dumb's 500

He was into intense austerities.
Aspiring for divine grace, so he could compose poems on Dewi.

Poems  that would propel people who recite, to ultimate well being.

A gaping docile dumb man was also sitting, at the temple corridor.

Dewi had to respond, to the intensity of austerities.
But she knew - capacity was yet to grow, to receive her grace.
Still, she came over to him -  as a woman with, mouthful of chewed tamboola juice.
'Open your mouth', she said with brimming red lips.

He swore, called her a *****, shooed her away.

Being a deity of unreasonable compassion, - Awyaaja Karuna Murti - she walked across to the dumb man. And squirted the gift, into his gaping mouth.
Tamboola juices flowed. Tongue came alive. The dumb  broke into verse.

- Shrfi Chandrashekarendra Saraswati, kanchi

Prana Tishta - grounding of Chi

Prana Pratishta refers to installation of an image and it's consecration.

It involves reciting of hymns and chants that invite a life energy - Prana - to be the resident guest, in the idol.

It is followed by Nyasa or grounding.

Through texts such as Tantra Tattwa, esoteric tantric traditions follow elaborate rituals to infuse life to a deity.

-WikiMili 

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

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

Third quarter @ Aslesha - flowing world

One who looks upon the flow, is separate from the flow.

Life is a process, things are in movement, things are flowing, body is flowing, time is flowing.

But you, as the watcher, are not flowing.

You, are watching - everything.

Commentary on Sancara's Prakarana Grantha  -  'Clarity of self'

Amrit Warsha    30 October 2019

Thanksgiving moon '19

With a restless, distorted and soiled mind, one cannot access one's core consciousness. And the senses shouldn't be roaming behind varied experiences.

That is why in this culture, for various occasions, various fasting disciplines are prescribed.

Eleventh day of a fortnight -  no cereals, no lunch.

A full moon day - again no cereals, stay in a fruit diet.  A Monday - from sunrise to sunset, dedicate your hunger to Shiwa, and so on.

Sometimes, a fasting prescription comes with a preface and epilogue - foregoing previous night's supper and the next day's breakfast. This leashing of oneself cultivates tolerance. And a strange energy wells up within.

Body is but a shrine of consciousness - and  should not be abused with indiscriminate food, thoughts, sleep.

- Amrit Warsha   August 29, 2019

whirlers' moon

Damodara  Guna-mandira  Sundara Wadana-arawinda  Gowinda
Bhawa Jalathi Mathana Mandara
Paramam Dharam Apanaya Twam mein

Be you the axis in churn of life - and death
Weed out my fear and great anxiety

- Six feet Verses, Sancara

Sancara begins  verse with 'Awinayam apanaya' - 'weed out my arrogance  and demonic tendencies.'

In the sixth verse, he completes the contour with, 'weed out my great anxiety'. 
Seventh verse, is merely an epilogue.

- Shri Chandrashekarendra Saraswati, Kanchi