BhavAnI nAma Sahasra Stutih : 798. 799 & 800

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[798] KrUrA : The pitiless [Formidable]

The divine power of the goddess assumes a cruel form to deal with anti-

divine forces. She manifests Herself in 'the chief of valiant armies,

who is the prosecutor of enemies but tolerant to devotees' This power

of Siva is competent to strike all round, in diverse ways'. So the

Mother assumes the formidable form also.

 

 

[799] SumUkhI : Who is admirably full of love.

The aura of supreme knowledge on the face of Divine Mother is full

with loveliness. The Divine Mother is wonderfully beautiful, bedecked

as she is with ornamental fruits, flowers and feathers of natural

growth. She is lovely as described in one of her magnificent forms as

the wife of the Hunter Siva. " Bearing the crest of peacock feathers on

her head; with curly locks of soft, shining, deep brown hair, wearing

a rosary of red berries on her heavy breasts, sky-blue with face like

red coral and soft tender hands " The Mother as LalitA is that extra-

ordinary power of beauty in which all the beuties of the world get

totally lost.

 

 

[800] JvaranAsinI : Who cures the fever of birth and death.

There is no greater pain or fever than being caught in the whirlpool

of the world causing birth and death in continuation. This pain

consists of the three TApas:

i] AdhyAtmika TApa, pain or sorrow relating to self and caused by the

mind.

ii] Adhidaivika TApa, pain or sorrow caused by fate. This relates to

tutelary deity.

iii] Adhibautika TApa, pain or sorrow relating to beings, caused by

animals.

 

These three posibilities of the great fever can be removed by the

grace of Sri MAtA. She is of the form of Brahma VidyA, the knowledge

of self contained in the Upanisads.

 

DharmAcArya addresses her : " O Mother of the universe! the moonlight

that removes the darkness created with the fever of birth and death "

 

Again it is the fever of ego that overpowers a person and hinders him

from clarity of Truth. This fever is removed by goddess LalitA, the

unconditioned purity of consciousness and the embodiment of Truth and

Beauty.

 

According to the LalitopAkhyAna of the BrahmAnda, PurAna, LalitA Devi

killed BhAndAsura, the shameless demon, living in the Sonitpura, the

city of blood and flesh. BhAndAsura is actually the ego which makes

soul identify itself with the body and alienates itself from all

divine qualities. That is the great fever which is cured by the grace

of LalitAmbikA.

 

 

 

 

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