To Chris on Too Much and Too Little

[Guest guest]

Dear Chris you wrote:

the passage I wasreferring to (and you also?) was in last week's group

Chandi practiceof the atha tantroktam raatri suuktam, verse 14,

translated as:

"Oh Divine Goddess, you and your heavenly and bounteous

manifestationshave been extolled. Cause the ignorance of egotism to

fall upon thosetwo thoughts so difficult to understand, Too Much and

Too Little."

 

Now I too am confused. I do not know these chapters by their sanskrit

names. Can you tell me which chapter and which page this atha

tantroktam raatri suuktam is on. I would like to read your quote in

the context of what else is there. My one thought in just reading the

above is that if ignorance (or darkness) falls upon Too Much and Too

Little, perhaps this makes it easier to slay them, for they have

become blinded by their own ignorance. Yet, without the context, I am

just whistling in the wind. Jai Maa ~ Linda

[Guest guest]

Linda,

 

Yes, the chapter names are all in English in the Table of Contents. I

hope the next time Swamiji does a major revision he will include the

Sanskrit names also. It is called Tantric Praise to the Night of Duality.

 

Incidentally, your insight was just what Swamiji said in his original

response to the group.

 

Chris

 

 

, nierika@a... wrote:

> Dear Chris you wrote:

>

> the passage I was

> referring to (and you also?) was in last week's group Chandi practice

> of the atha tantroktam raatri suuktam, verse 14, translated as:

> "Oh Divine Goddess, you and your heavenly and bounteous manifestations

> have been extolled. Cause the ignorance of egotism to fall upon those

> two thoughts so difficult to understand, Too Much and Too Little."

>

> Now I too am confused. I do not know these chapters by their

sanskrit names.

> Can you tell me which chapter and which page this atha tantroktam

raatri

> suuktam is on. I would like to read your quote in the context of

what else is

> there. My one thought in just reading the above is that if ignorance

(or

> darkness) falls upon Too Much and Too Little, perhaps this makes it

easier to slay

> them, for they have become blinded by their own ignorance. Yet,

without the

> context, I am just whistling in the wind. Jai Maa ~ Linda