LalithA SahasranAma: Kul’Amrtaika’raiskA

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Kul'Amrtaika'raiskA : She has the special taste of the nectar

of kula

 

After describing the form of Devi, in BrahmAnda, he now proceeds to

describe her subtlest form called Kundalini in the pindAnda [ in the

body ]. That Kundalini in the MulAdhAra, sleeping in three and half

coils, roused by Yogins, breaks through the six cakras as well as

the three knots, called Brahma, Visnu, and rudra-granthis and

proceeding to the SahasrAra, from the moon's orb, which is the

pericarp of the lotus, she causes the nectar to flow; even those who

are not Yogins attain all these advantages by mere thinking [bhAvanA]

 

Kula, genus. This is one common knowledge of the triad of the known,

the knowing and the knowledge. When one says "I know the

pot," there thought alone remains, and if that requires another

knowledge it is as if one light requires another light [to

illuminate it]. So he traid is called kula. The CidgaganacandrikA

says, "kula is the measurer, the thing to be measured and the

measuring." There are thirty two lotuses [in the body] some facing

upwards, and some downwards; there are described in the

Svacchandasamgraha and other works. Amongst these, the lowest one is

called akula because it has no connection with the traid [measurer,

etc]; and the other lotuses which are above it are called kulas.

{in the setubandha, the same commentator, enumerates twenty-two

lotuses with their names and their proper places; but here thirty-

two lotus. Vide Yoginihrdaya,I,27]

 

Or Ku, earth and la absorption ie MulAdhAra, because, in it the

earth [tattva] is absorbed. The road of SusumnA is called Kula,

because it it connected with the MulAdhAra.

 

 

The nectar flowing from the SahasrAra is called KulAmrta, or

according to the Svacchandasamgraha, "body is called kula".

KulAmrta is so called because it is connected with the body.

 

 

BhAskararAya's Commentary

Translated into English by R. Ananthakrishna Sastry.