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ASVINS, THE TWOSymbols of centres of consciousness on the mental plane for the Higher and Lower Selves,-the Individuality and the Personality, the immortal and the mortal lives. "The gods called Asvins were a great enigma, 'Heaven and Earth,' say some; Day and Night,' say others; 'Two kings, performers of holy acts,' say the Aitihasikas."-MON. WILLIAMS, Indian Wisdom, p. 169. "The Asvins were fabled as connected with Ushas, as ever young and handsome, travelling in a golden car, and precursors of the dawn. They are sometimes called Dasras, as divine physicians, destroyers of diseases'; sometimes Nasatyas, as 'never untrue.' They appear to have been personifications of two luminous points or rays imagined to precede the break of day."-Ibid., P. 14. "These ever-youthful twin sons of the Sun, by his wife Sanjnă, transformed into a mare (asvini), resemble the classical Dioscuri both by their exploits and the aid they render to their worshippers." - Ibid, p. 426. "The Asvins are the (Brahman) physicians of the gods, and it is by them that he heals this Sacrificer... two Asvins, indeed, are the eyesight, fiery spirit. He-goats are sacred to the Asvins."-Sata. Bráh., XII. 7, 2, 3-7. The twin consciousnesses of the higher and lower minds, temporally separate, yet essentially connected, are known as the immortal Individuality and the mortal Personality. They precede in evolution the rise of the Sun of Righteousness, the Higher Self, in the soul. Through their functioning life after life, the soul is developed and healed of its diseases, and finally made whole and perfect. They are never untrue to themselves, that is, they work together in an indissoluble relationship under the laws of karma. been emanated by the and brought forth in the mind (Sanjna-mare), in order that the spiritual egos (gods) may be perfected in their manifestation in the lower worlds. By them the soul, or sacrificing lower Self, is restored and brought up to perfection. They are the means of perception (eyesight) and of purification (fiery spirit). Errors and desires (goats) are offered up by them. They have Self (sun) |
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