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SAUNDARYA LAHARI - VERSE 27

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SAUNDARYA LAHARI

 

 

 

VERSE 27

KEY VERSE

REVERSIBLE RITUALISM
ONE-ONE CANCELLATION OF RITUALISTIC ENSEMBLES
THE SUM AS CONCEPTUAL COUNTERPARTS
PHYSICAL AND METAPHYSICAL ADORATION
HOMOGENEITY BETWEEN BRUTE ACTIONS AND THEIR TOTAL
 
 
जपो जल्पः शिल्पं सकलमपि मुद्राविरचना
गतिः प्रादक्षिण्य-क्रमण-मशनाद्या हुति-विधिः ।
प्रणामः संवेशः सुखमखिल-मात्मार्पण-दृशा
सपर्या पर्याय-स्तव भवतु यन्मे विलसितम्
 
 
japo jalpah silpam sakalam apimudraviracana
gatih pradaksinya kramanam asanadyahutivihih
pranamas samvesas sukham akhilam atmarpanadrsa
saparya paryayas tava bhavatu yanme vilasitam
 
Incantations, mutterings, ritual acts, hand-gestures, gait,
Circumambulation, food-offerings, inclination, adoration by lying down;
All such enjoyments, as coming within the scope of self-surrender
And thus synonymous with worship of you: let such be what from me might shine forth.
 
Worship is a form of self-surrender. Such self-surrender yields joy to the person thus surrendering. Thousands of temples in this world, especially those based on ritualistic idolatry in South India, have various forms of ritualistic activities which could all be thought of as belonging to one ensemble of ritualistic actions, in the same way as Wittgenstein would bring all aspects of logical discourse together under one reference, and allude to them as "word games". Sankara wants to find a synonym which will all-inclusively cover the whole range of possible ritualistic actions that an elaborately trained Tantric priest might employ before an idol within the sanctum of a temple, under the inclusive reference of a saparyaparyaya ("synonymous with worship of you").
 
The synonym and antonym could then be cancelled ontologically into the joy of self-surrender, which would then be an absolute value. What shines forth from the supplicant is to be cancelled ontologically against the value-significance emanating from the idolatrous presence within the temple. When subjected to this double process, we get a reversible equation or reaction which is to be imagined as taking place between the idol and the worshipper prostrating before the idol.
 
The items that express self-surrender in one form or another could be as varied as the outward forms of expression of devotion. But if we should put a circle around all of them, amounting to the same joy of self-surrender vis-à-vis the Non-Self value of the idol itself - treating the former as an inclusive ensemble representing an experience of joy in the act of worship - a fully cancellable situation results.
 
The Self is equated with the Non-Self and vice-versa. Sankara refuses to take any notice of the individual gestures, mudras or attitudes, however varied they might be. He, as an Advaitin, is not interested in Tantrism for its own sake. He has his own correct methodology, by which he would find the synonymous counterparts capable of reduction logically, semantically or even mathematically, into terms that could cancel out into the pure value-notion represented by the Absolute. In the light of such a cancellation it is easy to see that the authorship by Sankara of a Tantric text - which has been treated as questionable even by such scholars as Woodroffe and Brown, not to mention later Tantric commentators of this text - does not present any problems to us at all. Sankara is not interested in Tantrism at the expense of Advaita. On the contrary, Tantrism is revalued and restated, as is so clearly evident in this verse, to serve the purpose and heighten the doctrine of pure Advaita Vedanta, for which Sankara has always taken a consistently uncompromising stand.
 
It is because many scholars, both Indian and Western, have failed to see how Sankara's proto-linguistic, non-verbose approach presented here is fully compatible with the more verbose or metalinguistic version of Vedanta found in his Bhasyas (great commentaries), that the whole suspicion about his authorship of these verses has arisen. While all the evidence taken together tends to suggest Sankara as the only possible author, punditry and pedantry at present have conspired to call into question such clear indications as presented in this verse because of their own inability to recognize the same doctrines as those of the Bhasyas, presented here in a proto-linguistic form. The difference between these two forms of expression is ignored by the large majority of pundits even to this day. The available editions of the "Saundarya Lahari" do not succeed even in giving us a bare gist of the sense of these verses, whether for genuine appreciation or at least in the name of academic or artistic dilettantism.
 
