(Continued...)
The bow and the arrows in the forehands has also
another significance. What we have to
surrender to Her feet, namely our mind and the senses, She draws by Her own
initiative to Herself; the bow draws the mind and the arrows the senses, to
Herself. It is as if a loving mother says to her child: ‘Dear child, why do you
have to fall at my feet; I will take you onto my lap’!
This whole shloka is a fit one for meditation. It
reminds us that the bow and arrows that
turned the Ishwara Himself - the Supreme who is nothing but a bundle of
Knowledge, cit - into a creation-mode through the artifice of making Him fall in love with Ishwari, who thereby became
Shiva-kAma-sundari; that same bow and arrows now draw the medley of minds and
senses of the jIvas and keep them under
its control, thus protecting them (spiritually).
In fact the bottom line is
that even this action of ‘drawing’ and ‘protecting’ is not done by the bow and
arrows but by just Her feet.
(Continued...)
No comments:
Post a Comment