Ramlal and the Makar Sankranti – revisited

[On 3 December 2012, the Wall Street Journal began an in-depth series titled, 'Ayodhya, The Battle for India’s Soul' discussing the first appearance of the Ramlal Idol in the then Babri mosque on 22 December 1949 and its subsequent impact on India. On the occasion of the 60^th anniversary of the appearance, December 22, 2009, Thea wrote a paper entitled Ramlal and the Makar Sankranti – revisited. Now approaching the 63^rd anniversary of the appearance, we would like to present this article for our Puranic Cosmology Updated readers, given the Journal’s recent interest and because the points Thea made then are still relevant now.]

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Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet

Director, Aeon Centre of Cosmology

25 November 2009

On the 21st of December this year [2009], we will participate in a homam at Skambha, at the exact time of the Solstice and entry into Makar/Capricorn – close to midnight – 11:07 PM for all of India, and 10:47 for Skambha.¹ 

This is a very special observance because it marks the 60^th anniversary of the epiphany of Ramavatar as Child at Ayodhya in what was known then as the Babri Mosque, built by the conqueror at the site millions of Hindus believe was the birth place of the 7^th Avatar of Vishnu. We may not have proof of the birth, no ‘certificate’ as such. But we do have cosmic credentials to support whatever transpires regarding this special incarnation in the history of Bharat. And we do know that there was a temple on the site which was replaced by a mosque, a custom widely practised in those days of conquest and rule throughout the world. In India especially targeted were temples sacred to Vishnu Avatars, because the Line of Ten forms the backbone of Hinduism from the Vedic Age to the present as proven by the new Indo-centric cosmology.

Recently I have laid out the pertinent facts in two publications: Secrets of the Earth, PNB, Aeon Books 2009, which reveals the truth of Vishnu Trivikrama and his very precise ‘three strides’ to ‘measure the universe’, or the 7^th, 8^th and 9^th Avatars of his 10; and in a publication of restricted circulation from Aeon Centre of Cosmology, The Partition of India (September-October 2009) where, on the basis of this cosmology with its keys of higher knowledge, it was possible to dissect Partition with amazing results. Both publications are available at the Centre (aeon1@eth.net).

In Partition I commented in the very beginning that the dismembering of India is a problem that refuses to be laid to rest. The same may be said of Ramlal’s epiphany at Ayodhya. Once again the controversy surrounding his birth site – legendary or real, it makes little difference – has erupted. Parliament is in an uproar, the news channels are having a feast engaging in their favourite pastime, Hindu(tva)-bashing; and the few intrepid souls who dare to voice an opinion contrary to this onslaught have to be considered real heroes of the cause. Aggressively guilt is sought by all means to be instilled in the hearts of Hindus throughout the land, accompanied by shame, and, hopefully, repentance. How successful they have been, remains to be seen. Ramlal may have other ‘plans’, other ‘conspiracies’.

As might be expected, I see in the most recent brouhaha a process very similar to what takes place when Partition, for some reason or another, makes the headlines. I repeat what I wrote in the first paragraph of my analysis: it is a problem that just refuses to go away. Why? Apart from the fact that in each case the core of Indianness is touched, there is an element common to both, with a cosmological binding power. It is, precisely, the Capricorn/Makar Sankranti. In The Partition of India the application was largely spatial: the Body of the Mother was measured based on the keys the new cosmology provides. In this case it is largely temporal. It was the timing of the Epiphany that resulted in exactly what Makar Sankranti means – that is, when a ‘seed’ is planted that then uses Time to carry it forward to fruition on the wings of the cycles it produces. This means that when an event takes place in harmony with the true entry in Makar, it simply cannot die or be wished away. It has its own in-built mechanism for survival; similar, indeed exactly, like the whole of Vedic civilisation which was born with the same allegiance of Time.

Now we have reached the 60^th anniversary of the ‘miraculous appearance’. This particular cycle is especially appreciated by Hindus because it marks the completion of the fifth circum-ambulation of the Sun by Jupiter/Brihaspati. This 60^th birthday is often celebrated by Hindus individually; how much more so for Ramavatar? He appeared in 1949 in the form of a child, precisely to allow us to appreciate the fact that as time presses forward he will grow; and given the rightness of things temporal and spatial, he is indestructible.

   

In 1991 I brought out a special issue of our newsletter Vishaal, dedicated to the epiphany of Ramlal at that magical moment, the Makar Sankranti of 1949, just days after the new Constitution of India had been adopted which, need I remind you, took place to coincide exactly with the date of birth when Vishnu’s 9^th Avatar would return as the 10^th and therefore bring to a conclusion the Dasavataras? This was 26/11. These are now iconic numbers, similar to 9/11 in America; and also similar to the American experience, 26/11 in more ways than one marks a before and after.

