Who is a Shakta? A viewpoint....

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dear members ,

 

A very close friend of mine sent this to me via email to be posted

here.

 

It gives me great pleasure to share this with you all. This member

wishes to be anonymous.

 

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srim lalithayai namaha

(she is the inspiration,she is the knowledge she is the act and she

is the goal)

iccha shakti gyan shakti kriya shakti prapti shakti

 

Look all around you , Observe the simplest truth,the most simplest

and basic pure love is that between an mother and child.Look at all

the animals,they don't know what karma ,bondage means but did you

ever see in the mother's eyes the love and affection she offers to

her cubs/children.The cubs grow and leave their mother(she does not

expect reciprocation from them).

 

My existence in this world was through my mother's yoni,I was a

beeja,my mother nourished me ,fed me , i grew up and now i am

experiencing the world(mitya jagat) .Just ponder on this aspect,i was

just a miniscule seed among hundreds of my brothers and sisters,my

mother's yoni accepted me and nourished me, gave me life. My mother

is the primary deity to me , she is divine in the aspect that I

emanate from her.

 

Now consider this, the six mahavakyas( also known as brahma gyan),

aham brahmasmi,tat tvam asi,sarvam khalvidam brahma,prajnanam

brahma,hamsah soham,ayam atma brahma.

 

To a jnani,all these makes sense and his/she experiences the same .

 

To a layman like me, I don't know what brahman(the ultimate )

is ,because to know that is to experience that state.

In our limited minds,our restrictions of world and thought,the brahma

gyan is difficult to comprehend and experience.

 

Now, how to expound the utlimate truth to a ignorant fool like me who

does not know anything about the mindless state(beyond thought)?

 

Hmmm,how to explain the limitless state to a limited mind?How to

explain what form does the formless state exist in?

How to explain the purest form to a mind besieged with impurity( if

there is such a thing called impurity)?

 

Now, u draw parallel unto the prevailing state of mind,my limited

mind makes perceptions about what my eyes see,my eyes see pure

unconditioned love between a child and mother.Remember how happy we

were sleeping in our mothers bosom,no worries,no thoughts,nothing but

plain happiness and bliss.

 

Now,consider this,the act of sexual intercourse,when sambhavi and

sadashiva both merge into one another, u experience the same state,no

thoughts, no worries,undivided,nothing but plain happiness and

supremal bliss.

 

Now,the above states,primarily the bliss of being with my mother

suckling her milk and the bliss of union between shakti and shiva,

can be experienced by my limited mind,because at that moment there is

no mind, there is wonderful sensation and experience,this happens

through your entire body(at that moment u become one with

divine,because in both the acts,you are nourishing life in all it's

forms ,in fact in the second act you become god because you

procreate).

 

So I have two things to help me understand and experience what the

supremal bliss is all about,remember there could be many things(we

could have the sixty four kalas too),but the shakta philosophy takes

this two acts ,because it knows these two acts are the ones which

everybody like me can experience sometime in my lifetime( what is a

lifetime i don't know).

 

Since we all emanate from a yoni (the primordial place of birth),how

did this brahmanda evolve?I go to the root.

>From the verse in LS

 

"adhishakti ramaya atma,parama pavanaa kriti

aneka koti brahamanda janani divya vigraha"

 

I look at my mother ,I say the primordial shakti or mahayoni is

beautiful like my mother ,precisely she is jagat janani,

she must the most beautiful lady in the universe,that's why she

becomes mahatripurasundari,

she is always creating and nourishing,she has to be always young ,she

is always shodashi,Now when she can nourish and take care of her

progeny(brahmanda), she has to be lady of immense power ,so she is

mahashakti.

When in intercourse with sadashiva,she must be of immense sexual

energy,she is the utlimate,she becomes maha rati(ratirupa ratipriya)

 

and so the list goes on...

 

maharupa,mahapujya,mahapatakanasahini,mahamaya,mahasttatva,mahashakti,

maharati,mahabhoga,mahesvariya,mahavirya,mahabala,mahabhudir,mahasiddh

ir,mahayogesaishivari,maha mantra,maha tantra,maha yantra,mahasana.

 

So on contemplation of these forms,I feel extreme happiness and

bliss,thus,with simple acts,I feel divine,happy and beautiful

 

Since,i(consiousness)come from a yoni,the mahashakti is in form of

divine mother,i am experiencing the limitless state through

her,that's why u say female form divine.

 

She helps me to be the known,knower,the knowledge iccha shakti,gyan

shakti,kriya shakti svarupini.She is mokshapradayini, and

brahmagyanpradayani

 

The shakta philosophy is breaking the traditional way of knowing the

unknown through abstinence,penance,celibacy,its a way of knowing the

unknown by experiencing and feeling.

 

You chose tantra because with your body,mind ,u can feel divine.The

shakta philosophy is not about being male or female,it's is the path

to the ultimate satyam as,illustrated by this verse

 

purnam ada,purnam idam ,purnaat,purnam udhyachate,purnasya,purnam

adhaya,purnam eva vasisyate.

 

The whole is this,the whole is me,the whole is that,the whole is

everywhere , from the whole take the whole,to the whole add the

whole,yet the whole remains.

 

If we deliberate on the symbols depicting the picture,how can we

understand the true meaning of the whole picture?They say right,a

thing of beauty is a joy forever (but beauty lies in the eyes of the

beholder,which is again a play of perceptions)

 

Look at the complete picture from the jigsaw puzzle, don't deliberate

on the jigsaw puzzle pieces.

 

That's what I meant about breaking the shackles of thought and

looking within for answers.

 

The true way of understanding is letting go,letting go of the

tantras,letting go of cognition,letting go of mantras,and she will

provide the answers to things you already know ,but cannot comprehend

because of the hidden nature of things .

 

And when u reach there, nothing needs to known.

 

 

Srividya ----> brahma vidya ----> sat chit ananda

om aim hrim srim aim

klim souh sri aham brahmasmi silence void nothingness

mahatripurasundariyai

namo namaha

 

om shiva shaktyeka rupine namaha.

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well, quite refreshing , is not it? what do you all think? I loved

every word of it.