Soundarya Lahari Sloka

Saturday, April 22, 2006

Soundarya Lahari Sloka -32

[Sri Vidya, Panca-Dasa-Aksharee Mantra]
[sakala kaarya jayam, long life]

Sivah saktih kaamah kshiti-ratha ravih seetakiranah
Smaro hamsah scakra-stadanu ca paraa-maara-harayah
Amee hrillekhaabhi-stisrubhi-ravasaaneshu ghatitaa
Bhajante varnaaste tava janani naamaavayavataam

Janani - Oh! Goddess!
Sivah - siva beejaakshara mantra ‘ka’
saktih - sakti beejaakshara mantra ‘ye’
kaamah - manmatha beejaakshara mantra ‘ee’
kshitih - prithwi beejaakshara mantra ‘la’
athah - after that
ravih - surya beejaakshara mantra ‘ha’
seta-kiranah - cool candrakiranabeejaakshara mantra ‘sa’
Smarah - manmatha beejaakshara mantra ‘ka’
hamsah - hamsa mantra/aakaasa beeja mantra ‘ha’
cakrah - indra beeja mantra ‘la’
tadanu ca - after that
paraa- - paraa beeja mantra ‘sa’,
maara- - manmatha beejaakshara mantra ‘ka’
harayah - hari beejaakshara mantra ‘la’
Amee - this
te - your
Varnaah - aksharaas
Hrillekhaabhih - along with bhuvaneswari beeja akshara mantra ‘hreem’
Tisrubhih - three
avasaaneshu - at the end of each koota
ghatitaa - attached
Bhajante - is formed
tava - your
naama-avayavataam - as the parts of the mantraas

Oh! Goddess! Supreme!
The three sets of letters ka, ye, ee, la [first four]
Ha, sa, ka, ha, la [second five]
Sa, ka, la [third three]

Total 12 letters , with these, add in the end of each set hreem;

ka, ye, ee, la, hreem
Ha, sa, ka, ha, la, hreem
Sa, ka, la, hreem

Totally put together there are 15 letters which form your divine mantra.

The letters serve as part of your naama and avayava, Oh! Goddess! One who chants this mantra will definitely get the complete blessings of goddess and get moksha.

In this sloka, the Panca Dasa akshari maha-mantra called “kaadi vidya” for which the first letter is ‘ka’ is referred indirectly. There are three parts for this called ‘kootaas’.

The first is called vaaghbhava kootam for which the mantra is ka, ye, ee, la, hreem;
This shines with brilliance of the pralaya kaala agni, starts from mooladhaara and reaches anaahata.

The second is called kaamaraaja kootam for which the mantra is ha, sa, ka, ha, la, hreem;
This possesses the brilliance of crores of suns, starts from anaahata and reaches aajnaa-cakra.

The third is called sakti kootam for which the mantra is sa,ka, la, hreem;
This shines with crores of candraprakaasa, starts from aajnaa cakra and widens through to the middle of lalata or forehead.

The brialliant rays from the sacred stones of different colours from each of the koota overlap each other and form a tremendous indescribable divine brilliance, which is beyond the reach of anything else in the world. The ‘naada’ which starts from the moolaadhaara pass through these garlands of stones form a thread like structure. The bindu kala or part which falls on the hreem beeja in each koota is called by the respective names – vahni kundalini, soorya kundalini, and soma kundalini.

From the letters of the panca dasa akshari [15] mantra only the world has evolved, starting with the pancabhootaas - ether or sky or aakaasa, air, fire, water and earth.
The characteristic or guna of the aakaasa is only one – i.e.,the sabda or sound;
The characteristic of the air which has come from the aakaasa has two gunaas viz., sparsa or touch and sabda or sound.

The characteristic of the fire which has come from air is consisting of three gunaas – viz., sabda or sound, sparsa or touch and roopa or form.
The characteristic of the water which has come from fire is consisting of four gunaas – viz., sabda or sound, sparsa or touch, roopa or form and rasa or taste.
The characteristic of the earth which has come from water is consisting of five gunaas – viz., sabda or sound, sparsa or touch, roopa or form, rasa or taste and gandha or smell.

