59) Mahāpadmāṭavī-saṃsthā
Residing in the great lotus forest.
(s.) In the individual, there are nine lotuses, two below Mūlādhāra, and the six above it, namely, Svādhiṣṭhāna, Maṇipūra, Anāhata, Viśuddhi, Ājñā and Sahasrāra. This is the forest of lotuses referred to.
(c.) All the Sahasrāra lotuses of all living forms constitute a forest of lotuses. This consortium of lotuses is the Mahat; so it is the Mahāpadmāṭavī.
(t.) From Ḥ to Aṁ constitute all the vowels which are considered Śaktis, the powers which make the consonants pronounceable; these consonants are the Śivas, or the male elements. Thus language becomes a creative act of coupling between Śiva and Śakti. The essence of all linguistic expressions is sound vibrations. Now, light is also vibrations, matter is also vibrations, everything is vibrations including thoughts. Indeed it is out of thoughts that this world sprang forth.
Lotus is a symbol for purity rising out of murky waters below. The murkiness is the sense of identification with the transitory, space bound entities; once that is cleared, what grows then is pure beauty of transcendentalism. That forest of beautiful, aesthetic thoughts which leads to an invariant universality of thoughtless consciousness.
Source: Śrī Amṛtānandanātha Saraswatī "Sudhā Syandinī Bhāṣyaṃ" Typed Manuscript
(an incomplete commentary on Lalitā Sahasranāma)
