Meru

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Dear members

Can anyone tell me about the importance of Meru worship in SriVidya

upasana and how its related to Kundalini. And if you know anywebsite

giving info about these please let me know.

 

 

Thanks in advance

Ganesh Deivasikhamani

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Namaskar,

 

Ganesh wrote:

>>Can anyone tell me about the importance of Meru worship in SriVidya

upasana<<

 

The worship of Sriyantra forms a heart piece of Srividya worship. There are

three forms of Sriyantra, viz. flat, half-meru and meru. The half-meru and

meru are 3 dimensional Sriyantras, the meru having higher steps than the

half-meru, making it pyramid like rather than halfround.

The sriyantra has been shown in experiments with conversion of sound into

form to be the form of the sound Om.

Every part of a yantra is charged with the subtle divine energies of the

bija-mantra that creates it. In Srividya's Sriyantra worship we make

offerings to the shaktis residing in the different parts of the Sriyantra,

viz. the 8 directions of each of the square enclosures, the lotus-pedals and

each of the 43 triangles, around the innermost triangle, in it and in the

bindu.

The Sriyantra is also a diagram of creation, in which the Divine Mother, the

original Shakti manifests Herself in ever grosser and more diverse forms

which the basis and very structure of creation, which, whether you look at

it from the standpoint of Advaita Vedanta or of the Tantras, is but a form

of That Energy.

The purpose of the worship of the rows of shaktis in Sriyantra, proceeding

from the outer enclosures to the centra, is to internalise and remerge the

energies starting from the grossest to the most subtle, to Herself who is

the Bindu-maNDala-vaasinii, Parabrahma-svaruupiNii, Mahaa-Tripurasundari.

>> and how its related to Kundalini. <<

 

The steps of the Mehru are correlated with the chakras in the body during

nyaasa, as well as in antaryaaga. Different traditions of Srividya differ

slightly in this. The one e.g., followed in the Kanchi Kamakoti Kamakshi

Temple, says that below Muladhara there are two more chakras, one being

called Kulasahasraara, the second viSusaMGYa. The bhuupura (three square

enclosures) then correspond to the kula-sahasraara, the 16-dala-padma to

viSusaNGYa, the 8-dala-padma to mUlAdhAra, the 8-trikona to svAdhiSThAna,

the outer 10-trikona to maNipUra, the inner 10-trikona to anAhata, the

8-trikona to vishuddhi, the innermost trikona to lambikAgra (situated at the

hight of the vulva), and bindu to AGYA. The (akula)-sahasraara corresponds

to the turIya, beyond bindu.

>>And if you know anywebsite

giving info about these please let me know<<

 

I'll check it up. I have seen a magazine of Srividya Peetha in NY state

giving details. Their system is a little different of course. I know they

are on the net, but I'm not aware, whether they publish these things on the

net. I saw the magazine at a priests house in Kanchi. so I don't know

whether they distribute it freely. I also have to search out the web-address

again.

 

 

Om Om Om

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> I'll check it up. I have seen a magazine of Srividya Peetha in NY state

> giving details. Their system is a little different of course. I know they

> are on the net, but I'm not aware, whether they publish these things on the

> net. I saw the magazine at a priests house in Kanchi. so I don't know

> whether they distribute it freely. I also have to search out the web-address

> again.

 

namaste

 

If you are mentioning about the Sri Rajarajeshwari Peetam, their

address http://www.srividya.org/ and they their magazine online. I have

not visited their site in the recent past though. Besides this shrI

chaitanyananda, has a huge library according to the page. Must be quite

a valuable resource. I remember reading that his guru in Andhra Pradesh

has built (or building) an meru temple. Page has the details. They also

have book called shrIvidya pUjA vidhAnam in Tamil for 50 dollars in US

(which I have). You can find upto-date info in the page. They may have

the sahasranamam-s which you enquired about.

 

Ravi

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I found the magazine in publications at the website, but only 2 very old

issues, and when I tired to download them, one was not linked to a file, the

other gave all jumble except the few lines below. The true magazine is at

least 80 or 100 pages of detailed text and full of illustrations.

 

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Please check out the Peetam's page on the World Wide Web

 

HYPERLINK http://www.srividya.org http://www.srividya.org

 

As you know the production of the Sri Chakra Malar is a costly undertaking,

please send us an e-mail to HYPERLINK peetam

peetam if you can receive the malar as an attachment. This

will save both in paper and postal fees.

Thank you.

 

 

Regular Services:

Friday: Puja and Bhajan at 8:00 PM

Thursday: Abhishekam for Devi at 8:00 PM

Other Days: Puja at 7:00 PM

 

Subscription:

To receive issues of this journal, please contact us:

Sri Rajarajeswari Peetam,

6980 E.River Road, Rush NY 14543

Fax No: (716)272-9516

E-mail: HYPERLINK Peetam Peetam

WWW: HYPERLINK http://www.srividya.org http://www.srividya.org

 

The Journal of the Sri Rajarajeshwari Peetam, Rochester, N.Y.

