The Sri Chakra
Words and sentences are auditory forms informing us about creation, maintainence and dissolution. Similarly, a highly coded visual gemetrical structure exists. It is called a Sri Chakra (the circle of grace). It is the genetic code of the Cosmos, the individual and microcosmos. Meditation on it has revealed many truths to seers; it is itself revealed in meditation. It is a symbol all of creation, including its unitive (subjective) and diverse (objective) aspects. The seer is always one. The seen are many. Sri Chakra is the abode of the cosmic awareness. We now discuss substructures of Sri Chakra, starting from the center outwards.
9.The Sri Chakra starts with a Center, the Bindu, a dimensionless point. It is the seer; never seen.
8.Surrounding that is the first triangle, the seen, which includes the seer.
7.Surrounding that there are 8 triangles.
6,5.Surrounding that there are two sets of 10 triangles each.
4.Surrounding that there is the 14triangle
figure.
3.Surrounding that there is an 8petalled
lotus.
2.Surrounding that, there is a16petal
lotus.
1.Surrounding that there are three circles and a square enclosure with three lines in it. The square enclosure has four entrances.
These are the main circles or subsets of the Sri Chakra. The Sri Chakra is composed of 3 sets of 3. Looking from outwards going in, the first 3 the square, the 16 and 8 petalled lotuses, constitute Sristi, the creative aspects of the Awareness. The 14 cornered figure, the 10 cornered figure and the other 10 cornered figure represent the Sthiti, the maintenance. The 8 cornered figure, the triangle and the center point represent the Laya, the reabsorption.
The Bindu
The center of every experience is yourself. That is Siva, called the invariant point, bindu. The word bindu means three things: point, seed and mind. All that is experienced is Shakti. The function of Siva is to unite you into the cosmic being that you are. The function of Shakti is to separate you from being Siva to bring an experience to that awareness, that flowing and movement in time. Siva is the awareness full of experience that flows not in time. It is a frozen experience that has no evolution. The first movement (in time and space) is the creation of an interval an interval between the knower and the known, between the seer and the seen, between the one which is aware and that of which it is aware. The chaitanya and jada. Jada is what you are seeing, which you are not penetrating. It is something that somehow separates itself from itself and this separation manifests itself as an interval between the seer and the seen.
This interval can be compared to the distance between a point and its image in the mirror. A point is dimensionless. The point is reflected in a mirror and it appears as if it is another point unto itself. So the first point, the second point, and the distance between these two points exist, connected by the space (distance) and time (required by light to cover the distance) interval. Once the space time interval is formed, something has to have the property of movement. Time is the one which has the characteristic of movement. This statement is not absolutely true, but is a good first approximation. (It is equally proper to say that space, not time has the property of movement). However, our experience tells us that it is the time which is moving and space is not moving and this experience is valid in a sufficiently large number of cases so that we can accept that it appears to be true. This law breaks down as you are approaching the velocity of light. That is where the relativistic theory takes over.
The space time interval is the first creation and that manifests itself as interaction between space and time and out of the rotation of space around time matter is formed. The bindu, the center point is unique, it is dimensionless, it is awareness, but it is not even aware of itself. So it cannot be even called a creator. It is a linga, a characteristic of invariance. It is awareness and nonawareness combined. What you see and what you are is combined in that.
Knowledge and ignorance are combined in that. It is not negatible. It is invariant to negation. If you have knowledge alone and when you negate it you have ignorance. When you have ignorance alone and negate it, it becomes knowledge. But when you have the sum of the two and you try to negate the sum, knowledge moves over to ignorance and ignorance moves over to knowledge and so the sum total is not changed even when you deny it. It cannot be denied. It is selfevident. It is your own knowledge that you exist. It does not have to be proved to you. The awareness has this property of selfproving, Svaprakasha. Awareness is self enlightening; that does not another light to show its existence, it is proof unto itself. That pure awareness is God. What is to be enlightened? Our own ignorance. What is ignorance? One sees the world and what is seen appears different from oneself. But if illumination is there then this difference isnot there.
Absorption of the interval back into the point is the function of Siva. Creation of the interval is the function of Shakti. They are opposites of each other. Siva kills your individuality to make you the Cosmic Being. In being a killer, Siva is giving you birth into your cosmic consciousness. Shakti is trying to limit your cosmic consciousness into your individual consciousness and therefore Shakti appears to give life. Siva appears to give death. What we interpret as death is the cosmic awareness. What we interpret as life is the cosmic death. These are the functions of the two creators, Siva and Shakti. They are cocreators and they have equal potency and equal powers. This is the SivaShakti
identity.
