The real temples made by God are our own bodies. They all house God’s Creative Matrix called Lalitā. The name Lalitā means Life, which plays in all states of our being: waking, dreaming, sleeping, and beyond birth and death too, in the form of the life of the cosmos.
Each of us has organs of perception and action through which God/dess knows about the cosmos and acts on it to change it. Lalitā manifests space and time, and the powers of life in each limb. Her power to speak is called Sarasvatī; to nourish is called Śrī-Bhū Devī; to destroy dark forces of disarray and create life is called Durgā. As Durgā, She vanquishes demonic lust called Mahiṣāsura, and converts it to playful love.
Without life, every limb is powerless. The power comes by blood coursing through the limbs, and awareness carried to them by currents called nāḍīs. To do anything, we have to make the individual powers in the limbs come alive to manifest their full potential, beyond physical limits. Therefore all limbs are called Śakti Pīṭhas, seats of power. Focusing attention on a limb while holding breath lends power to it. All practitioners of martial arts know this.
Can we awaken the power in a limb if it is not known, seen, or felt? It is asleep, dead. Powers have to be exposed and kneaded to awaken them; that is, they have to be necessarily nude.
Understand that your body is itself the great Śrī Cakra. The Devīs in it are all the powers of your own life waiting to be discovered and uncovered by you, or with the help of others. Worship the Śrī Cakra as your body: physical, mental, and beyond the limits of body and mind. You can’t go wrong.
Right now, we are mostly living like beasts of burden. Our main concerns are food, sleep, fear, and sex. You have to rise above that, to the human levels of self-awareness first. Then, you have to extend your abilities and concerns to know and feel for others. That is what really makes you great — managing your destiny instead of being tossed in its rivers.
That is the road map for you: beast to human, human to God. You must assert your divine nature.
You are the Goddess Life who has now journeyed to the most sacred Cakra, your own body. Assert that you are the Goddess. But are you aware of the implications of this assertion? You have to feel this truth, not just repeat what someone has told you.
How can you convince yourself? Here is one way.
Receive Dīkṣā through a ritual by the Guru here.
What is Dīkṣā?
First, the Guru invokes the entire cosmos and its powers into you: the Powers of Fire, Sun, Moon; of creation, nourishment, and destruction; of hiding and revelation. You are given the secrets of liberation and immortality.
Then you receive pūjā by the Guru. That is right. To become a Goddess, the Guru must worship you. He will give you a bath. Anoint your body with sandal paste. Decorate you with garlands of letters and flowers. You receive pūjā just like the Goddesses here.
Now you can truly say, “I am the Goddess,” because the Guru has adored me.
But you are not the only Goddess. All are indeed Goddesses, whether they realize it or not. Is there any point in assuming a haughty attitude?
The importance of Cakra Pūjā comes from this fact. Everyone is a God-Goddess here. There is no high–low, up–down, right–left, front–back differences here. No distinctions based on caste, religion, color, or race can enter here. All males are Śiva; all females indeed Śakti.
The Śrī Cakra makes everyone God-Power. It integrates unity with diversity, one with many, in a unique way. It realizes the supreme value of fun as the why of life.
So there is no ritual higher or better than Cakra Pūjā.
It is in all religions. Buddhists call it Kāla Cakra. Christians call it Gaia. Hindus and Jains call it Rāsa-līlā or Bhairavī Cakra. Sufi Muslims call it the whirling dance. No difference.
It is the supreme circle, which has no beginning, no end; it is limited but also goes on and on forever. It is the ritual where everyone overcomes their ego-centric limits, becomes God-Goddess-like, and dances freely in love, creating islands of jewels in the oceans and skies.
Come to Devipuram. It is the valley chosen by Devī to reveal Her Cakras. It is beautiful, wise, and powerful. Learn the Circle rituals. Free yourself from self-made bondage and free others to achieve beauty, wisdom, and power like you.
Amṛtānanda
Devipuram, 2003
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