Sivanandalahari Of Sankaracarya
Sivanandalahari Of Sankaracarya

Author: Śaṅkarācārya

Publisher: Abhinav Publications

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 8170174430

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The Sivanandalahari Of Adi Sankaracarya, Like Its Twin, Saundaryalahari, Is A Poem Of Intense Devotion, As Noted For Its Poetic Skill As For Its Spiritual Fervour.God Cannot Be Conceived Of , Meditated Upon Or Loved With Devotion In The Abstract.To Love God, The One Ultimate Reality, Indefinable, Ineffable, Eternal, Omnipresent And Immanent, The Primal Cause- As The Brahma Sutras Put It- From Which The Cosmos Is Born, Maintained And Dissolved, God Has To Be Conceived Of As The Father-Mother, Inseparable As Word And Meaning-In The Immortal Analogy Of Kalidasa.This Is The Conception Of Siva-Sakti, Father-Mother, Who Are In Themselves One, The Embodiment Of Truth, Goodness And Beauty And Are Being, Consciousness And Bliss, Sat-Cit-Ananda.Mythology And Metaphysics, Legend And Poetry Have Enveloped This Father-Mother Image Of God In The Magic Of Love, Devotion And Adulation.

Saundaryalahari of Sankaracharya
Saundaryalahari of Sankaracharya

Author: Śaṅkarācārya

Publisher:

Published: 1977

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9788120802087

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Saundaryalahari is a rare Tantric work whose authorship is attributed to Samkaracarya. It is a long poem of one hundred verses; a hymn of praise to the Divine Mother; an invocation and a prayer that awakens man from stupor to a state of effulgent energy and creativity. In this monograph the original Sanskrit text of each verse is presented in Devanagari script accompanied with its Roman transliteration. English rendering of the verses and explanatory notes are provided with an eye to modern readership. Inclusion of yantras in their pictorical symbols focus attention on underlying potencies of each verse. The possibility of attainment of power and success by single-minded recitation of the verses is stressed on. The monograph will be of special interest to mother worshippers of all denominations. Students of religion and philosophy will find it appealing. the general reader with a love for poetry and literature will also like it.