Saraswati

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Hari Om

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Namate sadhaka,

I thought to post a note on Saraswati for your consideration.

Saraswati is a wonderful principle found in the Rk Ved. If you care

to know a bit more about Her, please read on .

 

A part of Her is sunrta or blissful Truth. Saraswati plays important

role. For me, She is the one that brings the richly-bright

understanding (dhiyam ghrtacim). From this one gains Truth ( satyam

or Truth of Being) and Ritam or Rita - that which only knows the

Truth or the "right".

 

Lets consider Sri Saraswati's name and see what this brings.

Saraswati is comprised of "saras" or flowing and "vati" or having.

She then is known as 'she of the stream', the flowing movement. With

the metaphor used in the Veda's, water is the ever present symbol

for consciousness.

 

Yet if we look a bit deeper we discover another view of Her: "Sa" =

Full or all + "rasa" or taste + "vati" having, or possessing. She is

the possessor of all rasa/tastes (there are considered 7); the

universal or Divine Mother in which all things come into being. Now,

this holds well as we know that Saraswati is associated with Brahma

the Creator of this universe, so Saraswati is that shakti (or

energy) that allows/brings on this universe to manifest.

 

So, what's that got to do with you and me? A wonderful bija or AIM

or some write as AYEM.  This vibration contains Her, that quality

of "flowing consciousness" and inspiration. I am blessed to know

this bija, because it brings one to Truth-consciousness ( Moksha or

enlightenment).

 

She holds and makes manifest this inspirational power to transform

and provide insight. She brings on richly luminous thought (dhiyam

ghrtacim sadhabta). This is why she is associated with wisdom, all

wise = enlightenment, or working in the full sense, possessed of

Truth ( kavi).

 

But what of this rasa concept? As she owns them , the root of all,

these 7 rasa's are 6 + water [ sweet, sour, salty, bitter, pungent,

astringent + water]. Some call these 7: ksara or bitter-tasting

food, milk, yogurt, ghee, sugarcane juice, honey, and water. Each is

associated with a planet ( Jupiter owns ghee, milk is associated

with Mars for its energy giving properties, yogurt cools the system

some call this lassi and is owned by Venus, etc. etc.)

 

This 'rasa' as the root of all also is associated with the Saptama

(or 7th division) in ones birth chart. The 7th division is

associated with relationships + sexual relationships that yield

children . Hence Saraswati as the universal Mother that brings one

into this creation via procreation.

 

Hence, Saraswati brings into our active consciousness this great

flood of Truth consciousness, from her bija.

 

Om Aim Hreem Sreem Saraswatiye Namaha!

 

 

Pranams,

yajvan