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Embodiments of Love!

I use to wonder whether Sankara, the saint really wrote this!

Before we get into sloka 7, let us read Khalil Gibran on Love:

( Note: Khalil Gibran refers to LOVE as a male; so you can see “he” in place of LOVE everywhere)

On Love

      Then said Almitra, "Speak to us of Love." 

      And he raised his head and looked upon the people, and there fell stillness upon them. And with a great voice he said: 

      When love beckons to you follow him,       Though his ways are hard and steep. 
      And

when his wings enfold you yield to him, though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.

     And

When he speaks to you believe in him, though his voice may shatter your dreams as the north wind lays waste the garden. 

      For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you.

Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning. 

      Even as he ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun,  So shall he descend to your roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth. Like sheaves of corn he gathers you unto himself. 
      He threshes you to make you naked. 
      He sifts you to free you from your husks. 
      He grinds you to whiteness. 
      He kneads you until you are pliant; 

      And then he assigns you to his sacred fire, that you may become sacred bread for God's sacred feast. 
      All these things shall love do unto you that you may know the secrets of your heart and in that knowledge become a fragment of Life's heart. 
      But if in your fear you would seek only love's peace and love's pleasure, then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out of love's threshing-floor, into the seasonless world where you shall laugh, but not all of your laughter, and weep, but not all of your tears. 

      Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. 

      Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love. When you love you should not say, "God is in my heart," but rather, I am in the heart of God." 

      And think not you can direct the course of love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course. 

      Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself. 

      But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires: 

·       To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to  the night. 

·       To know the pain of too much tenderness. 

·       To be wounded by your own understanding of love; 

      And

·       To bleed willingly and joyfully. 

·       To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for   

·       another day of loving; 
     

·       To rest at the noon hour and meditate love's ecstasy; 
     

·       To return home at eventide with gratitude; 
     

·       And then

·       To sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song  of praise upon your lips. 

Sloka 7-Soundarya lahari

क्वणत्काञ्चीदामा करिकलभकुंभस्तननता

परिक्षीणामध्ये परिणतशरच्चन्द्रवदना ।

धनुर्बाणान् पाशं सृणिमपि दधाना करतलैः

पुरस्तादास्तां नः पुरमथितुराहोपुरुषिका ॥७॥

Transliteration

kwanat kaanchee daamaa kari kalabha kumbha stana nataa

pariksheenaa madhyae parinata sarat chandra vadanaa

dhanur bhaanaan paasam srunim api dadhaanaa karatalaih

purastaa daastaam nah puramathitu raaho purushikaa.

Simple Meaning:

May the Goddess, the consort and the very soul of Shiva,   appear before me, waistband tinkling , slightly bent by the weight of her breasts resembling the bulging forehead of an elephant calf, slim at the waist, face beautiful as the full moon and holding the bow, arrows, rope and ankusha  in her hands.

Let the Divine Mother dwell intimately in our hearts …with her tinkling fillet girdle, Her full bosom - akin to the frontal lobes of a young elephant - making her bend forward

(reaching us), Her lean waist enhancing her beauty, Her face akin to the full autumnal moon. She sports in her palms a bow and arrow, a noose and a goad. I revere this Divine

Mother who is the ‘I’ consciousness in the Lord, Parama Siva.

Explanation:

The big breasts symbolize motherly love;

Waist symbolizes beauty;

Glittering face symbolizes grace;

Arrow and bow that create love symbolize care;

Rope that ties the soul to the pillar of her feet symbolizes motherhood (so that the child does not get lost in the wilderness of worldliness)

Ankusa symbolizes authority;

Readers, remember that if we submit to a person, the above qualifications of the other makes the surrender a great love affair.

Beauty here is that breasts of Mata Parvati are compared to the bulging forehead of an elephant calf ;

She holds Ankusa which again is used to control an arrogant elephant;

So the same source of beauty which intoxicates me is controlling me also;

Only who have surrendered unto love can agree to my view.

धन्यवाद:

See you in the next episode

With lots of love

श्वस्ति , मङ्गलं भूयात्

राजगोपालः

rajagopal

01.01.2015