Ramlal’s growth presses on. The play of circumstances, or the circle’s periphery of which he is the binding centre, generates the events which will continue to prove that the only Makar Sankranti is the December Solstice and not the falsehood presently considered to be the beginning of Capricorn/Makar, 15 January, 23 days after the entry has passed. Isn’t it significant that Hindus, unlike the rest of the world, celebrate this most important festival LATE? But we are reminded again and again of the what and when of the true Sankranti. Tradition records that Bhisma also understood its importance by choosing to leave this plane on that date and no other. His case is the most precise confirmation of the innermost secret of the December Solstice, for apart from being the moment when a reversal takes place and the compression of the Light (cows/rays) begins to increase, its import for a Vedic Rishi and Initiate is that the Light experiences the same ‘death’ as the human being who faces his own death: one’s consciousness-being is compressed to a ‘point’; and through this method of extreme contraction a portal is reached which alone can give us entry to Swar – not ‘heaven’ as we wrongly understand the word today, but the dimension of immortality, the home of the Immortal Ones. From Swar, the Earth-bound dimension, those Immortal Ones continue to oversee the destiny of Bharat. Bhisma understood and timed his journey accordingly.

This is the profound meaning of Makar Sankranti and why its timing must be celebrated at the moment of the year’s shortest (compressed) day. Ramlal gave this instruction to the Hindu Samaj when he appeared at Ayodhya at that precise and sacred moment. But apart from the Sankranti there are other noteworthy configurations surrounding his 1949 epiphany which I discussed in the special December Solstice issue of Vishaal. I have decided to present here the entire section on Ramlal from the series featured in Vishaal entitled, Culture and Cosmos, cosmic harmonies in Hindu civilisation and society. Since the newsletter was prepared for students of the New Way cosmology, it may be somewhat difficult for the layperson to follow; but its relevance now is important. Therefore, I am presenting here the entire sub-section, and with footnotes added when required.

Ramlal of Ayodhya: the Retrieval Conspiracy

Though the Knowledge has been well preserved in myth and epic, as well as in the realisations of certain Yogis throughout the Ages, the element that was lost in the vision was the correct key to Time which I sometimes refer to as the ‘0 Point’, – time, that especially elusive substance which was itself the focus of the Manifestation after the Egyptian Space Conquest was drawn to a close.²  In the intervening years, Ram and Krishna prepared the soil for the full conquest of Time – or rather its integration into the complex workings of the cosmic manifestation – in the 9^th  Manifestation³ in which indeed the number 9 would play a most significant role. But more than the 9, the 0’s discovery was the single most important factor to allow for this ‘conquest’. To briefly summarise why this was so, in all schools of higher knowledge the only scale known was the Space Scale of 1 to 12. This could provide utilisation of the horizontal/space dimension, but the VERTICAL or the Time dimension was left out of the process. Hence, it was not an integral manifestation. To incorporate Time as an ‘ally’ in the process, the first prerequisite is knowledge of the 0 because the Time Scale consists of 10 ‘notes’ but beginning from 0 rather than 1. This is what allows it to be considered a ‘vertical’ dimension. The true description, however, is a ‘seed’ unfolding from within, drawing out from itself the 9 notes which it contains in unextended form. These 9 notes are thus the 9 planets of our system. The 0 of the system is the Sun. It is only in this way, with the discovery of the Zero, that the Sun can be accommodated in its proper position as centre of the solar system.

This ‘shift’ signified the most important breakthrough in the study of cosmic harmonies for many hundreds of years. At the same time, it is through the Time Scale’s 0 to 9 that the planetary structure could be connected to the calendar. Thus Time would become the ‘ally’ by virtue of the fact that its operations could be ‘measured’ in our flow of Earth-time and its power could be utilised to build elements of the new order through the medium of the individual/collective consciousness. Hence the Strategy of myth/epic and the individual realisation would be of foremost importance in such an operation.

Concurrently, this shift introduced the need for a very great precision which hinged on the correct assessment of that 0 Point. Without that knowledge there could be no effective means to utilise Time in a non-speculative manner, nor could processes be initiated and monitored to permit a much greater conscious participation of the individual in the process of transformation. I repeat, none of this was possible before the discovery of the Zero. And it is an extraordinary confirmation of the premises of the new Cosmology that having established the fact of an Egyptian ‘space conquest’ and the shift to India for the ‘time conquest’, and that for the latter the 0 would be indispensable, it was precisely India that gave to the world the concept of the Zero. With this accomplished the work could begin.

