Sunday, November 25, 2012

Soundarya Lahari - Part 300

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In the Vaishnava tradition, they do not accept the attributeless non-dual Brahman, but they do talk about One-ness with the state of the Almighty Mahavishnu, along with all His powers. But even when they say this, out of deference to propriety, they make an exception to what one can obtain. 

The exception is ‘LakshmI-patitvaM’, that is, ‘the state of being the spouse of Lakshmi’. Naturally whatever powers and states of Mahavishnu you may aspire for and actually get, becoming the spouse of Lakshmi is taboo.

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