Sage Vasishtha
The trees stand, the very picture of misery, having to endure cold, winds and heat, yet laden with flowers and yielding fruits. Caught in the lotus known as this world, beings like bees hum restlessly all the time.
This whole universe is, as it were, the begging bowl of Kali (suggestive the feminine of Kala which means time and death), the goddess whose nature is action, motion. This Kali constantly seeks to fill the bowl with all the creatures of this world and to offer them again and again to her Lord.
This universe can be compared to an aged woman. The darkness of self-ignorance is her hair, the sun and the moon are her restless eyes. Her internal and external nature includes the gods Brahma, Vishnu, Indra, the earth, the mountains etc. The truth concerning Brahman the absolute is the treasure chest hidden in her chest. Her mother is the consciousness energy (or she is the mother known as consciousness energy). She is extremely agitated and inconstant like a cloud. The stars are her teeth. Dawn and dusk are her lips. The lotus is her palm. The sky is her mouth. The seven oceans are her pearl necklace. She is clad in the garment of the blue firmament. The pole is her navel. The forests are the hair on her body. This aged woman is born again and again; she dies again and again.
All this takes place in the light of consciousness. In this there are gods who are created within the twinkling of an eye by the creator Brahma; and there are beings who are destroyed by the very act of Brahma closing his eyes. In that supreme consciousness, there are rudras who commence and conclude thousands of time cycles within a twinkling of an eye. And there are other deities who within a twinkling of an eye create deities like rudra! Surely such manifestation is infinite. What is impossible for the infinite consciousness to bring about infinite space? However, all these are but imagination which is a manifestation of ignorance. All prosperity and all adversity, childhood, youth, old age and death, as also suffering, what is known as being immersed in happiness and unhappiness and all the rest of it: all these are the extensions of the dense darkness of ignorance.
This whole universe is, as it were, the begging bowl of Kali (suggestive the feminine of Kala which means time and death), the goddess whose nature is action, motion. This Kali constantly seeks to fill the bowl with all the creatures of this world and to offer them again and again to her Lord.
This universe can be compared to an aged woman. The darkness of self-ignorance is her hair, the sun and the moon are her restless eyes. Her internal and external nature includes the gods Brahma, Vishnu, Indra, the earth, the mountains etc. The truth concerning Brahman the absolute is the treasure chest hidden in her chest. Her mother is the consciousness energy (or she is the mother known as consciousness energy). She is extremely agitated and inconstant like a cloud. The stars are her teeth. Dawn and dusk are her lips. The lotus is her palm. The sky is her mouth. The seven oceans are her pearl necklace. She is clad in the garment of the blue firmament. The pole is her navel. The forests are the hair on her body. This aged woman is born again and again; she dies again and again.
All this takes place in the light of consciousness. In this there are gods who are created within the twinkling of an eye by the creator Brahma; and there are beings who are destroyed by the very act of Brahma closing his eyes. In that supreme consciousness, there are rudras who commence and conclude thousands of time cycles within a twinkling of an eye. And there are other deities who within a twinkling of an eye create deities like rudra! Surely such manifestation is infinite. What is impossible for the infinite consciousness to bring about infinite space? However, all these are but imagination which is a manifestation of ignorance. All prosperity and all adversity, childhood, youth, old age and death, as also suffering, what is known as being immersed in happiness and unhappiness and all the rest of it: all these are the extensions of the dense darkness of ignorance.
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