LalithA SahasranAma [895] yoninilayA

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yoninilayA : The Place of Origin

 

Yoni, prakrti; for it is explained thus in the Sruti [Mun, Up. III.

1.3], "Doer, Lord the Person, Brahman, Brahman, yoni"

 

The Commentary : Doer, possessing the energy of action, Lord, the , Person, the Self, Brahman full, complete, yoni, prakrti. Thus

by meditation they perceived. The Ved-sUtra [i. 4. 27] :"He is yoni

[material cause] also, for the scriptures say so".

 

Or Yoni, mAyA. It is explained thus in the Sruti [sve. Up. IV. 11]. "He

who presides over the yoni [mAyA]" Nilaya, limits, ie she limits the

MAyA.

 

Yoni the cause of the universe, namely BrahmA, etc., nilaya in whom all

these rest.

 

Or yoni, the three-angled cakra, nilaya, she dwells therin in the form

of bindu. The Saunaka SAkhA of the Atharva Veda says, "In that golden

bud which is three-angled and which contains the three [things] which

is to be worshipped, those who know the Self knw that as Brahman" The

preceding verse says, "It consists of eight cakras, of nine doors, the

city of Devas unconquerable. In that [city] there is a golden bud, the

heavently world enveloped in light" The comm. : Unconquerable [AyodhyA]

which cannot be entered even by gods, ie difficult of attainment. The

City, the Sricakra. SamkarAranya, citing the Kosa called Visva

says, "Pur [city] means wheel [cakra], own house, room, cave" The

meaning is, the earthly AyodhyA, the place where the Devas can live is

untaiinable by men, but this AyodhyA [sricakra] is unattainable even by

gods. Consisting of eight cakras: the eight cakras are astAra [eight-

angled] two dasAras [ten-angled], manvasra [fourteen-angled], astadala

lotus [eight-petalled], sodasadala lotus [sixteen-petalled], the

bhUmitraya and the bhUgrhataya. The nine doors, the nine triangles. The

NityAhrdaya says, "By the union of the five saktis and of the four

fires [of Siva] the cakra is produced" The triangles whose apexes point

downwards [svAbhimukhAgra] belong to sak, those whose apexes point

upwards [parAnmukhAgra[ belong to fire. This is the conventional term

of the Mantra Sastra.

 

In that city there is a golden bud :"Bud" in the triangle

form. "Heaven, etc." :it is called heaven because it is blissful. In

that triangle, there is a cakra iin this form of bindu, in it there is

a holy thing [brahman] which the Brahmavids perceive by their Self

only.

 

The meaning is they perceive Brahman separated neither from the Self

nor from the bindu.

 

 

 

BhAskararAya's Commentary

Translated into English by R. Ananthakrishna Sastry.

 

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1. She is the abode of all origins, as the cause and source of all

causes ("Rukmavarnam kartAramIsam purusam brahma-yonim." [sruti]).

 

2. She is the Golden-Hued One; the Doer; the Ruler; the Self; the

Mother of Brahma. (Mundakopanisad 3-1-3)

 

3. She resides in the first triangle of Sri Cakra. ("Trikona-rUpinI-

sakti bindu-rupaH sivaH smrtaH: Shakti is the form of a triangle,

and Siva the form of a circle." [sruti].)

 

- Dr. C. Suryanarayana Murthy, Commentary on the Sri Lalita

Sahasranama, 1962

 

 

 

, "NMadasamy"

<ashwini_puralasamy wrote:

>

>

> yoninilayA : The Place of Origin

>

> Yoni, prakrti; for it is explained thus in the Sruti [Mun, Up.

III.

> 1.3], "Doer, Lord the Person, Brahman, Brahman, yoni"

>

> The Commentary : Doer, possessing the energy of action, Lord, the

> Director, Person, the Self, Brahman full, complete, yoni, prakrti.

Thus

> by meditation they perceived. The Ved-sUtra [i. 4. 27] :"He is

yoni

> [material cause] also, for the scriptures say so".

>

> Or Yoni, mAyA. It is explained thus in the Sruti [sve. Up. IV.

11]. "He

> who presides over the yoni [mAyA]" Nilaya, limits, ie she limits

the

> MAyA.

>

> Yoni the cause of the universe, namely BrahmA, etc., nilaya in

whom all

> these rest.

>

> Or yoni, the three-angled cakra, nilaya, she dwells therin in the

form

> of bindu. The Saunaka SAkhA of the Atharva Veda says, "In that

golden

> bud which is three-angled and which contains the three [things]

which

> is to be worshipped, those who know the Self knw that as Brahman"

The

> preceding verse says, "It consists of eight cakras, of nine doors,

the

> city of Devas unconquerable. In that [city] there is a golden bud,

the

> heavently world enveloped in light" The comm. : Unconquerable

[AyodhyA]

> which cannot be entered even by gods, ie difficult of attainment.

The

> City, the Sricakra. SamkarAranya, citing the Kosa called Visva

> says, "Pur [city] means wheel [cakra], own house, room, cave" The

> meaning is, the earthly AyodhyA, the place where the Devas can

live is

> untaiinable by men, but this AyodhyA [sricakra] is unattainable

even by

> gods. Consisting of eight cakras: the eight cakras are astAra

[eight-

> angled] two dasAras [ten-angled], manvasra [fourteen-angled],

astadala

> lotus [eight-petalled], sodasadala lotus [sixteen-petalled], the

> bhUmitraya and the bhUgrhataya. The nine doors, the nine

triangles. The

> NityAhrdaya says, "By the union of the five saktis and of the four

> fires [of Siva] the cakra is produced" The triangles whose apexes

point

> downwards [svAbhimukhAgra] belong to sak, those whose apexes point

> upwards [parAnmukhAgra[ belong to fire. This is the conventional

term

> of the Mantra Sastra.

>

> In that city there is a golden bud :"Bud" in the triangle

> form. "Heaven, etc." :it is called heaven because it is blissful.

In

> that triangle, there is a cakra iin this form of bindu, in it

there is

> a holy thing [brahman] which the Brahmavids perceive by their Self

> only.

>

> The meaning is they perceive Brahman separated neither from the

Self

> nor from the bindu.

>

>

>

> BhAskararAya's Commentary

> Translated into English by R. Ananthakrishna Sastry.

>

> Lalitha Sahasranama with commentaries now in SS homepage. See link

>

http://shaktisadhana.50megs.com/Newhomepage/sadhana/Commentaries.html

>