LalithA SahasranAma [666] bhUmarUpA

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bhUmarUpA : Aggregate of all existening things.

 

The VedAnta-Sutra [i.3.8] establishes that BhUmA means Brahman. This

is described in the ChA. Up [VII. 23], "Where one does not see

anything else, nor hears anything else.... that which is infinite

[bhUman] is bliss."

 

Or the previous name means "She is one," but this, "She is many". The

Devi Pr. says, "Though she is one by limitations she is everywhere

cognized as many [bhUmA]. As the crystal is coloured by the

transmission of different colours so by the qualities Devi is

described as BhUmA. Just as one cloud becomes many retaining the same

nature and colours, so UmA [becomes many} through the qualities. Just

as the rain from the sky assumes various tastes according to the

soil, so UmA is through the qualities. Just as the wind which is one

takes on different odours, fragrant and otherwise, so UmA through the

qualities. Just as the one gArhapatya fire takes different names such

as daksina and Ahavaniya fires, so Devi is said by the wise to be one

and many. Hence supreme devotion to her should be practised for the

attainment of all objects" The KUrma Pr. also says, "The One energy,

the wife of KAma becomes many through limitation. In his presence she

disports herself through limitations in many forms."

 

 

BhAskararAya's Commentary

Translated into English by R. Ananthakrishna Sastry

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She is the form of BhUmA, the basis of all experience. "Yatra nAnyat

pasyati, nAnyat srnoti, nAnyat vijAnAti, sa bhUma: Where nothing is

seen, heard or known, that state of consciousness is BhUmA" (Cha.

Up. 7-24-1).

 

- Dr. C. Suryanarayana Murthy, Commentary on the Sri Lalita

Sahasranama, 1962.

 

 

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

wrote:

>

>

> bhUmarUpA : Aggregate of all existening things.

>

> The VedAnta-Sutra [i.3.8] establishes that BhUmA means Brahman.

This

> is described in the ChA. Up [VII. 23], "Where one does not see

> anything else, nor hears anything else.... that which is infinite

> [bhUman] is bliss."

>

> Or the previous name means "She is one," but this, "She is many".

The

> Devi Pr. says, "Though she is one by limitations she is everywhere

> cognized as many [bhUmA]. As the crystal is coloured by the

> transmission of different colours so by the qualities Devi is

> described as BhUmA. Just as one cloud becomes many retaining the

same

> nature and colours, so UmA [becomes many} through the qualities.

Just

> as the rain from the sky assumes various tastes according to the

> soil, so UmA is through the qualities. Just as the wind which is

one

> takes on different odours, fragrant and otherwise, so UmA through

the

> qualities. Just as the one gArhapatya fire takes different names

such

> as daksina and Ahavaniya fires, so Devi is said by the wise to be

one

> and many. Hence supreme devotion to her should be practised for

the

> attainment of all objects" The KUrma Pr. also says, "The One

energy,

> the wife of KAma becomes many through limitation. In his presence

she

> disports herself through limitations in many forms."

>

>

> BhAskararAya's Commentary

> Translated into English by R. Ananthakrishna Sastry

>