Soumik Bhattacharya

14/12/2025

udyad-dina-dyutim indu-kirīṭāṁ
tuṅga-kucāṁ nayana-traya-yuktām |
smera-mukhīṁ vara-dāṅkuśa-pāśāṁ
’bhīti-karāṁ prabhaje bhuvaneśīm || 1 ||

The verse opens by describing Śrī Bhuvaneśvarī as udyad-dina-dyuti, radiant like the rising sun. This radiance signifies self-luminous consciousness (svayaṃ-prakāśa-caitanya), by which all experience becomes possible. Just as the sun illumines without being illumined, the Goddess is the light through which the universe is known.

She is adorned with the moon as her crown (indu-kirīṭā), indicating sovereignty over mind, emotion, and time. The moon symbolizes manas and soma; by wearing it, she remains untouched by fluctuation while governing it. Her tuṅga-kuca, lofty and full breasts, represent inexhaustible nourishment and sustaining power, affirming her role as the maternal ground of creation.

Endowed with three eyes (nayana-traya-yuktā), she perceives past, present, and future simultaneously. This triadic vision also signifies transcendence of duality, for her perception is not divided into subject and object.
Her gently smiling face (smera-mukhī) expresses effortless compassion and assurance. Though she contains all worlds, she remains serene, revealing the cosmic process to be guided by intelligence rather than chaos.

In her hands she bears the boon (vara), the goad (aṅkuśa), and the noose (pāśa). The boon signifies grace and inner fulfillment; the goad directs the mind toward truth; the noose binds beings to experience and releases them through knowledge. As abhīti-karā, she dispels fear, which arises from ignorance and perceived separation.

Thus, to worship Bhuvaneśvarī (prabhaje bhuvaneśīm) is to recognize her as the sovereign space in which both the universe and the worshipper arise.

06/12/2025

kadambavana-cāriṇīṃ muni-kadambakādambinīṃ nitambajita-bhūdharāṃ sura-nitambinī-sevitām । navāmburuha-locanām abhinavāmbuda-śyāmalāṃ trilocana-kuṭumbinīṃ tripurasundarīm āśraye ॥

“I take refuge in Tripurasundarī, who wanders in the Kadamba forest, surrounded by clusters of sages, whose hips outshine mountains, served by celestial maidens, whose eyes are like fresh lotuses, whose hue is of a new rain-cloud, who is the household queen of the three-eyed Lord.”

**ra

25/11/2025

Mā Tārā is the Ultimate Deliverer, for She is the pure Consciousness that cuts illusion in an instant and lifts the soul across by Her own boundless compassion.

**ra

25/11/2025

19/11/2025

Happy reading! Happy realisation!

I bow to the Guru who, in essence, is Bhairava himself, and to Kālī, the embodiment of compassion, who abides within the lotus of the heart, illuminating all forms of knowledge and wisdom. I bow to that eternal Kālī, who reveals the Self by her own light, who delights in dissolving all distinctions of form, and who, in the supreme reality, is pure consciousness the very essence of Śiva.

04/11/2025

🕊️ An Act of Living Kindness 🐠

In Buddhist tradition, freeing a living being is called Tsethar, the act of giving life.
It is done with the wish that all beings may find peace and freedom.

When you release a fish into clean water, you open the door of compassion within yourself.

As it swims away, whisper softly,
“May all beings be free. May I too be free.”

Every act of mercy touches the world and purifies the heart. 🌿

30/10/2025

জয়দে জগদানন্দে জগদেকপ্রপূজিতে ।
জয় সর্বগতে দুর্গে জগদ্ধাত্রি নমোঽস্তুতে ।।

"হে দুর্গে ! তুমি জয়বিধায়িনী ও জগতের আনন্দস্বরূপিণী। জগতে একমাত্র তুমিই প্রকৃষ্টরূপে পূজিতা ও তুমি সর্বব্যাপিণী, তোমার জয় হউক।
হে জগদ্ধাত্রি , তোমায় নমস্কার ।"

24/10/2025

উগ্রতারাং মহাকালীং কামরূপেণ তিষ্ঠিতাম্ ।
সর্বশাপরদাং দেবীং তারাং বন্দে জগত্গুরোঃ ॥
(তারা তন্ত্র, অধ্যায় ৭)

21/10/2025

namas te rūpa-saṁsiddhe sarvaśaktisvarūpiṇi ।
kālī kālāntakārī ca kālarātre namo namaḥ ॥