52.SIVAKAMESHVARANKASTHA
She is sitting on the lap of Siva'Kama' here it means Desire or that which is desired.
She is sitting on the lap of Siva'Kama' here it means Desire or that which is desired.
The ultimate object of knowledge is to conquer the mind from desires, the Personality of any man on this earth. The purpose of performing sacrifice is to please Her. Yoga is for realizing Her. All fruitive activities are ultimately rewarded by Her only. She is supreme knowledge, and all severe austerities are performed to know Her. Religion [dharma] is rendering loving service unto Her.She is the supreme goal of life.One has to understand everything, by examining its nature and characteristics. This is called acquirement of knowledge. But one should not simply acquire knowledge without reaching the goal of life or the basic principle for acquiring knowledge—bhakti-yoga. If we give up bhakti-yoga and simply busy ourselves in the analytical study of the nature of things as they are, then the result will be practically nil. It is stated in the Bhagavatam that such engagement is something like husking a paddy. There is no use beating the husk if the grain has already been removed. By the scientific study of material nature, the living entity and the Supersoul, one has to understand the basic principle of devotional service to the Creator.In Bhagavad gita it is said:
virago yena puruso
bhagavan sarvato
bhavetacaksva jiva-lokasya
vividha mama samsrtih
In this verse the word samsrtih is very important. Sreyah-srti means the prosperous path of advancement towards the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and samsrti means the continued journey on the path of birth and death towards the darkest region of material existence. People who have no knowledge of this material world, God and their actual intimate relationship with Her are actually going to the darkest region of material existence in the name of progress in the material advancement of civilization.Bhakti-yoga is the sunlike illumination for delivering the conditioned souls, whose general condition is described here. They have no eyes to see their own interests. They do not know that the goal of life is not to increase the material necessities of existence, because the body will not exist more than a few years. The living beings are eternal, and they have their eternal need. If one engages only in caring for the necessities of the body, not caring for the eternal necessities of life, then he is part of a civilization whose advancement puts the living entities in the darkest region of ignorance. Sleeping in that darkest region, one does not get any refreshment, but, rather, gradually becomes fatigued. He invents many processes to adjust this fatigued condition, but he fails and thus remains confused.The only path for mitigating his fatigue in the struggle for existence is the path of devotional service,Bhakthi which leads you to the path of knowledge,devouring the greed, savage in you and brings peace in your mind and helps you to walk towards her.So,can we say devotional service is knowledge on which she sits and rules this world.Devotional service in the modes of ignorance, passion and goodness can be divided into eighty-one categories. There are different devotional activities, such as hearing, chanting, remembering, worshiping, offering prayer, rendering service and surrendering everything, and each of them can be divided into three qualitative categories. There is hearing in the mode of passion, in the mode of ignorance and in the mode of goodness. Similarly, there is chanting in the mode of ignorance, passion and goodness, etc. Three multiplied by nine equals twenty-seven, and when again multiplied by three it becomes eighty-one. One has to transcend all such mixed materialistic devotional service in order to reach the standard of pure devotional service.I would like to quote the Gita for devotional service:
"mad-guna-sruti-matrenamayi sarva-guhasayemano-gatir avicchinnayatha gangambhaso ’mbudhau
laksanam bhakti-yogasyanirgunasya hy udahrtamahaituky avyavahitaya bhaktih purusottame"
so what is pure devotional service?
1.A true devotee is free from the qualities such as passion,ignorance and greed.He who performs his service to the almighty with reverence and has love for mankind is said to be a true devotee.
2. A devotee must execute his prescribed duties, which are glorious, without material profit. Without excessive violence, one should regularly perform one’s devotional activities.
3.A human being is not to eat anything which is not offered to the Supreme.
4. Temple worship is also another form of devotional service.
5.A devotee should always try to hear about spiritual matters and should always utilize his time in chanting the holy name of God.His behavior should always be straightforward and simple, and not being envious, but friendly to everyone.
So sitting on the lap of shiva she dictates devotional service which leads to understanding of the kama which by itself is knowledge.
