Cidvilāsastava: Verse Twenty-two

In the twenty-second verse of his Cidvilāsastava (‘Hymn to the Play of Consciousness’), Amṛtānanda teaches about the deeper aspects of worshiping the Nityākalādevīs (goddesses of the indvidual lunar days) as a profound contemplation on dissolving the individual and contingent aspects of time into the universal timeless reality of the goddess Tripurasundarī as follows :

यस्तु पञ्चदशधा प्रकल्प्यते काल एष शशिभानुसंक्रमात् ।
तस्य शाश्वतपदे लयक्रिया नित्यवासरकलार्चनं मतम् ॥ २२ ॥

yas tu pañcadaśadhā prakalpyate kāla eṣa śaśibhānusaṃkramāt |
tasya śāśvatapade layakriyā nityavāsarakalārcanaṃ matam || 22 ||

“Time, based upon the transits of the moon and sun, is conceived as having fifteen divisions. Ritual adoration of those [fifteen] divisions of the Nityā [Goddesses] that govern the day is the practice of dissolving Time into the eternal.” (translation by Ben Williams)

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