--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "emptybill" <emptybill@...> wrote: > > > Wiki is all right to start but rarely to finish.
Wiki just makes references here to the Vedas and Upanishads. > Yes, dala means petal. So are you taking lessons now from Billy? Nope. I am not really interested in the semantics of it all. Sahasradala is just the name a friend had introduced to me at the time. I think he had it from Aurobindo. It's the one which stuck to me. I also like Brahmarandhra. > I'm > delighted to determine that we are merely mechanical automatons with > wheels-a-plenty, leaves on trees and mantras written in fine filigree on > the petals of the flowers that cover those trees. I don't really associate any imagery with it. The petals are just symbolic, basically the Sahasrara contains the petals of all the other chakras. So, these are really contained within it. > Even better, we can depend upon Vyasa when he describes the "fixing > on a place" (desha-bandha) of the chitta, which must mean what we > mean by "mind", right? The same for dharana on > the"heart" which is "like" a downward-pointing lotus > flower in the pond at night before the sun arises in the morning. > > Why ... even "the mind" can be divided now, at least when doing some of > that terribly dangerous "japa" ... right? Gheez, the mind is all division anyway, it's what it is all about. > Hmmm it is just so obvious, is it not? > > ****************************************** > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, blusc0ut <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "emptybill" emptybill@ wrote: > > > > > > > > > FYI ... > > > > > > Sahasra + ara = sahasrÄra or sahasraara > > > > > > sahasra = 1000 > > > > > > ara = a radii or a wheel spoke > > > > > > > > > Therefore ... sahasrÄra or sahasraara literally means a > thousand > > > radii or spokes, which was why it was chosen for the crown chakra or > > > "wheel". > > > > > > OTOH ... > > > > > > > > > Sahasrada = > > > > > > Yadu had five sons, Sahasrada ... blah blah ... > > > Sahasrada's descendents were the Haihaya-s, among the most famous > was > > > Kartyavirya Arjuna. Arjuna's great deeds were his defeat and > > > imprisionment of Ravana, king of Lanka. > > > > > > > > > ************************************************** > > Yes, but its also called sahasradala, as the WP aricle shows: > > > > In the Vedas and late Upanishads: Akasha Chakra, Kapalasamputa, > Sahasradala, Sahasrara, Sahasrara Kamala (Pankaja or Padma), Sthana, > Wyoma, Wyomambuja > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sahasrara > > > > I probably contracted Sahasrara with Sahasradala. > > >
