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षण्मुख or षडानन, स्कन्द,
- The Six-faced God Skanda is the Unique Reality Who is also Rudra and the rest of the matrix of आधिदैविक / the Divine Sphere.
(we may refer to श्रीदेवी अथर्वशीर्ष which deals with this matrix of the letters or this वर्ण-मातृका )
This finds place in :
शिवाथर्वशीर्षम्
Shiva Atharva SheerSham in detail :
यो वै रुद्रः स भगवान् यश्च स्कन्दस्तस्मै वै नमो नमः।। ३
What are the six faces of This Skanda?
Presently we shall try to see.
1. Cognitive,
2. Descriptive,
3. Symbolic,
4. Figurative,
5. Mystic / Esoteric / Mythical / Cryptic,
6. Relative.
The Cognitive face / aspect is the Realization of the Reality where :
The distinction between the observer and the observed ceases to exist.
The same is called extinction of (the assumed ego or the ignorance of the Reality).
"darshana" is The single word in Sanskrit to denote this face / aspect of the Unique Reality.
(This reminds of :
"The observer is the observed"
There is yet another dictum / aphorism :
दृग्दृश्यभेदात्किमयं द्विधात्मा
स्वात्मैकतायां हि धियां न भेदाः।। ३५
-- सद्दर्शनम् - श्री रमण महर्षि
Who-so-ever might have said that, presently let us not drift away from the topic.)
The second face / aspect of the God Skanda is Descriptive that has been narrated through the texts such as Veda, Purana and Itihaasa :
-The Ramayana and The Mahabharata.
The third face / aspect of the God Skanda is Symbolic, that is depicted in Tantra-Shastra,
Where a triangle 🔺 has been placed above an inverted triangle, thus forming the symbolic form of the God Skanda.
One can see a symbol similar to this, into the icon / insignia of Sri Aurobindo Ashram.
I think the one of the Jew is also similar which is quite conspicuous as an emblem on the flag of Israel.
The History of the exit of the Prophet Moses from Egypt suggests something deeper about the same.
(I have tried to decipher all these things in my earlier posts in this very blog in much detail.
How Israel is related to Al-Isra, and how Isra is Ishwar or Lord Shiva)
The Fourth face / aspect of the God Skanda is figurative that is the foundation-stone of all the "Religions" and various cults born of them.
As such, we should not get confused and misled into believing that the "Religion" and "Dharma" is one and the same.
To me,
Religion is Reality relegated to custom and rituals.
A cult on the other hand is only further division of 'a' religion.
As soon as a religion comes into existence, as we see and often say "founded by", the division begins.
The verb-root, the word-root "खिल्" in Sanskrit is used to denote breaking-up or split. This again is also indicative of play or sport.
The word 'अखिल' is the antonym of "खिल्" and is indicative of "total", "un-split" or undivided.
The Arabic(?) word "ख़िलाफ", "खिलाफ़त" may be a cognate / सज्ञात / सजाति / derivative of this word "खिल्" .
Philologist and linguists might tell how far my conjecture is correct.
So a cult is formed owing to, and following the religion and the local customs and ethos affect the same greatly.
I don't want to go in detail, but if interested, one can go through my old posts, as I have already written there to my heart's content.
The same thing happened to Vaidika Dharma or the Sanatana Vaidika Dharma also, and though most of the cults not only in India but all over the globe follow the Sanatana Dharma, they have wandered far away from the same to such an extent beyond recognition.
This is how the Esoteric, Mystic, Occult and the Mythical practices evolved in time.
Let us see :
'Esoteric' is cognate सज्ञात / सजात of the Sanskrit word :
अव सतो ऋष्.
'Mystic' is cognate of मिष् ति कः .
'Occult' is cognate of अव कुलतः .
'Mythical' is cognate of मिथिकलः / मिथकलः .
The only logic is :
The Sanskrit words and verb-roots connote to the exact meaning / sense of the word also.
The sixth and the last is Relative, that is the apparently accepted way of life and life-style that keeps changing from time to time, place to place and circumstances.
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