We have said that, as far as the authorship of Sankara is concerned, the allusion to dravida sishu (Dravidian child) in Verse 75, leaves no room for vain speculation, except when pseudo-orthodoxy enters into the picture to complicate matters beyond simple recognition. In our comments we have tried to take a simpler view without getting lost in the great forest of words, which Sankara himself takes care to warn us against in his "Vivekacudamani" (Verse 60).
 
When it is stated in Verse 8 that the gods become the legs of the couch of the Devi, there is evidently a challenge staring us in the face. The pictorial representations by Mogul or Rajput schools of painting, printed in the edition by Prof. Norman Brown of Harvard, do recognize that the transformation of the gods into the legs of a cot is meant seriously by Sankara, but to this day no justification of such a transformation has been suggested, at least to the knowledge of the present writer. The latter believes that only through a proto-linguistic structural approach could such a transformation be barely understood. In Verse 27 we can see how Sankara takes care to reduce Tantrism to an equation between two aspects of the Self, exactly as in the case of the mahavakyas (great dicta), which together constitute the keystone of the doctrine of Advaita Vedanta. The purpose of Sankara in this verse is patently clear, and also puts beyond all dispute the question of his authorship, which remains to this day so disputed in the world of punditry and pedantry. This is too precious and valuable a work to be lost to the disrespect of pundits and scholars.
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(Vivekacudamani, Verse 60: "A net of words is a great forest where the fancy wanders; therefore the reality of the Self is to be strenuously learned from the knower of that reality." ED)

 

 

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ADDITIONAL COMMENTS WITH STRUCTURAL DIAGRAMS RELATED TO THIS VERSE FROM SAUNDARYA LAHARI/NOTES.

 

Physical and metaphysical adoration are cancelled when treated as one-one ensembles.
 

 

WORD FOR WORD
Japo jalpah - mutterings and incantations
Silpam sakalam api - ritual acts
Mudra viracana - hand gestures
Gatih - gait
Pradakshinya kramanam asana adyahuti vidhih - circumambulation, burnt ritualistic food offerings
Pranamaha samveshaha - inclinations, prostration
Sukham akhilam - all such preferences
Atma arpana drsha - treated as coming within the scope of self-surrender
Saparya paryayaha tava bhavatu - let them be synonymous with worship for You
Yanme vilasitam - what from me might shine forth.
 
Circumambulation (from Latin circum around + ambulātus to walk) is the act of moving around a sacred object or idol.

 

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All of the acts of Puja (ritualistic worship) are here enumerated.
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Sankara says: "do not treat these as separate items, but as all coming from the Self as a form of self-surrender; let this Puja be brought under the aegis of "Self-Puja"; the whole of this shining thing, let it be related to the Numerator Non-Self".
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This is an equation of Self and Non-Self.
"Let this all be one master-worship".
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Whatever you do as Karma (action) is to be put together and seen as worship of the Devi.

(The ritualism of the tradition of the Vedas is classified traditionally under Karma Kanda - the domain of action - as opposed to Jnana Kanda - the domain of wisdom, which is Vedanta. ED)


It is an equation between Self and Non-Self.

In the usual temple there are various acts, signs, pujas etc.
Take all of these and treat them as a synonymous of worship. The priest can do as he likes - they have no meaning in themselves.
They must be cancelled with their own Numerator.

 

Put a circle around all the possible rituals of temple worship and equate that totality with its Numerator.

There are various aspects of ritual; they are to be considered as all being the same.
(The Guru speaks about the pundits, they will not see properly because of their vested interest in ritualism.)

There are here listed six or seven actions which a priest will do in an orthodox Devi temple; bells, flowers, camphor etc. are involved.
Treat all of this, circled in its totality, as a Denominator aspect of the noumenal - it means adoration of the Devi.

