Writings on Divine mother..........Sai Maa

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LALITASAHASRANAMA .And as this development proceeds apace ,the mountain

fastnesses ,the inaccessible places ,the sarificial victims and the spirituous

liquors of the early hymns shrink in to mere specks on a vast flood of

spirituality .For instance miles away as the LALITA is from these odes ,we

still hear distinct echos of them in its thousands names .We are still told

that the Goddess lives in the Vindhya mountains( Vindhyachal Nivasini ) that

she is fond of mead (Kadambari Priya ) and she even becomes intoxicated

(Varauni-mada-Vihvala -madhvi-panalasa ) .But we hardly remember these merely

traditional epithets in the floods of the new subject matter regarding the

marvellous beauty of the Goddess ,her heroic fight with the forces of evil her

vast and varied powers and her extensive dominion in the hearts of men .To

take one example while the early hymns describe her as living in dreary deserts

(Kantara -vasini) ,the Lalita describes her as the swan that swims in

the hearts of saint(muni-manasa-hasika) Warm Regards, Meena.N.Nath