Gauri's Secret 3.1
- Before humanity was nature, but humanity soon led to culture where anyone can survive and thrive, not just the fittest
- Kali is nature, Gauri is culture
- 3 world we inhabit: nature, culture, and imagined reality (which differs between individuals)
- Which came first? - nature, then humanity, then the mind, then culture
- Male form is used for the mind and female form is used to explain material world
- Relationship between God and Goddess is allegorical to impact of mind on world and impact of world on mind
- In our patriarchal societies, mind prevails over matter, hence man is superior to woman
- Biologically, mind expresses and affirms itself through matter, just as how man can only produce children through women
- Our positive thoughts are called devas, which correlates them to the gods
- "Eventually, the mind will discover that she does not need him but he surely needs her"
- Perceived reality is known as Adya, Shakti, Maya, Kali, Gauri, etc.
- Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva are creator, preserver, and destroyer of perceived reality
- Nature, The Goddess, is self-created and self-contained, so they do not control her
- Goddess matter is associated with wealth (Lakshmi), power (Durga), and language (Saraswati)
- God mind draws draws wealth, power and language by organizing nature into culture
- Brahma seeks to control her while Shiva is indifferent to her
- Vishnu is born from Shiva's awaking because of her and thus is a balance of Brahma and Shiva
- Goddess is daughter to Brahma, wife to Shiva, and sister to Vishnu
Gauri's Secret 3.2
- Killing brahmins was the worst crime because knowledge that allowed humanity to turn nature into culture was lost
- But Shiva and Vishnu have both killed Brahma when he had sexual thoughts about Gauri, the daughter
- Since Brahma is seen as the human mind seeking control over perceived reality, he is not worshipped in any Hindu temple
- Brahma = human mind the misbehaves; Shiva = human mind that rejects misbehavior; Vishnu = human mind that does not condone misbehavior yet understands it
- Misbehavior is the assumption of property and that human value is dependent on property
- Gauri is also known as Parvati, wife of Shiva
- Parvati is associated with the household
- When Kali domesticates Shiva, she becomes domesticated herself as Gauri in folk tradition
Gauri's Secret 3.3
- Parvati helps Shiva open his eyes so that he can marry
- She does not follow Shiva or arouse him, she just prays to him and resists any temptation until he is forced to obey and marry her
- Had 6 children, but Parvati fused them into 1
- 6-headed warrior child Skanda that leads the devas into battle and defeats asuras
- Parvati wants a child of her own but Shiva refused
- She created a child without him - Ganesha
- Skanda and Ganesha address primal fears of man: fear of being killed by a predator and fear of dying of starvation
- Every beheading Shiva performed marked new wisdom: with Brahma it was the destruction of desire to claim ownership over nature, and with Ganesha it was the destruction of desire to control culture
- The third was the destruction of desire to block access to nature
- Shiva now wants companionship over isolation, thus is is now domesticated and sits with Gauri
- "If Sati embraces death, Parvati brings forth life"
- Parvati's gaze focused on others, so culture became an outcome of empathy, not domestication
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