Shri Varahi Devi

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Shri Varahi Devi

One text of the Prapanchasara Tantra says that the Parabindu divides

into two parts, of which the right is Bindu, the male, Purusha or

Ham, and the left Visarga the female, Prakriti or Sah, making the

combined Hamsah. Hamsah is the union of Prakriti and Purusha and the

universe is Hamsah - The Garland of Letters, Sir John Woodroffe

 

Varahi is a bali (animal sacrifice) devata, one of Lalita's receivers

of offerings. Her four alchemical elements (dhatus) are known as the

four fires. Kurukulla's alchemical elements are known as the five

Shaktis. The combination of these five Shaktis (downward pointing

triangles) and four fires (upward pointing triangles), forms the

complex figure in the centre of the Shri Cakra. Varahi's four are the

twelve (three x four) sun kalas, twelve sidereal constellations.

Kurukulla's five triangles are the fifteen (five x three) Kalas of

the moon, fifteen lunar days. The complete individual grows within

nine months to be born as a Shri Yantra or plant. The flowering of

this plant is shown by the 24 petals of the yantra.

 

Both Varahi and Kurukulla are connected with, but separate from the

sixteen Nityas (fifteen days of the bright fortnight plus Lalita

herself).

 

The following chapter of the Tantrarajatantra, translated into

English for the first time, is devoted to the practice of the Varahi

mantra and contains a number of prayogas. As with all other prayogas,

a sadhaka is only qualified (adhikari) to perform these rites if (a)

she or he is initiated, and (b) does the daily puja of

Tripurasundari. Further, the commentary (not translated here) shows

that there is a number of elements which have to be taken account of

when performing prayogas. These include visualisation skills and also

a knowledge of astrology (Hindu, sidereal version), before the rites

will be successful.

 

The Tantrarajatantra says that Varahi is the "father form", while

Kurukulla is the "mother form" of the devata.

 

 

 

Tantrarajatantra Chapter XXIII

Now in the Sixteen Nitya (Tantra) the rules, the worship and the

limbs relating to the Angabhuta known as Panchami are spoken of. I

speak of puja of the siddha mantra, worship through ritual and

meditation, and sacrifice and yantras, giving all the siddhi that is

desired.

After doing limb nyasa using seven, two sets of six, ten, seven and

seven parts of the mantras, a person should worship according to rule

in a chakra consisting of triangle, circle, hexagon, invoking her

with Hrim.

 

One should worship using the 110 letters of the Varahi vidya in the

centre (of the yantra), and should then worship the attendants in the

left, right and centre triangles who are Krodhini, Stambhini and

Chanda-Ucchanda, placing Hrim in front of their respective names and

Namah behind.

 

In the six angles starting from the east and going anticlockwise one

should worship Brahmi and so forth. Then in the circles one should

worship Mahalakshmi Panchami. After giving animal sacrifice using the

sixteenth syllable, and after one has worshipped all with ritual

accessories, one should recite the vidya 1000 or 100 times. Daily,

one should do sacrifice using pure and good sesamum, rice or ghee,

then the vidya becomes successful.

 

A sage of controlled senses, able to perform sacrifice, should do

puja at the twilights. He should recite the vidya 100,000 times --

giving oblation of one tenth part of that. After doing the worship

and invocation, the mantra becomes successful -- if one is

compassionate, devoted to Guru, contented, patient and of peaceful

mind.

 

If one should perform a rite for a specific application devotedly, it

gives whatever is desired immediately, giving the favour and grace of

Devi to the tireless practitioner.

 

One should meditate on Devi as having the body of a girl from the

throat down, resembling the colour of molten gold, her large, fiery

and tawny haired head being that of a sow.

 

She has three eyes and seven arms which hold a discus, a conch, a

hook, a lotus, a noose, and a club. She shows the (mudras) dispelling

fear and granting boons. One should think of her as being comfortably

seated on the shoulders of Garuda. In daily worship one should

meditate on her and her Shaktis in this way.

 

In particular applications, one should recall Devi and her Shaktis as

being seated on lions, tigers, elephants, horses or Garudas.

According to that which one wishes to achieve in specific

meditations, one should think of her as having a dark green, red,

yellow, black or purple body.

 

In rituals for subjugation, one should think of Panchami, and recite

(her mantra) as red, surrounded by hosts of beautiful red Shaktis. In

worship for paralysing, one should meditate on her as yellow, wearing

yellow garments, garlanded with yellow flowers, wearing yellow

jewels, and smeared with yellow unguent, surrounded by yellow

Shaktis.

 

In a difficult pass one should think of her as being seated on a

great bodied lion which is of a dark green colour, surrounded by

Shaktis similar to herself, offering recitation of the Vidya to the

central Shakti. If the mantrin should meditate on these as his own

self, he attains an exalted and wealthy status.

