30/10/2024
Happy Deepavali (Diwai) to all my Vedic friends all over the world!
Tomorrow the Vedic culture celebrates the Divine Descending of the Divine Light Shri Maha-Lakshmi.
Maharishi talks about Lakshmi:
Maharishi explains the Name* “Maha-Lakshmi”:
Maha Lakshmi... the first syllable is Maha. Maha, great. And this great in the context of education is the characteristic of consciousness. This Maha is the goal of anyone who is not yet Maha. So, Maha goal is the meaning of the word Laksha...
Laksha means the goal (Maha means unbounded, infinite, immortal, eternal, Brahm, Totality, whole). Maha is the goal of that which is not Maha. The goal of Maha is to swing in his greatness. It should be a living reality.
That the unbounded does not remain only silent. But in that silence, there should be lively all possibilities. So, the Laksha, the goal, the goal of Maha is to have many in its unified wholeness. And the goal of that what is not Maha, the goal of small is to be big and the goal of big is to swing in its own expressions. Infinity wants to flow from one end of infinity to the other end of infinity and it s flowing, it divides itself, it quantifies itself, it qualifies itself.
So it is the qualification which makes one look to the goal. Small wants to qualify itself into as big as possible. The big wants to qualify itself as the field of all possibilities from this end to that end. Maha is a goal and MI is a very, very significant word which is made of two values, MA and I. When we look to MA, naturally it is me, the first to the self, ME, even in English me, but in the Vedic terminology MI we understand as total value of all four Vedas. MA, what MA is, it s the HUM, Hummm.
Agnim-m-m. Rig, Yajur, Sama, Atharva. Then Atharva is a Hum. Hum of all the four Vedas... Agni, it s a collapse of all the progression of all the Vedas into a Hum. Â Hum means the total values of all sounds; all sounds are inherent in Hum. And in that Hum which is focused on a point, that reality of the point is then transformed into dynamism, which is represented by „I“.
So, Maha Lakshmi this is the total Veda, concentrated into the Hum and made dynamism. Here is concentration at a point, which then in its nature is all dynamism. Â So, in the word Maha Lakshmi we have that enormous, unbounded, total, infinite, eternal immortality expressed in all the Vedas and found located in a point. And then expanding a point in infinity, and dynamism again into Maha. So, here is the total __expression of the Veda, total __expression of pure knowledge. Along with its infinite organising power in one point concentrating and expanding. This point value, this is Maha Lakshmi...
So, the element of Maha Lakshmi is a composite of two values of opposite directions. Focal point and expanding in its nature, this is called Anyonyabhava. It has two kinds of directions, coming in, expanding and going out...
So, the Laksha, the goal of expanding value is to concentrate.  The goal of concentrated value is to expand. And here is the seed of Maha. This is Maha Lakshmi, at the  point, which is both, expansion and contraction, infinite potential of the expansion element we could see along with infinite expansion of contraction element.
That means no matter where the situation is, there is all possibility, no matter at what level we are considering or at any level of contraction or at any level of expansion, here or here, at any level is Maha Lakshmi. Â There is a field of all possibilities and the field of all possibilities in each cell is a concentrated point of silence within the quality of infinite dynamism. Silence and dynamism, that means completely fulfilled of wakefulness.
Completely fulfilled because it is not devoid of anything. Infinite silence concentrated, infinite dynamism concentrated and therefore it is eternal state of fulfilment. Â It is a fulfilment of eternal value. Fulfilment of immortal value because there is a field of all possibilities and in this field of all possibilities is the element of fulfilment, infinite bliss. Infinite bliss is a quality of fulfilment and fulfilment the quality of lack of lack. Devoid of nothingness.
It is all fullness, completely fulfilled, self-sufficient infinity, eternity, capable of flowing in terms of waves, modified, qualified and still remaining unqualified at all time . Unqualified qualified fulfilment, that means it is  Unmanifest total potential of all qualifications that may be thought or desired.  Maha Lakshmi is an element of all possibilities,  completely self-sufficient at any time, and any place. It is the total potential of all possibilities. In the __expression of prosperity, the __expression of growing prosperity, it is not stagnant prosperity it is growing prosperity, growing and growing and growing. Growing up to what?
Beyond the capability of growth it grows and grows and grows. This is what is materialised in the ever-expanding universe. So, this ever-expanding value of universe and in every step of progress there is a wave of happiness, wave of happiness. Progress means successive waves of happiness. Progress is always progressive.
So, Maha Lakshmi is a basic of all progress, it is so self-sufficient in its self interacting dynamics that it creates and creates and creates itself in terms of infinite variety. Â This is the progressive fulfilling Nature of Maha Lakshmi. And in this fulfilling Nature of Maha Lakshmi, because everything is growing, growing fulfilment, the progressive Ananda growing, bliss, moving around in waves and this, what we have in this is the power of Ananda, keeping everything evolutionary.
So, we say this is organising power, Maha Lakshmi is not only the element of progress but also an element of progress, which is always waves on this evolutionary direction. Â So, this aspect of Maha Lakshmi is called Durga, action principle. Now, this action principle is the characteristic of pure knowledge. Knowledge is the characteristic of Saraswati. So, this Saraswati is present in Maha Lakshmi. Durga is present in Maha Lakshmi. Maha Lakshmi present at a point and in the unbounded infinity.
So, in this what we see is the element of Maha Lakshmi, that element is present everywhere, lively everywhere, action everywhere, silence everywhere. From this angle what we see is as the whole creation is nothing other than the _expression of Maha Lakshmi
