Various kathā of Guruji
Collected by one of his disciples, Vikram
The complete dīkṣā nāmam given by Avadhūta Gurugaru to Devīpuram Guruji, soon after pūrṇa dīkṣā:
Advaita Amṛtānanda Paramahaṁsa Parivrājaka Ācārya Digambara Avadhūta Athivarṇāmī Śrī Lā Śrī (108 times) Mahā Maṇḍaleśvara
You can kill the lust by saturating it completely; this is the non-traditional way, the rebellious path, Kaula-mārga.
Me, world, Śiva, Śakti are all illusions. This is the greatest vidyā. I don’t exist. So I cannot be created, nor destroyed. Time, space, matter, knowledge, action don’t exist. This has been called Mokṣa.
How can you know that the world came out of you? You can see or know only if you have consciousness. What is consciousness? It is the mirror reflecting you to yourself. Because you are the world, you see the world. When you stop seeing the world as different from you, and that you are all, then you know that you can make the world you want, that you have a free will like God, that destiny is what you can create. You also know that you are the only person to consult when a decision is to be made. That makes deciding an extremely simple process.
The lowest level at which we understand the Śiva Liṅga is at the level of physical union. It is the male phallus which is called Śiva and the female yoni which is called Pārvatī. It is their union that we are worshiping. There, the union is for procreation.
At the next highest level, the fire in the navel center and the love in the heart center, their union is called Śiva and Śakti.
In the next higher level still, space is considered the womb and time is the liṅga which is moving. The universe of space and time is called the Śiva Liṅga.
All the five elements, all the ways in which we perceive, all these are considered to be liṅgas.
After these three levels, we reach the fourth and transcendent level where there is no distinction between the seer and the seen. They have become one. That is the highest form of the liṅga. It is called aliṅga. There is no liṅga there. There is no characteristic that differentiates one from the other. You are joined so totally with the world. You have absorbed the whole world into yourself and there is nothing other than you. So, to reach that state is called mokṣa.
What is consciousness? It is the mirror reflecting you to yourself.
She is the black hole — on Śavāsana Mahā Kālī.
In Devī you find the five senses which are the five arrows. These are the channels through which your mind can be disturbed. She holds them separate from the mind which is the bow. The bow and the five arrows are indeed the mind and the five senses. She holds them separately. She does not connect the arrow to the bow, which means that Devī represents the yogic state where you decouple your mind from disturbing sensory inputs. But even when this mind is decoupled from the senses, there is still another part of the mind which is the memory. The memory contains in it all the senses and it keeps on bringing these things up. All those things also have to be decoupled. The mind itself has to go. It is then that you are flowing in the cosmic awareness.
I am the one who points fingers at you and I am the one who defends you. I am the one who loves you and I am the one who scolds you. I am the one who insults you, and I am the one who compliments you. Learn to see me in the enemy and in the friend, because I exist in all.
Make your whole life a prayer.
He is a siddha luminary in the Śrīvidyā tradition. The secret Lalitā Sahasranāmam and even more secret Lalitā Triśatī were revealed to him by Hayagrīva, a form of Lord Viṣṇu. No less accomplished is his utterly beautiful wife Lopāmudrā, who is the seer of Hādīvidyā — on Agastya Muni.
With devotion and intensity. You must be in love with Devī all the time. — on the key element to get siddhi in the mantras of the Cosmic Divine Mother
The entire creation is just a thought in the cosmic mind of Kālī.
I invoke all my gurus thru it — commenting on the Pādukā mantra of Avadhūta Gurugaru.
It’s like driving a speeding car without brakes — commenting when a disciple shared about his daily spiritual practices invoking multiple deities.
Because of recurring failures, you are losing faith. That is why it (ritual) is becoming mechanical, no feeling. Stop it for a couple of months. See if your situation improves.
Does anyone know what is enlightenment? We do not know enlightenment, but we know this life. Make heaven on earth now! That is the message of Tantra.
The last moments were constructed like this... Guruji stepped into the bathroom in the morning and then there was huge noise heard by Guru Amma (as we respectfully call his wife by), who rushed to the bathroom to see the Mahāsiddha sitting in Sukhasana, raising his finger upwards. Prior to this auspicious event of mahā samādhi, the great Guru did not even give a hint to his departure from physical realm, not even to his wife nor even to close disciples. But it was heard that Guruji did voice from past few years with few people about waiting for directive from Cosmic Mother to relieve his burden (he had single-handedly borne financial burden of building temple, solely trained and initiated disciples, etc., in spite of undergoing four heart attacks) to merge finally with Her. He, thru his mighty powers, did know the final dissolution of remaining karma (that binds one to earthly ties), and when he got the final command, with an utter dispassion (that only Sadāśiva has an unique attribute), left ...
Śakti doesn’t need Śiva; She can create numerous Śivas.
Be like a child, innocent and passionately alive in the moment.
Your aim is to raise yourself above your head, merge into that form, and experience unending spiritual orgasm, which you may call the dance of the galaxies, the dance of rising waterfalls, the divine light-and-sound show. The joy you experience will shower your whole body with a thrill you have never known before. The experience there is indescribable.
Bhakti means devotion. Bhakti Yoga is the path of devotion designed for persons in the emotional category. Generally misconstrued as a path of blind faith, superstitious belief, or mechanical ritual. People throughout the world follow all these rituals to attain God without probing into their validity.
If we are meditating upon Devī, I simply become Devī in Samādhi. As Devī receives worship by devotees, so do I. As Devī blesses people, so do I bless people. As Devī exists in all beings, so do I exist in all beings. All bodies are mine, all eyes, all hands, all feet, all skin, all senses, all experience are my experiences. There is none other than me and the Goddess of eros, and I worship myself through the union of the liṅga and yoni. Infinite intercourse with Śiva is my nature, unending orgasmic bliss is my rasa of Śṛṅgāra. Such is the experience of Samādhi. It is not void. It is not null. It is full. It transcends all life. It transcends all space and time. It is solidified knowledge, action, and desire. There is no movement in it, there is no birth, growth, or death, yet it is sum total of all possible experiences, of all life forms in all the worlds at all times.
The Guru is committed to take care of you (just like a husband/wife) as a soul mate. The real Guru, Goddess/God, speaks through the Guru, who can be either female or male. Don’t confuse the Guru with a physical form. The Guru of everyone is one and the same. And that is God/Goddess. Guru appears to different people in different forms, but the form is only a symbol. You have to look behind the symbol to the truth, and that truth is called Jagannātha. Jagat means world, Nātha means husband/wife, the husband/wife of the manifested world. The Guru is referred to as the husband/wife here, so that you can open up your body, mind, and soul without any inhibitions, for deepest truths can be learned without inhibitions.
Never be so closed-minded, because everyone is your Guru. This world exists as your Guru in many forms, until you realize that you are that.
That one thing which exists is consciousness. All forms, all space, all time, all materials, are merely forms of consciousness. That is not light, but it lights up everything for God to see. By it, objects such as Sun, Moon, stars, fire, etc., shine.
Śrīvidyā siddhi can be had only by people who have no desires. Not by others.
You will obtain everything only thru the Guru Pādukā mantra — a couple of years back at Dr. Rohira’s house in Bangalore city, Guruji impromptu listed out all the desires in my mind and then commented the above advice.
