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study of his own horoscope reveals that Saturn’s
position at the time of his birth is equivalent to the top of
the pedestal: 15 degrees of Capricorn, the peak of the
Capricorn ‘mountain’. And this is the very degree where the chamber’s year
begins and ends in the shaft. In other words, since Sri Aurobindo’s
natal Saturn lies at 15 degrees in his horoscope, and the pedestal
indicates both 15 degrees Capricorn, as well as 1950, based on
the Vedic formula ‘one day for one year’, we have to admit that
the
time of his ‘mystery sleep’ has been ‘written’ in the temple by the
Mother herself as his Divine Maya, in the language known, but long
forgotten on the subcontinent, to the greatest of Vedic Rishis.
Since none of this came into being in the Auroville Matrimandir and
time, gnostic or otherwise, was left in complete disarray, is it any
wonder that there are a dozen or more calendars in use in India, and
dozens of almanacs, and dozens of 0 points (ayanamshas)? In
other words, it is a veritable Babel, - in contrast to
the true purpose of a calendar which is to unify society and bring it
within the most enlightened harmony possible?
Is it any wonder that the sacred and auspicious Makar Sankranti
(Pongal) is celebrated 23 days AFTER the shortest day of the year,
delinking it entirely from Capricorn and its ruling planet, Saturn? Is
it any wonder that the Festival of Light, which is supposed to mark the
period of the Light’s increase and continue thereafter until 15 degrees
Capricorn is reached, is celebrated 23 days after its true starting
point, making no sense at all, gnostic or otherwise?
Aditi’s 8th ‘son’ and
the Pedestal
A special, unique alchemy occurs in the
Vesica pedestal. It involves Mars and the 8th of Aditi’s 12
sons. He is known as Martanda. In the course of the journey of the year
(of 12 months – 12 facets of the chamber), the Aryan Warrior secures a
victory. Martanda is connected to the 8th stage of that
journey, or ‘sacrifice’, as it is known in the Veda. Martanda, legend
tells us, is the progenitor of the human race. But if we look more
closely we observe that a clue is given in his very name, ‘the dead
egg’. In the zodiac this meaning is reinforced because the 8th
month is Scorpio, the sign of sexuality and death, the sign expressing
the implanted atavistic ‘purpose’ of the race of mortals. Indeed,
science now confirms this connection because molecular biology informs
us that sex and mortality go hand in hand: this was the ‘choice’ for
reproduction the species made in the course of its evolution.
When
the full initiation takes place of the Knowledge the Mother captured in
her temple, a very deep level of the labour the human species carries
out is made clear by the correct addition of the pedestal. For it is
there, in those hidden recesses, that the great rahasya is
found. This is the transmutation of Mars, or what the energy of Mars
signifies in the harmony of the 9 planets plus the Sun. Indeed, the
12-month journey is nothing other than a description of the field
for the transformation of mortality to immortality. Martanda, Aditi’s
‘dead egg’ Scorpio son, has to be transformed, transmuted, and the
light trapped within the cave has to be released so that the journey is
completed victoriously and not arrested at the 8th stage of death.
The problem has been noted by
the Calendar Reform Committee during discussions after Independence on
which calendar to adopt, the Nirayana system based on the
Constellations or the Tropical (Sayana) method, as in the Mother’s
chamber: ‘In continuing to follow the Nirayana system, the Hindu
calendar makers are under delusion that they are following the path of
Dharma. They are actually committing the whole Hindu society to
Adharma.’
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