Tuesday, 14 June 2016

Of Bees and Birds.

अक्षरात् सञ्जायते कालः कालाद् व्यापक उच्यते ।
... ... अर्चयन्ति तपः सत्यं मधु क्षरन्ति यद्ध्रुवम् । एतद्धि परमं तपः ...॥
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This honey that oozes out from the hives is the consequence of austerities performed by Rudra. This is not the honey that is obtained by taming the bee.... And though bee produce their own, man could destroy them by his greed for money and superficial prosperity.....
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The bee (honeybee) work earnestly to collect the flower-nectar, again the flower is the ultimate attainment of the tree and gives this essence either as honey or in the form of fruit. This is all 'tapas' done by call it nature / The Ultimate Truth. I often wonder how this word has two roots in Sanskrit. One is ऋत् / ṛt , another is रुद्र / rudra which is known as shiva in common parlance. 'tapas' is the spontaneous meditation done by shiva all the time even because of that 'Time' comes into existence, as is narrated in अक्षरात् सञ्जायते कालः कालाद् व्यापक उच्यते ।..and so रुद्र / rudra gains the characteristic of omnipresence. That means 'Space' is generated. And I have skipped the next paragraph of 'shiva-atharva-sheerShaM' which tells clearly how then 'Creation' happens. And how He (रुद्र / rudra) experiences the same. Then He रुद्र / rudra withdraws that 'Creation' within Him. That is the 'saMhAra' aspect of rudra. So everything is just manifest and latent potential of rudra only. 'bee' itself could be derived from 'dija' / dwi / or 'bija' meaning seed. And this appeals me because every word and letter emanates from and is an expression of rudra. And bee is the source that gives us honey. (bumble-bee?).
Birds too are called 'द्विज' / 'dwij' > meaning twice-born'.
Again an aspiring ब्राह्मण / brahmin is also known as 'द्विज' / 'dwija', when has been initiated in Veda.
Figuratively, As birds are born first in the form of an egg and then from egg comes out the fledgling, they are also 'द्विज' / 'dwija', And The Eagle 'तार्क्ष्य' is given the status of the vehicle of 'विष्णु', The
Lord Supreme, we pray to Him in 'शान्तिपाठ' in the following words.
...स्वस्ति नस्तार्क्ष्य ...
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