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Sri Yantra

Tantric practices such as the construction of and meditation on Sri Yantra help refine thoughts and feelings by stimulating peace, harmony and order within ourselves. Sri Yantra is a projection of the male and female energies intersecting in the cosmos to create the phenomenal world. Focus on the bindu or central point promotes union between the Aspirant and the Divine and frees the consciousness from its limitations. The bindu then represents the seed of entire universe which is beyond time and space; the end and the beginning from which all things are manifested. Sri Yantra works as a uniting force to link the mind with the abstract and to help achieve a higher state of awareness in which individual being and universal being are one.

Sri Yantra

The Sri Yantra is one of the most significant pieces of visual art to emerge from Ancient India. There are many speculations as to its age and meaning. Its beauty is undeniable and attempting to produce it will reveal the artistry of the geometry. It has been estimated by some to predate the pyramids and connections have been drawn between it and the sacred sound OM, its angles have been compared with the geometry of the great pyramid and its proportions have been compared to the structure of Indian music.

Simply sitting and gazing at the centre of the piece is enough to generate a sense of calm and relaxation as the almost holographic nature of the lines begins to become apparent. It is often used as an aid to meditation.

SRICHAKRA NAVAVARANA PUJA-1

LEARN HOW TO DO SRICHAKRA NAVAVARANA PUJA
with mantras and instructions in
English
Srividya is the knowledge, by knowing which all other things are known. It is the Supreme Knowledge that leads to liberation. Srichakra Navavarana Puja is the worship of Her Majesty Goddess Mother, according to Srividya tradition.

This book teaches the reader how to perform this most guarded form of worship. While there are many procedures to worship Goddess Mother, Srichakra Navavarana Puja is universally acclaimed to be the most effective. She has been called Bindu Tarpana Santushta in Lalita Sahasranama for this very reason. She is immensely pleased when libations are offered to Her on the bindu point of Srichakra with devotion.

This book gives step-by-step instructions, in English, for this most holy form of Shakti worship. Worship manuals for this Puja are very few and are available only in Indian languages such as Sanskrit, Tamil, Telugu, Hindi and others.

This book is written in English so as to help Srividya initiates and devotees who want to learn to perform Navavarana Puja but do not know other languages. Mantras and instructions are all given in English
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Sri Vidya

Sri Vidya, is the ritual activity and meditative practices associated with the Sri Yantra, which provides a diagram of a complete cosmology centred around the manifestations of the goddess Tripura Sundari in her union with the Lord Siva. As such, it belongs to the third degree of the Uttarakaulas and becomes part of their practices after that stage of initiation.

The origins of Sri Vidya are, in truth, lost in the mists of antiquity. Both Tantrikas and Vedantins claim these origins, and put the Yantra to different uses – the former in ritual practices and the latter for meditative visualizations – with some overlap into the other usage. The former is one form of Left Hand Tantra, or even ‘High Tantra’.

What seems most likely is that Sri Vidya developed out of the shamanistic practices of Kashmiri Shaivism and other Himalayan regions. It was transplanted to the Tamils of South India, where it’s practice was ‘Left Hand’ and like the Northern traditions was later absorbed into Aryan Vedic, and even Mogul (Mongal) practices, as Right Hand forms of meditation, after their invasions.

The Tibetan Bon shamanistic scripture known as the “Doctrine of the Six Lights”, which gave us the deities which attend the directions of the magick circle, or mandala before they acquired a Buddhist veneer: Vairochana, Ratnasambhava, Amoghasiddhi, Amitabha, Aksobhya and their Shaktis; Ganesh: and the Earth Mother, finds a dialect in the faces of Sadashiva in Kashmiri Shaivism. Four faces look out from lingam to the four directions, while one looks above. The sixth mouth is the yoni of the Devi in which the lingam stands. This gives rise to the six main Kaula clans of Kashmir, of which Uttara is that of the north face. The Bon Doctrine became “The Tantra of the Secret Union of Sun and Moon”, which in turn became “The Bardo Thodol” or “Tibetan Book of the Dead”

Sadh Guru Jaggi Vasudev Speaks-

If you feel the world around you – when I say the world, I mean the human part of the world around you – you will see your experience is a cacophony of voices, thoughts and emotions. These voices, thoughts and emotions are all an outpouring of confusions of many different levels and states. With a very distorted perception of the current reality, these voices, thoughts and emotions are formed and expressed. When man is in this level of confusion, when he is subjugated by the misconceptions or the wrong perception of reality around him, the noise that he creates around himself, the pain and suffering that he creates for himself and the people around him and to all other life forms around him is very unfortunate.

