Sri Lalita Trishati (2. kalyANI)

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2. kalyANI

She who is bliss.

 

kalyANam means AnandA or bliss. A series of this, from yuva sArva

bhaumAnAnda to brahmAnAnda are enumerated in taittrIyopanishhad.

etasyai Anandasya anyAni bhUtAni mAtra upajIvanti. Depending on a

speck of HER bliss all the creatures exist. Hence the word kalyANa

denotes all the created forms because SHE is present in all of them

who are HER various upAdhis or limitations (just as the sun, reflected

in the water in a pot is limited by the pot, so also Brahman, when HE

shines through created forms is limited by them, This form of

limitation is called upAdhi). When SHE is reflected in mAyA, SHE is

known as Ishwara, i.e., that is HER integral form, and when SHE is

reflected in the mind, is known as jIva, i.e, HER individual form.

Since SHE herself, exists in all these various limited states, of

unity or diversity, all these are HERs. kalyANI means in this context

that is SHE is nothing else except kalyANA, i.e., Ananda.

It is like calling rAhu's head. rAhu is a being without any body, but

only a head. Hence it will be superfluous in his case to say rAhu's

head, as if he has a body. Similarly SHE is kalyANA, i.e., bliss only

and nothing else.

 

AUM kalyANyai namaH