We need not review here the history of this ‘lost measure’, as I have called it. Indeed, it would be apt to state that this was the ‘ray/cow’ concealed by the hostile Panis of the Rigvedic ‘journey’, in the cave of the 8^th sign/Manifestation, Scorpio.⁴ I have discussed this matter in depth in VISHAAL in the series, ‘The Capricorn Factor’. Let me simply state that the sacred Capricorn hieroglyph [see its reproduction at the end of this article], the very landmass of Bharatmata, holds the key to that divine and true Measure. For the real and essential question to ask is, When, in effect, does the Sun truly move into that special time-space of Capricorn, India’s own [astrological] ruler and an entry which, in spite of the loss, continues to be celebrated throughout the country each year? In Sanskrit it is called the Makar Sankranti, or the Capricorn Gateway. But given the decline of the Knowledge, the loss of the correct connection between time and cosmos and the Earth, this entry point has slipped back as if the civilisation’s pulse were skipping vital beats here and there. Finally, in this Age of Aquarius of our 9^th Manifestation [begun in 1926], the loss consists of a full 23 days in terms of the year; regarding the cosmic age – the same circle extended to embrace larger cycles of time – it amounts to hundreds. The Makar Sankranti is celebrated on 15 January rather than the true date: the solstice of 22-23 December [or 21-22, depending on the motion of the Earth].

Be this as it may, conforming to its role of preserver of the highest cosmic Knowledge and land of the new order based on that Vedic Truth, the nation does continue to foster the true things simply by openly celebrating an event cosmic and zodiacal. In the West this date is camouflaged in the tale of the birth of the Christ-Child: 24-25 December. Closer to the mark indeed, but still imperfect, it was adopted as the birthday of Jesus simply because it fell in the traditional Festival of Light, perhaps the most auspicious and universal of all celebrations in antiquity. It was associated with the ‘light’, entirely due to a cosmic/planetary configuration: the Capricorn solstice marked the point when, from its period of longest ‘imprisonment’ (in the cave of the Panis?), the Sun would pass into the experience of increase of its light. This would be reflected in the increase of the length of the day from that moment onward. Hence, the Festival of Light was a celebration of a cosmic event and to locate this ‘gateway’ at any other point in time than the one which would indeed identify the exact beginning of the increase, would make no sense at all, if we place value on the physical harmony and the lived experience. Yet this is what has come to pass in India – largely because that physical reality came to be looked upon as ‘illusion’. Thus, the Yogis of old who should have been responsible for maintaining that correct link with time and cosmos, saw themselves drawn away from their duty by this concept which gradually undermined the act of seeing to the measurable degree of ‘23 days’. Thus that ‘gateway’, which bears no relation to the true entry into Capricorn, is the Makar Sankranti we know and celebrate today. Nonetheless, I repeat, it is indeed respected though the significance and measure may have been lost. The impact of the Vedic Seeing was just too powerful and electrifying to be ignored.

Yet, the Avatars do carry on with their work and in spite of the loss they even contrive to rectify matters, similar to the Egyptian sages, and locate the Makar Sankranti at the real Gateway where it belongs in the divine Measure. This occurred in post-Independence India. I refer, once again, to Ayodhya.

Thus, on the night precisely of 22-23 December, or the Capricorn solstice of 1949, that sacredmost moment when the Festival of Light begins as the Sun enters Capricorn and its light starts to increase, Ram made his miraculous appearance in the Babri Mosque in the form of the divine Child, or Ramlal. It was a night of 3 number-power [22+12+1949=3]. It was Ram’s confirmation in his traditional birthplace that this date is the true Makar Sankranti and the restoration of the lost Measure would coincide with the reestablishment of the ancient Dharma, all of which is the meaning stored in the Capricorn hieroglyph. That hieroglyph would thus prove to be the seal and sanction of the Supreme when revealed. And it would even disclose the true physical dimensions of India.⁵ Its revelation – that is, the time when the hieroglyph would first be ‘seen’ superimposed on that landmass – would mark the beginning of a process which would shape the new India in accordance with this true Measure. Its revelation or unveiling would draw together the two cosmic properties of time and space – the former through the correct and gnostic time-measure or 22-23 December, and the latter through the spatial dimensions of the landmass precisely in accordance with that sacred symbol. This revelation occurred in May of 1974.

