{"collection":"tantra","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/tantra/htk/htk10.htm","path":"tantra/htk/htk10.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/tantra/htk/htk10.htm","text":"Hymn to Kali, by Arthur Avalon (Sir John George Woodroffe), [1922]\nO DEV\u012a 1 of full breasts, 2 whose throat is adorned with a garland of heads, They who meditating 3 recite any one or two or three of Thy very secret and excelling B\u012bjas or all thereof 4 together with Thy name, 5 in the moonlike face of all such the Dev\u012b of Speech 6 ever Wanders, and in their lotus-like eyes Kamal\u0101 7 ever plays. 8\nCOMMENTARY\n'Dev\u012b'\nThe self-manifest one.\n'Full breasts' (P\u012bnastan\u0101dhy\u0101)\nThe milk of these is the, food with which She nourishes the world and the drink of immortality with which She liberates Her S\u0101dhakas.\n'Whose neck' (Mu\u1e47da-sragati\u015baya-lasat-ka\u1e47\u1e6di)\nShe who is \u015aabdabrahman consisting of 50 Letters. Niruttara-Tantra says, 'She is adorned with a garland of heads representing the 50 letters.' K\u0101madhenu-Tantra says, 'In My throat is the wonderful B\u012bja of 50 letters.' Again ' I worship the Mother the source of the universe, \u015aabdabrahman itself, blissful.' Vi\u015bvas\u0101ra says, 'Blissful Brahman is adorned with \u015aabdabrahman and within the body is represented by all Mantra\u015b.\n'B\u012bja'\nM\u016brti (appearance) in the individual aspect as Pr\u0101j\u00f1a, Taijasa, and Vi\u015bva and in the aggregate as \u012a\u015ba, S\u016btra and Vir\u0101d. Dev\u012bg\u012bt\u0101 says 'the causal self is Pr\u0101j\u00f1a, the subtle bodied one is Taijasa and the gross bodied one is Vi\u015bva.' Similarly \u012a\u015ba is spoken of as \u012a\u015ba, S\u016btra and Vir\u0101d. The first is the individual (Vya\u1e63ti) aspect and the second the aggregate (Sama\u1e63ti) aspect.\nEyes (Netra)\nNot to speak of themselves being wealthy, the sight of them gives wealth to others. Bhairava Tantra says that Kamal\u0101 and the Dev\u012b of speech never forsake them for three generations downwards.\n59:1 Dev\u012b which comes from the root Div to shine, is the Shining One (V).\n59:2 Pin\u0101stan\u0101dhye (see also Bhairav\u012bstotra in Tantra-s\u0101ra, p. 596). The physical characteristics of the Dev\u012b in swelling breasts and hips are emblematic of Her great Motherhood, for She is \u015ar\u012bm\u0101t\u0101. See also as to the former, Durg\u0101-Dhy\u0101na in Dev\u012b-Pur\u0101\u1e47a, which speaks of her large and rising breasts (P\u012bnonnata-payodhar\u0101\u1e41); the Annap\u016br\u1e47\u0101-Stava (Vak\u1e63ojaku\u1e41bh\u0101ntari); Bhuvane\u015bvar\u012b-Stotra (\u0100pivara-stanatat\u012b\u1e41); and the Saraswat\u012b-Dhy\u0101na (Kucabharanamit\u0101\u1e41g\u012b\u1e41). The Annap\u016brn\u0101-Dhy\u0101na (Annaprad\u0101na-nirat\u0101\u1e41 stanabh\u0101ra-na\u1e41r\u0101\u1e41) speaks of Her limbs as weighted by Her breasts. The Mah\u0101bh\u0101gavata describes Her as naked, terrific, with fiery eyes, full and erect breasts, and dishevelled hair; and the Lalit\u0101 (verse 15) says: 'Her golden girdle supports Her waist, which bends under the burden of Her breasts, thrice folding the skin below Her bosom' (Stanabh\u0101ra-dalanmadhya-pattabhandha-valitray\u0101).\n59:3 Bh\u0101vayantah, that is, meditating on the naked, full-breasted, black form with dishevelled hair as stated in Her Dhy\u0101na, and which is the Artha of the particular Mantra. The Bh\u016bta\u015buddhi-Tantra says, 'A Mantra should be recited mentally meditating the while on the form of the Dev\u012b denoted by it ' (V).\n59:4 Any one of the aforesaid B\u012bjas or the whole that is, the whole nine-lettered Vidy\u0101 in full. Which according to the Kum\u0101r\u012b-Tantra cited in Tantraratna is Kr\u012b\u1e41, Kr\u012b\u1e41, Kr\u012b\u1e41, H\u016b\u1e41, H\u016b\u1e41, H\u016b\u1e41, Hr\u012b\u1e41, Hr\u012b\u1e41, Hr\u012b\u1e41. \u015ay\u0101m\u0101raha\u015bya quoting K\u0101lik\u0101-\u015aruti, says that the whole Vidy\u0101 should be recited once, twice or thrice, or the whole mantra with 'Dak\u1e63i\u1e47e K\u0101like between the B\u012bjas.' (K. B.) Thus, Kr\u012b\u1e41, Kr\u012b\u1e41, Kr\u012b\u1e41, H\u016b\u1e41, H\u016b\u1e41, Hr\u012b\u1e41, Hr\u012b\u1e41, Dak\u1e63i\u1e47e K\u0101like, Kr\u012b\u1e41, Kr\u012b\u1e41, Kr\u012b\u1e41, H\u016b\u1e41, H\u016b\u1e41, Hr\u012b\u1e41, Hr\u012b\u1e41.\n59:5 Dak\u1e63i\u1e47e K\u0101lik\u0101.\n59:6 Sarasvati. The Bh\u0101radv\u0101ja-Sm\u1e5bt\u012b says Sarasvat\u012b is She who ever resides in the tongue of all beings, and who causes speech.\n59:7 Lak\u1e63mi: for them is all learning, wealth, and prosperity (see Mah\u0101nirv\u0101\u1e47a-Tantra, Ull\u0101sa, vii, verse 50).\n59:8 In the other words they become rich and learned.","title":"Hymn to Kali: Text: Verse 6","type":"page"}