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| | Nectar of Devotion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31) |
 | | So eager was the goddess to fulfill her devotee's wish that she did not realize that the devotee's pause after "tvam", meaning "You", was only the interval between successive words. |
 | | Taking the request as complete, She immediately granted him "Bhavani-tvam" or the state of being Bhavani, that is, She made him one with Herself. |
 | | One who desiring to pray to thee in terms like "Oh BhavAni, bestow Thy gracious glance on me, Your servant", even before he completes 'BhavAni tvam' (May I) become Thou, You bestow on him the status of oneness with you, at whose feet Divinities like viShNu, Brahma and Indra with their sparkling attires are prostrating. |
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