But a quarter of a century prior to this geographical/zodiacal discovery, Ram ‘corrected’ or retrieved the Lost Measure. After the glorious epiphany of the Child on the night of 22-23 December 1949, in the Babri Mosque, its doors were locked in 1950.⁶ None were permitted entry. Thirty-six years, or a completed cycle of 4 x 9, were required for the Child to mature in solitude. Thus, when the full 36 were completed, it was on 5 January 1986 that the process was started to unlock the doors of the Mosque. The Congress Party was then in power. A meeting was convened for that very special day – that is, the zodiacal point of the Soul of India and the close of the Festival of Light – to explore the possibility of shifting the mosque to allow a temple to be built on the site in honour of the divine Child Ram. The proposal was rejected. Shortly thereafter, on 1 February 1986, now of 9 number-power, the court ordered the mosque to be unlocked. Appropriately, at 5:19 PM, Ramlal was ‘liberated’.

We are concerned with the lost divine Measure above all else, retrieval of which can permit the new India to be truly born. Ram conspired not only to rectify the position of the cosmic dial by appearing on the very night when in the true Measure Capricorn does indeed begin, but, also connected to his miraculous appearance then, Ram contrived to provide the full measure of the Festival of Light. Ancient tradition has always located this period in the first 15 days of the Capricorn month – from the solstice of 22-23 December to the mid-point of the sign, 5-6 January, or the 15^th  degree of Capricorn. In all there are 15 days involved. The orbital reason for this location has been explained previously, and why it was held as sacred. But for India the period is far more sacred than for any other country or civilsiation because Capricorn is the sign of her soul and its hieroglyph delineates her physical form. It can be appreciated therefore that the correct location in zodiacal/calendrical time and geographical space of this sacred sign is the single most important discovery in the history of Vedic civilisation in terms of India’s expression of her higher destiny.

Is it any wonder then that, in perfect attunement with the revelation of the new way Cosmology, Ram should have ‘chosen’ to appear in such a manner and at such a time so as to rectify or at least draw attention to India’s lost Measure? And that exactly 36 years later his power should make itself felt on 5 January, again in perfect attunement with gnostic time, to disclose the last day of the Festival of Light and the degree/day of India’s own soul? Who was ‘responsible’ for this occurrence? A political party? Who ‘surreptitiously’ placed the child-figure in the Mosque? Who, or what ‘power’ stood behind the opening of the Gate on 1.2.1986 – again, a 9-power day? And complying with whose ‘design’? Was it a political manoeuvre, a communal aberration, a zealot’s madness?⁷   

These questions are irrelevant when it is known, as India knows, that the Time-Spirit works through human instruments. It moves the human consciousness in any direction it wills; however, in accordance with and determined by its higher Purpose. The real miracle is the conspiracy with gnostic time. Can there be a more exquisite display of the universal truth India holds, which in this one act unveiled the Cosmic Truth underlying countless tales of the birth of the sacred Child? Can there be a more profound confirmation for the location of the true Gateway to Capricorn than this divine Epiphany of Lord Ram, precisely coinciding with that entry in the very heavens at the time of his ‘surreptitious’ appearance? Similarly, if I state that myth and epic are universal, this ‘surreptitious’ epiphany, because of its timing, does indeed reveal the universal content in myth in that both in the ancient world and the Christian era, this date was always connected to the sacred Birth. Indeed, Ram the Child has appeared to restore things universally sacred, divine and true.

Finally, the mosque in which the Child Ram chose to appear stands on Plot # 159. In the December Vishaal (6/5), on page 11, I wrote that these were the numbers via the Greek letters TH-E-A, which allowed me to discover the Map of the 12 Manifestations. It is this Map that holds the knowledge of the Line of Ten Avatars.  It is this Map which reveals that 1-5-9 are the numbers of the Manifestations…that fall in the last quarter of the wheel where our present Age of Aquarius is located. Plot #159 is precisely the ‘disputed’ one at Ayodhya upon which the whole controversy is centred and on whose very soil the Child appeared. With this background, I leave it to the reader to decide whether the Epiphany was ‘lawful’ or ‘unlawful’, ‘real’ or ‘surreptitiously contrived’. After all, according to which ‘law’? And with whose connivance?

30 October 1991

Aeon Centre of Cosmology at Skambha

The Capricorn/Makar symbol

and the map of Akhand Bharat

Postscript

For those of you who do not or cannot follow the Indian news but who have read my recent piece, ‘Ramlal and the Makar Sankranti - revisited’ an important point may have been missed. It is, in fact, the most important aspect to the whole exercise.