Do not tell the priest that he is wrong, tell him that you understand it all:
"Of course I believe it all - it is a protolanguage"

 

(In the terminology of Nataraja Guru, the term "protolanguage" is used differently from its usual definition in linguistics: the structural methodology used throughout his works is protolanguage. The Cartesian co-ordinates are protolinguistic in essence; so also are the longitudes and latitudes of maps. Symbols are protolinguistic; signs are metalinguistic. Alphabets belong to metalanguage and geometrical elements such as angles, points, lines or concentric circles can be used protolinguistically. ED)
 

Treat it as one bundle of adoration - mark it down in your account book as adoration of the Devi.

The conventional man will be bothered about the details of the ritual and say "Oh, he left out the fifth motion in the ritual".
- never mind, it just means adoration of the Devi.

All intelligent people can underline this and accept it.

 


Action is a Denominator; cancel it out with the light of intelligence which is the Numerator aspect of the Absolute.

 

Another version:

TRANSLATION
- Incantations, mutterings
- Gesture (acts) and all
- Making of finger signals
- Ambulation (movement)
- Clockwise circumambulation
- Obligatory rituals such as (what has to do with) eating.
(By way of fire-sacrifice offering.)
- Prostrations and lying prone (six (?) limbs offered to the Devi by lying prostrate.)
- Joy, everything (which is experienced in worship)
- Viewed in the context of self-surrender (to the Devi or Non-Self)
- As synonymous to worship ( they have only linguistic status,
and are synonymous to worship)
- To You let this become ("You" means all wise readers)
- That which manifests from me (by way of my behaviour or attitude)


Let all wise men understand this puja, not ridicule the man who
does it: he is trying to adore something.

 

This is the highest point to which culture can attain.
Let it have this meaning and no other, to all wise men.
"That which by itself has shone from me - take it as one total monomark, cancelling out with the Numerator factor."
This all in adoration of the Absolute.

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Culture cannot go any farther than in this verse.
When examined critically, in the light of Philosophy, this verse still stands.

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The Devi is saying: "That which has emanated as light out of me - this is the Denominator".
The understanding is the Numerator.


These have been beautifully brought together.
This is also an equation between the Self and the Non-Self. "This dry world of convention is a dead world of Pharisees! Who wants that?"

(This with regard to pundits who interpret these verses conventionally. "I hate that" - the Guru.)

 

"Beware of 1) Those who talk too much. 2) Those who put religious marks all over their bodies. 3) Women who peek out of their saris." - Ramakrishna.

 

Not that he has done this act consciously:
"When I stand in worship of the Absolute, treat my actions as the only language I am capable of using to adore the Absolute".

This verse treats worship as integration of the Self with the Non-Self.
Sankara treats the whole of ritual, puts a circle around it and treats it as the Non-Self of the Devi; as Her counterpart.

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The intention is to establish a link or equation between the Self and the Non-Self - the aim of all prayer.
The equation is reversible and cancellable, leaving only the Absolute.
A man does ritual worship of many kinds, with many actions
- it is all to establish the link between the Self and the Non-Self.

 

 

Another version:

TRANSLATION
- Incantations, mutterings
- Acts of worship and all
- Hand gestures
- Circumambulant ways
- Such as eating, all obligatory ritualistic offering
- Salutation
- Lying down
- Pleasurable experiences
- All
- Under the aspect of self-surrender
- As the equivalent of the worship of You
- Let it be
- Whatsoever emanates from me (shines forth from me)

 

I am an Advaitic philosopher and I treat this list of actions as a whole, as a synonym for self-surrender.

 

The Devi says: "Put a circle around what emanates, then equate that with me";
An equation and a cancellation are involved here.

What I do and what I am are dialectical counterparts to be cancelled out.
Numerator should become Denominator and vice-versa.
They are interchangeable.

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Subject and object are a reversible equation and the object is an ensemble.
("In the universe there is Krishna, in Krishna there is the universe", as the Gita states.)
Also a comparison is made between the micro- and macrocosm.
It resembles Planck's quantum mechanics, also implosion and explosion, entropy and negentropy.
 
 
TO SHOW THIS IN A FILM:
Show the logarithmic relationship between the image in the microscope and in the telescope.
c.f. conversation with Maitreyi and the Hermetic secret.
 
