About Srividya

Sri Vidya is the Mantra, Sri Chakra is the Yantra, and Sri Kalpa is the Tantra, which
give material benefits as well as being one with the Universal Life. Practitioners of Sri Vidya see
physical as single continuum with spiritual, God-Goddess indiv`isible pair. Individual life is the
same as cosmic life, like in a hologram; the part is the same as whole.

Sri Chakra is the symbol of Siva the space, in union with Sundari creating-Kali
destroying life. It is worshipped in pairs: Universe-God, Saraswati-Brahma, Lakshmi-Vishnu,
Sakti-Siva, Radha-Krishna, Woman-Man. Every living person is thus a temple; life Kali in union
with the insentient body Siva. The central idea of Sri Vidya is to remove the separation.

We dont see life itself, except through a body which has it. So, when we worship a
person, actually life receives the worship. Women have the attributes (linga) of Shakti while Men
have attributes of Siva. The best forms of living Sri Yantras are therefore considered to be persons
receiving worship. The yoni and linga (both needed to create life) are worshipped in external
worship of Sri Chakra. Such external worship is the gateway to internalizing meditation on the
joy of creation, Brahmas ananda.

Worship, chanting of mantras and remembering the myriad attributes of the Goddess are
all means for the movement from darkness of ignorance to the light of unlimited awareness. The
Guru is the gateway to surrender pettiness into the largess of cosmic life. When all is one, the
duality Disciple-Guru cannot exist; they are just one God. But they enjoy their separate roles in
the drama of life. Guru worships the disciple as guru, because of the God in the disciple. In that
very process, empowerment happens.



















2 Practices in Srividya




ACHARAS IN SRIVIDYA

mantra, yantra and tantra for pleasure and divinity

By Amritananda of Devipuram, via Ammulapalem, Anakapalle 531001



A brief introduction to Acharas:

ACHARA Samaya Dakshina Kaula Vama
Worship Shakti Siva Both Shakti
Can women receive puja? Yes Yes Yes Yes
Can women do puja? No No Yes Yes
Can use meat, alcohol? No No Yes Yes
Time for Siddhi Long Long Years Months
Type of puja Astral Yantra Living female Alive or dead
Important part All lotuses Sri chakra Genital Genital
Gunas Satvic Satvic Rajasic Tamasic
Not spouse No No Allowed Required
Recmmended for All Veg Veg, Nonveg Nonveg


World is half male (Dakshina) and half female (Vama). The creator is all, so half male,
half female. Different traditions of worship have come into vogue. The creator is
worshipped as male, female or both. Shaivites prefer to worship the father principle in
the linga. Shaktas prefer to worship the mother principle in the yoni. Kula means total.
So Kaulas worship both linga and yoni. Worship can take Satvic, Rajasic, or Tamasic
forms according to each ones choice. Satvics use mostly imagination, according to
Bhavana Upanishat. Rajasics use substitutes like pnchamritas for pancha makaras in
worship. Tamasics offer wine, meat, fish, cereals and sex in worship. The main idea of
Tantra is to create a miraculous, wish fulfilling and enjoyable world through pleasure.










The need for revising existing Tantras:

We believe that Tantra releases traumas coming from suppression, neurotic psycho-
somatic disorders, and make for a positive outlook on life. Tantra is universally needed
to release floodgates of creativity.

But the orthodoxy rigidly imposes that not one word can be changed, not one minute
can be saved. The attitude is take it or leave it. Dire consequences will follow if you
violate this rule, incurring wrath of the Guru. Unfortunately this attitude has done
more harm than good in many ways. The Sri Chakra Tantra takes six to 8 hours. Lot of
work goes into preparation of specific food offerings. Women who ought to be
worshipped are tied up in this work. The real naivedyam of offering pleasure to
Goddess is forgotten. Puja just becomes a long, difficult to learn, boring, and sometimes
at the end a glorified drinking party. In these modern days, young people are counting
seconds, not even minutes: their lives are indeed very short of time. The learning curves
are very steep. The genuine teachers are very difficult to even talk to. Our insistence on
orthodoxy is thus rejecting 99% of young generation from getting the benefits of tantra.
We simply cant afford to lose the 99% of college going youth if we want to spread the
Tantras and to make an impact on society. Otherwise we will forever be condemned as
antisocial black magicians instead of genuine beauty and pleasure seekers who we really
are. Imagine people in wet clothes rolling on ground doing parikrama, implying that
God loves suffering. Now imagine young people sing, dance and have fun in temples as
service to Gods. To remind us about this heritage of community fun in service of
Goddess, sculptures of loving couples decorate the walls of great temples of yore. If we
choose, we can be like that even today. Millions of tourists all over the world are
searching for methods of combining bhoga and moksha, enjoyment and Nirvana,
reflecting the need as well as acceptance of tantric way of life.

