Lalitā Mahātripurasundarī

This chapter rests beyond the lunar cycle — in the hidden kalā, the sixteenth that contains all fifteen. The sixteenth verse is the phalaśruti, the verse of fruit: it describes the practice itself, the sādhaka who is pure and disciplined, who daily offers ghee and constantly recites the fifteen verses. The one who desires Śrī shall attain her. Lalitā is the ground beneath the cycle, the sovereign whose sovereignty is never gained or lost, never waxing or waning. The spiritual and material are here not reconciled — they were never separate.