(Maitreyi was a female Vedic philosopher from ancient India. She was the second wife of famous sage and philosopher, Yajnavalkya, the first being Katyaayanee. Maitreyi was well-versed in Vedas and associated scriptures and was called brahmavadini or "an expounder of the Veda" by people of her time. About ten hymns in Rig Veda are accredited to Maitreyi. ED)
 
 
 

(Above are some illustrations of Hermetic mysteries. We must confess that the reference is not clear to us. ED)
 
A conversation between father and son: "I love my father, I love my son."
There is between them a love with a capital L.
Cause and effect become the same.

 

VERSES 26, 27 and 28 are to be taken together.

VERSE 26: Surviving evil by double assertion. He survives without double negation.

VERSE 27: the equation of Self with Non-Self. This is a neutral position or matrix - use the crystal here, to show equalization.

VERSE 28:  double negation - "Not, not" is more affirmative than a mere "Yes".

 
Begin with Verse 27 as in notes on previous page, then go to Verse 28

Double Negation - show a man in a well kicking his feet in the water and saving himself.
Let it be Eros: show the milk ocean churning and the drinking of poison.

 

These are sets or ensembles - see Cantor.
There is one-one correspondence.

Physical and metaphysical adoration are cancelled out, when treated as one-one sets.
There is one-one correspondence between acts of worship and cybernetic language.
Actions concentrate the mind and establish bipolarity between subject and object - achieving homeostasis.

 


Waving lights is a figure-eight = cancellation.
"From me..", "with you.." - cancellation of the Self with the Non-Self.
Ritual is intentionality

SAUNDARYA LAHARI - VERSE 28

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VERSE 28

THE NOUMENAL STATUS OF SHIVA

THE DIGNITY OF THE FOURTH DIMENSION
RENORMALISATION
 
सुधामप्यास्वाद्य प्रति-भय-जरमृत्यु-हरिणीं
विपद्यन्ते विश्वे विधि-शतमखाद्या दिविषदः ।
करालं यत् क्ष्वेलं कबलितवतः कालकलना
न शम्भोस्तन्मूलं तव जननि ताटङ्क महिमा
 
sudham apy asvadya pratibhaya jaramrtu harinim
vipadyante visve vidhisatamakhadya divisadaha
karalam yat kevalam kabalitavataha kalakalana
na sambhos tanmulam tava janani tatanka mahima
 
Even on partaking of nectar, so potent against fear, old age and death -
They reach their doom, all such gods as Brahma and Indra.
On even swallowing that terrible super-poison, for Shiva, time's functioning is not operative;
The source here being the power of your marital string.
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Time or duration is the central concept on which the status of Shiva is brought into relief as an eternal principle - beyond the reach even of the process of becoming - in his pure personal value, as against other gods who are all subject to nominal factors in a graded epistemological order. Magnetic fields operate on lesser levels with other dimensions than that of high voltage electricity. Shiva's function could become still more absolutist and cancel further vestiges of duality, until immobility and mobility exist together, beyond the taint of the weakness of the human mind to create its own paradoxes. Paradoxes vanish when pure absolutism becomes possible to the human mind, when it becomes as far removed as possible from relativistic and hedonistic considerations of visible or intelligible values. Shiva represents this high point where he reigns eternally supreme, for himself, in himself, by himself and through himself. This is the Advaitic doctrine that is intended to be underlined in this verse with the help of the different functionaries or demiurges, who also belong to the same setup when viewed from a perspective of lesser voltage, as it were, than what applies to Shiva himself.
 
The first two lines take cognizance of Brahma and Indra, the most flagrantly vitalistic demiurges, to whom good nourishing food and tonics are very important to make them continue in vitality and normal health. One can become sleek by drinking meat broth, but the next fever might wash down the drain all the health thus gained. Life has within its core a source of energy which can defy doctors' prescriptions and assert itself in spite of the grave mistakes that doctors may commit. In this sense, we could say that the patient continues to live in spite of the havoc caused by pills or medicines.
 
