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. LALITA-SAHASRANAMA
 
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570. She is to be attained through loving-
kindness and other such dispositions.
571-576. She witnesses the dissolution of the
universe, she is the supreme power,
the supreme end and knowledge
absolute, and inactive then she is like
one who is drunk and intoxicated.
 
577-578. The letters of the alphabet constitute her
form and her abode is the great
Kailasa.
 
1
 
1
 
579.' Her arms are smooth and slender like a
pair of lotus stalks.
 
580-582. She is adorable, she is compassion itself,
and her empire is wide.
 
583-586. She is the doctrine of the Self, the sub-
lime doctrine, the sacred mantra-
that which was once meditated upon
by the god of love.
 
587-589. She is the Sodasal şarī mantra, tripartite
is that mantra, and the Lord of
Kama is her end and aim
 
590. By a mere glance of her eye, millions of
Laksmis are made to wait on her
and serve her.
 
591-597. In the head she resides and shines like
 
the moon; in the forehead she stays
and has the colours of the rainbow, in
the heart she stands and blazes like the