In the recent events politicians engaged in the usual ‘blame-game’, as the current jargon has it. One party blames another, and back and forth it goes. That is their job, this one-upmanship. In this particular case, two major parties were involved, the Congress and the BJP. So, this involves a sizable quantity of the representatives of the people. The blaming focuses on, of course, the demolition of the disputed structure at Ayodhya, and naturally the Sangh Parivar has come under attack. On their part and quite legitimately, the Parivar has sought to bring up the ‘history’ of what actually caused the ire of whoever did the demolition. Thus, the Congress Party has come under attack since it was, as I pointed out, during that Government’s rule under Rajiv Gandhi that Ramlal was ‘liberated’ and the doors to his modest (but powerful) sanctum sanctorum were opened. Then followed the Brick-Laying ceremony, under the same Government.

Of course these events are important, particularly their timing, as I have written. But what is missed and I trust that my article will make clear, those were all ‘measured’ on the basis of one factor, or seeding. This was of course the Makar Sankranti of 1949 when the idol mysteriously appeared in the then mosque. That was the true beginning and everything thereafter must be measured from that single point in time. But of course, it is an event we would all prefer to ignore!

The most interesting aspect to this entire unfolding is that because no one knows who actually placed the idol there, it is impossible to engage in any blame-game! Of course, as I also pointed out, Mahakal does use human instruments to accomplish his deeds in accordance with gnostic Time. That is a valid point, but it is immaterial to the situation. The fact is history cannot lay the blame on anyone or any political party! We assume that this group or that did the deed, but we have no certainty. Actually, the only ‘blame’ must necessarily fall at the feet of Ramavatar himself, and his faithful companion, Mahakal, the Great God of Time.

This situation perfectly describes the difference between India and the rest of the world. It is also a lesson for not only the Sangh Parivar but the entire spectrum of political parties in the nation: The unfolding of India’s destiny lays in the hands of the Great God, regardless of all the protests this may engender and the disbelief of all those who cling to the image of a reformist Indian civilisation. The Vedic Seeds are indestructible; and when Time matures and the unfolding starts, it is useless to seek to suppress the un-suppressible.

Thea

Aeon Centre of Cosmology

at Skambha

27.11.2009

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^{Footnotes
1 Individuals interested in knowing the exact timing may verify the above through the Indian Astronomical agencies.
2} This refers to the 7th Manifestation with its focus on Egypt, circa 12,000 years ago. That civilisation’s wisemen had the task of ‘conquering’ spatial implications for the evolution of consciousness; witness their extant constructions which were virtual colossi.
³  The 9th Manifestation is our own, 234 BCE to 6480 CE.

⁴  This would be Vishnu Trivikrama’s second stride, indicating the 8^th Avatar’s time of appearance on Earth
⁵  See The Partition of India and the symbol-map at the end of the article.
⁶  These numbers, 1-9-5-0, in themselves hold the message of the appearances of Vishnu’s Avatars.
⁷  Currently (November 2009), the controversy surrounding the demolished disputed structure has arisen from the dead. It is interesting to note the then Chief Minister’s response to the uproar and finger-pointing: he was the very first to come forward and has stood firmly by his role in the affair, more staunchly than any other person(s) involved at the time, and now. Could it be that he derived his strength of conviction from the fact that his own birthday is 5 January – the soul-point of India? There was another participant in the affair, who held a significant post at the time, the president of the Bharatiya Janata Party. As we would expect, his birthday too falls on 5 January.
⁸  And also the true ‘measure’ of Vishnu Trivikrama’s three strides.      

© Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet 2009

The Warrior-Child of Ayodhya - 3

The significance of his appearance
for the Hindu Samaj

Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet (Thea)
Director, Aeon Centre of Cosmology
South India, 17.10.2010

Parts 1 and 2 of this series dedicated to Ramlala have brought forward the need to revisit the calendars in use by the Hindu Samaj, which on numerous occasions I have described as a very clever device to divide 80% of the energies of India’s population. Given the campaign carried out over the past 18 years to bring this matter into prominence, results are finally forthcoming: several Hindu organisations have adopted resolutions calling for a uniform calendar to replace the dozen or more that presently exist. In the words of Jawaharlal Nehru to the Calendar Reform Committee on February 18, 1953:

…I am told that we have at present thirty different calendars, differing from each other in various ways, including the methods of time reckoning. These calendars are the natural result of our past political and cultural history and partly represent past political divisions in the country. Now that we have attained independence, it is obviously desirable that there should be a certain uniformity in the calendar for our civic, social and other purposes and that this should be based on a scientific approach to this problem…It is always difficult to change a calendar to which people are used [to] because it affects social practices, but the attempt has to be made even though it may not be as complete as desired. In any event, the present confusion in our own calendars in India ought to be removed… [Italics mine].

