Updating the Vedic Altar – 7

Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet
Director, Aeon Centre of Cosmology
October 3, 2011

[Link to Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V, Part VI,
Part VIII, Part IX, Part IX, cont., Part X, Part XI, Part XII or Epilogue]

The Cow is the Ray – this is clear; Sanskrit comes to our aid and we have no difficulty with the equivalency. But, what about the Year?
True, the year is perhaps the most important ingredient in the Sacrifice. Everything finds its place in the year. The Veda tell us time and again of the manner in which the year is divided – into twelve months and each day set within the circle which for the Rishi was ‘seen’ as the year. Given the place it held in the Vedic Age, clearly in updating whatever is related to the Vedi and the Sacrifice, the correctness of the year has to be emphasised before all else.
The year for the astrologer and the pundit in contemporary India is not the same as it was for the Rishi. We are told by them that this is due to a ‘shift’ that takes place: the months remain twelve but the point from where that wheel is set in motion, known as the ayanamsha, is not what it was in times gone by. Therefore, say these latter-day pundits, a ‘correction’ is required to bring the year of twelve month/signs to the ‘scientifically’ correct position. Each astrologer or almanac writer will have his idea on the subject; it will differ from the next pundit’s, thereby making his calculations unique. He has a vested interest in protecting this uniqueness because over the years he has built up a clientele for the purchase of his ephemerides, or for his astrological readings, or for the times he sets for rituals of all sorts.
Confusion abounds in this area for Hindus – where none should rightfully exist. It reflects perhaps the chaos in all walks of life, for indeed if this chaos affects over 80% of the population, understandably it may spill over to the rest. The result is a widespread state of unknowing stemming from a root cause that has no justification.
There is no shifting ayanamsha in the Earth year. Over thousands of years this fact has been established by the accuracy the equinoxes and solstices provide for calculations. They do not vary. They set the flow of 12 on their course each year without any change. This means that Aries (Agni of the Veda) begins each year on 21 March; and the rest follow this Leader of the Hosts that is the Vedic Agni, on his Ram vahana, accordingly. It is a universal matter: the sign of the Ram (Aries/Agni) begins on Mahavishuva each year for the inhabitants of Earth, Hindus included – first and foremost, it ought to be added.
And yet, astronomers in India have convinced Hindus that Aries is ‘no longer there’. The sign has ‘shifted’ over the centuries. In fact, if we are to be truthful to what they sustain, it shifts fractionally each day. The fallacy of this hypothesis as bearing relevancy to temple timings, and which has cast a spell over the entire Hindu Samaj, is simple to expose: astronomers are measuring in the wrong circle. As stated earlier, they have imposed this false premise on astrologers from the time astronomy set off on an independent path. They have forced Hindus into discarding the correct understanding as per the Rishis’ conceptualisation in favour of their mundane science which starts from the erroneous premise that the equinoxes and solstices are not the balancing pillars for all calculations, and they provide the means to remain free from errors such as abound today. The accuracy provided by Mahavishuva is the same the Rishi enjoyed millennia ago. Without this accuracy there can be no equivalency established for any ritual timing and astrological construction. In fact, we can carry the problem to a deeper level and categorically state that the Dharma cannot continue to be qualified as sanatana, eternal, in the present situation – that is, with the confusion in matters cosmological that prevails today.
I stated earlier that the very first task of the combined 6 and 3 of the Formula was to re-set the cosmological clock. Insofar as the year is the single most important feature of the cosmology pertinent to the Vedic Sacrifice, the present chaos would have to be dealt with conclusively. The Mother did just that by adding the year to the equivalency: the Cow is the Ray is the Year. In order to do so, that Ray had to be measured. We know that the measurement the Mother gave for the Ray once it enters the precincts of the chamber at its apex in a single shaft – indeed, a beam from the Sun itself – is when measuring begins. To attain the required precision the central feature of the chamber, its core, was required in order to define the Ray and to make of it the Divine Maya for the Earth. This was done when the Mother created the heart and soul of the chamber by reproducing exactly what she had seen in the solar world. All this falls into the Act of Measuring which exceeds the visionary capacity by far. Many may see, few can measure. It is only the Divine Maya incarnate who can do so because she is the instrument of the Transcendent for fashioning the elements that constitute our material world, this universe of 9 in the scale 0 to 9, or subtle to dense. And it is significant that the measure of our Sun’s family has become 9 during the Mother’s sojourn on Earth. It is also significant that she was born in Paris where the metric system has its base, a system which has now become universal. At the place of the Mother’s birth a single Meter has been preserved which provides a ruler for its accuracy throughout the world.¹
Therefore, the truly admirable feature of the Mother’s act of seeing was the precise measurement she gave for each item in the chamber. Unfortunately, her plan was not followed and the Matrimandir that has been constructed at the centre of Auroville lacks the precision she demanded from the building team. Having transgressed her requirement of precision, it was established at the outset that the construction was a shadow of the original.
