Sanatan Jyoti - Bharat Sevashram Sangha

ETERNAL LIGHT ♦ SANATAN JYOTI ♦ 2013is the mind where all these negativities roam about. A spiritual person mustkill these "animals" to be free.The hunter was born in Varanasi. Vara refers to the forehead while nasi is thenose. The point where both meet is Varanasi, in other words, the pointmidway between the eyebrows. This point is also called the ajna chakra andis regarded as a triveni of the three naris (nerves): ida, pingala and sushumnaThese naris are called Ganga, Jamuna, Saraswati. So ajna chakra is calledtriveni. Where women put bindi on forehead is called triveni of three narisganga, jamuna and saraswati. A spiritual person who concentrates his or hermind on this point, gains concentration and gradual control over his senses.The killing of the animals thus indicates control over one's desire.The bilva tree corresponds to the spinal cord. The tree's leaves are special:each stalk has three leaflets. The three leaflets represent the threenerves(Ganga, Jamuna, Saraswati). The climbing of the tree represents risingthe kundalini shakti from the muladhara to the ajna chakra. Keeping awake issymbolic of the kind of awareness and oneness of purpose that a spiritualaspirant needs to reach the goal. He cannot afford to be slack even for amoment. Shiva is the Supreme Consciousness that illuminates the threestates of waking, dreaming and deep sleep. Offering the threefold bilva leavesto the Shivalinga takes us to the level of consciousness beyond the threestates, the fourth state, turiya. If you see the symbol of , the symbol ofAUM consists of three curves (curves 1, 2, and 3), one semicircle (curve4),and a dot.The large lower curve 1 symbolizes the waking state (jagrat), conscious state.The upper curve 2 denotes the state of deep sleep (sushupti) or theunconscious state. This is a state where the sleeper desires nothing norbeholds any dream.BHARAT SEVASHRAM SANGHA OF NORTH AMERICA, CHICAGO 45