Daily Signet

Continued Meditations of the Mahavidyas…

The Beauty and Bliss of Sundari: Sundari takes the form of an impulse, an urge—the secret desire at the heart of creation and the mainstay of existence.  The divine desire seeks to give itself away in creation and then desires to receive back the Creation into itself.  This twofold desire is the basis of Love, the bond that ties creator and created.  Sundari is Love that expresses itself as Beauty. She is the eternal empress of all sovereignties and the Mother of Love, of Grace, and of Beauty.

In describing her, she is said to be as effulgent as the rising sun. She has four hands holding: a noose, a goad, a sugarcane bow and five flower arrows. The noose is love by which she binds the whole universe; the goad is wrath by which the whole creation is spurred into activity; the sugarcane bow is the mind of man; and the five arrows are sound, touch, form, relish and flavor.   

Teri Martin

From the August High Service: 

Of beautiful Tripurasundari,
Most beautiful of things I leave is sunlight
That moved at first
Then come glazing stars
As desire within
And the moon’s face
Which was the primal
…and ripe cucumbers
Seed of mind.                          Sri Aurobindo
And apples and pears.            Praxilla, ca 450 BCE