In English
Spiritual significance of episodes
The inner significance of the reference to 16,000 should be understood in this manner.. Few attempt to understand the spiritual significance of many episodes in the . Young men may easily be misled by references to 's eight wives or his association with 16,000 . The real meaning is that each one should awaken the sixteen thousand potencies within him. This can be done only by implicit obedience to the commands of God. The , which starts at the (the root of the spinal column), ascends to the to attain its fullness. The life-breath for this power is (Divine Love). This love has to be generated at the and taken upto the . In this age of science and technology, students should try to understand the inner meaning of the concept of (the combination of the male and female principles in ). No scientist has attempted to explain this concept. Consider the similarity between the ancient sages concept of and the ideas of modern science regarding the atom. There are many such ancient concepts which have contemporary validity Every object is composed of atoms and in every atom ( in Sanskrit) there is a proton and an electron. The electron is described in Sanskrit as the (the left half) of the atom and the proton is described as the (the right half) of the atom. The represents the female principle and the the male principle. The coming together of these two constitutes the material base of each object. This process of coming together is represented in the concept of - the coming together of the female and male aspects. means half-feminine and half-masculine. The electron represents the feminine aspect. The proton represents the male aspect. The atom is formed when they come together. Every object in the universe is made up of atoms. Hence, the ancients regarded the entire cosmos as an embodiment of the principle.