Wishing all Blessings of Shri Skanda Shashthi ~
Day of Karttikeya
The celebration of Shri Skanda Shashthi on the Maharishi Channel each year is so precious snd fortunate! ~ listening to the recitations which enliven Skanda ~ Karttikeya, the Commander-in-Chief of all the Laws of Nature that govern the universe, and that quality of nature that takes the lead to overcome any opposition to evolution and re-establishes balance in the laws of nature. This day enlivens the qualities of strength, and energy, to overcome obstacles and be victorious.
In Maharishi’s beautiful short talk in Hindi from November 17, 1985, India, translated by Brahmachari Girish Momaya, Maharishi said that we have invoked in our consciousness Deva Shanani Skanda, Commander-in-General of all Devatas ~ Samhita of Rishi, Devata and Chhandas, as lively presence of Devatva, in so many forms, qualities, all have their lively presence in Samhita. And through the Vedic recitations, we have enlivened the Devata in our consciousness, almighty quality in consciousness, total Daivi Shakti, the great power of Skanda, the power of Param Atma, in our consciousness and in world consciousness.
In the Skanda Shashthi celebration on November 30, 2011, Maharaja expressed that this celebration is another level of opening the door of all possibilities through the powerful keys Maharishi has given to us to awaken Natural Law ~ this celebration of Skanda awakening the elimination of difficulties, and removal of problems and negativity, and that today is one of those mechanisms to align ourselves with Natural Law, awakening unity, coherence, harmony, strength, and evolutionary trends.
Skanda is also said to be the spark of Shiva, wholeness, which brings to memory Maharishi’s address on the Tenfold Structure of Brahm, Totality, from November 25, 2007, in which Skanda, Shanmukha ~ the “six-faced” Lord, is brought out…. (text is from Global Good News) ~
‘…So one Totality is one; second Totality is Nirguna Brahm, Saguna Brahm; and the third Totality is the connection between the two. And the fourth category is a square—one, two, three, four—and having one, inside, five. And having inside, five, and [one] outside [which is] also Totality, so six Totalities.
‘This is what? Analysis. From nothing, starting from zero, remain nothing, unmanifest, one, two, three, four, five, six. This is also called six together. Where there is togetherness, there is oneness, so this oneness within. Oneness means one whole. One whole also is one Totality. It is also Brahm. So this is Brahm.
‘This is one, the hexagon. Before that it was pentagon. Before that it was square. Before that it was triangle. And before that it was two parallels. And these two parallels was one whole. So what we are having is: the intellect is locating one in terms of one, two, three, four, five, six. And what was it? Six. Six inside, so hexagon. Six inside, and each has outside, and one whole but divided into six. So inside six, outside six—twelve.
‘These are all what? The perspectives of one vision, one vision, and the seer of the six is called Brahm. And it has a name: “Shan-mukha”—six-mouthed, personified person, who is the seer of the six values. So he is the seventh: six values, [and the] seer of six values. So this is seventh.
‘And the process of seeing is eight values. So the seer and process of seeing, they are eight, up to eight—Brahm, eight Totalities, eight Totalities, eight Totalities.
‘What is this? This is eight-divided Totality. And therefore it’s obvious there is one Totality—[the] ninth one, undivided Totality—ninth, undivided Totality. So there is undivided Totality, nine, undivided Totality, all Para Prakriti, Para [transcendental nature]. It is unified eight Prakriti, it’s unified, undivided Para Prakriti. Prakriti, nature; whose nature? We have a name, Purusha’s nature, the tenth.
‘And who is the tenth? That who is saying, nine Prakritis of Totality, nine Prakritis of Brahm, nine collective Prakritis of Brahm. He is the collector. He has a unified state of nine Prakritis. The unified level of Prakriti has nine Prakritis, and he is the tenth of Purusha [infinite silence]—so the tenth, Purusha…’
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