Guest guest Posted March 11, 2002 Report Share Posted March 11, 2002 KAMAKALAVILASA is written by the great PUNYANANDA YATI, a great siddha and not bhaskararaaya(who belonged to kaadi tradition....and k.vilasa expounds haadi)!!!!! Namastripurasundaryai! Namo kaameshwarraaya! Parabrahman is of the form of formless, atributeless, unending eternal Aananda or bliss.Due to maaya which originates from Brahman itself, it acquirs 'I'ness and duality.Then Jiavtava predominates.Jiva thinks that his true self as the physical body and senses...seperate from the cosmos and the Brahman. This ignorance of duality is in the form of various aavaraans or breaks. As you go beyond each one of these and reach bindu, in the path of sadhana, mother reveals as true and pure consciousness ,or indeed as Paramatman. This is the basic aim and also the principle of Srividya and srichakra pooja. Srichakra the greatest of all the known mystic symbols is a complete representation of microcosm and macrocosm. It's representation would require expalnation running to hundreds of pages.I drop this discussion for now! To worship the divine in srichakra(actually in the body which is actually the best sriyantra), the mantra required is srividya.Vidya refers to mantras of female deities and mantra to those of male deities.However this is the only one referred to as both vidya and mantra since it refers to parabrahman alone and no lesser aspects. Though navarna and other mantras are found in atharvana veda ,,,,onl this mantra finds sanction of vedas...(in the first three vedas...accepted by all). Bhaskararaya, has elaborated the significance and meaning of this vidya ,as eing the third secretive most version of Gayathri in his classic work varivasyarahasya.There ar numerous works by celebrated authors who have expalined this like kamakala vilasa etc. This is the only vidya credited to be accepted by the vedas and of conferring both bhoga and moksha. This is to be obtained by a person in his last birth as a frit of all his past sadhana and virtues.The siddhi of thsi mantra is complete identification with brahman and becoming oine with Lalitha. Tantra shastra initiates pupils according to their capabilities,tastes and samskaaras, succesively into saura,vaishnava,gaanapathya,shaiva and shaaktha tantras.Srividya is credited to be the aggregate of the ten mahavidyas, by the most ancient and popular tantra,Rudrayamala, dating back to vedic times.Srividya si noteasily obtainable. India is of the form of srichakra with the southern part forming the trikona and the bindu in Kanchi kamakoti peetham. Srividya may be classified into three types. 1. kaadi....kali krama 2. haadi...sundari krama 3. saadi....tara krama Though panchadashi mahamantra is the summation of all the three. The important gurus of this tradition are: Sadashiva kaameshwara Siva narayana brahma manu chandra indra nandi ganapathy durvasa agasthya lopamudra kubera manu etc The great yuga gurus are Dakshinamurthy, Dattatreya,Hayagriva,Paramananda Bhairava and Adi Shankaracharya! Before one can receive Srividya one has to achieve the mantras of the six quarters or dimensions of srividya.The mantras ....being prelims to srividya are : PORVAAMNAYA.....EASTERN QUARTER -------------- SUDDHA VIDYA, baala, dvaadashaardhaa, mathangi, gayathri, ganapathi vidyas( kshipra-ugra-natya-ucchistha-lakshmi-trailokyamohana-haridra- shakthi-varada-vijaya-navaneetha-arka-mahaganapathi's), subrahmanya,mrityunjaya,neelakantha,tryambaka,jaatavedagni and pratyangira. ----------------- THE SOUTHERN QUARTER --------------- Saubhagya vidya, bagalaamukhi, maha vaaraahi, vatuka bhairava, tiraskarini,maha maya,aghora,sarabheshawara,khadgaravana,veerabhadra, rudra, shaasthaa, brahmaastra, vayavyastra, bhairava(anga-aghora-bheema- vijaya-rakta-kaala-samhara-swarnaakarshana bhairava's),Dakshinamurthy(medha-prajnaa-lakshmi-keerthi-samhara- saamba-veera dakshinamurthy mantras). ----------------- WESTERN QUARTER ----------------- Lopamudra,bhuvaneshwari, annapoornaa, kamakala,sudarshana,garuda,kartaveeryarjuna,narasimha,rama, seetha, krishna, gopala(raja-anna-santana-vidya gopalas),dhanvanthari, indrajaali,mahamaya,indra,vayu,yama,chitragupta,kubera,agni,varuna,ind rakshi,dattatreya, narayana ashtakshari and vasudeva dvadashi. ----------------- NORTHERN QUARTER ----------------- Tureeyamba, mahaardhaa, ashwaroodha, mishramba,mahalakshmi,vagvadini,Durga( moola-shoolini-jwaaja-lavana-shanthi-aasuri-shabari-bhraamari-vana- ati durgaa mantras), dkashinaa kaali, maha kali, guhya kali, taara, navarna chandi, nakuli, pulindini, renuka, matrika, and swayamvaraaa kala. ----------------- THE QUARTER ABOVE...OORDHVA ----------------- Paraa shodashi, laghu shodashi,para bhattarikaa, para shambhavam, para shambhavi, praasaada, dahara,hamsa,maha brhama vakya's, shiva- shakthi-kaula panchakshari's,taraka mantra. ---------------- THE QUARTER EYOND--ANUTTARA ---------------- Maha panchadashi brahmavidya Mahaa shodasi shatkoota rajarajeshwari vidya Varivasya Rahasya is a great explanatory treatise on shakta agamas. According to scriptures, Parabrahman can be worshipped both internally and externally. In the external mode, Chakra and Bimba etc are used. All the services are done to these in a symbolic way. In internal way mother is thought of as in three forms : Sthoola (gross)...sookshma(subtle).....para(escoteric). Gross form has the form of physicality..and is viewable by adepts in mantra. Subtle form is made of Matrikas or letters of the Sanskrit alphabet. para is a form of pure energy-consciousness. SriDevi appers to sadhakas of highest calibre as the turiyaa....beyond the three as the undifferenciated...bliss- personified Brahman.The aim of all scriptures is the attainment of this state. All the vedas and vedangas were brought out by Ishwara at the beginning of the present cycle of creation. Since vedas are oceanic, Vedasara is Gayathri. Gayathri has two forms: ordianry and escoteric. The ordinary form is the well-known 24 lettered, tripaada gayathri. Only highly qualified sadhakas are granted the 8 lettered turiya pada of gayathri. Srividya is the second form of Gayathri which is escoteric.It is an incomparable way to nirvana and has to be obtained from Guru parampara. Each letter of Srividya has it's own class of meaningas and presiding deities, meter, color, etc. It is very necessary to chant a mantra with the complete knowledge of it's meaning. Varivasya Rahasya is a work that deals with the various meanings of the vidya. It proves with lucidity, the oneness of this vidya with all the upanishads and mahavakyas. It has two amshas or parts and has 107 verses.It is composed by the great siddha Bhaskararaya Makhin, with a commentary too called prakasha. (However in Kanchipuram i happened to come across a manuscript of this work, written in telugu, with some additional verses and another commentary on prakasha by some unknown author. This has 234 verses and I hear it is at present in Saraswathi Mahal library. Any one interested to read it can obtain a copy of my hand written copy.) Though the present work explains 8 various meanings of the vidya, a pious Namboodari from kerala has written a wonderful work which expalins the vidya in 108 ways.The great yogi of sringeri sharada peetham, Sri Sri Sachidananda Shivaabhinava Narasimha Bharathi Mahasannidhanam read this in detail and has sanctioned authenticity to it. Namo namaste kamakoti! Bhaskaracharya lived in 15 century A.D.He was born in Vishwamitra Gothra as the son of Gambheear raya and konamamba in a city called Bhaaga. He learnt 18 vidyas under narasimha adhwari. He inherited sharada upasana from his father in early childhood. He also learnt Gaudatarka from Gangadhara Bajapeyi. He resurrected the prominanace of Atharvaan Veda and re-popularized Devi Bhagavatham and Adhbhuta Kaandam of Ramayana. He defeated many followers of Vallabha and Madhwa pandits in debates and conducted somayaga in benares. He was inintiated into poornabhisheka by shivadatta shukla. He settled in Bhaskararajapuram, named after him by King of Tanjore. He attained mukti in Madhyarjuna. He has composed great works in vedanta-mimamsa- grammar-Bhasya-nyaya-kavya-smriti-stotra-veda and mantrashastra. His important works in Mantra shastra are : 1. khadyota-commentary to Ganapathi sahasra nama... 2. Chandarlaambaa mahatmya teeka.... 3. Naathanavaratnamaalaamanjooshaa.... 4. Bhavanopanishad 5. Bhasya.....shree sookta 6. bhasya.....kaulopanishad 7. bhasya....tripuropanishad 8. bhasya.....Saubhagyachandrodaya (commentary to saubhagya bahskara) 9. Tripurasundari Bahya varivasya (srichakra pooja manual).... 10. Ratnaaloka(commentary on Parashurama kalpa sutra) 11. Guptavathi(commentary on Durga sapthashathi) 12. Shatashlokee(essence of Chandi) 13. Malaamantroddhaar (collection of 15 Khadgamalas of RajaRajeshwari). 14. Saubhagya Bhaskara(commentary on Lalitaasahasranamam) 15. .VarivasyaRahsyam and Setubandham( commentary on nithyashodashikarnavam a part of vamakeshwara tantra) are examples of his superhuman literary skills wher in he quotes from all known scriptures and are called Prasthana trayam of Srividya. Namastripurasundaryai! devi_bhakta Thanks for the information on Bhaskararaya, the great exponent of Srividya -- for members unfamiliar with that system/sect, it is one of the more sophisticated and developed philosophies of Goddess worship. Bhaskararaya (c. 1675-1750) wrote the most prominent commentary on the "Devi Mahatmyam," Shaktism (Goddess Worship)'s answer to the Bhagavad Gita -- essentially its 'Bible' . He also wrote the greatest commentary on the "Sri Lalita Sahasaranama," another major scripture of Goddess worship. Our respected member, harshanand, is extremely knowledgeable on the details of his work. 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