LalithA SahasranAma [633] UmA [Footnote]

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

wrote:

>

>

> U, Siva, mA, Laksmi or U, Siva, mA limits. Or umA rose colour,

also

> saffron colour, fame, brightness. For it is said {MArk.

Pr.], "Devi

> who resides as brightness in all creatures." The Visva, "UmA,

means

> china rose, daughter of Himavat mountains, saffron, fame and

> brightness"

>

> Or U, note of interrogation, mA negation : when the Devi was

> performing penance she was forbidden by her mother. The Kalika Pr.

> says, "Because when she was forbidden to go to the forest to

perform

> penance she was called UmA [ not to go]" The same story is

repeated in

> the BrahmA. Pr. an din Puskara Khanda of the PAdma Pr.

>

> Or U. Superior, mA, a certain mental modification. The SU .Sam

[iV.

> 1.20] says, "I adore the supreme experience which destroys the

noose

> of earthly existence, which purifies even SadAsiva, called UmA,

which

> produces the bright state and manifests in many kinds of worlds"

>

> Or UmA : U, MA and A which form Pranava meaning respectively,

BrahmA,

> Rudra and Visnu; and many other meanings of Pranava also are to be

> taken here. Therefore those who know the secret call this [umA]

devi

> Pranava. In LingA Pr. Svia says to Devi, "In my Pranava there are

A-U-

> MA, and U-MA and A are in the order in your Pranava, with the

three

> notes [mAtrAs] and with the highest pluta"

>

> The MahAvAsistha says, "UmA is so called because it contains the

> essence of the Pranava"; again "IMA is the IndukalA which ever

> inspires the hearts of all beings in the three worlds asleep and

> awake". In the commentary it is explained thus; "In the heart of

all

> beings, whether asleep or awake there is a cavity whence arises

the

> sound being produced without contrast which is Sabdabrahman, the

> Pravana, without the letters A, etc. The cavity is Siva, and in

his

> head there is an IndukalA, which is the form of bindu." The

VAyavIya

> sam, also, "Om is the mono-syllabled Brahman.... in the head of

linga

> is to be heard the sound that has half-an-accent."

>

> The Hansa. Up [v.8] describing the different things situated in

the

> petals of the lotus of the heart, says, "In the linga sleep

[arises];

> when the lotus is left the turiya state [arises]; and when the

hamsa

> [jiva] is absorbed in the nAda which is at the head of linga, the

> state beyond the fourth arises" [ see foot note ]

 

 

My apology I miss the footnote.

 

Footnote : NArayana, the commentator, on the above Up, explains,

linga means the Puritat NAdi. "When the lous is left" means gone to

nirAlamba place which is above the lotus.