 

If one should remember Devi, with her Shaktis, on lions, Garudas,

elephants, Sharabhas, horned creatures, dogs, boars, buffaloes and

serpents with terrific teeth and cruel and crooked claws, whether

assailed by thieves, unexpected attacks, by anxieties about being

injured, by pisachas, by bhutas, by pretas, away from one's family,

or in a defile in the wilderness, or on lonely roads, or in a forest,

or on a mountain peak, then in this way one becomes free from anxiety

and happy.

 

Whether in wars, in fearful situations, in falls (from status), or

attacked by chariots and swords, or in difficult passes, having

remembered her one becomes supremely victorious.

 

If one should meditate, in states of terrible war, on Devi as blue,

with a terrible appearance, seated on an elephant, holding a nail, a

knife, a sword, an arrow, a club, a sickle, and a discus in her right

hands: and with her left making the threatening gesture, and holding

shield, skin, bow, damaru, plough, noose and conch: surrounded by

Shaktis like her; the Shaktis seated on elephants, assaulting all the

missiles of the enemy, and attacking them with maces, all moving

about, like red banners, then (the enemy) flees, pursued by swarms of

blue Shaktis howling terribly, berserk.

 

One should meditate on Devi in the form previously described during

great wars, as being in the centre of the sun's orb, her body marked

with red tridents. If one should then recite the vidya with

concentrated mind, after invoking her into water via breath during

rituals for a period of seven days, one's enemy will die from fever.

 

If one should think of Devi, surrounded by her attendants, and recite

her vidya, for three days, in water, as breaking in pieces the body

of one's enemy, which is then consumed by fierce jackals and corpse

eaters and flesh eating dogs, then, after remembering her, one gains

deliverance.

 

If one should think of Devi as of an effulgent purple colour, and do

recitation (visualising her) cleaving the target's tongue, heart and

feet, one slays enemies.

 

If, after remembering Devi as of a yellow colour, one should worship

according to the rule, the enemy experiences harm, anxiety in speech,

becomes disputatious, and is conquered in battle.

 

After thinking of this Devi as seated on Garuda, and surrounded by

numbers of Shaktis seated on Garudas, and the skies being thick with

an array of hosts of unseated Garudas, then one becomes victorious

over an army of enemies at a distance, instantly putting them to

flight. With her eight arms holding axes, and being surrounded by a

circle of Shaktis, one may destroy the army of enemies in a battle

immediately.

 

If a person should meditate on Varahi as having dishevelled hair, as

being seated on a throne in a jewelled pavilion, each of her hairs

swarms of Shaktis holding clusters of red arrows, and each of which

sits on hyenas, lions, tigers and monkeys and bears and Garudas and

horses, each holding tridents as previously declared, the hostile

host is destroyed by one's own ruler.

 

Parameshvari, if a sadhaka should worship the yellow effulgent one,

the paralyser, with yellow flowers, using the previously declared

tongue method, for a number of days, the array of the enemies in

battle and whatever else one desires are paralysed instantly.

 

If one should worship the red Devi at midnight, using red flowers,

one may enslave or kill all enemies, this is certain.

 

If one should do puja for the number of days previously spoken of,

using black flowers according to rule, at the time of one's enemy's

death, in a visha nadi, a tortured yoga, or in a death or destruction

yoga, then Yama lords it over the enemies.

 

If one should worship using dark green flowers, and various sorts of

scents, it is said one becomes very wealthy, free of disease, true

minded, a lord. One lives happily on earth for 100 years, it is said.

 

One should do sacrifice at night in a rectangular fire pit, using

turmeric mixed with food, sesame, beans, rice, yellow flowers, yellow

fruit, palmyra leaves, together with the letters of the target's

name, using ghee. Then one may paralyse, as previously stated.

 

At midnight, the enemy may be felled if one sacrifices in fire in a

yoni shaped pit, offering meat in a devoted way, and sacrificing for

the number of days previously stated. One may kill the enemy by

disease, sword, dart, serpent, water, flame, elephant, madness,

enemies, whirlwind, the fall of a tree or wall, consumed by enemies.

The enemies are unable to withstand this prayoga.

 

Meditating on her as being purple, and seated on a bird, having the

nail and the rest of the weapons, during (the rising of) Virgo or

Scorpio, offering goat flesh and much ghee, the rays of light from

the sacrifice slay the person, who is consumed by hot raging fever.

 

If one should meditate on her as being effulgent as the dawn sun,

offering (in sacrifice) various red substances, ghee, blossoms of the

Kimshuka, Bandhuka, Japa, Pala, Karavira, Kahlara, lotus, Patala,

Ashoka and various other red blossoms, then one becomes equal to a

king, very wealthy, having great power, wafted by fly whisks and

shielded by parasols, of this there is no doubt.

 

If, at night, one should meditate on her as red, with her nail and

other weapons, and sacrifice in the various cardinal points starting

with the east for the number of days previously stated, then one may

subjugate man, woman or the whole world. One becomes famous, and

lives on earth for a long period like Laksmi.

 

One should draw a bhupura, inside of this placing the name of the

target. On the outside one should write the earth letters. Making an

eight petal lotus, one should write the six syllables of the mantra

outside of the two circles.

