slokas 73 - 75 of LS uthara bhaga

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How should one interpret the slokas 73 to 75 of LS uthara bhaga?

 

na kashchidhapi.....yenAnyadevathAnama kIrthitham janmakOtishu ..73

tasyaiva bhavathi ...charme janmane yatha srividyOpAsko bhaveth ..74

 

does it imply that everyone who is now a Srividya upasaka or chants LS is

guaranteed to be in their last birth?

 

regards

Vishwam

 

 

 

 

 

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There are 4 chief components in Srividya ie., Guru (dIkSha guru), Mantra

(panchadasi), Devata (tripurasundari) & Atma (upasaka).

 

Among these 4 components, there is a common underlying principle. In other

words, the same *utkriShTa tattva* when takes the mAnava sarIra becomes Guru;

the same *utkriShTa tattva* when takes the form of nAda becomes the mantra; the

same *utkriShTa tattva* when takes the form of mAya-sabaLa-brahma becomes

devata; the same *utkriShTa tattva* shines as antarAtma in the hridya akasa of

the Jiva.

 

This sort of chaturvidha-aikhya-bhAvana of Guru, Mantra, Devata & Antaratma is

called as *Srividya Upasana* (vide reference Saubhagya Bhaskara of Shri

Bhaskararaya Makhin).

 

The *visualization* and *experience* of such unified principle among these 4

components is the *Srividya Upasana Siddhi*.

 

To such a Srividya Upasaka Siromani, after having experienced his *prArabha

karma*, sheds his mortal coil and leaves for Manidwipa - the above of

Tripurasundari never to return back to this mundane world. In other words, such

a siddha purusha is a Jivanmukta who would not be born again.

 

So, the slokas of uttara bhaga were directed to such an upasaka siromani who

contantly reflects on the chaturvidha-aikya and abide in the *utkriShTa tattva*

which is *Parasiva Tattva*.

 

Now, the statements like:

 

" After engaging in the worship of vishnu for thousand lives, one gets the Siva

Bhakti; after engaging in the worship of Siva for thousand lives one get the

bhakti for Devi " may be arthavAda like other sectarian puranas that state

regarding their respective devatas. Since, Brahmanda Purana describes the

divine sport of Tripurasundari, this may hold valid for a Shakta but is taken

with a pinch of salt and pepper by a Vaishnava.

 

So, having been initiated in panchadasi, worship of sriyantra, chanting of LS

one is not qualfied to be called as Srividya Upasaka, per se, in the strictest

sense. But, nevertheless, to start the journey, this IS the way to go about.

Parasurama Kalpa Sutra categoriizes such upasakas in the chapter *Srividya

Diksha Vivechana*

 

Such an *initiated devaduttas* who are far from such aikya bhavana should bear

in mind that they are still *tarunas* (vide refer Parasurama Kalpa Sutra) and

still have a long way to go. Unless this *taruNa* becomes *prauDha*, the

antarmukhopasana is not possible.

 

Unfortunately, this taruNa category of Srividya Dikshitas having undergone

padukanta dikshas are initiating the disciples in srividya whose state can be

described with the popular saying *a blind leading another blind*. Also, Kalpa

Sutra stresses on *eka guru upAsti* & *sat-sampradAya*. There should be only

one guru in srividya who should hail from sat-sampradaya.

 

iti shrI chanDI bhakta pAda reNu....

 

Sriram

 

 

 

 

, vishwanthan Krishnamoorthy <krishvishy

wrote:

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> How should one interpret the slokas 73 to 75 of LS uthara bhaga?

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> na kashchidhapi.....yenAnyadevathAnama kIrthitham janmakOtishu ..73

> tasyaiva bhavathi ...charme janmane yatha srividyOpAsko bhaveth ..74

>

> does it imply that everyone who is now a Srividya upasaka or chants LS is

guaranteed to be in their last birth?

>

> regards

> Vishwam

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