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Every published page in the house, and every book on the shelf — 393 volumes and 44,688 passages of it — and every result is a passage that opens where it was written.
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Luminous Lakshmi Devotion™: Grace, Mantra & the Living Goddess
Variant — Chapter 2. The Vedic Dawn — Sri Sukta & the First Hymns to Radiance
Second, the fact that the Sri Sukta has been continuously recited for approximately three millennia means that it carries what the Indian tradition calls mantra shakti — the accumulated power of devotional repetition.
Luminous Lakshmi Devotion™: Grace, Mantra & the Living Goddess
Chapter 2. The Vedic Dawn — Sri Sukta & the First Hymns to Radiance
In the Sri Sukta, we can hear both voices speaking at once. The hymn addresses Agni — the Vedic god of fire, the primordial intermediary between human and divine — and asks Agni to bring Sri.
Luminous Lakshmi Devotion™: Grace, Mantra & the Living Goddess
Chapter 2. The Vedic Dawn — Sri Sukta & the First Hymns to Radiance
Abundance, in the Sri Sukta's understanding, must be invited. What is your relationship with the act of inviting?
Luminous Lakshmi Devotion™: Grace, Mantra & the Living Goddess
Variant — Chapter 2. The Vedic Dawn — Sri Sukta & the First Hymns to Radiance
What matters is this: whether the Sri Sukta was composed by human genius or received from cosmic intelligence, it has been doing its job for roughly three millennia.
Luminous Lakshmi Devotion™: Grace, Mantra & the Living Goddess
Variant — Chapter 2. The Vedic Dawn — Sri Sukta & the First Hymns to Radiance
If the Sri Sukta invites you to clarify your "true desire" (manasah kamam), what would you say your true desire is right now?