Guest guest Posted December 30, 2008 Report Share Posted December 30, 2008 simhAsanESwari From :- lanka.krishnarao Subject :- simhAsanESwri ernakulam venugopalan to me Om Nama Sivaya >Dear Mr. Krishna Rao, >> I have a question or rather a doubt and you probably can shed some light intelligently, hence this mail. >>In Srividya, mother Lalita or Tripurasundari is supreme, parabhattarika. One of the several epithets is Bindumandalavasini. Also She is Sivaasivashakti aikyarupini meaning She and Siva are one. In many of Adi Shankara's compositions on Madurai Meenakshi She is equated to Lalitambika >> " srividyam sivavamabhaganilayam hreemkaramantrojwlam shrichakrangitabindumadhyavasatim............ Meenakshim pranatosmisantatamaham karunyavaarmnidhim. >>According to my understanding Meenakshi is Matangi,Shyamala or Mantrini and such how can She be equated to the Simhasaneshwari. May be Shankara was seeing Godhood in an advaita aspect as everybody and everything has that divine amsa. >>Please clear this doubt for me. Maybe it is silly, but since L.S clearly says Geyachakrarathaarooda Mantrini parisevita also Mantrini nyastha rajyadu. So I am wondering! >>Hope evrything is fine with you. Many blessings. >Venugopal ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// //////////////////////////////////////// mAnya SrI vENugOpAl, Your confusion is nothing but that you are looking at all these dEvatAs as different from you. Before entering into SrIvidya, you have to remember your guru mantra which says that your guru is " swarUpa nirUpaNa hEtuh " . Who ever he introduces (initiates) to you as dEvata, you have to understand, that dEvata is none else but your own self. You would have taken births of so many forms like so many dEvatAs, manuShyAs, rAkShasAs, piSAcAs, birds, snakes, creatures, stone, hills, mountains, trees etc., and so many of course. But we select only a few of them, to have the recollection of memory of that life and know how great we are! " nAma smaraNam " means, to recollect what we have forgotten (vismaraNam = to forget). We recollect only the better side of our history and our greatness in that birth because, we are aspiring to become divine. " mR^ityOr mA amR^itam gamaya " . Not like 'Kamsa' who recollected his rAkShasa janma of his previous birth and acquired all the rAkShasa qualities. Coming to your point, we always do 'pancAyatana puja, while doing pUjA for any particular dEvata. It means that you should not perform pUjA for any particular dEvata in a lone form, because that deity is not any single individual, but the collective form of so many dEvatAs (samaShti) only. Just like you can not find any particular thing as " forest " , but only the collection of so many trees. When you perform pUja for 'Siva', the amba, viShnu, sUrya, gaNapati etc., will become " anga dEvatAs " . When you do it for 'amba', Siva and others become 'anga devatAs. In the same way, when you meditate upon mInAkShi, the lalita rAjarAjESwari and others will become 'anga dEvatAs'. Then the " mInAkShi " will become " simhAsanESwari " . Any way, you could have understood by this time, that you, who is the " SAMASHTI' of all the dEvatAs, is the real " simhAsanESwari " . Not any Lalita, rAjarAjESwari, Siva,viShNu or any one else. Of course all of them are yourself. You are the " sarva dEvatA samaShti " and you yourself is the real " simhAsanESwari " " rUpai ranEkaIr bahudhAtma mUrtim kR^itwAmbikE tat prakarOti kAnyA " This is all the view of SrI SankarAcArya. Yours always in the sevice of the mother, krishnarao. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 30, 2008 Report Share Posted December 30, 2008 Namaste Shri Krishnarao-ji. Great! That is the relevance and significance of 'ahamityeva vibhAvaye bhavanIM' (I visualize myself as Bhavani) in the dhyAna shloka (meditation verse) of Lalita Sahasranama. Best regards. Madathil Nair _______________ advaitin , " krishnarao " <lanka.krishnarao wrote: >Any way, you could have understood by this time, that you, who >is the " SAMASHTI' of all the dEvatAs, is the real " simhAsanESwari " . >Not any Lalita, rAjarAjESwari, Siva,viShNu or any one else. Of >course all of them are yourself. You are the " sarva dEvatA >samaShti " and you yourself is the real " simhAsanESwari " " rUpai >ranEkaIr bahudhAtma mUrtim kR^itwAmbikE tat prakarOtikAnyA " Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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