Writings on Divine mother..........Sai Maa

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Aum Sai Ram,

 

(Source........Sri Lalita Sahasranama printed by Sri Ramakrishna Math)

 

................If Ishwara as we said above, is a spiritual conception of the

Absolute ,Ishwari or Shakthi or Devi is certainly an equally valid one .And ,as

we generally fear our fathers and love our mothers ,the concept of a

mother-Goddess appeals more to our heart than that of a father -god. Also ,in

the representation of a female deity ,there is more scope for grace and beauty

,and hence for greater poetry and art .Accordingly in Lalitsahasranama ,which

is a stotra addressed to a Goddess ,we see poetry and romance ,religion and

philosophy ,occultism and psychology vying with one another in coining names

for the deity .The author has embodied in this litany not only the Puranic

story of Lalita and her fight with the demon Bhanda ,but also the philosophy

and the ritual of Sri Vidya .The most striking feature of the hymn is the

perfect balance it maintains between its pure poetry and its technical theology

by means of the genuine

religious spirit which runs through it.In dealing with his subject-matter ,the

author had to avoid two pitfalls .On the one hand there was the danger of his

litany becoming a purely secular poem like the Agamani songs addressed to the

Goddess by the Bengali poets of the later day ,and , on the other hand ,there

was the danger of hymn becoming a mere exposition of a system of theology like

the Tantras of an earlier day.

 

Regards,

 

Meena