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DASA MAHA VIDYAS Place of Sri Vidya in Dasa Mahavidyas Sri Vidya (female deity) means and includes a pro-life desire (iccha), knowledge (jnana), and power (kriya) of Goddess Sri vidya helps you choose desires wisely, puts control over their fulfillment in your hands, and helps you fulfill them. Vidya 0 1 2 Kali Tara Lalita Function Unmanifest Nextlife Aware Powers Bind Detach Dust Silence Time Beauty Chakra Mula Svadhis All 7 Manipur Anahata Vishuddhi Larynx Mouth Ajna Sahasrar Worship Uterus Vulva Body Navel Breasts Neck Stars Tongue 3rdeye Crown As Mother Wife Guru Mentor Child/Lover Friend Unknown Advisor Surrender Wealth

3. Chandi 4 5 6 7 8 9 Shyama Chinna Dhuma Bagala Varahi Kamala

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The10 great paths for achievement (Siddhis) called Dasa Maha Vidyas Kali Tara Sri Lalita Chandi Shyama Chinnamasta Dhumavati Bagala mukhi Varahi Kamala. Their names and forms suggest their places in body and functions. 0. Kali means the power of time, kaala. She brings forth the light of life, organized awareness from unorganized matter. It is connected with menstrual flow, blood, semen and birth, and so it is worshipped in the uterus (kalasha) in females and phallus (linga) in males and in the pleasure of coitus. Intercourse is called the root support, or adhaara chakra for the wheel of life. Uterus is called the sacred vessel, the holy grail, which has all life giving ingredients. 1. Tara means a bridge, from life to after life. We continue to live as our children after we die. Purpose of Nature, Tara, is to produce babies. She uses sexual pleasure to induce males and females to copulate, and produce life. Tara is worshipped in the clitoris the point and vulva the triangle, the pleasure centers in females; and in phallus in males. These centers are together called Swadhishtana, the own place of Goddess and God. 2. Lalita is the pure awareness, covering all forms of awareness here. She balances all chakras. She is the harmony of the wheels. She is the most beautiful. She is the mother of fine arts, music, dance, sculpture, acting. She is identical with God-Guru. 3. Chandi (also called Bhairavi) is the fire of life. She supports life by forming it for 9 months inside the womb of mother nourishing it through oxygen from her blood. In this function, she is called Mahakali. At the time of birth, umbilical cord is cut and the baby starts breathing and living on its own. During this phase, the baby is nourished by the milk in mothers breasts. This second mother is called Maha Lakshmi, the daughter of the ocean of milk. The milk protects the baby from diseases providing immunity. It also helps it grow. Mahalakshmi protects and nourishes the baby, preventing male advances during lactation period. After lactation the babys fire of life is sustained by knowledge, taught by Maha Saraswati. Thus Chandis story is the story of three mothers. So she is called

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Tripura Bhairavi meaning the fire in three cities. She is worshipped in and through the breasts, navel and genital centers. Her expressions are blood, semen, milk, digestion, and growth. The defining attributes are MahaKali = Dharma = duty to reproduce life, Maha Lakshmi= Artha = Protect and increase power and abundance, Kama = Enjoy a life of love and bondage. Bhairavis main center is the navel. 4. Shyama is the power of attraction, creating love through bonding. The two hemispheres of breasts with their wet nourishing poles of nipples suggest merging them into a single sphere; they are the centers of attraction asking to merge two into one. Once the lactation is over, they serve to attract the male to the female for fresh erotic contacts, the cause of bonding love and relationships. 5. Chinnamasta means severed head, life after death. She connects earth with the cosmic elements. For this purpose, levitation, weakening gravity and bonding to earth; and strengthening connection to interstellar space are necessary. She is drinking the blood of her own life. Under her feet are a couple engaged in coitus. The woman is on top guiding the movements, meaning that intercourse is the way to go beyond life and come back. 6. Dhumavati works with forces in galactic dust to form stars. The star is considered male (Sun). She doesnt need a star to create stars; therefore she is shown as a widow, capable of creating life without the necessity of a male. She makes us realize the illusory nature of the world of experiences, like vortices and shadows in smoke. She is worshipped in the throat where Uvula hangs down in the space from root of upper palate. 7. Bagalamukhi suggests stilling the mind by control of tongue and making body immobile, the conditions for a still mind. Speech, chattering, should be controlled. She is called Brahma Astra Vidya meaning she is the weapon to reach the creative source. She is worshipped by keeping awareness on mouth.

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8. Varahi is a Kalpa, an astronomical unit of time. She represents mastering time and the unthinkable powers coming from it. She is worshipped at the third eye to control evil. 9. Kamala is the beauty and order creating the physical world through dreaming incomparably beautiful visions in the crown chakra. In summary, all cosmic powers reside in and are derived from life in persons. Kali is worshipped in Base chakra, Tara in pleasure of clitoris, Chandi in navel, Shyama in breasts, Chinnamasta in neck, Dhumavati in throat, Bagalamukhi in mouth, Varahi in Third eye, and Kamala in crown; these are the wheels of power residing in different parts of body. Lalita, the order of beauty is worshipped in all parts. Modes of worship in all Vidyas In Chakras called Samaya In Yantra called Dakshina In bodies of Living persons called Kula Kundalini