Indeed, each of these calendars has its own method of time reckoning which means that followers of one school prefer a certain ayanamsha (zero starting point) over another; sections of Hindus will celebrate festivals accordingly, as stipulated in a given panchanga (almanac) that is provided by the representative pundits of each school. In other words, each group clings to its own ‘science’ for providing the ‘correct’ ayanamsha. In view of these discrepancies, in spite of any good will that might exist and the best efforts and intentions on the part of the current reformists, the unity I write of and which would form the basis of the cosmic connection for the entire Samaj is unlikely to come about. When all is said and done, out of the numerous ayanamshas currently in use, which one is to serve as the unifying factor? Which is the correct one and who is to determine that correctness? How are we to come to an agreement as to which should be adopted out of so many?
In this age of egalitarianism we resolve such tangles by rule of the majority. Are we therefore to apply that same method in the reformation of the Hindu calendar? Would then the most widely used ayanamsha be the solution based on a majority vote?
In terms of Vedic matters a selective process of this sort appears to be an anachronism. The only basis for deciding this most important of all items on the Hindu agenda would be veda, knowledge. But such Knowledge is the preserve of very few; and those who do possess true veda of the ancient school would not be recognised by today’s enlightened souls precisely because of its antiquity. Everything that we have come to cherish in today’s world of spirituality has to be rightly termed post-Vedic. And since a return to the ancient-most source is the only way to come to a decision regarding matters of time and circumstance, given that the Yoga of the Rig Veda has long been forgotten on the subcontinent, whosoever might have realised that high truth would most likely not be understood or accepted as its proponent. Happily, Ramlala has appeared on the scene to save the day.
Inchoate mass acts as inertia and holds back the Samaj from experiencing the unity that existed in the Vedic Age. All we know today is a spirituality that has carried the Samaj away from the ancient roots and because of this very distancing a plethora of ayanamshas and their respective calendars for ritual observances and horoscopy could come about. Simply put, the Divine Maya, or Measure, of the Veda was lost almost 2000 years ago. In the interim the civilisation has experienced a steady, relentless decline. Invasions, colonisations resulted, and finally partition of the Mother’s sacred Body. The issue now is to arrest that decline, reverse the direction and re-instate the highest Truth ever to manifest on Earth. For Hindus the spirituality of Supermind rather than superpower-hood is the goal.
However, the Hindu organisations that are spear-heading the current campaigns to reform the calendar, are simply seeking uniformity for the Samaj, a choice to be made between all the ayanamshas (majority rule?), none of which are based on veda.
In his masterful The Secret of the Veda, Sri Aurobindo explained the problem succinctly: ‘…The letter lived on when the spirit was forgotten; the symbol, the body of the doctrine, remained, but the soul of knowledge had fled from its coverings.’ And in another context, when writing to the Mother, his co-worker, about a certain experience she had on 26.11.1915, he stated, ‘The experience you have described is Vedic in the real sense, though not one which would easily be recognised by the modern systems of Yoga which call themselves Vedic. It is the union of the “Earth” of the Veda and the Purana with the divine Principle, an earth which is said to be above our earth, that is to say, the physical being and consciousness of which the world and the body are only images. But the modern Yogas hardly recognise the possibility of a material union with the Divine’ (31.12.1915). In these few words Sri Aurobindo has captured the essence of the problem that plagues calendar reform efforts today: the loss of the Divine Measure.
The date of the Mother’s Vedic experience is important to note, though at the time it passed unnoticed. However, 34 years later on 26.11.1949 it would occupy centrestage in the life of a new India by this being the very date of adoption of the Constitution. Prior to this, in 1926 the same date surfaced in the combined yogas of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother when it would become known through them as Immortality Day, requiring a further 37 years for validation. Thus, in 1963 on this date the Hindu Line of Ten Avatars was completed in perfect harmony with the deepest Vedic essence of the Dasavataras, the backbone of Hinduism. Its importance was further highlighted by the combined passings of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo (23 years apart), the former on 17/11 and the latter on 5/12. Immortality Day is the exact midpoint of the 18 days between the two. Recent events have given an iconic resonance to 26/11 through the tragic event in Mumbai in 2008 on that very day, thereby marking a before and after in contemporary history on the subcontinent: the unfolding of an integration process is now accelerated.
There are several dates to add to the list, cycles mainly of 7 and multiples thereof – a number of preference for the 7^th Avatar. It is not possible to describe the significance of each one since a background in the Supramental Yoga would be required which this brief space does not permit. Suffice to state that the most meaningful occurred 34 (=7) years after 1949. A major yogic breakthrough took place then that can succinctly be described as ‘filling the Void’ – the unveiling by an intense tapasya of the Plenum-Point by and through the aid of Time. It was a Yoga based entirely on the Year – or rather the Year facilitated the occurrence, similar to what Bhisma of the Mahabharat experienced in his passage to the realm of the Immortals. With this singular Vedic accomplishment, what could be termed the Binary Creation ceased to hold the world in its grip – the unity of the Point took over. This occurred in 1983-4, after which the binary superpower structure collapsed introducing a very different global experience, opening the way ultimately to a new creation founded on unity. Interestingly Ram played a central role in the breakthrough, immediately after which the Ramjanmabhoomi movement began; then in 1986 Ramlala was liberated from his 36-year seclusion, as if from a period of sanyas. (For details see The New Way, Volume 3, Aeon Books, written in 1983 and published in 2005.)
Coincidences, we again ask? Their volume makes the term somewhat nonsensical. Science will have to seek another escape route to explain the apparently inexplicable.
All the above dates serve to affirm the relevance of the Dasavataras of Vishnu. Indeed, this is the focus of my treatment. In these pages I will disclose the method by which the relevance of the Line of Ten is made contemporary and factual, drawn out of the realm of Myth. The Line and its accompanying Myth describe recurring history which the Ramlala appearance in 1949 consolidates. Myth becomes history before our very eyes, hinging on the fateful night of 22-23 December in that fateful year when he took possession of his sacred abode.
Most important of all for the Hindu Samaj, by his appearance Ramlala solved the conundrum of the correct Hindu Calendar and all matters connected thereto.

