Skandagurunatha and Srividya!(Lord Muruga and srividya worship)

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Dear Kaumaras and kaumaaris,

aaras Kaumaaris,

 

The First-born Son of Shiva-Shakti grew from Rudra’s fiery seed that fell into Gangama, and was known as Skanda.He is Karttikeya: too intense for Shri Ganga to bear, he was consigned to the rushes on her bank (cf. Moses).Rudra-Shiva is guardian of the Unmanifest, and the conception of Manifestation was accidental. That first conception was perfect and pure ~ a virgin birth of a perfect reality ~ and from the inert expanse of perfect Ideas (the Mind of God, and the very body of Lord Shiva) is born the perfect incarnation, the ideal form, the physical form of the Ideal, an Avatara.Shiva and Shakti remain in eternal coitus; but in worldly legend, the device of Spilled (Skanda) Seed (Bija) preserves the maidenhood of the Devi. That fiery Bija is the Pranava, a product of Shiva's

great Tapasya, which was deposited into Shri Ganga. Her immortal flow could not actually bear its intense heat; and to preserve Her own perfection, Skanda was driven to Her side, where he dwelled in the vegetation until his true nature was recognized by the six Karttikas, who kindled his light and raised the youthful spark up to a blazing reality.The six Matrikas (recognized as Adityas and known as the Karttika sisters, whose constellation rules the harvest month of Karttika) were sent to kill infant Skanda; although, lactating at his sight, they nursed him, and named him Karttikeya, who became the six-headed commander of the legions of Rudra. The Matsya-Purana (c. 1000 AD) lists some 190 bloodthirsty

Matrikas, created by Shiva to defeat the demon Andhaka. Karttikeya became the supreme commander of this hysterical host. His emblem is the blue-necked peacock, and it is perhaps amalgamation with the Karttikeya-cult (which was presumably not achieved without conflict) that gave Shiva his blue throat (Nilakantha).The Adityas are generally counted as six or seven. Six is the number of spatial cardinals (East, West, North, South, Zenith, and Nadir); and, just as the Prime number 5 is reserved for Shiva. the estoric seventh point at the heart of this six-fold symmetry came to be understood as the transcendent seat of Shakthi.In Yoga, the Son becomes the equal of his Father, since their Light is ultimately One Light. Shiva and Skanda are but the source of light and the light itself; both the sacrificial fire and its essential nature, which are an effectively inseparable conjoined twin. And Shakti is Power ~ the Power of transformation, without which the Vision could not be made Flesh ~ so that all three of the Father, the Mother, and the Child, together frame the original nuclear family.

Karttikeya, just like his father, has a connexion with Keshin, and it is the action of the potent poison of all the worlds’ evil, which was churned from the primal ocean by Vayu (the Wind, father of the ancient storm-god Rudra) that is often given in explanation of Nilakantha Shiva, who held the venom in his throat and survived.Shiva, Shakti, and Skanda, are but three forms of essential Fire, or Agni; and Agni is Rudra, and both Agni and Rudra are known as Tryambaka. The Mahabharata mentions Rohitaka (modern Rohtak District, in Haryana) as the home of Karttikeya, who was tutelary deity of the

ferocious orgiastic Mattamayuraka tribe (Matta = Drunk).Although Karttikeya has received orthodox acceptance and royal patronage, his cultic origins have been retained by the Kanphata (Split Ear ~ from their initiatory insertion of large Kundala through the centre of each ear) Yogins, who worship the Samadhi of Mastnatha (Intoxicated Lord) at Astal Bohar, near Rohtak. Every night, three huge pipes are prepared for Mahayogi Mastnatha and his two assistants, and I am assured that every morning they are found to have been fully smoked. The Panjab Census Report (1891) described their annual Mela (Fair) as disreputable.

 

 

Skanda is a great srividya upasaka. Infact there is a Skaandeya srividya worship of which he is the head.

 

The panchadasi mantras which were done by Lord Muruga is spelt out in texts like Mantramahodhahdi and mmantra maharnava which I had the pleasure to peruse during my sanskrit studies in Chennai as a hobby.

 

Yours yogically and very skandically,

Subodha

 

 

 

Purity, Powers, Parabrahmam...

 

 

 

 

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