The five panca bhootaas and their characteristics are :-

aakaasa sound or sabda
air sound or sabda and sparsa or touch
fire sound or sabda , sparsa or touch and roopa or form
water sound or sabda , sparsa or touch , roopa or form and rasa or taste
earth sound or sabda , sparsa or touch , roopa or form, rasa or taste, and smell or gandha

The total characteristics of all the panca-bhootaas are 15 in number [1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 ] and the letters of the panca dasa akshari maha mantra are also 15 [ 5 + 6 + 4 ]; the chanting of these letters will give the effect of prostrating the panca-bhootaas or prostrating the whole world, since the whole world consists of nothing but the panca-bhootaas only.

This is referred by the great poet Bhaskara rayar in Vari Vasya Rahasyam .
The equivalent of the same sloka is contained in Lalitaa Sahasra Naama :-

Srimad vaaghbhava kootaika swaroopa mukha pankajaa
Kanthaadha katiparyanta Madhya koota swaroopini
Sakti kootaika taapanna katyadhobhaaga dhaarini

While meditating on the roopa or form of goddess, one has to do it with:-

The face of goddess as vaaghbhava kootam
The middle part from neck to hip as kaamaraaja kootam

The third / lowest part from the hip downwards as sakti kootam.

The first koota is comparable to jaagrat state
The second koota is comparable to swapna state
The third koota is comparable to deep sleep state

The great poet Lakshmidharar says that you have to add one more letter at the end to
complete the mantra as shodasaakshari [16 letters] instead of paca dasa akshari [ 15 letters] by adding the letter sreem in the beginning of the 15 letters. And hence the name "Sree Vidya".The fourth state so formed is equivalent to the turiya state.

Lalitaa Sahasra Naama refers like this :-
Aatmavidyaa mahaavidyaa sreevidyaa kaamasevitaa
Sree Shodasaakshari Vidyaa trikootaa kaamakotikaa.

Haadi vidyaa :-
Sowbhaagya vardhinee of the kaivalyaasrama refers like this –

This sloka also refers to lopaamudraa vidyaa called haadi vidyaa and And also to durvaasa vidyaa referred by the trayodasa akshari mantra.

Lopaamudraa vidyaa – or haadi vidyaa - Ha sa ka la hreem ha sa ka ha la hreem sa ka la hreem
Durvaasa vidyaa or trayodasa akshari [13 letters] mantra
Ha sa ka la ha sa ka ha la sa ka la hreem

This panca-dasa-akshari mantra is most sacred, most secret and most powerful one.

Refer Bhagavad Gita chapter 9 – sloka 1 wherein Lord Krishna tells Arjuna :-
"Idam to te guhyatamam pravakshyaamyanasooyave
Jnaanam vijnaanasahitam yat jnaatwaa mokshyase asubhaat"

This mantra also will lead us to the spiritual knowledge, in due course of time.
The parasakti has become by vivarta the 36 tatwamayi including the sivaadiparyanta
Paraadivaikharyanta sabdamayi
Binduadi bhoopuraanta cakramayi
Sthoolaadi kaarana paryanta dehamayi

To know which parasakti, four vedaas, six saastraas, eighteen puraanaas, meemaamsaa nyaayavistaara, dharmasaastra and so on the 14 vidya were formed.

Such a parasakti is definitely to be known. Then only spiritual knowledge also will be complete. We undergo physical and mental pain everyday, every moment, and it gets stored day by day and become dangerous which prevents us to do any constructive activity.
This mantra is aadhi – vyaadhi vinaasini [aadhi – for mind and vyaadhi for body]

All the factors become clear to us like
Srishti-sthiti-samhara, tirodhaana-anugraha, jnaataa-jnaanam-jneyam, tatsaamarasyam, sooryacakram, agnicakram, somacakram, brahmacakram, mitresanaathan, shashteesanaathan, jaagrat-swapna-susupti-turiya, vaama-jyeshtaa-raudree-saantaah, icchaa-jnaana-kriyaa,ambikaa-kaameswari-vajreswari-bhagamalini-mahaatripurasundari, aatma-vidyaa-siva-sarva tatwam, kaamagiripeetam-poornagiripeetam-jalaantarapeetam-odhyaanapeetam, praadakshina-uttara-pascima, swayambhoolinga-baanalinga-itaralinga-paralinga, pasyanti-madhyama-vaikhari-paraa,

by the chanting and knowing the meaning of the mantra. Totally, we can say, we will know the self and the jeeva-jagat-isawra secret and come to know ourselves in turn. We get self knowledge. [temporarily we have forgotten about the same].

