Youth and Beauty (Was LalithA SahasranAma [459] sumukhi)

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I agree, and I hope it's ok if I share it with other friends whose

practise of LS will undoubtedly be benefitted with this insight and

wisdom.

 

my pranams too.

 

 

 

, asokan <ahumasokan>

wrote:

> pranam mata, pranam for revealing and sharing with us one of the

greatest secrets of LS. kindly inform that great yogi of my

sashtanga namaskaram at his lotus feet.

>

> asokan

>

> NMadasamy <nmadasamy@s...> wrote:

> This is a repsot from our old inconversations series :

>

> Here is another in Shakti Sadhana's "Conversations About Srividya"

> series.

>

> As usual, "Q" is me, asking all the dumb questions. "A" is an

> accomplished Srividya upasak and guru, who (also as usual) offers

> patient and lucid replies for the benefit of the Group, but in

> return requests anonymity to avoid being flooded with queries from

> too many people

>

> Q: Why were the Sri Lalita Sahasranama and other thousand-name

hymns

> composed?

>

> A: Why do you think?

>

> Q: I assume because it reflects what the sages discovered upon

> contemplating Her?

>

> A: No. Think again. Start looking at the structure. Go further.

What

> is the first name?

>

> Q: shrI mAtA. The Mother.

>

> A: But why the Mother? Whose Mother? For that you must refer back

to

> Lalitopakhyana [i.e. Story of the Goddess Lalita; an important

text

> describing the Great Goddess of Srividya Shaktism], on how Lalita

> manifested Herself.

>

> A: When the Devas were running away from the asura Bhanda, they

> reached a hopeless situation, and they decided to do the mahaa

yaga,

> which is sacrificing oneself part by part and, ultimately,

> completely. And they did it. And thus were all the Devas consumed

by

> the sacrificial fire. And from that fire arose a power - formless;

> attributeless - that coalesced into Lalita, the ever playful one.

> And what did she do first? She recreated the devas, thus becoming

> the Mother of all Gods. Hence the name shrI mAtA.

>

> Q: I see ...

>

> A: Now lets take the second name, shrI mahArAjnI, the Great

Empress.

> How did She become that? Upon being recreated, the Devas decided

> that in the coming battle they needed a leader composed of all

their

> powers - and that was manifest as Lalita in front of them. So they

> crowned Her the Empress.

>

> As the Empress, Lalita needed a consort; so Shiva became a male

> Lalita - like a twin to Her in every respect, except that He was a

> male He was married to Her. And they ascended the throne, and She

> became the third name of LS, srImatsimhAsaneshwarI on being seated

> on the throne. Thus the early part of Lalitopakhyana was

compressed

> into the first three names.

>

> Q: And it goes on from there .............

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devotion by the moderators of this discussion forum and the website

 

I repeatedly bow my head to the great yogi

 

vikram

 

manoj_menon <ammademon wrote:

I agree, and I hope it's ok if I share it with other friends whose

practise of LS will undoubtedly be benefitted with this insight and

wisdom.

 

my pranams too.

 

 

 

, asokan <ahumasokan>

wrote:

> pranam mata, pranam for revealing and sharing with us one of the

greatest secrets of LS. kindly inform that great yogi of my

sashtanga namaskaram at his lotus feet.

>

> asokan

>

> NMadasamy <nmadasamy@s...> wrote:

> This is a repsot from our old inconversations series :

>

> Here is another in Shakti Sadhana's "Conversations About Srividya"

> series.

>

> As usual, "Q" is me, asking all the dumb questions. "A" is an

> accomplished Srividya upasak and guru, who (also as usual) offers

> patient and lucid replies for the benefit of the Group, but in

> return requests anonymity to avoid being flooded with queries from

> too many people

>

> Q: Why were the Sri Lalita Sahasranama and other thousand-name

hymns

> composed?

>

> A: Why do you think?

>

> Q: I assume because it reflects what the sages discovered upon

> contemplating Her?

>

> A: No. Think again. Start looking at the structure. Go further.

What

> is the first name?

>

> Q: shrI mAtA. The Mother.

>

> A: But why the Mother? Whose Mother? For that you must refer back

to

> Lalitopakhyana [i.e. Story of the Goddess Lalita; an important

text

> describing the Great Goddess of Srividya Shaktism], on how Lalita

> manifested Herself.

>

> A: When the Devas were running away from the asura Bhanda, they

> reached a hopeless situation, and they decided to do the mahaa

yaga,

> which is sacrificing oneself part by part and, ultimately,

> completely. And they did it. And thus were all the Devas consumed

by

> the sacrificial fire. And from that fire arose a power - formless;

> attributeless - that coalesced into Lalita, the ever playful one.

> And what did she do first? She recreated the devas, thus becoming

> the Mother of all Gods. Hence the name shrI mAtA.

>

> Q: I see ...

>

> A: Now lets take the second name, shrI mahArAjnI, the Great

Empress.

> How did She become that? Upon being recreated, the Devas decided

> that in the coming battle they needed a leader composed of all

their

> powers - and that was manifest as Lalita in front of them. So they

> crowned Her the Empress.

>

> As the Empress, Lalita needed a consort; so Shiva became a male

> Lalita - like a twin to Her in every respect, except that He was a

> male He was married to Her. And they ascended the throne, and She

> became the third name of LS, srImatsimhAsaneshwarI on being seated

> on the throne. Thus the early part of Lalitopakhyana was

compressed

> into the first three names.

>

> Q: And it goes on from there .............

 

 

 

 

 

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