Certainly this is the way of the world in which we live. If Hindus in India cannot attain accuracy in so simple a matter as the beginning of the 12-month year, it is logical that the builders in Auroville would follow suit since the main challenge in carrying her plan to completion was precisely the accuracy required in order to re-establish the Divine Measure of our Earth year. This remained unfulfilled in the building in Auroville; but we have the original plan and her own explanations on the vision to be able to present the facts whereby this first step in re-setting the cosmic clock can be taken in full knowledge so as to clear the air of the prevailing confusion in matters that should never have disintegrated to the present state of disregard for the harmonies set by the Earth. Science took it upon itself to enter and take command in an area well beyond its competence.
The Core of the chamber, equivalent to the deity in the garbha griha of the temple, according to the Mother’s vision consists of simple geometric forms: a translucent Globe and a rectangular Pedestal, both of very precise dimensions. The Pedestal is composed of four sides bearing Sri Aurobindo’s symbol carved on each one, to support the Globe. Nothing could be simpler. Nothing could be easier to execute, it would appear. Perhaps precisely because of its simplicity the executing architect took liberties to introduce what surely he believed to be an improvement over the Mother’s carefully measured plan. In so doing, not only did he destroy its Vedic content, he also set in disarray the cosmic clock – the chamber’s primary function. In not remaining scrupulously faithful to her vision in every detail, the architect disabled the Core’s key function: to set the year in place correctly and to re-establish the Sanatana Dharma accordingly. The Core of the Mother’s original plan decisively reconnects us to the Vedic Age; the accumulated falsehoods of the interim years are completely wiped away in the process. Astronomy is set aside in favour of a cosmologically correct astrology – and thus are all things made new, confirming the Mother’s statement that the Ray playing on the Globe resting on the Pedestal, as per her vision and plan and act of measuring, is the ‘symbol of the future realisation’.
Without the chamber’s Core the Ray would remain the Cow alone; that is, undifferentiated consciousness with neither end nor beginning. It requires defining for the material universe to be an harmonic whole. Our Earth is a portion of the harmony of the spheres – which in turn is achieved by the spectacular display of synchronisation that governs the harmonics of our solar system. The phenomenon of eclipses is sufficient for us to appreciate the fact that harmony (of size and position) is key to the accuracy of the occurrence. Further, eclipses reveal the pride of place our planet enjoys in the System. It is not enough for harmony to take place. There must be an Eye that can perceive the play, and not only understand and describe it, but live the harmony. In other words, the Supreme sees the harmony of the universe fashioned by his Divine Maya through the human being – not only sees but lives the harmony in accordance with the complex wonders a material manifestation offers. In fact, it needs to be stated that this is the ultimate purpose of existence on this third planet: the individual Soul is the instrument by which, through which the Supreme sees and enjoys the play his Divine Maya fashions in this universe of 9 – hence 9 is her number, and is the key to deciphering her creation.
Therefore, the Mother proclaimed that the Core and Ray of her chamber captures the future realisation. For that to manifest the advent of Supermind has been essential, without which there can be no factual appreciation of the cosmic harmony and thus no method by which the Supreme knows and enjoys. Thus, in order to ‘see along with the Supreme’, the supramental Truth-Consciousness is required to be an established fact of the evolution; and because the Mother saw the chamber in the solar supramental plane and measured the vision according to our universal metric system, it is the revelation inhabitants of Earth so urgently require at this stage. The future is bright for the Earth when the Divine Maya is revealed and her measuring is implemented.
Hindus bear a terrific burden of destiny. They are the chosen ones because only Hinduism has maintained the link with its origin. There may be distortions, a dimming of the original light, an un-focussing of the lens of perception – but these are solved by the revelation of the Inner Chamber which allows the 6 and the 3 to complete the divine Labour.
The placement of the Globe in the Core is essential if the Ray is to be cut into at a precise place so as to indicate the beginning of our Earth year. To achieve this it is understood that the Pedestal’s position to support the Globe is of paramount important.
The Mother gave exact dimensions for the Globe: 70cm. But she did not determine with the same exactitude the height of the Pedestal. In the discussions concerning her plan she corrected several errors and made specific references to certain measurements, but the Pedestal height was left vague – and yet, it is certainly the most important of all. When we understand what the Pedestal, composed of four upright symbols of Sri Aurobindo carved in stone, represents in the Chamber, this ambiguity is understandable. The great rahasya – the secret of Secrets – resides here, in the Pedestal. Therefore, its height was the central realisation upon which the entire New Way hinged. (The breakthroughs that took place during the 1970s involving these arcane yogic matters have been explained in chronological order in my autobiographical study, The Tenth Day of Victory and need not detain us in this study. The first volume, covering the years 1971 to 1974, has been published; the second, covering 1974 to 1980, is being written and will be ready for publication in 2012.)
An additional reason for the confusion regarding the height of the Pedestal is the error the Ashram engineer made in drawing the Pedestal. He used Sri Aurobindo’s symbol for the construction, but not the one the Mother re-designed in May of 1964, as per Ashram records.


