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Final contemplation on the Mahavidyas…
The Concord and Harmony of Kamalatmika. Kamalatmika is the consort of Vishna, the all- pervasive principle of conservation. She is the beauty of consciousness in all its glory and charm. Kamala sets things in motion and manifests. Kamala is the goddess of exquisite Beauty blossoming in everything. She denotes one who wears the waters as a robe. Without Kamala, even the most alluring object become a thing of disgust. A lover of Nature expresses Kamala when he or she takes joy in all the things of Nature universally without admitting repulsion or fear or mere liking and disliking—when capable of perceiving beauty in that which seems to others mean and insignificant, bare and savage, terrible and repellent.
Brahma, from whom all these worlds are born, is born from the lotus and Kamalatmika is known as the Lady of the Lotus. Kamalatmika is the play of consciousness, the sport of the Supreme Lord. She is born of the water and akin to Venus shown rising from the milky ocean – the delight of existence, the basic bliss in everything. With her two hands holding aloft two lotus flowers, her other two hands ward off fear and grant the boon. She is robed in waters of sagacity, wisdom, mental movement and activity, constantly bathed by four huge elephants, white as snow with pots full of the waters of luminous immortality. Kamalamitka is the charming movement of graceful change. Recognizing the beauty of creative activity, she is the soul force immanent in all creative activity and is associated with art, architecture sculpture, poetry, even philosophy.
Teri Martin
On This Day…
V.S. Naipaul born in Trinidad, 1932: writer
Works: A bend in the River, An Area of Darkness, Miguel Street
Quotes: “The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.” “The world is always in movement.” “An autobiography can distort, facts can be realigned, but fiction never lies. It reveals the writer totally.”