\u201cKaruna, what can I do for you?\u201d, Lakshmi addressed a young girl, who was her worshipper and only recently started crystallising her spiritual body; apparently, she wanted to talk but was too intimidated. \u201cLady Sri, I am very sorry to disturb you, but I wanted to ask you something\u201d, the girl stuttered. \u201cDo you have a minute?\u201d \u201cSure, sweetheart. What is it?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWell, I\u2019ve been asking myself something for a while, and I can\u2019t make sense of it. One would expect the Creation to have a distinct hierarchy of beings, with the most powerful on top, and a pyramid of his subordinates below, all arranged by their spiritual magnitude and authority. But from what I figured out, the Creation is ruled by two married couples; you and your husband, Lord Rama, and the other couple, Rudra and Parvati. So, I would certainly want to avoid committing an offence against any of you, but I would like to know how does that work, and which one of you is the greatest, and if there\u2019s a leader among you whom all others obey?\u201d<\/p>\n
Lakshmi smiled and rolled her eyes slightly, \u201cAnd you want to know if your Goddess is the greatest of the four, so that you can feel proud and vindicated\u201d \u201cErr, no, \u2026 sorry; maybe, kind of, yes\u201d, Karuna blushed and felt embarrassed and thought that this might have not been her best idea ever. \u201cI mean, I would expect you to say that Lord Krishna is the supreme and most exalted one, since he is your husband, but I\u2019m curious about the other couple\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cLord Krishna is indeed the most magnificent and complete embodiment of sat-cit-ananda<\/i>, and shows all of us what we can potentially become. He is the goal, someone who stands at the metaphorical finish line and shows us what is possible. He is my husband, and I know him well, and I can tell you, there is absolutely no end to how amazing he is. He\u2019s like an endless fountain of Divine Fulfilment, and merely touching him with my mind makes my hair stand on end. But I see that you now expect me to tell you something diminishing about the other couple, and I\u2019m not going to do that; not only because nothing of the sort can be said about them truthfully, but also because that would be bad for your spiritual growth. So, first, tell me what do you know about Lord Shiva and Lady Shakti?\u201d, Lakshmi asked her, also putting the girl at ease with a light touch of her blessing.<\/p>\n
\u201cUnfortunately, not much, my Lady. I know that they look rather simple compared to yourself and Lord Narayan. They seem pure and powerful, but can they really compare to you and your exalted husband?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDo you see the new dress I\u2019m wearing, Karuna? Please take a closer look and touch it with your mind\u201d, Lakshmi invited. \u201cPay particular attention to the kalapa<\/i> density and the substance it is made of\u201d.<\/p>\n
The girl did as asked, and jumped back in a state of shock, as if hit by a lightning. \u201cMy Lady, this is something both incredible and terrible at once. I only recently started to crystallise into vajra<\/i>, but this, this feels much denser than that. It is white, but like a lightning of power that burned my mind on contact. It\u2019s so thin it\u2019s barely there, but the density is incredible. Judging by the surface and volume, I would approximate that there\u2019s enough kalapas<\/i> there to make thousands of souls such as myself. This is indeed worthy of one as glorious and exalted such as yourself, and I can\u2019t even believe such a thing is possible\u201d, the girl managed to choke out.<\/p>\n
\u201cTens of thousands, probably somewhat over fifty thousands of souls like yourself, my dear. It is incredible in both structure and craftsmanship. Lady Shakti made it for me when we were playing dress-up recently. She wielded it out of her mind in an instant and without any effort, and yet the substance she used is so spiritually dense, she could have made a small Universe populated with thousands of beautiful, smart and kind souls such as yourself with the spiritual mass that was used.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat is absolutely astonishing, my Lady. It boggles the mind that anyone can be so powerful, and so spiritually wealthy that they could make something like this as a gift\u201d, Karuna\u2019s eyes turned wide.<\/p>\n
\u201cIndeed, but that doesn\u2019t really give her justice. When we were fooling around, I touched her body directly. It was like being in the nexus of all the power of the unmanifested brahman<\/i>. The power to create, to destroy, and not only that, but the power of mind, of insight and clarity, and all of that in form so pure, so innocent, that I could barely control myself from kneeling at her feet and pledging myself to her as her servant. Indeed, if I were her maid-servant for the rest of Eternity, I would see that as the most blessed destiny, more blessed than if I were to be proclaimed the leader of the Four, and Goddess of all Creation. Being her friend, being able to be in her proximity, to feel her pure and powerful mind, is an incredibly precious gift\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know what to say, my Lady\u201d, Karuna answered. \u201cI would have never imagined any of it, and I now understand at least some of the extent of my ignorance, and why you wanted to teach me better, for which I am very thankful. But what about Lord Shiva? My curiosity is now piqued, and I wish to know more about His Lordship, as well\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cI will show it to you by example. Take a look at this flower. It is made of ordinary astral substance, and is an ordinary astral being. Tell me how it experiences the world, what it feels?