THE SWASTIKA
and its uses and meanings inside and outside of Vajrayana Buddhism and �satr� Subtitle: Advocating the Swastica
When many of people see a swastica cross, the first reminds to the Second World War and the Nazi. Indeed, Adolf Hitler was used badly t'is symbol. But we must note that the nazi wasn't and isn't not the only beholder of t'is sacred symbol. This symbol art with us since the beggining of the human kind and maybe before... Swastika word came from sanskrit. The root "Svas" mean Goodness and/or benevolence. Many of ye maybe asking now: "So, why then, Hitler used such symbol to make many of people suffer under this one?". Calm down, please. Surely I will explain it latter. For now we must understand that the swastika have many types and is presented in many cultures. (Even between the Jews. Is it not Ironic nah?) The Swastika is called in japanese as Man-ji and is considereed one (or two) of the many kanji characters. This Man-ji means Goodness and art generally meaning Good Fortune. In Japan, it was know to be brough by Buddhism. The four spronged one that is more knowed can be called as Solar Wheel too 'cause these wheel symbolise the Solar Annual Year with the four seasons. This four spronged swastika have two types. Clockwise and Counterclockwise. The Clockwise Swastika represents all creacting forces in Universe. The another Unclockwise Swastika, of course, means Entrophy (The Natural Forces that work for the ending of the Universe). In an abrahamic dualistic view point, it may be understood as Good and Evil. But the reality is not so simply. The two sides of the Swastika have its bad and good sides as all in the Nature. By example, we can imagine that the unclock- wise swastika means the "Evil" simply 'cause its meaning of Universal Destruction, but if the force that t'is Swastika don't exist, what will destroy the Old and decay things for give places to the Birthing of the New things? And we can imagine too that the clockwise Swastika means the good nah? Well... If All things is borning, borning and borning, and everythings never end, the changing nature of the Universe will stop and we will be doomed with the Danger of the Stagnation... Imagine seeds that turn to be litle plants but never will give its fruits. Imagine People starving in this hipothetically world because these plants never give the fruits and never dying, doomed with the feeling of the starvation without and end. Ye can say that the people can eats the little plants, but since everything never dies, the plant will not be consumed by thy body or thy stomach don't stoping thy starving. And else, these ones will cause another pain in thy body as thou hast eaten some stones as meals. And if thou hast taken a sickness, that ye would never be cured, since the bacteria, virus and other things never would die too. That is because the Vajrayana Buddhism have a symbol generally used in a throne of an Great Acarya(jp. Ajari) or Lama (in tibetan Buddhism) with two swastikas in the botton. One Clockwise and Another Unclockwise. Between these two, art an double crossed Vajra (the same that the atribute of the Amoghasiddhi, one of the 5 Dhyani Buddhas(jap. Gonin Nyorai)) meaning the dual activity of the vajra-body. These symbol means that Buddhism is in the middle-way. Without tendency for one creacting force or another Destroying force of Nature. Working only in favor of the Ending of All Sufferings of the sentient beings.
In ancient Norse tradition we can see the swastika being called as the Thor's Hammer. In This tratidion, t'is symbol was used as protection against evil forces and was used by Einherjars (Great Warriors or Heroes who fighted to the death for Justice, for they own people, etc). We can see t'is Symbol in the scealta (celtic) culture and many others, as Greek, Jewish, North American Indians and much more. We can see too in the Palm of the hindu God Ganesha (the elephant faced God of good fortune), and in The Breast of Vishnu (The God who protect the Universe, one of the Trimurti) and even in the breast of the Chakravartin rajam (the wheel rolling kings) as one of the 32 signs of the Universal honored one's body. So, we can see its symbol too in the breast of the Shakyamuni Buddha too. As it was explained before, the clockwise swastika is not evil or good itself, nor the unclockwise. And the clockwise represents the creaction forces and the unclockwise represents the destruction forces. Hitler was used the unclockwise swastika to use her powers in aid of his destructive works and because the swastika is a so ancient symbol that it is a part of the germanic people sub-conscience archaetipal. As it was already explained, the swastika is a universal archaetipal symbol. Under various shapes, it can be found in the aztec, buddhist, chinese, japanese, denmark, hindu, tibetan (buddhism and bompo), native americans, saxons and scandinaves peoples religion. The mere word swastika comes from the sanskrit word "svas" (goodness) and the entire word "swastika" means "All is good". It is believed that it is derivated from the solar ring or from the greek cross inside a circle, that constitute another important symbol amongst the Hallristinger characters. It denotes the daily sun movement across the sky and the annual season circles, ritualistically refered in the observance of the pagan religion. In the extreme orient, the swastika is acknowledged in all places as a symbol of good healthy, happiness and cosmic perfection. It exists some indices that the swastika was used by the Church under the medieval age, even if the German National Socialist Party addopted it as their politic symbol because it is a pagan symbol. Nigel Pennick, who extensively writened about the swastika than the runes, has said that the mitra used by Thomas Beckett when he was assassined, showed its edge filled with many swastikas. It was a pagan inscription too: "Hail, Oh Earth, Mankind Mother. Shall thee be prosperous in the God's embrace and be inundated by fruits to the men's welfare". It was whispered that Beckett has some clandestine conections with the Old Pagan Religion than the cartarians Heretic religion, and that his death was a ritual murder. Pennick said also about the kristjan uses of Swastika in a stained-glass window of the Saint Sepulchre church, in Cambridge, and in a church in Cliffory, in the Sligo county where still have a stone of unknow age with a celtic cross and a swastika carved on. All these kristjans examples could be pagan remnicenses, but what we can say about the swastika that was found in the ruins of an ancient sinagogue at the east of Jordan River, as mentioned by Pennick? The Swastika is directly conected with the runes by the Hallristinger characters [the ancestral characters of the runic futhark alphabet,
