The Daitya and Etidorhpa

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> > << Dean, why don't you share with us some of the info about

> the Daitya? >>

 

 

Mike Mott,

 

Ok, I will.

 

 

> > I second the motion!

> >

> > Was this character meant to be real or a plot flowing device. If

> the latter,

> > what was that "no eyes" business a metaphor for?

 

Laura,

 

Since you second the motion, I definitely will!

 

Keep in mind that I have been reading the Bhagavat Purana, which is an

original book of Vedic/Hindu lore, since the early 70s. When I read

Etidorhpa, certain strong correspondences jumped out at me.

 

Two factions of beings stand out in the Puranic presentation of life in the

cosmos- The Adityas, descendents of Aditi, a demigoddess empowered by the

cretor Brahma to gender pious prgeny, and the Daityas, the descendents of

Diti, her sister, who created impious races and species of life. This

faction is known as the Daityas.

 

The spiritual Master of the Daityas is Venus, but not the one which we know

of. The Hindu Venus is known as Shukra, the demigod of pleasure- he is a

brahmin by caste, and has daughters, one of whom is named Devayani. Shukra

himself is not really evil. One of the freat Vedic sages, Parashara, the

father of Hindu astrology, writes in his astrological treatise Parashara

Hora " Daitya Guru Shubha ": That the guru of the Daityas is benefic.

Shukra is therefore also known as the Daitya Guru. The Daitya Guru is

considered merciful because he always carries a scroll and pen in hand for

originating religious systems and reformatory rituals and such to the

materialists and demons. They are not known for following him very well.

 

In other words, the followers of Venus are the demons in Puranic lore.

 

And the demons are said to live in the lower planetary systems, lokas, or

worlds. But it is difficult to tell whether these lower worlds are supposed

to be planets below ours or worlds below our feet, or both.

 

So Imagine how I felt when this underground devil type of character shows up

and leads the man to experience various underground hells, this demon being

some kind of follower of venus! As Mike Mott has pointed out, Etidorhpa is

Aphrodite spelled backwards.

 

In the book, hell is depicted as existing within some type of time dilation

because is seemed to last an eternity, but only took seconds, and took place

on some type of subtle, ethereal existence. That is exactly how hell is

depicted in the vedic literature.

 

And Etidorhpa depicts these hells as places where " conditioning " goes on,

in thie subtle body, it seems. The Vedic literature describes this also,

that the conditioning by torment prepares one for his or her future life

according to deeds and karma generated in this life. It is described in

Etidorhpa that one's subtle body takes on the form which the individual has

generated according to his conditioning, starting in this life, and that

one's material body can become like a shell around a subtle body which no

longer corresponds to it, just as a shoe can hide a trampled and mangled

foot with its exterior form, and hide the true nature of the foot. This is

pure, unadulterated Puranic philosophy. I heard this same analogy in India

from my Indian guru while he was lecturing on the Bhagavat Purana.

 

So how did all this get written down in the mid 1800s in the book Etidorhpa?

Is wasn't actually printed until 1895, but suposedly it sat for 30 years.

 

That's why I wrote that article " You could Learn a Lot from a Daitya."

http://www.skyboom.com/hollowearthpuranas/index13.html It is the first one

at the top.

And that is why I tried to show the correspondences not only betwen the

natural phenomena described, but between certain Vedic concepts and concepts

inherent in the book. These correspondences are unreal, and it just makes me

think that there is more to Etidorhpa than meets the eye.

 

> While he does resemble various underworld forms from folklore,

> and ufo entities in many regards, the "guide" from Etidorpha is

> supposedly possessed of an unknown sense or heightened

> awareness which is a result of his origin or transformation into

> the form that he has....He 'sees' the particles with his very being,

> and all is illuminated for him (symbolic of the Illuminati?).

 

That he sees though he is eyeless just means that his very brain or even his

very body can perceive on the ethereal or prana/soft particle platform and

therefore, doesn't need eyes like we have with a retina which just perceives

sunlight in a certain band.

 

I don't think that an exteroir material body is important to him. I got the

impression from the book that The-Man-That-Did-It laid his body aside to

exist and experience on the ethereal platform ( It's a Brave New World ).

In fact, that is what the book says. The Man just animated and re-occuppied

his body to come to the surface in order to carry out his mission. The

Guide's exterior body must be something like that. It is very funcional and

suitable for underground environments, but I don't imagine that he is

constantly limited by it, nor that he constantly occupies it: The Guide was

quite a mystic.

 

You Could Learn a Lot from a Daitya.

 

Dharma/Dean