Thursday, September 6, 2012

Soundarya Lahari - Part 220




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When we combine these akshharas in various combinations we get the various words and nAmas and also the stotras. In fact even the Vedas arose like this.

In the ShrIvidyA mantra there are three ‘kUTas’, spheres of influence. The first one is called ‘vAgbhava-kUTam’. It means that it arises from ‘vAk’, speech. The entire mantra is the form of ambaaL. And in that form, the face is ‘vAgbhava-kUTam’. In the scriptures and stotras of ShAktam, it is very often said that She gives ‘excellence of speech’ to Her devotees. In this very shloka (#15) that is what it says. Why all this importance to this Grace of the Goddess? Let me explain.

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