The ten Mudra Shaktis and ten Siddhis
There are ways of overcoming these disturbing influences and these are called the "Mudra Shaktis." The attainments that you get by controlling these influences are called the "Attainments" or the "Siddhis".
The first mudra shakti is Sarva Samksobini. This means agitation. You are agitated but you transfer your agitation over onto everything else. You interact with everyone. Skhobana actually means interaction, intercourse also. Limited interaction within a circle is possible for any ego bound structure. But can you expand it to include the whole cosmos? How can you be in love with a cockroach? a bird? a swan? a flea? a star? a thermonuclear fusion? a hydrogen bomb? When you have the notion that you love everything, this overcomes your limitations. You realize that the notion of love does not mean trying to possess the thing you are wanting to hold onto but in letting go of the very thing. Love is not imposing our will on others. It is trying to find out what others want and trying to give it to them to the best of your ability. Sarva Samkshobhini Mudra moves you from initial feelings of lust to love. This mudra is the act of expressing love. Love takes different forms according to the object of your love. It is not the same mode in every case. You love fire by not touching it. Embracing a friend is an expression of love. Both are expressions of love. Because I love my child I don't want to give it too many chocolates because I know its bad for the stomach. Chocolates taste nice, but too much is bad. I know this but the child does not know. So the parent's expression of love to the child includes denying sometimes what the child wants, knowing that it is not good for the child. Love does not just mean sex alone. It means all types of interactions where you are trying to give your best to others, where giving is giving what the partner needs, not what you want to; where letting go is letting go of the fruits of your action. Sometimes, your giving may yield your expected result, sometimes not. Love means detachment to the expectation and result both, not detachment to action.
Let me tell you a story. Supposing there is a maneating tiger roaming around in a village. There is a woman who hears the roar of the tiger and she is trying to protect herself by running into all the closed doors and somehow finds a little door where she can enter to hide. The next day she is carrying her child and the same tiger comes along. All the doors are closed. There is no way she can escape. What does she do? She keeps the child somewhere else and goes and offers herself as prey to the tiger. This is an expression of her love towards her child. Love overcomes the fear of death. So she goes and offers herself and makes the supreme sacrifice to protect her child. Love has the power overcome fear.
Fear is the worst possible enemy that you have got. Your worst enemies are all inside of you, not outside. The enemies of any country are not the other countries, but the fears that the governments have about them. If people could only understand that our enemies are all inside ourselves, we would not need all these weapons, guns, shootings. Sometimes the words we speak to each other are worse than guns.
Thus the Sri Chakra is an expression of the cosmos, of yourself, and it is also a means of connecting these two. It represents a ladder by which you can come out of your limitations. The four gates are the four basic types of knowledge; Rg Veda, Yajur Veda, Sama Veda, Atharvana Veda. Veda is called Sruti. What you hear in your meditation in that deep state of tranquillity is
called Sruti.
There are ways of overcoming these disturbing influences and these are called the "Mudra Shaktis." The attainments that you get by controlling these influences are called the "Attainments" or the "Siddhis".
The first mudra shakti is Sarva Samksobini. This means agitation. You are agitated but you transfer your agitation over onto everything else. You interact with everyone. Skhobana actually means interaction, intercourse also. Limited interaction within a circle is possible for any ego bound structure. But can you expand it to include the whole cosmos? How can you be in love with a cockroach? a bird? a swan? a flea? a star? a thermonuclear fusion? a hydrogen bomb? When you have the notion that you love everything, this overcomes your limitations. You realize that the notion of love does not mean trying to possess the thing you are wanting to hold onto but in letting go of the very thing. Love is not imposing our will on others. It is trying to find out what others want and trying to give it to them to the best of your ability. Sarva Samkshobhini Mudra moves you from initial feelings of lust to love. This mudra is the act of expressing love. Love takes different forms according to the object of your love. It is not the same mode in every case. You love fire by not touching it. Embracing a friend is an expression of love. Both are expressions of love. Because I love my child I don't want to give it too many chocolates because I know its bad for the stomach. Chocolates taste nice, but too much is bad. I know this but the child does not know. So the parent's expression of love to the child includes denying sometimes what the child wants, knowing that it is not good for the child. Love does not just mean sex alone. It means all types of interactions where you are trying to give your best to others, where giving is giving what the partner needs, not what you want to; where letting go is letting go of the fruits of your action. Sometimes, your giving may yield your expected result, sometimes not. Love means detachment to the expectation and result both, not detachment to action.
Let me tell you a story. Supposing there is a maneating tiger roaming around in a village. There is a woman who hears the roar of the tiger and she is trying to protect herself by running into all the closed doors and somehow finds a little door where she can enter to hide. The next day she is carrying her child and the same tiger comes along. All the doors are closed. There is no way she can escape. What does she do? She keeps the child somewhere else and goes and offers herself as prey to the tiger. This is an expression of her love towards her child. Love overcomes the fear of death. So she goes and offers herself and makes the supreme sacrifice to protect her child. Love has the power overcome fear.
Fear is the worst possible enemy that you have got. Your worst enemies are all inside of you, not outside. The enemies of any country are not the other countries, but the fears that the governments have about them. If people could only understand that our enemies are all inside ourselves, we would not need all these weapons, guns, shootings. Sometimes the words we speak to each other are worse than guns.
Thus the Sri Chakra is an expression of the cosmos, of yourself, and it is also a means of connecting these two. It represents a ladder by which you can come out of your limitations. The four gates are the four basic types of knowledge; Rg Veda, Yajur Veda, Sama Veda, Atharvana Veda. Veda is called Sruti. What you hear in your meditation in that deep state of tranquillity is
called Sruti.
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