Matrika shakti?

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i would like to share with you something om 'matrika shakti' ...

 

Matrika (the power of sound inherent in the letters of the alphabet)

is the source of limited knowledge.

Shiva Sutra 1.4

 

When Parashakti - who is also called Citi Bhagavati, the universal

Consciousness - limits Herself, She manifests in the form of matrika,

the group of letters, or sound-syllables. Matrika is the cause of

one's pain and pleasure. all the thoughts and feelings that arise in

the mind - happiness and unhappiness, desire, agitation, love,

expectation, and jealousy - are the work of matrika. Neither

language, nor terminology, nor poetry, nor scriptures, nor words of

praise and blame can pass beyond the world of letters.

 

Matrika arises from the heart, from the inner speech. There are four

levels of speech corresponding to the four bodies. Everyone is aware

of the speech of the tongue. It is called vaikhari and corresponds to

the gross body. With the subtle intellect, one can also know the

second level of speech, which is in the throat. There, words have

taken form but have not yet emerged. This level is called madhyamah

and corresponds to the subtle body. At a deeper level, words exist in

the heart. This is the third level of speech, pashyanti, which

corresponds to the causal body. Here, words are hidden, and what

arises at this level is matrika. Beneath this level, parah, which

corresponds to the supracausal body. Some say that parah is in the

navel region, but in actuality this subtlest level of speech pervades

everywhere. Since it is all-pervading, it can be known anywhere.

Matrika has its source in the parah level.

 

Letters combine to form a word - for example, m-a-n-g-o becomes

mango. Each word has its own meaning, the meaning creates its own

image, and that image has its own feeling.

 

Whenever an image is created in the mind, one experiences an emotion,

whether it is happiness or unhappiness, friendship or enmity. For

example, if I call someone a fool, the letters come together and

compose words, the words compose a sentence, the sentence has it's

own meaning and the meaning creates it's own image. When I utter a

sentence "That girl is a fool," it strikes her, and a painful and

angry feeling arises in her mind.

 

Matrika creates infinite images. If one doesn't identify with the

images or their objects, one doesn't experience suffering.

 

Matrika is the source, not only of our pleasure and pain but of this

entire universe. This world has arisen from the sound-syllables of

the Sanskrit alphabet, which are nothing but matrika. Just as it

creates the outer world, matrika creates infinite inner worlds.

Different feelings arise in the heart, and the individual soul keeps

moving among these feelings throughout it's life, experiencing pain

and pleasure. Day and night, the matrika shakti creates these things

within us. Even when we sleep, it doesn't sleep. It is alive even in

the savikalpa state of samadhi, the samadhi with thought. It dies

only when one attains the state of thoughtlessness, nirvikalpa

samadhi.

 

Matrika is the source of the three malas, the impurities that cause

knowledge to become contracted. Due to anavamala, one feels

imperfect; due to mayiyamala, one becomes lost in duality; and due to

karmayamala, one becomes caught up in the fruit of one's good and bad

actions. Instead of understanding that one is the Self, one

understands oneself to be a mere human being. One feels, "I am a

man,I am a priest,I am a woman,I am thin," and in this way,

one makes oneself small. In the inner space, matrika shakti creates

letters and one experiences them. One begins to dwell in them, one

becomes infatuated with them, and as a result, one performs actions

in this world. This is worldliness.

 

However, just as matrika helps us to contract, it also helps us to

expand ourselves. The moment one understands the matrika shakti and

its work, one is no longer a human being. When the matrika shakti

expands within, in this very body, one becomes Shiva.

 

Sit quietly and watch the play of matrika shakti. Watch how the

matrika gives rise to letters, how the letters compose words, how the

meaning of the words compose images in the mind; watch how you become

involved in these images.

 

The yogi pursues matrika shakti; he watches it and makes it steady.

He brings it under his control, he manipulates it any way he likes.

He turns evil thoughts into good thoughts. The matrika shakti works

according to his will. Such a yogi is called a conqueror of the

senses.

 

One who understands the play of matrika shakti and makes it still

rises above pain and pleasure. One cannot attain peace as long as he

is driven by the play of matrika shakti. For this reason, one has to

practice yoga. Through yoga, the movements of the mind are stilled

and the power of matrika is overcome.

 

An exerpt from the Shiva Sutras 'Nothing Exists That Is Not Siva'

by Swami Muktananda - A Siddha Yoga Publication

Published by Syda Foundation

 

 

om shree matrayaii namaha