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Guruji describes Goddess Lalita as the highest goddess, the giver of life and the giver of liberation, and invites us to celebrate life.
From the teachings of Sri Amritananda Natha Saraswati (Guruji). Original post: "Goddess Lalitā: Light of Life, Mother of Liberation", 25 April 2016, shared on Guruji's blog by Vira Chandra. Originally published at amritananda-natha-saraswati.blogspot.com.
In Hindu culture, Goddess Lalitā occupies the topmost place. She is the embodiment of power, grace, beauty, and voluptuousness. She is the archetype of the “free woman,” the empress of the world, the mother of the Trinity Brahmā, Viṣṇu, and Śiva. She rides on Śiva, the male principle, and a lion, the king of beasts. She gives abundant pleasure, procreating children and so is revered as the goddess of fertility.
Even more important, Lalitā is the Goddess preventing the cycle of births and deaths, giving mokṣa. If you are born, you must die. If you are not born, you can’t die. It is as simple as that. In this role, she is the Goddess of birth control, the preventer of birth to overcome death, offering the human seed into the fire of navel cakra (through mudrās and bandhas, processes of yoga) or into an external Vedic/Tantric fire in pūrṇa-āhuti, meaning full offering of self (seed of self which causes rebirth). Even in this role, she is promoting pleasure, offering human seeds for creating a world that we want.
Lalitā is both light and shade, day and night, sun and moon, and also the middle zone of twilight. During day, she is revered as Gāyatrī, the power of life streaming from the Sun. During night, She is revered as the healing power of Moon called kāma-kalā, the art of love. Love and love-making are both healing. Kāmakalā also means yoga. During twilight transitions, she is worshipped as Fire of creation.
Her energies are encoded secretly into Śrī Cakra, which is both an abstract geometry of stunning geometrical beauty as well as the physical union of nine to one hundred and eight adept couples in a Cakra formation seeking control over the grip of time and overcoming causality creating saṃsāra, the cycle of birth and death. She is the very definition of the quantum model, which says that the objective world we see is our own creation. This power of creating the world of perceptions is called Māyā.
Thus Hindu culture adores every woman—a little girl (Kumārī), budding teen (Bālā/Ṣoḍaśī), adult woman (Sundarī/Suvāsinī), or an old crone (wisdom goddess)—all equally for being a female and a mother. She has given us life. Nothing has any value if life is not there. Life is the highest gift of the mother. In Her womb, we have been made. We sucked life-giving fluids from her breasts. She sang lullabies of love extolling us as Gods. As an adult woman, she gives us sensual enjoyment and our children we bond to. She is liberated, she directs our life, and is on top of male in procreation, deciding whether to beget a child or not. She is a patriarchal male as well as Tantric female. She celebrates life; she is life; she is consciousness itself. Life looks like a man when in a male body and a woman in a female body. Life itself is genderless.
Like light creates light, life creates life. Life is the light of lights. Hindus are called Bhāratīs: Bhā = light, Rati = love; Bhāratī = lovers of light. Light of life is Goddess Lalitā. Her opposite, darkness of death, is Kālī. Time is cycles of light and darkness. Lalitā is time and its energies that change things. Let us celebrate life.
Amṛtānanda
From the teachings of Sri Amritananda Natha Saraswati (Guruji). Original post: "Goddess Lalitā: Light of Life, Mother of Liberation", 25 April 2016, https://amritananda-natha-saraswati.blogspot.com/2016/04/lalitha-in-india.html
Lalita is the Goddess at the centre of the Sri Vidya path. In the Kaula way she is worshipped in many forms: inside yourself, in nature and in the five elements, and outside through the Sri Chakra, homam and deity puja.
Guruji speaks of day, night and twilight as her three faces. This is a simple way to notice her in daily life: the sun on waking, the cool of the moon at night, and the quiet turn of dusk.
He also says life is the highest gift of the mother. Respect for the women in your life is a living part of this worship, not only a ritual act.
Some lines here point to deeper practices of the Kaula path. These are learned in person from a teacher, with full consent from all involved, and are not explained on this page.
Guruji calls her the topmost goddess in Hindu culture, a goddess of power, grace and beauty. He also calls her the mother of Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva.
Guruji says life creates life as light creates light, and that life is the light of lights. The light of life is Goddess Lalita.
Guruji says she prevents the cycle of births and deaths and so gives moksha. In his words, if you are not born, you cannot die.
Guruji names Kali, the darkness of death, as her opposite. He describes time as cycles of light and darkness.
He says Lalita's energies are secretly encoded in the Sri Chakra, which he describes as both a geometry of great beauty and a Chakra formation of adept couples.
Read the original: Goddess Lalitā: Light of Life, Mother of Liberation, on Guruji's blog. Guruji left his body in October 2015. This post was shared on his blog in 2016. This site is an independent practitioner's space and does not speak on behalf of Devipuram.
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