With all the conveniences and facilities we have because of science and technology individual man and humanity has still remained an absolute confusion, an absolute mess. All the noises that he is making in the form of his thoughts and emotions, if you look at it, if you really are little sensitive to feel people’s thoughts and emotions around you, you’ll see it is an absolute mess, it is an absolute confusion.

That is the reality that you see today. There is no clarity in him. Nor any will or vision. Most people in the world live their lives without even understanding what is it that they really want for themselves. Or even if they know what they want, they neither have the will nor the vision to create what they want in their lives. Most of the time just settling for whatever is easy, whatever they term as attainable, whatever is within their reach, they settle for anything if they feel it is easy.

If something is easily attainable, people go for it. Not really seeing whether they really need it in their lives or not. Not really seeing whether that is what they really want in their lives. It is easily attainable, that is the whole thing. And at any given moment in life if we go by the experience of our past or in other words if you trust your mind – trust your logical mind to decide what is possible, what is not possible, what is attainable, what is not attainable, then it will always tell you mediocre things as to what is possible.

We are always trying to create our life based on the current reality that exists around us at this moment. This moment whatever may be with us is not the point. Where we want to go tomorrow need not be connected to where we are right now. What we want as the highest in life, it need not have anything to do with our present situation. If we enslave our visions to current situations, then it is once again settling for what is attainable, what is easy, what you think is possible. It is not in terms of thinking what is possible or not possible. It is just in terms of seeing what is your vision, what is the highest that you can seek in your life.

If man has a vision of what he wishes to do with himself and the world around him, it is not beyond man’s capacity to create it. It may happen in this lifetime, it may take a couple of lifetimes but what we want will definitely come. For that person, for whom his vision of life is clear to him and he just seeks it every moment of his life, for him, the highest things will come and fall at his feet. It is only because man is a bundle of confusion, it is only because man is most of the time seeking what he doesn’t want – things that he really wants never come to him. This lack of vision and will in his life is fundamentally because of a distorted understanding of the world around us.

What you know as the highest, you just seek that. It doesn’t matter whether it is going to happen or not going to happen, simply living with the vision itself is very elevating, is itself very liberating, is itself a very joyous process for any person. Whether it is going to happen tomorrow or after hundred years is not the point. But you have a vision and you are not concerned about whether it is possible or not possible. You are not concerned whether it is easy or difficult, you are not concerned whether it is attainable or non-attainable, or in other words, you are not concerned about the result in the end. It is just that you have a vision and you give your life towards it. This is one of the easiest ways to attain the highest also. The whole Lit. song. Refers to the Bhagavad Gita, one of the most sacred teachings of the Hindus.  This central episode of the epic Mahabharatha is a dialogue between Lord Krishna and his chief disciple Arjuna, on the battlefields of the Kurukshetra.  Krishna imparts to the warrior-prince Arjuna his knowledge on yoga, asceticism, dharma and the manifold spiritual path.

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Vision is an important way of transcending limitations within and outside ourselves. If one wants to live here without any vision, without being burdened by visions, without being burdened by will, then that person should be absolutely innocent. Absolutely. Such a person can simply live here. He need not live with a vision. He does not need a vision. He does not have to have a will about anything, that is if he is absolutely egoless and childlike. And if it is not so, it is very important that man lives with a vision.

There have been many stories, many examples in the Indian culture. Certain sages and saints, once they willed, even gods had to come down and do things for them. There are many stories like this. Lord Lit. that which is not.  The Great Lord; the Destroyer in the trinity.

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It is time to really create a vision within ourselves as to what is it that we really care for, not just for today. If you look deep enough your vision will be the universal vision. Really in terms of being a human being, what is the highest that you can seek and simply creating that vision. Whether everything else happens or doesn’t happen on the way is not the point. Whatever you have known as the highest – simply seeking that with undivided attention – that is a way of knowing life here and beyond. It is a simple way of knowing life here and beyond.