What is Srividya?
Srividya is understanding how this world came to be, and my role in it. It proves step by step that there is a collective consciousness like an ocean in which we swim like fishes, breathing in the waters of life. It also helps in understanding how a little drop can contain an ocean of which it is but a small part.
Is it important to learn it?
Srividya lets you feel the unbelievable wonder of your identity with Brahma. Brahma creates all our worlds with the help of Sarasvati. She is the explosive flow of information. Brahma is gravity which binds energy to a form, Information which cant be bound by gravity is Sarasvati. These are the two fields manifesting life: gravity and waves of presence, called information.
Srividya is derived from Strividya (notice the extra t?), which means adoring nature consisting of the syllables: s for satva, t for tamas, and r for rajas and i for desire. Satva means knowing, information. Tamas means the ideas of who I am and who are my family members; in short, I and mine, which are limiting bondage's. Rajas means escaping binding, going out of boundaries of I and mine. Desire doesn't choose. it likes binding, gets bored of it and then likes freedom, it gets bored of it too. It keeps oscillating between sympathy and apathy.
If "t" for tamas is removed from Stri, it becomes Sri, the wealth and pleasure of creating the world. Srividya helps to let go of bondage to material things, and to become pure information. Adoring nature without desire is Srividya. It does not run after objects of desire, neither does it reject them. It does enjoy them when they come, but without bondage.
Srividya transforms the fiery love of passion into an affectionate love like mother nature, which created and cares for all living beings. It gives freedom to love all. It discovers that if you really love some person, that person's happiness should truly your own happiness; it can only happen in identity of the lovers. We can appreciate Srividya as teaching that "all is one", non-duality = advaita in practice.
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