Hindu Devas take a (silk) road trip to Japan!

Fascinating and well-documented article on the iconic deities of Hinduism like Ganesha, Shiva, Brahma, Lakshmi, Durga, Saraswati, Kubera, Indra and others who have been depicted in ancient Japanese literature and paintings.

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3 thoughts on “Hindu Devas take a (silk) road trip to Japan!

  1. Dr. G. Quiroga Goode

    I recently watched an old TV interview of SALVADOR DALI by a mexican reporter. Salvador Dali expressed that his personal views of the universe are part of his COSMOGONY …. I haven’t found any comment by Sri Aurobindo and the mother about the meaning of COSMOGONY

  2. Mike

    I’m not quite sure what you mean by ‘the meaning of COSMOGONY. Are you referring to the ‘definition’ or their ideas about origin of creation?
    I think SA has said this:

    “This creation lasts for a day of Brahma which is equal to fourteen Manus or Manvantaras.c At the close of each Manvantara, life of inferior creatures and lower worlds comes to an end, leaving the substance of the universe entire and gods and sages unharmed. After the end of the fourteenth Manvantara or when Brahma’s day closes, occurs the great dissolution called Naimittika Pratisarga in which all things come to an end by fire and water, from which only the Prakriti Creation escapes including the three qualities and Seven Rishis, etc. At the end of Brahma’s night lasting for a Kalpa, he awakes and begins his creation again. All the Prakrita Creation disappears only at the Prakrita Pralaya, occurring at the end of the life of Brahma, when not only all the gods and all other forms are annihilated, but the elements are again merged into primary substance, besides which only spiritual being exists.

    Cosmogony, thus, forms the first topic of the Puranas.a It is the common knowledge of anthropologists that primitive people all the world over think and act alike; hence, naturally enough, certain basic principles run through all ideas regarding cosmogony. But cosmogenic legends of different countries tend to harmonies only after a time. These myths generally look up for the creation of the world from the fewest possible elements. Cosmogonical speculations in the Vedic period do not present any generally accepted theory as to the origin of the world: widely differing ideas about this problem appear to have existed, which were developed and harmonised by the poet-philosophers — the seers — of the Rig Veda..”..

    The Mother has spoken about the origin of creation based on Max Theon’s cosmic tradition, which mentions the First Four Emanations etc..

  3. Mike

    Actually, The Mother uses the word in volume 2 of the Agenda, and SA uses it in His book on the ISHA UPANISHAD.

    The Mother says:

    ““In his cosmogony, Theon accounted for the successive pralayas9 of the different universes by saying that each universe was an aspect of the Supreme manifesting itself: each universe was built upon one aspect of the Supreme, and all, one after the other, were withdrawn into the Supreme. He enumerated all the successively manifested aspects, and what an extraordinarily logical sequence it was! I have kept it some place, but I no longer know where. Nor do I remember exactly what number this universe has in the sequence, but this time it was supposed to be the universe which would not be withdrawn, which would, so to speak, follow an indefinite progression of Becoming. And this universe is to manifest Equilibrium, not a static but a progressive equilibrium.10 Equilibrium, as he explains it, is each thing exactly in its place: each vibration, each movement, each… and so on down the line – each form, each activity, each element exactly in its place in relation to the whole.”

    Excerpt From: Mother, The. “Mother’s Agenda, Volume 2. 1961.


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