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About ninety percent of it is mere fiction with just about ten percent of history in it. Perhaps this contention presupposes that the devotee-poet has deliberately confined his imagination to five cantos stavas only, so as to make it synchronize with other shades of meaning contained in this number. Such an approach on their part does not ignore the human weaknesses of their devotees and therefore these deities direct worldly souls, step by step, towards upward ascent to higher stages of spiritual evolution. The worship of higher and superior deities help in the attainment of such realization and all such deities, right up to lord Sadasiva, are different types of outward manifestations of the Godhead of God. Makundamala by Kulasekhara Alvara of Tamilnadu also enjoys such popularity in Kashmir and stories about this author also have been heard by the present writer in his boyhood. Being himself a Kashmiri, the present writer would also like that a beautiful poetic work like Pancastavi were attributed to the pen of some Kashmirian author, but the facts mentioned above do not allow him to think in such terms. He is Himself Sakti, the absolute divine power of Godhead in His ever dynamic immanent aspect.

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Panchastavi - A Brief Study The compound word 'Panchastavi' in ordinary parlance connotes a collection of devotional hymns divided into five cantos. Many other similarly wonderful but fantastic things about the meeting of the two great teachers are still being heard from old pandits of Kashmir.

In fact this tendency also existed in some lower or higher measure In all literary writers of India, Madhavacharva is typical example of such poetic writers. Referring to the "Maya-Kundalini" verse, he says that a particular theological doctrine had been indicated by Dharmacharya through the verse concerned in this Laghustava: Click ppanchastavi for more video clips Such two concepts of Sivahood and Shaktihood, known under the two names are worked out with respect to the ultimate absolute reality just for the sake of the perfectness of understanding on the part of seekers of the truth.

Pandit The Pancastavi is a collection of five hymns sung in the praise of Mother Goddess Tripura, the personified absolute Godhead of the lord. God is realized through the realization of the powers of Godhead.

Pancastavi is highly popular with the pandits of Kashmir who sing it regularly at the time of their daily worship at their homes and especially at the religious places of the Mother Goddess. Pancastavi In Kashmir The Pancastavi is a collection of five hymns sung in the praise of Mother Goddess Tripura, the personified absolute Godhead of the lord.

There is no evidence that can establish the existence of any scholar under the name Abhinavagupta other than the great Saiva author of Kashmir. The account of Laghustava, as having been uttered by a boy disciple of Abhinavagupta, is also based on oral tradition of an imaginary character.

It is on this account that Tantric Saivism and Saktism attach greater importance to the worship of God in His female aspect, the aspect of His absolute motherhood and Pancastavi contains religio-philosophic lyric poetry of a very high standard eulogising such female aspect of God. Yace na Kancana na kancana Vancayami Seve na Kancana nirasta - samasta - dainyah.

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Nityanada, an ancient commentator of some tantric works, says that Laghustava was composed by a poet named Dharmacharya. Pancastavi is thus a beautiful Saiva Sastra composed in poetic form. He is the theistic Absolute reality of Saiva monism.

The highest degree of charm lies in recognizing and realizing one's own self as none other than Almighty God Himself. Girja Pandit's Shree Panchastavi Album. A Spiritual aspirant has to realize all divine powers in him.

An oral tradition is prevalent in Kashmir which says that the work was composed by Abhinavagupta on the occasion of his discussions on Saktism with Sankaracharya, the great Vedantist teacher Sivopadhyaya, an eighteenth century author and renowned teacher of Saivism, refers to the meeting of the two great philosophers in his Srividya, a small work aiming at a mutual reconciliation between Tantric Saivism and Upanisadic Vedanta.

One of the commentators names the hymn as Tripura-bhaiyavistava.

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He has not said anything about his personal history except that the Mother Goddess had been pleased to grant him all the worldly pleasures through honest and respectable means.

Your browser does not support iframes. Pancastavi resembles Saundaryalahari of Sankaracharya, a Keralite, in its technique and also in its theological as well as philosophic contents.

But Kashmir Saivism does not give much importance to Kundalini Yoga. Pancastavi has been enjoying popularity in Kashmir from ancient panchastafi, as its verses have been quoted as examples by Mammata- Acharya in his Kavyaprakasa in the twelfth century.

Any content available on this site should NOT be copied or reproduced in any form or context without the written permission panchastafi KPN. Fire is realized to be fire only through the realization of its powers to illuminate, to give heat, to bum and so on. But some important facts which have escaped the attention of the writers of such articles are being brought to light in the paper at hand.

Watch Kashmiri Pandit Festivals: A spontaneous rise of the poetic inspiration, capable of creating charming poetry, has been counted among the signs of a devotee on whom God bestows His forceful divine grace.

Such deities do not resent the passionate longings of worldly beings for the attainment of sensual enjoyments. Such an approach on their part does not pancgastavi the human weaknesses of their devotees and therefore these deities direct panchasyavi souls, step by step, towards upward ascent to higher stages of spiritual evolution.

Both Panchastaci and Shakti are thus one and the same reality. Tvad-rupaika - nirupana-pranayita-bandho drsos tvadguna - Grama Karnana ragita sravanayos tvat samsmrtis cctasi, Tvat padarcana - caturi karayuge tvat kirtanam vaci me kutrapi tvadupasana vyasanita me Devi ma samyatu, P. The story is thus purely imaginaly in character.