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I think this is very interesting and worth looking at more and more.

I will be returning to this post, and sharing thoughts once they

formulate in ways I feel will be understood.

 

, "NMadasamy" <nmadasamy@s...>

wrote:

> 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)

>

>

>

> ************************

>

> 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?

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