Nectar is the natural nourishment of the gods, but Shiva is capable of surviving even a super-poison and remaining in a fully operative form, according to his own function, which is a vertical and not a horizontal one. Transporting a lorry-load of building-stones from one place to another is an example of horizontal function, while the electromagnetic transmission of signals from ship to ship is an example of vertical function. The first must be kept up by crude fuel in a combustion engine, while the other belongs to a fourth-dimensional order. Between these two extremes of horizontal and vertical functionings we have to postulate the ordinary Shiva, of the same demiurge status as Indra or Brahma, to understand why the power of the marital string confers the final absolute status on Shiva, who would have evaporated had he only represented his usual function as a fourth-dimensional principle of positive becoming. But, by a process of double negation, operative at the positive limit, he is not only a "mover", but an "unmoved mover", as in the philosophy of Aristotle.
 
It is herein that lies something that counters the exaggeration of ascent by making Shiva again descend from his high world of intelligibles to a more normal position at the core of the total value-situation, represented here by the Devi. Normal food would represent negative entropy; this guarantees the neutralization of too rapid a metabolic process which would, in the case of childbirth for instance, kill the mother. Entropy has to counter negentropy to establish equilibrium, as in thermodynamics. In this sense the entropy of the universe tends to be zero. The total energy of the universe remains a constant according to the law of the conservation of energy. Here physics speaks nearly the same language as this verse. Killing human beings by too rapid a process of change through time is the function of the God of Death, called Kala, personifying Time with a capital letter.
 
Shiva represents a principle or a parameter cutting across the horizontal principle of death. He is beyond the reach of paradox as an "unmoved mover". It is in this sense that time is non-operative in the case of the absolutist Shiva.
 
If becoming is vertically positive, then its opposite, non-becoming, countering its own mobility, is a function having its reference at the negative vertical limit. Such a negative limit is the proper domain of the Goddess, although for normative purposes we could locate her position at the central O Point. Just as Shiva can ascend or descend from his normal position, Parvati can also ascend or descend between the O Point and the Alpha Point. When Shiva and Parvati operate as complementary, compensatory and reciprocal functions, they properly cancel each other out into the value implied in this verse. The power of the marital string, placed on the neck of the Goddess, has reference to its opposite whose source lies in the kind intention of Shiva and has a one-to-one correspondence with it. It represents a potent factor of intelligent function and whether the function is in the head or in the legs is not important. The limits of double negation could be at a level where it could operate most effectively. In respect of the Goddess, the lower limit is more intuitive and more effective than the functions that could be attributed to the head of Shiva. The one-to-one correspondence between the two opposite tendencies has to be respected, whether placed in the neck or in the feet. Duality is abolished where they are correctly cancelled out against each other. Topsy-turvydom, at first confusing to the beginner in structural language, has already been explained under Verse 8. How Shiva swallowed the super-poison is found in the story of the churning of the milk ocean, wherein also the female form of Vishnu, called Mohini, acts as a saving factor. Here, it is the marital string which is the principle of normalization.

 

(Entropy is a rough measure of randomness and disorder, or the absence of pattern in the structuring of a system. Negative entropy, or negentropy, roughly refers to the degree of order or organization within a closed system. ED)
 
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ADDITIONAL COMMENTS WITH STRUCTURAL DIAGRAMS RELATED TO THIS VERSE FROM SAUNDARYA LAHARI/NOTES.

 

A woman's negative pull saves Shiva; he needs no nourishment.
(The Devi provides vertical cancellation, rather than horizontal food. ED)

In soap manufacture - the flow of soap is Shiva, cutting of flow into separate bars of soap is the Devi or Shakti.
(In other words, the Devi cuts the vertical flow of Shiva into horizontal slices. ED)
A quantum is formed.
Half-life is the Devi's trick
 

 

WORD FOR WORD
Sudham api asvadya - even on partaking of nectar
Pratibhaya jara amrtyu harinim - so potent against fear, old age and death
Vipadyante- they reach their doom
Visve - all
Vidhi satam akhadya - Brahma, Vishnu and others
Divishadaha - the gods
Karalam yat kshvelam - that fearful poison
Kabalitavataha - even on swallowing
Kala kalana na - time's becoming is not operative
Shambhoho - for Shiva
Tanmulam - the root of which
Tava janani tatanka mahima - (is ) Your marital string
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The greatness of the Devi's neck-thread (a symbol of marriage - the equivalent of a wedding-ring in European culture.) saves Shiva, even when he drinks poison - even though the gods die, even when drinking only nectar.

