BhavAnI nAma Sahasra Stutih : Namas 670

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[670] HimsA : Who bestows accomplishment as aimed in a sacrifice.

 

There are ritualistic sacrifices [yajNas] recommended by the Vedas and

Tantras for obtaining different desired objects by people from variety

of Devas. In these performances, oblations are made into the fire, for

Fire is the mouth of gods. But the feeling of difference between the

performer of the sacrifice and the deity continues in this Karma YajNa.

 

In JnAna YajNa, the process of enlightment, these are viewed as

Brahman, the Thing-in-itself. "The oblation is Brahman, the clarified

butter is Brahman, offered by Brahman in the fire of Brahman, unto

Brahman verily he goes who congnizes Brahman alone in his action". ALl

the apparent difference are, therefore, mere modifications of Para

Siva or ParA Sakti even as waves are of the sea. The enlightened

convert eating itself into JNAna YajNa, which means that the

individual consciousness is sacrificed to that cosmis consciousness

even as a river re-enters the sea to end all distinctions.

 

It is the sacrifice, that cuts asunder the firm-rooted tree of samsAra

with the strong axe of non-attachment. Sakta Tantras advocates that

anger and passion are animals to be sacrificed into the fire of

knowledge of self. This power of sacrifice is HimsA, the goddess

Herself understood as supreme consciousness, into which all duality is

sacrificed. Thus, the goddess is lauded by earnest devotees.

 

This yajNa wherein the little self is offered into the fire of supreme

self, is called SvAtma-yajNa, in which sacrifice of HimsA is the

required part of activity in being one with Para Sakti. This universal

Yaga goes on in every atom of time just as a householder does in every

period of time, as is expresed by SAmba, the son of the Sun.

 

Creation, as revealed by the Vedas, results from the sacrifice of

Purusa. But in reality, it is the great sacrifice of the Primordial

Mother that has resulted in creation. So the Upanisad says : "VArAhi

and KurukullA as the principles of father [ PrakAsa] and mother

[Vimarsa] start the creation as the first parents". These are the two

immediate emanation of LalitA, the Transcendent Supreme. KurukullA is

associated with LalitA as Mantrini. She is located in the space

between the ramparts of cit and AhankAra [intellect], both to be

sacrificed for realizing the supreme. Her locations, in the Sri

Nagara, is in the tank called Vimarsamaya. Sri Aurobindo says : "This

is the great sacrifice called sometimes the sacrifice of the Purusa,

bu tmuch more deeply the holocaust of Prakrti, the sacrifice of the

Divine Mother"

 

 

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