(Continued...)
All the ShAkta schools, adopt an interesting
strategy with respect to MAyA. Whatever bondage is created by MAyA, they make
it all related to the divine. Though
jnAna and MAyA are at opposite ends, the very world, mind and senses
created by MAyA are channelised into Love and the pure Beauty of the Mother
Goddess, so that one is blissfully involved in the worship and prayers aimed at
Her. Once the mind is unified in this
noble direction, it is then not difficult to get involved into enquiry about
the Self.
Thus our Acharya also has adopted the same strategy
of going towards jnAna by resorting to the very objects created by that which
is opposite to jnAna. In other words, the thought of God, worship, listening to
stories about His glory, temple worship, getting emotionally enraptured in
stotra recitation, raising the tempo of spiritual involvement by continuous
japa leading to the correct mood for meditation ñ these constitute the means by
which one follows the bhakti path thus
preparing oneself for the path of jnAna
that is the ultimate. And
hence the Saundaryalahari.
(Continued...)
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