528)
Sri Sahasra-dala-padmastha
—
Resides in the Thousand-Petalled
Lotus.
Sri
Lalita Sahasranama
(Sri
Lalita Sahasranama, C. S. Murthy, Assoc. Advertisers and
Printers, 1989.)
Verily in this is a Message
for any that has a heart and understanding,
0r who gives ear and earnestly witnesses (the Truth). . . .
And
listen for the Day when the Caller will call out from a
place quite near.
The
Day when they will hear a (mighty) Blast in Truth:
That will be the Day of Resurrection.
Verily
it is We who give Life and death; and to Us is the Final
Goal.
The
Day when the earth will be rent asunder, from (men) hurrying
out:
That will be a gathering together — quite easy for Us.
We
know best what they say; And thou are not one to overawe
them by force.
So
admonish with the Qur’an such as fear My Warning!
surah
50:37-45 Qaf
(Abdullah Yusuf Ali,
The Holy Qur’an, 1989.)
Lo!
therein verily is a reminder for him who hath a heart,
Or
giveth ear with full intelligence. . . .
And
listen on the day when the crier crieth from a near place,
The
day when they will hear the (Awful) Cry in truth.
That is the day of coming forth (from the graves).
Lo!
We it is Who quicken and give death, and unto Us is the
journeying.
On
the day when the earth splitteth asunder from them,
hastening forth (they come).
That is a gathering easy for Us (to make).
We
are Best Aware of what they say,
And thou (O Muhammad) art in no wise a compeller over them.
But
warn by the Qur'an him who feareth My threat.
surah
50:37-45 Qaf
(M. Pickthall, The Meaning of the Glorious Quran, U. of
Mich.)
Most
surely there is a reminder in this for him who has a heart
Or he gives ear and is a witness. . . .
And
listen on the day when the crier shall cry from a near place
The
day when they shall hear the cry in truth; that is the day
of coming forth.
Surely
We give life and cause to die, and to Us is the eventual
coming;
The
day on which the earth shall cleave asunder under them,
They will make haste; that is a gathering together easy to
Us.
We
know best what they say, and you are not one to compel them;
Therefore
remind him by means of the Quran who fears My threat.
surah
50:37-45 Qaf
(M. Shakir, The
Holy Qur'an, University of Michigan)
531)
Sri Sukla-samsthita
—
Resides in tissue of seeds.
Sri
Lalita Sahasranama
(Sri
Lalita Sahasranama, C. S. Murthy, Assoc. Advertisers and
Printers, 1989.)
535)
Sri Svaha
—
Divine Speech in sacrificial oblation.
Sri
Lalita Sahasranama
(Sri
Lalita Sahasranama, C. S. Murthy, Assoc. Advertisers and
Printers, 1989.)
543)
Sri Punya-labhya
—
Attained by the meritorious or righteous.
—
Worshipped due to good actions in previous
births.
Sri
Lalita Sahasranama
(Sri
Lalita Sahasranama, C. S. Murthy, Assoc. Advertisers and
Printers, 1989.)
"She
is not only the Power of God as the whirling wheel of life
in its birth-bringing and death-bringing totality; She is
also the Force of the Centre, which bestows
Consciousness and Knowledge, Transformation and
Illumination. Thus Brahma prays to the Great Goddess:
"Thou art the pristine spirit, the nature of which is
bliss; thou art the ultimate nature and the clear light of
heaven, which illuminates and breaks the self-hypnotism of
the terrible round of rebirth, and thou art the one that
muffles the universe, for all time in thine own very
darkness." "
Eric
Neuman, The Great Mother
(Eric Neuman, The
Great Mother, Princeton University Press,
1963, p. 333.)
"He
to whom the enjoyment of worldly happiness appears
tasteless, he who takes no delight in anything of the world
— money, name, creature comforts, sense pleasure —
becomes sincerely grief-stricken for the vision of the
Mother. And to him alone the Mother comes running, leaving
all Her other duties."
Sri
Ramakrishna
The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
(Sri Ramakrishna, The
Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, 1958, p. 367.)
