Without shakti, shiva is shava!

[Guest guest]

This article is specially for all, but i would personally like to

dedicate it to those who insulted shakti and undermined HER and her

devotees/bhaktans.

 

I Hope you read it, since you like to read and would like to know the

source, the source of this article is taken from shivashakti web.

It has huge and rich collection of information on santana dharma.

 

Hope it fullfills your hunger and i hope to those (CERTAIN) people, i

will pray so that awareness would sink in. Ego(For Having Knowledge) and

Pride (For Thinking His Way/Path As The Ultimate and All Others Paths As

Inferior)is a sure way for not progressing and going through

soul-spiritual evolution.

 

May The Divine Mother Grants HER LOVE to all.

 

A Humble Appology If In Any Way, My Words May Have Wonded Anyone.

Shri Nathanavaratnamalika

Even Shiva bereft of Kundalini Shakti becomes a corpse (Shava) - Devi

Bhagavata

 

This tiny Sanskrit work, the rosary or garland of the nine gems of the

Nathas, is found in the 1953 Ganesh & Co version of Sir John Woodroffe's

translation and text of the work on Shri Vidya Kamakalavilasa. Ascribed

to Maheshanatha, the text includes a commentary by the renowned Shri

Vidya upasaka Bhaskararaya (Bhasuranandanath).

 

The briefness of the text, reproduced in iTrans format below but without

Bhaskaraya's commentary, belies its importance, as it deals with the

number symbolism of nine and how this relates to the 21,600 breaths a

human is supposed to take in a day, as well as the identity of these

with the matrikas, or letters of the Sanskrit alphabet, the Shri Yantra,

and time itself.

 

As the first shloka says, Hamsah is the gayatri mantra

<http://www.shivashakti.com/gayatri.htm> produced by the breathing, and

this is one with the unconscious recitation of the mantra so.aha.m,

pervading all human beings.

 

Sir John Woodroffe says in a commentary to his translation of the

Anandalahari (Wave of Bliss), published in 1916: "Shiva can do nothing

without Shakti which is of threefold aspect of Iccha (will), Jnana

(knowledge) and Kriya (action). The author here speaks of the Mantra

Hamsah. Ham is the Bija of Shiva and Sah that of Shakti. Ham+Sah =

Hamsah = Sah+Ham = So Ham = So'Ham = Sa+Aham, So Ham being Sah+Ham =

Shakti+Shiva; if S and H be eliminated therefrom there remains Ong or Om

the Pranava..."

 

The Navanaths of the title of this work are, in the Tantrarajatantra,

linked to the nine orifices of the human body, and to the nine mandalas

of the Shri Yantra.

 

As a human being, in these schools, is considered as a microcosm, the

in-breathing and the out-breathing symbolise the creation and the

dissolution of the universe. The realisation of Ha+Sa, Sun and Moon,

Shiva and Shakti, in-breathing and out-breathing is to become one with

the universe itself.

 

But this, according to these schools, cannot be achieved without a yogic

understanding of the other effects of the wheel of time, one, as the

Yoginihridaya states, with the mandalas of the Shri Chakra, the letters

of the alphabet (sound/mantra), and the Shaktis or attendants of the

goddess.

 

Some of these Shaktis, as the introduction to the

Malinivijayottaratantra <http://www.shivashakti.com/malini.htm> have

the function of preventing such a realisation, while others foster this.

Further, according to various texts and commentaries of Kashmir

Shaivism, ignorance and other defects also prevent the realisation of

one's essential unity with Shiva-Shakti. The normal course of creation

is pravritti, an expansion or flowing outward. The sadhaka is to

cultivate nivritti, ulta sadhana - a reverse movement, or kaya sadhana -

cultivation of the body.

 

This may have little or much to do with ritual worship (puja), which if

performed without an inner realisation of the principles it embodies is

considered to be mummery.

 

The different nyasas of the Shri Vidya tradition are intended to bring

to a sadhaka the realisation of his or her essential unity with the

matrikas, with the constellations (rashi) planets (graha) which includes

the Sun and the Moon) and the 27 asterisms (nakshatra), and breath

itself.

 

Practical ways to achieve this realisation are reputed to be the inner

tradition of sadhana taught in some schools, and which may include a

number of different methods. Some of these may require an intense

struggle because an individual, not realising that she or he is

Shiva-Shakti, instead identifies with partial aspects or Shaktis.

 

The Tantrarajatantra hints at some of these methods, such as the way the

grahas or planets influence the breath and therefore prevent this

realisation as they affect the musculature and other parts of the human

bionergetic web. Freeing oneself from these misidentifications also

frees up the natural flow of Pranashakti (herself one with the supreme

Devi), in the body.

 

A teacher who understands the movement of these currents (nadis) and the

relationship between the wheel of time (Kalachakra), divinity, and the

body itself is said to be a requisite in these different tantrik

schools.