Amara Simha agreed to debate with Sancara - but from behind a curtain.And countered queries with flourish and elan.
Sancara divined the situation - and appealed to Dewi as Saraswati who was enshrined in a pitcher, veiled by the curtain.
She vacated the pitcher of AwAhan, and the curtain fell down to reveal Amara's upasana secrets to the assembly.
Soon Amara accepted defeat.
Saraswati means, one who resides in Saras or still waters. Still water is metaphor for knowing.
In the time of Sancara, waters of knowing were stagnant.
His work was to address the stagnation, and usher in clarity and stillness.
A sloka speaks of Sancara as, one who purged Saraswati to restore Saraswati.
- Shri Chandrashekarendra Saraswati, Kanchi.
