Guest guest Posted June 4, 2007 Report Share Posted June 4, 2007 [901] LalitA : Who is the supreme perfection of Love. The bliss that pervades all the three states of life is called LalitA. It is the extraordinary beauty of Divine Mother's manifestation and reabsorption of the universe into Herself. This is the five-fold sport of Her free will. Still she does not descend from Her transcendent Divine Nature of Bliss. DurgA and KAli represent the aspects of power of the Goddess while LalitA represents the aspect of beauty. Her worship is refined and Her form is depicted as extremely beautiful. She is slightly red in colour and holds a bow of sugar cane, arrows, the goad and the noose in her four hands. The bow represents the mind through which we experience all joy. The arrows are the PancatanmAtras, the five subtle elements whose products are the sense organs, which are discharged through the mind towards the sense objects. The underlying idea is that LalitA is the power that energies and controls the mind and the sense organs. The noose [pAsa] is attachment [rAga] and the goad [ankusa] is anger or aversion [krodha]. Those who forget the Divine Mother are bound with pAsa and hurt with krodha. But those who take refuge in Her are set free from their torment. LalitA is the sum of all saktis. She is the functional energy of the eternal throb. This is Her five-fld sport. She is given the name PancapretAsanA, seated on the five lifeless deities. Sri Cakra is used for worship of LalitA either in the form of a yantra or in the form of a meru. Sri Cakra is essentially a yantra. This is the key to outer and inner worship of LalitA in Sri Cakra also known as Sripura or Srinagara. A concrete description of Sri Pura is given by SankarAcArya as : " In the midst of a nectar ocean there is a great island all made of gems. In that islands is the Sripura surrounded with the clusters of Kalpavrksa, Kadamba trees, etc where in the mansion made of the CintAmani jewel, lies the Goddess united with her Lord, seated on a cot [the legs of which are BrahmA, Visnu, Rudra and Isvara]. SadAsiva forms the plank on which the Supreme Deity rests " LalitA, the spouse of KAmesvara Siva, representing unconditioned pure consciousness, is known as KAmesvarI. " Existence-Bliss alone is the Supreme Goddess LalitA " . Further Commentaries see link : http://shaktisadhana.50megs.com/Newhomepage/sadhana/Commentaries.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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