The Agni Kalas
We invoke the ten kalas of the fire. The kalas are all aspects of Devi. The first three are in the swaddisthana chakra. Yam dhumracise namah (smoke), ram usmayai namah(heat), lam jvalinyai namah (glow). The sanskrit letters listed in the beginning are pointers to the places where you put your imagination in yourself, in Devi's body and in the yantra. The yantra we are talking about is the viseshargya yantra. These bijaksharas are located in the Swaddhisthana chakra: Bam, Bham, Mam, Yam, Ram, Lam. Both the bijaksharas and their names could be substituted here for a local idiom. These are not the mantras, they are the aspects of the fire and you are trying to see where they are coming from. The parts that cannot be changed are the mantras of the earth, the sun and the moon. I am not going to affect any changes here, but you may do so if you so desire. The sanskrit alphabet has the advantage that it uses a single letter. Its disadvantage is that you do not know it. Working with the meanings of these things is more important then just working with the words.
The agni kalas reside as the digestive fire in the stomach and also as the lust in the human being just as the light resides in the fire. Agni also exists as time. Yam dhumracise namah. You are looking at the left top portion of the yoni. If you superimpose the yoni on the bijas, you will see that yam is the left side of the clitoris, ram is the middle of the labia and lam is the bottom of the labia. This invokes the lust, the kama. You are not invoking the right side here. In other versions of tantra, as you walk into the yajna sala, the door is there. On the lefthand side you worship bhairava bhairavaya namah. You worship lambodaraya namah on top and on right hand side you worship bhadrakalyai namah. So saying you enter the sala. The door is like the gate through which you are born and through which you enter the yoni.
The next four agni kala bijas are taken from the muladhara chakra. Vam jvalinyai namah (flame), Sam visphulinginyai namah (sparks issuing), Sam(sam susriyai namah (blessing), Samsurupayai namah (beautiful).
The last three bijas come from the ajna chakra, Ham, kapilayai namah (yellow) - right eye; Lam havya vahayai namah (consuming ghee) - third eye; Ksam (kavya vahayai namah) (consuming food offerings) - left eye.
So from the muladhara and swaddhisthana, the fire which starts as lust and goes up to the ajna . At this point it manifests as flowing time, past, present and future. The past is the right eye, the present is the 3rd eye and the future is the left eye. The right eye is the eye of Siva, he is called bhutanatha the lord of the past. The left eye is the eye of the Devi. Devi is the creatrix, the mother, she brings the future into the present.
The mantra for the Agni Kalas is:
Aim agin mandalaya dharmaprada dasa kalatmane sri mahatripura sundaryah visesharghya patra adharaya namah. Agnim dutam vrinimahe hotaram visva vedasam. Asya yagnyasya sukratum. Ram rim rum raim raum rah, ramalavarayum, agni mandalaya namah.
Aim is sristi, creation. The real sristi starts with an idea in the brain. Creation actually starts with Saraswati in the Sahasrara chakra and moves down and takes the kriya aspect (action). So aim agni mandalaya. Dharmaprada - dharma is considered to be your duty. What is your duty? It is defined in the upanishads as follows: "Acharyaya priyam dhanamahrtya prajatantum ma vyavacchetsih.....", you worship your teacher and see to it that this rare life which is a gift in this world is preserved. Do not cut the thread of life. " So procreate. That is the injuction of the vedas. You owe a debt of life to your parents. You repay that debt by giving life through your actions. Procreation is your dharma.
Nandi, the bull, which is carrier of Siva, is supposed to be the personification of dharma. The testes of Nandi you touch before you look at Siva. You energize the lingam that way and then look at Siva. It is only the energized lingam which has the desire to procreate which is to be Siva. Otherwise it is Shava(corpse). If you take away the letter 'i' Siva become Shava.
What is the purpose of lust? It is to do your duty to your parents by procreating. There is a duty to your parents and a duty to yourself. What is the duty to yourself? It is to deliver yourself from the shackles of bondage. This same agni which is instrumental for creating your children, is also instrumental for creating your spiritual uplift. In the four goals of life (Dharma, Artha, Kama, Moksha) stated in the Hindu philosophy, there is a connection between Dharma and Artha (duty and wealth). You must acquire your wealth without hurting or cheating others. And Kama and Moksha are also combined. Kama must be transformed into Love, and Love must be transformed into liberation. Both Bhoga and Yoga are included in the gamit of one's life.
