Course XL - Teaching 7: “ANÂHATA”

Verse 22

”Over the Solar Wheel, in the heart, there is the charming lotus of shining color Pentapoeles phoenicea, with letters starting with Ka, vermilion color, located inside. It is known by its name of Anâhata and is the tree of the heavenly desire and grants even more than the desire. Here is the region of Air, beautiful, with six points and smoke color.”

Commentary

”The lotus of the heart is called Anâhata, and the Hindu text compares it with the Bandhuka flower in the wake of its beauty.
The twelve letters engraved on its petals are as follows:

Ka Kha Ga

Gha Vga Cha

Ahha Gu Ghu

Vya Ta Tha

The tree, whose abundant gift is bigger than any request, is image of love given with no restriction. The heavenly tree means the tree if Eden, which symbolizes the tree of life, good and evil.
In this center there is the area of Vayu, Bìja-Pam, confined in a tinted hexagon.

Verse 23

“Meditate, in the region of Air, on the sweet and excellent seed of Air, gray like smoke, the God with four arms and riding a black antelope. And, in Him, meditate also on the Abode of Mercy and on the Immaculate Lord shining like the Sun and whose hands make gestures of granting favors and vanishing fears of the three worlds.”

Commentary: This verse describes the mystery about the admirable love of the Divine Incarnation.
Pavana-Bìja, seed of Air, materialized on the image of a God riding a black antelope.
Man is cruel, fierce, instinctive by nature, since he is born of men and of pleasure of the flesh. The seed of Air, of material life, of smoke darkening the divine vision, is in him. But this human seed, Adam’s sin, can be transmuted by one’s will and grace into divine power that is free of original sin. Man can transform himself into a meek and kind being; he can exchange his human nature for the divine nature.
A meek antelope, or the lamb and host of Christian texts are images of a redeemed man. But this redemption should have a Perfect Model. Man cannot be redeemed by his own efforts alone; to get it he needs the grace, and it is the human-divine prototype that grants this grace: the Christ, the Divine Incarnation, the God made man, the being that is free of cause and effect.
The smoking and dark seed of Air can be raised or vivified by a pure feeling of Mercy and Compassion, not by pleasure of the flesh. The God made man makes himself as such through this dynamic power, but is not fruit of pleasure; his physical body is gestated in the Abode of Mercy. His life manifests itself through efforts of the highest will and love.
Pavana-Bîja is animated from above and remains stainless as it goes down. The Divine Being to incarnate with no stain of original sin will be the Divine Incarnation, Immaculate Being, redeemer of men; not only of their flesh, but also of their minds and souls.
The seed of Air is also a form of the Cosmic Ether, carried by itself to the Abode of Mercy, Virginal Matrix of mental gold of the Divine Mother; the Immaculate Lord emerges from it as if by magic, the One with no father or pleasure at birth; the One who shines like the Sun because his nature is divine and solar; and the One who dissipates fear in the three worlds because is out of the wheel of life; He is over and above matter, energy and mind.

Verse 24

“Here Kakini abides, the one whose color is yellow a new lightening, joyful and auspicious. She has three eyes, and is the benefactor to everybody. She wear adornments of any kind and her four hands hold a slipknot and a skull, and makes the sign of blessing and the sign vanishing fears. Her heart is softened because she is drinking nectar.”

Commentary

This Goddess symbolizes, with her three eyes and the color, her yellow color, the power of the heart creating, preserving and destroying; this power is mental, astral and physical.

Verse 25

“The Potential Power, whose tender body is like ten million beams of lightening, is at the pericarp of this center with the form of a triangle. In this triangle, there is a phallus known by the name of Vana. Seemingly this phallus is of shining gold, and on its head there is a tiny orifice, like a gem. It is the resplendent Abode of the Mother.”

Commentary Shakti, potential power, is image of the Divine Mother. To show that it is an aspect of the Universal Spirit, she is represented with a tender body, as also she might be represented with the image of a sleeping woman.
She is on the triangle called Trikona, because she is the essence of the Great Divine Triangle. But the Universal Spirit is manifestation, is life; that is why the Shivalinga, called Vana, is in the triangle, and symbolizes mental procreation. This is the phallus of gold; this verse explains it by saying that this linga is like shining gold.
Shakti confined in the sacred triangle is the Universal Spirit, Soul of the Cosmos and Life. Shakti, Trikona and Vana are the three aspects. But at the point of the phallus you find the shining abode of the Mother, who is Spirit in se, called Lakshmî by the Hindus.
Lakshmî is like a Hindu Venus, born of the ocean of milk, of the Gods and Mother of. Kama is God of Love and Life.
In the glans of the golden phallus is the Voidness, the Abode of Lakshmî, which the sperm-mind leaks through.
Another Little Wheel can be perceived in motion on the astral spectrum, under the Great Wheel of the Heart.

Verse 26

“One that meditates about this Center of the Heart, is able to be Lord of the Word and, as the Creator, can protect and destroy worlds. This lotus is like the tree of heavenly desire, and is Abode and Seat of God. It is embellished by the Bird-Spirit, which is like steady flame of a lamp where the wind does not blow. Filaments that surround and adorn its pericarp, illuminated by the solar region, are charming.”

Commentary

The words “Lord of the Word” is like saying “Vivifier of the Word”: The one who can give life to beings and things as a gift of Love.
He is like Isvara, the Creator, who can protect and destroy worlds. Now he is not Rudra, the one who, blinded by power, destroys or creates passion; he is the Initiate that, being free of any desire, knows when to reward and when to punish. He can do this because he follows the path of love, the Real Path.
This lotus is compared with the tree of the heavenly desire, Sura-Taru, under which the throne of Sharva is protected. Sharva is Maha Deva Shiva, Son of God, divine Incarnation, the One who yields fruits of the tree of Love.
Anâhata, tree of the heavenly desire, tree of Eden, which grants beyond one’s wishes, gives life, restriction, pleasure, suffering and death. But this other aspect of Anâhata, with its Sura-Taru tree, in the shade of Hamsa, the Divine Spirit, gives serenity, peace, hopeless love and beatific vision of the Eternity.
The former, son of Adam, is tree-life; the latter, tree-spirit of the Son of God.
Now the soul does not have any wish, tends to non-manifestation and lives in the Eternity. Hamsa, the bird-image of the Eternal Spirit, embellishes the soul. “It is like steady flame of a lamp where wind does not blow”: this means that the soul has achieved perfect peace and serenity.

Verse 27

“The one who meditates on this lotus is able to be main ascetic among ascetics and is always more loved that the most loved by women. He is preeminently wise and full of noble works. He controls completely his senses. His mind, intensely concentrated, is strengthened by thoughts of God. His inspired word flows like a stream of crystalline water. He is like the Initiate that is the Beloved of the Mother and can at will penetrate into the body of someone else.”