Soundarya Lahari--Verse 100

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KadA kAle mAtah kathaya kalitAlaktaka-rasam

pibeyam vidyArthi tava carana-nirnejana-jalam;

PrakrtyA mUkanAm api ca kavitA-kAranatayA

yad Adhatte vAnI-mukha-kamala-tAmbUla-rasatAm.

 

O Mother! pray tell [me], when shall I, who am eagerly desirous of [imbibing]

wisdom,

drink the water which has cleansed Thy feet and is [thereby] rendered red with

the lac dye;

water, which assumes the quality of the chewed betel juice, [apt out] of the

mouth of VAnI,

through enabling even deaf mutes to become poets.

 

 

Here the marvellous qualities possessed by the washings of the Devi's feet in

inducing

even deaf-mutes to burst into hymes of praise of the Devi are indicated. Quality

of the

chewed betel - instances of devotees of the Goddess of Learning blossoming into

great

poets by chewing the chewed betel and nuts spat out of her mouth, or otherwise

winning

her favour, are not wanting according to tradition, eg. KAlidAsa, the great

lyric poet,

MUka, the author of the MukapaNcasati, etc.

 

This stanza is said to refer to the seeker in quest of SAmIpya-mukti, liberation

attained by

proximity. LaksmIdhara is of the opinion that this stanza extols the Samaya

doctrine of

worshipping the DevI in the SahasrAra, the washings of whose feet are coveted by

the

seeker, and that the Kuala form of worship is not indicated, as in that case it

cannot be

maintained that the Devi is in the form of KundalinI nin the hollow of the

MUlAdhAra has

carana-s. He also seeks the support of stanza 10 to strengthened his contention,

and says

that the former half of the stanza refers to the Samaya form and the latter half

to the

Kuala form of worshipping the Devi.

 

 

 

 

Yantra image in : SS homepage.

 

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The Saundarya-Lahari of Sri Samkara-Bhagavatpad a.

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