3 women ...
9 days ...
Are you drowning in that fiery woman ?
The one who is so powerful that you are left breathless...
Bold and assertive,
Sexy and demanding...
Confident and supreme ...
Shakti...
Pulsing, throbbing energy
with absolutely no apology...
or mercy ...
Or are you chasing the auspicious,
the gentle one that makes thing worthwhile,
the one who ushers in goodness,
the nurturer,
the inspirer who propels you to adore her ?
the one who makes you rich...
with her presence...
Or is she overwhelming you with her knowledge,
her deeply intuitive intelligence,
her play with all things fine,
raising your vision by
the creative fire in you that she stokes...
Have you adored her today ?
Drowned and overwhelmed
and drunk in her energy...
until satiated you lie in her arms
and in her eyes see that she was always all three
and a thousand more...
Which woman did you see these nine nights in her ?
Or did you see all of them in your woman tonight ?
- Srividya Srinivasan
[This was written during the navrathri time. For me navathri is all about the men and the woman or women they see around them. The aspects of the goddess that resonates most to them and matches them... While the women go around busy with their golus and sundals and silks, while the garbhas and the dandias hold their sway, my eyes have scanned the men curious to see how they adore the goddesses they have each been blessed with... I somehow find it difficult to comprehend how every festival the woman starves or fasts for the longevity of her spouse or the masculine element's well being, and even for a celebration of the feminine aspect it is she who again praises her own self and worships her own femininity ...isn't the resonance and reflection in shiva's eyes that best acknowledge sakthi's fire and identity ?]
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