according to many researchers, and maybe it was used by the Vanir worship that existed before the aesir worship in north europe, since these characters is from the stone age or neolithic times. Halristinger characters hast used as strong nature force symbols with shamanical purposes, then I suppose it was used in Sei�r in the past], as well the fact it is frequently found near runic symbols. A classical example of that is the fammous menir of Hogby, in Sweden. T'is menir is covered with several runes that was carved on its surface, as well some greek crosses, crosses of the kristjan calvary, wyrms and swastikas. Pennick tells about the scandinavian influence oven the neighbour Finland, that hast native shamanistic traditions too. Even in 1939, airplanes of the Finnish Airforce hast used swastikas in their wings. Both militar and civil medals emmited by Finland government at this time was with swastika in the design. But since the german troops invaded France in 1940, the swastika disapeared, with the obvious exeption of the nazi flags. In the early years around 1930 C.E., the british writer Rudyard Kipling hast ordered that the swastika, a symbol that was addorned on all of his books, to be retired. Kipling don't advogated the national-socialism; as a passionated lover of India, he used the swastika in its old meaning, as a good fortune charm. The National-Socialism [Nazi] adopted the swastika because it is a symbol that has a great meaning to the arian "race" or to the Indo-European folks. According to their political ideology, an arian was any non-judaic folk whose ancestry was teutonic or nordic. The word "arian" comes from the sanskrit "arya" and means "noble". It refers to the people who was warriors and fighters, and appeared near the Caspian sea with their own independent ethnical identity around 3000 B.C.E. In India, these arian caste is represented by the brahman caste [the priesthood caste] and the Warrior caste know in sanskrit as Ks'atrya. These proto-indo-european folks was the ancestral folks of the romans, germanic, greeks, slavonians, iranians, and according to some researches, of the Central america's Mayan folks, that means of course, the Brazil native Indians whose ancestry is direct conected with the mayan, to have a conection with the Indo-European folks. These ones formed the basis of the nowaddays severan ethnical branches of the european family. More than that, the swastika is an warrior charm that help the warrior to be granted with victory on a battle. Through the forces involved is not infalible, the german army that was not the most powerful at the beggining of the II world war, conquered almost of the Europe and they lost the war only for a tactical error of Adolph Hitler in trying to conquer Russia at a very wrong season time. As a charm, the swastika was not good, NOR evil, but only a tool that could be handed by a evil or a good hand. This is the reasons that we cannot deny the holyness of the swastika and cannot blamme it for the crimes perpretated by the nazi as in the same way, we can't blamme a knife of assassination in the hands of a murderer. All the fault is in the hands of the murderer. The same knife can still be used to save someone's life or prepare some meals. The Swastika still being a powerful symbol, and it still can be used to several positives issues.
And why not?
It can even
be again a inspirative symbol of compassion and benevolence. A Word Against Intolerance I, writened this article, because I consider my duty, as a Heathen, to act in defense not only of Our Troth [faith, way], but for the good name of our Elder Kin [The Aesir, Vanir and Jotnar. Our Gods] and our Old Sacred Symbols. I am tired of those crimminals who make dirty not only the name of our troth, but the name of one of our most sacred symbols. And in the same way, I am tired of certain religious leaders of kristendoom who still bad-mouthing the swastika as a nazi symbol only with the purpose to promote hatred and religious intolerance against heathenism. Here in t'is work, I made evident that even the kristendoom uses of the swastika in an attempt to shut-up these bad-mouths of its kristjan thurses. The anti-semitism feelings in some germans have only kristjan origins. It origins in the myth that it was the jews who killed their Jesus. A person that have no meaning to us, and even I have serious doubts he has existed in historical sence since there is no valid evidence of that. In that way, heathens have no reason to hate jews, or anybody just because their art different. Of course I would be against those jews who art against the goyin [the non-judaic folk], because I am not a jew, and it is a racism that is also against me, but why would I be against a jew who practices religious and ethnical tolerance? I don't like their abrahamic values, and of course that is why I am a heathen instead of a jew, but their are free to apply their values between their folk as the same way we are free to apply our values between our folk. Hatred is a natural feeling of Human Beings,
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