In2-MeC

Sofia, Bulgaria
10 July, 2003

A Darsana of the Divine Couple

(derived from Laksmi Tantra, a Vaisnava Pancaratra Scripture)

There is a cosmic turtle as black as a saligrama-sila. The turtle is time and the source of time. On the back of the turtle is a serpent of a thousand heads as black as a saligram stone. This serpent is everything in time and the source of everything in time. Above the serpent is the lovely goddess of the sacred earth.  Above her is the navel of the universe filled with milk.

From out of this frothy white lake grows a lotus of a thousand petals that blooms with white teeth set perfectly in a lovely smiling face surrounded by a cloud of black bees.  In the center of the lotus are two bejeweled thrones. Supporting these thrones with their powerful bodies are four fair-colored persons of great energy, each with the face of a lion. Opposite each one of them is one of four mighty persons of a color like a red flower.  They also hold up the thrones.  On each of the four corners forming a square around the two thrones borne by the eight persons is one of four beings with humanlike bodies and the heads of horses.  On each of the four corners of a second square that together with the first formed an octagon around the thrones is one of four beings that combines the features of man and bull.

Above the lotus with the smiling face is a primordial sun millions of times brighter than the sun in Earth's sky, and above that sun is a primordial moon millions of times brighter than the moon in Earth's sky. Above the moon, millions of times brighter than any fire seen in our world, is the blazing orb of the fire god.  In the sky above the sun, moon and fire flies a huge, fierce and valiant creature that combined aspects of man and bird.
A male person who is as black as the saligrama stone and is the attractor of all hearts sits upon one bejeweled throne in the lotus. On the throne to the left of that person sits a golden female person who is
likewise the attractor of all hearts. This couple is worshiped by the host of powerful persons arrayed around Their thrones.

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