551)
Sri Sarva-mrtyu-Nivarini
—
Cures all disease of body and
mind.
Sri
Lalita Sahasranama
(Sri
Lalita Sahasranama, C. S. Murthy, Assoc. Advertisers and
Printers, 1989.)
"We
are taught nowadays that the miracle of the world’s
ecosystem is its balance, over-consumption. This is because
when man becomes unbalanced, he seeks to change not himself
but his environment, in order to create the illusion that
the is enjoying health and harmony. In winter he overheats
his house, in summer he freezes it with air-conditioning.
This is not stability but arrogance. Some people take
tablets to go to sleep and tablets to wake up. Their life
has the rhythm of a pingpong ball. The student of yoga who
learns to balance himself internally at every level,
physical, emotional, mental, by observation of paksa and
pratipaksa, frees himself from this hellish to-ing
and fro-ing and lives in harmony with the natural world.
Because he is stable, he can adapt to outside changes."
BKS
Iyengar
Light on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
(BKS Iyengar, Light
on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, HarperCollins
Publs, 1996, p. 139.)
"The
mind, by nature, is in constant agitation. According to
Hindu theory, it is continually transforming itself into the
shapes of the objects of which it becomes aware. Its subtle
substance assumes the forms and colors of everything offered
to it by the senses, imagination, memory, and emotions. It
is endowed, in other words, with a power of transformation,
or metamorphosis, which is boundless and never put at rest.
The
mind is thus in a continuous ripple, like the surface of a
pond beneath a breeze, shimmering with broken,
ever-changing, self-sacrificing reflections. Left to itself
it would never stand like a perfect mirror, crystal clear,
in its "own state," unruffled and reflecting the
inner man; for, in order that this should take place, all
the sense impressions coming from without (which are like
the waters of entering rivulets, turbulent and disturbing to
the translucent substance) would have to be stopped, as well
as the impulses from within: memories, emotional pressures,
and the incitements of the imagination (which are like
internal springs.) Yoga, however, stills the mind. And the
moment this quieting is accomplished, the inner man, the
life-nomad, stands revealed — like a jewel at the bottom
of a quieted pond."
Heinrich
Zimmer, Philosophies of India
(H. Zimmer, Philosophies
of India, Princeton University Press, 1974, p. 284-85.)
552)
Sri Agra-ganya
—
Primordial.
Sri
Lalita Sahasranama
(Sri
Lalita Sahasranama, C. S. Murthy, Assoc. Advertisers and
Printers, 1989.)
552)
Sri Achintya-rupa
—
Form inaccessible to thought.
Sri
Lalita Sahasranama
(Sri
Lalita Sahasranama, C. S. Murthy, Assoc. Advertisers and
Printers, 1989.)
555)
Sri Kali-kalmasa-nasini
—
Destroys sins in this Kali
age.
Sri
Lalita Sahasranama
(Sri
Lalita Sahasranama, C. S. Murthy, Assoc. Advertisers and
Printers, 1989.)
Water
is able to quench the fire, the presence of the sun dispels
darkness,
And the repetition of the names of Devi to destroy the
multitude of sins in the Kali age.
Kurma
Purana
The
remembrance of the Feet of Supreme Shakti is said to be the
highest expiation for sins consciously or unconsciously
committed.
Brahma.
Purana
"The
French paleontologist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin believed that we are all
marching away from the Alpha Point, a kind of future attractor acting like a
downstream waterfall that inexorably pulls the river of evolution toward itself.
This onward march of evolution is one of increasing complexification: as he
called it, leading to the emergence of the noosphere: the world of thought
characterizing humanity. At this Omega Point, according to Teilhard de Chardin,
the light of the Spirit will fully flood the earth and transfigure everyone and
everything. This supreme consciousness, which is the end-time reality of Omega
Point, is neither impersonal nor personal but superpersonal. It is a Someone,
not merely a Something. But that Someone is beyond all conception.
Like
a vast tide, Being will have engulfed the shifting sands of being. Within a now
tranquil ocean, each drop of which, nevertheless, will be conscious of remaining
itself, the astonishing adventure of the world will have ended. The dream of
every mystic, the eternal pantheist ideal, will have found its full and
legitimate satisfaction. "
(P. Teilhard de Chardin, The Future of Man, Fount Paperbacks, 1977, p.
