THE LOTUS OF SHIVA IS ONE THOUSAND-PETALLED

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Salutations to Thakur, Guru, and Ma!

 

On 1 October, 1884, Sri Ramakrishna asks the musicians to sing--

 

 

 

Air, darkness, the void, the firmament, the ten quarters of the globe and all

directions have come into existence by receiving Your light.

 

All the immortal ones including Brahma and Vishnu have taken their bodies

because of the light of Your Shakti.

 

The Ida, the Pingala, the Sushumna, the Vajra, the Chitrini are all pulsating

because of the Sahasrara.

 

Rows and rows of lotuses are in the middle and the upper regions of Chitrini.

 

There is white and gold lightening.

 

Two lotuses are open, one still in bud.

 

There are two couples upward facing and downward facing.

 

Mother, You, in the shape of a swan, are moving as the Kundalini in the lotus.

 

Above is the naval chakra called Manipura.

 

On it is the blood-red lotus of ten petals.

 

In this lotus dwells Your fire power.

 

When this fire is taken away, everything is extinguished.

 

In the lotus of the heart is the inward lake like the sky, on which floats the

Anahata lotus.

 

There, is the gold-colored, twelve-petalled, lotus-shaped arrow of Shiva.

 

In that lotus your Shakti lives as jiva and prana.

 

Above that, in the throat, is the Vishuddha lotus of sixteen petals, of the

color of smoke.

 

In this lotus Your Shakti lives as ether.

 

When ether is reached, the whole of ether becomes one unbounded space.

 

Above it is the thousand-petalled lotus within the cerebrum.

 

This is the most secret spot of the Guru.

 

It is in this lotus that the Supreme Shiva is present in His universal form.

 

He dwells alone in this white, thousand-petalled lotus.

 

It is in this lotus that Shiva is in the form of a shadow.

 

Shiva casts His reflection in the Brahmarandra. When you reach there, Shiva

becomes His own form.

 

There, You enjoy Yourself happily with Shiva.

 

When the merrymaking is over, Shiva takes the form of a reflection.

 

 

 

Satchitananda

 

Kathy

 

(SRI SRI RAMAKRISHNA KATHAMRITA. Vol. II., pp. 267-268)

 

 

 

 

 

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