Repost/umaa sahasram

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, Harsha wrote:

> Repost:

>

> I had come across this fascinating story about Ramana Maharshi and

> Kavyakantha Ganapati Muni sometime ago. It is the story of how Uma

Sahasram

> who will want to read by candle lights.

>

> Love to all

> Harsha

>

> BEGIN QUOTE:

>

> Another work of great repute is Uma sahasram. This was composed

> by Kavyakantha Ganapati Muni, who 'named' a brahmana swami called

> Venkataramanan as Sri Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi. A great exponent of

> mantra, tantra, he was so adept in Sanskrit that He could compose

> hundreds of verses extempore. One day, He decided to compose 1000

> verses and announced to his devotees in various parts of the country

> that this poem would be dedicated on a certain Friday in the Shrine

of

> It is noteworthy that whereas Sri Kavyakanta revised the first 700

> verses of this monumental work some six times; he did not revise any

> of the last 300. This being Sri Bhagavan's own utterance, there was

no

> need to polish them.'These 300 verses are to be considered as Sri

> Bhagavan's unique contribution to Sanskrit poetry on the Divine

> Mother.

>

> The 'Uma Sahasram' is different from other compositions in that it

is

> pasyanti vak, i.e., revealed by the Divine Mother in Her own words.

>

> The Sanskrit bhashya by Kapali Sastri is available. So is the

english

> translation of certain verses by M.P.Pandit and published by Ganesh

> publishers, Madras in 1983.

 

Namaste,IMO,

 

Yes I saw this on Harsha. However it is only related to advaita in

the same way Sankara said Bhaja Govindam. That is, it is a

manifestation of the Krishna mind, Goddess, Saguna Sakti etc. In

other words our own Higher Self Mind, and it is useful for Bhakti and

dvaita as a form of concentration. It is related to the spiritual

level of the audience. I use bhajans and other forms of

concentration, which affect my lower self mind and help my higher to

meditate. My lower self mind believes in their reality, my higher

intellect tells me otherwise.........ONS...Tony.