Sri Lalita Trishati (159. kalpavallI samabhujA)

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159. kalpavallI samabhujA

She whose arms are like kalpavallI, the wish granting creeper.

 

In the garden, nandana, like divine trees, creepers also exist and

they are well known. kalpa means one that grants gifts. Hence,

kalpavallI denotes a creeper which can grant gifts. HER arms are

like that kalpavallii in giving gifts to HER devotees. Hence, SHE

is called kalpavalliisamabhujA. Here it is to be assumed that

according to poetic tradition, arms of a woman are compared to

creepers.

 

In this name the aptness of the word "sama" suggests that creepers

also like living beings have power to grant the desires of persons

according to their past deeds, by the virtue of awareness within.

 

Here are doubt can arise, "How can there be a comparison of arms

of paradevata with a creeper? But it can be answered by the

following argument. According to the kaThopaniShad verse 5-9,

"ekastatha sarvabhUta.ntarAtma rUpaM rUpaM pratirUpo babhuva"

which means: The one Self, in every created being becomes many of

HER forms in extension. Further, in bhagavad gItA verse 10-14,

"tattade vAvagachCha tvaM mama tejoMshasambavaM" which means "All

things are born from a part of my life", bhagavAn recalls HIS

presence in every substance as sat-chit-Ananda. It is also proper

that a limited consciousness (HER image) is compared with another

limited consciousness (creeper).

 

AUM kalpavalliisamabhujAyai namaH