For My Sunday Song #110, we are going to explore the world of Live and their song “Lakini’s Juice”. The song is off their 1997 album ‘Secret Samadhi’ and was the first single off the record. It did pretty well as it went to #1 on the Mainstream Rock Track chart and when it came out it caught my attention.
But what is Lakini’s Juice? For that, you have to delve into the world of Hindu. Lakini is goddess and is described below…
She has a black or dark-blue vermilion color; three faces, each with three eyes; is four-armed; holds a thunderbolt, the arrow shot from the bow of Kama, fire and makes the gesture of granting boons and dispelling fear. She is seated upon a red lotus. (wikipedia).
Lakini is the goddess of the Manipuraka Chakra and Lakini’s Juice comes from this…
In Hinduism, Lakini is the goddess of the Manipuraka (city of jewels), which is the third of the seven Chakras. This Chakra represents the solar plexis of the human body, just above the navel, and is responsible for the pancreas and gall bladder as well as intuition (gut feelings). Lakini’s “juice” is the bile, pancreatic fluid, and other chemicals produced by this region of the body that aid in digestion and excretion. (popdose.com)
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