323.)
Georg
Feuerstein, Lucid Waking
(Georg Feuerstein, Lucid Waking,
Inner Traditions International, 1997, p. 193.)
557) Sri
Kalahantri
—
Destroyer of Time.
Sri
Lalita Sahasranama
(Sri
Lalita Sahasranama, C. S. Murthy, Assoc. Advertisers and
Printers, 1989.)
563)
Sri Mukhya
—
The First One.
Sri
Lalita Sahasranama
(Sri
Lalita Sahasranama, C. S. Murthy, Assoc. Advertisers and
Printers, 1989.)
I
am the First Born of Truth.
Taittiriya
Upanisad 3.10.6
567)
Sri Bhakta-nidhih
—
Ocean of Kindness for Her devotees.
Sri
Lalita Sahasranama
(Sri
Lalita Sahasranama, C. S. Murthy, Assoc. Advertisers and
Printers, 1989.)
"The
saints who sang the hymns of Tirumurai inspire us onward and inward. The grand,
great old Rishi Tirumular captured the essence of the Vedas and the Agamas in
his epistles, announcing the rules and regulations that we must follow, telling
of the attainments that we may expect. Over two thousand years ago the great
siddha Saint Tirumular taught, "Offer oblations in love. Light the golden
lamps. Spread incense of fragrant wood and lighted camphor in all directions.
Forget your worldly worries and meditate. Truly, you shall attain rapturous
liberation."
It
is said in our Hindu scriptures that it is necessary to have a satguru. However,
it is also possible for an individual to accomplish all of this himself without
a guru. Possible, but most difficult and exceedingly rare. There may be four or
five in a hundred years, or less. Scriptures explain that perhaps in past lives
such a soul would have been well disciplined by some guru and is helped inwardly
by God in this life. With rare exceptions, a guru is necessary to guide the
aspirant on the path as far as he is willing and able to go in his current
incarnation. Few will reach the Ultimate. The satguru is needed because the mind
is cunning and the ego is a self-perpetuating mechanism. It is unable and
unwilling to transcend itself by itself. Therefore, one needs the guidance of
another who has gone through the same process, who has faithfully followed the
path to its natural end and therefore can gently lead us to God within
ourselves. Remember, the satguru will keep you on the path, but you have to walk
the path yourself.
All
gurus differ one from another depending on their parampara, their lineage, as
well as on their individual nature, awakening and attainments. Basically, the
only thing that a guru can give you is yourself to yourself. That is all, and
this is done in many ways. The guru would only be limited by his philosophy,
which outlines the ultimate attainment, and by his own experience. He cannot
take you where he has not himself been. It is the guru's job to inspire, to
assist, to guide and sometimes even impel the disciple to move a little further
toward the Self of himself than he has been able to go by himself."
Satguru
Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
(GURUDEVA <gurudeva-mws@ultraviolet.org>
Monday, Dec. 14, 1998 1:40 AM)
568) Sri
Niyantri
—
Maker of Laws and Rules.
Sri
Lalita Sahasranama
(Sri
Lalita Sahasranama, C. S. Murthy, Assoc. Advertisers and
Printers, 1989.)
569) Sri
Nikhilesvari
—
Queen of All.
Sri
Lalita Sahasranama
(Sri
Lalita Sahasranama, C. S. Murthy, Assoc. Advertisers and
Printers, 1989.)
571)
Sri Maha-pralaya-saksini
—
Witness of the Great Dissolution.
—
"Glory to Your Form, the Lone Witness to the Dance of
Shiva at the destruction of Kalpa."
Sri Samkara
Mantra-Matrka-Stava.
Sri
Lalita Sahasranama
(Sri
Lalita Sahasranama, C. S. Murthy, Assoc. Advertisers and
Printers, 1989.)
