LalithA SahasranAma [704] sarasvati

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Why should we make a difference between a pot and a cloth as their

apparent difference is simply illusory according to [previous] rule?

The foregoing name answers the question.

 

sarasvati is the deity who presides over knowledge, ie. she is the

form of the ocean of the knowledge. That means non-sensuous knowledge.

The meaning is that though in the understanding of ordinary objects

such as "pot etc" no bewilderment arises, as Bh-gitA [V.15]

says, "Knowledge is covered by nescience hence people are bewildered,"

and it is necessary to confuse sinful men because they are devoid of

divine grace : to conceal from them the knowledge of non-duality which

is the highest human desires and which removes all sorrow.

 

According to Dhaumya, Sarasvati is a girl of two years of age. The

BhAradvAja-smr says, "Sarasvati is she who ever resides in the tongue

of all beings and who causes speech, hence she is called Sarasvati by

great rsis". The VAsistha-RAmAyana also says, "She is called Sarasvati

because she is the stream of sense-impression"[see footnote]

 

 

 

BhAskararAya's Commentary

Translated into English by R. Ananthakrishna Sastry.

 

 

[Foot note}

Bh-NArA: Saras the flow [of nectar] from Brahmarandhra, vati, the

possessor.

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SaraswatI is the form She takes to dispel the confusion or moha

mentioned in the previous name [703/sarva-mohinI], and to give jNAna

of the advaita or the absolute. SaraswatI is Her power as jNAna sakti.

 

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

Sahasranama, 1962

 

 

, "NMadasamy" <nmadasamy

wrote:

>

>

>

> Why should we make a difference between a pot and a cloth as their

> apparent difference is simply illusory according to [previous]

rule?

> The foregoing name answers the question.

>

> sarasvati is the deity who presides over knowledge, ie. she is the

> form of the ocean of the knowledge. That means non-sensuous

knowledge.

> The meaning is that though in the understanding of ordinary objects

> such as "pot etc" no bewilderment arises, as Bh-gitA [V.15]

> says, "Knowledge is covered by nescience hence people are

bewildered,"

> and it is necessary to confuse sinful men because they are devoid

of

> divine grace : to conceal from them the knowledge of non-duality

which

> is the highest human desires and which removes all sorrow.

>

> According to Dhaumya, Sarasvati is a girl of two years of age. The

> BhAradvAja-smr says, "Sarasvati is she who ever resides in the

tongue

> of all beings and who causes speech, hence she is called Sarasvati

by

> great rsis". The VAsistha-RAmAyana also says, "She is called

Sarasvati

> because she is the stream of sense-impression"[see footnote]

>

>

>

> BhAskararAya's Commentary

> Translated into English by R. Ananthakrishna Sastry.

>

>

> [Foot note}

> Bh-NArA: Saras the flow [of nectar] from Brahmarandhra, vati, the

> possessor.

>