I tried to haha meditate this morning to no avail. All Swami would show me was this terrible oil spill pouring garbage into my consciousness….unabated. It’s TV pouring into my mind! I watched a movie last night until 9 o’clock. It was Godfather 2 and it was all about crime and violence. I spent 2 hrs waiting for the bullets and bombs and this morning it was my mind which had been shot! NO MORE VIOLENCE! This time I mean it. My mind had been absolutely polluted by that spill of nasty bad violence.
Swami has added more beautiful orange butterflies right outside my window. Really there are about 9 or 10 now, all bright orange and fluttering around each other all day in the butterfly tree. I can even watch them from my bed along with the tiny lizards and the bushy tailed squirrels. I could watch these beautiful manifestation of Swami all day but what do I do? Well, the movie won 6 Academy Award noninations. So I was drawn in by the superb acting etc. If it had been poorly made maybe I would have turned it off….maybe. Godfather 3 comes on next week. Oh God
Great clouds of violence and the dark forces pouring into my mind. Swami gave me very direct guidance this morning with one word….PURITY. I NEED PURITY IF I AM TO GET IN TOUCH WITH MY OWN ATMA, which is Sai. This spill must somehow be purified. Hmmm you know yesterday was one of the only days I forgot to do my reading, THE Astotra and the Rudram and all that. Of course I wouldn’t get off the bed in the morning without reading the Sahastrara. The 1000 names of Devi in English has actually has been my savior since I took the translated names in English to create a little book for myself to use. It’s always pulled me up from dark places. You know I mentioned that Swami’s picture smiles at me when He is pleased, well, when ever I read these names, He smiles so sweetly. Why? Because HE IS DEVI.
Ok so what I’m leading up to is that I’ve given you Swami’s 1000 names in English and now I will give you Devi’s Sahasranama.
Pleased be advised that you don’t have to study all the sacred texts which I have given you. You can skip anything and just read the cute, chatty stuff. I wish I hadn’t said that! Cute and chatty is not the image I wish to get across. My programmer will kill me.
So today is Sunday and I will watch TV which has unfortunately become rather an addiction…but I will watch it day to TRY TO FIND THE ATMA. Why don’t I just look inside as Swami so patiently tells us to do year after year? I don’t know but let me ask you this. Who is suggesting that I look for the Atma in the first place? The Atma, of course so I AM IN TOUCH WITH THE ATMA!
Sri Lalitha Sahasranama
1 Salutations to my Divine Mother
Oh, great Empress riding on the lion You came from fire of consciousness to promote my divine force, you are as radiant as a thousand suns Oh 4 armed Divinity
In your upper hands you hold the noose of love And the goad of wrath and in your lower hands, my mind, my heart and my feelings.
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You have the universal rosy splendor.
And you have the fragrance of all the flowers on earth. In your crown are all the galaxies. Your forehead shines like moon and your moon like face is the home of cupid. Your eyes are like fish in a stream and your nose like the campaka bud with Venus as your nasal ornament. You are radiant with flowers and the sun and moon your ear pendants. Your cheeks are as red as coral and your lips are like rubies.
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25 Your mouth sprouts pure knowledge and the fragrance of camphor with Saraswati’s speech. You inundate the mind of Shiva with your peerless chin You wear the Mangala Sutra from Lord Shiva with gem studded bracelets and a pearl pendant Your breasts are a token of love to Lord Shiva, like fruits on a creeper. You have a slender waist and you wear A red garment and a girdle of bells
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Salutations to your smooth thighs. Your knees are like crowns. Your beautiful calves and smooth ankles and the arches of your lotus feet are so beautiful with your bright toe nails
You are adorned with jewels. You have a gait like a swan oh treasure house beauty And you are rosy hued and faultless limbed with feet adorned with ornaments as you sit in Lord Shiva’s lap
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53 You are the power of Shiva, the creative part of Shiva. You also dwell on Mt. Meru And in the Bindu circle of Bliss and above the Manidvipa and you are seated on 5 divinities Salutations to the one dwelling in the Sahasrara and in kadamba trees and in the sea of nectar. With eyes full of grace you grant prayers You are praised by Divine beings as you command your army of Shaktis. Your elephant division Commander is Sampakari,
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Your Cavalry Commander is Asvarudha and your chariot is the Cakra Raja. Salutations to your Counselor, Syamala and to your commanding general, General, Dandanatha and also to
the leader of your rampart of fire, Jvalamalika Your army is destroying Bhanda and you are delighted by your Nitya deities, your precious daughter, BALA And by the destruction of Visanga, by Syamala and the destruction of Visukra, by Dandanatha
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77 Sri Ganesha appeared to destroy the nasty yantra at your glance at Lord Shiva . The ten incarnations came out of your fingers and you are countering Bhanda’s missiles with your own great Pasupati missile, the Help ever hurt never missile. Salutations to the destruction and death of
B handa as you are being praised by Brahma, Visnu ,Lord Indra Salutations to your herb which revived Kama
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Salutations to the face, the middle region, and the below the waist region, of your great Panchadasi Mantra which is identical with your precious sacred body. Salutations to the Kundalini flowing from the Sahasara You guard the kaula path You are the male and female element The innermost reality of Kaula, Kaulini. Salutations to Shiva and Shathi of the Kaula path and the Samaya doctrine of meditation
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99. Salutations to the one dwelling in the Muladara, breaking thru Brahma granthi abiding in the Manipura Chakra, breaking thru the Vishnu granthi, dwelling in the Ajna, breaking thru the Rudra granthi ascending to the Sahasrara
and abiding in the transcendental moon like a steady flash of lightning. You reside in the 6 chakras and have your joy is union with Shiva
You reside in Muladhara
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Your arms are like lotus stalks
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125. And you bestows happiness
You are Sankari, consort of Shankara
and you are the spouse of Vishnu,
the paragon of virtue with face like the autumn moon. You have a slender waist, peaceful and you support all. You are free from the stain of ignorance, free from affectations afflictions and never agitated, You are free from impurities, eternal and not limited to any form. You are beyond the gunas, the unitary whole
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You are always serene, free from desire and Eternally free, You are beyond multiplicity and not dependant. You are eternally pure, 151. awake consciousness, and flawless. You are without division. You are the first cause, without stain with no limitation and no overlord. You are without passion and you destroy passion, without pride you destroy pride, free from anxiety and without ego, free from false view and you dispel illusion
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You include all in Your self, and destroy self centeredness You are sinless, and destroy sin’s root You are without anger and you destroy anger’s root. You are free from greed, you destroy greed, without doubt
you effaces doubt, beyond birth-death cycle, you free us from birth-death
176 You are pure consciousness
and can never be sublimated, You are beyond the sense of difference and you destroy our sense of difference
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Deathless, you destroy our fear of death, you have no involvement in action as everything belongs to You. Peerless, you have shining black hair You are imperishable, indestructible You are difficult to attain, to approach, to access and you end sorrow Salutations to you who bestows happiness. You are far from the wicked you put an end to evil ways and you are free from evil. You are Omniscient and deeply compassionate
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