Virabhadra:Spiritual - TheosophyDictionary on Virabhadra

Virabhadra (Sanskrit) Heroically beneficent or benevolent; an avatara of Siva, the patron of occult study and achievement. Ancient Indian myth represents him as a monster to human vision, being a thousand-headed and thousand-armed entity born of the breath of Siva-Rudra -- Siva under his form of Rudra, and therefore the great destroyer because regenerator. In the Mahabharata, Siva commissions this entity "to destroy the sacrifice prepared by Daksha. Then Virabhadra, 'abiding in the region of the ghosts (ethereal men). . . . created from the pores of the skin (Romakupas), powerful Raumas, (or Raumyas): (SD 2:182-3). This allegory refers in human history to the evolution of the "sweat-born" or second root-race and the destruction of the remnants of the first root-race.

Cosmically Siva-Rudra is the active force of mahat (cosmic mind), both regenerative and destructive; and following the same line of thought Virabhadra in his human application has reference to the incessant effort of the manasaputras to break forth through the veils of maya to bring mind to the mentally somnolent or imperfectly awakened earliest human races. Hence, the reference to Virabhadra as thousand-headed, -eyed, or -armed may likewise be applied to mind -- for mind is not only all seeing but all performing and all wise.

(See also: Virabhadra , Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Body mind and Soul)

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