Yesterday our Prime Minister Sri. Narendra Modi
joined a huge congregation of women in Bengaluru who were there to recite
Soundarya Lahari.
Sivananda Lahari (Waves of Auspicious Bliss) &
Soundarya Lahari (Waves of Beauty) are the famous hymns in Sanskrit by Sri Sri
Sankara framed to connote Advaita philosophy. Sivananda Lahari has no tantric
references in them, those reading and understanding this great hymn will automatically
get inner peace, steadfast mind and most importantly Jnana of Advaita. This
religious verses are hundred in numbers. It is a poem in praise of
Maharudradeva which also transforms the one who recites spiritually.
Soundarya Lahari also has one hundred verses. These
verses refers to aesthetic value that is appreciation of beauty in context of
the Absolute. This appreciation of that Absolute value is realised as Ananda
(Bliss) experienced when Soundarya (Beauty) is understood objectively.
The first 41 verses is believed to have to be
distinguished evidently according to its contents as pertaining to the world of
inner Self. This part of Soundarya Lahari is to have basic platform on which
human values could be rediscovered, rearranged, revalued and restated more
normally and normatively.
The next 59 verses is that appreciation of Absolute
value in terms of global perspectives of objective beauty of Mother.
Now, how could there be this divide in the scripting
of the verses. There is an interesting legend to it, once Sri Sri Sankara
visited Kailasa to worship Shiva and Shakti. There he was gifted with a
manuscript containing 100 verses which describing various aspects of the Shiva
& Shakti including their union. Nandi doing his duty as the security
in-charge, interrupted the Acharya when he was bringing the manuscript and in
the scuffle, Sri Sri Sankara managed to get hold on the first 41 verses. Shiva
then commanded the Acharya to write the remaining 59 verses.
The first 41 are the original work of Shiva,
showering light on the ancient technic of Mantra, Yantra and Tantra. They
describe the mystical experience of the union of Shiva and Shakti and related
phenomena and is called “Ananda Lahari”. The next 59 verses, composed by Sri
Sri Sankara focuses mainly on the appearance of Mother.
The entire 100 verses are collectively called as
“Soundarya Lahari”.
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