To spread the message we have to tell that Tantra accepts all forms of love and pleasure
in worship, and so is enjoyable; it has been held secret only because it explores the role
fear and sex in transformation; in that it is not evil or dark; that it opens up a soul giving
and seeking divine pleasures to all; that it appeals to the youthful spirit of fun; that it is
an exciting way to reach an ocean of bliss; that it does not require many hours of
commitment every day; that it define goals of life by connecting to Goddess and getting
help from Her. To achieve these ends, we need to compact the tantra into a daily practice
lasting an hour or less and make it thoroughly enjoyable, every minute of it.

Creating and propagating a short form of Sri Chakra Tantra

We have done it and are propagating it. People are getting enormous benefits in less than a
month even spending less than an hour a day. What follows are the ideas behind accelerating the
learning curve; and also the actual procedure as a pdf document in telugu. It is just 8 pages in all.
This document and animation in flash can both be downloaded from our website
www.devipuram.com



The ideas behind compacting Sri Chakra Tantra



I studied Sri Vidya. I built a major Sri Chakra Temple. I have practiced Sri Chakra
Puja/Tantra every day for 33 years in a row. I think I understand it enough to dare to
simplify its content, not compromising its purity of intent.

We live in three bodies. The physical, lotus, and yantra. The king of yantras is called Sri
yantra. Nirvana is the process of moving from physical to lotus body and lotus to Yantra
body. Nirvana means to cut the causal chain forcing us to get rebirth. The soul may still
decide to come down by choice as an avatar.

As I understand, the upasana of Sri Chakra has 3 streams called Sri Kram, Lalita kram
and Navavaran. We have given the name Triveni Kalpa for this new version based on
Sri Vidya.

The first part is Sri Kram, where immortality is invoked into a fluid in a holy vessel. The
vessel is called visesha patra. But the best vessel we can think of is our own body. The
vital fluid in it is the life itself.

To make the gross physical body fit to receive nectar, first we need to remove its
grossness by connecting it to the lotus body. One very good way to do it is to touch each
point of physical body with a vibrator as we are saying the mantra in all the lotuses. The
vibrations should be strong enough to go to the petal and force attention there, but not
so strong as to cause discomfort. It is much better to use the vibrator than just think
about it. Use of vibrator is an innovation to cut the time required to activate all chakras.

Normally we would use Datta mantra for 16 petals of visuddhi, Krishna for 12 of
Anahata and so on. But why use different mantras? Guru mantra has all mantras in it.
Why not use it alone? This is another innovation. We use the mantra of trinity in the
form Om am hrim krom ehyehi dattatreyaya svaha. We use it 16 times round neck, 12
times round chest, 10 around waist, 6 around yoni and 4 in womb and 3 in the eyes.

In preparing nectar, we invoke fire, sun and moon. We also invoke the powers of
creating new ideas, preserving the best ones, destroying evil, powers which are
concentrated and diffused into the body. Brahma, Vishnu, Rudra, Iswara, Sadsiva are
these powers. In this kalpa, we use pictures saving thousands of words, directly into the
charkas of womb, yoni, navel, chest and neck. We invoke the compassionate look of the
mother into her eyes; she can give life back by a mere look. We invoke all these and
more powers into the vessel, the person receiving empowerment. We tell that all is the
creator, the creator is in the creation; one life animates all, even if forms differ. And then
the panchamrits are given making the person a divine being.







