Sri Samkara-Bhagavat Padacharya's Saundarya Lahari

Saundarya Lahari is not only a philosophical work but it is poetry of the highest excellence. It is indeed amazing how abstruse philosophical thoughts can be expressed in such sweet and mellifluous poetic language. Every verse of Saundarya Lahari is couched in language of incomparable beauty. It is a mantram and every mantram in this remarkable work is dedicated to a different aspect of the deity and separate Japam procedure for each mantram has been prescribed. The mantras and the separate yantra

"ANANDAM- Bliss is the source of all created beings; by Bliss do these beings live; and they go to Bliss and become one with it" (Taittiriya Upanishad-III- 6) Bliss here and beyond is the one object universally desired by all creatures. The pleasures experienced by the physical senses of Man are transient and mingled with suffering. Unalloyed and ever-lasting bliss could be experienced only when man gets release from the cycle of births and deaths. This release could be obtained only through a clear and comprehensive knowledge of God, soul and matter.