 

Outside the hexagon one should write the earth letters, placing

mantras inside the angles. As previously stated, one should write

(letters) on the rim of the two circles, placing outside of the

bhupura, in an anticlockwise direction, the letters of the matrika.

 

After doing this, one should then write in reverse the letters of the

root vidya. If one should worship in this, one may paralyse the enemy

and the world.

 

One should write the letters of the mantra six by six in a nine

angled design surrounded by two circles, outside of this there being

an octangle design surrounded by two circles, all surrounded by a

bhupura. Within the octangles, and outside of the circles, and in the

bhupura, one should write the matrikas both clockwise and

anticlockwise. One should write the name (of the target) in all the

directions, and should worship the eight armed form, Auspicious One.

Parameshvari, employing the method previously stated, the target

becomes paralysed.

 

One should draw three circles, outside them putting a hexagon

surrounded by two circles. This is to be enclosed in an octangular

design, surrounded by a circle. In order one should place the letters

of Earth, one in each of the (six) angles, outside this writing them

in three groups of three. In the centre one should also write the

name (of the target). After reciting, the sadhaka should give animal

sacrifice to obtain whatever is desired.

 

One should draw a triangle enclosed in a circle, outside of this

drawing a hexagon, another hexagon, an octangular figure, and another

hexagon. From the edges to the middle one should write the naksatra,

tithi and day (of the target's birth), also writing all the matrika

letters. In the centre of each of the seven mandalas, one should

write the matrikas in clockwise order. One should place Hrim in the

centre. If one should worship this one obtains all siddhi. One may

command bhutas, pretas, pishachas and so forth, causing disease,

attacks by elephants and other wild beasts, or pacifying them.

 

One should draw an octangular design, placing in each of the corners,

sides and centre a trident shape. Outside this, write the letters of

the mantra together with the matrikas, placing in the middle

compartment the named one wishes to paralyse. One should draw it on

birch bark, on cloth, on copper or on stone. One should always

worship it using flowers, beautiful perfumes, then doing recitation

of the mantra. Doing the ritual at the twilights, one may always

obtain whatever is desired.

 

Draw a square, inside of this making sixteen lines, extending from

the cardinal and intermediate points, which together makes a figure

of 225 compartments. One should make a symmetrical figure of 28

compartments by rubbing out other of the angles made. In the central

three compartments one should write the target and the name of the

act the sadhaka wishes to accomplish. Starting from the east, one

should write the letters of the mantra.

 

This great yantra is called the vajra, giving the totality of

whatever is wished for by sadhakas. Wherever this is placed, whether

written on copper, stone and so forth, there can never dwell thieves,

bhutas, diseases, ailments, serpents, bad planets, pretas, pisacas

and so forth. In whichever house this yantra is placed on the

junction points of the homestead design (vastu), there can never

exist black magic, ailments or disease.

>From the north west, south east, south west and north east, draw 12

lines, making a vajra figure of 21 compartments. In the centre of

these one should draw the name of whatever is to be accomplished,

outside of this, in a clockwise direction, writing the letters of the

alphabet. After worshipping this and drawing it, whether it be on

copper, stone or whatever, disease, bhutas, planets, madness, pisacas

and the kleshas of the mind can never enter or afflict one.

 

If one should draw the previously described vajra in a golden colour

within the centre of a pot, filling it with milk, and if one should

invoke Devi in this liquid, and worship her therein, oblating and

offering flowers and reciting the vidya 3000 times, subsequently

bathing oneself with the liquid, and drinking some of it, then one

becomes free of bodily kleshas, and lives happily on earth.

 

After making a circle measuring four finger breadths, one should put

outside of it, two measures by two measures, eleven compartments.

>From each of these two by two measures one should draw lines. After

putting tridents in the compartments, one should surround the whole

with the letters of the alphabet, and placing the named in the

centre. After indrawing the Devi via breath into this yantra, and

worshipping from the east clockwise, then reciting the vidya, one may

achieve whatever is desired.

 

 

 

Notes

Varahi, also known as Panchami, or the Fivefold One, bears the

relation of "father" to Lalita, although pictured as a Devi. The

mother form is Kurukulla Tara. Varahi gives four fires and Kurukulla

five Shaktis -- this forming the complex shape in the centre of Shri

Yantra.

Varahi is fivefold as water, fire, earth, air and aether. These

elements are related to lion, tiger, elephant, horse and Garuda --

the bird-human vehicle of Vishnu. Their colours are dark green, red,

yellow, black and purple.

 

Her mantra vidya of 110 letters is: Aim glaum aim namo bhagavati

vartali vartali varahi varahi varahamukhi varahamukhi andhe andhini

nama rundhe rundhini namah jambhe jambhini namah mohe mohini nama

stambhe stambhini namah sarvadushta pradadushtanam earvesham sarvabak

chitta chakshurmukhagatijihvastambham kuru kuru shighram rashyam kuru

kuru aim glaum thah thah thah thah hum phat svaha.

 

Her yantra is a triangle enclosed within a circle, a hexagram

surrounding this, and the hexagram itself being surrounded by two

circles.

 

 

 

 

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