Goddess of the Week : Bhairavi

[Guest guest]

A hymn in praise of Bhairavi

 

You are so subtle that the gods cannot describe you. You area the

source of the worlds and have no beginning. You have three eyes, a

beautiful face, and four hands in which you hold a book and a rosary

and with which you make the signs of assurance and giving favours.

You are the source of speech, of everything graceful, the source of

the universe itself. You wear the moon. You hold a jar of amrta [

immortality nectar ] and make the gesture of exposition/teaching.

When Siva and Vishnu are worshiped, you are there to be worshiped as

well. You are also Brahma, where speech abides. You are the nature of

consciousness; you control the vital air, and by granting yogic

powers you defeat the six kinds of passions : sexual lust, greed,

delusion; intoxication, jealousy and anger. Siva having obtained half

of your body [ in his half man/half woman form ] was then empowered

to create the world. The worlds cannot be created without you. After

worshipping you, the wives of the siddhas [ heavenly beings] becomes

red eyed because of drinking too much wine. They sing your names

along with the kinnarus [ heavenly beings]. We worship you who is as

the coiled serpent [ kundalini] goes to the city of Siva after

passing along the susumna nadi making all the lotuses bloom [ an

illusion to the awakening and rising of the kundalini, representing

consciousness]. We worship you who are bathed with a flow of nectar.

You are the source of all Vedas; your form is consciousness itself.

You are the crerator of the world in the form of sound and meanings.

You maintain the world by your power as the sun, and you dissolve the

world in your form as fire. Narayani, Gauri and Sarasvati are also

your names.

 

Sarada-Tilaka 12.81-95, page 534 – 537