Installation of the Deity

[Guest guest]

Namaste again; sorry to breach Netiquette with so many successive

posts within a few hours, but -- with regards to the "worship of

human beings" thread -- I thought I'd share another interesting

narrative from my correspondent, who has expressed a desire to remain

anonymous:

 

"In this context you must also understand the Tantric installation of

dieties (statue, picture, or what have you), because the whole

process is repeated when you are worshipping another individual.

 

"Initially what you put in the sanctum sanctorum is but a piece of

stone or metal. Then the Tantrika who is installing the deity goes in

and sits in meditation in front of the deity, and imagines the cosmos

to the very end of all the galaxies. And then you slowly reduce the

Universe to your own galaxy; a sort of folding inward. Then the

galaxy is reduced to the solar system and thence to earth and thence

to the country and thence to the immediate environs of the place of

the temple, thence to the boundary of the temple and thence to the

sanctum sanctorum; and thence to the Kundalini in the mooladhara of

the installer. There it is visualised as a flame inside a lotus.

 

An external lotus is taken (a real one), a lamp is held on it, and

then you join the flame in the kundalini with that your hand. You

raise the flame in your moolaadhara to the hrit chakra and then take

it out of there to join with the real flame Then you imagine a

similar flame in the mooladhara of the diety, and that too is raised

to the hrit chakra. And the flame in diety's hrit chakra is taken out

and joined with the real flame (there are mantras being recited

during all this which helps the visualization).

 

Thus, the flame – that is, the Universe, including everything – is

one. There is only one flame; then from that flame you install the

flame at the hrit chakra of the diety with Mudras. Then you reinstall

the fame in the installer's heart chakra, and it goes back to the

mooladhara, and then the Universe flame is taken out and re-expanded

to the very edges of the Universe. Before all this, the Nyasas are

performed on the installer and the diety simultaneously. Thus the

installer is the devata and it is from the installer that the

universe is installed in the diety. Rather interesting, eh?"

 

Aum Maatangyai Namahe