BhavAnI nAma Sahasra Stutih : 874, 875 & 876

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[874] DolA : Who ceaselessly expresses herself in the movement of a

swing.

The universe, with all its varieties and variations, moves on. This

movement is twofold viz. Positive-negative, ingress-egress : day-

night: life-death, action-inaction, attraction-reputation and so on.

This movement corresponds to that of a swing. That ceaseless movement

is the power of the ParA DevI who is of the nature of visarga of the

alphabet. This Tantric secret was revealed by Bhairava to his beloved

consort saying : " ParA DevI, who is the nature of visarga, goes on

expressing herself upward in the form of exhalation and downward in

the form of inhalation. By steady fixation of the mind at the two

places of their origin, there is the situation of plentitude, the

state of ParA Sakti "

 

Sakti is the swing and Siva its origin.

 

The swinging movement [DolAlila] of Cit Sakti caused by spontaneous

will [jolting] of Siva, is superbly described by KsemarAja : " I bow to

that Supreme Cit, who feeds the devas with showers of nectar and fills

the moon with its ambrosian rays : who, after Amrita is exhausted,

fills them again in the same way and thus with this swinging movement

whose heart remains ever in blossom.

 

SaktI thus expresses herself in this ceaseless swinging movement, her

own splendid manifestation.

 

 

[875] DolakrIdAbhinandinI : Who delights in her amorous sport of the

swing.

Prakrti, animated by Purusa, comes from the unmanifest to the manifest

state at the beginning of a kalpa. Spirit is infused into matter and

beings spontaneously come into existence even as we wake up from

sleep. There is again pralaya or merging of all the existence. This is

the cceaseless throb [spandana] of ParA Sakti. This throb swings in

varieties of movements with corresponding variations which form the

amorous sport of the Devi. This play or LilA is spontaneous, without

any motive. The Goddess is designated as visargAtmA because she

carries on the play of life in the rythm of centrifugal and

centripetal movement, apparent in macrocosm as well as in microcosm.

ParA DevI is delighted to have this sport of the swing. In an

individual She swings between dvAdasAnta in the outer space where

exhalation ends and hrdaya, the centre inside the body where

inhalation ends. In philosophic term this is called polarisation of

consciousness.

 

 

[876] UrvasI : That which pervades.

UrvasI, in the Vedic language, is the name of the dawn [a], because it

extends widely. It is beautiful and of pervading nature. This connotes

that Supreme Mother as the power of volitio pervades every sentinent

being. She is the will to continue.

 

UrvasI, according to PurAnas, connotes the power of hindrance in the

path of spirituality. If goddess UrvasI is propitated, all hindrances

in spiritual path get removed.

 

Foot Note :

[a] Rg Veda XVIII 3.23. UrvasI was a famous damsel, frequently

mentioned in the Rgveda. [ii] UrvasI was the most expert actress in

heaven. She excelled in beauty and love. Under a curse she came down

to the world of mortals, and became the wife of king Pururavas.

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