Soundarya Lahari - Part 225

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In the previous shloka the talk was about the all-white vAgdevI. The same Sarasvati is now talked about in her dynamic (rajo-guNa) form. Just before sunrise, it is all crimson in the east and we call it the

rising of aruNa. The word aruNa means ‘crimson-red’. The charioteer of the Sun is of that colour; so he is called aruNa. Here aruNA is the personification of the crimson colour and this is Sarasvati in Her rajoguNa form. 

When She is meditated in this form She gives the speech excellence, where love is dominant. Love belongs to rajo-guNa. It is therefore usually symbolised as crimson. So it is quite fitting that aruNA-devI graces one with Love.

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