BhavAnI nAma Sahasra Stutih : 821-825

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[821] NutanA : Who is ever fresh.

DurgA is well known for Her divine qualities. She is represented by a

nine year old girl of supreme beauty and piety. There is nothing more

auspicious than Her. In all mantras [formulae] She is the MAtrikA the

root of ever letter, in words she is the meaning [ever new

interpretation], in all kinds of knowledge. She is the consciousness

beyond any thinking and in the void she is the witness. Therefore,

Divine Power of the supreme Mother is ever new and ever fresh. Even

the repetition of the name of Sakti or Siva bestows ever new savours

to the devotee, as is said by Utpaladeva : " Filled with ecstasy caused

by sprinkling of the wonderful juice of love, the weord 'Sankara'

repeated a hundred times, inspires even the heart of animals with ever

new savours.

 

 

[822] NavavallabhA : The beloved with Her ever new charm.

The ever charming form assumed by Para Sakti is always in pursuit of

Her lover Parama Siva. This is evidenced by Sati, the daughter of

Daksa, who immolated Herself on being insulted by Her father who had

not involved her husband Siva to the grand sacrifice. She pursued him,

taking another birth as PArvati, the daughter of the King of

Himalayas. She made Siva shun His determied posture of a pollard taken

in deep forests for meditation in order to pacify Himself after the

loss of His beloved Sati.

 

 

[823] ArajA : Who is ever in bloom, ever pure. This world is full of

promise to the rising generations at all times. The seeming wear and

tear in nature is actually no loss. We have a dictum in chemistry that

matter is indestructible. It can safely be inferred therefore, that

everything in the world is potent with power. This is the nature of

motherhood which neither degenerates nor regenerates. The Divine

Mother ever retains her wholesomeness and so is ever in bloom. No dust

accumulates on her ever bright form. The question of her being in

menses like common women does not arise.

 

 

[824] Ratih : Who is Herself the joy of Selfhood.

Siva-bhAvanA is a potent means of rising above desires. The enjoyment

and the object of enjoyment taken in religios spirit and universal

wisdom become a help rather than a hindrance in the path of MuktI or

liberation. In the Tantric way, the world and the objects of

enjoyments present in the spontaneous sport. LilA of Siva, are

accepted as the very form of Siva. The Tantrist, therefore, in place

of calling the world a negation of or superimposition on Siva

[brahman], prefers to call it the LilA or sport of Siva. The world

becomes Siva to him in the same way as the waves of the ocean are

taken as ocean itself and not like negating them by calling them

unreal. That is called Siva BhAvanA. In PratyabhijNA thought this may

be called negation by sublimation. Utpaladeva says, " One who has

become one with the universal self and knows 'all this is my glory',

remains in Sivahood [or self-hood] even in the face of prevailing

limitations'. That is the joy of selfhood, Bhagavati Ratih. Thus in

the Kaulic Sakta system, Bhoga becomes yoga, vice becomes virtue and

the world, otherwise enslaving, becomes means of liberation, by the

grace of the Divine Mother who is herself the joy of selfhood.

 

 

[825] PrItih : Who is the supreme pleasure.

The goddess is the power that makes creation maintain pleasure of

satisfaction at every level of evolutionary manifestation. On whatever

allegorical concept one meditates one attains the revealed truth in

its supreme splendour. That Supreme satisfaction is the goddess.

PrItIh is joy of love personified. She exposes an all judged or

wrongly decided plan.

 

 

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