Parashakthi Kamakshi !!!

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CONCEPTION OF PARASAKTHI <br><br>In Mooka

Panchasati, Sri Kamakshi is referred to as darkish blue in

colour in the Stuti Sataka, and as saffron in colour in

the Aarya Sataka. Sri Sankara Bhagavatpada, in his

Soudarya Lahari, describes Ambika’s colour as aruna varna,

splendrous red of the rising sun. Why is the colour of the

same Goddess described as dark-blue in one place and

red in another? <br>According to Devi Mantra

Sastraas, Kameswara, who transcends the Trininty, Brahma,

Vishnu, and Siva, is actionless and unattached. Sri

Kameswari, the Supreme Parasakthi, seated on the left of Sri

Kameswara, is described to be red in colour. The sameness of

Parvati, who is dark, and Paraasakti, who is red, is

indicated in Mooka Panchasati by attributing both these

colours to the Supreme Goddess. <br>Sri Kameswara’s

swarupa is like that of a pure sphatika, a colourless

solid which becomes invisible when immersed in water.

He is thereby conceived as formless even though He

has a form. Vishnu and Paravati, both dark-blue, are

twin manifestations, are also Siva and Saraswati, both

white, and Brahma and Lakshmi, both golden yellow.

Daylight is colourless, and yet it contains all the

primary colours. If one of the colours is separated from

the colourless light, the rest of the colours reveal

themselves. Red is the least disturbing colour as is evident

from the fact that red light is used to develop

photographic negatives. Under the influence of red Paraasakti,

the colourless Sadasiva manifests himself as Brahma,

Vishnu, Siva and their respective consorts, Saraswati,

Lakshmi, and Parvati and starts the activities of the

world-process. <br>The Divine Trinity have their counterparts in

the three states of wakefulness, dream, and dreamless

sleep, and in the three-fold activities of creation,

protection, and dissolution. While wakefulness and dream are

states of mixed joy and sorrow, sleep is a state free

from worldly sorrow. Turiya is a state higher than

sleep and that is the state of Supreme Bliss or

aananda. Pralaya or deluge gives rest to souls from the

cycle of birth and death and the effects of punya and

paapa. Siva, who is referred to as the Destroyer, is in

reality a merciful God, who lulls the tormented souls

into the sleep of pralaya, during which period they

forget all their sorrows. In Soundarya Lahari, Sri

Sankara Bhagavatpada says that these three Divinities,

Brahma, Vishnu, and Siva, started their cosmic process

when the Supreme Parasakti knitted Her brow for a

fraction of a second. She stood beyond them all and Her

red splendour stimulated them to perform their

respective functions of creation, preservation and

destruction by Her very presence. <br><br>Jaya Jaya

shankara!<br>Namastripurasundaryai!<br>Namo bhagavate

chandramouleeshwaraaya!<br>Namo

naarasimhaaya!<br>/.,./.,./,