महामनुस्तवः

ragaswarupa pasadhya krodhakarankusojjvala manorupekshukodanda pancatanmaatrasayaka -Lalita Sahasranama. Her abode is in the Sri Chakra, the transcript of the Transcendent, in the jewelled mansion of the illumined thought-mind, Chintamani Griha, amidst lotus groves and kadamba trees which signify the manifold creation, surrounded by the vast immortal consciousness, Sudha sindhu. There, in the Sri Chakra, in the point from where the lines of creation emerge, in the Bindu, she is seated on a cot, the legs of which are Brahma, Vishnu, Rudra and Isana and the plank of which is Sadasiva. She is not seated alone. She is with her Lord Kameshwara, the two in one, in eternal bliss. Brahma, Vishnu, Rudra, Isara and Sadasiva are in charge of the five acts, srshti, creaticn, sthiti, maintenance, samhara, withdrawal, tirodhana, concealment and anugraha, taking up again in grace, the task of creation. But they are the five corpses, panca preta, lifeless inert parts of the cot on which the life-giver, the pure consciousness, Lalita is seated. She is the Life of life, the Transcendent Existence, Consciousness, Bliss.