Leo 123requires the full-fledged help of Leo. During the first
phases, Leo is called the dog in the Ve-dic and Pura-n.ic
symbolism. In its higher functions, it is called the lion.
Dog is the symbol of vigilance. It keeps awake at the gates
between heaven and hell (the bliss and the misery of life).
Prayers should be loudly uttered by the student of
the first three levels so that he can fix up his mind on his
own sound and its import. The import of the sounds in
prayer is God, the form of God being only according to
the comprehension of the student. His very physical
sound is the three-headed dog of Leo. Musical utterance
requires sound as vehicle which is composed of three main
scales with seven subscales each. “Seven are the layers
(of sound) and three times seven are the sticks of fuel for
the Purusha.”* Mantrams work only as sound vibrations
at this stage. As the student gradually attunes his voice to
music, his voice is raised from the sound of lower Leo to
the music of Cancer and then to the regulation of Pra-n.a in
Gemini. Then only, he can utter forth the voice of Taurus.
The word of the average man has no effect upon others
except through motives. This state is represented by Leo
which stands 90 degrees apart from Taurus. When this
fourth part of the circle is covered by the student in the
path of the reversed process (the path of the equinoxes),
his word is no more conditioned by motive. His is the
word of love, which controls and helps the transformation
of the fellow-beings. The Dog-Star has a mysterious
relationship with the sign Leo. The vibrations of the
sounds of this star are so high as to be inaudible to the ear
of the ordinary man. Dogs on this earth contain the
vibrations of the Dog-Star. They can hear the whistles or
- Purushasu-kta.