Kumari [ Digest Number 1511]

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mahahradanatha wrote: I have found out that the exact opposite of

Seriousness is sincerity

 

Like our great great grandfather Dattatreya is described as:

 

dattatreya hare krishna unmattanandadayaka digambara mune balapisaca

jnanasagara

 

we should try to follow his example and return to innocence and

Immortality.

 

Which throws additional light on why our beautiful lady is not older

than 16 years.....

 

Sri vidya and Tantra contains a biological science concerned with

the hormonal cycle and its change in puberty where chemical

inhibitors are produced in the brain to allow our normal "serious"

adult functioning.

 

The yound child the kumari and the bhairav are the oracles of the

divine because in childhood the Amrit Hormone is still produced -

thats why the first menstruation or ejaculation marks the fall from

innocence being the outward sign of the biological change.

 

We need Yoga or sadhana to reprogram the body (and soul and mind )

to again return to that state of Sahaja (Spontaneous Naturalness)

 

 

 

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hmmmmmmm now we are getting serious. Thanks for that insight

especially on Kumari. Ive been doing a lot of thinking about

Kumari. Somebody asked me about the significant of the Kumari Pooja

[ see pics in our photo gallery] several days back. I wanted to go

via the biological approach but my anatomy and physiology has gone

rusty at this moment.

 

I decided to go back to the siva sutra which reads : IcchA Saktir

umA KumAri

 

The eternal state is his whose mind has ascended by Yoga the Supreme

BhairavatA [an aspect of Siva]. To that Yogin the energy of desire

comes by degrees, that energy is called ParAbhattArikA {Supreme

Queen]. She is known as the 'unmarried' [Kumari]. As Sport, she

creates the universe from SadAsiva to the earth [36 tattvas]; hence

she is kumAri. She destroys [mArayate] the ground [ku] of the great

illusion [hence she is kumAri]. KumAri is enjoyer of everything.

KumAri is not to be enjoyed by the Yogin who is the Bhairava

himself, who can enjoy everything [except kumAri] as she is one with

the enjoyer. KumAri is umA, she who has renouncedd all attachment

and is chiefly devoted to the Lord. Such is the IcchAsakti in

Yogins; this is the easy path discovered by the great teachers

[anuttaradesikas]"

 

KumAri is umA, she who has renouncedd all attachment and is chiefly

devoted to the Lord.

 

[above translated into english with introduction by Jaideva Singh.

>From the text of the Sutras and the commentary Vimarsini of

KsemarAja]

 

If you look at the story of Kumari. When Punyakshi learned of the

divine deception, her fury knew no bounds. She kicked over the pots

of food prepared for her wedding celebration -- and they turned into

the colored sands found on the southern shores of India to this day.

Several demons offered to marry her instead and satisfy her

longings, but she became enraged at their audacity and tore out

their hearts. She then stood on the seashore beside her village,

facing the sea, and vowed not to move until she was reunited with

her Shiva at the end of time. The scholar Devdutt Patatnaik

observes, "The cult of the virgin is popular in many parts of India.

It is believed that when a woman does not enjoy the company of

husband and children, her creative energy bottles up inside her and

becomes destructive. This bottled energy is feared and hence

worshiped."

 

As I see it, kumari is the Supreme Power that you seek to invoke

inorder to help you to remain focus in your sadhana. She remain fix

to be united with Siva and no other, the other devas tried to

persuade her, the demons tried to pacify her by offering to

marry her, all are being torn into pieces by her.

 

Is SHE angry because she cannot get married?

 

No I believe Her fury is towards those who think her love/devotion

towards Siva is superficial. If your love is pure, it can never be

replace by another.

 

She is the DEVI that breaks all illusion

 

Maybe time to open up those pathophysiology book again. It might

help to explain a lot of things.

 

What do you all think?