Guruji: Sri Vidya is the Mantra, Sri Chakra is the Yantra, and Sri Kalpa is the
Tantra, which give material benefits as well as being one with the Universal
Life. Practitioners of Sri Vidya see physical as single continuum with
spiritual, God-Goddess indiv`isible pair. Individual life is the same as cosmic
life, like in a hologram; the part is the same as whole.
Sri Chakra is the symbol of Siva the space, in union with Sundari
creating-Kali destroying life. It is worshipped in pairs: Universe-God,
Saraswati-Brahma, Lakshmi-Vishnu, Sakti-Siva, Radha-Krishna, Woman-Man. Every
living person is thus a temple; life Kali in union with the insentient body
Siva. The central idea of Sri Vidya is to remove the separation.
We don’t see life itself, except through a body which has it. So, when we
worship a person, actually life receives the worship. Women have the attributes
(linga) of Shakti while Men have attributes of Siva. The best forms of living
Sri Yantras are therefore considered to be persons receiving worship. The yoni
and linga (both needed to create life) are worshipped in external worship of
Sri Chakra. Such external worship is the gateway to internalizing meditation on
the joy of creation, Brahma’s ananda.
Worship, chanting of mantras and remembering the myriad attributes of the
Goddess are all means for the movement from darkness of ignorance to the light
of unlimited awareness. The Guru is the gateway to surrender pettiness into the
largess of cosmic life. When all is one, the duality Disciple-Guru cannot
exist; they are just one God. But they enjoy their separate roles in the drama
of life. Guru worships the disciple as guru, because of the God in the
disciple. In that very process, empowerment happens.
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