For All the Others! [was Importance and usuage of shaligram

[Guest guest]

> I appreciate your taking the time to respond. It is late, and I am

> not able to understand the meaning from the story as it was first

> related, even with your additional interpretive notes. I am not

> familiar with its meaning, or its symbology. There may even be

> parallels to this story in western scripture, but I don't recognize

> it. If you are willing, can you relate the meaning of the story as

> you understand it without the Gods and the spoiling of chaste

women?

> Can you tell a story that depicts the spiritual truth you know to

be

> in this story, but by using other elements to convey that depth?

 

Hi mary-ann

I give you some more hints- becaue of the lack of time ...i will

maybe write my own Purana later:) give me some more time to change

into a rishi...

All the Gods are imaginend to be powerless without Shakti. Only with

the grace of the devi in the form of their shakti (wife) they are

able to act.

The Devi is all the created universe the male an inactive witness.

((one of the possible symbolic meaning of the motionless corpse like

shiva with Kali standing or sitting on top.

 

It is said that everything outside in the story of the gods is also

happening inside yourself, if you look that way please remember also

a female consist of both siva and shakti parts.

To exert "magic power" your shakti part must be chaste (not be

subject to the manipulation of another being) If you can be like

this you follow the path of your own will as i have recently

mentioned in other postings-this exertion of own will is called

sveccha , this is Iccha shakti the primal creative mover. (sveccha is

a compound of sve and iccha)

 

That is why Jalandhara is unable to be vanquished (manipulated) in

battle as long as his shakti (inner female part) remains chaste.

 

That he is able to have a chaste shakti shows that demons can be very

evolved beings he is able to maintain an elevated state of mind even

during battle.

But all have some exaggeration or attachment that cause their fall

(jalandhara is not very clever-if you know other legends where he

appears youll soon notice that)

He may not be clever but he is very good at wielding the Net i.e.

power of hypnosis or dream or illusion. But he finds his match in

Vishnu who is best in casting illusions (he appeared in the guise of

several sages like the Jain tirthas or Buddha and created deluded

spiritual ways suitable for those heavily under the influence of ego

greed and body and form attachments, he even deluded shiva appearing

as mohini.

 

I have no time right now to write more, but the appearence of deities

on their own (without requiring the magic power of a priest to infuse

life) in material objects like Shaligram trees plants Banalinga etc.

is deeply linked with the Power of Jala or Mayashakti of the deities.