"As
Brahma, Visnu, etc. perish at that time of the dance of Siva
as the Great Dissolution, She alone is the witness (of that
dance.) It is said, "Bearing the noose, the elephant
hook, the bow of sugar-cane, and the arrow of flowers, your
form alone remains victorious, witnessing the dance of the
divine Parabhairava, bearing the axe at the time of the
Dissolution of the universe."
"
R.
A. Sastry, Lalita-Sahasranama
(R. A. Sastry, Lalita-Sahasranama,
The Adyar Library and Research Centre, Madras, 1988, p.
238.)
572)
Sri Para-saktih
—
The Ultimate Power.
Sri
Lalita Sahasranama
(Sri
Lalita Sahasranama, C. S. Murthy, Assoc. Advertisers and
Printers, 1989.)
His
supreme Shakti is known in different forms.
Linga
Purana
Whatever
energy is attributed to any substance that is Devi,
The ruler of all energized substance is the great Siva.
Those substances which possess energy are the manifestations
of Siva.
The wise recognize the energies in substance to be Devi.
Linga
Purana
"In
consonance with the tradition of the earliest prehistoric
Saivism, the eternal Siva with His Spouse is hailed and
invoked in the Tirumurai Hymns, Saiva Puranas and Siddhanta
Classics. Divine Energy or Sakti is lauded as the source of
everything. It is the origin of the phenomenal world, and
also of the conscious plan of its creation. It is the
principle of knowledge and perception through which its
existence can be known. Sakti is also signified as
Consciousness. She is Action and she is the emotive Power.
In order to gain liberation from the bonds, one should
worship the witness of all, the transcendent Energy, whose
"shape is the Self and in whom are found neither the
manifest world nor its pleasures.""
Sutta
Samhita 482.
573) Sri
Prajnana Ghana-rupini
—
Supreme Wisdom
—
State of Consciousness where nothing else is experienced
except Self.
—
"Like the taste of salt in the sea (It) is everywhere;
Prajnana is All Pervasive."
Brahadaranyaka Upanisad
Sri
Lalita Sahasranama
(Sri
Lalita Sahasranama, C. S. Murthy, Assoc. Advertisers and
Printers, 1989.)
Convinced
by instruction derived from the scriptures and from
teachers, and by reasoning in conformity with the
scriptures, that he himself the witness of all, his mind
fixed, knowing the whole which appears different from the
Self as his own Self, again fully convinced by his own
experience that he himself is the pure, non-dual Brahman;
merging that conviction in his own pure consciousness which
is unchangeable and non-dual; knowing that even that merging
is of the nature of thought, he should remain as the
absolute. This ascetic is indeed the best of those who know
Brahman; this is the highest end of scriptural teachings and
of experience.
Suta
Samhita (Suta-gita, V. 50-54)
"What
is the Nature of the Jnana Pada?
Jnana
is divine wisdom emanating from an enlightened being, a soul in its maturity,
immersed in Sivaness, the blessed realization of God, while living out earthly
karma. Jnana is the fruition of yoga tapas. Aum
The
instinctive mind in the young soul is firm and well-knit together. The
intellectual mind in the adolescent soul is complicated, and he sees the
physical world as his only reality. The subsuperconscious mind in the mystically
inclined soul well perfected in kriya longs for realization of Siva's two
perfections, Satchidananda and Parashiva. Through yoga he bursts into the
superconscious mind, experiencing bliss, all-knowingness and perfect silence. It
is when the yogi's intellect is shattered that he soars into Parashiva and comes
out a jnani. Each time he enters that unspeakable nirvikalpa samadhi, he returns
to consciousness more and more the knower. He is the liberated one, the
jivanmukta, the epitome of kaivalya-perfect freedom-far-seeing, filled with
light, filled with love. One does not become a jnani simply by reading and
understanding philosophy. The state of jnana lies in the realm of intuition,
beyond the intellect. The Vedas say, "Having realized the Self, the rishis,
perfected souls, satisfied with their knowledge, passion-free, tranquil-those
wise beings, having attained the omnipresent on all sides-enter into the All
itself."