Shiva does not die, nor does he die when drinking poison: this is double negation, a negation of a negation.
 
(According to myth, Halāhala is the name of a poison (as per Hindu mythology) created from the sea when Devas (Gods) and Asuras (Demons) churned it (see Samudra manthan) in order to obtain Amrita, the nectar of immortality. Shiva chose to consume the poison and thus drank it. His wife Parvati, alarmed, stopped it in his throat with her hands, thus earning him the name Viṣakaṇṭha (the one who held poison in his throat). ED)

The source of this negation is the Devi, with Her thread, representing ABSOLUTE Negation.
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The sacred thread saves Shiva.
This is double negation of evil by an essentially negative Goddess.
The power is at the Alpha Point.

 

Even after taking nourishing ambrosia, which keeps the gods from old age and fear, they have come near to danger; Indra, Brahma and all - they are subject to destruction - their functions will cease in the alternating creative - destructive phenomenology.

That dangerous poison-like thing - the most dangerous of poisons - is a negative factor.
Shiva takes it, but does not die, for the process of becoming does not cease, even when the peripheral functions are all destroyed.
 
"The force of becoming for him does not cease and for that very reason - because it did not defeat Shiva - You also, because You are the principle of motherhood, which is negative vertical, are not affected by the flow of time which cannot be reversed".

"O Goddess, the strength of Your sacred thread (which means that You are married to Shiva - in other words, You have a vertical relationship with him) is the greatness which allows You to continue, because Shiva cannot be destroyed".

Shiva, here, is seen as the one who swallowed all the poison of the world.
Time's arrow cannot be reversed, even scientists admit.
The vertical is like electricity, the horizontal is like magnetism.
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Because the Devi is affiliated to Shiva, She has to continue to function as the counterpart of the Numerator.
There is a very, very thin logic regarding the black thread around Her neck.

The point of this verse is this sacred thread around Parvati's neck: a perfect example of complementarity and reciprocity.
 
(Ambivalence - the first level, the actual, Subrahmaniam and Ganesha are ambivalent.
Reciprocity - the second level; Saraswati and Lakshmi.
Complementarity - the third level, the Devi with callosities - she wants to establish the final cancellation with Shiva, here, she is his complementary counterpart.
Cancellation - the fourth level, the final operation - Shiva and Shakti are united.
Parity - refers to the horizontal alone; bilateral symmetry. ED)
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The strength of the Devi's thread - it cannot be broken - is the greatness which allows Her to continue.
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Shiva has not died from the poison: and so, since he exists, Parvati must also continue to exist, because Shiva must have his counterpart in the Absolute.
We can also say that Shiva exists because he has his counterpart in the Devi. Each is necessary to the existence of the other.
The sacred thread is that which ties them together.
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The thread around the Devi's neck is the factor which shows that She is Shiva-Shakti.
In India, this thread is only broken at the death of the husband - but the "strength" of Her thread is such that it is not broken.
The one depends on the other, but the Devi "has" the thread.
 
This verse has its key in the black thread around the Devi's neck.
"That thread links You nominally with Shiva, Your counterpart": this is the most important part of the verse, that is why it is saved until the last line.
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Even though they take nectar - luxurious numerator food - Brahma, Indra and others are destroyed at the time of dissolution.
Shiva, however, drinks the poison which threatens the universe and has only the blue lines on his neck as a result.
These lines are like the lines of a spectrum.
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Shiva and Parvati represent the vertical version of the universe, with the lines of Shiva's neck being something like the spectrum contained in the white light.
They are beyond good and evil - like Nietzsche.
Shiva here is not a goody-goody drinking nectar; the poison does not defeat him.
His power does not come alone - it is due to Parvati consenting to wear the sacred thread.
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The Devi is saying: "At our very core we are one, it is great for You to be a tragic hero, but how could You do it without my support".
He is powerless without the support of the negative side.
Without the "little correction" of the negative side, he is only dancing like a fool.

The author is extolling a principle of the Absolute here - a philosophical truth.
Without transcending good and evil, there is no Absolute.