The engineer used the former symbol based on equilateral triangles, instead of the new design made of isosceles triangles. The ‘error’, the difference between the two, explains precisely the message of the Pedestal – its ‘secret’ as it were.

I will leave this issue for discussion further ahead. The only item we need to make clear at this point is the correct height of the Pedestal to support the Globe accurately so as to render the Core of the chamber an accurate guide for the restoration of the Dharma, central to which is the link with the Vedic Age in this essential matter. To this end, I reproduce here a diagram taken from The New Way, Volume 2, which displays the dates of the beginning of both Space and Time Years, based on the March equinox and the December solstice, respectively. These are the only two pillars of the year that are specifically dealt with in ancient astrological texts such as the Brihad Samhita of Varahamihira, composed in the early part of the first millennium. The reason for these two alone bears noting: if just Mahavishuva and Makar Sankranti are set in place accurately, the rest follows suit with the same accuracy.


The reader should note the precision of the Mother’s seeing and measuring. When the Ray’s measurement is known and the Globe (18 days) is filled with the light of the Sun – the beam of cow/consciousness – then Mahavishuva falls, as noted, exactly at the Globe’s centre in the Space Year, when we extend the year over 15m20 from the top of the chamber to the top of the Globe. As for the December solstice, it ‘occurs’ at the top of the Globe so that 9 days later the universally-accepted new year ‘begins’ on January 1^st, the Globe’s centre. Thus, zodiacal year begins at the centre of the Globe in one count, and the annual new year at the centre by another. This combination is the key to gnostic time.
Also to be noted is that the January 1^st year beginning is followed in almost all countries across the globe – as well as in India as per the country’s official calendar; the financial year ends in March for most countries, more or less faithful to the cosmic harmony of the two years, Time (vertical-9) and Space (horizontal-12). But problems arise for Hindus since the community is out of synchronisation with what the chamber indicates. The Space Year’s all-important zodiacal Mahavishuva does not follow the natural order. The zodiac has been separated from the March equinox by astronomers for a total of 23 days. Aries the Ram is considered by those unfamiliar with these arcane matters to begin only around 15 April each year, according to their sidereal computations. The result is the true Aries, as per the tropical zodiac of the ecliptic, is almost at its end by then. And when Mahavishuva is incorrect, so are the rest of the signs, particularly the Makar/Capricorn Sankranti – most important of all. Yet pundits continue to advocate special rituals for the time when the Sun is seen to move into a new zodiacal sign, or when Jupiter changes signs, a slow-moving planet – a zodiacal shift, it must be noted, essential for the Kumbha Mela configurations. But the timings they prescribe have no basis in the harmony of our solar system. We are not concerned with the rhythms of galaxies and far-distant stars. What must concern us is that we understand the harmony of our own solar system and how we can ‘move along with the Supreme Mother’ as conscious integers of her sacred plan.
The revelation of the Mother’s chamber makes clear exactly when the zodiac of 12 begins and Makar Sankranti is reached, and the corrections to be made so as to bring the timings definitively into harmony with the cosmic truth. That truth is Earth-centred for inhabitants of this third planet in the system. It is time to restore the Earth to her rightful place of dignity and thereby to arrest the downward slide we are inflicting on this wonder that is our Earth.

