Soundarya Lahari--Verse 90

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DadAne dInebhyah sriyam anisam AsAnusadrsIm

amandam saundarya-prakara-makarandam vikirati;

TavAsmin mandAra0stabaka-subhage yAtu carane

nimajjan majjIvah karana-caranah sat-caranatAm.

 

May my soul attain the quality of a six-footed [bee], with the [six]

senses as its feet, by immersing in this, Thy foot, which is ever

giving to the helpless wealth in proportion to their desire,

scattering abundant honey in the form of a flood of beauty, and which

is auspicious as a cluster of MandAra flowers.

 

In this stanza the poet compares the Devi's feet to a cluster of

MandAra flowers, in point of auspiciousness, scattering of honey and

beauty and the bestowing of wealth on the needy, and the soul of the

votary possessed of the six sense to a six-footed bee. The underlying

idea is : The votary prays that his mind be eer absorbed in

meditating on the Devi's feet

 

 

 

Yantra image in : SS homepage.

 

http://www.shaktisadhana.org/Newhomepage/sadhana/Commentaries.html

 

The Saundarya-Lahari of Sri Samkara-Bhagavatpad a.

By Pandit S. Subrahmanya Sastri and T.R Srinivasa Ayyangar.