LalithA SahasranAma [423] dvija vrnda nisevita

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dvija vrnda nisevita: Worshipped by all the twice born.

 

She is so worshipped because she is SamdhyA. The RenukA Pr., "This

one

SamdhyA is to be worshipped by Devas, the twice-born and by great

souls, in sitting down, in lying down, in moving about, in eating and

she is RenukA herself"

 

Or, the three names [421, 422 and 423] "vyAhrti", etc means the

following three states. VyAhrti is the operation of speech and

indicates the waking state.

 

SamdhyA, because it is between the other two, indicates the dreaming

state, since the Ved. Sutra [iII. 2. 1] says, "In the intermediate

palce there is a creation, for the scriptures say so." And it means

the dreaming state.

 

Dvija means birds and hence the jivas, by all these three states she

is worshipped [sevitA] by realizing union [ni] with her. The Sleeping

state : As birds fatigued with flight, fold their wings and enter

their nests, so that tired jivas quitting the waking and dreaming

states, are absorbed in the supreme Brahman. The Br. Up [iV. 3. 19]

says, "just as in this sky a hawk or an eagle after a long flight

closing its wings goes to its nest, so this person also rushes to

that

goal, where sleeping he neither desires anything, nor dreams any

dream."

 

ChA. Up. [VI. 8. 1] also, "O child, there he becomes seized of

Brahman"

 

 

BhAskararAya's Commentary

Translated into English by R. Ananthakrishna Sastry