(Continued...)
Similar things can be said of the poetic traditions
and the culture of classic literature. Or even of sculpture, painting or
architecture. In all these, our norms
cannot be the standards of ordinaryworldly life. Works like Soundarylahari,
which are simultaneously devotionally divine hymns and poetic excellences, have to be approached in the right manner in
order to obtain the fullest benefit from them.
Our minds have to be open and clean. The Shri-vidyA
shAstras describe inesoterically romantic terms how Shiva, who is
nothing but the Absolute Brahman, coupled with
KAmeshvari, the personification of the
icchA (Will) of Shiva, cause creation to happen. Such matters occur
inSoundaryalahari also.
(Continued...)
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