The Solstice shortest day of the year occurred during the night of 22-23 December in 1949 – the very time of Ramlala’s appearance in the erstwhile Babri Masjid in the form of a child. I have explained earlier in this series the importance of the form selected, insofar as the Idol as Child ‘grew’ pari passu with the newly-born Indian Republic. But this Solstice has long held a singular position of importance for Vedic civilisation, as many scriptures and the Epics confirm. Perhaps most exemplary of all is the Mahabharat Epic which begins precisely on that Solstice. However, it is Bhisma of the tale who sheds accurate light on the Solstice’s special significance by having chosen that very date as the time he would leave this plane. His choice elucidates an aspect of this particular Solstice and why it has always been considered the most sacred period in Vedic culture.
Its esoteric symbology is that the solar light (cows/rays/energy) experiences maximum compression then, even as daylight is compressed to its shortest length for the northern hemisphere. When exiting this plane of existence the human being experiences the same compression as if to a point of his or her consciousness-being. This is on the order of a scientific wormhole. Only through this extreme compression and with the allegiance of Time can there be entry into Swar, the realm of the Immortals – a conscious passage, it needs to be stated, as Bhisma carried out.
There has been evidence of the compression I refer to in the extensive number of reports of near-death experiences (NDE). All subjects confirm finding themselves in a sort of tunnel when they leave their physical bodies, at the end of which they see a light. This luminous essence envelops them before they return to their bodies and to life on Earth. What that Light is for each person is subject to individual conditioning, because complete detachment from the body has not occurred and memories of one’s lived experience in that body are maintained. No one has returned to tell the tale of what exactly happens once definitive severance has transpired; we know only a part of the process, namely the passage through a compressed darkness as in a tunnel and the experience of light at the end of the passage.
The ‘tunnel’ is the compression, the same as Bhisma would have experienced to reach Swar consciously. It was facilitated by the time set for his departure, which also left a record for the future of the importance of the December Solstice’s and its connection to the Veda.
It is to be recalled that the central figure of the Vedic Sacrifice is precisely the Year whose balancing points in time and space are the Solstices and Equinoxes. Given the above, it stands that our relationship to the Year must be of supreme importance for descendants of the Immortal Ones. But a year with many ayanamshas certainly does not pay tribute or live up to the standards set by the Rishis. However, Ram the Child has come to reinstate the Vedic Year by himself timing his appearance to coincide exactly with the December Solstice. In so doing, he offers us the key to renewal and re-establishment of the ancient truths of the land and the key to the correct ayanamsha.
However, it is not sufficient to establish the December Solstice as the key to the rightness of calendrical matters. That is only half the equation. Today’s pundits have gone a step further in distancing themselves from the Veda. They do accept that the shortest day in the northern hemisphere is the December Solstice, because they cannot deny the physical fact and astronomical observations. But veda was set aside in matters temporal when they boldly disconnected zodiacal Capricorn/Makar from that Solstice, an aberration known only to post-Vedic India and nowhere else on the globe. Without zodiacal Makar joined to the Solstice there cannot be veda in the fullest sense of the word; and positing Makar Sankranti 23 days after said Solstice makes a mockery of Bhisma’s choice and so many other myths incorporating this sacred passage. It is the new cosmology of our present times that conclusively proves the undeniable unity of the two – Solstice and Zodiac, especially Makar of the twelve signs/months, because as known to astrologers from time immemorial this has universally been considered India’s astrological ruler.
Thus Ramlala not only drew attention to the overlooked December Solstice by his 1949 appearance, but through the Capricorn/Makar rulership he disclosed India’s involvement based on the ancient lore wherein the two are inseparable. The full relevance and impact of his appearance is entirely lost with a Makar Sankranti 23 days after the Solstice. Given this situation, it is not at all surprising that no astrologer, pundit, saint or yogi of the post-Vedic schools has grasped the all-inclusiveness of his 1949 appearance and just why it has occupied centrestage in the affairs of the nation since then, because ‘…the soul of knowledge…’ was lost.
The new cosmology is the new science of Time, updating the cosmology of all that we find in the Vedas and the Puranas. Thus, in this age of rationalism a measure of factuality is demanded of the discipline. However, it is a new ‘science’ that Ramlala unveils; as such the old or even the contemporary science we know with its own incompleteness and limitations cannot be applied to what Ramlala has revealed. His appearance on the Solstice makes it abundantly clear that he stands as confirmation of the accuracy of the new cosmology, as well as of the unity of Solstice and Zodiac. This is accomplished through the sign’s own ancient hieroglyph . In this magical notation, whose origin is lost in the mists of time, we find the history of contemporary India with roots in the distant Vedic Age, brought into the present by the very contours of the glyph itself which astonishingly describes minutely the ‘measure’ of Akhand Bharat – or pre-Independence India, whole and integral.

