--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "RoryGoff" <rorygoff@...> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > <snip> > > Far as I'm aware, the Holy Ghost/Spirit, although it's the > > "second Person" of the Trinity, is never portrayed in art > > as a human bean but is always represented symbolically (e.g., > > by a dove). > > > > Paligap observed that the mapping of rishi-devata-chhandas > > to the Trinity was "a bit tricky," but perhaps from the > > above it'll be a little clearer. Rishi, the Knower, would > > obviously be God; and chhandas, the object of knowledge, > > would be Jesus Christ (the Logos). The Holy Spirit would > > be devata, the process of knowing, the abstract connection > > between Rishi/God the Father and chhandas/God the Son. > > > > Thus it's the Holy Spirit that descends (or emanates) from > > God to impregnate Mary, and later to proclaim the adult > > Jesus as God's Son at his baptism by John. > > An interesting take on it... AFAIK, though, the Holy Ghost is > always the "third Person" of the Trinity, and Jesus is the > "second Person" -- as in God the Father, God the Son, and God > the Holy Spirit...
Yikes. In terms of Christian theology, you're quite right, of course. (That was my mistake, not Wikipedia's!) But the "mappings" I've read have still identified devata with the Holy Spirit and chhandas with the Son, which makes more sense to me, the order being less important than the similarity of function, at least as I perceive it. You pays yer money and you takes yer choice, I guess. That may be what Paligap meant by saying the mapping is a "bit tricky." > which might make the Father our Rishi or the Knower, the Son our Devata, the > process of knowing, and the Holy Spirit our Chhandas, the object of > knowledge, the Body of Christ, the divine "Church" or "Temple" or "Vedic > Choir". > > This might tie in nicely with Father as the Spirit of God (Pneuma), "Son" as > the Soul of God (Psyche), and "Holy Spirit" as the Body of God (Soma). > > These in turn easily map onto our uppermost three chakras: Father as Spirit > of Spirit in the Crown (the Transcendent); Son as Soul of Spirit in the Third > Eye (the Witness), and Holy Spirit as Body of Spirit in our Throat (Akasha). > > If the energy is moving down through these chakras, we might say that the > Father is Love of Love (Sat of Sat), the Son is Light of Love (Chit of Sat), > and the Spirit is the Laughter of Love (Ananda of Sat)... >
