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FURROWS PLOUGHED IN EARTHThis emblem signifies the lower nature (earth) prepared by the operation of the Spirit (the husbandman) to yield the higher emotions (fruit) from the germination and growth of the seed (centres of spirit) sown in it. “The river of God is full of water: thou providest them corn, when thou hast so prepared the earth. Thou waterest her furrows abundantly; thou settlest the ridges thereof; thou makest it soft with showers; thou blessest the springing thereof.” — Ps. lxv. 9, 10. Life and Truth suffice for the growth of the soul. The qualities are endowed with the spiritual germ (corn) when the lower nature is ready to receive it. Truth is bestowed on the disciplined lower nature, and aspirations (ridges) are fostered from above. Truth (showers) makes the lower nature pervious to spirit, and the Divine grace ensures the springing up of the higher emotions. “The wife of Rama was called Sita because not born from a woman, but from a furrow (sīta) while Janaka (the king) was ploughing.” “Sita is Lakshmi.” — Mon. Williams, *Indian Wisdom*, pp. 348, 360. “I (Lakshmi) reside … in earth recently thrown up.” — *Institutes of Vishnu*, XCIX. 13. Lakshmi, like all other great goddesses, is a symbol of buddhi — the wisdom nature. Buddhi is the fount of the higher emotions. Sita stands for the higher emotion nature which is the manifestation of buddhi in the human soul. Hence Sita (buddhi actual) is born in a “furrow,” and Lakshmi (buddhi potential) resides in the ridges of earth thrown up. |
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