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Kapila and Kardama - The Quintessence of the Path

by Dr. K. Parvathi Kumar

 

Kapila is the first and foremost teacher on the planet. This booklet contains the conversation between Kapila and his father, Kardama. This conversation has profound value and is also a teaching in a capsule form. When the author discoursed upon it, a group of ardent German listeners called forth the teachings in a book form. It is dedicated to the students of wisdom.
This booklet may be read as a prelude to the book ‘The Teachings of Kapila’.

Content: Introduction; The Prelude; The Prayer and the Pleadings of Kardama; The Response of Kapila; Kardama’s Practice; A Prayer to Kardama.

Dhanishta, Visakhapatnam, India 2014

 

 

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The Prelude

Kardama is the Prajapati to whom Kapila was born as the tenth child. Kapila is the ‘Lord of Synthesis’ (Narayana). He was born to Kardama befittingly as the tenth child. He was preceded by nine sisters, who represent the ninefold nature. The ninefold nature emerges as an eightfold nature. The ninth is known as ‘Primordial Nature’ – Aditi, Moola Prakriti. From out of this nature, the three qualities emerge. From out of the three qualities, the fivefold nature emerges. 5+3+1 = 9. The ninth itself is an emergence from that which is beyond, which is called either zero or ten. Symbolically Kapila is the tenth one, who presides over the ninefold nature.

Kardama, being a Prajapati is a representation of number 10 (10 are the Prajapatis). Kardama was said to have been born from the back of the Creator, which symbolically means – the background consciousness of the Creator.

Kardama is a Prajapati, who presided over solidification of our planet from its watery and muddy state. He inaugurated the birth of humans on the planet. The word ‘humans’ means men that are born in muddy matter. Humus means mud in Greek. Man born in humus is called human.

Before Kardama’s advent, the Earth was a half etheric globe, formed up to the equator, moving as a dish around the North Pole. From the time of Kardama, it formed into a full globe, forming the South Pole.

Kardama fulfilled his purpose of incarnation on the planet and intended returning to the state of Absoluteness (Parabrahman). Bhagavatha Purana says that Kardama joined the Absolute Parabrahman state even in the previous kalpa and that he never intended to return into creation in the subsequent creation. But as the creation began, Kardama, who was in deep samadhi, heard a voice that it was necessary for him to descend into the creation and fulfil a grand part in it, that he was to give birth to nine feminine principles, who were eventually married to the nine seers, seven of whom constitute the Great Bear and the rest of the two shine forth to inspire the beings.

Kardama also heard that as a gift for accomplishing such a task of giving birth to nine children, Lord Narayana himself would be born as the tenth child. Kardama smiled at the play of the Lord upon him, and obliged to do so. Sage Kardama fulfilled the ordained work. He sought permission from Kapila, the Lord, to return to the eternal abode. The dialogue between the father and the son, Kardama and Kapila, is of great value to the seekers of wisdom and to those who look for self-realization and self-salvation. The following presentation is intended for such seekers.