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¹ The meter was originally defined as one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the North Pole on a line running through Paris, taking the Earth to be a perfect sphere. Later it was modified according to the new measuring methodologies available and the fact that the Earth is not a perfect sphere. The final definition by these methods was established in 1983.

Updating the Vedic Altar – 6

Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet
Director, Aeon Centre of Cosmology
October 1, 2011

[Link to Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V, Part VII,
Part VIII, Part IX, Part IX, cont., Part X, Part XI, Part XII or Epilogue]

A day for a year is a Vedic aphorism that is widely used in the West for forecasting. In India, despite the nation’s Vedic pedigree, it has largely been forgotten. To my knowledge no Indian astrologer uses the system of progressing the horoscope, as it is called, based on this aphorism, though it has proven to be an accurate method of prediction.
It is unlikely that in the Vedic Age this aphorism was used to forecast events in a person’s life. Predicting the future was not of central interest – though it needs to be stated that any attempt to eschew astrology’s predictive capacity as being un-Vedic in a fundamentalist attitude is flawed from the outset. Astrology is a science of Time. There is no present without a past, and no future disconnected from the present. The three ‘times’ are essential to the science. Having stated that, the aphorism ‘a day for a year’, has other applications. It, better than any other, reveals the importance of equivalency and correspondence in the Vedic system. In its application for an individual, as the experience of astrologers outside of India has proven, it is an excellent method of forecasting the future on the basis that a day after birth, for example, is equivalent to the first year of life for the individual in question. A ‘progressed’ horoscope if drawn up for the fifth day after birth would be equivalent to the fifth year of life, the twentieth for the twentieth year, and so on, into infinity if need be. For this reason predicting a person’s death would require intuition more than anything else because this method is a seamless progression. There is no cut-off moment. What is seen, however, are stresses in the course of life and some can ultimately cause death when they are more intense than the individual is capable of sustaining.
However, the aphorism has wider implications. Indeed, in the Mother’s chamber one day for a year forms the Vedic key to the knowledge conveyed via the Geometry of Time. In Part 5, I pointed out that the central solar ray, the axis of the chamber, consists of 365 Earth days over a space of 15m20. Applying this particular aphorism indicates that those 365 days are equivalent to 365 years. And so it has come to pass. The Mother revealed the ancient Vedic method (of the Divine Measure as in the Divine Maya, or the fashioning power of the Absolute – maya from the root to measure) applied to those 15m20. In this manner she proved that her revelation is the new vedi for this Age; and that it is based on the Vedic concept which India has discarded in favour of an entirely un-Vedic system imposed by astronomers; this has served to distance the Hindu population from the core of Vedic conceptualisation. Her chamber, as part of the 9^th Avatar’s appearance, re-establishes the ancient way in the midst of the circumscribing conditions at play in today’s world, which serve to enrich the earlier systems in ways unimaginable prior to the 9th’s appearance together with his helpers.
Thus, the 6 and the 3 provide the applicable means to update the Vedic Altar, carrying it to heights not attained earlier. As per the input at the third level in the Formula, I will use the Geometry of Time to factually prove the point. With this new revelation, and using the Vedic aphorism a day for a year, sacred geometry is carried beyond anything we can equate with the sacred today. This is a new way, a ‘third thing’ beyond science and the spiritual alike, as foretold by the Mother in 1962.