The twelve great giant saints we see in puraanaas – viz.,
manu, candra, kubera, lopaamudraa, manmatha, agasthya, nandikeswara, surya, Vishnu, shanmukha, siva, durvaasaa have known this mantra and are examples for us to follow and get moksha in life, by knowing the self. {it is like, taking a thorn by another thorn; we have ignorance-non apprehension or "agrahana" and mis-apprehension or erroneous knowledge or "anyathaagrahana"; this can go only by turning our attention to right knowledge by removing our tamas and rajas qualities to satwa and then to get out of the satwa qualities also and becoming the real Self}.

Great saints refer about this Sree Vidyaa mantra thus :-
"sri vidya yasya jihwaagresa saakshaal paramassivah yasya no pascimam janma
swayam yo vaa na sankarah tenaiva labhyate vidyaa sreemal panca dasaakshari
mokshakaihetuvidyaa tu sri vidyaa naatra samsayah na silpaadijnaanayukte
vidwatsabdah prayujyate tasaadvidyaavi devaatra vidwaan vidwaaniteeryate "
Lalitaa trisati refers about Sri vidya like this :- (translated to Malayalam)
"sreevidya yaarkku naavinkal avan taan parameswaran aarkkillayo
punarjjanmamaar saakshaal sivanallayo avannu taan labhikkum sree vidyaa
pancadasaakshari mokshahetukavidyaa srividyaa taanilla samsayam kalaavidyaa
nipunane vidwaanennura ceykolaa sree vidyaavediye maatram vidwaanennu paranjidaam"

Rajarajeswari tantra refers like this :-
"shodasaarnam mahaamantram mantrarajottamottamam, sakrit sravanamaatrena
kotijanmaaghanaasanam mahaapaataka koteenaam bhanjanam smritimaatratah
upapaataka daurbhagyasamanam bhuktimuktidam visharogaadidaaridrya mrityusamhaarakaarakam saptakoti mahaamantra paaraayanaphalapradam catussamudraparyanta bhoodaanaphaladam sive sahasrakoti godaanaphaladam
dhyaanamaatratah kotyaswamedhaphaladam jaraamrityunivaaranam kim punarbahunoktena sivasayoojyadaayakam"

This mantra of Maha-tripurasundari represents the kundalini sakti which pervades through the shadaadhaara cakraas.

The 3 khandaas agni, soorya and soma represent the three sakti – icchaa- kriyaa-jnaana, the 3 states sushupti, swapna and jaagrat, the three bhoktas praajna, taijasa and viswa, the 3 gunaas satwa, rajas and tamas.

Aagneya khanda jnaana sakti jaagrat viswa tamas
Saura khanda icchaasakti swapnam taijasa rajas
Soma khanda kriyaa sakti sushupti praajna satwa
The hrillekha referred in the sloka or the manta "hreem" called as [bhuvaneswari beejam] at the end of three kootams and chant the mantra gives one moksha by giving viveka and thereby jnaana.

Hrillekheva jaagarti
Praanasaktiriyam paraa
Hrillekhaa kathyate tasmaa-
Maayaa caa cintya vaibhavaa
Anayaa rahitaa sarve
Nirjeevaa mantra raasayah
Atastu sarvavidyaanaam
Iyam utbodhinee mataa’

It is said that the [15 + 1 sreem] 16 letters of the shodasaksharee vidyaa refers to the 15 tithi-devataas like prathama, dwitiya, tritiya, caturthi, pancami, shashti, saptami, ashtami, navami, dasami, ekaadasi, dwaadasi, trayodasi, caturdasi and pournami or amaavaasyaa.
The sixteenth one [sreem] is the beejaakshara mantra of Baalaa Tripura Sundari the supreme power divine or the pure consciousness which is all pervading.
It is referred that the sixteen letters or mantras represent the sixteen lotus petals in the visuddhi cakra [at the throat].

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