महामनुस्तवः

HRIM

Hrim enjoys the same reputation in the Tantric lore as Aum in the Vedic and Vedantic wisdom. In fact it is known as the Tantric Pranava³⁰

There are three Hrims in the Mantra, one at the end of each kuta. Each of them grants to the seeker one of the three knowledges. What are these three knowledges? The existence is triune-God, World and Soul. God, the sole Reality, is the substance and support and directing intelligence of its own formation in the shape of World and Soul. There are countless worlds and innumerable souls. These are the signifying factors and God is the One signified in all of them. To know the world as it appears to our imperfect understanding is a partial knowledge which ignores the substance. This partial knowledge is a half-truth and is mistaken for the full Truth. This mistake is ajnana, ignorance. By contemplating on the Hrim of the first kuta man the victor conquers this ignorance pertaining to the world³⁴

Again, the Divine Mother Eternal subjects herself in manifestation to the conception of Time. She translates herself in time as the days or tithis, as the moon and her fifteen digits. She is the moon in her fulness while the digits are her aspects, called tithi nityas. The Sanskrit word nitya means eternal as well as diem. These fifteen Nityas form the fifteen-lettered Panchadasi which is the sound-body of the Divine Mother who is the sixteenth shodasi. A meditation to be done along with the japa of the Mantra is to think of every day as the form in Time of the Divine Mother.