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10 GREAT VIDYAS What are the 10 Vidyas? Why are they called great? What do they mean? How can they help? Vidya means knowledge about Goddess, of how things are created. Mantra means knowledge about God. The Goddess is classified into ten forms, namely, 0. Kali, 4. Chinnamasta, 8. Matangi, 1. Tara, 5. Bhairavi, 9. Kamala. 2. Shodasi, 6. Dhuma, 3. Bhuvana, 7. Bagala, 0. Kali is Nothingness, Zero. Before creation, and after dissolution, there can be nothing. Kali is such a state of nothingness. Since nothing can be known about it, it is like deep darkness. Hence Kali is called dark black. Black is not a color, but a very large spectrum of colors which cannot be seen or known, and hence appears dark. There can be no question of beginning or end in nothing. Infinity=Purna, also has no beginning or end. Therefore nothing can be considered to be everything also. 0. Kali means the Power of Kala the time, which moves things. Let us say a cat moved from there to here. We can say that time has destroyed the cat there and created it here. Kali (darkness= ignorance) has to couple with Kala (light=knowing), to create this world we know. Kali is unknowable when alone, it can be known as the world when it is coupled to Kala. So it is Kali in unknowable state, and it is Kala in knowable state. We can know Kali only in the manifest state coupled with Kala. 1. Tara = desire for creation, is the first emanation, like a mixture of light and dark, knowing and not knowing. It is something like a gray smoke in which the power of white light is coupled to black darkness. A sun like explosion took place in this. It has been called the cosmic egg Hiranya garbha, the womb of gold. This cosmic Sun

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is extremely hot. Without cooling it through expansion, the five cosmic elements cannot be created. 2. Shodasi=cooling moon. Expansion cools the extremely hot cosmic egg. Expansion has been called soma, the coupling of light with darkness. Soma means happiness of Siva united to Uma (Saha Umaya Vartate iti Somah). When this soma juice is offered into the cosmic sun, it cools down to fully manifest creation. Shodasi means the union of Siva with Shakti, of the Sun with Moon, of contraction and expansion. Study of geology reveals that the earth is an outburst from Sun, which became a home for life by rains cooling it. In this fashion Agni, Surya and Soma, (Fire, Sun and Moon) are the three great Goddesses Kali, Tara and Shodasi. All kinds of creation proceed from this trinity. The light of Sun in the cosmos came to be called life in the body of living beings. (Pranah prajaanaam udayati esha suryah= Sun who is the life of beings is rising on the horizon) 3. Bhuvaneswari = controlling the world is a combination of Earth (fire), Space (Vayu, cosmic smoke), Life (Sun) and Herbs (Moon). Bhuvaneswari is giving strength and abundance to all life on earth. In creation, a sacrifice (yagna) is going on continuously. A part of the mass and its heat in the Sun separates and forms into life sustaining genes. Another part of the mass-energy assembles them into living beings. Such separation of life giving substances from Sun is called the yagna, beheaded goddess. 4. Chinnamasta = Beheading the Sun, offering juices of life is yagna. (chinna seersho vai yagnah) Beheading or attaching the head to the body is the ultimate purpose of yagna. The life giving Sun is said to have lost the head. Giving back to the sun what it lost in the form of life giving genes is the main idea of Yagna. Sun gives the head, Sun takes it back. (yo maa dadaati sa ideva tavat ahamanna manna madanta madmi) The Sun is called Prachanda Chandika, another name for Chinna Masta. The form of Chinna masta is like this. The Goddess cuts off her head and drinks the middle stream of blood coming from beheading

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herself. This stream is the union of sun and moon. Since the head is drinking, the head is not dead by being cut off from the body. She has two attendants drinking two side streams of blood, the juices of life, the sun and the moon. The beheaded Goddess is standing on top of Rati and Manmatha in coitus, with Rati on top. The meaning is clear: a) that life renews itself through coitus, offering the love juices into the womb and b) that life is possible after physical death (jeernani vaasaamsi yatha vihaaya navani gruhnaati naroparani). In reality, Chinna Masta is the goddess of renewing life. 5. Bhairavi: Attractions and repulsions are the main reasons for changing forms life. She is also called Tripura Bhairavi, or Baala Tripura Sundari. She holds a rosary consisting of unchanging alphabets, symbols of groups of vibrations flowing in cosmos; a book of learning, conveying information in seed forms, a hand granting boons and another the vessel containing germinating seed called purna kumbha. 6. Dhumavati: Changing pleasures and pains arise due to imbalances in knowledge, or inability to adapt to changing environmental factors. Pleasures and pains are under the control of Dhumavati, the Goddess of gray matter, in which it is difficult to see any forms. Feeling that something is painful even though the opposite is true is under the control of Dhumavati, the Goddess of confusion, who creates stars out of dust. She does not need a star to create one; so she is considered to be without a husband (lack of erotic pleasures). She is a crone, nobody wanting her, with dirty looks representing hunger, thirst, boredom, sleep and pain as the ruling dispositions in life are under her control. Appeased, she will overcome them. 7. Bagalamukhi: Epileptic Seizure of senses. Comparable to paralysis of limbs, loss of memory, loss of speech, are the manifestations of Bagalamukhi also called Brahmastra Vidya.

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8. Matangi: Binding power of attractions. She binds people with ideas of love and mine, nourishing and pleasurable no doubt, but binding all the same, like a mothers love for her child. Krishna was held captive by Yashodas motherly instincts. She represents the Hladini shakti Radha, the love power of Krishna which binds people which cannot tolerate separation even for a moment. 9. Kamala. Extra sensory perceptions, moving ahead, creativity, happiness, abundance of sexual pleasure are the graces of Kamala. She is the mother of Manmatha. Guruji Amritananda, Devipuram