USCP (1998): Surya Mantra

Arunachala

Worshipping your body and invoking the light of Sun within you when bathing.

hrāṃ hrīṃ hrūṃ saḥ
mārtaṇḍa bhairavāya prakāśa
śakti sahitāya svāhā

When you are taking bath imagine that between your navel chakra and the heart chakra is the sun. When you are taking bath you offer three spoons of water to your own navel saying this prayer to the sun, Sūrya.

Mārtaṇḍa bhairavāya means the fierce Sun with his illuminating power. Light by itself does not illuminate. It is knowledge which illuminates. Light can be seen. But a seeing awareness is a higher form of light. That is why it is called a paramjyoti. Jyoti is the light which enables the darkness to be removed and things to be seen. But without awareness the light or darkness cannot be seen. So the light of light is the awareness. Consciousness is the true light by which the sun, the moon, the stars and the fires shine. Everything is known by your awareness. If you are unconscious this world does not exist for you.

Awareness is the highest form of light which itself is never seen. The light is something which can be seen.

Once you are able to see anything, even light, then the separation between the seer and the seen is manifest. When you don't see, then you are in union with that which is seen. Then you know it by being it, not seeing it. Prakāśa means illumination. That is the power.

These hrāṃ, hrīṃ, hrūṃ are the bīja mantras for the sun. Hrīṃ is the māyā, the power that brings life to you. It is life-giving power that comes from the sun.

That is why when the sun comes up in the sky we get up and go about doing our daily chores. The life force comes from the sun. That is the Mahākuṇḍalinī Śakti wakes us up. Therefore we offer to the light which is visible (the symbol of the light which is visible) three spoons of water. Why water? Because that also represents life, the seed, the semen.

Next think of Sun: hrāṃ hrīṃ hrūṃ saḥ is the mantra. That cannot be replaced by English text. You may treat the next part as mantra, or you may use the English translation of it:

“To the orb of the sun along with its power to illuminate, residing between my heart and navel, I offer this water as a symbol of my life.”

So saying, sprinkle water there.

Next, you sprinkle water on the three parts of your own body with erotic parts of Devī mantra:

your face, with ka e i la hrīṃ
your breasts and navel with ha sa ka ha la hrīṃ
and your genitals – sa ka la hrīṃ

The identification goes like this:

Ka e i are the three eyes, la hrīṃ is the mouth and tongue.
Ha sa and ka ha are the two breasts with the nipples, la hrīṃ is the navel and line of hairs below.
Sa ka are the two sides of vulva and la hrīṃ is the clitoral shaft and the tip.

This is the mantra nyāsa revealed to Amṛtānanda by Hlādini Śakti (love power of Kṛṣṇa).

tripurā sundarī vidmahe
Tripurā means three cities. The three cities are the waking state, the dreaming state and the sleeping state. In all these three states of your being, the most beautiful is Sundarī.

Vidmahe – vid – knowing intuitively. From this vid comes Veda. We learn about Mahāvidyā through intuition. The beauty of this universe that exists in these three states of being, I come to know by meditating on the three procreative powers of the Goddess.

pīṭha kāminī dhīmahi
She has the desire to be on that place, pīṭha, in the lotus of your heart. Śrī Lakṣmī and Nārāyaṇa are the nourishing and preserving powers which come from the milk from your two breasts. That is where she is residing.

Dhī – and when you meditate on this power in the heart center it gives you dhī, the ability to discriminate. To discriminate between good and bad and to accept the good and the bad with love and affection.

sa ka la hrīṃ – Sa ka la hrīṃ is the active Śakti, which moves Śiva to create a new awareness. When you worship that, then tannaḥ klinne pracodayāt. Tannaḥ – that may it propel us toward klinne, wetness.

We are normally located in our Mūlādhāra chakra assuming the rigidity of our bodies. The first transformation is from rigidity to flow. Like liquid you try to create a flow. That means the starting of the movement of the Kuṇḍalinī Śakti from the rigidity of solid (earth chakra) to the liquid state (the second chakra) and then to lightness. This refers to the orgasmic release from all of your tensions including sexual tensions. With this mantra you do prokṣaṇa (sprinkling) to the three parts of your body.