A Brief Glimpse at the Śrī Kramam

 (from "A Jewel From My Mother's Crown"): 

First you worship the Guru, then you make your bath a ritual by invoking the Goddess into you and worshipping Her in your body. When you are taking a bath, you are indeed giving a bath to Her, without any sense of shame. The sense of shame comes from the notion of the other. Fear and shame go away when you realize that whom you are worshipping is your own self. You can recite the Śrī Sūktam and all the Sūktams that you know when you are taking a bath because you are indeed the Goddess.

Next you worship the forty-four triangles of the Śrī Cakra. Think of the central part of Śrī Cakra as a beautiful palace of jewels and the most beautiful things in the world, where Śivā and Śakti are making love among celestial dancers and nymphs, in a very erotic place filled with beauty and harmony and grace and loving couples.

You realize that you are in a very limited state of being and you try to overcome this state by resetting yourself to the state of being the Goddess. How do you do that? By thinking like this:

“OK, I am sixty years old now. So what? Age is just a concept. I am also a 16 year old girl bubbling with joy and happiness and not crippled by my age, or pulled down by my worries. I am free and I want to look at every moment as an opportunity to grow in whatever way I can and to help others in whatever way I can. I will share my beauty, share my joy, my bubbling enthusiasm and power with others. This is what I am, this is what I will do.”

So saying, I reset myself to this state by getting rid of this old, useless, stupid, worrisome kind of existence that I am going through and say, “Let me burn this body and get rid of all the muck that I have acquired through social conditioning and programming. I will reconstitute my body to be forever 16, beautiful, powerful.” This aspect of the pūjā is called the Virajā Homaṃ.

Then you imagine that you have just become a body of light. And you merge with the cosmos and become a ball of light. This ball of light condenses and turns into the most beautiful, most harmonious, most loving, most wonderful, most powerful and most enriching kind of a being. You are a 16 year old girl, Ananda Bhairavī. She is enjoying herself nonstop with her consort Ananda Bhairava, playfully acting all the moods, and out of their enjoyment is coming this world full of beauty, of harmony, of loving, of caring, of compassion.

It is not the world demarcated as Germany, Austria, Denmark, North America, South America, Canada, Brazil, India, Pakistan, and China.

When you fly, you go to the sky, you go to the satellites, do you see any boundaries there? None. It is we that created our boundaries. If the world was governed by women who care for their children, then they would come forward and say, let’s get rid of all these boundaries and make one world. It’s too small, it’s just one village, and we can’t afford to destroy it. We won’t destroy our children, we will teach them to be loving and caring.

Thus you go through the process of creating an immortal body for yourself. It is going to continue to exist after your mortal coil has been shed. It will continue to do good because you are going to evolve through the fourteen different worlds. This you do with the power of your imagination, the power of your creativity, your visualization acuteness, the clarity with which you can perceive things. With these things you create an image. This image goes and does whatever good it does. It is just like a child born out of you which continues its existence independent of you.

You can try to control it. You can try to make a friend of it. You can create eight simultaneous existences which can work independently. Why eight? It is eight because the properties of God are eightfold. They are spatially different. Actually, time-wise you can have sixteen different forms.

After you do the Virajā Homaṃ, you do Vajra Pañjara Nyāsam. It means that you are creating for yourself an indestructible cage. This cage has the power of the Śrī Cakra. As long as the Śrī Cakra and the cosmos exist, you are going to live in this cage. Once the world is dissolved, you dissolve. You are merging with Śivā. That is the format you are trying to create for yourself.