Moon Chandra soma

 

Many people understand Moon as the cold satellite revolving round the earth. This satellite is only a mirror of a magnificent cosmic Moon principle recognised by the ancients. Our earth is not yet sufficiently evolved to receive all the rays in full of this cosmic deity. Our solar system also is not yet sufficiently evolved to locate a planetary body capable of attracting and containing this cosmic principle in a planetary-level. For this reason we have only the books of ancient wisdom to know about this planet-to-be in our solar system. This cosmic deity is influencing our solar system and guiding its evolution along with other cosmic deities. At present our solar system can perceive the lunar principle only as a phenomenon of reflection. Our physical Sun is therefore the reflection of the spiritual Sun and this reflection became possible only through Moon.

While this satellite of our earth is called Chandra (Moon) the presiding cosmic deity is called So-ma by the Ve-dic seers. So-ma works as the Mind of our solar system and Chandra is the out-come of this mind. However Chandra serves as the seat of the mind of our earth. He forms the very matter of the brain cells of our earth and also governs the astral and the lower mental bodies in it.

The buddhic plane of our solar system was the result of the workings of So-ma over the five-pointed star of this solar system. When the solar system was in a state of gestation and when it was developing the planetary faculties as only the five senses, So-ma caused the birth of the planetary principle of Mercury. By the end of this working, there was the birth of buddhic consciousness, localised later in the planet Mercury. For this very secret reason, the pura-n. a-s describe Mercury as the Son of Moon (So-ma, in fact). The play of mind in man gradually gives birth to the higher mental. This higher mental receives detached impressions of the higher principles in man and there is the origin of the buddhic plane. It is the desire to grow which causes the lower nature of man ascend into the buddhic consciousness. Remember that the culmination of evolution is man and that his evolution is a two-fold process. The higher principles descend as helpers to raise the lower. The lower principle, propelled by the activity of Ka-ma, ascend higher. The result is the meeting of the higher mind with the higher principles as Buddhi. At first, the higher principles descend through the workings of Jupiter. In the meanwhile, the lower principles are raised by the workings of Moon. Mercury is born as a result (Mercury therefore represents the buddhic plane in man). This is the meaning of the allegory* that Moon approached Jupiter as his disciple and begot a son named Budha through the wife of Jupiter. The satellite Moon worked as a blind in concealing the wisdom of the grand mystery of the above said phenomena.

At the present state of evolution, So-ma has distributed his workings under two groups. He is