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m touching it with my mind now\u201d, Karuna answered. \u201cIt feels bliss, the feeling of \u2018I am that<\/i>, I am indeed that brahman<\/i>!\u2019, as it is a manifestation of the Absolute in the Relative, like all other beings\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cOK, now let me show you more. I will go into it and magnify until we reach the very limits of Creation. Do you see the ecstatic energy that bursts through the veil?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIndeed, I do. It feels\u2026 well, very similar to the dress you are wearing. And there\u2019s something more, there\u2019s the sense and the spiritual aroma of the Absolute on the other side of all manifested things\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cYes, that energy is similar to my dress because the same person made it; this is the energy manifested by Lady Shakti in her true, original form, and the sense of the Absolute; this is the meditation of Lord Shiva, upon which the Lady created this world. The two of them are creating the foundations, the walls and the roof of the world we are living in, they are making the electricity work, the water run and the sewage go away, in a manner of speaking. And that\u2019s not all.<\/p>\n
Soon after she made this dress for me, she and I went to meet our respective husbands, and as she explained a few things about Order, Chaos and mathematics, Lord Shiva praised us and gave us his blessing. I can\u2019t even describe how that felt. The core of my very soul vibrated at his praise and was magnified. I felt so honoured, so happy and so recognised, that I didn\u2019t know what to do with myself, and it was only my insightful husband that saved me from continued embarrassment by creating a pleasant distraction. Lord Shiva is literally the root of the world, and also its pinnacle. I don\u2019t know whether to shiver in fear of him, or feel like a happy little girl who was praised by the most holy and senior person; probably both. I now understand why my husband keeps praising him so much, because he is indeed worthy of the highest praise, and probably more, because nobody can see to his deepest depths and greatest heights as to praise him properly. He could be the most terrifying being in the world, because the way my soul vibrated to his praise shows me that he could evaporate me as easily if he was displeased with me; however, instead of being terrifying, he\u2019s always so incredibly kind, as if he\u2019s always looking for every opportunity to praise, bless and grant boons at even the most insignificant incitement. I sense that Lady Shakti is as composed, centred and humble because she meditates on Shiva the way Shiva meditates on the unmanifested brahman<\/i>, constantly feeling his approval with her soul, and automatically adjusting her actions to stay within it, having no other desires in the whole world. So, my dear Karuna, that is the truth of the other Divine couple. There is no end to their power, glory and purity. To have them as friends, and being counted among the Four, is the greatest blessing and happiness of my life, almost as great as being a wife to Lord Rama. They are all absolutely immense, and all I can do to express gratitude for their existence is to keep showering them all with my blessings of fortune, happiness, glory and wealth\u201d, Lakshmi finished, her smile taking a special glow as she looked within, at her precious memories.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy Lady, I am very sorry for being so foolish before. My only defence is that I didn\u2019t know. To ask which one of you is greatest is a completely pointless question, because from my position all of you are greatest, and yet different\u201d, the girl shivered with awe, as crystallisation of her soul accelerated.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou are learning true wisdom, my child. We are indeed different, and that seems to be the point, and the great joy, because if there was only one of us, or were we the same, all the pleasure of interaction would be absent, and honestly, I\u2019m not sure if I even see the difference in the level of reality and fulfilment that I get from within; from the brahman<\/i> I manifest and embody, and which fills me with reality, consciousness and bliss that radiate as my existence; my glorious husband who manifests the same brahman<\/i> in fullness on the relative side; or our magnificent and hundredfold-worshipped friends, who manifest Creation out of meditation on the Absolute\u201d.<\/p>\n
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\u201cKaruna, what can I do for you?\u201d, Lakshmi addressed a young girl, who was her worshipper and only recently started crystallising her spiritual body; apparently, she wanted to talk but was too intimidated. \u201cLady Sri, I am very sorry to … Continue reading