shAradA bhujangam

[thebigthinkg]

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sarasvati, sAradha and bhArati are three different names of 'goddess of knowledge'.

Knowledge has 3 attributes
Holding (information) - bhArati means that ‘holds’. bhArati is knowledge that is held.
Moving - saras-means ever moving. Sarasvati is knowledge that moves
Maturing over time - sAradha means ever maturing.

sAradha is knowledge that continuously matures. Adi Shankara extols and invokes this shAradha, the ever maturing knowledge goddess in sharada bhujangam.
1. Which gives welfare, prosperity
2. The residual base on which everything is built
3. Is awake in all
4. Leads to jnAnA, wealth and fame
5. Level of knowledge maturity we reach is the real ‘time’ we lived
6. Gives balanced views and lovely expressions
7.Is present inside all inconceivably, endlessly and in the same way
8. Moves like flame from one to another though it exists around the lotus-hearts like a bee
9. Is the unborn lotus eye in all

shArada bhujangam translation sung in tamil by Latha Balaji

 

[renuka]

भारती bhAratI has another meaning too.

bhA means effulgence

ratI can be broken down into:

ra =attraction
tI =forgetting one's self.

So भारती(bhAratI) means " getting attracted to effulgence and forgetting one's self...that would be the true aim of knowledge to dissolve one's self consciousness by immersion in effulgence.

 

[thebigthinkg]

ok. true.

bharat in saMskrt means 'bearing', 'carrying' etc.
bharatas are called bearers of oblation in yajna.
bhArata and bhArati are the descendants of bharata.

bhArati are 'expressions' 'speech' 'statements' that bear or hold knowledge.

when brahma says 'na bhāratī me ’ṅga mṛṣopalakṣyate" - my speech/statments/expressions never become false.