(Continued...)
The former means: ‘(She who has) the bow of
sugarcane, the sugarcane being the figuration of the mind’. The latter name
means: ‘(She who has) the five arrows that are the figurations of the five
tanmAtras (= subtle principles behind the senses)’.
The same sugarcane bow, which in Manmathaís hands,
draws man downward into sensuality, in Her hands, leads us upward by producing
the ‘desire’ for mokshha. The same five arrows of flowers,
which in Manmathaís hands, lead man’s five senses outward toward sense objects,
in ambaal’s hands, makes us desire, to
see Her divine form, to hear the melody of
music in devotion to Her, to taste the sweetness of the nectar flowing
from Her Grace, to smell the fragrance of the flowers that adorned Her, and to
feel the touch of Her lotus feet.
(Continued...)
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