Agni also exists in the fire which cooks your food. The Gita says, "Aham vaishvanaro bhutva praninam deha asritah. pran'apanasamayuktah, pacamyannam caturvidham." "I exist as the fire and I cook the food in your stomach with the help of the prana and apana, the ingoing and outgoing breaths".
dasa kalatmane - dasa means ten, kala is an aspect of time. An aspect of anything is called kala. So the ten aspects of the fire; sri mahatripurasundaryah - of the Mother Mahatripurasundari; visesarghya patra adharaya namah - visesarghya means not ordinary. It is the milk mixture to be offered; patra is the vessel; adhara is the base; the base of the vessel in which we are going to put the special liquid which is immortal nectar, that base is agni. In the muladhara chakra is where the base is located and that is the fire. We human beings are driven by lust and it's modifications. That is where we are.
The Surya Kalavahana - the Sun
The Sun is the source of life on earth. If the sun is not there, the earth would be a dead planet.The earth keeps a certain distance from the sun. Of the nine planets circling around the sun there is only life on this planet because it is the correct distance from the sun. The sun is our life force. As soon as the sun comes up in the sky, you go about doing your duties. This lifegiving energy is supposed to come from the embrace of Siva and Shakti. That is what is being described in the twelve kalas of the sun.
The mantra of the Sun:
Klim surya mandalaya kama prada dwadasa kalatmane sri maha tripura sundaryah visesharghya patraya namah. Aasatyena rajasa vartamano nivesayan amritam martyam ca. Hiranmayena rathena devo yati bhuvana vipasyan. Hram hrim hrum hraim hraum hrah surya mandalaya namah.
surya mandalaya - the circle or orbe of the sun; dwadasa - twelve; kalatmane - having the form of twelve aspects; visesarghya – wine or milk that we are going to invoke nectar into; patraya namah - into the vessel which is supposed to be the sun. The sun is called the pingala nadi.The moon is called the ida nadi. We are going to combine these two. We are going to bring in the coolness of the moon with the heat of the sun. The heat represents extreme passion, the passion for life and the coolness represents detachment. So passion with detatchment. We are combining the two. In the combination lies the sushumna channel. It is like a pendulum. If you bring the pendulum all the way to the right to the sun, it does not stay there. It moves to the middle and then swings to the left, to the moon. If you try to move the mind to vairagya (detachment) it won't stay there, but it shoots back into kama. So from vairaghya and kama the mind keeps occillating. The stable position is when you bring it exactly into the center and leave it there. It does not move. It has no aversion to passion, it has no liking for vairaghya; it has no liking for passion, it has no aversion to vairagya. It is absolute detachment. This is the channel of the sushumna. The sushumna is warm; it is neither the heat of the sun nor the coolness of the moon. You are passionate and dispassionate at the same time. In Buddhism this is called the middle way. Madhya Marga. This procedure comes very close to the Buddhist mandalas also.
Asatyena - from beginning to end with truth; rajasa - the emission of this truth; vartamano - involved in the emission of the truth from beginning to end; nivesayan amrtam martyamca - placing yourself in immortality as well as mortality, into the yoga and the bhoga both; hiranmayena - golden; savita - the lifegiver. Savitri is the goddess of the Gayatri mantra; rathena - chariot. Riding on a golden chariot; devoyati the sun moves in the sky; bhuvana vipasyan - looking at all the worlds. Hram hrim hrum hraim hroum hrah hrim is the creative, explosive force which takes the point to the triangle; These bijas are the modifications of hrim from the coolness of am to the passion of ah. So from the center you are moving towards the right and towards the left. hrmalavarayum - the pathway in your body where these letters are located.