Words and sentences are auditory forms informing us about creation, maintainence and dissolution. Similarly, a highly coded visual gemetrical structure exists. It is called a Sri Chakra (the circle of grace). It is the genetic code of the Cosmos, the individual and microcosmos. Meditation on it has revealed many truths to seers; it is itself revealed in meditation. It is a symbol all of creation, including its unitive (subjective) and diverse (objective) aspects. The seer is always one. The seen are many. Sri Chakra is the abode of the cosmic awareness. We now discuss substructures of Sri Chakra, starting from the center outwards.
9.The Sri Chakra starts with a Center, the Bindu, a dimensionless point. It is the seer; never seen.
8.Surrounding that is the first triangle, the seen, which includes the seer.
7.Surrounding that there are 8 triangles.
6,5.Surrounding that there are two sets of 10 triangles each.
4.Surrounding that there is the 14triangle
figure.
3.Surrounding that there is an 8petalled
lotus.
2.Surrounding that, there is a16petal
lotus.
1.Surrounding that there are three circles and a square enclosure with three lines in it. The square enclosure has four entrances.
These are the main circles or subsets of the Sri Chakra. The Sri Chakra is composed of 3 sets of 3. Looking from outwards going in, the first 3 the square, the 16 and 8 petalled lotuses, constitute Sristi, the creative aspects of the Awareness. The 14 cornered figure, the 10 cornered figure and the other 10 cornered figure represent the Sthiti, the maintenance. The 8 cornered figure, the triangle and the center point represent the Laya, the reabsorption.
The Bindu
The center of every experience is yourself. That is Siva, called the invariant point, bindu. The word bindu means three things: point, seed and mind. All that is experienced is Shakti. The function of Siva is to unite you into the cosmic being that you are. The function of Shakti is to separate you from being Siva to bring an experience to that awareness, that flowing and movement in time. Siva is the awareness full of experience that flows not in time. It is a frozen experience that has no evolution. The first movement (in time and space) is the creation of an interval an interval between the knower and the known, between the seer and the seen, between the one which is aware and that of which it is aware. The chaitanya and jada. Jada is what you are seeing, which you are not penetrating. It is something that somehow separates itself from itself and this separation manifests itself as an interval between the seer and the seen.
This interval can be compared to the distance between a point and its image in the mirror. A point is dimensionless. The point is reflected in a mirror and it appears as if it is another point unto itself. So the first point, the second point, and the distance between these two points exist, connected by the space (distance) and time (required by light to cover the distance) interval. Once the space time interval is formed, something has to have the property of movement. Time is the one which has the characteristic of movement. This statement is not absolutely true, but is a good first approximation. (It is equally proper to say that space, not time has the property of movement). However, our experience tells us that it is the time which is moving and space is not moving and this experience is valid in a sufficiently large number of cases so that we can accept that it appears to be true. This law breaks down as you are approaching the velocity of light. That is where the relativistic theory takes over.
The space time interval is the first creation and that manifests itself as interaction between space and time and out of the rotation of space around time matter is formed. The bindu, the center point is unique, it is dimensionless, it is awareness, but it is not even aware of itself. So it cannot be even called a creator. It is a linga, a characteristic of invariance. It is awareness and nonawareness combined. What you see and what you are is combined in that.
Knowledge and ignorance are combined in that. It is not negatible. It is invariant to negation. If you have knowledge alone and when you negate it you have ignorance. When you have ignorance alone and negate it, it becomes knowledge. But when you have the sum of the two and you try to negate the sum, knowledge moves over to ignorance and ignorance moves over to knowledge and so the sum total is not changed even when you deny it. It cannot be denied. It is selfevident. It is your own knowledge that you exist. It does not have to be proved to you. The awareness has this property of selfproving, Svaprakasha. Awareness is self enlightening; that does not another light to show its existence, it is proof unto itself. That pure awareness is God. What is to be enlightened? Our own ignorance. What is ignorance? One sees the world and what is seen appears different from oneself. But if illumination is there then this difference isnot there.
Absorption of the interval back into the point is the function of Siva. Creation of the interval is the function of Shakti. They are opposites of each other. Siva kills your individuality to make you the Cosmic Being. In being a killer, Siva is giving you birth into your cosmic consciousness. Shakti is trying to limit your cosmic consciousness into your individual consciousness and therefore Shakti appears to give life. Siva appears to give death. What we interpret as death is the cosmic awareness. What we interpret as life is the cosmic death. These are the functions of the two creators, Siva and Shakti. They are cocreators and they have equal potency and equal powers. This is the SivaShakti
identity.
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