Regarding Pratyangira

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Dear Sumant

 

I am not discouraging you to pursue the sadhana of Pratyangira. I am just

giving the pros and cons of this upasana. If you have qualified guru, you are

welcome to pursue this. But, first of all, one must understand the guru tatva

and who is fit to be called as gurus. In this cyber age, every tom, dick and

harry taking upadesa of panchadasi, shodasi claim to be srividya upasakas.

Without doing proper purascharana of gayatri, proper tarpana of panchadasi, bala

one should not even dare to approach Pratyangira, which is a kritya devata.

There are several mantras dedicated to this devi in Atharva veda which has to be

recited with proper svaras. Moreover, this upasana is pursued for atma raksha

and for abhicharika prayogas. (I think to do these prayogas one needs to have

mantra siddhi). And first of all, who is purna diksha guru now a days. Kanchi

maha periyavar one told me the essence of purna diksha. The sishya during the

process of purna diksha, experiences a

vision of himself alighted on a swan in sudha sagara of sahasrara where his

guru on another swan at chit chandramandala of sahasrara offering his helping

hand to this sishya. Thus, the guru offering his helping hand to sishya makes

him cross samsara sagara by after undergoing all the rites of purna diksha.

This sort of diksha vidhana is carried out from guru down to the sishya. And

during the course of this diksha, guru intitiates the sishya which is called

'Maha Vedha'. This arouses the kundalini piercing the shat chakras to chit

chandra mandala of sahasrara.

 

Now, tell me sumant, how many gurus are there who initiate the sishyas in this

order. Morever, Prayangira is not a moksha pradayani vidya unlike Lalitha.

This is not among dasa mahavidyas. Hence, cannot be considered equal to

Lalitha!!! The guru of Kalyanananda Bharati of sringeri virupaksha peeta was a

pratyangira sadhaka but could not attained siddhi and got adverse effects. The

siddhas of this upasana are few like Mouna swamigal of courtallam,

chidananthanatha of Guhananda Mandali etc.

 

First of all, how many of us are doing sincere upasana of sandhya without

doing prayaschita arghya pradhana. One should know one's limits and for this i

think one's atma is the saakshi.

 

Regards,

 

sriram

 

 

 

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Hi Venkat,

 

 

> The guru of

> Kalyanananda Bharati of sringeri virupaksha peeta

> was a pratyangira sadhaka but could not attained

> siddhi and got adverse effects.

 

I do not know their history, and hence these

questions: how did others recognize that they did not

attain siddhi? Who were able to determine certain

developments were adverse effects of such incomplete

sadhana?

I ask these because there were a few other such

incidences in the past 20 years I have heard and to

me, the statements have always been 'Gaali maathu' (as

they say in kannada) or words of mouth. I would really

like to know how these judegements were made and who

makes them? And, if the situations are genunine, how

one can differentiate between what happened in the

lives of Sri Ramakrishna and Ramana Maharishi..

 

Thanks,

 

-gopal

 

 

 

The siddhas of this

> upasana are few like Mouna swamigal of courtallam,

> chidananthanatha of Guhananda Mandali etc.

>

> First of all, how many of us are doing sincere

> upasana of sandhya without doing prayaschita arghya

> pradhana. One should know one's limits and for this

> i think one's atma is the saakshi.

>

> Regards,

>

> sriram

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