 

Another version:

TRANSLATION
- Manna (nectar) having been eaten - (Numerator food)
- Countering fear, old age and death by cancellation (these foods of the Vedic gods make them immortal)
- Attain to ultimate (extreme) danger (all of them are subject to the ultimate danger of death)
- All inclusively
- Brahma, Indra and others (only Numerator gods of the bright side)
- The bright ones (You have to distinguish the bright gods - Vedic)
- That which is of tragic portent
- Great poison (so powerful in its death-dealing effect)
- One who has imbibed - (Shiva)
- There is no functioning of (mechanistic) time (not pure time)
- To Shiva (he is not in the process of becoming - he is absolute.)
- Because of this (there is no change in him, no becoming, although he has taken the poison.)
- Therefore, for You, o Mother (potentially, powerful to give birth)
- The greatness of Your sacred thread

"If You do not go to bed and weep over this, then You do not yet
understand this, You are still learning." Guru.
 
Denominator value is the value of the square root of minus-one.
Shiva is here contrasted to all the other gods; they drink nectar and die, while he drinks poison and is immortal.
This is due to the marriage thread worn on the Devi's neck, through which she is related to Shiva.
The bottom half of the vertical axis has a great value.
(This is the negative side represented by the Devi. ED)
 
Another version:
 
TRANSLATION
- Even after partaking of ambrosia (nectar)
- Potent against fear, old age and death
- They reach their (respective) doom (s)
- All
- Brahma, Indra and others (Vidhi, Satamakha)
- Gods (the bright ones of the Vedic heaven)
- That terrible
- Super-poison having swallowed
- Time's becoming is not operative
- For Shiva (Shambho)
- Having that as its source (or basic character) (i.e. the fact that he does not die)
- Yours, o Mother
- The glory of Your marital string

 

Shiva will not die, because there is a delicate, bracket-like relationship with the Devi, at the Alpha Point.
The poison is by double negation absorbed by the body of Shiva.
Shiva has the "no, no" of the negative limit, (neutrons) as well as the "yes, yes" of the positive (electrons).

 

Just as electrons will evaporate without the neutrons, the structure of the universe has the Devi at the negative point and Shiva at the positive point - between these two limits we find the value.

Beauty is the value and it will not disappear.

There must be value in existence, even when everything else is abolished, and that value is beauty.

The negative limit is operative mathematically on the positive limit.
This tatanka (marital-string) is the symbol of an agreement in principle of an absolute relation between husband and wife.
 
(It is a vertical axis, like the Susumna Nadi of Yoga, or the fine filament of the lotus stalk, the Mrinala Tantu - they hold the universe together as the link between Shiva and the Devi. ED)
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The Devas, the other gods like Brahma and Vishnu, are respectable people who have their tea at four in the afternoon; the hippies are like Shiva, rolling on the ground after taking LSD.
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The process of becoming does not affect Shiva.
The neutron keeps the electron and the proton from evaporating.
 
(The marital thread keeps Shiva from evaporating upwards into the world of ideas. ED)

Shiva is always ready to abolish himself, but the marriage thread prevents this.
This thread is like Max Planck's "H" - a constant.
 
 
Double negation - "Not, not" is more affirmative than a mere "Yes". Begin with Verse 27 as in the notes above, then go on to Verse 28.
Double Negation - show a man in a well kicking his feet in the water and saving himself. Let it be Eros: show the milk ocean churning and the drinking of poison.
 
(In propositional logic, double negation is the theorem that states that "If a statement is true, then it is not the case that the statement is not true." ED)
Woman's negative pull saves Shiva, he needs no nourishment.
This is like, for example, the manufacture of soap: there is a continuous length of soap on the moving carpet which is cut into individual bars - the flow of soap is Shiva, the cutting is Shakti - a quantum is formed.

Half-life is the Devi's trick.
 
(We are aware that this commentary repeats itself - this subject is so difficult that some repetition is not wasted - even after studying this for 45 years, as is the case with ED.)

The Devi does nothing, the string is a contract respected by Shiva.

The status of Shiva is the thinnest of parameters - other gods have phenomenal status, nourished by negentropy (food).
Shiva is noumenal, he can feed on entropy.
 
(The Editor does not understand this statement. The structure below MAY be correct. ED)