Moon and Cycle of death and rebirth

Bijoy Misra bmisra at FAS.HARVARD.EDU
Sat Dec 30 20:18:15 UTC 2000


On Sat, 30 Dec 2000, Sudalaimuthu Palaniappan wrote:

> Dear List members,
>
> I would appreciate if anybody could tell me if in any of the ancient north
> Indian traditions, the moon is described as exemplifying the nature of life
> as consisting of waxing and waning, dying and being born again. Thanks in
> advance.
>
See bhAgavata purANa, the section on avadhuta in 11th skandha.
Moon is fifth or sixth teacher and will talk as above.

Happy New Year!

BM





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