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ARJUNA, SON OF INDRA AND PRITHA
A symbol of the personality ensouled by the
spiritual ego or divine spark. Arjuna " is therefore the progeny of
God (Indra) and nature (Pritha).
"Achilles has qualities in common with Arjuna.”—MON. WILLIAMS,
Indian Wisdom, p. 425.
The symbols "Achilles and Arjuna" have the same signification. "At
this time Krishna and Arjuna, standing in a splendid chariot drawn
by white horses, also sounded their conches, which were of celestial
form: the name of the one which Krishna blew was Pânchajanya, and
that of Arjuna was called Deva-datta- the gift of the
gods.'"-Bhagavad-Gita, Ch. I.
At this period of soul-growth, the Higher Self and the lower Self
(personality) were established from centres in the causal-body
(chariot) in the higher mind (white horses), and commenced to
function,-the one above and the other below. The "conches of
celestial form " signify the spiritual means of development.
'Krishna's conch sounded," is a symbol of the Spirit operating from
within as proceeding from the incarnate archetypal Self. "Arjuna's
conch sounded," symbolises the buddhic transmutations of the lower
qualities; spiritual gifts. "Arjuna's crest was Hanuman," signifies
the personality's possession of intellect (Hanuman).
"To get well into the mind Rothe's conception of the universe, as
having for its one end the development of spiritual personality by
the conflict in all worlds, of free-will with circumstance, a view
in which difficulties, sorrows, pains are regarded as factors in the
process, and heaven and the angelic hierarchy as some of its
achieved results, is to sweep as with a keen north wind the fogs out
of our brain, and to set us cheerfully to work."-J. BRIERLEY,
Studies of the Soul, p. 191.
"We must make a distinction of the two great forms of being, and ask
: What is that which is and has no becoming, and what is that which
is always becoming and never is ? " - PLATO, Timæus.
"The being which is always becoming and never is, is our being in
this world of sense; that which is and has no becoming is the being
of God, eternal, unchangeable, all-complete. The former is never
wholly satisfied, nor can be until it is at one with the latter; it
is a state of lack and hindrance, a state of discord and trouble, a
state of sin and woe." - R. J. CAMPBELL, Serm., The Eternal
Satisfaction.
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