Friday, September 21, 2012

Soundarya Lahari - Part 235






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The fact that ambaal graces and bestows the faculty of speech is mentioned in the latter part of Soundaryalahari several times. shloka #75 says that, fed by Her breast milk one is endowed with magnificient poetic capabilities. shloka 99 says that the SArasvata-Grace that She endows makes even Brahma, the pati of Sarasvati, envious. The holy water that washes Her feet can make even the dumb to sing poems (shloka 98). 

Obviously our Acharya takes pleasure in talking about this aspect of ambaaL’s Grace. Maybe he wants us all to read and recite his stotras, thereby get the Grace of the Mother and also get the vAk-siddhi (speech excellence) that She will certainly grant. That is why, it appears, he is never tired of repeating this.

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