1000 Names of the Great Mother, Primordial Goddess, Holy Spirit or Ruh of Allah

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65) Sri Bhandasura-vadhodyukta-sakti-sena-samanvita

 

— Confers powers to devotees to conquer their egos.

— Grants true realisation of Ultimate Reality.

 

Sri Lalita Sahasranama, C. S. Murthy,

Ass. Advertisers and Printers, 1989.)

 

 

 

" The Siva-sutras (1, 5, 6 and 21) say, " The effort (udyama) is

called Bhairava; when united with Sakti-cakra, the involution of the

universe comes. When Sakti is united, the creation of the body comes

to exist. When the bhuta (body) is united, the separation of the

bhutas, the composition, etc. of the universe come. " . . . All these

and other things comes to a Yogin when he realizes Sakti.

 

Just as virility is latent in boyhood and manifest itself in youth,

the various powers (saktis) that are in the jiva, remain latent by

reason of ignorance. When an effort is made all these shine forth.

This is the purport of the above quotation. "

 

R. A. Sastry, Lalita-Sahasranama,

The Adyar Library and Research Centre, Madras, 1988, p. 67.

 

 

 

" It is true that there is plenty of material in the Koran that is

more egalitarian than the western Christian tradition, which was

heavily influenced by the misogyny of Greek thought. Perhaps the

most fundamental is that the Islamic God does not have a gender.

Arabic may refer to him by use of the male pronoun, but he is never

described as " father " or " lord " as he is in the Judaeo-Christian

tradition. Indeed, the Islamic God has characteristics that are

expressly feminine; one of his most important " names " is al-Rahman

(the All-Compassionate) from the Arabic rahma , which comes from the

word rahim , meaning womb. In Islamic mysticism, the divinely

beloved is female. "

 

The Guardian, Saturday December 8, 2001