Devishataka 99_72

99_72

O Devī, "having uprooted the occasions for delusion"—this is an invocation to you by whom the occasions of delusion, such as arrogance, have been uprooted and eradicated. You who make "steadfast thoughts"—render the faculties [of mind] such as benevolence unshakeable. For this reason, the ascetic, the seeker of liberation, through "good ascetic practice"—pure vows free of deceit—attains, reaches, the "luminous state": a place endowed with the quality of lightness/purity, accompanied by the sattva quality and devoid of rajas and tamas. These are the four rim-verses. After writing three syllables each from the first of these, the fourth syllable appears at the end of the verse, and thus the second half of the rim is joined. In this very manner, writing at the end, the joining of the hub takes place from the center. Such is the diagram-expansion of the wheel. || 100