What would contemporary science make of this synchronisation dating from pre-history, millennia before the advanced cartogrophy and satellite imaging wonders of our times? How could the ancients have known what shape India’s geographical contours would be thousands of years into the future at the time of the British Raj? But the new cosmology does use this ancient hieroglyph to determine longitude and latitude coordinates of Bharat Mata based on its contemporary updated application. Therefore, when its inseparability with the shortest day is grasped, a point in zodiacal time that Ramlala established in 1949, his appearance in the mosque takes on an even more important meaning for India and the Hindu Samaj. It stands as the bowstring of Vedic civilisation in the 21^st Century. This was given a conclusive imprimatur by the Ayodhya Verdict of 30 September when the sacred Janmabhoomi was divided into three parts, since the ancient hierolgyph itself is threefold, as the symbol-map confirms which includes the three energy expressions of the Mother, as below.


In this light we cannot fail to see the 1947 partition of Bharat Mata in three parts as connected in a direct line to Ramlala’s appearance two years later in the mosque. (See The Partition of India, Aeon Centre of Cosmology, 2009, an analysis based on the above ancient Capricorn/Makar hieroglyph.) Partition, similar to the Ayodhya conundrum, remains unresolved. Sri Aurobindo’s words at the time of Mahatma Gandhi’s assassination refer to this incompletion:

‘…The light which led us to freedom, though not yet to unity, still burns and will burn till it conquers. I believe firmly that a great and united future is the destiny of this nation and its people. The Power that brought us through so much struggle and suffering to freedom, will achieve also, through whatever strife and trouble, the aim which so poignantly occupied the thoughts of the fallen leader at the time of his tragic ending; as it brought us freedom, it will bring us unity. A free and united India will be there and the Mother will gather around her her sons and wield them into a single national strength in the life of a great and united people.’ (5.2.1948)

Is it time for his prophetic vision to come to fruition? Is this the deeper significance of the entire Ayodhya controversy insofar as the same communal divide appears to affect both circumstances? Or, as Ramlala’s Solstice appearance seems to indicate, is a resolution to be sought elsewhere for this matter of such great importance, in an as yet undetected area not apparent to the uninitiated? This recondite dimension would require implementation of the key Ramlala offers: the correct ayanamsha and the union of Makar Sankranti with the Solstice of his appearance for the entire Hindu Samaj – a unity affecting 80% of the population.
Surely for fruition to occur, Sri Aurobindo’s words point to an experience that is able to unite energies now disunited by cutting through obstacles that currently seem insurmountable. Through the time-tested Vedic method of correspondences and equivalences, in which Ramlala is central, this desired unity is accomplished in spite of our resistances, differences and prejudices. Mahakal controls the play of circumstances and has fashioned a method to heal divides that would otherwise remain resistant to the experience of unity.
Ramlala’s message is unmistakable. It has been brought to the fore in the Ayodhya Verdict of the honourable judges – one more step forward in the process of integration that the Avatar oversees.

(Concluded)