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Dear Yasomatinandana,

 

What you wrote sounds very logical to me. I hope

Sanjay will reply to this mail.

 

May Jupiter's light shine on us,

Narasimha

 

> Dear Gurudev,

> My respectful obeisances. Jaya Jagannath!

>

> Some mothes ago we had a discussion on Pancha-mahabhutas, sankhya and

> related things. One of the questions you put to the class was why Sun

and

> Moon are not specifically ascribed by the authorities to any of the

bhutas

> and thus do not participate in the Mahapurusa-yogas. As far as I can

> remember the question remained unanswered by anybody. Nor did you

give us

> the answer.

>

> I got some thoughs on this in the light of Sankhya. The general

points must

> be valid but maybe the they just have no direct connection with the

subject.

> Anyway, I will present them and you can please correct them.

>

> Sun represents Sambhu, the original male material principle, and Moon

- the

> maya Prakriti, the original female material principle. This process of

> primary creation is very nicely and technically explained in Brahma

Samhita

> and the commentaries by Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakura.

>

> So Sambhu and Maya are like the original shades of Maha-Vishu and

Cit-sakti

> (Laxmi) in the process of the material creation. Sambhu is almost

> Vishnu-tattva - he is described as a part of the total halo of Lord

Visnu.

>

> So, to the mahapurusha-yogas, Sambhu and Maya got manifested at the

stage

> just prior to creation of Mahat-tattva. So at that point there were

simply

> no Mahatbhutas which developed at the latter stages of creation. They

are

> like the original (material) father and mother of all that be here -

> including the mahad-bhutas.

>

> your shishya,

> Yasomatinandana das