The location of the letters shows how tightly fixed the concept of the letters are in Sanskrit. Lord Yama is the God of Death. Ya is located on the lefthand side of the swaddhisthana chakra. Ma is located on the righthand side. When you say yama you are moving from the female to the male. That represents moving your consciousness which is like death. Now if these letters are reversed you have maya. You are moving from Siva to Shakti. Maya is illusion but it also means pleasure, the flow of experience. So when you move from Siva to Shakti you are experiencing your being limited in your awareness by the material world. And when you are moving from Shakti to Siva you are expanding your awareness, you are unlimited. The flow is the Shakti and the static is the Siva. The potential energy is the Siva; the kinetic energy is the Shakti. Kinetic energy is compared to the snake the kundalini shakti which moves in a snakelike motion.
The twelve kalas of the sun are coming from the embrace of the Siva and the Shakti. Remember that it is the light of the sun which is reflected by the moon and then to us. They are not separate. The flow of kundalini is maximum when the sun, moon and earth are in alignment. When the gravitational pull is very strong or very weak then the kundalini is very active. On earth during the eqlipse time the tidal waves rise. The oceans are trying to move away from the earth which represents on the cosmic scale the liquid state trying to move away from the solid state, which is the upward motion of the kundalini. In relation to the cosmic force you should align your rituals also. That is why purnima(full moon) and amavasya(new moon) when the three orbs are approximately in alignment are supposed to be very ideal for puja.That is why the moon's cycles are so closely related to the ritual cycles also. There is a full moon ritual, a new moon ritual, etc. When you are in tune with the cosmic forces then your own forces work much better.
In the embrace of Siva and Shakti you find a pair of letters. kam bham, kham bam, etc. You use this key to locate them on your body. There is a ray of light going from one point to the other point. (see diagram). The first two come from the right portion of the swaddhisthana chakra. From this point onwards the points move up to the manipura chakra and go around the waist, while the other points move around the anahata chakra and the heart center. This is the embrace. Out of this embrace comes the lifegiving force of the world, the sun.
The nuclear reactor that is there comes from this embrace. You can see the left hand going around the waist and the right hand going around the chest like this. We invoke the kalas of the sun from this embrace. The sanskrit letters can all be replaced with any language alphabets. It is the meanings that are important which are given there in the puja for the sun's rays.
We invoke the ten kalas of the fire. The kalas are all aspects of Devi. The first three are in the swaddisthana chakra. Yam dhumracise namah (smoke), ram usmayai namah(heat), lam jvalinyai namah (glow). The sanskrit letters listed in the beginning are pointers to the places where you put your imagination in yourself, in Devi's body and in the yantra. The yantra we are talking about is the viseshargya yantra. These bijaksharas are located in the Swaddhisthana chakra: Bam, Bham, Mam, Yam, Ram, Lam. Both the bijaksharas and their names could be substituted here for a local idiom. These are not the mantras, they are the aspects of the fire and you are trying to see where they are coming from. The parts that cannot be changed are the mantras of the earth, the sun and the moon. I am not going to affect any changes here, but you may do so if you so desire. The sanskrit alphabet has the advantage that it uses a single letter. Its disadvantage is that you do not know it. Working with the meanings of these things is more important then just working with the words.
The agni kalas reside as the digestive fire in the stomach and also as the lust in the human being just as the light resides in the fire. Agni also exists as time. Yam dhumracise namah. You are looking at the left top portion of the yoni. If you superimpose the yoni on the bijas, you will see that yam is the left side of the clitoris, ram is the middle of the labia and lam is the bottom of the labia. This invokes the lust, the kama. You are not invoking the right side here. In other versions of tantra, as you walk into the yajna sala, the door is there. On the lefthand side you worship bhairava bhairavaya namah. You worship lambodaraya namah on top and on right hand side you worship bhadrakalyai namah. So saying you enter the sala. The door is like the gate through which you are born and through which you enter the yoni.
The next four agni kala bijas are taken from the muladhara chakra. Vam jvalinyai namah (flame), Sam visphulinginyai namah (sparks issuing), Sam(sam susriyai namah (blessing), Samsurupayai namah (beautiful).
The last three bijas come from the ajna chakra, Ham, kapilayai namah (yellow) - right eye; Lam havya vahayai namah (consuming ghee) - third eye; Ksam (kavya vahayai namah) (consuming food offerings) - left eye.
