Who is nILA dEvi ?

[krishnarao]

From:- lanka.kr...@gmail.com
(SrIparasuKAnandanAtha)

Subject :- Who is
nILAdEvi.

Who is nILA dEvi ?
Priya mahASayAh,

I wish to share my own understandings and views about the
esoteric meaning of nILAdEvi with you all in this group. I may
be pardoned if I am exceeding any limits or wrongly interpreting any
thing from the text.

SrInIlAdEvi is said be one among the three wives of Sri
vEnkatESwara, the other two are SrIdEvi and BhUdEvi. The vEda
addressed her as “Bhuvanasya patni”. It also praised her as the one
who is supporting the heavens and holding the earth, from falling
them downwards. “viShtamBhO diva dharuNah”.

In the tAntric SrIvidya she is called as “niila saraswati”, a
different form of ‘mahAkAli’.

If the word ‘SrI’ is indicative of the heavens (the world of
all gods with all its wealth and pleasures), is significant of the
first part of the above word “niila”, and the second part ‘BhU’
indicates the abode of all our ancestors (pitR^u dEvatas) from whom we
all have acquired all the knowledge whatever we now possess. That
knowledge indicates “saraswati”.

Because it is acting like a conjunctive force between the
heaven and the earth, connecting both ‘niila’and ‘saraswati’, the
fellow-mate of these two was named as “niila saraswati”. This force is
a kind of vacuity formed in
the empty vacant space (AkASE avakASam), which facilitated the
paramAtma to palpate his first throb as “ah” (Adyaspandam), from which
all the five elements were manifested in a group and that in its turn,
became the universe.

By the jerk of movement created by the throb of paramAtma, this
vacant space itself transformed as the air named “mAtariSwa”. This
principal air along with its subordinates “prANa”, “apAna”, “vyAna”,
“udAna” and “samAna”
vAyus and also their subordinates called “nAga”, “kUrma”, “kR^ikara”,
“dEvadatta” and “dhananjaya” are maintaining all the living beings
with their six activities, “asti” remaining in the biija BhAva,
“jAyati” prakAsa BhAva, “vardhati”AmarSana BhAva, “vipariNamati”,
pariNAma BhAva, “apakSIyati” kShaya BhAva, and “naSyati” samhAra
BhAva.
By all this, we can come to the conclusion that the sole cause for all
the activities of the universe is this vacant space.

By saying “dR^k diSam”, she has no directions of the compass
like east, south, west, north etc., because she has occupied all the
edges of all directions. She has no divisions of time also, because
there is no device or machinate like 'the sun' outside of her. She
herself is the sovereign regulator of time even for this sun and solar
system. She is the ‘kAla”.
She is the “kAla sarpa” upon which SrimahAviSNu is reclining.

SrImahAviShNu is lying upon this ‘kAla sarpa’ which is called as
“Adi sESha”, the remainder at the beginning itself.
We generally calculate any remainder after subtracting any sum. It
reminds the story of three daughters-in-law of a lady.
One was asked to arrange tables and plates for the guests` dinner, the
second one to serve the preparations and the third one was given the
charge of removing the plates and cleaning the table. They all have
accomplished their duties accordingly.
But how? The first one arranged the table and plates. Immediately the
second one served all the food items in the plates and the third one
instantly removed all the plates and cleaned the tables even before
any one come to take meals.

In the same way one god is creating the universe and another god
is dissolving it at one and the same time. In between these creations
and dissolutions there is one force saying loudly “I am here, I am
here” and “I am maintaining, I am maintaining”
.That force itself is called “Adi SESha”. kAla sarpa. This is the
kAla swarUpiNi which is swallowing all the living beings, including
brahma, viSNu and the so called mR^ityunjaya mahESwara and wearing the
long garland of skulls of mahESwara.
This mahA Sakti`s name is “MahA kALi” and also “niila saraswati”. The
subordinates of this mahAdEvata, the “mAtariSwa vAyus” and their
subordinate vAyus are actually acting like the creators by creating
new generations, and acting like maintainers by providing nutrition to
the living beings
(“viSwasya cA iShayantii”), and also acting like the destructing
agents also making all beings prey for mortification (“asyESAnA
jagatO”).

If “SrI” can be called as “bindu” for all its objective
visualizations, the earth (saraswati) becomes ‘nAda” and our “niila
saraswati” is occupying the place of “kaLa”. She is the sole cause to
show the small single atom into so many kinds of forms in different
shapes and varieties. That is why she is called “kaLa”.

She is that third foot of ‘trivikrama’ after he has occupied
the whole heven and earth (Sri and BhUh), which made the emperor
‘bali’ to surrender before ‘vAmana’. The other two feet are ‘SrI’ and
‘Bhuh’

She is the ‘turiiya iimkAra swarUpa mahA mAyA’ of SrImahA
viShNu. She is also called as “aditi” the mother of all deities in
whose bosom the whole universe exists. .”suBhUtih SivA nO astwaditir
upasthE” the vEdA says.

Dear members, I hope I could convey my understanding clearly to
you all. I humbly solicit any suggestions and additions upon these
views.

Yours in the service of the mother,
Krishnarao (SrIparasuKhAnandanAtha)