The second stream is a massage, bath and a beauty treatment, worship and food
offerings. Here we think of the lady as Lalita Herself.



The last stream is to keep the greatest of yantras, the Sri Chakra near the yoni and
worship it with Khadgamala, the limbs of Goddess Sri Chakra. The Sri Chakra is formed
when four male priciples unite with five female principles. The fifth transcendent
goddess who is Herself the guru blesses all this. The person gets fully empowered, and
receives worship as a living God/Goddess. It is the ultimate honor and fulfillment to
receive worship for your divinity.

The offering

From beginning to end the process just takes half-hour to an hour. Every seeker will be
able to commit this much of time. It is our fond hope that people will really enjoy this
new Triveni Kalpa, do it every day, and reach nirvana. That is our samkalpa and
blessing: Soubhagya for all of us.


Triveni Kalpam adobe pdf document in telugu.

























3 IntroducingGuru


Amrithananda Saraswati:

Guruji, as people all around the world lovingly call him, had a humble and loving
upbringing. After completing Ph.D. from Andhra University, he worked for many years
as a scientist with the Tata Institute for Fundamental Research in Bombay. In the late
1970s, while struggling to justify his association with a military project, he had a
spiritual experience at the Balaji temple in Hydrebad. It reminded him of his many
spiritual visions as a child. He decided to leave his lucrative job to come back to his
hometown, Vishakhapatnam, for rediscovering his spiritual roots. After initiation into
Sri Vidya by Guru Sri Swaprakashananda Avadhuta, he started receiving direct
experiential tutelage from Goddesses Saraswati and Bala Tripurasundari through
meditative sadhna. On prompting from the goddess, over next 12 years Guruji (with
help from devotees) built the first Sri Chakra Meru temple in Devipuram (near
Anakapalli, Andhra Pradesh) with life-size Khadgamala Goddesses. This temple has
now become an important Shakti Sthanam for Sri Vidya practitioners and spiritual
seekers from all over the world.

During last 10 years, Guruji has been working tirelessly for satisfying the spiritual and
material needs of the rural poor through the social/religious empowerment programs of
the Sri Vidya Trust. He continues to use his research training to develop appropriate
technology, improve literacy and create computer-based training/multimedia tools
designed specifically for the local population.

In summary, Guruji has the insights of a scientific researcher, the depth of a spiritual
master, the vision and positive outlook of an entrepreneur, the commitment and work-
ethic of a social worker, the spontaneity and freedom of a child, and most importantly,
the love and care of a friend. What a treat!

About this Book:

The original version of this book on Sri Chakra puja was written in Telugu. This effort was
prompted by Prof. Alok Bavejas request to Guruji for making comments available in English,
and text of puja in Devanagari script, so that Hindi-speaking people can follow the Sri Chakra
Puja. Guruji has put these comments down without any inhibitions because he feels information
should be accessible to the public; the choice to practice or not is left to people.
The book was realized and brought to fruition only because of the dedicated and
painstaking efforts of Dr. Udipi and Mrs. Gnanapurani Madhvanath two silent
workers who through their selfless spirit and unassuming demeanor continue to
demonstrate to us that spirituality can be lived and not merely meditated upon!






4 Rituals and purpose



This course on SriVidya is an ancient, secret and sacred practice not available publicly
before. It helps you realise who you are through worship of Shakti. Once you do the
course, you learn to pronounce mantras correctly and understand the meanings of
mantras. You will also learn the following rituals. Ritual of Ganapati removes obstacles
on your path. Shyama attracts wealth and happiness. Varahi repels enemies and ensures
health. Lalita and Guru directly fulfil of all your desires and help in reaching the state of
no desires during meditation. Then you know who you are.
I am Sastry from Vizag. I have spent 25 years in science and 32 years in religion building
Devipuram Ashram near Vizag. Here is a Sri Yantra you can actually walk into and see
all deities of Khadgamala. I venture to explain religion scientifically because of my long
experience in both. Initiations and sincere practice give you visionary experiences.
Shaktipath is performed at Kamakya, the womb begetting our lives. We conduct on-line
and on-site courses, available to all sincere seekers.