Vyakta-avyakta-svarUpiNI (LS 399)

[Guest guest]

Namaste all.

 

Vyakta-avyakta-svaruupinii

 

She is both in the manifest form and in the unmanifest

form. How can She have form when She is unmanifest?

In the Vishnu sahasranama, the word ‘avyaktaH’ occurs after

an interesting sequence of words which describe His

‘manifest’ form:

Vishva-muurtir-mahaa-mUurtiH diiptamuurtir-amuurtimaan /

Aneka-muurtir-avyaktaH ...

 

Meaning, His form is the whole universe; His form is great;

His form is dalliant; His form is non-existent; His forms

are many; He is unmanifest.

 

This quality of unmanifestness coming at the end of

epithets describing His form in a multiplicity of ways,

indicates that even after knowing about His form in several

ways,

it is not possible to pinpoint anything and say that this

is He. Therefore He is ‘unmanifest’.

 

Here the word ‘therefore’ is not mine. Sri Sankaracharya

in his commentary on Vishnu Sahasranama says at this point:

*tathA api ayaM idRRisha eva iti na vyajyate iti avyaktaH*

Therefore I used the word ‘therefore’ above!

 

There is a Tamil commentary of Lalita Sahasranamam by

Radhakrishna Sastri of Madras. There is also a Nangalnallur

edition, (author’s name I don’t remember) also in Tamil.

In both of these, the name *vyakta-avyakta-svarUpiNi* has

been commented on elaborately. I think Shri Ravi Mayavaram

has these books. I would appeal to him to translate the

portions with respect to this name and post it, if he has

time.

 

The word *avyakta* has created a lot of discussion on the

other list; so I thought, by getting into this name of

ambaaL, one might get better enlightenment.

 

Om vyaktaavyaktasvaruupiNyaii namaH.

 

PraNAms to all devotees of Mother Goddess.

profvk

 

 

Prof. V. Krishnamurthy

 

New on my website, particularly for beginners in Hindu philosophy:

Empire of the Mind:

http://www.geocities.com/profvk/HNG/ManversusMind.html

 

Free will and Divine will - a dialogue:

http://www.geocities.com/profvk/HNG/FWDW.html

[Guest guest]

Namaste all.

 

Something more on VyaktAvyakta-svarUpiNI. In the Shrimad BhagavataM

the following shloka (III-12-48) occurs in the context of the act of

Creation by Brahma.

 

shabda-brahmAtmanas-tAta vyaktAvyaktAtmanaH paraH /

brahmA-vabhAti vitataH nAna-shakty-upabRRiMhitaH //

 

meaning,

 

shabda-brahmAtmanaH: To Him (BrahmA) who has shabda-brahmaM

(transcendental Sound) as His body

vyakta-avyakta-AtmanaH : To Him (BrahmA) who has the manifested

(Speech called VaikharI) as well as the unmanifested (Pranava, that

is Omkar) as His Atman

brahma avabhAti : The Transcendental brahman manifests (itself in

Form)

vitataH nAnA-shaktyupabRRimhitaH : distributing varied energies.

 

The purport is explained by Sridhara's commentary as follows: When

BrahmA concentrates on the unmanifested praNava, the brahman

manifests. When He concentrates on manifest VaikharI the saguNa form

with multifarious energies manifest.

 

Note by VK: Still the meaning is not very clear. I am told that

there is a lot hidden in this shloka about the manifest and the

unmanifest and these things have to be learnt only from SriVidyA

upAsakas!

 

PraNAms to all Devotees of Mother Goddess.

profvk

[Guest guest]

I bow to great devotees of Amba bhavAni - srI mahA rAjni,

 

I cannot remember independently,sequentially praising HER as

Vyakta SwaroopiNi, avyakta swaroopni.

But I always came to know the always tied up word - "vyaktAvyakta" !.

 

Prakriti as mirror make shiva(avyakta) to have a vision of himself in her.

This vision - means - Shiva gets knowledge/vyakta about himself.

Shiva who is avyakta all the time, with the help of shakti-the-mirror;

jnAtvA his svabhava/or his svabhava gets vyaktam - becomes not just

avyakta, but "vyakta-avyakta"!

 

This is just my thought, I do not have anything to prove my point,but

just my thoughts

that got cropped up with my little bit understandings/confusions from

here and there, and correlating them.

 

Please kindly correct me.

 

Om shrI mAtrE namaha Om.

 

Prasada.