‘It is that something that we are searching for. Perhaps not merely searching for, but building.
‘We are being used so that we may participate in the manifestation of that which is as yet inconceivable for everyone, because it is not yet there. It is an expression that is yet to come.
‘…. [T]hese positions, the spiritual and the “materialist” if one may call it so, that are believed to be exclusive (exclusive and unique, so that one denies the value of the other, from the viewpoint of Truth), are insufficient, not only because they do not admit each other, but because even admitting the two and uniting the two does not suffice to solve the problem. There is something else – a third thing which is not the result of these two, but something that is yet to be discovered, which will probably open the door to the total Knowledge…
‘For a very long time it seemed to me that if one made a perfect union between the scientific approach carried to its extreme and the spiritual approach carried to its extreme – its realisation – , if one joined these two, one would find, one would obtain naturally the Truth one seeks, the total Truth. But with the two experiences that I had, the experience of the external life (with the universalisation, impersonalisation, with all the yogic experiences that one can have in the material body) and then the experience of the total and perfect union with the Origin, now that I have had these two experiences and there has occurred something – which I cannot describe now – I know that the knowledge of the two and the union of the two are not sufficient; there is a third thing in which these two terminate and it is this third thing which is in the making, in the process of working itself out. It is this third thing that can lead to the Realisation, the Truth we seek…
‘I arrived, by yoga, at a certain kind of relation with the material world based on the notion of the fourth dimension (inner dimensions that become innumerable in yoga) and I made use of this attitude and this state of consciousness. I studied the relation between the material world and the spiritual world with the sense of inner dimensions and by perfecting the consciousness of these inner dimensions – that had been my experience before the last one.
‘Naturally, for a long time, there was no longer any question of three dimensions – that belonged absolutely to the world of illusion and falsehood. But now it is the use of the sense of the fourth dimension with all that it entails which appears to me as superficial! I do not find it anymore, the thing is so strong. The other, the three dimensional world is absolutely unreal; and the other appears, how to say, conventional. It is as it were a conventional translation to give you a certain kind of approach.
‘And as for saying what it is, the other one, the true position? …It is so much beyond all intellectual states that I am unable to formulate it.
‘But the formula will come, I know. But it will come in a series of lived experiences that I have not yet had.’¹

Indeed, those experiences did begin eight years later in 1970 when the Mother ‘saw’ the chamber, measured it and gave the plan to her entourage to execute as the centre of Auroville, a plan which was never implemented but rather entirely altered to become unrelated at all to her original. But this was just the beginning. In 1971, the ninth year after the above talk, the very precise formula she anticipated began to take shape through the third in Sri Aurobindo’s line whereby those ‘conventional’ three dimensions underwent a radical transformation. From 1976 onward, through the lived experiences the Mother mentioned, the new position, that ‘third thing’ manifested in full. When that happened indeed the perception of dimensions shifted to a new formula that better explains the reality of our world – both here on this side of the material demarcation, and the other in what is considered beyond or before the singularity of physics. The perception now, as of 1983 as formulated in the new cosmology (see The New Way, Volume 3, Aeon Books, 2005) is three dimensions of Time, the fourth of which is Space – that is, the fourth is the Point (of space).
We cannot expect seekers today – indeed, anything in spirituality after the Vedic Age – to appreciate this newness and to be in a position to understand how revolutionising it truly is. The parameters of our established disciplines are burst wide open with this new revelation. We are faced with a totally unknown paradigm, and the human mind has great difficulty in coming to terms with anything that is outside of its constricting mental cage. Nonetheless, I hereby invite scientists of different disciplines to consider deeply the facts I will now place before them; in so doing, with an open and unbiased frame of mind, which should be the foundation of all scientific enquiry, they may assess the material and come to a conclusion as to which branch of science the knowledge contained in the Mother’s chamber might belong. I can confidently state that they will either trash this text, in a worse-case scenario, or else become silenced by the unfamiliar concepts the chamber presents. Hopefully the few who continue probing will discover a new world that stands right in our midst and that can help humanity discover new ways to deal with current problems. And I do believe that the final assessment will be of something new, beyond both science and spirituality, just as the Mother foresaw.
One thing is certain: the New Way reveals an application of Time to Circumstance unknown to any of our current disciplines – be they scientific or spiritual. Further, the entire body of knowledge as presented in the chamber is founded on four birthdates primarily. Thus, to truly grasp the implications of this new revelation for the Earth, the threshold to the other side, so to speak, must be breached. This knowledge makes a mockery of the barriers we set ourselves – i.e., that ‘time’ begins for the individual at birth and anything beyond simply does not ‘exist’. Further, this knowledge reveals unquestionably the control of destiny at play and how impeccably it has been evidenced in the life of the 9^th Avatar of Lord Vishnu and his helpers down the line. Every detail of their combined births and the circumstances of their lives are seen factually to have been pre-planned – by the power we know as Mahakala, the Great Time. These combined details are seen in the chamber to move across a century. But first let us analyse the year in depth and learn just what the Ray reveals about this miracle of measure that is the Earth year.
It is clear that our planet is indeed special in the solar family; it is unlikely that a similar revelation could be done from any other planet in our System. The prominence of the soul as experienced on Earth is the reason for the individual’s ability to appreciate the cosmic harmony as we are able to do from this third position in the solar system. And it must be borne in mind that the soul bears affinity with the number-power 3 – in metaphysics it is the Daughter Principle of the trinity Father (9), Mother (6) and Daughter (3). Countless myths across the centuries confirm this correspondence, especially those we find in Greece and India, in particular the Hindu myth of to the Daughter in her manifestation as Durga. Indeed, the entire nation continues to honour her exploits in a celebration that covers nine nights, with her conclusive victory celebrated on the tenth day known as the Vijaya Dashami, the tenth day of victory. As I write these lines in praise of the Divine Daughter, this celebration is in progress across the country, she who is formed of the essence of three Goddesses, Mahakali, Mahalakshmi, and Mahasaraswati of the Hindu pantheon. This essentiality of her triune being once again attests to the Daughter’s affinity with the number-power 3 and hence with the third planet of our solar system.