So from the muladhara and swaddhisthana, the fire which starts as lust and goes up to the ajna . At this point it manifests as flowing time, past, present and future. The past is the right eye, the present is the 3rd eye and the future is the left eye. The right eye is the eye of Siva, he is called bhutanatha the lord of the past. The left eye is the eye of the Devi. Devi is the creatrix, the mother, she brings the future into the present.
The mantra for the Agni Kalas is:
Aim agin mandalaya dharmaprada dasa kalatmane sri mahatripura sundaryah visesharghya patra adharaya namah. Agnim dutam vrinimahe hotaram visva vedasam. Asya yagnyasya sukratum. Ram rim rum raim raum rah, ramalavarayum, agni mandalaya namah.
Aim is sristi, creation. The real sristi starts with an idea in the brain. Creation actually starts with Saraswati in the Sahasrara chakra and moves down and takes the kriya aspect (action). So aim agni mandalaya. Dharmaprada - dharma is considered to be your duty. What is your duty? It is defined in the upanishads as follows: "Acharyaya priyam dhanamahrtya prajatantum ma vyavacchetsih.....", you worship your teacher and see to it that this rare life which is a gift in this world is preserved. Do not cut the thread of life. " So procreate. That is the injuction of the vedas. You owe a debt of life to your parents. You repay that debt by giving life through your actions. Procreation is your dharma.
Nandi, the bull, which is carrier of Siva, is supposed to be the personification of dharma. The testes of Nandi you touch before you look at Siva. You energize the lingam that way and then look at Siva. It is only the energized lingam which has the desire to procreate which is to be Siva. Otherwise it is Shava(corpse). If you take away the letter 'i' Siva become Shava.
What is the purpose of lust? It is to do your duty to your parents by procreating. There is a duty to your parents and a duty to yourself. What is the duty to yourself? It is to deliver yourself from the shackles of bondage. This same agni which is instrumental for creating your children, is also instrumental for creating your spiritual uplift. In the four goals of life (Dharma, Artha, Kama, Moksha) stated in the Hindu philosophy, there is a connection between Dharma and Artha (duty and wealth). You must acquire your wealth without hurting or cheating others. And Kama and Moksha are also combined. Kama must be transformed into Love, and Love must be transformed into liberation. Both Bhoga and Yoga are included in the gamit of one's life.
Agni also exists in the fire which cooks your food. The Gita says, "Aham vaishvanaro bhutva praninam deha asritah. pran'apanasamayuktah, pacamyannam caturvidham." "I exist as the fire and I cook the food in your stomach with the help of the prana and apana, the ingoing and outgoing breaths".
dasa kalatmane - dasa means ten, kala is an aspect of time. An aspect of anything is called kala. So the ten aspects of the fire; sri mahatripurasundaryah - of the Mother Mahatripurasundari; visesarghya patra adharaya namah - visesarghya means not ordinary. It is the milk mixture to be offered; patra is the vessel; adhara is the base; the base of the vessel in which we are going to put the special liquid which is immortal nectar, that base is agni. In the muladhara chakra is where the base is located and that is the fire. We human beings are driven by lust and it's modifications. That is where we are.
The Surya Kalavahana - the Sun
The Sun is the source of life on earth. If the sun is not there, the earth would be a dead planet.The earth keeps a certain distance from the sun. Of the nine planets circling around the sun there is only life on this planet because it is the correct distance from the sun. The sun is our life force. As soon as the sun comes up in the sky, you go about doing your duties. This lifegiving energy is supposed to come from the embrace of Siva and Shakti. That is what is being described in the twelve kalas of the sun.
