Soundarya Lahari - Part 272

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But the first one is poisonous, the second is bitter though good for health, while the third is sweet as well as good for health. In rajas also, there is the rajas that binds, the rajas that keeps a goal of mokshha and the rajas that lifts you up to mokshha. The ‘redness’ of KAmeshvarI is of the third type. 

It is that redness which has to be meditated upon, says shloka #18, as the one that engulfs all the region from the sky to the earth. The words ‘saraNi’ and ‘lahari’ both mean a flood. ‘ShrI’ stands for the beauty of ambaal. ‘ShrI – saraNi’ mentioned in #18, is therefore nothing but Her Soundarya-lahari, the flood of Beauty.

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