(Continued...)
Our ambaaL
is always shown with a pAshaM (noose)
and ankushaM (goad). This itself is Her
leelA. They are Her important accessories. This is one way of looking at
it.
Another way is this. She shows pAshaM (affection,
attachment) to us; so with the ‘pAshaM’ in her hand she binds us and pulls us away from all our
worldly ‘pAshaMs’ (attachments) and makes us come back to
Her with the cry ‘Oh Mother!’. And that gives us the
attachment to the attachmentless Divine. ‘PatratrAn patru’ (in the language of
Valluvar, in Tamil)! Again, when we fall
into the Anger mode, She brings her ‘ankusham
M’ (goad) on us and subdues our anger, by that very ankusham which
stands in her hand as the personification of Anger (krodham) !
When Desire is unfulfilled it turns into Anger. The
same Desire and Anger, in Her hands, in the form of the noose and the goad,
become the cure for the two evils in human minds.
(Continued...)
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