot
escape a sense of isolation that leads him to feel abandoned and forlorn, the
truth is that he is never alone. The
space between man and Shiva is never empty.
It is always full to the brim with the radiant Intelligence of myriads
of Yogis who are rays of the Supreme.
The All-Embracing Sky of Universal Consciousness from here to Infinity
is ever ablaze with Yogic Light which is the Light of Universal Unity. These Yogis, of course, are not limited
beings with physical bodies like those seen on Earth, they are Pure Luminous
Beings of great Spiritual Power. The
fact is that the Higher Reaches of Existence are occupied exclusively by
Yogis who are more and more Identical with Shiva in ascending order. Now, supposing, for the sake of argument,
that a non-Yogi somehow succeeded to reach those Higher Planes of Universal
Unity, he must necessarily have shed his non-Yogic ideas which are, by
definition, divisive, in order to acquire the unitive purity that entrance on
the Higher Planes naturally demands.
And, having entered those Planes of Universal Unity, he will, by force
of circumstances, have been transformed into a Yogi, that is, a Follower of
and Participant in Universal Unity, and Pervaded and Enlightened by Shiva's
Unitive Light of Truth which is Yoga, and transformed into a Being who is One
with Shiva Himself. In consequence,
and as everybody will agree, it is a logical necessity for the Higher Reaches
of Existence which are Abodes of Pure Universal Unity and ever free of even a
shadow of disunity, to be inhabited by Yogis and Yogis only, since otherwise
the Universal Unity would cease to be such.
To deny this would amount to denying the ultimate Unity of Being and
this in turn would expose the denier as being ignorant of the most
fundamental Spiritual Truth, which is, that Reality is One.
12. I, the Ever Awake, having put the Souls to sleep, enchant them all
with the Great World Dream, etc.: Says the Shiva Stotravali:
"Obeisance to You! the only lamp for worldly beings blinded by the
darkness of delusion. Obeisance to
You, O Supreme Being! Ever Awake in the midst of a sleeping World"
(14:18). Likewise, it is said in the
Ishvara-Pratyabhijna: "When the whole World is asleep only the Highest
Lord, the Creator of the World-Drama, is Awake".
16 (a). Maya is the fetter to be conquered through Sadhana or Spiritual
Practice: Sadhana literally means that which leads to Perfection
(Siddhi). Any activity, physical,
mental or Spiritual that leads to a higher state of consciousness constitutes
Spiritual Practice. It is the perfecting
of the apparently imperfect Soul and leads to a Perfect Experience of Life
which is identical to the Experience God has of Himself and of His Creation.
16 (b). Though the Souls appear to be many, they are in reality One: In
reality, there is only One Supreme Soul (the Universal Self or God) and all
individual Souls are one with each other in and through the One Supreme
Being. External, object-centred
consciousness as experienced in everyday life imposes on the mind an
awareness of distinctiveness and separateness between Souls. It is to a large extent a matter of
identity. If we identify ourselves
with limited physical bodies, then we cannot help feeling distinct to and
separate from others. If we identify
ourselves with the mind then the self-imposed delimitations are less rigid
and become more fluid allowing us to identify in thought and feeling with
those with whom we share certain thoughts and emotions. If we identify ourselves with the Soul, the
conscious entity at the centre of our being, who consists of pure light,
intelligence and energy, then we cannot avoid feeling one with other Souls
who are all essentially the same as we are.
Finally, if we identify with the Supreme, Universal Being, then
logically One Being Only exists and the Oneness of Life becomes the
underlying substratum of all our experience.
20. Knowledge that others claim not to possess even though it was
revealed by Myself unto the World: In the same way as the function of the
Sun is to radiate light, the function of God is to radiate Truth. Truth or Knowledge of Reality is constantly
transmitted (or transmits Itself) to the World in many different ways yet the
recipient's power of perception or conception is not always sufficiently
developed for him to fully understand the meaning of what he has
received. Elements of Yogic Teachings
may be found in all Spiritual traditions of the World yet they are not always
recognised as such and their existence is denied by the ignorant. For example, the Christian religion recognises
that God is One. Islam also teaches
that there is no other God besides God.
However, Yoga goes one step further and asserts that God alone exists. This clearly establishes the Absolute Unity
of Life and Supremacy of God in a way no other religion does. While this teaching is implicitly contained
in all other traditions, it is eminently evident in Yoga alone. It is as if non-Yogic traditions were
afraid of exposing the full Truth and attempted to cover it up or dilute it
beyond recognition. This is perhaps
due to the fact that they are transmitting the Truth to non-Yogis, that is to
say, to persons who are not yet ready to assimilate the whole Truth and
therefore must be fed diluted versions thereof just as a babies are fed
diluted food.
27. Turning
My Gaze within, I again see Myself as the Only-Existing-One: The diverse
forms of existence from the highest to the lowest are nothing but Shiva's Own
Universal Consciousness manifesting Itself as the Thirty-Six Realities. When, at the Time of Dissolution, Shiva
re-absorbs everything into Himself, the Eternal, Thirty-Sixth Reality alone
remains as the Only-Existing-One. The
Enlightened Yogi who identifies himself with the Supreme, Unmanifest Reality,
likewise no longer sees the Thirty-Six Realities but only the One. Says the Shivastotravali: "O Lord! how
glorious is Your Great Festival of Worship (Puja-Mahotsava) which consumes
even the Thirty-Six Realities" (
32. Dreaming, Deep Sleep and the Fourth, Enlightenment, are known only to
Yogis and Beings Divine: The English word Enlightenment is the
translation of the Greek Photismos (Illumination) which was the term employed
by the Sages of Ancient Greece to describe the condition of elevated
Spiritual Awareness, a condition that is often accompanied by visions of
light (photisms). In the Yoga
tradition itself, the term Illumination (Pratibha) is reserved for the light
of Intuition (or Insight) that illumines the mind, as it were, and enhances
its faculties prior to Enlightenment proper.
The latter is commonly referred to as Moksha (Liberation), Mukti
(Release), Nirvana (Extinction of Mental Fluctuations), Duhkanta (End of
Sorrow), Bodhi, Sambodhi (Awakening), Sampurnata (Perfection), Shivatva
(Oneness with God) or Shiva-Sthana (Being Established in God). The term Enlightenment or Illumination,
therefore, may be said to have three levels of meaning corresponding to three
degrees of experience: (1) visions of light (photisms), (2) state of enhanced
mental awareness and clarity prior to Enlightenment proper and (3)
Enlightenment itself, that is, the Highest and Fullest Possible, God-like
State of
34. Six Powers Divine: Omnipotence, Omniscience, Infinite
Fullness-and-Satisfaction, Omnipresence, Eternity and Infinite Freedom, their
Source: These are the Powers of the Supreme Being. In relation to the Universe, they manifest
themselves as the Five Powers, Intelligence, Bliss, Will, Knowledge, Action
and Infinite Freedom (from which they arise) as described in Commentary to
6:60. As all Divine Powers are
included in Infinite Freedom, they may be counted either as six with Infinite
Freedom taken as a separate Power or as five with Infinite Freedom implied as
the ground and source of the other five.
41. I am the three hundred and sixty days of the human year: See
Commentary to 2:65.
42. The
49. The Effulgent Throne of Heaven: The Throne of God is also
mentioned in Western Scriptures such as the Bible and the Quran. In Yoga, it represents the State or
Condition of Godhead (Shivatva, Shiva-Sthana) which is attained by ascending
heavenwards through a series of States of Consciousness or "Steps". In the Bible (1 Kings
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