Fwd: Article sent from The Hindu: Devotional Work on Divine Mother

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Namaste,

Continuing in the same vein about Saundarya Lahari, Prof Abhirama Sundaram,

who happens to be my friend, philosopher and guide, was mentioning about a

project - that I thought would interest the members of this list. The

project involves the making of a cd with explanations of the saundarya

lahari slokas. Sumitra Vasudev, a student of Smt R. Vedavalli, has rendered

the slokas . Prof Abhirama Sundaram has provided the explanations about the

tantric and mantra aspects involved in them. He further mentioned that the

first part of 41 slokas are completed and the release of the cd is expected

sometime in August. When I get more details I will give an update.

 

Regards

Aarathi.

 

-

Ram Chandran

Saturday, July 28, 2001 5:42 AM

Fwd: Article sent from The Hindu: Devotional Work on

Divine Mother

 

 

 

In his discourse, Sri Abhirama Sundaram said the Saundarya Lahari

had to be interpreted esoterically to understand its import

though literally it describes the beauty of the Divine Mother

from Her head to Her toe. The hymn in 100 verses is divided into

three sections for purpose of interpretation. Sakti here is

portrayed as the embodiment of love and grace as the mother of

all beings. One of the verses of this hymn describes that the

entire creation proceeds from Her. Not only does She create this

universe, Sakti sustains it by Her grace and also is responsible

for its dissolution.