Sri Lalita Trishati (38. ejadanekajagadIshvarI)

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|| AUM mahAgaNapataye namaH ||

|| AUM shrI sha.karAchAryavaryAya namaH ||

|| AUM shrImAtre namaH ||

 

38. ejadanekajagadIshvarI

She who is the ruler of many worlds vibrant with life.

 

"ejat" means vibrant with vitality. "ejadanekajagat" indicates the worlds (many

many of them) which are vibrant with life have embodied living beings. (It

should be noted that by embodied not only the physical body is meant. sUkShma

and kAraNa sharirams are also some form of embodiment. But normally by

disembodied being, one that is stripped of the physical body is meant). SHE is

the "IshvarI" of these worlds. By life, even non-moving beings likes trees are

to be included. Even though they do not manifest the knowldge of obtaining weal

and preventing woes (often), they do show life giving functions like growing,

drinking water etc. The word "jagat" includes both moving and non-moving

things. Otherwise the shruti "sarveShu bhUteshu" will be restricted only to

moving things. It is a convention that when there is no contradiction, a word,

besides its ordinary literal meaning, should means also implied extraordinary

intrepretation. Otherwise the brahman as cause of the creation becomes limited

to moving things only. That is why the word "ejat" is used here. All living

beings depend on hiraNyagarbha for their creation, who is based on HER, SHE

rules them all.

 

AUM ejadanekajagadIshvaryai namaH