111. Bisatantutanīyasī
The power of Kuṇḍalinī flashes through the nervous system appearing like sparks of light moving along fine threads. These sparks are usually white or yellow in colour. Moving across fine treads they create a pattern somewhat like the sari or the pallav of a sari. The word bisa means the stock of lotus. When a lotus stock is broken and the two parts are separated, very fine threads connect the two parts. The appearance of this part of Kuṇḍalinī moving along the web resembles these threads of lotus stock in fineness. Tanīyasi means fineness.
In the Śrī Sūktam Goddess Lakṣmī is described in the following terms: "Suvarṇarajatasrajām" - meaning that Lakṣmī appears to the devotees as the fine sari threads of gold and silver. Lakṣmī represents the power of knowledge. She is the Jñāna Śakti and is primarily sattvic in character. Icchā Śakti is red in colour, Jñāna Śakti is yellow in colour and Kriyā Śakti is blue in colour. These are also he colours the nirguṇa, rajoguṇa, sattvaguṇa and tamoguṇa respectively. Pure white is a combination of all three in equilibrium and it is the colour of no colour i.e. nirguṇa.
When the devotee sees these colours of Kuṇḍalinī as Citkalās in the mind in meditation, he can guess from the colours therein what forces are operated in him. Sometimes mixtures of colours can also be present.
Violet is the mixture of blue and red. Thus it represents the rajoguṇa moving towards tamoguṇa i.e. the desire taking an action orientation.
Green colour is a mixture of blue and yellow. This means the rajoguṇa has taken on the hues of both knowledge and action.
Orange the mixture of red and yellow. The orange colour or the satvan robes of the sanyāsin represent the orientation of all desires to be fulfilled through knowledge.
Rose colour is the mixture of white and red. This implies that there is still a certain amount of desire left which is slowly merging into the desireless state.
Blood red indicates a state of a tremendous amount of desire to be fulfilled.
Following these guidelines it is possible for a devotee to assess for himself or herself the state of his or her evolution and also the mode of sādhana i.e. appropriate to the level of evolution.
The colours associated with the Goddess also indicate their nature to some extent.
Kālī is blue in colour, completely action oriented.
Sarasvatī is white in colour.
Nīlā Sarasvatī is blue in colour.
Lakṣmī has the yellow colour.
Kāmeśvarī had the red colour as Lalitā, Rājarājeśvarī also has red colour.
Mathura Mīnākṣī has the colour of the green parrot.
From these colours, we can guess their natures.
Not only are the colours useful in identifying the nature of one's state of evolution but also they are useful in projecting certain power to achieve certain results.
Ākarṣaṇa and vaśīkaraṇa are achieved through projecting the red colour out of oneself as a ray reaching towards the other individual, who is required to be attracted or brought under control.
The blue colour projection is useful to cure diseases. Curing diseases involves killing the antibody causing the disease. The colour blue is also useful to protect an individual from ingrace of hostile forces, as for taking aggressive action against another individual.
The yellow ray is used to transmit an intelligence, ability to improve understanding, or to confer the blessings of riches and knowledge on the individual to whom this ray is directed.
The yogi who mentally erects or recreates the colours at will is able to project such potencies outside oneself to achieve certain results miraculously, with distance being no criterion. Distance does not make any difference because everything is inside himself for the yogi.
The above statements are indicated only as a guideline. They are not exhaustive of what can be achieved through mental processes. It would pay to take up research into these matters. For example, at present there is an on-going program of trying to contact extra-terrestrial intelligence. The belief is that there may be and there will be far better evolved intelligence than the human intelligence, in all systems either in our own galaxy or in other galaxies. The galactic distances are measured as so many millions of light years. This means that as we travel from the center of a galaxy to its periphery, light takes about a million years traveling at the speed of 186,000 miles per second. If we send out a signal containing an intelligence now, it will reach another galaxy in say 100 million years time from now, and by the time they respond with the letter back, the letter will be delayed by about 200 millions years after we are dead, even if it reaches us. The human span of life lasting merely 100 years is totally inadequate to establish an intergalactic two-way communication system. There is only one possibility that some noble souls have transmitted a message to us more than 100 million years ago from other stars which were more evolved than us so as to reach us today. Besides the problem of time in establishing such communication systems, this is also the problem of magnitude. The power communicated goes down as the inverse square of the distance. In order to communicate with us from another star, the electricity required for communication is so great that the transmitter must be something which can switch on and off the power of a star. Imagine the power that will be required to switch on our sun or switch it off. Such is the power required to communicate with extra terrestrial intelligence. The human technology in the foreseeable future of the next thousand years is incapable of switching on and off a sun. If we examine these two problems together, it is obvious that there has to be some way of traveling faster than light. There is no known method of transmitting faster than light, known today. George Sudarsan has postulated the existence of Tachyons which must have an imaginary mass to be able to travel faster than light. So far all searches Tachyons have proved futile.
Perhaps there is some truth in the oriental view of thinking that the mental images do travel faster than light and they may constitute the Tachyons. However, the hope for this is removed because the nature of the thinking process is by a rearrangement of the electrical currents flowing through neurons in the brain. So the mental imagination can only be an electrical imagery and its modulations can only be modulations in an electro-magnetic field, that is, they are like light. Even if the mind were to act as a transmitter, as a receiver, in a clairvoyant and clairavdiant manner, it is subject to the same limitation as that of transmission of intelligence through an electro-magnetic field, which is physical field.
The only hope remaining then for the transmission of intelligence is from the Upaniṣadic statement: ‘Ahaṁ brahmāsmi’. There everything is reduced to a point. All space, all time, all matters and all intelligence coincide in a single point where there is no distance. An image can be transmitted in zero time to any part of a point which occupies zero distance, no matter what the velocity is. In fact, the normal conscious of velocity of divining space by time break down in the transcendental plane. Thus a mental image transmitted from any point and space of the manifested world to the addressless, will find its echo in any point in any time of the manifested world. A research needs to be done into the verifiability of these statements.
There have been some experiments, especially in Russia, where meditators have had the opportunity of learning from future musicians, of having spent thousands of years of time learning in another era, and coming back and reporting these results in the present time and space. There have been experiments also to decode and read secret information held under the tightest of security somewhere in the Pacific, deep under sea in a submarine. Both the Americans and Russians, while not publishing but covering up these researches, are spending quite huge amounts for researches of this nature. The findings are kept strictly classified. It costs nothing to do research, except the lives of a few individuals.
Source: Śrī Amṛtānandanātha Sarasvatī "Sudhā Syandinī Bhāṣyaṃ" Typed Manuscript
(an incomplete commentary on Lalitā Sahasranāma)
