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creative manifestation. Ila is the subjective creative force, which emanating
from the Creative Deity, becomes the manifest world of speech. She is often
described as the celestial Saraswati, the voice that arises from the silent
Brahman.
Ida as another name of Saraswati is the channel through which the creative
impulse expresses itself in its concretization process. It is necessarily
feminine in character as it is the receptacle for the downpour of the creative
Ray represented by Mercury. To make speech effective in its generative
mission, it requires the positive creative intelligence of Mercury. The
creative intelligence by itself is not productive since in its primeval state it is
pure subjectivity. It must blend itself with a channel which is creative and
functions as a receptacle. This emphasizes the importance of androgynous
Ha or Ida. Budha, the subjective intelligence requiring a channel for its
creative mission, is married with Ida, the creative channel, to originate and
perpetuate the Lunar dynasty of kings. The mystifying changes in Ida's sex
take place because she has to act both as a creative agency, which is
primarily a masculine function, while she is also a receptacle, an incubating
agency which is a feminine.
Uniting with Ida, Mercury represents the positive, masculine, creative power
described in the Tantras as Shiva tattwa, the truth of Shiva or pure being.
However the intelligence principle in man, which Mercury represents, is
passive in character. This is why Mercury is considered androgynous. Ida,
which functions as the concretizing counterpart of Mercury must also have
the characteristics of both forces: it must be androgynous acting in such a
way that it plays the passive role when Mercury is active in operation,
reassuming its active role when Mercury reverts to its natural state of
passive awareness. Ida or Ila as an offspring of Manu is basically masculine
in character but was transformed in order to unite with Mercury. The
marriage of the two results in the blending of their consciousness at a high
level of the oneness of life. This was the seed essential for the propagation of
the Lunar (representing the life-giving) dynasty of kings. Since Budha,
representing Intelligence or Mind, is basically feminine, its harmonious
unification can only be achieved with a partner who is basically masculine.
The Buddha-nature, which is expressed as the urge for enlightenment, is
inborn in every individual. Each mind has the quality of enlightenment,
Bodlii, in potential form, but its activation cannot be induced by any external
agency. To be effective, the energy which enables the mind to comprehend
has to be sui generis, unique, not dependent upon any external factor or
support. The aspiration aroused by external factors cannot wrest control over
the secret energy that is the Kundalini or Serpent Fire.