Q&A - various

Q: can we share some of the mantras and practices you are teaching us like panchadasi or prana pratistha, viraja homa?

Guruji: Yes, you can.

Q: Is there any significance to the color of the asana we sit on while doing sadhna.  What color is recommended for sri vidya upasana if any?

Guruji: White is satvic. Red is rajasic. Rose, a mix of both is satvic and rajasic. I suggest white if you don’t have many desires; and red if you do.

Q:  is there a manasa srichakra puja, or khadgamala stotram itself is one?

Guruji: Video of Manasa puja is given, so is remembering Khadgamala locs in Srichakra building part by part in mind’s eye. Both videos are in site.

Q: This is different from the normal patern, especially at the eight petaled enclosure. If we are familiar with the regular pattern should we continue to use that to form the chakra in the mind?

Guruji: You could use any pattern in mind. Because language is serial and the hole is parallel. You can describe a picture in any sequence of its elements. Som sequences are more important, and closer to our experience of time. Our experience of time is linear, goes fast in good company or slows down when bored, serial for some time and jumps as in deams, stops during sleep. A sequence may be preferred or easier to creat a mind map. All such maps are valid.

Q: Guruji, what is Shaktipat and how is it different from mantra diksha?

Guruji: Shakti path is through physical or astral touch. Manra deeksha is through sound.

Q: we practice panchadasi without  mantra upadesam

Guruji: It is good to have upadesam. Where will you go if in doubt? To the person who initiated you right?

Q: Dear Guruji - is there a particular reason/significance why the pointer in this visualisation moves in anticlockwise order.

Guruji: Clockwise is the normal order. When it goes other way, you are going back in time to the source.

Q: how can one invoke Kadgamala Devis in one's body? any particular days for particular Devis?

Guruji: There is a file called Gandharva tantra rendered into English by Mike Magee. It is given in one of the course study materials.

Q: Guruji do the mudras have any other meaning  than being symbolic? Do they have to be done or are mantras enough?

Guruji: We are invoking powers into fingers through karanyasa. These energies combine in different ways to produce new energies.

Q: where is a man's Yoni? is it around his Lingam or on his Brain? This leads to another question: where is Sarva Siddipradaya Chakra located?

Guruji: Both. A triangle  is up or down or sideways. Is it male or female? Gender is an attribute, characteristic to distinguish one class of of objects from others

Q: guruji,how do i invoke any particular devi grace in khadgamala devis?

Guruji: By puja, concentration, japa. Ex: am aam souh anima sidddhyai namah.

Q: Can you please tell why the khadgamala devis are depicted that way?

Guruji: They are sensual energies in you nature. To access powers of creation, open genital area is needed. Nature is always nude. Nudity removes the boundary between you and all that surrounding you.

Q: Guruji, please help me understand this.In the previous classes, you had mentioned that Devi is in everyone. If Devi is in everyone, and if Devi in person "X" has lied, cheated etc to me, then isn't it the Devi in me who is upset/hurt/angry ? How do I react to this? Is sprituality my strength or weakness?

Guruji:  Devi is freedom and bondage, repulsion and attraction, friend and foe. Don’t react, remain cool, saying that when you love, where is the time for judgements? The world is what it is. It cant be created without attractions and repulsions.

Q: How can one incorporate mudras and khadgamala stora in daily worhsip?

Guruji: Show mudras to Goddess / living person and get permissions. Recite khadgamala looking at parts of Sri Chakra where they are located. Mentally offer a flower to the Goddess there.

Q: guruji can gurupaduka mantra replace khadgamala deities, while going around the srichakra

Guruji: Any mantra can go round Sri Chakra.

Q: guruji, How can I reach Turiya State?

Guruji: You are in Turiya state between thoughts. Thoughts cannot disturb the fourth state.

Q:to get panchadasi mantra  siddi do we need to  do aksharalakhsha japam

Guruji: Yes, with devotion and intensity. You must be in love with Goddess all the time.

Q: When you get visions regarding Chakra what do afterwards.


Guruji: Notice, write in a diary, then let it go. If they indicate need for a particular action, use your discrimination, seek help from guru and do it.

Q: Guruji I am a painter and have painted canvases of Srichakra. It has been a wonderful experience, but I saw on your website it is not allowed


Guruji: Who said no allowed? I have been asking people to draw many many Srichakras as a sadhana.

Q: Guruji can mudras can be done at any other time than in time of pooja?

Guruji: What is the use?

Q: Dear Guruji once one has mastered these techniques and mastered them to a certain amount.  Is it necessary to continue, or can one get the silent state and just remain there?  ?

Guruji: Yes, the rituals drop off on their own when you don’t need them. From doing you move to being.

Q: Kindly advise me that before srichaka pooja, whether we have to conduct Panchayatana pooja or we can directly go for Bala Mantra etc., directly to


Guruji: Panchayatana puja is vedic. In tantric puja, you can go directly to Bala puja. Amba can be approached any way. Panchayatana includes Amba; all are equally important for manifestation.

Q:  Can you please tell why the khadgamala devis are depicted that way.

Guruji: Which way? Do you mean that some kahdgamala deities are nude? Nudity means the state of innocence as if you are just born baby. It is the natural state of a yogi or yogini who feels that the his or her consciousness is not limited by the clothes, it goes beyond it in all directions. All nature is nude. It does not mean nature is impure or obscene. People in male dominated cultures however equate nudity with obscenity. In hindu tantric traditions, nudity (as in naked sadhu- avadhuta- digambara) and pleasures of sex are sacred offerings to the godess of fertility. People are doing it all the time in the bedroom. But they do not accept that it is sacred. They think it should be done in secret, without light, and god is offended if he sees it. They forget that God/dess in everyone, and is a witness to every action, good or bad. How can you hide it from your own consciousness, the goddess or the god or guru in you?

Q:  if there is an Ananda-Bhairava/Bhairavi Yantra and how it looks like?

Guruji: Ananda Bhairavi Yantra is the triangle with bindu in its centre. It is Kamakhya, yoni peetha, the matrix, source of all, the genital centre of woman. The triangle is the yoni and the bindu is the pleasure centre there. Ananda Bhairavi is worshipped in the clit by kaulachara sadhakas. Her yantra is the central triangle in Sri Chakra. Her mantra is hsraim hsklrim hsrsouh, which represent the three sides of the trialgle.