Soundarya Lahiri Verse- 17

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savitreebhirvachaam sasimani shilaa bhanga ruchibhih

vaasinyaadibhistvaam saha janani sanchintayati yah

sa kartaa kaavyanaam bhavati mahataam bhangiruchibhih

vachobhi vaagdevee vadana kamalaa moda madhurye

 

(oh Mother) The Primal Force (those who) Praise(you) .By Words (imagining

you(with lustre of a) Moon Stone Rock Broken(freshly cut) like (With such

opalescence)

 

Vasini First (followed by others) Praying To You, With( such splendour);

(oh)Mother (those)Contemplating (on such Image) He (or they)

 

Equal Author (of) Poetic works (he) Becomes (to) Great (poets) like (in the)

Quality (of his poetry)

 

(and) Speaks Thus (the) Goddess of Sp each (with) Face(of) Lotus (like)

Delightful Sweetness

 

This verse again is about poetic gift. In verse 16, the poet's talent

entertains and is pleasing to the people and may be, he is awarded and respected

by kings. But this verse speaks of supreme levels of achievement comparable to

the all time Great poets. He will be capable of authoring great epics.This

Primal force is worshipped through sound ( Mantra). She has the opalescent

lustre of the Moon stone.This is referred to also as Chandrakanta. The mineral

named Moonstone is found in the text books of Mineralogy. Technically, this is

an Acidic Plagioclase Feldspar ( an alumina-silicate). It is so called because

it shows a peculiar lightly-bluish opalescence resembling moon light. This

property is exhibited (as in case of other similar minerals) pronouncedly, on a

freshly cut surface The Devi with such opalescence is with the eight Goddesses,

Vasini and others. These goddesses are represented in the Sri Chakra. Thus, this

is contemplation of Devi in Sri Chakra. These Eight

Goddesses are--Vasini, Kameswari, Modini, Vimala, Aruna, Jayini, Sarveswari and

Kaulini. These are Vagdevataas representing also the syllables of Mantras. One

who contemplates the Devi in Sri Chakra and can see the opalescence emanating

is blessed. The essence of this verse is reference to the nature of the

light.It is not the red of a rising Sun or flash of lightning. It is a soft

continuous glow and truly Satvic. Soundarya Lahiri is about the worship of Devi

in her sublime form as a beautiful and gracious mother, kind,soft and loving. It

is she as mother who cools the fury of Rudra the father by treatment with ice

packs. " sisiramupacharam rachayati " (Verse 38 or in some texts 39 ). Those who

can reach such level of contemplation and worship her so will achieve immortal

fame. It is the Mother her self who is manifested as the Eight Vagdevis. She is

the origin and source of sound from which mantas, poetry, music and all else

result. It is the Devi who speaks in the

epics.

Her supremacy and all encompassing power is emphasised again in this Verse

 

Yantra is a rectangle bisected by a horizontal line forming 2 rectangles. The

bisecting line slightly projects out of the rectangle at both ends.All the 4

sides of the rectangle end in tridents in both directions.

 

Bijaksharams are Aym in centre of top rectangle and Aym, Aym in bottom

rectangle. The " y " is pronounced as y in English My.

 

Expected result of Upasana as evident from the verse is Supreme Mastery of all

Sastras( branches of knowledge)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Alexandra told me she have scan SL Yantra up till verse 16. I'm waiting for her

to send me the rest. Meantime I've scan for Verse 17 from the same book im

using as reference.

 

http://shaktisadhana.50megs.com/Newhomepage/sadhana/SoundLahari/SLYantraImages/S\

LYantra17.jpg

 

 

, venkat bhasksr

wrote:

 

 

savitreebhirvachaam sasimani shilaa bhanga ruchibhih

vaasinyaadibhistvaam saha janani sanchintayati yah

sa kartaa kaavyanaam bhavati mahataam bhangiruchibhih

vachobhi vaagdevee vadana kamalaa moda madhurye

 

(oh Mother) The Primal Force (those who) Praise(you) .By Words

(imagining you(with lustre of a) Moon Stone Rock Broken(freshly cut)

like (With such opalescence)

 

Vasini First (followed by others) Praying To You, With( such

splendour); (oh)Mother (those)Contemplating (on such Image) He (or

they)

 

Equal Author (of) Poetic works (he) Becomes (to) Great (poets)

like (in the) Quality (of his poetry)

 

(and) Speaks Thus (the) Goddess of Sp each (with) Face(of) Lotus

(like) Delightful Sweetness

 

This verse again is about poetic gift. In verse 16, the poet's

talent entertains and is pleasing to the people and may be, he is

awarded and respected by kings. But this verse speaks of supreme

levels of achievement comparable to the all time Great poets. He

will be capable of authoring great epics.This Primal force is

worshipped through sound ( Mantra). She has the opalescent lustre of

the Moon stone.This is referred to also as Chandrakanta. The

mineral named Moonstone is found in the text books of Mineralogy.

Technically, this is an Acidic Plagioclase Feldspar ( an alumina-

silicate). It is so called because it shows a peculiar lightly-

bluish opalescence resembling moon light. This property is exhibited

(as in case of other similar minerals) pronouncedly, on a freshly

cut surface The Devi with such opalescence is with the eight

Goddesses, Vasini and others. These goddesses are represented in the

Sri Chakra. Thus, this is contemplation of Devi in Sri Chakra. These

Eight

Goddesses are--Vasini, Kameswari, Modini, Vimala, Aruna, Jayini,

Sarveswari and Kaulini. These are Vagdevataas representing also the

syllables of Mantras. One who contemplates the Devi in Sri Chakra

and can see the opalescence emanating is blessed. The essence of

this verse is reference to the nature of the light.It is not the

red of a rising Sun or flash of lightning. It is a soft continuous

glow and truly Satvic. Soundarya Lahiri is about the worship of

Devi in her sublime form as a beautiful and gracious mother,

kind,soft and loving. It is she as mother who cools the fury of

Rudra the father by treatment with ice packs. " sisiramupacharam

rachayati " (Verse 38 or in some texts 39 ). Those who can reach such

level of contemplation and worship her so will achieve immortal

fame. It is the Mother her self who is manifested as the Eight

Vagdevis. She is the origin and source of sound from which mantas,

poetry, music and all else result. It is the Devi who speaks in the

epics.

Her supremacy and all encompassing power is emphasised again in

this Verse

 

Yantra is a rectangle bisected by a horizontal line forming 2

rectangles. The bisecting line slightly projects out of the

rectangle at both ends.All the 4 sides of the rectangle end in

tridents in both directions.

 

Bijaksharams are Aym in centre of top rectangle and Aym, Aym in

bottom rectangle. The " y " is pronounced as y in English My.

 

Expected result of Upasana as evident from the verse is Supreme

Mastery of all Sastras( branches of knowledge)

 

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Sorry, I have not had much time to work on this. The last time I

scanned some pages I was having trouble getting the same quality as I

did with the first batch. I have a few more done however and I'll send

them.

 

 

, N Madasamy <nmadasamy wrote:

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> Alexandra told me she have scan SL Yantra up till verse 16. I'm

waiting for her to send me the rest. Meantime I've scan for Verse 17

from the same book im using as reference.

>

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http://shaktisadhana.50megs.com/Newhomepage/sadhana/SoundLahari/SLYantraImages/S\

LYantra17.jpg

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