Monday, October 1, 2012

Soundarya Lahari - Part 245






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I was saying that there are many shlokas where we cannot in any way infer what results will accrue from a mantra-japam of the shloka. shloka #35, for instance, says that ambaal lives in the six chakras as the five elements and the mind. It is said that this shloka has the effect of curing tuberculosis. Obviously there seems to be no connection. Like this there are several shlokas where the meaning and the results said to accrue from it are totally disconnected. It all means that the vibrations of the sounds created, the words themselves, not their meanings, have that effect. 

We may make a doll in the shape of a red chili, with sugar as the material base; the outer will look like a hot chili, whereas the whole material is sweet. In the same way the meanings of the words may be something, but the power of the words as a mantra may be something else.

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