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The document provides an overview of Panchastavi, a collection of five hymns praising the divine mother Sri Lalita Mahatripurasundari. It discusses how the hymns can help students of yoga make esoteric explanations of allegorical descriptions regarding Kundalini. It also notes that the Shakta school views Advaita as the ultimate reality, similarly to Kashmir Shaivism. The five hymns respectively praise the five glories of Sri Parashakti: Chit, Ananda, Iccha, Jnana and Kriya. There is a belief that the five hymns were given through a threshing plate, grindstone, hearth,
The document provides an overview of Panchastavi, a collection of five hymns praising the divine mother Sri Lalita Mahatripurasundari. It discusses how the hymns can help students of yoga make esoteric explanations of allegorical descriptions regarding Kundalini. It also notes that the Shakta school views Advaita as the ultimate reality, similarly to Kashmir Shaivism. The five hymns respectively praise the five glories of Sri Parashakti: Chit, Ananda, Iccha, Jnana and Kriya. There is a belief that the five hymns were given through a threshing plate, grindstone, hearth,
The document provides an overview of Panchastavi, a collection of five hymns praising the divine mother Sri Lalita Mahatripurasundari. It discusses how the hymns can help students of yoga make esoteric explanations of allegorical descriptions regarding Kundalini. It also notes that the Shakta school views Advaita as the ultimate reality, similarly to Kashmir Shaivism. The five hymns respectively praise the five glories of Sri Parashakti: Chit, Ananda, Iccha, Jnana and Kriya. There is a belief that the five hymns were given through a threshing plate, grindstone, hearth,
Panchastavi is a peerless treatise of five hymns sung in Yogic
language in praise of the divine mother Sri Lalita Mahatripurasundari. It is devotional in
nature and yogic in content. It is indeed a composition revealed to a great seer. An earnest student of utmost piety could make out esoteric explanations of allegoric descriptions regarding Kundalini in a variety of ways from the very melody of these verses of different rhymes, only with spontaneous help from an advanced yogi of the Shakta tradition. Reading the verses, or hearing them sung is like coming upon priceless gem hidden in the cavernous interior of the Himalayas, as the Upanishadic utterance corroborates. "The daring intellect gives up all joy and sorrow for developing concentration of the mind on the self-luminous Deity by meditating on the Eternal Being, who, hidden with the knowledge of the world, located in the intellect in the intellect and lodged inaccessibly, is hard to see". Shakta school holds Advaita as the ultimate reality in an equal perspective with Kashmir Shaivism and of the same ideal as of the monastic Vedanta. This is evident from the sacred and mysterious monosyllable (Pranava) attributed to each thought and consisting of the corresponding seed-letters (Bijaksharas). The Pranava of Vedic thought is AUM. Correspondingly, the Shakta and Shaiva schools use `Hrim' and `Aham' respectively. Since all the Pranavas end in the Bindu, it is natural that the Bindu is the material cause for all the factors. It is the unconditional Brahman or the all-pervading Supreme Truth from which emanate all the conditional entities. Paraa-Bindu is the immeasurable entity into which this entire manifestational phenomenon finds repose. This power of creation and absorption, quite inseparable from its holder Shiva, is called Shakti. The magnificence, grace and beauty of this primordial Power make up eternal bliss. In consequence, there is a latent agreement among all mankind and this truth must be the one we seek. Accordingly, religions in general are at one with each other. Each has a philosophy antagonistic to the special dogma of the other. The Vedic Rishis have already declared, "The Brahman is surely different from the known, and again, it is above the unknown -- such was the utterance we heard of the ancient teachers who explained it to us".
(Kena 1.4). The Panchastavi manures growth in consciousness to that
sublime truth. Shiva is the transcendent self, the divine power of conservation and Shakti is immanent, the divine energy of pulsation (Spanda). The appearance of both is like the two sides of the same coin. The Tantra declares, "His energies are evident in the multiform manifestation and the holder of the energies is Maheshwara -- the Lord of the Lords, Paramashiva himself". the Upanishad says, "His (Paramashiva's) Parashakti is manifold, as described in the Veda, the natural energies of knowledge, power and action" (Swe Upa IV 10). These conjoint with the powers of concealing (Pidhaana) and favoring (Anugraha) of Shiva constitute the fivefold glory of Sri Parashakti. This is further made clear by Kshemaraja in one of the benedictory verses in his commentary on Stavachintamani of Bhatta Narayana: "We bow to Shiva who, enjoining his fivefold glory, reveals the spiritual Shakti, the power of consciousness and bliss". Parashakti is therefore Yoni, the original source, the Supreme Mother whose five glories Chit, Ananda, Iccha, Jnana and Kriya, are praised through the five celebrated Hymns of the Panchastavi from the fifth to the first respectively. There is also a belief regarding these five hymns among the Kashmiri Pandits, among whom this book of hymnal prayers has been very popular. It is said that the five hymns were representatively given out through a threshing plate or mortar, a grindstone, a hearth, a pot and a broom. The scriptures indicate that the use of these articles becomes the cause of committing indirect sins in households. Performing the five kinds of sacrifices may ward off the effects of sins. This was the advice of Sri Shankaracharya to a Vaishnava whom the former had defeated in Shastrartha. The five sacrifices, Pancha Mahayajna, ward off the five kinds of sins, the causes of sufferings, ignorance, egoism, attachment, aversion and desire to cling to life (Yoga sutras II.3). 1. Brahma Yagna -- Recitation or study of the Vedas removes ignorance. 2. Deva Yagna - Oblation made to the gods through fire, remove egoism. 3. Pitr Yagna -- Obsequial offerings remove attachment. 4. Manava Yagna -- Hospitality removes aversion. 5. Bhoota Yagna -- Love for all beings removes the desire of clinging to life.
Johnston. The Book of Saint Basil The Great, Bishop of Caesarea in Cappadocia, On The Holy Spirit, Written To Amphilochius, Bishop of Iconium, Against The Pneumatomachi. 1892.