Bala Mahamantra - 1

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Jaya Jaya Shankara !

 

Namastripurasundaryai !

 

Namo chandramouleeshwaraaya !

 

Namo Narasimhaaya !

 

Bala Tripurasundari,verily the same as Mahatripurasundari, is the wondrous

delight of consciousness which is supreme and unsurpassable. She is Parashakti,

Paramashiva, Parabrahman, the supreme beautitudeor ultimate reality to be

realised by vigorous and constant practice of the supreme srividya. Supreme

conciousness is Shiva and Shakti, Jnana and kriya, Prakasha and Vimarsha. Shiva

and shakti are two only by connotation and by denotion they are one and the same

reality. Prakasha is light. It is the illumintion or the knowledge as the nature

of the self, predominated by shiva bhava. Vimarsha literally means thinking or

ideation. It's potentiality is calle shakti. It should be clearly noted that

there is no material activity here, everything is mental.Vimarsha conists in

completely withdrawingoneself from all voluntary thinking. A spontaneous

thinker, is at the same time , a natural spectator(saakshi) of his mind. This

leads to Sahaja Samaadhi, undisturbed equipose .

 

The very form of Tripura refers to the primal energy Parasakthi, transcending

the three divinities Kali(Shiva),Lakshmi(Narayana) and Saraswathi(Brahma) who

represent the three fold manifestation. This Parasakthi is the divine power of

the transcendent master, Kameshwara, unconditionally inseperable from

Parashakti. Tripura is the spreme consciousness that illumines the three states

of wking,sleep and dream in the microcosm and Bhuh-Bhuvah-svah in the macrocosm.

She is the luster of the supreme spirit perceived in the three spots in the

body, forehead,head and the heart, depicting Her powers of knowledge,volition

and activity, experienced by the devotee during meditation or worship.

 

Parasakthi, depicted as Laghu Srividya in the form of Bala Tripura, has three

inherent powers- Ichha sakthi, Jnana sakthi and kriya sakthi, explained in

triple symbolism of Poojasamketa-Chakrasamketa and Mantrasamketa. I will refrain

from talking about Poojasamketa which in itself would require a seperate post.

 

Chakrasamketa : Goddess Tripura bears in the centre of the forehead,splendour of

Jnana sakthi(power of knowledge). Forehead refers to Ajna chakra, the place of

concentration for the yogis. The first evident appearance of Paraamba is in the

knowledge aspect. Manifestation begins with souns, anaahata naada, expressed

first in the vedas. Thence, all kinds of knowledge take the form of activity.

The forehead, situated between the heart and the head, is the junction of all

nerves. All inherent powers of Jnana shakti are present here predominantly.

 

Mantrasamketa : Primorodial knowledge is expressed through universal sound,

" Sabdabrahman " . This sound gets thick and becomes audible through the three

vedas. The first mantra of Rigveda begins with 'a' and that of Yajurveda with

'i'. 'a' + 'i' gives the souns 'ae'. Samaveda starts with 'a' again. This

finally gives rise to the sound 'ai'. Syllable 'ai' thus represents th three

vedas. This connotes the existance-knowledge-bliss(sat-chit-ananda) aspects of

Brahman.To express the non-dual parabrahman, the final import of the vedic

traid, Bindu is added to 'ai', forming the Maha mantra 'AIM'. This being the

combination of letters from 'a' to 'am' ,governs all sounds. Thus, the

shiva-shakti one, non-dual parabrahman Mahatripurasundari, as Balambika, in her

knowledge aspect is represented by the saraswatha bija mantra " AIM " . The first

appearnce of speech(vak) being pashyanti, concentration on the bija should be on

Ajnachakra between the brows.

 

The place of Kundalini, when active towards manifestation, is the pelvic

plexux(mooladhara) in the human body. She is called Adahkundalini. The three

main nerves Ida-Pingala-Sushumna originate here and are together called Yuktha

Triveni. When the kundalini is awakened by the great mantra and guru's grace,

she moves like lightnening towards Brahmarandhra, at medulla plexus. She is now

OOrdhwakundalini. Ida and Pingala merge in Sushumna to form Mukta triveni.

Kundalini is the yoni, the place of emnation of all kinds of energy. She is of

the nature of subtle kandarpa vayu and not the gross Prana vayu. The bija Aim,

written in sanskrit represents a triangle. This triangle is full of the

power-points of knowledge,will and activity, with predominance of the knowledge

aspect. With a central bindu, it is a very poerful,forceful bija mantra, which

when received from a mantra siddha samradayavit Sadguru and repeated,

concentrating the traditional way, surely awakens the kundalini.

 

 

 

 

 

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Thank You Harshanand for the message.

 

For members who are interested in MAA LALITHA TRIPURASUNDARI

 

I am giving the links to Loknath Maharaj's site ShivaShakthi Mandalam

(Hindu Tantric Home Page). Loknath Maharaj is an experienced Tantric

practioner who has translated a number of Sanskrit texts into

English. Chowkamba Prakasan the famous publisher of religious books

in Sanskrit has published his books. Visit the main page, which

contains a number of links to SriVidya tradition like Bavanopanishad,

Nyasas, Sanskrit Texts etc. etc. with images of MAA and Sri Yantra

This site is a valuable source for any Saktha.

 

Main Page:

http://www.shivashakti.com

 

MAA LALITHA:

http://www.shivashakti.com/tripura.htm

 

Another site about SriVidya is

 

RajaRajeswari Peetam - New york

 

http://www.srividya.org

 

Excellent site with Flash images, lots of links, Bhajans to download.

Site with a South Indian flavour.

 

Happy Sivarathri to all the members.

 

Sankar