--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "RoryGoff" <rorygoff@> wrote: > > > > > In the interests of clarity, I should probably have used the revised > > transliteration, lengthening the penultimate "a" and dropping the > > antiquated final "a" of "thahara", thus: > > > "OM Iswara thahaar tis, > > OM Iswara thahaar tis," etc. > > > > Here is a similar but lesser-known mantra I once ran across, traditionally > > to be used only while standing erect and pressing the heels together: > > > > "Thahaar snau pale salaikah OM; > > Thahaar snau pale salaikah OM; > > Thahaar snau pale salaikah OM!" > > > > When wearing holy sandals of Mastery, one reciting this mantra but thrice > > is reputed to experience passage through space to the Brahmasthan or > > "sacred heart" of one's homeland. > > > * * But Mark, though you are indeed in possession of the Master's sandals, I > would *not* try them on with this mantra at home, if I were you, unless you > wish to end up in Kansas!
* * On re-perusing my copy of the Book of Dzyan (Astral Edition), I found another half-stanza just prior to the Brahmasthan-mantra given above, which may actually throw some more light on the subject. It runs: "Brihat eva soham-bhala" (often later transliterated as "Bihat eva so-ham-bhala") Which when prepended to the previous mantra, gives us: "Brihat eva soham-bhala, Thahaar snau paleh salaikah OM!" Now, I know my place and I am (obviously) but a humble homebody, a domestic amateur and no erudite University professor, but "soham-bhala," meaning perhaps, "That am I certainly (or sun-like?)" looks like a possible primordial source for the term Sambhala: later transliterated by the Tibetans as Shambhala, and meaning the blissful place or Pure Land, a sort of heaven on earth; humanity's perfect home. Perhaps the best translation of soham-bhala would be, "That clearly am I" or "That clear light am I". This sun-like clarity also points to Shambhala as being the residence of our Soul or Sol at our Sacred Heart (Hrit-chakra; Solar Plexus) -- which is Brahma's place, the Brahmastan. Thus Shambhala = Brahmastan = our divine center, heaven on earth: that sacred-heart chakra in our divine body which lies midway between our right heart (Venus) and our spleen (Mars). In traditional astrology, that place was given to the Sun; now we know it properly to belong to the illumined Earth, Earth as it IS, as appreciated in humility's surrender into the clear light of perfection, stripped of all intellectual superimposition and belief: our paradisal home indeed!
