Course XL - Teaching 8: “VISHUDDA”

Verse 28

“In the throat is the Wheel called Vishudda, which is pure and smoke-purple color. Sixteen vocals over its sixteen red petals are clearly visible to him, whose mind is illuminated. On the pericarp of this lotus is the Ethereal Region, of circular form and white like the Full Moon. The Divine Seed of the Word is seated on an elephant that is white like snow.”

Commentary

Vibrational modulations are represented by sixteen vocals written on sixteen petals. Syllables are as follows:

a â

i î

u û

ri rî

bu bû

e ai

o au

am ah

The vibrational power in its active state remains confined in the Ethereal Region, of circular form and white color, like the Full Moon, called Vritta-rûpa by the Hindus.
The element of this wheel is ether or Bîja of Ambara. Also it is called Bîja-Ham Manu Mantra, which means Seed of the Divine Word of God or Seed of the Word; in short, a vibration made form instantaneously.
The Seed of the Word, God of the ethereal element, is seated on an elephant that is white like snow, its trunk upward, as if it described an intimate union between mind and energy; man and God, Creative Power and created power.
This center is also called Voice of God, Word, Ineffable Name.

Verse 29

“Of his four arms, two make a slipknot and a goad, and the gesture of the other two is that of the one who grants favor and dissipates fear. They enhance his beauty. The Great Deva always abides in his lap; he is white like snow, with three eyes and five faces, with ten beautiful arms, wearing a tiger skin. His body unites to the body of the Himalayan God and He is known for the meaning of His name: Continuous Movement of God.”

Commentary

The explanation of the four arms is as follows:
The one who makes the slipknot gives this idea: when vibration has to give a form, it must be more and more around the nucleus.
The arm with the goad represents a fight between a long wave and a short wave; so one vibration cannot become someone else.
The one who grants favors is a vibration coming to its early state after he has charged certain form with energy.
The one who dissipates fear: this means that he disposes of a lower vibration or wave that he used for his work.
“They enhance his beauty”: beauty of the universal work is on a continuous becoming and transformation from top to bottom and from bottom to top.
“On his lap the Great Deva always abides; he is white like snow”; the Great Deva is cosmic energy, father of all universal energy, who abides on the lap of the potential cosmic energy.
“He has three eyes” because is mind, energy and matter at the same time.
“And five faces”: all wheels listed so far have their source in him, Vishudda: Mûlâdharâ, Svadhishtana, Manipura, Anâhata.
“He has ten beautiful arms” because is whole manifestation, and energetic manifestation as a whole. He wears a tiger skin to represent his excellence among Gods, since the tiger skin is granted only to high Initiates.
His body unites to Girija, the Himalayan God, and means that the cosmic energy closely unites to the cosmic mind; and in short, all this, as a whole, means power of the Divine Manifestation, union of God as mind, and of God as energy, Sadâ-Shiva.
Sadâ-Shiva means Continuous Movement of God. Also it is image of Bohas and Jakim. Image is divided into two color on figures describing Sadâ-Shiva and Shakti Shakinî: one half belongs half body and two heads and one half, is white, quite white, and the other half is golden, to symbolize always cosmic ebb and flow.

Verse 30

“The Goddess Shakinî is purer than the Ocean of Nectar; she abides on this lotus. Her attire is yellow and her four hands hold a bow, an arrow, a slipknot and a goad. The whole region of the Moon without the mark a hare is on the pericarp of this lotus. This region is the gate of the Great Liberation for the one who wishes the richness of Asceticism, and whose senses are pure and under control.”

Commentary

Shakinî is the feminine aspect of Sadâ-Shiva, but the Goddess also represents certain vibration that now is slower. This is why she holds a bow and arrow, and reduces more and more the vibrational circuit.
Throughout her life, the Moon had a permanent atmospheric vibration that was different from that of Earth. Man, as a descendant of the Moon round, carries this vibration in potential state, on his Vishudda Wheel, image of power. Hare is the man of the Moon. Man has transcended now this state; this is why he does not have the mark of a hare; his power is potential, essence of experiencing the Moon round on the vibration of the Vishudda Wheel.
You can use the power of this Wheel for many things and many objective results; but to the one who wishes the richness of Yoga, to the one who wants a true subjective and mystical state, this is the gate of the Great Liberation; it is a prelude of Mystical Union with God.

Verse 31

“The one who achieved the entire knowledge of the Spirit through constant concentration of his mind on this lotus, becomes a Great, eloquent and wise Sage, and enjoys uninterruptedly mental peace. He sees three periods of time: he becomes a benefactor, gets rid of disease and sorrow, and reaches longevity; and like the Bird-Spirit is destroyer of endless perils. The one who constantly fixes his mind on this lotus, and controls his breath through Retention, can move the three worlds when he gets angry. No God can control his power or to resist it”

Commentary

This developed center causes to see the three periods of time, and to live here and now to the one who knows perfectly the past and the time to come, and gives control over the three worlds: mental, energetic and physical; he knows how to transform these three powers, through vibration, from one state to another, and handles the lethal beam explained by the text: “can move the three worlds when he is angry”.
It adds: neither Brahma, nor Vishnû, nor Hari-Hara, which is the union of Vishnû and Shiva, nor Surya, God of the Sun, nor Ganapa, the elephant-headed God, can stop him.
Researchers and practitioners not always succeed in possessing entirely this power, and even those who possess it, always elude higher exercises and eventually just admit lesser profitable exercises.
Do not forget: the whole vibration tends to come back to its starting point, to the potential state; while the limited vibration only constitutes a similar vibration.