The mantra of the Sun:
Klim surya mandalaya kama prada dwadasa kalatmane sri maha tripura sundaryah visesharghya patraya namah. Aasatyena rajasa vartamano nivesayan amritam martyam ca. Hiranmayena rathena devo yati bhuvana vipasyan. Hram hrim hrum hraim hraum hrah surya mandalaya namah.
surya mandalaya - the circle or orbe of the sun; dwadasa - twelve; kalatmane - having the form of twelve aspects; visesarghya – wine or milk that we are going to invoke nectar into; patraya namah - into the vessel which is supposed to be the sun. The sun is called the pingala nadi.The moon is called the ida nadi. We are going to combine these two. We are going to bring in the coolness of the moon with the heat of the sun. The heat represents extreme passion, the passion for life and the coolness represents detachment. So passion with detatchment. We are combining the two. In the combination lies the sushumna channel. It is like a pendulum. If you bring the pendulum all the way to the right to the sun, it does not stay there. It moves to the middle and then swings to the left, to the moon. If you try to move the mind to vairagya (detachment) it won't stay there, but it shoots back into kama. So from vairaghya and kama the mind keeps occillating. The stable position is when you bring it exactly into the center and leave it there. It does not move. It has no aversion to passion, it has no liking for vairaghya; it has no liking for passion, it has no aversion to vairagya. It is absolute detachment. This is the channel of the sushumna. The sushumna is warm; it is neither the heat of the sun nor the coolness of the moon. You are passionate and dispassionate at the same time. In Buddhism this is called the middle way. Madhya Marga. This procedure comes very close to the Buddhist mandalas also.
Asatyena - from beginning to end with truth; rajasa - the emission of this truth; vartamano - involved in the emission of the truth from beginning to end; nivesayan amrtam martyamca - placing yourself in immortality as well as mortality, into the yoga and the bhoga both; hiranmayena - golden; savita - the lifegiver. Savitri is the goddess of the Gayatri mantra; rathena - chariot. Riding on a golden chariot; devoyati the sun moves in the sky; bhuvana vipasyan - looking at all the worlds. Hram hrim hrum hraim hroum hrah hrim is the creative, explosive force which takes the point to the triangle; These bijas are the modifications of hrim from the coolness of am to the passion of ah. So from the center you are moving towards the right and towards the left. hrmalavarayum - the pathway in your body where these letters are located.
The location of the letters shows how tightly fixed the concept of the letters are in Sanskrit. Lord Yama is the God of Death. Ya is located on the lefthand side of the swaddhisthana chakra. Ma is located on the righthand side. When you say yama you are moving from the female to the male. That represents moving your consciousness which is like death. Now if these letters are reversed you have maya. You are moving from Siva to Shakti. Maya is illusion but it also means pleasure, the flow of experience. So when you move from Siva to Shakti you are experiencing your being limited in your awareness by the material world. And when you are moving from Shakti to Siva you are expanding your awareness, you are unlimited. The flow is the Shakti and the static is the Siva. The potential energy is the Siva; the kinetic energy is the Shakti. Kinetic energy is compared to the snake the kundalini shakti which moves in a snakelike motion.
The twelve kalas of the sun are coming from the embrace of the Siva and the Shakti. Remember that it is the light of the sun which is reflected by the moon and then to us. They are not separate. The flow of kundalini is maximum when the sun, moon and earth are in alignment. When the gravitational pull is very strong or very weak then the kundalini is very active. On earth during the eqlipse time the tidal waves rise. The oceans are trying to move away from the earth which represents on the cosmic scale the liquid state trying to move away from the solid state, which is the upward motion of the kundalini. In relation to the cosmic force you should align your rituals also. That is why purnima(full moon) and amavasya(new moon) when the three orbs are approximately in alignment are supposed to be very ideal for puja.That is why the moon's cycles are so closely related to the ritual cycles also. There is a full moon ritual, a new moon ritual, etc. When you are in tune with the cosmic forces then your own forces work much better.
In the embrace of Siva and Shakti you find a pair of letters. kam bham, kham bam, etc. You use this key to locate them on your body. There is a ray of light going from one point to the other point. (see diagram). The first two come from the right portion of the swaddhisthana chakra. From this point onwards the points move up to the manipura chakra and go around the waist, while the other points move around the anahata chakra and the heart center. This is the embrace. Out of this embrace comes the lifegiving force of the world, the sun.
The nuclear reactor that is there comes from this embrace. You can see the left hand going around the waist and the right hand going around the chest like this. We invoke the kalas of the sun from this embrace. The sanskrit letters can all be replaced with any language alphabets. It is the meanings that are important which are given there in the puja for the sun's rays.
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