2001/01/31 00:01-Kalipadma-Re: [K-list] God

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Subject: Re: [K-list] God - words and their meanings
From: Kalipadma

On 2001/01/31 00:01, Kalipadma posted thus to the K-list:

On Wed, 31 Jan 2001 09:46:11 +1100 Christopher Wynter <anundaATnospamone.net.au>
writes:
>
> Even the Sanskrit symbol for the primordial vibration
> has been corrupted in its transliteration .. it started off
> as the first separation from wholeness .. the < o > being
> resonant with the energy of immutable fire in the Heart
> Centre.

Anahata (the Heart Center/Chakra) is represented by a six-pointed star
within a circle. Not by a Valentine heart.

> As OM evolved, the broken heart (the piece off the bottom)
> was placed behind the 3 in the form of the crescent moon
> (a partial reflection of the light of wholeness .. behind .. where
> it
> cannot be seen ..) and then a < * > was placed in the crescent
> to stop it ever returning to wholeness ..
>
> Thus the modern OM is the symbol of separation barred from
> ever returning to wholeness.
>

The Hindus I've spoken to say that the glyph for AUM is a stylized
portrait of Ganesha. The three-shape is his large head above his larger
tummy, the extension is his trunk, and the crescent and dot are his full
and broken tusks. Ganesha is the God of (Good) Beginnings, and the sound
of AUM was the first thing to exist -- Ganesha before he had a body.

The heart shape originated in the West, and it's unlikely that Hindus saw
it before the Sufis (mystical Moslems) entered India after the Mogul
invasion. (I'm not sure when the Sufis adopted the winged heart as their
symbol.)

And of course, even in Europe, the heart (symbol or organ) as seat of the
emotions is rather late. The Romans used the heart-shape to symbolize
Lust. They presented it upside down (by our standards). It was a
stylized portrait of the testicles.

Puts a different twist on all those icons of the Sacred Heart of Jesus,
don't it?

-- Kalipadma

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To: K-list Recieved: 2001/01/31 00:01 Subject: Re: [K-list] God - words and their meanings From: Kalipadma

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Subject: Re: [K-list] God - words and their meanings
From: Kalipadma