prapanna-parijataya totra-vetraika-panaye
totra-vetraika-panaye
'eka' means one.
'Pani' means hand.
'Panaye' means in one hand or by one hand.
In one hand he is holding 'totra' and 'vetra'.
'Vetra' means the whip.
One who is holding, driving the chariot to whip the horse.
'Vetra' means the stick or the whip, cane.
And, at the same time, the rein.
He is holding the whip or the cane, and the rein, in one hand.
Ok.
Again, it is a symbol.
If your rein is not controlled, then there is whip.
The horse.
To control the horse, there is rein.
Horse should be disciplined.
If the horse becomes, in spite of this, little bit indisciplined, then there is…
Meaning that if you do not follow the path of discipline, there is possibility of disciplinary action.
totra-vetraika-panaye
In one hand he is holding both.
Now, why?
If he is driving the chariot, he should hold the whip in another hand.
In one hand, the reins.
Now, he is not driving.
Now he is not driving the chariot.
The chariot is in one place, the chariot is standing still.
Still the horse might be restless, holding it, but holding both in one hand.
Ok.
totra-vetraika-panaye jnana-mudraya
The other hand, there is a mudra.
I told you the other day, different meanings of mudra,
I was telling, one meaning of mudra, the hand gesture.
Suppose, if I show the hands like this, it is a mudra,
it is known as pranama (greeting) mudra, namaskara (homage) mudra.
If I keep the hands like this, this is a mudra, it is fish.
If I do like this, it is a mudra, it is...?
Ahm?
It is, it is deer.
You see the horns of the deer? It is a deer.
So, there are different mudras.
This is one mudra.
Ok.
If you look, I will not tell the name of the mudra.
But this is one mudra.
So, there are different mudras.
So, there is one mudra like this.
It is known as jnana (knowledge) mudra.
Some people say also chin mudra.
Jnana mudra, chin mudra it comes from chit.
So, what does it mean?
This is your ego.
This is your...?
These three fingers represent triple qualities: sattva, raja, tama.
Be free from triple qualities of nature,
bring your ego down, because now ego is separated from three fingers.
This symbol represents divinity,
(Sanskrit) in Upanishad.
Thumb represents purusa, the indwelling self, divinity.
So, this finger and this finger to come closer, how do they come closer?
Let the ego, individuality bend down.
So in one hand he is holding the rein and the cane, and in the other hand he is showing like this.
Ok.
One who controls the mind, the senses and follows the path of knowledge, both are necessary.
Only controlling the mind is not really helpful.
It might be leading you in a wrong way, because of your concentration.
Ok?
If you read the mythology, many asuras, people with demoniac nature,
they meditated a lot, they had tremendous power, they had concentration, but destructive.
Concentration can be destructive or constructive.
So this concentration associated with knowledge.