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ASITA, THE SAGEA symbol of the mental and emotional natures united primordially in the Cycle of Involution. This condition constitutes the higher state of the lower self on the mental plane, at the period indicated. "Then having learned by signs and through the power of his penances, this birth of him (Buddha) who was to destroy all birth, the great seer Asita in his thirst for the excellent Law came to the palace of the Sakya king (Suddhodana)." -Buddha-Karita, Bk. I. 54. Then having apprehended the meaning and significance of the coming of the Ego which is by suffering and travail to attain perfect Bliss, and to pass beyond the planes of manifestation (birth), the mental-nature united to the emotion-nature, draws nigh to the causal-self. Asita is called Kaladevala in the Pali version, both words having for root the adjective 'black.'" -A. LILLIF, Budd. in Christendom, p. 20. The symbol “black” so applied indicates the unmanifest or subjective condition of the mental-emotional lower self at the beginning of involution. "A holy One, a Rishi, called Asita or Kâla, the Black One,' 'dwelling at peace above the thirty-three heavens, seeing celestial signs, and hearing the celestial song,' descended to the grove, where he usually dwelt on earth.' But according to other accounts, he was Tapaso or ascetic, from the Himalaya, called Kâla devala, which name corresponds with that of Asita. He gets to Kapilavastu, where Mâya tries to make the child bow its head in reverence towards the feet of Asita. But the child, by its spiritual power, turned himself round in his mother's arms, and presented his feet towards the Rishi, who begged to worship his feet." - E. DE BUNSEN, Angel Messiah, p. 36. The lower self (buddhi-manas) in the involutionary cycle, recognises its coming development. and joy is aroused within it. It is illusion (Mâya) that imagines the Self (Buddha) making obeisance to the lower nature. The Higher Self must always be supreme over the lower self: hence the presentation of the feet to Asita, who now aspires towards the higher nature. |
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