Esoteric meanings of Hindu scriptures

The interpretation below is as what was revealed to me by the Grace of Ma Bhairavi and Hanumana. It does not come from any scripture, and I have no authority of a scripture for this interpretation. I only have my experience. It is crystal clear to me. If others wish to disagree with this, I completely understand. But I cannot deny what I have seen.

This post stems from some messages I sent to like-minded individuals on a Twitter Group chat which discusses spirituality.

This can also be considered to be a follow-up to an old blog post I had written on the esoteric meaning of the origins of Sri Ganesha. 

My words on the group I mentioned earlier were to the effect that Hindu stories or scriptures like puranas or itihaasas reveal themselves to the reader based on his or her own spiritual knowledge or progress. To someone who approaches them as a story, they will seem like stories. To someone who approaches them as a seeker, they will reveal the most fascinating truths. 

The specific story I mentioned to my fellow Group members was the Ramayana. I will mention the salient points here.

The Ramayana itself can be seen as a story of enlightenment. Sri Rama can be seen as the Purusha, and Ma Sita as the Shakti. Their union is enlightenment. 

Ma Sita is in Danda-karanya, with Rama and Lakshamana. The spine in yogic parlance, is known as the Meru - Danda. 

A beautiful deer distracts Sita and she asks Rama to go after it. Then she sends Lakshmana, or Lakshya-mana behind Rama. She doesnt heed to the advice of Lakshya-mana to stay behind the Lakshya-man rekha for her protection.

People who know any Indic language will surely know what Laksya means, it means attention or focus. Till Ma Sita  was behind the wall of absolute focus, of Laksya, even the mighty Ravana who had lifted the Kailasa was not able to touch her.

But loss of focus led the her being abducted by Ravana. There is an esoteric meaning behind the names Raa-ma, and Raa- VaNa as well, but I will leave that for some other time. 

Where did Ra-va-na take Sita Ma? He took her to Lanka. For the story reader this is a geographical location, but for the seeker, it refers to Lum-kara, or Lum-ka. "Lum" is beej mantra of the Mooladhara chakra where the kundalini resides in an un-awakened state. 

Source: http://www.satyaliveyoga.com.au/2012/11/11/mooladhara-chakra/

Even if you look at it geographically, the topmost point of Bharat desha is the Kailasa, where Shiva resides. Lanka comes at the lowest point below the current political entity of India. It loosely mimics the energy system of a body in that sense. Interesting isnt it?!

With whose help does Raama set about recover his enlightenment, to recover his Shakti? With the help of Maruti, or Hanumana. 

Who is Hanumana? He is the son of Va-yu. He is known as the Va-yu putra. He thus represents the Prana-vayu in this interpretation. The prana is the string using which the kundalini or Shakti, meets Shiva. 

Another incident in the Ramayana is where the army of Vanaras is assembled in the south of India wondering how to cross the ocean. This is the story, the yogic truth follows.

The Va-naras are standing at the manipuraka chakra. But are confused on how to cross the Swadishthana chakra to reach the mooladhara.

Swadhithana chakra is located near the sexual organs. It is of the element of water. It this watery chakra that is worrying the Lord's army. Being associated with sex, many will get entrapped here. 

So who comes to the rescue? It is none other than Bajrang Bali, the eternal brahmachari! Who else but a true brahmachari will be able to cross an ocean of lust without getting entangled in it? So the prana can help you transcend the pitfalls of Swadishthana as well!

 What about the other Va-naras? They crossed with the help of Ram-naam. Even a stone with the name of Raam on it floated on this water and took the army across. Jai Shri Ram!

And what did Hanumana do with Lum-ka? He burned it. He purified the chakra thus preparing the ground for the progress of the shakti. It is also interesting to note that he used his tail in burning the 'city'. Because the vestigal tail is what is referred to at times as Kundalini and it rests behind the 'monkey' bone. In other words the prana-shakti burned the impurities of Lum-kaara. The impurities were gold, in other words attractive. But he burned it to purify.

In fact Hanumans depiction as a monkey or va-naara is itself very interesting to me. A monkey has complete control over his tail. In other words, Hanumana has complete control over his Shakti. He can move it at will to where he wants. This is also the esoteric interpretation of the symbolism if Hanumana.

I've been told to not reveal somethings publicly, but yesterday this came out in a flow when talking with some like-minded people and I feel I can put this in the public domain.