How To Embrace Her!!..

SARASWATHI MA..
Where could I see You????



Hm....in the 'Chandra mandalam' .. the 'Surya Mandalam'?!

They say You are embedded within the infinite stars in the
celestial sky..??

They say You live only in the tongues of  learned Scholars..!


Some vouch for the fact ..that You can be accessible only if you
recite the Vedas..without fail, the Goddess in Her abode will
respond to you immediately!!"




...ha..ha..ha..ha!!
How naive there....
humbug ...humbug!!!



*ONE CAN SEE HER RESIDING IN THE INNOCENT
SMILE OF A CHILD,



**ONE CAN FEEL HER IN EACH AND EVERY NERVE OF
HER ARDENT DEVOTEE,



***ONE CAN HEAR HER IN EVERY NOTE OF A MELODY
SUNG,



****ONE CAN EVEN TOUCH AND 'RELISH' HER IN PURE
GESTURES,



*****ONE CAN BE WITH HER IF WE LOVE HER WITH ALL
OUR HEART!!!!!

BAAMATHI

Yet again thanking my Goddess I write about one of her stoic devotees: Vaasasbathi Michrar.


Michrar's only passion, pursuit and penchant in his life....was in penning down verses on the Goddess!!
That evening as usual, when he was giving the final touches to the verses in his manuscript...the lamp's flame-that was placed on his writing-desk-flickered in the strongly blowing-breeze and finally got put-out.


In a few seconds, an old lady appeared with a lamp in her hand. She placed it so carefully..so as to not disturb his thought-flow!!
Michrar was startled and so touched by the lady's act: "Who are you dear lady?? It is so nice of You to have given me a lamp to carry on with my work."


The 'lady' was shocked to hear these words..as she was none other than Baamathi, his wife!


She looked at her husband, Michrar, in a reverential way and uttered these words:-
"Dear Sir, I happen to be your wife, Baamathi....it's been fifty long years since I got married to you..."
At this juncture..Michrar unconsciously touched himself..his hands and face and was surprised to feel the wrinkles of old age;-
"I did not want to even give you the slightest of disturbance..all these years....as you were involved in Divine and Celestial!!!!
I was quietly rendering service to you..as  you were offering your services to the great Goddess of Wisdom, Saraswathima"--said Baamathi to her husband.


Michrar went through a gamut of emotions and  was looking at his wife keenly for the very first time..
He got up from his desk ..and folded his hands in reverence to his wife, Baamathi...who has actually done a greater service to the Goddess than him.


That's how came about the volume, 'BAAMATHI", --an Invocation to the Muse of Learning,-- that Michrar had named after his wife.


....So, meet you again with more of the Goddess' Leelai....next Wednesday.

Muse of all learning!!

It's an unceasing passion to talk about a 'Magnificent Obsession' - who rules over my life at all times:


Goddess Saraswathi!


The influence SHE has o'er me is inevitable and inimitable.


The Love shown by HER is immeasurable.


The knowledge SHE gives is cathartic.


The limelight that comes through HER is irreproachable.


The mercy SHE exudes is irretrievable.

Celebrating SARASWATHI  is in fact another way of celebrating womanhood..as she is one among the "TRIUMVIRATE SHAKTHI".


Coming to talk about Shakthi it's in actuality an inexhaustible form of energy.-
A  blazing fire which serves to REPLENISH  and  RESURRECT each and every soul across the globe!!
Let's take a glimpse of the three ruling deities whose "Divine Conglomeration" is Shakthi:

                   Simhaneehwari ....popularly known as DURGA.

                             
                     Sreemaharajni....popularly known as LAKSHMI

                                                         

     Sarvalokha Janani..popularly known as  SARASWATHI.
         
The constant interplay between our innate seeking and the innate state of  knowledge..takes on a mystical hue in tradition in the personification of Goddess Saraswathi.


Whether in Her riverine form or 'svarupa' as SHE is exalted in the Rig Veda....or in Her 'shubhra vasana' (white attire),SHE  is the Feminine form inspiring all "Creative Energies."


So, come celebrate womanhood by celebrating Maa Saraswathi.