Regarding Bala Tripurasundari

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Respected Lalitha,

 

I won’t delve deep into the esoteric sense of the bala mantra as this has to

be learnt directly from guru since srividya is a guptha vidya.

 

But for your academic interest, I am sharing my information with you. For

further reading please refer “Kamakalavilasa”.

 

Entire cosmos is a product of Nada and Teja ie., Sound and Illumination. Nada

is Vimarsa swarupa which is called Sakti and Teja is Illumination which is Siva

Swarupa. Vimarsa is also called Para-Sakti ie., the power which is of the form

of Para – Nada swarupa with Parama Siva. Entire seed of creation is in Para

Nada which is held by Siva who is called Prakasa. When there is creation, this

Para becomes Pashyanti. Pashyanti becomes Madhyama. Madhyama becomes Vaikhari.

And lo! the entire creation shines before us in the form of 50 Matrikas (16

vowels & 34 consonants).

 

So, the Para Nada along with Parama Siva when thinks of becoming many becomes

Pashyanti (Aim); Pashyanti becomes Madhyama (Klim) and Madhyama becomes Vaikhari

(Sauh). This Sauh projects forth entire 36 principles of creation which is this

entire cosmos.

 

Since, this Para Nada is Kameshwari and Parama Siva is Kameshwara, the Purana

says that Bala is the daughter of this divine pair.

 

Now, the job of upasaka is to revert back his mind towards this divine pair

Kameswari-Kameswara. That is, with intense Karma Anushtana he has to cleanse

his mind so that the mind which is by nature extrovert has to be introvert for

Antarmukha Samaradhana. Now, the Bala Mantra comes to the rescue of this

upasaka.

 

He has to constantly reflect on Viloma – Anuloma (reverse order) to make the

extrovert mind introvert. And hence, mind has to be brought back to source from

36 principles to the Para. This is the secret of Anuloma upasana.

 

Bala Upasaka has to reflect on:

 

Aham Brahma Asi : Brahmaiva Aham Asmi. (Bala Viloma + Anuloma)

 

By constant reflection on this bhava, the Bala Mantra makes the upasaka

determined for release from Bondage of Samsara (phenomenal existence). When this

bhava of intense vairagya arises in his mind, he is given the upadesa of

 

Saubhagya Panchadasi, Shodasi, Maha Paduka, Guru Traya blah. Blah………..dikshas.

 

Hence, Bala mantra is laghu srividya which is most essential for the upasakas

to get a kick off in the srividya upasana marga. Without Bala mantra anushtana,

one should not dare to take initiations of other vidyas like chandi, etc….

 

I would like to mention specially that Sri Tadepalli Raghava Narayana Sastry

of Tenali, Guntur district, a verily sridevi in human form worshipped Bala and

got the mantra siddhi.

 

Inspite of his upasana in srividya, he never missed his Sakala Sandhya

Vandana, Nitya Agnihotra, Brahma Yagya, Vaisvadeva, Nitya Veda Parayana. Never,

he missed his Trikala Sandhya Vandana. Never in his life, he performed

Prayaschita Arghya during the Sandhya Vandana.

 

Such is the power of bala mantra. She protects our Nitya Karma Anushtana and

sees that her children would not become Karma Bhrashtas!!!

 

The Aksha Mala in her hand stands for Karma Anushtana and Pushtaka stands for

Karma Anushtana Siddhi rupa Jnana.

 

With regards,

sriram

 

 

 

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