Sunday, 26 January 2020

Seventh verse

Narayana Karuna-maya Sharanam Karawani Tawakau Charanau
      Iti Shatpadimadeeye Wadana Saroje Sadaa Wasatu

- Shat-padi

O compassionate Narayana I am choice-less at your feet
      May these six footfalls ever hover upon lip lotuses

- Shat-padi

Being choice-less is the fragrance of being devout.
Six footfalls could be taken as, the six verses.
Shat-pada could also mean the six words  -  Compassionate Narayana I am choice-less at your feet.

- Shri Chandrashekarendra Saraswati, Kanchi

Friday, 3 January 2020

plucked head of Brahma- Brahma Capaala

Severed fifth head stuck to Shiva, began gobbling food, robbing the host of all nourishment.
Dewi approached Wishnu for remedy; and prepared delicacies as counselled.

She fed the head - it ate out of her palm.
When it was sufficiently addicted, she dropped a morsel - and another, and another.

The head dropped down to savor.

Shiva seized the moment, transformed into a limbless linga. The head could not reattach. Dewi scaled up her form, trampled the Capaala deep into earth.

Fed up with her 'me-too' allegations, Wishnu scaled up his form and trampled Dewi - deep into earth. And she surfaced, through a termite hill.

- Traditional narrative of Malayanur