Commentary by Swami Vetkatesananda:

The foremost principle to be grasped in dealing with these pairs of opposites is that they are vital to all growth. Heat and cold, rain and sun, night and day are necessary for plant-growth and for the growth of our vital "vegetable"-nature. Pleasure and pain, success and failure, honour and dishonour, are necessary for the growth of our "mental"-nature, the psychological aspect which should thus be purified of its dross and cleared of misunderstanding and arrive at the saner stability of mental equilibrium. Good and evil are necessary in the same way in order to rise us above them!

It is only because we have a much too narrow vision which prevents us from seeing life as a whole, that we seek and cling to what we regard as pleasant and fight to get away from what we come to feel as unpleasant. If we rouse our wisdom and raise ourselves from the purely earth-earthy life, we shall, from the lofty heights of Yoga, enjoy the enthralling Vision of the WHOLE life, and perceive the wondrous pattern of these opposites ironically blending to create divine life. The pairs of opposites will lose their dreaded significance and will reveal their true nature as essential factors for our spiritual growth. The seed destroys itself to create the plant. The plant sacrifices itself to feed man. Man voluntarily suffers to promote his brother's welfare. The whole universe is constantly subjecting itself to this endless alternation of opposites in order that the soul may be liberated from their thraldom. He who sees thus is a sage of steady wisdom.

Commentary by Roy Littlesun:

The Archer

The Archer stretches the string, held between the two ends of the bow, backwards. Meanwhile the focus has to be held on the target. At the right moment the arrow that's held on the string is released to reach the target. The Archer is the true Self or eternal soul. The two ends of the bow is the polarity that made it possible for us to enter Great Mystery, to have an experience that at the end must be distilled into the Consciousness of ONE. The string is the realm in which the reactionary energies, culminated from the conflicts between "good and evil" are stored (the "confining belt around Earth"). The arrow is the collective being, humanity. The backwards movement of the arrow correlates with the great efforts of the oppressive order to exploit humanity through the "problem-management". Hitting the Target is the realisation of the Divine Plan. So, without the "negativity" (backwards movement of the arrow) we cannot reach the Target. Those who can keep the Focus, have the Courage to enter the decisive-battle-within and have also good Health, "they" (we) are "the ones we have been waiting for"!

However... if humanity allows the order of Anti-creation to pull the arrow (using technology) until the string breaks... then the return to the Oneness ends up with "square one". So, the Order we must follow, according to Creator's One Law, CHANGE, can be formulated as follows: "the tree (Creation) is in the Seed (Creator) and the Seed is in the Tree". ALL IS ONE.