Book 3 - Adhyaya 5

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

Obeisance unto you, O sole mother of the Universe,

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

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Let the eternal Reality, a beautiful female Deity oi lovely form, be gracious for our welfare for ever— the Deity from whom learned men acquire the third Purusdrtha viz. K&ma i.e. all their desires and whose splendour is supreme.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

In those different places, hesawall creatures enveloped in the darkness of ignorance and devoted to the satisfaction of the urges of hunger a nd sexual desire. Hence, he thought wor- riedly about them.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

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As stated in Introduction SrT Lalitopakhyana is an Appendix — an apocryphal part— of the Brahmanda Purana (Bd. P.) It starts with a fresh set of Mangalacarana verses — a prayer of Sri Lalita, the main divinity of this Upakhydna and has a different set of interlocutors viz. Sage Agastya and Hayagriva (a partial incarnation of god Visnu as another sage).

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

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Conjeveram, 43 miles SW of Madras. The eastern portion of the town is Vismi-KahcT and the western is Siva-Kanci. The chief deity of Siva-

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

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There the wise sage worshipped Siva installed in the shrine of Ekamra, the lord ofVarana Saila as well as god- dess KamaksI, the destroyer of sins and defects of the Kali Age.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

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Then the lord ofthe universe said, "1 am pleased with your penance. O excellent Brahmana, welfare unto you. Choose your boon."

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

I am the prime cause ofliving beings, the original creator and the lord. I am the cause of creation, sustenance and dissolution of everything.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

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At the end when the effects of evil actions perish on account of austerities continued for a long time as well as through Tanias' and Niyamas* (Restraints and holy observances) and Tyagas (renunciation ofthings), Salvation is immediately attained.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

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The moral observances viz. Non-violence, Truth, Non-stealing, Celibacy, Possession-lessness. Some Smrtis enumerate ten Tanias. Tanias are obligatory.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

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The restraints, Yogasutra II. 32 enumerate the following: Sauca

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

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Merely by meditating on that form, the sins and evils of those men who commit heinous crimes and those who are outside the pale of three Varnas, turn into meritorious deeds.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

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By worshipping and propitiating her (the ParaSakti) and a so by means of the power of meditation and Yogic practice, Lord Siva became the leader of all Siddhas and also became the lord, half of whose body has the female Sakti form.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

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On hearing these words of Hayagrlva, the lord wield- ing Sarnga bow, (sage Agastya) bowed down to him and spoke these words to Visnu (slayer of Madhu).

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

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"O Lord! It behoves you to recount to me of what sort is that form that has been mentioned by you before, what is its power and of what'type are its sports.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

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After saying this and commanding sage Hayagriva (like-wise) Hari, the lord of the universe, vanished in front of the pot-born sage Agastya.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

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Let my teaching be spread in the worlds by you, great souls who are the teachers of all beings; this is my wish.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

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I am the beginning of beings, the first maker, the Lord himself, the agent of all creation, sustenance and dissolution.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

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Threefold in form, beyond the three qualities, without qualities yet the support of qualities,

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

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moving at will, the self of beings, consisting of Pradhana and Purusha — thus, O Brahman, is my nature, who bear the form of the three worlds.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

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My form became twofold, as Pradhana and Purusha. My form as Pradhana consists of the qualities of all the worlds;

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

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the other, beyond the qualities, is great, higher than the highest. Knowing these two in this way, one is freed — what then of both?

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

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Through long austerities, restraints and observances, and through renunciation, when evil deeds are destroyed, liberation is quickly obtained.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

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The form endowed with qualities is attained through oneness with those qualities; the other, the form of the whole world, consists of action, enjoyment and effort.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

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That is attained through actions, and it is also attained through renouncing them; but renunciation of both is hard for all, O ascetic.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

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It is imperishable and easy to reach, within the range of good and bad actions,

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

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by the quality that dwells in the self, whether good or bad; the knowledge that comes through oneness with the self grants all perfections.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

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Even for the most sinful men outside the three classes, by merely meditating on this form, evil deeds turn into good.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

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Those who worship the supreme Shakti, with rites or without, are surely not bound to worldly existence; they are freed, without doubt.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

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Shiva, having worshipped her through the power of meditation and yoga, became the lord of all the perfected ones, the Lord who is half woman.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

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Other gods led by the lotus-born became perfected through the power of meditating on her. Therefore, for all the worlds, without worship of Tripura

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

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neither enjoyment nor liberation is found anywhere together. With mind fixed on her, breath absorbed in her, worshipping her, all your acts directed to her,

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

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performing actions in identity with her, you will attain liberation. This secret has been told out of desire for the good of all,

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

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by me, pleased with your austerity, O best of sages. May gods, sages, perfected ones, men and others obtain from the lotus of your mouth the perfection beyond the highest.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

Hearing these words of Hayagriva, the bearer of the Sharnga bow, he bowed and again spoke to Madhusudana:

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

"O Lord, what is the nature of that form you spoke of before? What is its play and what its power? Please tell me this."

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

Hayagriva said: "O divine sage, this Hayagriva is my other self, a portion of me; whatever you wish to hear, he will tell you all."

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

Having instructed the ascetic Hayagriva thus, Hari, lord of the world, vanished before the pot-born sage.

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चरूथी--विल्मी--कवची-श्रुत--सेन--दुम्दुभी. इत्यादि रुद्र है

English

Then the ascetic, filled with wonder and with hair standing on end, returned to his hermitage with the sage Hayagriva.