6) Udyadbhānusahasrābhā
Effulgent as thousand suns rising together.
Was this the vision of the sages who wrote this Sahasranāma, the first vision of the Goddess, each of Her thousand names itself shining like a Sun?
Was this the vision of the Big Bang, the breaking of the cosmic egg to bring forth a universe? Be what it may, after the first explosive lightening like the experience of God in meditation, the subsequent experiences of Godhead mellow down to a cool, effulgent light rather like a rising sun in consciousness. When a most beautiful woman makes Her first appearance, eyes are not capable of taking in all the beauty at once but see it as a glow of light, hazy at first, clearing up the outlines as time goes on to expose the myriad beauties. The divine beauty and grace of Lalitā grown on the devotee at various levels of consciousness. Īśāvāsyopaniṣad relates the story of a man on his deathbed singing a hymn to the Sun in meditation, "A golden lid (the rays and disc of the sun), meaning the illusion covers the face of truth; O Pushan, remove that lid so that I may see the true beauty hidden within there". In Sanskrit, it reads thus:
“Hiraṇmayena pātreṇa satyasyāpihitaṁ mukham,
tat tvaṁ pūṣannapāvṛṇu satyadharmāya dṛṣṭaye.”
It is strange that the man on his death bed is not worrying about his insurance, nor his wife and children, nor what is going to happen to his near and dear, but wants to know the truth behind the sun meditation! The man that the Upaniṣad is talking about is no ordinary man, but one who has seen God in himself; so death holds no fear for him! The truth behind the solar effulgence of meditation is unfolded in the following names.
Source: Śrī Amṛtānandanātha Saraswatī "Sudhā Syandinī Bhāṣyaṃ" Typed Manuscript
(an incomplete commentary on Lalitā Sahasranāma)
