Saturday, January 10, 2009

suryanarayana



The pratyaksha or visible god, the nishkama seva that he renders, was one of the venerable of the Vedic tradition with varuna and vayu. Somewhere the Vaishnava cult absorbed him.
He is described as riding on a chariot with single wheel, a legless charioteer Aruna and 7 splendorous white horses. This iconographic theme is also mentioned in the Greek mythology to describe Apollo and the Inca civilization too.
He nourishes and he is the energizer, the healer he is the nishkama or selfless.

prakriti-purusha



Kamakshi, the goddess of desires, she is seen here with all the symbols of Kama the god of love. Including the parrot, sugarcane and flowered arrow. She sits on Shiva forcing him to participate in the worldly life.
They form the completeness of life,
The mutable prakriti or nature and the unchanging soul. The purusha
She faces the north and he the south
She faces the permanence of the ever blazing tapa of the soul while he faces the ever changing flow of the Rasa of nature.