There are two ‘years’ that figure in the central solar ray extended over a measure of 15m20. One, I call the Year of Space, the other the Year of Time. The former has affinity with the horizontal direction and the number 12; the latter with the vertical and the number 9. These are combined in the single Ray – the horizontal being the 12 months of the year beginning at the March Equinox and to which we allocate a zodiacal sign, Aries (Agni) the first in the series, while the vertical is the 9 planets of our Sun’s family. Over the centuries and millennia we find that Hindu celebrations, ritual timings, and horoscopic calculations have become distanced from the Vedic position because the measure the Earth adds to the celestial harmony has been forsaken. Thus, the Mother’s chamber, insofar as it is central to the re-establishment of the Dharma, does reinstate the two Vedic ‘years’ as they were incorporated in those former times. The Space Year is based on the sequence of 12 sign/months following the March Equinox which in India is known as Mahavishuva; the Time Year is related to the December Solstice and the tenth month/sign of the zodiac which we arrive at counting from the March Equinox. It is known as Makar Sankranti – the Capricorn gateway.
Thus, Equinox and Solstice are the foundation upon which the system of cosmic harmonies for the Earth is based – in the Vedic Age and now, as presented in the Mother’s chamber for precisely the re-establishment of those ‘lost measures’. To lose sight of the Equinoxes and Solstices is to forego the means provided to Earth inhabitants to establish a connection with the cosmos and to experience life in harmony with the cosmic surround.
Lamentably, this is exactly what has happened in India with the advent of science – particularly with astronomy having separated itself from astrology. A system has been adopted – imposed by astronomers, let us be clear – which does just that: it eliminates any real relationship with the four pillars of Earth time, equinoxes and solstices, and has pushed the ecliptic circle within which measuring must be done far out into space, into the Constellations – arbitrary as they are and largely unmeasurable with the accuracy required when dealing with gnostic Time.
There are no equinoxes and solstices in the constellational sphere. These arise on Earth by the planet’s oscillating balance within the ecliptic, sometimes lengthening the day, sometimes shortening it. It is a movement that profoundly influences life on Earth by producing the four seasons, each of which is initiated by one of the four Cardinal points.
The advent of modern science, lacking any higher, initiatic knowledge, is responsible for this gross aberration that has afflicted Hindu society – that is, over 80% of India’s population – by imposing the sidereal circle of constellations for time measurement, in lieu of the ecliptic plane of our solar system, the pathway where all the planets revolve around the Sun. There is no such ‘sun’ to be honoured as paterfamilias in the constellations; therefore, this alone should indicate how wrong astronomers are in demanding that all timings be founded on sidereal measurements. Time and again throughout the hymns, the Rig Veda extols the supremacy of the luminary of our System. In view of this fact, we may rightfully ask why astronomers have taken it upon themselves to reject this clear indication in the Veda to proffer a measuring system that bears no credentials in the scriptures themselves and encourages the faithful to deny what is most exalted in the Veda, the Sun of our system. Likewise, we must question where the pundits were who should have protected the Dharma from this gross intrusion by scientists into a realm far beyond their scope of competence.
However, Vishnu saves the day as he is periodically wont to do. True to the purpose of the periodic appearances of his emanations, the first item for correction on their agenda, if the Dharma is to be effectively restored to its eternal foundations, is precisely to re-instate these ‘lost measures’. We are fortunate to have the Mother’s cosmic model so that we can know exactly what needs correction. We do not discard the ancient precepts, as the current system of ritual timings has done, unbeknown to the faithful; rather, we incorporate what needs to be brought forward from the ancient way, enhanced by the present play of circumstances – all of which are under the impeccable control of Mahakala. This analysis will prove the point amply.

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¹ The entire talk appears in The New Way, Volume 1&2, Aeon Books, 1981 as Appendix VIII.