Monday, September 24, 2012

Soundarya Lahari - Part 238





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The importance of this shloka is in its impact on the eradication of disease. All kinds of diseases afflict people. People who come to those of us like me, mostly come to pray to us for removal of this sickness or that.

In fact that tells me how many different kinds of illnesses and afflictions are there in the world. Our Acharya certainly would know all that and for sure he would have known the remedies for all of them. But he must have thought of posterity on these lines: ‘They cannot think of me as God. Even those who grant the avatarhood, would think of me only as a jnana-avatar and so would think of praying to me only for jnAna and vairagya (dispassion)’.

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