Satguru
Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
(Himalayan Academy,
98)
"Wisdom
is truth in action, goodness in action, beauty in action,
and not least love in action. It is a form of knowing that
engenders truth, goodness, beauty, and love. Such knowing is
never a matter of mere learning or even mere experience. It
is a precious distillate of knowledge and experience created
in the higher mind, which the ancient Greeks called nous and
the Hindu philosophers named buddhis. The latter term
stems from the Sanskrit verbal root budh, meaning
"to be awake," which also underlies the word buddha,
or "enlightened one," and bodhi, or
"enlightenment." Wisdom, then, is lucid
understanding, and as such is the single most important
factor in a life dedicated to lucid waking."
Georg
Feuerstein, Lucid Waking
(Georg Feuerstein, Lucid
Waking, Inner Traditions International, 1997, p. 4.)
583) Sri Atmavidya
- The knowledge that gives the devotee, Atma Saksatkara as
taught by Yajnavalkya to Maitreyi or mantra Aham which is
Atmasvarupa.
591)
Sri Sirahsthita
—
Dwells inside head near Brahmarandhra.
Sri
Lalita Sahasranama
(Sri
Lalita Sahasranama, C. S. Murthy, Assoc. Advertisers and
Printers, 1989.)
“LUCKNOW (Feb 9) — Interpretation of the Quran in
the light of Sahaja Yoga was the topic of the first
international conference of the Islamic Study Group in
the city here on Sunday. Various Muslim scholars from
around the globe dwelt on the divine powers of Nirmala
Devi, who has rediscovered the magic of ‘sahaj yoga.’
The members discussed the benefits of this form and
how Muslims could benefit from it.
Speaking on occasion, Mr. Husain Top, a renowned sufi
saint from Turkey, said the seven heavens mentioned by
the prophet were in fact seven ‘chakras’
of
consciousness.
"The Almighty is pleased after one attains a
higher state of consciousness through
self-purification and meditation," he said.
"God sees through man and he hears through
man," the sufi saint said. Mr. Top said in the
final stage of consciousness man is enveloped by the
will of God and in this state he attains union with
the Almighty and finds peace.
Mr. Jamal from Algeria revealed that ‘Qayamet’ or
Doomsday as is generally understood, is not
destruction but resurrection attaining enlightenment. He explained that the real meaning of the greater ‘jehad’
or holy war was the ‘conquest of the self.’
Mr.
Javed Khan, president of the Indian Taekwondo
Association and the All-India Kickboxing Federation,
said the ‘meraj’ or ascent can be attained through
self-realization, which happens spontaneously in
Sahaja Yoga. The Quran and the Hadith speak specifically about ‘meraj,’
he said.
Dr. Amjad Ali from Australia spoke on the
same topic and explained the matter in detail. He
related every aspect of his theory to the
electromagnetic field of the energy present within
every individual, which he termed as ‘chakras.’
Explaining the position of the ‘kundalini,’ which
he said was the breath of god in the human body, Mr.
Amjad Ali said the ‘kundalini’ ascends from the
base of the spine to the top of the head, which when
aroused leads to self-realization.
Dr. Zafar Rashid from the United Kingdom talked about
incarnations. He said the holy ghost was in fact the
primordial feminine power called ‘Adi
Shakti.’
"It is through this ‘shakti’ that we can
attain salvation," he said.
Mr. Majeed Golpour
from Iran said resurrection is also the time for
advent of the 12th. Imam or the Ma'adhi’
(which Javed said was in fact ‘Adi Shakti’.) Mr.
Golpour said from the various signals he received from
time to time, it has become clear that ‘adi shakti’
or the ‘imam ma’ahdi’ had come to Earth in the
form of Nirmala Devi.”
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Hindustan Times
February 9, 1998
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Surely
there is a reminder in this for whosoever has a heart (to
feel), or attends. . .
Take heed that the day the Crier calls from a place quite
close (to every
one),
The day they actually hear the blast will be the Day of
rising of the dead.
We are the one who give life and death, and to Us will be
the destination.
The day the earth will split asunder they will come out
hurriedly,
This gathering together is easy for us.
We are cognisant of what they say; but it is not for you to
compel them.
So keep on reminding through the Qur’an whoever fears My
warning.