Blossom 9, Petal 1 Agrahanya, Dhatru (December, 1996)

 

Devotees at the Adi Parashakthi Peetam

Bangalore, India

 

SRI CHAKRA

The Source of the Cosmos

 

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Raviji wrote:

> If you are mentioning about the Sri Rajarajeshwari Peetam, their

> address http://www.srividya.org/ and they their magazine online.

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Dear Ravi and Lotus?(If I can know your name better)

 

Many thanks for giving me useful information on Meru. I have visited

Vidya.org but the stuff given there are very introductory. They also have

book published mainly on Meru and Srividya.

Anyway the good news is that I was presented with the following books from

my Guru Sree Saradhananda Bharathi of Saradha Peetam. They are in tamil and

give the full details about Sree Vidya Puja worship.

 

The title is 'Sree Vidya Nithyanu Santhanam' by InjiKollai Y.V. Sashtri and

You can get the copy under the following address

InjiKollai Y.V. Sashtri

"Sri Chinthamani"

"Sri Nath Flats"

20/8,Postal colony I street,

West Mambalam,

Madras-33.

 

Another book is 'Sree DashaMaha Vidya Sree Lalithambika Maha Yaga kramam'

Published by

SriBalanandaSuvasini Mandali Shishyaikagal'

67,West Ponnurangam Street,

R.S.Puram Coimbatore -641 002.

Ph:432087.

 

wonderful books I am currently going thro this.

I am also currently practising the NavaVarna Kirtans of Sri MuthuSwamy

Dishkitar.

If anybody know how this NavaVarna Kirtans was composed and its importance

that will be of great help to me , going by the name i assume it is on

Nava-Varana Devi.All the songs start with

'Sri Kamalambika'

 

"SriKundaliKumari Kutile Chandi Charasara savithri Chamundi

GuniniGuharini Guhey Gurumurthey Thuvaam Namami Kamakshi"

 

thanks

OM Deviyai Namah

Ganesh

 

 

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Ganesh Deivashikamani wrote:

>

> Dear Ravi and Lotus?(If I can know your name better)

>

 

Dear Ganesh,

 

Thanks for you note and my namaskarams to you. Lotus is the e-mail ID of

svAmi vishvarUpananda of Omkarananda Ashram (HQ at Rishikesh). Svamiji

is a shrI vidya upasaka and very helpful. In fact, svAmiji is also a

co-administrator of this list. They have their page at

http://www.geocities.com/~omkara/

 

 

Book published by www.srividya.org is 650+ pages and has a lot of

details. It has many aShtorams and also lalitA and mahAshodashI

sahasranamam.

 

I have read very little on shrIchakra, and I know next to nothing on

this subject. The commentaries on lalitAsahsranAma also throw some light

on meru (refer the names sumerumadhyashR^ingastha and meru nilaya).

There is excellent commentary published by Ammachi Publications in

English which quite faithfully follows bhAskararAya's commentary

(www.ammachi.org).

 

Some of the intricate details of shrIchakram is described in

uttarapIThika of trishatI by Lord hayagrIva ( who is the AdhAram for all

vidya-s) to sage agastya. He explains what is shakti akSharam, what is

shivAkSharam, what is ubhayAkSharam; also what is shakti chakram, shiva

chakram, how they correspond to each other. IT IS A MUST READ for all

shrIvidyopAsaka-s.

 

Besides this I have heard that bhAvanopaniShad makes an eloborate

comparison of shrIchakra with human body. But I have not read it.

 

The word merudhaNDa means spinal cord. In the sUkShma body of a person

(not in the sthoola), the spinal cord enshrines the sacred chakra-s. May

be the three dimensionality of the meru, is a hint to indicate this.

Besides this I know little about the significance of meru over flat

shrIchakra and I am quite eager to learn it.

 

 

AUM shrImAtre namaH

 

With respects,

Ravi

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Shri Ganesh wrote:

>>If anybody know how this NavaVarna Kirtans was composed and its importance

that will be of great help to me , going by the name i assume it is on

Nava-Varana Devi.All the songs start with

'Sri Kamalambika'<<

 

 

Each of the Kirtans is corresponding to one step on the meru-shriyantra. You

will be able to follow this up when I give you the names of the avarnas and

their presiding cakreshvari:

 

the 3 square enclosures:

trailokya-mohana-cakra; tripura-cakreshvari

 

16-pedaled lotus:

sarvaashaa-paripuuraka-cakra; tripureshi-cakreshvari

 

8-pedaled lotus:

sarva-sa~NxobhaNa-cakra; tripurasundari-cakreshvari

 

14 triangles:

sarva-saubhaagya-daayaka-cakra; tripura-vaasini-cakreshvari

 

outer 10 triangles:

sarvaartha-saadhaka-cakra; tripuraashrii-cakreshvari

 

inner 10 triangles:

sarva-raxaakara-cakra; tripura-maalinii-cakreshvari

 

8 triangles:

sarva-roga-hara-cakra; tripuraasiddhaa-cakreshvari

 

inner triangle:

sarva-siddi-prada-cakra; tripuraamaa-cakreshvari

 

bindu:

sarvaanandamaya-cakra; mahaa-tripurasundari-cakreshvari

 

Om Om Om

Vishvarupa